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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
3
Social and Personal News section invites readers to mail or call with items. Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller requests news by telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the next day. Phone number provided as 33.
A large congregation gathered at Riverside Farm in Edinburg for a family reunion hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Lantz. Attendees included multiple Bly, Hockenberry, and Lantz relations from Sunberry, Fredericksburg, Barboursville, Winchester, and Fairview, sharing a lawn dinner and social visit.
Mr and Mrs L L Hockman leave by car for Harrisburg to attend a Church of Christ convention. Mrs Jennie Grant aged 72 is critically ill at her South Kent Street home. Shenvalee hosts August 19 dance with Mason Dixon Orchestra after a two week returning engagement. Several Winchester residents join luncheon in Rappahannock today.
The Berryville Horse Show featured the first of two annual dances drawing about 150 couples. Jack Schill’s West Virginians provided music and will play again tonight under Jet Spates’s direction at Berryville. Notable attendees included H. M. Armistead, George M. Little, and multiple Roanoke and Winchester guests.
Baltimore August 16 A letter from Maryland’s attorney Herbert O Conor protests moving life term prisoner Carroll Harper from the penitentiary to Spring Grove Hospital He clarifies he does not oppose the transfer but urges utmost caution for public protection from murderers in such transfers.
Cedar Creek Marlboro Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching 11 a m Mount Hope Chapel Sunday school at 2 p m preaching 3 p m You are invited to attend these services The fool is happy but he knows no more Pope Some hearts are hidden some have not a heart Crabbe Some alimonies run to figures that make separations look like reparations Wall Street Journal
The Mercury Racer speed test was postponed due to a west wind despite ideal water conditions. Lieut Alfred Williams said launching two miles out into the Chesapeake Bay and steering toward Annapolis posed too many hazards until the wind shifted. He planned to aim for the measured course off Kent Island where recording apparatus was set.
Joseph Corbin 47 and R B Hines 55, both of Romney West Virginia, died when their automobile truck collided with a Baltimore and Ohio switching engine at Keyser West Virginia Main street crossing. They had been returning from Morgantown where Corbin delivered peaches. The crossing watchman was off duty from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Corbin left a widow and 9 children. Hines left a widow and five children.
The British schooner Jupie, sailing from Bermuda with liquor aboard, was seized by a coast guard patrol boat off the Virginia coast and brought to the section base in Norfolk for processing.
Graf Zeppelin travels at about 45 miles per hour while extending its 7000 mile flight from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo. After 12.5 hours of flying time it has covered roughly 800 miles and detoured via Berlin and Moscow. A 3 AM radio message says the airship must head north to avoid unfavourable weather near Moscow.
Meredith Anderson a prominent farmer died at 11 30 this morning at his home in Clearbrook after a long illness. Born May 1853 in Hampshire county West Virginia he was 76. Survived by wife Amanda McKeever four children Cornelia Busey Meredith Mary and John and four brothers Ferdinand David Matthew and Jack all of Wilmington Ohio. Funeral Sunday at 2 30 from Clearbrook residence with Rev J D Haymaker of Strasburg Va conducting.
Farmers and fruit growers are invited to a meeting at 8 p m Saturday in the Handley Library lecture hall. Dr O C Stine and L H Bean of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics will present market research on apples grain livestock and other farm produce. The session aims to inform farmers about timely market conditions and outlooks. Tell your friends.
Don’t stop at the first shop you see come to us. All our barbers are expert in men’s women’s and children’s work. Soft water used. Geo Washington Hotel Barber Shop. F S Miller proprietor.
An accident marred opening day events featuring pony and horse classes including Handicap Jump and Hunters. Winners listed include Nancy Belle ridden by a child, and heats for ponies and runners with riders such as Margo Cozens and Ernest Woolf among others.
In the fifth race a $150 purse over six longs saw Firet ridden by Maj Finley place second with Schley Apa 8 as third Maid of the Valley. The sixth race for $175 chase featured Cassette ridden by S W ers nd Ben Caesa Arthur st Swing Away and Pats owned by Dr. B Gay of Richmond. Swing Away fell, as did John Buck, causing a serious fall.
The Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts of America reports a 300 percent growth in troops and about 600 Scouts since November. Contributions by civic supporters funded expanded programs under the Scout Executive and committees. The article celebrates character development citizenship training and community service through Scouting chartered by Congress.
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