Social and Personal Notes Highlight Virginia Event
A society gathering near a hundred guests enjoyed dinner and a dance at a Golf Club in honor of Miss Byrd. Attendees spanned Virginia and nearby states, with a long list of local residents and visitors noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Dole
Richard E. Dole
Winchester Golf Club
Margaret Byrd
Mary Owens Lyon
Jane Rust
Mary Dougherty
Della Meade
Gertrude Dougherty
Heckrotte Family Hosts Weiner Roast For Daughters
Mr and Mrs Heckrotte hosted a weiner roast and river picnic at Castleman's Ferry on the Shenandoah in honor of Miss Mabel Heckrotte and Miss Colleen Steele. Guests included numerous local residents and relatives, with dancing by a jug band and return from a visit to Tuxedo Park New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Ridings
Middletown
Ridings
Sarah Frances Ridings
A. J. Ridings
Noah Ridings
Patsy and
Killy
Fishers Hill
Jack Ambrose
Callahan, Fla
Amy Stickley
Alice Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell
Winchester
Castleman's Ferry
Shenandoah River
Mabel Heckrotte
Colleen Steele
Tottie Keller
Kate Bradford
Pauline McFarland
Nancy Cain
Joan
Shirley Patton
Margaret Brown
Catherine Bayliss
Ruth Lake
Goldie Wingfield
Helen Clem
Polly Ramacottie
Mildered Kramer
Helen Fuller
Jaunita
Jean
Patsy Steele
Thelma Clowser
Janet Keller
Virginia Fogel
Lonza Custard
Ted Legg
Roland Keller
Clint Keller
Robert Puller
Pete Edwards
Alvin Thompson
William Cain
Lonza
Philip
Elmer Whitlock
Oliver Wisecarver
Sanford Peyton
Tag
Willard Corrigan
Wilton Chapman
Willie Clows
Arthur Fuller
Stewart Steele
Robert Legg
Elmer Fuller
William Clem
Ted Lake
Raymond Patton
William Heckrotte
Woodrow Keller
Eleanor Cain
Irene Corrigan
Invitations to Leesburg Dance at Thomas Balch Library
Invitations have been received for a dance in Leesburg Virginia next Friday evening at the Thomas Balch Library hosted by Misses Mary Eleanor Betsy Rust and Lelia Harrison. Many local young people will attend. Misses Hebe and Waters entertain beforehand at their home near Waterford. Roy Ryden Jr left yesterday for Portsmouth Virginia for a weekend visit with his Mrs Capt and Mrs Roy Sr and will return with Nancy Bowly later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leesburg
Thomas Balch Library
Mary
Eleanor and
Betsy Rust
Lelia Harrison
Hebe and
Waters
Waterford
Roy Ryden, Jr
Portsmouth
Capt
Roy , Sr
Nancy Bowly
Radio Highlights Shape Up For Fall Schedule
New York August radio lineup shows Fred Allen returning to WEAF NBC on October 5 with Town Hall at 60 minutes. Joe Penner joins Thursday evenings from September 29 via CBS. Good News of 1938 resumes on WEAF NBC after summer break ending September 1. Warden Lawes and Sing Sing dramas return on WJZ NBC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Allen
WEAF
NBC
Town Hall
Joe Penner
CBS
NBBC
Warden Lawes
Wjz-Nbc
Tonight Radio Schedule Highlights Major Programs
WEAF NBC 7 Dr Glenn Frank reviews Republican program committee conference in Chicago. WEAF NBC 6 Dick Himber Orchestra. 7 Kindergarten 8 America Dances 9 Cricket Quiz 10 Cincinnati Summer Opera Rigoletto. WABC CBS 6:30 Workshop Drama Devil and Daniel Webster 7 Swing Club 8 Prof Quiz 8:30 Rhythm Rendezvous 9 Hit Parade 10:30 Kay Kyser Orchestra. WJZ NBC 7 WOAI Studio Dedication 7:30 Death of a King 8 Barn Dance 9:30 Concert in Rhythm 10:30 Heidt’s Brigadiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WEAF
NBC 7
Glenn Frank
Republican Program Committee
Chicago
NBC
Dick Himber
Cincinnati
Wabc-Cbs
Devil
Daniel Webster
Kay Kyser
WJZ
WOAI
Heidt
Sunday Radio Schedule Highlights Drama and Music Across Networks
WEAF NBC airs Shakespeare in England at noon followed by Chautauqua Symphony at 2 and Marion Talley at 4. Other programs include Charlie McCarthy at 7 and Chicago Round-Table at 9:30. WABC CBS features farmer talk, Kay Lombardo Orchestra, and Lewisohn Stadium concert. WJZ NBC offers string quartet at 11:30 and Jazz bands into late evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WEAF
NBC
England
Chautauqua Symphony
Marion Talley
Hobby Bobby
Charlie McCarthy
Heidi
Chicago
WABC
CBS
Everybody's Music
Farmer
Mike
Kay Lombardo
Billy House
Lewisohn Stadium
WJZ
Music Hall
Finland
Budd
Dick Himber
Jan Garber
Fourth National Tobacco Festival to Crown Queen in South Boston
Senorita Erma Castillo Najera daughter of the Mexican ambassador to the United States has accepted invitation to reign as Queen Tobacco IV at the fourth annual National Tobacco Festival in South Boston on September 8 and 9. The festival aims to foster goodwill and strengthen tobacco trade relations among nations with prior queens from the United States and Latin America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Boston
Washington
Mexico
Pan- American Union
Senorita
Erma Castillo Najera
Don Francisco Castillo Najera
United States
Senorita Castillo Najera
Harry F. Byrd
Westwood Byrd
Eve Mark-Wardlaw
A. L. Mark-Wardlaw
London
Latin America
United States Tobacco Association
No Bands, Louisville Cop Warned Over Side Gigs
Patrolman Homer C. Jobe told the civil service board that he must perform in bands and be paid, but cited a civil service rule violation for classified employees and risk to his job. He said he has something in him that must get out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Homer C. Jobe
Civil Service
Jobe
Civil Service Board
Social notes from Millwood and Clarke County Virginia
Millwood and Clarke County social items note bridge gatherings at The Moorings and Edgewood with guests Miss Mary Coleran and Miss Thornton Matthews of St Louis Mo. Other events include luncheons and dinners at Barnaby Ridge Minturn and Saratoga, visits from Philadelphia residents, and a Duplicate Bridge Club gathering at Sarasosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millwood
B. O’f. Randolph
Mary Coleran
Thornton Matthews
St. Louis
Etiquette Q and Answers on Sick Visit and Introductions
A column explains writing etiquette when visiting a sick person and how to handle introductions at social events. It notes that a card may say To inquire and that when the hostess has overlooked introductions the woman should introduce herself first.
Mrs. Wissler Died Last Night
Mrs. Frank Wissler died last night at Strathmore near Mount Jackson Virginia. She was born Carrie Hickman of Shenandoah county and hailed from a prominent Virginia family. She was mother of Frank W Wissler a Shenandoah orchardist and president of the Virginia Horticultural Society and mother of Dorothey Page Wissler both of whom survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strathmore
Mount Jackson
Frank Wissler
Wissler
Virginia
Carrie Hickman
Shenandoah County
Frank W. Wissler
The
Virginia Horticultural Society
Dorothey Page Wissler
Winslows Host Picnic Guests and Plans for Saratoga Trip
A social column details Miss Angela Crowl and Miss Jane Cary Randolph leaving for Blue Ridge Summit as guests of families in Norfolk and Richmond. Westward plans include Mr. Kenneth Gilpin shipping eight horses to Saratoga with Mrs. Gilpin and Jr. also traveling, then to Berry Farms and Maine visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice, Polly
Jacqueline Winslow
Angela Crowl
Anne Williams
Edith Beardall
Sophia Morrison
Jane Cary Randolph
Anne Meade
Nick Gil
Washington
Tyson
Kay Gilpin
Roland Mitchell
Charles Baird
Jack Butler
Louis Meade
William Bell Watkins
Fraser Dougherty
William Clagett
Lloyd Agnew
William Bell
Winchester
B. OF. Randolph
Blue Ridge Summit
Caroline Grandy
Wiley Grandy
Norfolk
Blue Ridge
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Saratoga
Mrs Hugh M Nelson Hosts Bridge at Long Branch
Mrs Hugh M Nelson entertained at two tables of bridge at Long Branch on Thursday honoring her guest with a social afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. O’f. Randolph
Bridge
Hugh M. Nelson
Long Branch
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Byrd
Miss Conrad
Mrs. Harrison
Golf Club
West Virginia
Washaa
Baltimore
Onrad
Fenton Wnelson
Jane Bickers
Anne K. Russell
Olivia Smith
Rosalie Montague
Mary Leigh
Lelia Leigh
Eleanor Flood
Sally Curtis
Jane Rhodes
Bennie ‘Thomas Meem
Virginia Steck
Leo Thompson
Frankie Schoofield
Nancy Larrick
Virginia Baker
Clarence LeFrois
William Sitterding
Charles Robertson
H. R. Kern, Jr
John B. Carr
Jacek Engie
James Miller
Thomas Gibble
E. W. Barr
Vittor Arthur
Clarke Cooper
Katherine Montague
J. M. Steck, Jr
H. N. Stephenson
Joe Massie
William Harris
John Harris
William Massie
Douglas DuShane
Joe Thomas
Dave Allen, Jr
Philip Glaize
Hugo Green
Ridgely White
John Lunley
Brown Ralston
Beverley Byrd
Taylor Pierce
Dan Henry
Riley James Cordon
Champe Conner
Thomas Woollfolk
William Hohannes
Fiom Baldridge
H. B. McCormac
Townsden Tubbs
Robert Glass
Robert Nelson
Seddon Nelson
Beaul Knight
Arthur Freeman
Gilbert McKown
Braddock Street Circle
Braddock Street
Lois Hamman
East Piccadilly Street
Bessie Hahn Lippy
Eutaw Place Baptist Church
Market Street Methodist Church
Tchaikovsky
New World Symphony
Dvorak
Wever
Mrs. Ror, Sartelle
City
Presbyterian
Loudoun Street
Mrs. Heckrotte
Daughter
Miss Steele
George Smith, Jr
Tuxedo Park
N, Y
Pikeside
Valley Ave
Pennsylvania
Pocahontas
B. Snider & Son
Mae Zimmerman
Los Angeles
Zimmerman
Francis Asbury Union
Austin Riley
Verryville
Margaret McIntyre
Ida Grace Swann
Margaret Bean
Berryville
Grace Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Philomena Laren
Jesus
June Cline
Miss Cline
Helen Woore
Largo
Austin A. Kelly
Gettysburg
Linden Sumption
Carrol
Philadelphia
G. F. Kershner
Irvan O’connell
New York City
Greystone Terrace
Frances Montague
Lynchburg, Va
Mrs. Clarke Cooper
Amherst Street
Fairport, N. Y
Nancy Coble
West Boscawen Street
Harry Stouffer
Herndon, Va
Richard Crenshaw
Millwood Avenue
James Duggins
Richmond, Va
Burr P. Harrison
South Washington Street
R. F. Cline
Virginia Beach
Tennyson Avenue
Elizabeth Keeler
C. R. Keeler
University of Wisconsin At Madison
Mrs. E. R. Coffey
Chamberlain Hotel
Old Point Comfort
Pauline Peer
Colonial Beach
Fredericksburg
James A. Hastnett
New York
Wilmer F. Shryock
Grace E. Short
L. Short
C. W. McConnell
Midwestern Plains
McConnell
Decatur
Iowa
Kansas City
Central Press
Clarke County
E. K. Meade
Edgewood
Mrs
Hugh Powell
Barnaby Ridge
Young Peoples Service League
Mary O'Fallon
Mary Colerah
Beverley Nelson
Robert Randolph
Henry P. Mitchell
Minturn
Percy Randolph
Hamilton Page
Peter Page
Ardmore, Pa
Agnes Page
A. B. Bevan
Duplicate Bridge Club
Sarasoza
Misses Mary
For All
Underwood’s Bakery
Underwood's
N. Loudoun St
Alecia Beauty Salon
N. Braddock ‘St
By Roberta Lee
Jacqueline
Polly
Alice Winslow
Mrs. Ewart Johnston
Clay Hill
Mrs. B
O’f. Randolph
Nathaniel B. Page
Chevy Chase
Archibald R. Dunning
Strasburg, Va
William Bell Watkins, Jr
Annefield
Polly Winslow
Anglo Crowl
Tyson Gilpin
Louis ‘Meade
Norris
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Pifer Printing CO
Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Colonial Beauty
Piccadilly & Cameron Sts
Sunshine Cleaners
East Piccadilly St
Huntsberry
Loudoun St
Haldeman
Haldeman’s
Big Joe
ALL United Food Stores
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