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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 13, 1949

Page

8

Classified Advertisements Rates and Deadlines

Classified ads in The Star require cash with the sale. Rates are $1.50 per column inch per day. Closing hours for classified ads are at 16 a.m. at the Star Office to insert for that date.

Wanted ads seek counter man and hosiery knitter

Classified notices show openings for a counter man at Snow White Grill and a hosiery knitter at Piedmont Knitting Co in Gordonsville Virginia. Also a position to sell and collect for United Insurance Company with weekly benefits and a $50 bond. Earnings range from 40 to 100 dollars weekly plus training. Contact Hagerstown 3626.

Snow White Grill Piedmont Knitting Co Gordonsville United Insurance Company Hagerstown West Washington , St

Auction notice and classifieds miscellany

Wanted assorted used furniture for Wolverton’s Auction Room in Stephens City with weekly auctions. Furnish housing for a couple from October 16 to November 26. Obituary notice for Mrs. Maggie Teele. Piano for sale or trade. Wanted small farm with buildings and timber near a good road. Send details to Winchester Box 415.

Loudoun Whitacre Martinsburg Pike Winchester Jordan Springs Road Rod Sirbaugh Northern Virginia Power Co Harry H. Willis Phil Gardiner Mullica Mill N. J R. G. Feeley Mt. Williams Norbin J. Phillips Jane Bickers Emaly Macen Singer Winchester Sewing Machine Co W. Boscawen Rouss Fire Hall Wolverton’s Stephens City Maggie Teele Rent St

Harrisonburg Area Building Permits Top $4 Million

Harrisonburg area construction permits for the first nine months of the year exceed 4.0 million dollars with September totals of 543 300 dollars. City 430 600 and county 106 700. Major city permit is 365 000 for a Madison College dormitory. County largest permit 30 000 for a Sparkling Springs Farm poultry house. Number of dwellings and poultry houses noted in Rockingham and other sites.

Harrisonburg Ham Madison College Sparkling Springs Jacob Shenk Shenk Hatchery Rockingham

Community Notes From Middletown and Nearby

Middletown residents hosted and visited with relatives and friends as several families attended services and conferences. A birth was announced for Harrison Edward Keeler, with celebrations noted by local households.

Strength For The Day By Earl L Douglas

A devotional essay argues Jesus Parable of the houses built on sand and rock applies to personal life. It warns against insecure foundations of false reverence and vows to build life on truth and Christian virtues. The piece likens wartime construction to spiritual stability and stresses enduring foundations.

Jesus

Children Crushed When Piano Topples

Cortland New York a piano toppled while being moved crushed two children Doug Stebbins four and Roy three killing both brothers in their living room The mother Mrs Andrew Stebbins fled a quarter mile before neighbors helped lift the piano and tend the children

In Memoriam for William B Hale

In loving memory of our dear father William B Hale who died one year ago today October 13 1948. Sad and sudden was the call cherished by all. Your memory remains sweet as ever in our hearts and home.

William B. Hale

Mercator's Atlas Named After Mythic King Atlas of Libya

The atlas creator Mercator explained the name came from a legendary Libyan astronomer called King Atlas, not the Titan Atlas once believed to bear the world on his shoulders.

Mercator Atlas Libia

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