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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1928
Page
3
Early 1900s social notes recount the Rutherford family gathering near Millbank Abram's Creek opposite Millbank with about a hundred attendees and a grand willow table repast. The piece also covers the Peer family reunion at Cedar Creek Valley with four generations represented and a Girls' Athletic Association swimming party set for Millville, August 14.
A social gathering at the Hawkins residence on South Kent street honored their daughter Gladys with a guest list including Fay Patton Ruth Lake Ethel Trenary Lorrain Haines Ruby Ruth Landacre Mary Shanholtz Jane Fugitt Dixie Fugitt Jean Huff Frances Dunn Lena Robertson Goldie Wingfield Margaret Siner Jean Campbell Katherine Campbell Lucy Forney Genevieve Chrismore Juanita Weatherholtz Louise Brown and many others. A West Point cadet hop was noted with Mrs W A Baker Miss Emma Ginn Baker Miss Katherine Judge and Miss Mary Russell among attendees. Jack Schill Orchestra promised a return engagement at Opequon Lake Park August 13 drawing dancers from Martinsburg and surrounding towns. The Young People’s Missionary Society of Braddock Street Church will be entertained Monday at 8 p m by Miss Helen Renner. Several local residents are mentioned as visiting or returning from trips including Mrs Conrad Filsinger and son from Hagerstown and Miss Eva Chrismore. others return to Ohio Pittsburgh and Mount Jackson. a Martinsburg dancer and a guest list from Stephens City. One local resident, Miss Martha Driver of near Gore, is described as critically ill at Memorial Hospital.
A flurry of visitors and residents' travels marked the day in Winchester and surrounding towns. Detroit residents Samuel Hodgson and Charles O'Denny plan a White Post stay with Mrs. Willie Denny while Miss Rose Mary Boyles visits her Detroit family. Others include bankers, ministers, and businesspeople stopping through, visiting relatives, or en route to Washington, New York, Baltimore, and Mount Gretna.
Mr and Mrs L M Woodworth of Park River New Jersey are guests at the George Washington Hotel Miss Eleanor Ringgold Miss Louise Earle Miss Elizabeth Chew Mr Pem broke Thompson Mr Berry Groves Mr William Tallyn Mr Wright Fry erson and Mr Robert E Lee of Baltimore are guests at a house party given in Miss Ringgolds honor by Miss Nellie Todd of Summit Point West Virginia They will attend the Charles Town and Berryville horse shows as guests of Miss Todd Miss Ringgold will debut this season at the first Bachelors Cotillon in Baltimore. Mr A Hamburger of Baltimore who has been here several days left for Frederick Maryland on business.
Dr and Mrs W D Cameron and daughter of Berryville were here shopping yesterday. Margaret St Ceran of New York is guest of sister Mrs Martin Wisecarvie. Misses Elton Thelma Wisecarver and Mr Earl Wisecarver head home to Lynchburg with grandmother Mrs S M Wisecarver visiting sons Godfrey and Carlisle Wisecarver in Lynchburg. Dr W F Greene, lately in New Rochelle and Mt Vernon New York, returns home. Mr R L Yates of Harrisonburg is stopping at the George Washington Hotel on business.
Mr and Mrs L C Snapp and family of Summit Point West Virginia were in town shopping Miss Katherine Rhodes daughter of Mr and Mrs M H Rhodes of Middletown is a patient at Memorial Hospital where she is slowly improving Mrs R A Shafer and Miss Ida Wyndham visited Martinsburg West Virginia yesterday with Mrs Bell Rowel Miss Suby and Maggie Goode of Charles Town arrived to visit uncle I J Crabille on the Martinsburg Pike Mr M A Gleason of the Southern Dairies Company Washington DC was here yesterday on business and stopped at the Hotelack Joseph C Haines son of Mr and Mrs William Haines of East Leicester street underwent an adenoids operation at Memorial Hospital Friday Mr and Mrs Paul Crabill and two sons Cyril and Austin of Adamsburg Pennsylvania are visiting brothers in law and sisters Mr and Mrs E W Texalt at Stephens City and Mr and Mrs EB White at Armel for two weeks Mrs Mary Lee of Baltimore was visiting Mr and Mrs E W Texalt
Sunday school starts at 9 45 a m followed by morning worship at 11 00 a m with a sermon by the pastor. Solo by Miss Barbara Story. B Y P U meets at 7 p m there are no evening services. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 8 p m Welcome.
A dense list of radio programs across networks in New York Newark Atlantic City Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh and more with times mostly in the afternoon and evening featuring orchestras bands church services at various stations including WJZ WOR WPG WBAL WEEI WNAC WTIC WABC WCAU KDKA WGY and more detailing concerts religious services and these stations programs for the day.
Grace Lutheran Church announces all services led by Rev. P. H. Pearson of Dalton Pa. Sunday school and Men's Bible Class at 9 30 a m, preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m. A cordial welcome to visitors.
A short quotation pairing an Arab proverb on life as past dream with Rochefoucauld style wisdom on mind and health, contrasted as two facets of human experience. This compact aphorism links memory and well being in reflective tone.
A humorous blurb centers on a dog named Mutt facing an unsolved puzzle. The writer treats the mystery as a light, ongoing joke with playful tone and scattered clues. The item reads like a brief comic caption from a local page.
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