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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1947
Page
7
A promotional notice offers an authoritative booklet titled Weight Control. It provides expert diet essentials vitamins calories and exercise guidance. It includes tables of heights and weights for men and women and is offered postpaid for fifteen cents from Matto t Washington DC.
Winchester Recreation Dept announces plans for the second annual children’s Halloween parade to be held Friday night Oct 31 with co sponsorship by the American Legion. William H. Louthan Jr. chairs the event as details are finalized for release next week. The note also mentions an ancient reference to cotton in Hindu literature around 1500 B C.
Notice of public auction on November 1 1947 at 11:00 AM for cash of a Lincoln Zephyr four door sedan Motor No 99A166465. Sale follows Civil and Police Justice order in Winchester Virginia in an attachment suit H K Benham Trustee Shenandoah Valley National Bank v Arthur Richard Dean. Property attached September 30 1947. Place Ebberts Garage N Loudoun St Winchester VA. G G Baker Sergeant.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at the late home of H Claude Kline deceased on the Old Charles Town Road about 6 miles northeast of Winchester. Starting 1 PM October 23, 1947, items include four head of horses four cows one calf farm equipment hay and corn, poultry gear, hay three lots of corn shocks and miscellaneous tools. Terms cash. W E Edwards admr and Charles Duvall auctioneer.
Funeral services were held today for Matthew Trimble 74 of Ridge Maryland a familiar field trial judge and longtime area resident. He was born in Washington and ran a Ridge farm for three years he is survived by a sister and a brother. A child normally learns to draw a circle before a square.
The migratory wildfowl population reached about 27 million in 1934 and climbed to over 125 million by 1944, with data noting a further rise into 1946. The figures reflect annual cross country migrations and broader wildlife trends tracked by observers.
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