Social and Personal notes for Mrs Miller
Retired department member Mrs Ioabette P Miller will receive news at her home between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone number 3.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1930
Page
3
Retired department member Mrs Ioabette P Miller will receive news at her home between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone number 3.
The Century Club meeting covered Africa in World War I, noting German losses, the Union of South Africa, and partition outcomes. It contrasted British and French colonial methods and warned of Muslim tensions amid imperial powers.
Mrs Margaret A Barton married Dr William S Love Jr in Old St Pauls Episcopal Church Baltimore. Bride, widow of Rev Alexander K Barton, formerly Miss Margaret Ankarcrona of Gothenburg, Sweden, returns to Tudor Arms Baltimore with husband after a short wedding trip.
Members of Circle No. 4 Brad Church South met at the Typical Home with Miss Virginia Nye Duvall as hostess. Attendees included Mrs. J. A. Bean Mrs. T. B Joliffe Mrs. W. G. Hardy Mrs. C. DeWitt Mrs. Ruth Yost Mrs. Christine Resseque Mrs. Lela Peer Mrs. J. M. Orndoff Mrs. M. D. Mitchler Mrs. Roy Gearing Mrs. Charles Hewitt Mrs. R. S. Fansler Mrs. Emma Wisecarver Mrs. R. W. Dunaway and Mrs. A. H. Jackson. This afternoon Miss Duvall entertains the Friday Afternoon Bridge Club and tonight she hosts a gathering for Potomac Edison staff members in Hagerstown Md. Miss Dorothy Swimley of Cumberland Md arrived for a week at aunt Mrs. A. C. Swimley’s home with South Stewart Street. Margaret and Leslie James of Purcellville Va arrive as weekend guests. Return from funeral trip: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Everhart and daughter Jean Rae Everhart Mrs. Edgar Mason and Misses Thelma and Mildred Sargent returned from Savage Md where they attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Robert White. Funeral services held at First Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
A bridge party this afternoon at Mrs. Eugene Davis’s Front Royal home invites many city ladies. Mrs Davis and her husband lived here years ago when he worked at the Commercial and Savings Bank. he is now cashier of Citizens National Bank Front Royal. The Ever Ready Class held its annual supper at Tokus Inn. Rev Dr and Mrs F T McFaden and Miss Frances McFaden were honored guests. Yesterday marked the fortieth wedding anniversary of Dr and Mrs McFaden, Mrs McFaden formerly Mary Friend of Southern...
Mount Vernon Hills near Arlington hosts a broadcast Saturday at 4 30 pm featuring Mr Dave Martin singing a James Lizard composition with Miss Madeline Whitlock on piano both Arlington High School staff. A second concert airs Wednesday April 16 at 4 40 pm from Mount Vernon Station.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Adams are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter born Saturday April 5 at their home in the city. The child is named Nancy Orlean and Mrs Adams is formerly Myrtle Kidwell, daughter of Mr and Mrs G C Kidwell of the city.
The column records multiple residents and guests visiting or returning home from hospitals or hotels. Notables include Harold Sowers of White Post, Edward Clarke and Kate Barr of Wilmington, Patricia of Brooke N Y, Michael Lillis host, Memorial Hospital patients Mrs O D Lambert and Mrs H W Ebert, and others visiting or staying at Hotel Jack or in Richmond Staunton and Buffalo.
Miss Fannie Smithey 74 a longtime Brucetown resident died at 11:30 a.m. after complications. She attended Brucetown Methodist Church South and was active in local social and religious life. Funeral at Brucetown Church South Sunday 2 p.m. with Rev. J C Clarke and Rev. O D Lambert officiating. Pallbearers listed. interment beside the church.
Seven robbers with machine guns assault Citizens National Bank in Piqua Ohio stealing 1000 dollars. Henry Matthews 40 owner of a delicatessen died from a breast wound after being hit during the exchange. Ray Alexander manager of a loan company wounded fatally? seriously. Nathan Lawrence carpenter shot in the leg as robbers fled onto the Dixie highway. Police alerted after a bank employee triggered a burglar alarm. Over 100 rounds fired through loan company windows.
G. Bryan Pitts former chairman of the F. H. Smith Company an investment company was indicted by the District of Columbia grand jury on a charge of embezzling 1 156 809 of the firm s funds. Elsewhere the article notes wild camels still roam parts of Asia and Africa.
Lieut. Al Williams, a Navy speed ace, claims a Senate committee reading misrepresented his stance on sea duty. He says a letter to the naval bureau of operations was not voluntary but an answer to orders from Rear Admiral Richard Leigh, chief of the bureau of navigation.
The letter to the Senate committee omitted that he had requested sea duty after finishing the Mercury racer. He had tried to complete the project in time for last year’s speed trials in England but failed.
In Dartford Kent on April 11 Edith Barker 23 was stabbed in the back while strolling with her sister Evelyn 15 near a busy road. Edith died within minutes as a lone masked man fled into bushes. Authorities consider an escaped lunatic theory but asylum patients were checked and accounted for.
Baltimore April 11 Police search for Charles Green a Maryland penitentiary trusted prisoner who drove a prison truck yesterday and did not return. He is a seven year burglary inmate who entered the prison in 1927 and had driven the truck for months before leaving to make several deliveries. Aice man found the truck parked and informed Warden Patrick Brady.
Notice of stockholders meeting for the Union of Winchester to be held Thursday April 24 1930 from 11 a m to 12 m for election of directors and to transact any other business. CHAS J Summers cashier.
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