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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1930
Page
3
The social department requests that readers send social notices by telephone between 9 and 4 for the following day. Messages should be directed to the social reporter Mrs Teabelle OF yaailies and will be received during the stated hours.
Brigadier General 5 G Waller returns from leading Virginia delegation to England. Visit deepened business ties with England, following a reciprocal exchange after a British delegation visited Virginia three years ago. Waller arrived in Washington after London meetings with dignitaries and manufacturers.
Mrs Chiles returns to Kernstown from Maine visiting relatives in Ban gor and Bar Harbor. The First Brethren Church Christian Endeavor prepares a Tribe Contest led by Miss Pauline Anderson with the Choctaws in charge August 3. Annual picnic planned for Jordan Springs August 5 with carpool arrangements via Miss Bessie Hammond.
The marriage of Miss Nellie Davis of Romney West Virginia and Mr Albert Unger of Winchester took place in Hagerstown Maryland on Saturday July 26. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs A G Davis and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Unger. They will leaves to enter hospital in Baltimore.
The arrival of Kitty, an amateur production, will be staged at White Post Clarke county for Meade Memorial Episcopal Church. Show time in Parish House begins promptly at 8 20 p m with dates to be announced in The Star. Also noted guests include A R Taylor from Philadelphia at Hotel Jack and Mrs J E Spurrier from Baltimore visiting North Washington Street hosts Mr and Mrs Ashby Sprint. Mr J S Harman remains ill at Clearbrook.
Showers have relieved drought in parts of the state but no general rainfall was expected by the Weather Bureau. Heat wave ended and temperatures were normal. Two inches of rain fell near Fow Bellsville in Baltimore County and lightning struck a bar. Heavy showers reached the eastern shore with six inches reported at Melford Delaware. Mrs Christina Heim, 103, oldest Sandusky resident, born Friday the 13th.
Edison selects Arthur O. Williams Jr of East Providence Rhode Island as the second annual college scholarship recipient from among the brightest boys from every state. The announcement comes from West Orange New Jersey marking the inventor Thomas A Edison’s program.
Mr Edison announced the winner among forty nine contestants on his lawn. Arthur was selected as having the best answers to questions from a written exam at the Edison laboratory. The selection was made by Mr Edison and an advisory committee including Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. The Rhode Island boy will receive a four year technological and scientific college course.
Firefighters responded at dawn to a blaze at the Hawthorne estate of Dr. C Stuart in the orchard area. A mattress caught fire and was quickly extinguished with minimal damage reported.
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