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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1930
Page
3
The notice invites readers to mail or phone social items and mentions Teabelle P Miller as the contact. It specifies receiving news between 3 and 4 pm for the following day. Phone details are incomplete.
Governor John Garland Pollard will extend greetings at the Garden Club of Virginia annual dinner in the Country Club of Virginia Richmond next Wednesday evening. Mrs. S. W. Budd hosts with Mrs. H. McK. Smith delivering a welcome. Dr. Douglas Freeman will speak on Stratford Hall and Henry G. Shirley will discuss Road Planting. The Massie gold medal will honor Mrs. Fairfax Harrison of Belvoir.
Mr. E. Cooper president of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom festival invites many personal friends to a luncheon honoring Governor Pollard of Virginia. The gathering follows the children's parade next Thursday at his residence No. 123 Amherst Street.
Local notices report several pneumonia and post operative cases at Memorial Hospital. Patients Robert Jenkins and Paul Anderson are among those ill, with updates on recovery and critical conditions.
Kernstown Community League announces its regular monthly meeting is postponed to Friday evening May 2. Mrs. William T. Kerr returns to Chambers burg after wintering with her nieces on South Loudoun street. Easter visitors and local residents are noted in a series of brief notes.
Moscow reports Easter fasting and services proceed with little disturbance. Good Friday observed in Orthodox rites nationwide as Soviet authorities and atheists offer no significant interference amid restrictions on Easter items.
W H Strayton, head of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, says President Hoover may doubt enforcement of prohibition. The claim, based on a February letter to Charles Wood, was presented during testimony at the Senate lobby committee. Curran, president of the same group, says the tide is turning against prohibition and cites bills stalled or rejected in Congress.
Postmaster-General Brown signed five contracts with United Fruit Line and Grace Steamship Company to carry ocean mail. The deal calls for 25 million dollars in American shipbuilding and ten new passenger and cargo vessels to be built over the next decade.
Sunday school at Reliance 10 a m with Easter services and communion at 11 a m Ridings Chapel Sunday school 2 30 p m Easter sermon 3 30 p m Greenway Sunday school 10 a m Easter sermon 8 p m Stephens City Sunday school 2 30 p m in the bank building E J Hicks superintendent Appointments filled by pastor or substitute Holy communion at each preaching place Come to pray hear and worship
Stephens City M E South plans 9 45 a m preaching 11 00 a m communion. Funeral for J W Bennington at 2 p m Epworth League 7 30 p m Kernstown Sunday school 10 a m preaching 230 p m by Rev J B Hupman doors open for new members Fairview Sunday school 2 p m no preaching due to Stephens City funeral Refuge Sunday school 10 a m special meeting at Stephens City Sunday evening April 28 moved from April 21 everyone urged to give Easter offering to conference collections
The notice lists Sunday school times for Crums Welltown Stephenson Brucetown Burnt Factory and an Epworth League meeting. The third quarterly conference is set for Stephenson church at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday April 19 with Rev E L Woolf presiding.
Revival pastor Rev C J RACEY invites all former residents to return to Mount Olive for Easter Sunday. Sunday school at 10 a m, sermon The Empty Tomb at 11 a m with special music. Mount Pleasant holds Sunday school 2 p m sermon and music at 3 p m and Christian Endeavor at 7 p m. Red Bud offers Easter program at 7 30 p m.
Reverend P R Diehl pastor with services at Round Hill Carper's Valley and Macedonia including Sunday schools at 10 a.m. sermons at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Epworth League gatherings at 7:30 p.m. 7:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. You are welcome to attend.
Wide World Photo Service under the New York Times will send expert photographers to cover the festival. Photos will be distributed to hundreds of newspapers and magazines and many will appear in rotogravure sections of leading Sunday papers.
The Belgian government conferred the Grand Cross of the Crown on Owen D Young and the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold on J P Morgan for their roles in reparations expertise. A G and O H Swanson returned from Washington on a business trip. Mr and Mrs John W Hoffman of Pittsburgh are guests at the George Washington Hotel.
Unidentified anti prohibitionists bombed M C Robinson's home in Ashtabula Ohio early today causing less than 300 dollars in damage. Robinson a long time prohibition leader said he suspects enemies from his anti prohibition activism but no injuries occurred.
Three views of freedom of the press were presented at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington. Senator Vanderberg of Michigan, a former editor, told the conference that a throttled.
Justice Ernest I. Edgemont of the New York Supreme Court warned courts cannot curb news freedom in private spheres. Joseph Hosteler of Cleveland argued media danger comes from newspapers, urging editors to vigilantly guard liberty and reject lawyer involvement when drafting articles. Mosteler backed the contempt case defense and urged public scrutiny of judges in their own cases.
Mrs. J. C. Moore and Miss Ruth Moore of Richmond Virginia attend events at the ington Hotel with local social notes and brief mention of their names and residence.
April 8 report from Mellen Wisconsin notes a severe snow storm began at midnight and by noon dropped between one and eight inches in northwest counties causing rain in some areas.
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