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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1934
Page
5
Tuesday nine sent Glee Club Tap Class two Ban Wednesday three Wampus Glee Club Thursday nine Girls Glee Club two Friday eleven thirty Advanced Tap Class.
The Executive Club met on Wednesday afternoon October 3 with new president Hugh Crisman presiding. The budget for the coming year calls for £600,000, but only $395,000 is on hand, requiring members to pay dues. The $1.50 payment deadline was extended to October 15. Other questions were discussed and results will be announced in each home room.
The Handley school announces officers for its three glee clubs. Girls Glee Club officers are President Mary Katherine Stryker and Secretary Betty Swimley. Boys Glee Club officers are President Cortney Grim and Secretary James Goode. Wampus Glee Club officers are President Mary Scully and Secretary Hilma Hottel.
Handley students are urged to show strong support for the football team at the Wednesday assembly. The piece appeals for spirit, pep, and cooperation to back the Handley squad through a memorable season.
At the Monday assembly the newly elected officers Hugh Crisman president Ralph Shafer vice president and Helen Hatcher secretary were sworn in by Mr Quarles. On Wednesday Mr Parsons and the football squad demonstrated slow motion plays including the short line back and the off tackle to show that teamwork and planning are essential to success.
Dublin summons for snuggling causes confusion as a typist's error is revealed in court. Pittsburgh case awards Dee Griffith $25,000 after suit for injuries from a Standard Oil truck. Greensburg brief notes Laurelville families welcoming twins born days apart in hospital.
Robert Lad dish, president of the UC Berkeley senior class, was chosen by 300 senior women as the best date on campus for looks, dancing ability, and sportsmanship in a campus poll.
Philadelphia man Anthony Devico 33 accuses former Moyamensing prison cellmate Joseph Leparco 45 of arranging a party that turned into a robbery. Devico says Leparco conspired to rob him during the visit.
A bogus report in Biloxi claims an ambulance carried a man with a broken leg to city hall while police sought a carpenter after noting the injured man was made of wood and had been on a small spree.
Warner Baxter shines as the young doctor in Grand Canary opening at the Palace with Madge Evans in a romance amid a yellow fever plague in the Canary Islands. The cast includes Marjorie Rambeau Zita Johann and H. B. Warner. Fox News Reel and Half-Baked Relations accompany. British Agent opens at Capitol Theatre with Kay Francis as Elena the Bolshevik Russian girl in a love drama with Leslie Howard.
Kay Francis and Leslie Howard headline the Warner Bros Capitol release British Agent opening today. The film presents a wartime spy thriller with the two stars leading the cast at the Capitol cinema.
Last Friday's cheerleader election produced Esther Butsler June Bean John Rhodes and Charles Lillis. The student body gained new cheers and songs under capable leadership. A large roots section attended the Washington and Lee Handley game Friday to cheer the team.
The senior classes have challenged the junior boys to a contest over paying deposits on the Hand iian. Miss Larrick's and Miss Rice's rooms have tied in a G. O. battle, with a Halloween party promised to the winner.
A playful quiz item asks readers to identify a senior girl pictured under a sign at Spillsmans and notes other local names. It references a Canada lad occupying time, letters from a Morgantown blonde, and a Pennsylvania blonde stirring interest, along with a student sister following her brother’s artistic path. It listsPhilbert Muscles Little Aubrey Ants Nellie and Purtleball as related nicknames or figures.
The text argues for a new humanic idea of God to frame a just social order and fair wealth distribution. It states substantial financial institutions require honest men and notes the three Methodist branches will meet locally to discuss these themes.
The Trustee under a deed of trust from Maynard H. Lancaster and wife will offer at public auction in front of Winchester County Court House on Wednesday Nov 7 1934 at 11 a.m. a 194 acre Gainsboro District farm on both sides of Babb's Run with 70 acres creek bottom timbered upland and orchard. Terms: one third cash, balance in two equal annual installments secured by bond, deed of trust and insurance.
Plans for the Methodist sesqui centennial begin Wednesday to commemorate the founding of Methodism in America. The celebration draws expected participation from many U S regions and foreign nations as Bishop Kern advocates gradual steps toward unification within ten years.
General Johnson out, NRA faces a pending overhaul and possible scrapping next June. Analysts see intrinsic flaws in a plan seeking harmony among capital labor agriculture and consumers amid political pressure and looming overhauls.
Bishop Kern of the southern commission on unification explains that 1944 marks the centennial since the Southern Methodists split from the Methodist Episcopal Church. The conference approved 11 probationers advancing in year-level trials with multiple admissions and remands across several Virginia and Maryland congregations.
The note explains that until the 1800s ba nanas were unfamiliar outside tropical regions, existing mainly in reputation. It cites their limited geographic spread prior to modern exploration and trade expanding knowledge of the fruit.
Workers uncover a sand pit near Munich revealing forty well preserved humanoid skeletons averaging seven feet tall. Authorities say the remains suggest a prehistoric giant race or unusual human stature in ancient Germany.
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