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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1935
Page
7
The Junior Evening Star outlines Cumberland Valley League preview with Allegany High School game at Cumberland, plus school activities. It lists Oranges and Shamrocks officers, basketball practice starting Monday, and Glee Club leadership. It notes student humor, assembly reports, and upcoming Handley operetta tryouts led by Mr. Wise and Mrs. Wise with cast lists.
Students recreate playful stage tricks to emulate an Egyptian magician. The scene shows tissue paper tearing, eggs and bags, and a child’s handkerchief tied as part of a classroom demonstration.
Charles Johnson and Halford Baker are highlighted as top defensive players and blockers with captain duties in recent games. Joe Thrift, nicknamed Buck, is praised for running and defense and served as captain, with anticipation of his departure later this year.
Local notes list visits and health updates. Families mentioned include Saund ers Wake ag Ridings Kline Smith Everly Owings Herronimus DeHaven and Kerns. A motor trip to New York and a hospital stay for T. A. Williams are noted amid community activities.
SILER Va Oct 19 Guests at the home of Mr A L DeHaven last Sunday were Mr and Mrs Howard DeHaven of near Chestnut Grove Mr and Mrs Harry DeHaven Mrs Ruth Kerns and Mrs Harry O Kerns of this community A number of relatives and friends attended the funeral of Mrs James Bageant last Sunday Interment was in Mt Hebron Cemetery
The Winchester Administrative Center executive committee meets October 25 from 7 to 8 at Handley Library trustees' room, followed by a Court of Honor at 8:15 at the George Washington Hotel. Chairman John Scully Jr. presides. A Lee Coble leads the Court of Honor with awards, banners, moving pictures, and a speaker planned.
Additional contributions are listed for the Boy Scout Fund with thanks to H. Douglas Fuller Edward Ruck Mrs. Frank Hack W. Nelson Page Mrs. Dorothy Gilpin Allen Mrs. Emily W. Jones Shirley Carter Pingley Carper Harry Murphy Hugh Funkhouser Ed Moore Frank Yeakle D W miner Mrs D W Ritenour Lee Lamp Co D Stouffer The fund aims to lead a boy to the Court of Honor and away from juvenile drift.
The Niagara Peninsula, the stretch of Ontario between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario comprising Welland and Lincoln counties, is known locally by that name.
In Hogue Creek Virginia on October 21 Mr and Mrs Cleve Marple visited friends and relatives including the Larricks and Miss Lilie Marple. Frances Adams Gainesboro stayed with Pauline Clowser. Helen and Alice White visited their grandmother Mrs Cleve Marple. Joe Whitehead Laurel Maryland spent time with Sarah Foster. Mt Olive to hold Sunday services with officer installation for the coming year.
Canterbury notes record visits and family gatherings in Cant erbury Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hottle visited their daughter Mrs Thomval Nealson near Cant erburg. Mr and Mrs J B Jennings and son Cecil spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs B A Rowland. Oden Dickens and Betty Jean joined them. John Lee Perry visited his parents the O D Perrys. Mrs Edward Madigan and family visited her brother at Nineveh.
Mrs Lucy Johnson Warner, last of an old Winchester family, died at noon yesterday at her Kent and Clifford streets home after a long illness. She was 81 and spent her life in the city, once operating a dressmaking business on South Cameron street and was widely known locally.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in Top Hat at the Capitol with RKO. The Gay romance tuneful and engaging musical delivers crowd pleasing dancing and songs by Irving Berlin earning continual applause and laughter at a midnight showing.
Edward Arnold stars in Diamond Jim at the Palace today Tuesday and Wednesday as the huge hit continues its four week New York run. Binnie Barnes and Jean Arthur appear in the east with the feature plus a Fox News Reel.
Spent Entire Life Here Mrs. Warner daughter of the late Erastus and Maria Carl Johnson widow of grocery merchant William Warner who died years ago. Surviving relatives include stepson Harry Warner of Berryville Va and step-daughter Mrs Luther Ford of Hagerstown Md. Funeral 2 p m tomorrow in Mount Hebron Cemetery chapel with Rev Hubert Sydenstricker of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South officiating. Burial in family lot. Pallbearers J S Haldemah John W Rosenberger Cecil Bailey John W Kater Emmett Copenhaver Edward B Sartelle.
A rustic saying mocks stealing money as wasteful and foolish. Uncle Wren jokes that even if money grew on trees, people would be too lazy to climb for it, reflecting hard times and thrift minded humor.
The pattern offers Marian Martin lounge and sleep pajamas with deep waist yoke and back sash. Suggest a sleeping crepe version for warmth and a corduroy lounge option, with sleeve length variable. Pattern 9568 available in multiple sizes. send 15 cents per pattern plus order book details at The Win Star Pattern Department, 232 W. 18th St., New York.
The article describes a dress pattern with cap sleeve sections, epaulet hints, a buttoned front blouse, high neck frill, leg of mutton sleeves, and a simple skirt length of twelve inches from the floor. It lists sizes 12 14 16 18 20 with corresponding bust measures and yardage, and promotes the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book with patterns for children and mature figures.
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