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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1941
Page
8
Weekly Rebekah Association meeting at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday Afternoon. Kiwanis Club weekly luncheon Wednesday at 12 30 p m at the hotel. Pre Festival Dance at Winchester Golf Club at 10 00 p m.
Queen Shenandoah XVIII hosts and guests gathered for the Apple Blossom Festival weekend. Social leaders Mrs. Joseph Massie and Mrs. Kenneth Gilpin organized events while attendees included Miss Lillian Somoza and Miss Grace McQuail. many visitors from Charleston West Virginia, Baltimore, New York, Richmond and Washington joined local families at Memorial Hospital and the Southern Inn.
The guide advises handling dining in crowds with a light order when not hungry. It recommends silence and non repetition if overhearing a compromising conversation and suggests hostess hats are unnecessary at home, noting hat wearers do not wear them at tea events.
A patient at Memorial Hospital is reported to be doing well after an operation and expected to return home in a few days. Local residents note improving health including Lydia Chapman who is now up at home on West Clifford street.
Advice from a beauty teacher on voice care for women urges reducing volume and avoiding shouting or whining. It notes the throat as the sound source but the mask behind the nose and cheekbones as the vocal resonator, recommending lower tones and reading Shakespeare aloud to improve expressiveness.
The Star's carrier boys will visit the Zacchini Bros Shows at the Old Airport on U S Route 50 east of town. The event runs all week with special children matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, free grounds for students, and rides half price. Bruno and Hugo Zacchini perform a double repeating cannon act.
The Rev R Bowen Moore of Brucetown Methodist churches will conduct the regular weekly prayer service at Market St Methodist Church tomorrow at 7 30 PM for pastor Rev Garland E Hopkins who will be out of town.
Hazel Irene Belford vs John Belford ends in Corporation Court with a divorce decree. Neither party may remarry within six months.
Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at Philharmonic auditorium under a secret service escort after a threat of picketing. She answered questions on war and peace noting the President seeks peace but ultimate choice rests with the people. She urged Americans to defend their country if asked to fight abroad.
Major James Mars former Salvation Army leader in the area and his wife are visiting relatives in Martinsburg. He spoke at a crowded Martinsburg meeting last Sunday and will preach in Sunbury and Sayre Pennsylvania the coming weekend. A sermon is planned at the Salvation Army social center on May 11 at 10 a.m. Mars stayed yesterday at White Post Clarke County as guest of Dr and Mrs Charles O Dearmont, renewing friendships from earlier service in the region.
Berryville residents attended Valley Day at Fort Meade Maryland with a long list of local guests. The weekend featured visits to Leesburg Charlottesville and Endless Caverns plus gatherings with friends from Oklahoma Washington and Baltimore.
A stream of visitors and travel updates fill Berryville items. D C family members spent weekend with relatives, Pat Joyce returned from Washington to Berryville with Ed Joyce. Louise Jones and others joined high school friends from Berryville at a Madison College contest in Harrisonburg.
Mrs Henry Kerfoot and Mrs Ralph M Ware host guests including Jes aland and Georgia. Eve Woodworth of Washington DC stays this week. Guests at Big Meadows Lodge include Margaret of Boise Idaho and others. Mrs George H Levi returns from Staunton to her home. Elsea family member from Forest returns home after weekend in Berryville with R Thomas Elsea and spouse.
Doctors at Roosevelt Hospital report continued slight improvement in violinist Fritz Kreisler who remains unconscious after a traffic accident Saturday. A hospital bulletin notes he has not yet fully regained consciousness.
New York April 29 Financial boardsroom saw nothing particularly disturbing today in Federal Reserve member banks figures for the week ended April 23. Commercial industrial and agricultural loans fell for the first time since September by 21 million dollars, caused mainly by seasonal influences, not a sign of a business downturn.
The Treasury reports receipts of 209,161,342.22 and expenditures of 27,011,207.44 for April 26. Gross debt stands at 47,200,483,855.89, up 4,749,710.40 from the previous day.
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