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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1945
Page
5
Handley high meets Warren County High School in a return game after Handley’s 21-0 win earlier this season. The contest starts at 2:30 PM with 50 cent admission. WCHS aims to rebound from a 1-4 mark as Nor front remains intact for Saturday.
Charles Town and Frederick hold first place in the Blue Ridge Bowling League after opening-week results. Shirley of Charles Town tops averages at 152.1, with Showe of Amoco and White and Rhea of Winchester close behind. Amoco of Hagerstown posted the high team game and set. Matches this weekend feature Amoco at Charles Town and Frederick at Winchester.
Mrs F L Derflinger spent the weekend with Miss Henlen Bowen at Arlington. The Spencers moved from R R Stickley apartment to W F Shore country home near Middletown. Guests gathered for Sunday dinner for Mrs Stickley’s mother’s birthday and to honor Wilmer Pence of Long Meadows. Mrs Clyde Clem returns to University Hospital at Charlottesville for weeks of treatment. The Community League plans a Halloween program Friday night. Mary Ann Hendrick and Genevieve Stickley hosted the Staley Brush Demonstration meeting. Mrs C H Grover reports winter plans in South Carolina with improved health hoping to return by spring.
Baltimore market notes show unchanged prices for produce and poultry with firm eggs and mixed wholesale figures. Livestock quotes from Baltimore and Chicago reflect steady to slow activity, with hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep priced near Thursday levels and ranges for weight classes and grades.
The 8th and 9th grade girls viewed a kitchen planning film at the Northern Virginia kitchen and aim to apply changes in the school kitchen. Miss Flickinger may invite them back soon. Best 8th grade Industrial Arts students: Emerson Cook, William Brown, Kirk Gaskins Jr. General averages: B for first advisory, listing names by grade.
Futures for wheat rye oats and rye show mixed initial prices with wheat Dec at 1.76 a quarter, May 1.74 3 8, July 1.68 1 8 to 1.68 and rye Dec 1.59 1 2, May 1.52 1 2, July 1.41, Sept 1.35 as trading opens in Chicago.
Hollywood reports Cecil B. DeMille organizes the Cecil B. DeMille Pictures Corporation to produce industrial educational and religious films in his dramatic style. The move follows success of visual training programs for the armed forces and aims at schools churches and industry.
In Portland a young wife with bruises begged Judge John Seabrook to free her husband into her custody as he returned from overseas. She tearfully said he was drunk when he struck her and declared she is getting a divorce.
The Rev. Emory Ellmore has returned to the North Frederick Charge. Friends welcome him and his family for the coming year. Also back are Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Binning from a visit with Cecil O Connell in Harrisburg. Miss Josephine Eubanks has gone to Richmond for a position at the Methodist Children's Home. Marguerite Clark of Marshall visited with her parents. H B Moulden and daughter June from Hagerstown and Seaman Robert Cromer of the U S Navy Recruiting Office were guests of the Sells. Mr. and Mrs. M S Snapp hosted Mrs. William Clipp of near Charles Town.
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