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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1944
Page
7
Of Interest To Women Little Garden Club gathers Monday afternoon at 3 30 at West Boscawen Street home hosted by Mrs E Blackburn Moore Mrs John M Steck Jr presents a paper on Herbs for Scent and Seasoning Arrangements feature flowering shrubs or tree branches in a flat container
Mr Fry spoke on Victory Gardens at the Old Fredericktown Garden Club with hostesses Mrs Cliffora Grim and Mrs Wendell Goode. He cited Virginia's 400000 last year and 446000 this year, urging planting, seed quality, fertilizing and proper care, and invited participation in a school fall display with prizes. The club voted five dollars for hospital seed purchases and at least one hundred cans for Newton D Baker Hospital school lunches.
Mrs Ethel Jolliffe was re elected president of the Winchester Quota Club at the April business meeting. New officers named include Rosa Marian Lewis as first vice president Elizabeth Renner and Elsie Alexander. Committees were formed with Rosalind Kater Edna Koch Marian Lewis and others directing public affairs child welfare publicity parliamentary and club ethics inter club relations decorations membership ways and means. The club celebrated 16 months of service and its first anniversary while contributing to war relief and community programs.
Mr and Mrs J A Martin of Edgewood Mad spent Easter with Mrs Martins parents Mr and Mrs Hershman in Wardensville. Pres appears to have spent several days in a centes with Mrs Laura Hen sell.
Mrs Charles Feltner of near al March 28th was removed last Saturday to the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Milton B on Woodland Ave Saturday Evening At White Post Va Mr and Mrs James Jameson and children of District Heights Md and Miss Hazel Hughes of this city spent last Saturday evening at White Post Va with their exancpanents Mr and Mrs J W Armel
Miss Zelma Carper of Washington formerly of this city attended the funeral of her cousin Mrs. John Melanbacher of Wenatchee Washington held in Alexandria Virginia Tuesday.
The Winchester Memorial Hospital Alumnae Association will meet Monday evening at 7 15 in the Nurses Home for their regular monthly gathering. Mrs B B Dutton will speak on her WWI nursing experiences. All members are urged to attend.
Mrs. Allen Bond and her daughter Nancy returned to their Winchester area home after spending a week in Boston, Massachusetts, last week.
Mrs Bernice A Clevenger returns home after a month in Philadelphia and Baltimore visiting I M Sumption and Charles L Shewbridge. Several couples and individuals host and visit family across Berryville Winchester Front Royal and Harrisonburg with hospital stays and college news included.
Doff is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Orndorff of Albin Va Mrs Arthur Parker and Mrs Nor ville Wine from Winchester attended the capping ceremony Anita Ryden the daughter of Mrs Nancy Bowly Ryden of South Stewart street has returned home after a tonsillectomy in Winchester Memorial Hospital Miss Phyllis Fowle is visiting Charlottesville Va and Washington en route to a new job in the capital Leo Weber and Lulu Virginia Loy welcome a baby boy in Winchester Memorial Hospital Mrs Clyde Hall hosts the Child Guidance Club on Virginia Avenue Chester Treadway and family plan a Florida home move Brenda Carter of the WRENS travels from Washington to visit Sante Griffiths on West Clifford Street Chester Brent of Harrisonburg is a guest at the George Washington Hotel Ida Levin of New York City is a guest on West Boscawen Street Miss Anna Lee Estep of Madison College spent Easter with her parents on Berryville Avenue J W Jameson and family from District Heights Md visited G L Hughes on Glaize Avenue.
German radio in London reported Allied planes attacked the Rome area last night amid 24 hours of aerial activity over the city. Broadcasts claimed heavy bombing detonations and noted reports of 5,000 killed in Treviso province in a Venice air raid. Another report said a large time bomb was found in the Sistine Chapel behind a Michelangelo work, suspected British origin.
Solomons based aircraft including medium and light bombers struck Rabaul New Britain with 150 tons in raids on town ships and dumps. Allied forces sank four enemy barges at Alamena and hit Kavieng with 25 tons of explosives. Additional air patrols attacked Empress Augusta Bay area south and east of the Bougainville beachhead and coastal targets in the Shortland Islands and Buka.
A batch of Handley area servicemen and relatives are named as overseas or training assignments. Buck Thrift and Jimmy Thrift, sons of Mrs. Carson Spillman, joined the U S Navy in 1943 after standout sports at Handley. Others include Hartwell Slayden, Maurice Fletcher, James Perry, Richard Renner, Orville Perry, Charles Zuckerman, William Huyett Jr, Lt Brill, Marion Brill, Frank Smith, Edward Cooper, and more.
Winnie Henderson 69 colored widow of John Henderson died at her Browntown home near Millwood Clarke county yesterday. She was born in Millwood to Nath aniel and Lizzie Carter and left seven daughters Elizabeth Walker Laura Williams Ethel Jackson Irene Jefferson Winnie Newman Laura Dennis Rebecca Howard and four sons Caleb Henderson Joseph Henderson George Henderson Isata ah Henderson. Funeral services Sunday at one at Gilfield Church near Millwood with Rev Laurence Ford and Rev Ralph Laws officiating. Burial in Little Chapel Cemetery Clarke county.
Allied planners envisage AMG oversight of liberated countries with non German states choosing their governments. War’s reach will extend to civilian tasks under Eisenhower, while Germany faces disorganization and no immediate self rule. Anti Nazi leaders are scarce after a decade of Nazism. American British teams train to purge Nazis and run governance.
Dan E. Leatherman spoke at Grace Lutheran Church Men’s Bible Class banquet calling the church a world lighthouse and urging greater support for the war effort. Delegations from nearby towns attended and John W. Carpenter, home after 27 months in the Southwest Pacific, was welcomed.
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