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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1940
Page
8
Social notes record Ronna Faulkner playing the harp at The Great Room in Kenmore on GS 1y001 VA April 19. Other items mention Washington visits, wedding invitations for Thelma Helvestine and Fred Alger, and local moves.
Fredericksburg Virginia opens Kenmore on April 22 at 8 PM with a colonial reception. Governor James J. Price and notable figures attend as Betty Washington Lewis descendants join in replica gown reception. garden tours fund Virginia garden restoration.
Rehearsal of The Chanters at Presbyterian Sunday School and a Junior Board of Trade meeting lead the evening, followed by a W O W gathering and a faculty play at Handley auditorium. Several marriages are announced , health updates given, and residents plan weekend travels and home improvements.
A reader asks how to react when a man abuses his wife in front of a friend and whether to silently depart. The piece cites Colton advising not to join with a friend in wife or horse abuse unless a sale or burial is imminent and discusses consent for club participation and wine order etiquette.
The second in a series of student recitals will be Sunday at 3 PM in the Market Street Methodist church auditorium. Performers Frank Bonney violin Morris Cather piano student of Mrs. Sloat and Miss Cochran, with Mrs. Rosenberger as accompanist, will play works by Bach Beethoven Brahms Grieg MacDowell Delibes and Foster.
West Virginia farmers grow 4 000 000 bushels of apples for 1939 commerce. The agriculture department asks 880 growers for each variety grown and bearing age trees versus non bearing. York Imperial leads production with 25 percent of bearing trees, Stayman about 15 percent. Mentions of local residents and trips to Charlottesville Virginia for dances.
The Chanters meet tonight at the Presbyterian Sunday School to prepare for a Purcellville concert Sunday at 3 30. Members gather at 7 00 and use the north entrance. all urged to arrive promptly. Prof Massey speaks on native wild flowers at Old Fredericktown Garden Club talk.
Mrs. Ernest Shade gradually improves from an illness at her South Braddock Street home. Mrs. Beulah Henry visits Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Grim in Hagerstown Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Coverstone and their young daughter were guests in Stephens City at Mrs. Coverstone's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Yeakle.
In Berryville April 19 social notes list weekend visitors including Harold Potts and family traveling from Charlottesville, plus Montague Stevens Emma Cole from Chat-Ham, NJ awaiting Buckmarsh Street home completion. Other arrivals include Dr. C H Iden hosts, A C Dunn and family, Paul Keyser, and Vincent from Suffolk among local residents visiting relatives.
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