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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1938
Page
3
A nostalgic verse urges Jimmie Taylor on his tenth birthday to lead with kindness and integrity. The speaker reflects on youth and warns of deceit, stressing self improvement, hard work, and aiming to live for many decades.
Jeffrey Lynn recalls turning from law studies at Bates College and Penn to work to make ends meet. He taught and coached drama in Lisbon High School Maine before a career in summer stock at Abingdon Virginia and touring in Brother Rat. His screen debut came in Warner Brothers Four Daughters as a bluff pipe smoking young composer.
The Junior Evening Star shows Handley High School weekly events with practice and club schedules including basketball, glee, band, cheer, and executive council. It reviews Handley’s 19 to 7 win over Harrisonburg, highlighting Willie Cather and Gene Dunn touchdowns and student reactions after the game.
The Inquiring Reporter asks graduates about plans after June. Margaret Athey aims to raise cane, Gene Runn takes a long nap, Lohi Dunlap will frame a diploma, Louise Miller plans marriage, Shirley Williams goes to Vassar, Pete Himelright pursues fame, Willie Cather and Mary Oes share uncertain paths, Hank Willis returns for more study, Boyd Headley heads to Kentucky, Betty Pierce refines her English accent, Meredith Shoemaker keeps trying.
A school column scolds late arrivals and repetitive excuses at roll call 8 55 detailing common lines like mother forgot to call me and car wouldn t start. It urges focus and punctuality as new schedule rules settle in with staff and student leaders listed.
The Shamrocks defeated the Oranges in a three game soccer baseball series with the Oranges winning the second game while losing the other two. Oranges lineup includes Helen Lillis on the mound and Jane Jackson catching. Shamrocks pitchers Louise Miller and catcher Farley Massey led the champions with solid defense and key hits.
Gossip column notes muttered questions about Mr. Coe and Mrs Solenberger. Name origins for Gene Dunn and Jamie Brooks spark curiosity while a supposed romance circles among Juniors and Sophomores.
Song list item. A collection entry featuring the track I ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm credited to Shoots as a performer or arranger in a period catalog.
Fringe dialogue spans jokes about wives money and ambition with lines from Lohr Larrick Pat Willie and Shirley Williams. The characters debate legal wives Henry VIII contrasts and social labels revealing a humorous social snapshot of ideas on graft capitalism and playboy labels.
The senior class convened in the upstairs study hall on September 29. Mr. Quarles urged cooperation with sponsors and officers as a list of official seniors with eleven or more credits would be published. Ray Robinson introduced the Handiian staff led by Editor in Chief Vance Larkin and listed the year’s editorial team.
The piece observes life between classes and lunch, with liberty for pupils and talk of seventh graders courting. It muses on future marriages and the idea of couples eventually tying themselves to lasting commitments, reflecting schoolyard romance and growth.
The Supreme Court of Appeals at Richmond affirms the Clarke county circuit court ruling in John Elliott v Commonwealth. The case concerns alleged thefts of hams from Dr. A. P. Osborne's farm meat house and questions whether the Commonwealth's attorney could reference Elliott's silence after conviction based on an alleged accomplice’s testimony. Elliott was represented by Miller of Culpeper, Va.
In Reliance Virginia the Woman's Missionary Society met with Weirich leading the gathering. Local updates include Cecile Hyde leaving for Amelia and returning with her mother and brother to take rooms in the Stickley home for several months.
Hogue Creek Virginia notes list visiting relatives from Winchester and Stephens City this weekend. Mrs. Mary Wisecarver improved after a sudden illness at her daughter’s home, while Ollie Crow hosted several local guests including the Crow ser and Larrick families.
Stephens City notes show Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hawks of Ohio visiting the Shryocks. Miss Genevieve Massie in Washington DC. Miss Maratha Snyder of Philadelphia returning home after ten days with local friends. Hilda Doggett of Martinsburg weekend with her parents. Ed Smith of Harrisburg a Sunday caller. E Carl Lake of Washington visiting sister R A Shryock. Campbell, Grim, and Mae Jane visited Smith home. Mrs John Newell with relatives in Woodstock. Briscoe William and Robert Ridgeway improving at home.
Master Kenneth Colaw plans a Sunday trip to California to join his mother Mrs. Albert Jones. Miss Mary Elizabeth Brown Bryarly spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Gervis Lemley. Mr. P. E. Lineburg visited friends in Washington yesterday. Mrs. Emma Sillik of Maryland returned home after a brief stay here with family.
A string of visits and guests in Gainesboro Virginia and nearby towns includes Miss Mary Louise Kelchner staying with Miss Bernice Carper and Miss Madalene White with Mr Ralph McIlwee. Local residents report frost Sunday night and shotgun accident injuries to Iris Racy.
Real home of 7 rooms and bath with large basement hot water heat and a garage on a 40 by 160 foot lot. Cash 2000 or finance 1150, total 3150. Double frame house offering owner occupancy on one side and rental income on the other. Seller offers to repurchase after 90 days if not satisfied and promises cashing or turning over mortgages to relieve taxes and needed improvements.
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