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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1941
Page
3
A long list of church schedules across Stephens City Front Royal Pike Salem Cedar Cliff White Post Boyce and others. Sermons and Sunday School times include Stephens City Methodist Cedar Cliff Presbyterian and North Frederick Charge with pastors Homer Welch H W Roth W D Sheets and J Newman Campbell.
The Disciples of Christ Walnut Springs hold morning worship at 11 and a 7 30 evening service with a prayer symposium and morning communion. Middletown Methodist Church led by Rev T Brown lists Sunday School 9 45 with 11 o clock sermon by Dr W W McIntyre in his final District Superintendent sermon and Fourth Quarterly Conference Monday at 7 30. Epworth League meets 7 30 with Sunday School 2 30 and worship at 3 30. Relief Sunday School 10 and worship 11.
Brucetown Circuit on Daylight Savings Time shifts all Sunday services to EST with evening services at 7 30. Brucetown Brucetown Sunday School 10 a m Sermon 11 a m Carpers Valley 2 p m Sermon 3 p m Burnt Factory 10 a m Sermon 7 30 p m Maced onia 10 15 a m Rally Day with program Epworth League 8 p m led by E E Hall Woman's Society meets Wednesday at 8 p m. Marry Balthis pastor.
Chicago reports the Bureau of Dairy Industry announced a non fat potato chip made from concentrated skim milk and boiled potatoes. The mixture is whipped and extruded through corrugated openings, dried in a tunnel drier, and guaranteed to keep indefinitely.
Schedule lists church schools worship and sermons for Greenwood Round Hill Mt. Pleasant Pleasant Valley Red Bud and World Communion Sunday Oct 5 with Rev L G Bridgers preaching at Pleasant Valley and services led by Leslie O Shirley minister of Winchester A B Charge.
Ear Fall Indianapolis notes 10-year-old James Hurt taken to City Hospital after earache. Doctors removed a pen eraser piece of lead and paper from his right ear and a wad from the left ear. His hearing reportedly improved.
Public sale Saturday September 27 at 10 a m on the premises E A Duncan farm 64 acres more or less with improvements including an eight room house two wells a cistern bank barn and outbuildings land on Front Royal pike three miles south of Winchester Desirable home sale also includes household and kitchen furniture terms to be announced at Walter Duncan
The National Association of Manufacturers urged United States industrialists to cooperate in an industry by industry survey assessing non defense plant shutdowns caused by metal and material shortages. About 50,000 plants are in defense work, with 85,000 unlikely to join armament efforts, risking unemployment and plant closures without material access.
Samuel Abner Wright of Duval County pleaded none contendere to a liquor tax law indictment. A co defendant pleaded innocent and another was acquitted by a federal jury. Judge Curtis L. Waller criticized the jury, then sentenced Wright to five minutes in custody with sentence suspended.
Dr I C Riggin state health commissioner explains influenza as a true virus disease spread by droplet infection and contaminated objects. Symptoms include sudden illness fever 100 to 104 dizziness and dry cough with recovery taking days and possible serious complications if untreated. Rules to prevent spread emphasize avoiding crowds and shared utensils and staying away from coughing patients.
Woodstock Virginia Sept 26 Dr James H Smoot 74 prominent physician and Shenandoah County Fair Association president died at his Woodstock home after a long illness He was a director of Shenandoah County Bank and co founder of Walton and Smoot Funeral services are set for 2 30 Saturday from his home with Rev W M Norment Jr officiating Burial Massanutten Cemetery Surviving are daughter Mrs Douglas Dymock and two sisters The widow Nettie Hockman died in January He was a graduate of Washington and Lee and practiced in Woodstock since graduation
The term kowtow comes from a Chinese ceremonial act of prostration as homage or worship. It blends ko meaning knock and tou meaning head, and involved kneeling thrice with foreheads touching the ground in homage to the emperor.
Hollywood reports actress Alice Faye will leave her screen career for a year to focus on motherhood. She was set for the lead in the film My Gal Sal and two other major projects, with 20th Century Fox to recast. Faye, who wed Phil Harris in Mexico and renewed vows in Galveston after his divorce from Marcia Harris, says motherhood outweighs her career.
Damp air is lighter than dry air because water vapor, though present, has a lower molecular weight than the major atmospheric gases. The moisture reduces overall air density by adding lighter molecules to the mix.
In Baltimore on September 26 Judge Eugene O Dunne ordered three year old Dale Jones released from hospital where he had been kept for failure to pay a $24 bill. The father testified the hospital held the boy and the judge ruled hospitals cannot claim a lien on a person for civil debts. The judge called the threat to arrest the boy for nonpayment an abuse.
Johnstown Pennsylvania September 25 1942 H S Bender of Wroxham watched two night blooming cacti for a year and planned a public viewing. One plant opened at six in the morning defying the usual midnight bloom and drew an invitation to neighbors to witness the rare event.
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