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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1935
Page
10
The U B Church at Stephens City announces a rally on 27 with John Heartley leading the Sunday School program. Highlights include 2 pm assembly, special music, class roll calls, new member listings, prize judges, guest speaker Rev. E J Rohart, autumn decor, and a token souvenir for attendees.
The Church Aid Society led by Mrs. H. E. Richardson invites other churches and workers to attend. A chicken soup supper will be served Saturday night the 26th in the Sunday School room, with a cordial invitation extended to all attendees.
The Open Door Bible Class at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church invites men of the class and their friends to hear the Ideal Quartet perform Sunday at 9:45 a m. before Prof R Lee Stickles discusses temperance. Strangers welcome.
Mrs. Ora B Wise qualified as executrix of the late W Luther Wise who died September 28 in Stephens City at age 78. The will leaves all real and personal property to his widow. The instrument dated April 3 1935 had no witnesses. handwriting proved by M M Lynch and Carl Cather. Personal bond of 2000 without security posted. Appraisers named: Reuben Clarke Arthur Sargent M K Sandy Boyd Orebaugh and W P Helmick.
In the Corporation Court of Winchester a suit by Penal L. Weems as trustee seeks to confirm the sale of 106 W Cecil Street Winchester Virginia and grant a deed. Defendants Louis H Magruder Wilhelmina Magruder Eva Magruder Watts and Watts husband are non residents and must appear within fifteen days after publication. Publication required weekly for four weeks in the Evening Star and posting at the courthouse front door by Oct 7 1935.
The executor of George Hunter Yeakley decd offers at public auction in front of the Court House in Winchester Virginia on Saturday November 16 1935 at 12 oclock the home at 320 North National Avenue a 60 by 573 foot brick residence with ten rooms electric lights bath and a public alley. Terms require one third cash with balance in one and two years via purchaser bonds bearing 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust and fire insurance. G T Yeakley Executor. Duvall Dunn Aucts.
Dr. R. B. Truitt of the University of Maryland lectured to students and faculty urging Virginia and Maryland to conserve the Chesapeake blue crab industry. He cited a 50 percent drop in annual yield due to lacking conservation knowledge and warned against harvesting outside spawning periods.
States Biological Survey reports Dr. Truitt brought to the college by faculty after his Richmond spring meeting talk. His lecture yesterday begins a weekly assembly series on Problems of conducted by prominent state leaders at the academy event.
Thirty young men from Frederick, Warren, Loudoun, Shenandoah counties and Winchester were enrolled at the Winchester Recruiting Station for Civilian Conservation Corps camps. They will go to Fort George G. Meade, Maryland for outfitting before assignment to CCC camps. Notable enrollees include Roger Starkey, Clifton Jewell, and others from Loudoun. Lee Hollar, Linwood Clinehinst, and Lester Lamma from Shenandoah. William Pearson, Theodore Silveus, Joseph Martin from Warren. Robert Richards, Benjamin Carter from Frederick. Joseph Ginn and Douglas Willey from Winchester.
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