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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1929
Page
3
A garbled social and personal notice mentions a person named Sasa leabelle P. Miller and a request to contact by telephone between unspecified hours for a follow up. The legibility issues prevent clear details or actions.
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Cooper and daughter Esther Cooper return to Star Tan nery after three months in California. They stayed with Mr. C. L. Towns and Miss Mamie Towns in Pinole Cal visiting Yellow Stone and Yosemite parks. Mrs. L. C. Cooper will stay with her brother and sister. B. F. Davis Jr. recovering from tonsil and adenoid operation at Memorial Hospital. Miss Olivia Dellinger entertained friends on North Braddock Street with games and dancing after a salad course.
A Virginia group including Rev. John A State Richmond Rev Nelson M Fox Dunnsville Rev and Mrs J D Kitchen Newport News C P Robertson and Mrs Robertson Portsmouth and Rev W L Dudley Winchester left August 3 for the Seattle convention. They will return via California. Miss Rosalie Nelson returns from Columbia University and heads to Clarke County. Henry O Ehm arrives in Winchester for the fall season. Miss Ursula O Leary back from vacations in Hagerstown Washington and Richmond. Margaret Richards to report her Kansas City Endeavor trip at the Presbyterian Church. Tri State Tours of Chicago Milwaukee to visit Winchester en route to Shenandoah Caverns. Myer and Mrs Myer Hamburger return from a three week trip. Rev Charles Hanigan visits Rev Thomas B Martin in Greensboro N C.
Mrs. L. H. Pence brought 70 fresh air children home after two weeks in the New York area. Miss Amelia Seabright accompanied them and stopped in Washington to visit friends. They entrusted the tenement outing to the New York Herald committee and praised the treatment given to the charges.
The Bickers Motor Company organized an all day outing for employees families and friends at Orkney Springs. The group traveled in new Ford cars enjoyed swimming games and diversions. They arrived around noon ate a 1 30 PM dinner at the hotel and returned to Winchester by 9 PM.
A large group from the First Baptist Church gathered at Jordan Springs Hotel on Thursday for an annual picnic. They spent the afternoon swimming and were later served a picnic on the hotel grounds.
Mrs. George Fansler and Miss Miller Wisecarver entertained last evening at a watermelon feast for Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fansler of Norfolk Virginia. The guests gathered at the home of A. R. Rinker near Gainesboro Virginia where the visitors are spending part of their vacation. About thirty guests attended.
Mrs. Robert Y. Conrad hosts a supper at Woodlawn Tea Room Berryville in honor of Mrs. Burr Powell Harrison and her mother Mrs. Brinton of Richmond Va. The piece notes guests and local social visits across several households.
Local residents and visiting guests gather in Winchester and nearby towns for vacations visits and social events. Notables include Mrs. Robert Gray and companions heading to Atlantic City for a week, and Governor Byrd hosting a house party in Winchester in early September with Miss Henrietta Lathrop and Miss Anne Froehling among the guests.
Obituary notice for Thomas Nickens born 1847 Front Royal Virginia dies aged 82 funeral at John Mann M E Church with remarks by Mayor F Amos Shryock and district ministers. Survived by foster daughter Sadie Washington niece Minnie Hall four nephews and many friends. Also a wedding joke exchange about wedding presents and bridge prizes.
Graf Zeppelin travels over Liberia en route to Tokio with updated position near Tomsk and Kizel. The airship left Friedrichshafen at 11:34 p m on Wednesday and has logged roughly 42 hours in the air at about 68 to 88 miles per hour as weather improves.
Readers learn from Shenandoah that Dr. L. M. Allen led in many divisions at the Winchester show, with Ern est Woolf and Captain Ewart Johnston among top riders. The program lists thoroughbred and saddle classes, hunting costumes, pony races, and a steeplechase with varias. One jockey escaped a fall as Two Pats faltered near a hurdle.
Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday in the North and Middle Atlantic States: largely fair with thunder showers expected around Wednesday and more general showers toward week’s end. Temperatures near normal in New England and slightly above normal in the Middle Atlantic early in the week, then cooler later.
W. Charles Lite of Syracuse a millionaire manufacturer his wife and pilot Ford Dodge are believed drowned after their speed boat the Giggle collided with an excursion boat the Thousand Island in the mid channel of the St Lawrence Tiger. The excursion boat survived with its 50 passengers beached on a river ledge while crews checked passenger lists amid confusion.
James Horace Alderman fifty Turn runner was hanged in the sea plane hangar at the coast guard base in Fort Lauderdale for killing two coast guards during a 1926 battle on the high seas. He went calmly to the scaffold with a prayer as the sun rose. The execution occurred at 6 03 with witnesses present after his January 1928 conviction for slaying Guards Sanderlin and Victor Lamby during a liquor interdiction.
W. E. Brighthill, longtime Cumberland Valley Railroad express messenger between Harrisburg and Winchester, died at his Harrisburg home on Thursday at age 66. He had many Winchester friends. funeral set for Monday at 1 30 p m from his Harrisburg residence.
Paul D. Kelleter was appointed administrative assistant to the Federal Farm Board. A St Louis native and Washington University graduate, he directed forest extensions at Syracuse and previously supervised Black Hills National Forest. He will oversee multiple board activities as general supervisor.
Two railroad brakemen told police they saw a man who might have slain Dorothy Anne, 12, near the Milwaukee railroad track in south Minneapolis. He drove a blue sedan, appeared about 35, light complexion, short and stocky, then turned and fled. An automobile of similar description had been seen near the girl's home weeks earlier.
Heavy week end profit taking slowed the stock market after a dramatic prior drop. Oil public utilities railroads aviation and high priced shares led gains while trading remained heavy in volume and the market closed firm after gold imports from London and a 6 percent rediscount rate outlook. Total sales about 2,000,000 shares.
Oklahoma City police announced that 23 year old Robert Thompson signed a confession admitting he and his father C. W. Thompson and accomplices Russell Givson Charles Meritt and Joe Cowboy Hays of Kansas City stabbed the bank messenger of the American First National Bank on May 24 and robbed him of 75000 dollars.
Dorsey Ruble of the county was fined ten dollars and costs in county magistrate court for possessing an improper license on his female dog.
Pastor P R Dibhl presents Relief Sunday School at 10 a m with a sermon at 11 a m Epworth League at 7 30 p m Carper's Valley Sunday school at 2 p m sermon at 3 p m Macedonia Sunday school at 10 a m Epworth League at 7 15 p m sermon at 8 p m. public invited. Also notes a Rhode Island Red hen found with glassy crystals in her craw. a Marysville jeweler mentions four blue sapphires among the stones.
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