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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1937
Page
3
In Brooklawn New Jersey Acting Marshal George McMahon was dismissed from duty and Captain William Walton returned to work after a long illness. Walton has an overcoat for the borough police.
R G Phillips of the International Apple Association urges October 30 to November 6 as National Apple Week. He prompts local committees, school programs, and women’s clubs to organize events, with emphasis on children as future buyers, and suggests Halloween activities and school projects to boost apple awareness and distribute fruit to charities.
Congress may start November 15 while the Capitol undergoes a face lift. Workers repaint desks and halls. senator offices see rent jokes and half finished name plates. Cars off track and air conditioning spread through Capitol Hill as painters crowd the classic corridors.
Sheriff John T. Pierpont ignored orders from city police and highway patrol to join the raid. He found 11 alleged moonshiners, two kegs and a milk can of liquor on a curb. The suspects were made to carry the whiskey from their homes.
Edmund Strudwick Jr of Richmond head of the Children's Home Society of Virginia argues in the Home Finder that private agencies remain essential in state plans for homeless and neglected children. He notes ongoing demand, 36 years of service, and cooperation with the Virginia State Department of Public Welfare while calling for more income and free homes to expand care.
Erie police report six people perished in a two story frame farmhouse fire near Waterford ten miles south of Erie on October 19. Victims include Mrs Helen Molash and her four children Abe 23 Peter 21 John 19 Olga 17 and hired man Harry Ordell 10. Neighbor Ted Malinoski recounts flames from attic and interior engulfed in fire.
Albemarle county Stayman Winesaps begin export shipments from Charlottesville. A New York broker reports 50 carloads shipped to New York mainly for Belgium, with an estimated 50 000 barrels by mid November. Nor way and Sweden receive many apples. E W J Hearty, a major shipper, owns orchards near Winchester. The Boat apple orchards at Cov esville have sent 3 000 barrels to Finland.
The Clifton Forge Virginia Daily Review reports Rev. T M Swann will leave Clifton Forge after six years as Central Methodist Church pastor to take a Winchester charge. He is succeeded by Rev E L Woolf D D and praised as a strong pulpit orator and trusted colleague.
The Synod of the Potomac Evangelical Reformed Church will conduct its annual one day conference on Christian education in Middletown Maryland this Saturday. Notable speakers include Dr Nevin C Harner of Eastern Theological Seminary Lancaster Pa the Rev T C Braun of Philadelphia Pa Miss Rhea Kraus of Baltimore Md and Kenneth C Cox of York Pa with additional addresses and group discussions planned.
Walt Kirtley of Nebraska City spent three weeks building a float for the Apple Harvest Festival parade and displayed it in a hotel lobby for two weeks after the event. After the parade, someone recalled his float was still in the hotel.
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