Personal notices from Mrs Miller reported
Mrs Miller announces a social event or engagement on behalf of the department. Details are incomplete in the fragment but imply a community or social gathering.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1930
Page
3
Mrs Miller announces a social event or engagement on behalf of the department. Details are incomplete in the fragment but imply a community or social gathering.
Out of town guests attended a bridge party hosted by Mrs. Helen Anderson in honor of Mrs. Mark Campbell and Miss Ella Brown. Mary Gordon of Memorial Hospital fame wed William Magnadry in Canada and will reside in Leonard Ontario. Local couples plan homes in Dayton Ohio and neighboring areas after ceremonies and tours.
Mr and Mrs E George Metz and their young son from Washington recently stayed with Mrs Mary R Buckner. Miss Sampsell returns from a Northern trip to resume as stenographer at Shenandoah Valley National Bank. Circle 9 of the Brad dock Street M E Church South meets Tuesday at 3 at Mrs Amon Strosnider's home.
Revival services at Mount Olive Church were postponed from August 17 due to Dr Brunk being unavailable. Further notice will be issued. California resident Mrs A Winn of Los Angeles is visiting Rev C Racey and family in the city.
Mrs Dora Morgan and several families from Benwood are hosted by Mr and Mrs C A Barrett on Smithfield avenue. Visitors from Upperville and Baltimore were in town shopping and sighting. Mrs Gertrude A Singer returned to Staunton after visiting her sisters. Miss Julia Milburn of Baltimore stays with her aunt on Martinsburg pike. Miss Hilda Miller, guest of Mrs G M Hansbrough, will depart for Baltimore Monday. Mr W P Massie leaves for Boston on business.
The community prayer service to ask for rain will be held Monday from 11 a m to 12 m with all faiths invited. City ministers urged business closures and bells to ring at 10 45 a m. Traffic on North Loudoun street between Boscawen and Piccadilly and Rouss Ave will be stopped for the service.
President Hoover announced a White House conference of governors from 12 states next Thursday to craft a broad federal state relief program for drought areas. Governor Pollard of Virginia will attend, amid reports of crop damage and rising milk prices as heat and lack of rain persist across the Midwest and East.
Yesterday morning, the ladies of the Refuge United Brethren Church organized activities offering meals and small offerings to help community members in the county.
A prayer service at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church brings Winchester residents together to seek unity and blessings for the community. Attendees call for peace, cooperation, and moral guidance in challenging times.
Last evening a union service for rains was conducted in Memorial Episcopal Church White Post, led by the town ministers. The gathering called for divine aid to end the drought affecting the area.
Berryville Virginia items note Mrs. James of Illmore leaving for San Diego to join son Lieut. Frederick L. Riddle U S N in hospital. Riddle attached to Admiral Leigh’s ship West Virginia at San Pedro and moved to Naval Hospital. Various society guests in Irvington New Jersey and Alexandria. Lieut. Griffing returns from Virginia Beach with a Berryville unit for training. plans to reunite with Mrs. Griffing before returning.
Residents and relatives travel between Baltimore Philadelphia Chicago Charlottesville and Goshen with returns to Blue Ridge Summit and Washington. Guests include the Jett and McCormick families Ludwell Baldwin and Portia Baldwin Annie Stribling and Louise Stribling, Mrs West and Miss White, plus the Powers Castlemans and Magehee family.
Baltimore August 8 Former Oklahoma congressman Manuel Herrick, jailed after arrest while working as a handyman at 15 dollars a week, claims a large cash offer during his term. He says he rejected the money and recalls a stack of fifty thousand dollars on his desk, then refuses to elaborate.
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