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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1939
Page
8
Calendar of events for Tuesday lists activities and meetings. Activities include student club gatherings, library sessions, athletic practices, and community workshops across campus buildings and athletic facilities.
The report covers visits by James Thomson and family in Summit Point near Berryville with relatives at Hawthorne. It also notes multiple local weddings and engagements including Agnes Mason and S Ray mond Rice Jr., Mary Louise Muntzing Robinson and Lemon Stotler, and Peggy Montgomery and Theodore Lemley, with details on locations, schools, and residences.
Descendants of J R S Bucher gathered at The Maples homestead Mountain Falls for a reunion. Attendees included James Bucher Martha Bucher Claude Bucher Harry Bucher Sonny Boy Bucher and many others from Winchester Mountain Falls Stephens City Lebanon Church Star Tannery and Hagerstown. Circle No 3 Braddock Street Church to meet Thursday. Little Miss Joanne Smith improves after tonsil surgery at Memorial Hospital then returns to her grandparents E W Smith and wife.
Miss Jonedith Henry invites guests to a party at her parents home on East Cecil Street in honor of Miss Billie Wyvill of Silver Springs Maryland. Young people from Winchester and nearby areas are expected to attend.
Screen Star Webs columnist reports social visits in Maryland and Virginia. Rockville residents Mr and Mrs Willis D Stokes and daughters spent Saturday with Mrs R H Stokes and Miss Minnie Baker. Guests traveled to University of Virginia to visit Mrs William H Wood Jr and Mrs Hunter H Moss. Virginia Bean of South Hill VA visits Winchester for about ten days with Roy Ryden Jr at Willow Lawn.
Funeral services were held at First Methodist Church Martinsburg for Charles Elwood Wetherholtz 29 of East Liberty Street who died Sunday at King's Daughters Hospital after a brief illness Interment was in Rosedale Cemetery He was born in Frederick County Va November 29 1910 and moved to Martinsburg with his parents He worked for junk dealers Louie Klabansky and Tevis Klabansky He is survived by his widow his parents three brothers and five sisters
Berryville Virginia August meeting discussed the annual card party at The Knoll August 26 to raise funds for Community Christmas trees. Proceeds fund sinking reserve and charities. S. S. Thomas named to help plan. 72 members enrolled, the largest in years. Edward Berlin reported highway signs erected and more to come. September 11 meeting set for the group.
The bride should not have the groom place the wedding ring above the engagement ring. On wedding day she may leave the engagement ring at home or wear it on her right hand. A garden party hostess greets guests outdoors if weather allows. Pronounce adieu as a-du with a as in ask and u as in few.
More than 500 Frederick county farmers and families attended the annual patrons meeting at Sarah Zane Fire Hall in Winchester. L. O. Brumback reported gains, with the cooperative’s service volume up nearly 25 percent in the past year. Carl May led the annual report and pledged continued service to farmers and the local cooperative. Directors elected M. S. Snapp and C. L. Brumback to vacancies, replacing Julian Larrick and C. I. Cather. current directors include J. W. Larrick Jr, L. O. Dick, J. H. Funkhouser, and A. W. Wright.
Frederick county school board authorized sale of Rock Enon and Friendly Grove one room schools and hired bus drivers C Leslie Wright and C V Cornell for Middle town and Stephens City routes. Marshall Hayden named principal at White Hall and Grace Miller Hayden as teacher at Mountain View Ros enberger. Plans discussed to acquire Wade Muse lot for a colored school and reuse material from old colored school. Cleaning ordered to begin September 1 for reopening September 7. Officials also debated county high school north of Winchester with Supervisors.
Preliminary 1939 Canadian apple crop estimates show barreled apples up and boxed apples nearly steady from 1938. Total production pegged at 15 964 000 bushels with Nova Scotia at 2 530 000 barrels, and British Columbia at 5 876 500 boxes. Ontario yield about 2 307 900 bushels with pears near 386 600 boxes. conditions generally favorable with limited pests.
The report notes growth below normal without moisture, heavy drops on Macintosh and early varieties but ample fruit remains for average yields. Moth and rosy aphid damage is present in many orchards though control is good where regular spraying occurs. New Brunswick apple crop up about 30 percent to 63,200 barrels. Rev and Mrs Cadwallader visit Stephens City.
Send for Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book to sew chic easy economical frocks. Each pattern includes a step by step sew chart for beginners. Price 15c for Pattern 15c for Pattern Book 25c for both. orders to the address in the box.
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