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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1935
Page
5
Front Royal Methodist Church installs a new steam boiler after damage to the old unit last winter. The replacement costs $600. During two weeks of repairs services have been held in the Warren County High School auditorium.
Randolph-Macon Academy football team will host Handley High School of Winchester Friday on the academy field. A large crowd is expected to attend the game.
Front Royal reports the death of Phil Philipps, an aged Cedarville resident, who died Sunday morning at Jim Pulliam’s home in Free Town after a period of illness. He is survived by several children.
Navy, battered but not beaten, rearmed after the Notre Dame setback and set sights on Princeton. Coach Tom Hamilton led a recovery plan with an offensive scrimmage planned for tomorrow and individual drills Thursday, citing inexperience and buoyed by the Irish defeat as a learning point.
New Jersey heavyweight Tony Galento weighing about 220 pounds is training in New York. His fighting method relies on a swinging left to the chin and repeated attempts until a connection. He is considering Joe Louis as a future opponent and will fight Eddie Mader in a semifinal next Friday night.
Miss Julia Whiting of the Middeburg Hunt was thrown when her horse fell after a jump on a macadam road. The incident occurred about 10 30 a.m. as she rode with about twenty five in the field at the S. R. H. Fred Farm near Goose Creek bridge. She was unconscious and taken to her home for evaluation.
An odd account claims a Bhutanese people live north of Assam, weave clothes from nettle fibre, eat elephant flesh, and execute criminals by sewing them into bullock skins and casting them into a river.
Front Royal residents and visitors are listed in a roundup of weekend and ongoing activities. Names include Harold and Mrs Schuer with Elane in Berryville, Katherine Funk, Theodore Supinger, Frank Forsythe, Lynn Whatton, and others visiting Winchester and Frederick area relatives. A hospital update notes Mrs Rudacille improving after illness. The Town Council met in the Town Manager’s office. An excerpt on the Oven Bird describes its ground nest and oven-like arch, noting its former name the Golden-Crowned Thrush.
By authority of a deed of trust dated September 3 1935 from Virgil L Sowers the Trustee will sell at public auction at the County Court House Winchester Virginia on Saturday November 9 1935 at eleven oclock a m. The sale covers household furniture and personal property in the Fairmont Avenue dwelling including stoves refrigerators furniture and assorted household items. Cash on day of sale. J Sloan Kuykendall Trustee. 10-29 11-4 8-31
Vice President John Nance Garner visits Tokyo and meets Emperor Hirohito in the Phoenix Hall with shoes on, defying U.S. debate over footwear. He is accompanied by Speaker Joseph W. Burns and Edwin L. Neville as they converse through a foreign office interpreter for about ten minutes.
Chicago mourns attorney William L. Hawthorne age 42 who died of gunshot wounds from an apparently crazed ex convict who also killed former Municipal Judge William Fetzer and wounded Nathani Waintroob in a loop office. Lamming later killed himself four hours after the attack.
Ray mond Henry Bousquet, Winnipeg boxer known as Del Fontaine, was hanged in London for the murder of Hilda Meeks, a 21 year old waitress. The National Union of Boxers failed to gain a reprieve as Sir John Simon rejected the appeal.
President Roosevelt proclaims November 11 Armistice Day and urges ceremonies in schools churches and other places. He orders the flag on all government buildings and hints at remarks on the international situation at Arlington National Cemetery with American Legion leader Ray Murphy noting the planned address.
Joan Crawford and her husband Franchot Tone listen to advice from Franchot Tone. The scene shows the couple with Tone's father Frank J. Tone, an industrialist from Niagara Falls New York, during a visit to a New York radio station.
A brief note contrasts height and body type with longevity noting tall men outlive short men and thin men outlive fat. It also suggests married men live longer than bachelors and vegetarians longer than carnivores. The Northwest Passage defined as a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific along North America is described as long sought by navigators.
The notice invites readers to order the Fall and Winter Barbara Bell Pattern Book featuring 119 patterns for women children and juniors. It promotes easy to sew designs including afternoon dresses and special occasion patterns and asks readers to send fifteen cents to the paper address.
Readers are told about a turn of the sea style costume with raglan sleeves and a gored skirt, in fabrics like wool crepe and jersey. The ad promotes Pattern 9636 in multiple sizes, with fabric and book offers, and instructs readers to mail fifteen cents per pattern to The Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
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