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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal items from the department indicate mail or phone submissions are accepted. Mrs Isabelle F P Miller coordinates the social page and requests items by mid afternoon for the following day.
Miss Lloyd was chosen as Berkeley County's seventh Blossom Festival princess. Selection was by Col. H. J. Benchoff and Shenandoah Insurance officials. Miss Lloyd, Martinsburg High School graduate, studied vocal work at Margery Webster school in Washington and works at Berkeley Loan and Thrift Company. Mrs. Virginia Greene, once of Winchester and Charlottesville, Va., lies dangerously ill at Allegheny College Meadville Pa, after gas from a stove leak.
The Garden Club of Warren County will hold a flower box contest during the coming season. Club members will solicit entries and visit homes to spark interest in beautifying porches and lawns at low cost. Boxes judged August 15 with monetary prizes across classes. County papers will publish entrants weekly.
A local study by Lawrence V. Jolliffe hung by the awards committee at the seventeenth annual Pittsburgh salon of Carnegie Institute’s photographic section. The international exhibit runs March 23 to April 20 with foreign and other displays. Marvin Mitchell, 14, injured in a shooting, shows improvement at Memorial Hospital. Dr. R T Creasy, patient at Memorial, is much improved and expected to return home soon though full practice may be delayed.
Mrs Cary T Grayson schedules an April 28 to May 3 Gardens of Virginia event to raise funds for restoring Stratford the Lees birthplace and Gen Robert E Lees home. The social guide books may be at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Maude N Whiting leaves for a two month Virginia visit visiting relatives and touring sites.
The Wednesday After noon Bridge Club met yesterday with Miss Virginia Nye Duvall as hostess at the Typical Home on Gray Stone Terrace. Guests included Mrs. W. A. McKown, Mrs. H. K. Grove, Mrs. P. H. Gold, Miss Jennie Flowers, Miss Mamie S. Robinson, Mrs. G. H. Schlack, Mrs. D. W. Lupton, Miss Lydia Irish, Mrs. G. R. Haines, Mrs. D. E. Stultz, Mrs. J. S. Robertson and Mrs. W. E. Cather.
George H. Emmans former Tivoli organist and music studio operator plans a tea room in Winchester likely on the second floor of the building formerly occupied by Win Theatre. He expects to open April 15 and will operate in tandem with an Italian and Chinese Tea Room in Frederick.
Rain is forecast with little temperature change. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stoddard of Grand Rapids and Mr. F. C. Hendershot of Chicago at Hotel Jack. Many local residents recoveries and hospital notices update daily life with visiting relatives and trips to Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, and Columbus.
A first Friday devotional in honor of the sacred heart of Jesus will be conducted at Sacred Heart Catholic Church tomorrow morning at 8. Rev Father Emmett Gallagher of Staunton will officiate the service.
J Buhrman Larrick of the old Middletown Larrick family died in his Washington home. He was found in bed by one son about 6 am and likely died in the night of a heart attack. Surviving include his widow Mary Wise Larrick, three sons Bernard Bernard B Herbert Wise, two daughters Cora Owens Marguerite, plus four brothers and a sister. Funeral plans await relatives’ return with services in Washington. He was about 65 and formerly with the District of Columbia secret service.
Funeral rites for B Randolph Palmer were held Wednesday at 4 pm from Mrs W O Gochenour home with Rev J Good and Rev E J Rohart officiating. Delegations from Winchester Cold Storage and South End Hose Company attended. Floral tributes marked high regard as a trio sang Nearer My God To Thee Beautiful Isle of Somewhere and There's No Disappointment in Heaven. Pallbearers included Frank Brown Louis Armel O H Lewis Earl Renner Louis Fries and James Lamp. Interment was in Mount Hebron Cemetery family lot.
Eight more bodies were recovered today from the Pioneer Coal Company mines at Kettle Island Kentucky where an explosion on Saturday entombed 16 workers. Only the mine foreman J B Hill remains unaccounted for as recovery efforts continued.
An ad claims one tablespoon of Dave's Mentha Pepsin relieves acute indigestion in ten minutes, easing gas, bloating, and heart palpitations. It touts Baker's Drug Store guarantees Mentha Pepsin ends indigestion or money back, urging ongoing use.
The North German Lloyd liner Europa arrived at Cherbourg from New York after a four day forty two hour voyage hindered by heavy weather in the English channel. The ship had set a westbound trans Atlantic record of four days seventeen hours six minutes, beating its sister Bremen by eighteen minutes.
Funeral rites for the late M Burton Marnan will be conducted at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with a requiem mass by Rev. Father Robert E Hannon. Burial will follow in Catholic Cemetery. pallbearers listed include O L Jamison S J Lickliter E D Calvert S G Fosbrink S R Willey James P Reardon H B McKee and C R Grubbs.
Lila Jimerson known as the red lilac of the Cayuga Indians pleads guilty in a hospital room serving as a county court to a reduced charge of second degree murder. She murdered Mrs Clothilde Marchand, wife of Henri Marchand, a widely known artist.
An advertisement claims Kruschen Salts help women achieve a slim attractive figure by a daily half teaspoon in hot water each morning. It touts flushing harmful matters, improving organs and blood, and reports a Montana woman losing 14 pounds in four weeks with a money back guarantee.
Dr. F I McClure of Valley Veterinary Hospital was injured when his car collided with a partially loaded heavy transport truck on South Kent and East Pall Mall. He sustained cuts and bruises and was treated at Memorial Hospital before returning home. police set a Saturday hearing for both drivers on a reckless driving charge.
Word reached this city of the death of Alvadore Statler in Sherwood West Virginia from pneumonia after a short illness. Funeral services are set for Friday morning in Sherwood. He was the father of Mrs. Don G. Harmer, formerly of this city, whose husband works with the Southern Railway Company in Atlanta Georgia.
Commissioners certified Tuesday that in the first ward Fred W. Forney Lawrence C. Hollis and Peyton J. Marshall led the vote and were the Democratic nominees for city councilmen to be elected in June. In the second ward Fred L. Glaize John Rosenberger and R. Frank Barr were the top vote getters and Democrats for that ward. The canvassing panel included Harry R. Homer John A. Huntsberry Carlin Gray B F Arthur Jr and John W. Kater.
Notarized ownership and circulation affidavit for The Winchester Evening Star Winchester Virginia. It lists publisher editor and business manager H F Byrd and owner Bolling Byrd with R S Fansler as business manager. Average weekly circulation shown as 4933 with notarization April 2 1930 by L D Arnold.
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