Evening Star Socials Note
Social and personal notes from the Evening Star outline department news and staff contacts while indicating not all individuals receive mail or telephone communication.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1931
Page
3
Social and personal notes from the Evening Star outline department news and staff contacts while indicating not all individuals receive mail or telephone communication.
A schedule lists events for the week including the Ladies' Aid Society at United Brethren Church Tuesday at 8:00 PM, Kiwanis Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel Wednesday 12:45 PM, yard at Opequon Union Chapel, rain date Thursday, United Brethren Church annual picnic at Jordan Springs Thursday 1:00 PM, Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel Thursday evening, Girls Athletic Association tea at club rooms, and American Legion Post luncheon Friday 12:30 PM at George Washington Hotel. Public invited to all activities.
The Corporation Court clerk issued licenses to Thomas F. Trussell and Lorine E. Williams of Martinsburg West Virginia. John Cain and Bertha Clevenger of Winchester. and Fred Perry and Otila Machnick of Burlington North Carolina. The groomTrussell is a millworker, the Cain groom a laborer, and the Perry groom a barber.
Mrs Herbert Larrick hosts a special meeting at 403 West Clifford street to welcome Mrs Charles E Bolling Virginia Division president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Several social events and visits are listed including tea for brides elect Virginia Rehill and Louisa Hollis and various members’ travel and illness updates.
Miss Frances Van Deventer and guests tour Washington to visit friends. Residents including Fred J. Thomas and Mrs. Louise Benner take vacations in Washington and New York. Several others travel to Norfolk Atlantic City and Baltimore for visits and recuperation, with local residents returning from trips and hosting gatherings at homes around Leesburg and Winchester.
About 500 American Legion members will travel to Frostburg starting tomorrow for the state convention running Thursday through Saturday. More than 1,500 legionnaires are expected to attend. A key topic will be a prohibition resolution from a District of Columbia post condemning the eighteenth amendment. The banquet is set for Saturday evening with Governor Albert C. Ritchie and Louis H. Johnson slated to speak.
The eighty second annual convention of the Disciples of Christ Valley District met at Capon Bridge August 12 14 with 160 delegates. District membership reached 2730 up 104 from last year including 184 new members 123 by baptism. Total district funds were 36231.36 with 11590.42 for local preaching and Bible schools enrolling 2098 contributing 3264.98. Notable talks covered rural churches mission work youth higher education and India with leaders including W Lade Dudley Percy Thomas J T Handley and J A Tate. Next convention set for Woodstock August 16 1932 with Warren Baldwin re-elected president and Capon Bridge praised for hospitality.
The descendants of Casper Rin ker II gathered at the Payne home near Pikeside West Virginia on August 6 with over a hundred attendees from Indiana Maryland New York Tennessee Virginia and nearby counties. A. R. Rinker was reelected president and a renewal for next year was agreed upon. committee members and attendees are listed with many family names and towns. A closing watermelon treat capped a day of memory sharing. The editorial note ends with a quip about education costs deducting fines for loafing at home.
Speculators continued in control of the Chicago Board of Trade as closing prices were Wheat September 49, December 52, May 57 54 and Corn September 44 34. December prices truncated in copy.
The fragment lists grain futures with months and percentages for oats rye and December May positions. It shows September and December contracts and varied percent values alongside oats rye. The text appears as a table snippet of agricultural price movements without a clear narrative.
Toledo banks opened early to reassure depositors after four banks failed to open yesterday. With millions in vaults, banks welcomed the first customers at 7 30 am and reported more cash on hand. Armored trucks delivered 11 000 000 in currency from the Cleveland Fed with more ready if needed.
In Baltimore on August 18 Mrs Mildred Leve 18 died after being shot by her middle aged husband Julius Lewn 45 who then shot himself. The two had argued after he visited her sister's home the previous night and the reconciliation offer was rejected.
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