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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1936
Page
2
The Junior Evening Star from Handley High School lists Thursday assemblies and student council events, plus an editorial urging steady study and regular effort. It notes six weeks in session, calls out varying grades, and briefly teases social-type rumors among juniors and seniors.
The Honor Roll lists students including Mary Scully Thelma Courtney Hilman Hottel Dorothy Larrick Norma J Richards Mildred Snyder King Ann Oakes Pauline Larrick Ruth Lemones Jane Cather June Cline Thelma Edwards Frances Sickers Jean Ebert Phyllis Fowle Dorothy A Robinson Ellen Buster Anna Catherine Ritenour Whiting Isabelle Bailey Mary Glen Lupton Lorena Mae McKlwee Nina Ramaccotti Norman Cooper William Bell Gordon McTiwee DeKalb Russell Billy Schenck John Webber Andrew Grove Ralph Fansler Donald Hartman John Knight Richard Fenner Walter Bailey Philip Barnhart LIBRARY STAFF The Library Star holds its first group meeting at 9:00 Tuesday morning. The staff, high school pupils, will assist with the library and advertise it to teachers and students. No officers were chosen. they will work as a group. The staff numbers eighteen girls, with talk of adding boys.
In Magnolia Arkansas on October 26 friends gathered for a second funeral for 91 year old Margaret Dennis. A prior incident 53 years earlier saw her grave dug and her revival after doctors announced death. She later helped arrange flowers until death yesterday following a relapse brought on by a recent decoration day. In Scottsbluff Nebraska Leo Schmauchers 1900 pound draft horse fell into a car from a beet dump. the horse was unharmed but had to be hauled 30 miles to a hoist for extraction.
In the Western District of Virginia Edwin T. Snider of Winchester was adjudicated bankrupt on October 14 1936. The first meeting of creditors will be held November 5 1936 at 11 00 a m at the Corporation Courthouse Winchester Virginia. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt. Harrisonburg Virginia October 24 1936.
In Byrd's orchard last Wednesday Handley's beauteous girls were given a day off from classes to haul bags of apples. The next day they were driven from National Fruit Products Co. amid a playful battle of apples where some were smacked by rotten fruit. They will later watch themselves advertising apples in a news reel about two minutes long.
A collage of school memories notes anniversaries and events from prior years. Readers recall the cast for And It Rained the Sidney Lanier portrait presentation and the Cumberland Valley League opening game.
The Maryland flag over the railroad station where Gov. Alf M. Landon spoke was displayed upside down signaling distress. Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway noted the error as the American flag flew correctly above the station.
Lloyd O. Powell of Standardsville in Green County has enlisted through the local Army recruiting office. Sgt. Frank Likar, in charge, announced the recruitment action.
A string of quips follows a meek man at a funeral with a tile mishap and a woman’s belief about crowding a toe into a size. It ends with a trolley accident joke about a lost thumb and a Junior boy’s mother catching him smoking at church.
The note states men are signed to the Coast Artillery in Hawaii and forwarded to Fort Slocum New York for departure, with ongoing openings in all branches of the regular army.
A warden met Harry Ainsworth returning from a hunt and cited a clipping claiming pheasants in the Dakotas were so plentiful he bagged the limit early. Ainsworth called himself the biggest liar in Kane County, and no arrest followed. In Philadelphia a wedding was planned for Anthony Swalla and Mary Soda.
The body of Miss Catherine Lee Bryarly, of a Winchester family, was brought to Washington for burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery after death last Friday in her Hammond Court apartment. Services were held at Christ Church and Washington Cathedral with Canon Wolven officiating. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Betty B. Spencer of Milwaukee.
George Andrew McMahon failed to win leave to appeal his conviction for producing a revolver at King Edward's Constitution Hill parade. He was sentenced to one year of hard labor. Lord Hewart dismissed McMahon's claim that agents of a foreign power recruited him to shoot the king as a cock and bull story.
Two federal soldiers were killed and four wounded in a pitched battle with bandits who tried to loot a party of about 200 excursionists returning from the Cacahumilpa grottos. One bandit was mortally wounded. the others fled into the mountains after a ten minute running gun battle.
The Japanese freighter Osaka Maru foundered off Cape Shionomizaka with a crew of 24 rescued. The Norwegian tanker Thelma grounded near Nagoya in rough seas. Salvage vessels were dispatched to the area.
Winchester youths were among students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute awarded orange and maroon ribbons for quality credit averages between 2.25 and 2.74. Recipients included Harry F. Dieckman J Kenneth Robinson Benjamin F. Davis Jr and H A Hott with B N Scheuer of Front Royal also receiving the ribbon. The awards reflected last year's work and freshmen were not eligible.
Fasteeth powder keeps dentures from dropping or slipping with no gummy feel. It sweetens breath and provides all day comfort. Praised by users and dentists, available in three sizes at your druggist.
In the Corporation Court of Winchester on October 12 1936 Leslie E Gipe sues Mary E Gipe for divorce a vinculo matri monii on grounds of desertion. The defendant not a resident of Virginia must appear within ten days after publication and a notice is to be printed weekly for four weeks in the Winchester Evening Star and posted at the courthouse door before November 2 1936.
Ad touts Creomulsion as a fast relief for coughs and chest congestion. It claims the product goes to the source of trouble to soothe membranes, loosen germs, and expel them, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied from the first day.
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