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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1930
Page
3
Social items indicate Mrs. Isabelle P. Miller will receive main sites between 3 and 4 pm for the following day. The note mentions teens and a contact window but details are sparse and unclear.
Members of the Apple Blossom Festival dance committee schedule events at the George Washington Hotel and Jordan Springs Hotel with pink and white decorations. Celebrity acts, Shenandoah Valley musicians, and local college ensembles are lined up for queen ball and other celebrations.
Mrs. E. Virginia Smith and her daughter Miss Virginia Smith, long time in Hollywood, sail from San Pedro to New York via the Panama Canal and expect to reach Winchester by late April. They will spend a week here before moving to Virginia Beach to open a summer cottage, joined by Mrs. Smith's mother Mrs. O L Jack and Mr. Harry Jack for the season.
A marriage license was issued in the Corporation Court clerk's office to Mr. Robert M. Wilson of Cambridge Maryland and Miss Pearl O Lease of Frederick Maryland. The groom is a son of L A Wilson born at Mardela Springs and works as an auditor. The bride is a daughter of Harvey R Lease of Frederick.
The W C T U will hold its semi monthly meeting at Handley Library at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Final reports of the contest will be given at this meeting. All members are urged to attend.
Canterbury public school plans an Easter social at the school house Friday evening April 18 to benefit the school. Miss Mae Painter announced the event and invites the public to attend.
Winchester residents are invited to hold egg rolling parties Monday afternoon on the grounds of Jordan White Sulphur Springs hotel. Proprietor G Edgar Soutter says the grounds will be in good condition for eggs and invites the youths to use them freely. Also noted are travels of local residents and visiting guests including Jack Lindsey, Miss Mary Pearson, Mrs Walter o O Nicklin, Maurice Pollard returning to Winchester, and visits by W A Myers of Burlington at the George Washington Hotel.
Local social notes detail opening preparations at Stephenson First Spring Hotel with Easter dance plans and ballroom decorations. Guests include G Ocean Soutter and the Soutter family, plus visitors from Summit Point and Alliance Ohio with bridge games and hospital news among residents at Winchester hotels and area homes.
The D A R executive order printed nationwide the indomitable Americanism report by Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart president general of the D A R praising national defense and asking if the nation will scrap ships or hinder defense as distinguished men and daring women have built the country.
A bomb exploded last night at the home of Chicago attorney Charles Center Cass, a former special prosecutor whose prosecutions sent over 30 people to prison for 1926 election fraud. Case was slightly injured by glass. his 19 year old daughter Elizabeth was struck by plaster. Mrs Case and another daughter Winifred 15 were shaken as they read in the living room. The blast occurred on a second story enclosed porch near a bedroom Case usually occupies. Elizabeth was in a study in that room at the time.
The dirigible Graf Zeppelin departed Frederickshafen in Germany this afternoon on a direct cruise to Seville Spain with 20 passengers aboard. The airship will stay only a few hours in Seville before returning home and is expected back at its hangar Thursday afternoon.
The first district of Virginia sees the greatest population gain with Winchester leading the surge. Extra enumerators are appointed and many staffers work overtime to complete daily reports. Confidential business and industrial data will go to Washington vaults for statistics, with residents asked to call 1237 or mail in for enumeration if unseen within 30 days.
The United Brethren Church held a packed Sunday service with 56 on the choir and four new members admitted in the morning plus one in the evening. Rev. George W. Stover preached on Christ's Triumphant March Through the Ages and Resting With Friends at Bethany. Midweek services are announced for 8 p.m. Wednesday and Friday.
The New York stock market fell sharply with copper shares at year lows before a brisk demand for high grade industrial issues spurred a partial recovery. Early declines ranged 1 to 6 points, with some specialties down 7 to 12 points, while call money rose to 4 percent.
The local S. P. C. A. seeks a good home for a lost female hound pup white with brown spots or to locate the owner. Interested parties should call telephone No. 41 J.
Hodgson and Brown jewelers of West Boscawen street display the four large silver Firemen's Cups to be awarded by the Winchester fire department at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival on April 24 and 25. Prizes include best appearing company with band, greatest distance traveled, and best comic feature.
Officials seek the identity of a two masted schooner found sunk off Gibson Island in Chesapeake Bay. The City of Baltimore reported only mast spars visible as she neared Baltimore. No collision report was filed.
The village of Kaluka near Laiback was burned today destroying about 90 000 people. The fire began when a child upset fat on a stove and the child was killed. Arson squads are to be revived in Oklahoma to reduce incendiary fires.
James R. DuShane Blossom Festival parade director reports festival entries already exceed past exhibitions. 20 to 25 bands and bugle corps have entered and more decorated cars are urged as demand rises. Three prizes await decorated cars and applicants should submit immediately.
John A. Kirby, night chief of guards at the Maryland penitentiary, resigns after a five year service. Warden Patrick A Brady cites differences over interior management but says they did not affect prisoner treatment. Kirby joined the guard in 1920 under Warden Col Claude B Sweezey.
In Calcutta on April 15 nineteen people were seriously injured in clashes between nationalists and police around burning tram cars. The mob protested Major J. M. Gupta’s arrest, stormed a fire brigade, and seven British officials were hurt as police and armoured cars kept order amid ongoing unrest.
In England a simple nightly foot bath with Radox Bath Salts claims to remove corns roots and all in a few days. Advert says ask Baker's Drug Store for the product now on sale in America and promises hard corns soft corns callouses and rough heels will be gone within a week for stronger flawless feet.
Unger's Store Players present a comedy titled When Women Rule at Gainesboro School on Wednesday night April 16. Admission 15 and 25 cents, with proceeds or notices dated 4 14 31. Committee coordinates event.
Special Commissioner will offer for sale at public auction in Winchester Virginia on April 26 1930 real estate owned by the late B B Parker. Property includes a Main Street Middletown residence with 11 rooms a store room garage and outbuildings a 9 acre farm east of Middletown and vacant lots 13 through 20 in Block 57 New Middletown. Terms: one third cash day of sale and balance in two equal annual installments secured by bond deed of trust and insurance.
An advertisement from Baker's Drug Store promotes MELLO GLO Face Powder made with a new French process. The copy claims the powder gives a smooth application, lasting color, a youthful bloom, and a non pasty look.
Notice is given that the County Supervisors of Virginia will meet on April 19 1930 at 9 A M at the Court House Winchester Va to hear citizens for and against a proposed 10 cent increase in local tax levies for taxes for school operations and for erection of schools in the Opequon District. The Board of Supervisors Baker Clerk Brack Chairman.
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