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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1940
Page
10
The old Hotel Rennett in Baltimore was sold by the city to Scott B. Appleby of Washington for 110000 plus 1941 taxes. Appleby plans razing the building and constructing a parking garage on the site.
Glen Largent, 36, of this city, was convicted by Trial Justice Donald Weems on a liquor driving charge. He received a $100 fine plus costs and 30 days in jail, with twenty days suspended.
In Millwood Virginia Irene Randolph hosted a Thursday dinner for a mixed group including Mr and Mrs William B Watkins Jr and several Misses and Messrs. Edward Ingle from Richmond was honored at luncheon by Mrs William Beverley and others. Additional gatherings featured Mr Ashton Lee visiting from Boston and Mrs Archer Beatty with niece Julia Hober from Richmond as well as Mrs Princes Wilmer staying with Mrs William Wilmer.
William E. Hopkins of Red Hill near Charlottesville has been appointed to the Stephens City High School faculty to succeed Mrs. Claude Stickley who resigned. He has arrived and begun duties at the school.
An old advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy to stimulate bile flow and relieve constipation. It warns of dull mornings and digestive discomfort without the pills and promotes a 10¢ to 254 price range.
A work stoppage at Celanese in Cumberland Maryland left about 9 000 workers affected as management called it a strike while union leaders denied responsibility The company blamed discipline related disturbances on September 9 and offered arbitration The plant gates stayed open despite a mid night crowd and limited police presence
Mrs. W F Orndorff returns from Winchester Memorial Hospital after seven weeks. Apple growers busy harvesting early fall apples. Miss Lucy Bell Fawcett studying postgraduate course at Handley High. Mt Airy School reports largest enrollment in history with Sarah Shryock as principal.
Chairman of the Republican program committee and former University of Wisconsin president Dr Glenn Frank, 52, was killed when his campaign car overturned near Greenleaf. His son Glenn Jr, 21, was fatally injured.
D. J. Howard, governor of the 186th District of Rotary International, paid an official visit to the Strasburg Club last night. He said Rotary is a philosophy of life upon which this country was founded and must exist, not merely an ideal or a formula.
The Gore High School announced new stage curtains including an advertising curtain back curtain side curtains and a velvet front curtain funded by contributions from Winchester merchants. Plans for several plays and other entertainments are under way.
A prayer meeting will be held at the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour tonight at 8 o clock. The pastor will speak on A Man Sent From God. All are invited to attend.
Treasury data for September 16 shows receipts of 74 million 827 thousand 908 dollars and expenditures of 35 million 332 thousand 229 dollars. Gross debt sits at 44 billion 61 million 821 thousand 728 dollars, up by 150 million 310 thousand 423 dollars from the previous day.
The listing notes WMAL Quiz Kids ties mean four repeaters tonight and one new contestant. It also lists programs from 7:30 Foreign Correspondent with Walter Wanger and Alfred Hitchcock, 8 Hoover at University of Pennsylvania, 9:15 Abbott Costello take on a newspaper office, and 10:15 Senator Josh Lee on Roosevelt and Defense.
In Albany, New York, September primary results show former Rep. John J. O’Connor denied renomination amid a Democratic setback to President Roosevelt’s policies. Incumbents largely kept their seats. James won the 16th district Democratic bid over O’Connor for a second time. In the Republican side, Fay leads with 17,358 to O’Connor’s 3,921 in 80 of 84 districts. Hamilton Fish secured the Republican nomination in the 26th district, defeating a formal opponent and a write-in to block any 60 day post election bid.
Senator Austin criticizes a no tax exemption rider on government securities as revolutionary and socialist, arguing it attacks dual federal state government powers. Senator Brown defends the measure, saying Congress already permits state taxation on federal employee salaries and the federal tax on state salaries.
The Henry Kyd Douglas Camp S. C. V. will meet at the Potomac Light and Power Company building in Martinsburg West Virginia on September 24 at 7 30 p m Sam M Hendricks commander announced today
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