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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal News notice indicates items may be mailed or mailed by wineiets. Mrs. Isabelle Miller will receive news between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone No. 33.
Blooming Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac attract admiration from visitors. Recounted are varieties around the tidal basin and along the Washington channel with blossoms reflecting on the water and framing landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial. The history notes gifts from Mrs Taft and Tokyo, plus notes on cherry trees as flowering flora rather than fruit trees.
Mc Kinley Chapter members motored to Strasburg for the installation of Sparmont Chapter No. 64 officers. Attendees included Mrs. Alvin Shade, Mrs. Mary Cassell, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lowry, and other local members. Daisy Shade and Cassell served as installation officers with guests from Front Royal Chapter and Woodstock Chapter.
Reservations are being taken for the bi monthly Women’s Civic League luncheon in the First Baptist Church dining room at 1 PM Friday. Members may bring guests. notify Mrs Frank B Crawford 508 J, arrangements chair. Other committee members are Mrs Phil H Gold and Mrs John Craig.
Announcement of appointments to the Queen Shenandoah court lists Miss Cora Lloyd of Martinsburg West Virginia to represent Berkeley county, appointed by Dr. A B Eagle. Mrs J W Seay of Eagle Rock Virginia to represent Botetourt county, appointed by Botetourt county directors. Miss Henrietta Page of Washington D C to represent Clarke county, appointed by Mrs John B Neil.
Regular Wednesday Bridge Club gathers at the model home with Miss Virginia Nye Duvall as hostess. Two tables will be played. Girls Athletic Association holds Thursday club night at 8 o'clock, with attendees meeting at the club room for carless access.
Miss Katy Knight remains home ill in the city. Elizabeth Cather and Madeline Ebersole, after three months training at Philadelphia General Hospital, return to Winchester Memorial Hospital as student nurses. Frank Wymer and wife came back from Richmond with their daughter Sarah Bell Goode a St Josephs Academy student. Elizabeth Hardy named a district census stenographer at 163 North Loudoun Street. Mrs. R H Stokes arrives home for summer from Rockville and Worden. Jane Mudd and Richard Mudd Jr visit Towson with their mother Mrs. Charles Arke. Charles J Borum of Strasburg and wife shopped here yesterday.
Dublin reports that a motion to elect Eamon de Valera Fianna Fail leader president of the Free State Council was defeated late today by 93 to 9. De Valera is currently in the United States.
Captain Frank Hawks landed at Staley Field Wichita Falls at 9 10 a m after detaching from a tow plane on a glide from Sweetwater Texas He remained aloft over the field for 25 minutes during the cross country flight from San Diego to New York.
2 Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd and his party will depart Dunnedin for Wellington on Monday after news that accommodations are ready on the Rangitiki sailing April 24. The admiral will then proceed to Christchurch for a civic welcome before returning to Wellington for a Tuesday morning arrival and a further reception that evening.
Supt. H. B. Duffey announced Winchester public schools close for spring vacation and will reopen Monday morning. Easter late this year and the Apple Blossom Festival dates prompted the break, with no session on Good Friday.
New York stock market opened with record trading pace as buyers generally dominated price moves. Fast selling bursts occurred, but leadership shifted quickly and overall prices rose. midday sales topped 2,500,000 shares with the ticker well behind the market. call money held at 4 percent.
The Friendship Fire company holds its annual banquet in the coms hall on East Cork street at 8 tomorrow night. A large turnout is expected with hundreds of members and guests. The Handley Orchestra and the Friendship quartet will perform, Cy Mee will sing, and toastmaster Hon. T. Russell Cather will preside. Toasts by Hon. Ashton Dovell and Hon. Frank M. Wray will follow.
The Lions Club selected delegates and alternates for the state convention to be held in Suffolk Virginia on May 8 and 9. Delegates are Dr Allen Thawthorne Joseph B Newlin and D H Sencindiver with alternates Thomas Hiltzhimer Herbert Miller and Kenneth Rush. Handley High School students Donald Patton and Melvin Miller entertained at the George Washington Hotel luncheon. D H Sencindiver presided in the absence of ill president H Elmer Giffin. A membership campaign is in progress with several new members proposed.
In a night shootout at an alleged speakeasy run by Mike Ciaccio, two youths Howard Abbott and Frank Teskar fired on Vitale after he resisted. Vitale died from chest wounds, Abbott and Teskar fled the scene. Abbott later claimed prior robbery of Peter Bukovec. Police report radium note irrelevant to incident.
In Buffalo on April 2 Judge F Bert Thornton paused the trial of Lila for complicity in the murder of Clothilde Harchand due to the defendant’s illness. A hospital transfer after a tubercular hemorrhage prompted a recess to await improvement or potential mistrial. The judge offered no hospital update and adjournment hinged on Lila’s medical condition.
Levania Hopkins Smith of Baltimore died in Florence Italy on April 2 at the age of 72. She had lived there for several years.
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