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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal News for this department may be mailed or telephoned any time by social reporter Mrs. Isabelle P. Miller. She will receive Feensen also between 3 and 4 pm for the following day.
The Transmitter notes Mrs Vera C MacMillan night chief operator at Winchester halted a burglary by sounding the alarm after hearing unfamiliar hammering on a creamery line. Police killed the burglar as he fled. Her prompt action earned a bronze Vail medal. Also covered is the Eastern Star installation at Strasburg with visitors from multiple towns and the officers named and presented gifts.
Mrs Katherine Glass Greene will attend the annual Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington from April 14 to 19 and the authors breakfast of the National League of American Pen Women on Easter Monday April 21 at the Willard Hotel. She will be hosted by her sister Mrs William B Davis. The breakfast opens the league biennial convention with guests of honor Mr and Mrs Charles G Norris. Norris is a noted novelist and writer of fiction. Mrs Norris has endorsed the preconvention bid for national president. Also on the program are former Gov Carl E Milliken of Maine, Grace Thompson Seton, Bernie Babcock, and Fay Cooper Cole. Bishop James E Freeman will give the invocation.
The Adult Missionary Society of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South meets at 7:30 this evening at 435 North Braddock Street. President Mrs. John W. Rosenberger will preside. Topics include Serving In Our Home Mission Schools and State Schools and Religion. Members are urged to bring a new recruit as a drive is underway.
Dr Henry A Converse of Harrisonburg Virginia will speak at the Loudoun Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution monthly meeting in Woodstock. He is a State Teachers College professor and formerly taught at Shenandoah Valley Academy. The gathering begins at 3 PM with Winchester members planning to depart at 2 PM, and those needing transport urged to contact Mrs Frank B Crawford by evening.
Mr and Mrs Jay W Johns invite guests for a noon buffet at Ash Lawn Charlottesville Va to meet Rose Gouverneur Hoes great granddaughter of James Monroe Mrs William Crawford Johnson and Miss Maud Gouverneur attendances link Monroe doctrine lineage and Jefferson Monticello birthday events with Ash Lawn opening April 28 Monroe Monroe Jefferson historical ties noted as pilgrims visit both sites near Charlottesville.
Announcements from Winchester report the marriage of Miss Frances Story of Madison Virginia to Mr Clarence H Robinson of Lincolnton North Carolina on April 2 in Gastonia. The ceremony was led by Rev Dr Boozer of the Lutheran Church. The bride, a niece of John Lee Krider of Baltimore and Madison, taught in Limbolton and plans to reside there with her husband. Robinson works on the bank staff at the Lincolnton bank.
Congressman Drewry appoints Miss Mary Scott Martin of Farmville to represent the Fourth District at the seventh annual Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester likely the last week in August. Martin, a Stuart Hall student, is expected to accept. Also, Miss Suzanne Pollard, daughter of Gov Pollard, will attend the Passion Play in Oberammergau with Mrs H K Young, traveling on the European continent this summer.
Miss Sue Pollard daughter of Gov John Garland Pollard of Virginia attended a dinner at Warenan Park Hotel with guests including Mr Johns Young Mrs Wanda Webb and others. The Washington Star notes.
Women of the Civic League held a bi monthly luncheon at First Church with yellow and white decor. Mayor F Amos Sr spoke on the commission form of city government, parks and playgrounds were discussed, and thanks were given to host church ladies. Arbor Day tree gifts and milk fund updates were noted. Bible class to meet at Mrs Zinns home for Centenary Reformed Church matters. bridesmaids named for Florence Boyd wedding. Loyal Temperance Legion to meet with special program. Philathea Class plans tonight gathering at Mrs Boyd R Richards.
Announcement of Miss Mildred Shryock of Winchester marrying Wilson Lodge Bowles of Boyce Clarke county Va. at 1 o clock yesterday in Baltimore. Ceremony by Rev Williamson at the bride’s brother’s home. They will live in Clarke county. Bowles active in farming and Blue Ridge Hunt Club. Dr John Staige Davis Jr to wed Camilla Ruth Cole in New York on April 26 at St Bartholomew Church with reception at Sherry’s.
Turner Ashby Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, will meet Thursday afternoon April 10 at 3 30 o clock at the home of Mrs. Fred L. Glaize Sr 112 West Piccadilly Street. Photographs in today's Washington Post show Clarke County Princesses Miss Westwood Beverley Byrd and Miss Henrietta Page named for Clarke County and to appear in Queen Shanandoah's Court at the Apple Blossom Festival. Mr and Mrs Harry Clemens and son Master Garland Clemens of Harrisonburg spent last Saturday here with Mrs J M Jackson on North Loudoun Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin White host a Leesburg Virginia reception tonight for their son and daughter in law Albert White and Jeanne Stuart. Guests include immediate family and close friends. Mrs White, formerly Jeanne Stuart of this city, is daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E C Stuart. Dr. and Mrs. Stuart host a Friday tea dance at Hawthorne on Northwestern Grade for the couple.
Mr and Mrs A W Kinney depart tomorrow for New York then sail Saturday on the ocean liner St Louis to Moscow Russia where Mr Kinney will serve as chief engineer for Seabrook Construction Company New York on a $7 000 000 road construction program. The five year project may wrap up the part he supervises by November and he may be joined later by his wife and children. Also noted Arthur F Streit of Standard Oil Company Manila branch attends a conference at Virginia Beach Virginia this week.
Dr F I McClure of Valley Veterinary Hospital is slowly improving after injuries from a collision with a heavy truck owned by A J Novick at the South Kent and East Pall Mall Street intersection. He is able to be out and about town as he recovers.
Mrs Kathryn Z Waddy of New Market Va married Landon Kackley in a ceremony at Rev L F Harper's home. The couple will reside at Fairview near Berryville. Various relatives and visitors from Maryland West Virginia and New York were noted among attendees and travelers in the day’s social notes.
New York April 8 erratic price movement reflected extreme nervousness of professional traders in today’s stock market. Speculators for the advance appeared to be at hand but trading volume fell off with fewer large blocks. The ticker kept pace early as Colt money renewed at 4 percent.
Jonah Lupton Light a longtime Winchester resident and Glaize and Brother employee died at 1 10 this morning after a long illness at his home 316 South Cameron street He was 69 and survived by a widow five brothers one sister a daughter three grandchildren and seven step grandchildren The funeral will be Thursday at ten from his home with Rev N A Lineweaver of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church then interment at Pine Grove in the county
Lieut. Alford J. Williams, a resigned navy air racing pilot, described three years of effort to achieve unlimited speed in the air. Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, he discussed private subsidy for planes to represent the United States in international competition, lack of government participation by rivals, and his failed attempts to salvage his Mercury speed plane for the Schneider cup races. He noted navy delays in providing a tug to move the plane.
Ridgeway West Virginia April 8 funeral services were conducted at Payne's Chapel for Robert N Smallwood 48 who died at his home near Ridgeway after a four week illness. The church choir sang his favorite hymns Lead Kindly Light The Old Rugged Cross and Safe in the Arms of Jesus. Pallbearers were J F Coyle W H Huyette G W Whitmore R R Whitmore G W Clark and C E Ridgeway. Survived by a widow formerly Emma Hillsyard four daughters and two sons along with two brothers and two sisters.
Baltimore April 8 Two new, surprised by a raid on a stir on a farm near Ellicott City today escaped by automobile after firing on prohibition agent H. D Brink and striking his companion Booker T. Clark unconscious. Clark, said to be an informer for the agent, was knocked over the head with a pistol butt as two shots were fired at Brink though both missed. A search organized by Sheriff John Hardy was unsuccessful. Brink repeated he could not prevent the escape of the men because he was unarmed.
An advertisement touts Marmola tablets as a modern method to end fat without exercise or diet. It claims widespread use for 22 years, urging readers to buy boxes at $1 from druggists and promising dramatic bodily changes.
Mrs. Chambers and daughter Eleanor return from Charleston visiting Magnolia and Midleton Gardens. Kenneth Gilpin recovered from appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital Winchester. Rev Edward Burwell to lead Wednesday service at Emmanuel Chapel Boyce. Cake sale at George Garvin's for mite box fund with pan cake meal. Mr and Mrs E G Butler visited Keswick then Richmond and will hear Mrs Butler speak to Garden Club. Stratford Foundation Fund contributors listed including Burwell, Byrd, Carr, Cox, Gilpin, Jones, Meade, Mitchell, Page, Randolph, and Whit ing.
Director-General Nelson R Richards announces that the American Automobile Association plans to decorate a large plate glass window at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventeenth Street N W to advertise the forthcoming apple fete. He said posters will be sent to the association and believes the display will draw thousands to the spring event.
Clyde Morris one of six youths jailed for a year in a county case involving seven chickens was released on 500 bond posted by his mother Mamie Morris of Strasburg Va. on appeal to the Circuit Court. He must appear June 2 for trial in the upper court. Morris, employed in a Strasburg industry, testified he joined others in robbing a farmer of the chickens and denied guilt at trial.
The dispute between an Alabama editor and a senator escalated with heated remarks but ended with order restored. Black withdrew his insult calling Pierce a coward, yet no durable reconciliation appeared, leaving a lingering breach between the two figures.
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