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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
5
Wage Hour Director Andrews arrives to administer the new wage hour law set to take effect October 24. He plans cooperative action with business to set 25 cent minimums and 44 hour workweeks across interstate industries, starting with textiles and expanding to tobacco and cotton garments.
At Langley Field Virginia on August 2 Corporal Owen N Dovell 6805950 is promoted to sergeant by the command of Hq Hq squadron Eighth Pursuit Group GHQ Air Force He is the son of Mr and Mrs F L Dovell of Stephens City and has served over ten years without absence His present duty is sergeant major of Heard Hqt Sq Eighth Pursuit Group GEQ AF.
Local items list residents visiting relatives and returning home plus property transactions and social visits. Names include Dorothy Felty Clark Morse Hoyt Weirich and Casson families with travels to Warsaw Shenandoah Washington and Raleigh. Minor illness updates and a building project on Church Street are noted.
Mr and Mrs Amiss Lillard entertained Sunday School classes on Saturday night August 13 at their Refuge home. A large turnout of young people attended with late refreshments. Mr and Mrs Austin Conner and Mrs Hattie White left this morning for Mansville Ohio where they will attend the Beatty re-
Miss Julia Grim spent a Sunday with Mr and Mrs Albert Grim near Nineveh. The Refuge Church Missionary Society will hold a yard party this Saturday night August 20 at High View school. Everyone is invited to attend.
Cedar Grove notes report the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Owens on August 14. Several visitors and social visits are listed, including Roy Benner of Gettysburg and multiple local residents. The Little Mountain M. E. Church plans its August 27 picnic with a yard party that evening, and various families are mentioned visiting relatives and hosting guests.
Bloom Virginia August 18 date notes St John’s picnic planned for Saturday with details in local notices. Event aims to bring residents together and raise funds. Public invitation lists organizers and venue in Bloom.
Miss Gettys, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gettys, will become the third in her family to graduate from Pitt University in June. She has a younger brother who will be a senior there next year. Mildred of Pittsburgh and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cooper hosted visitors from Washington. Several local residents attended the Gravel Springs picnic last Saturday.
Canterbury notes record visits and short trips among residents. Edward Covell visited relatives in Washington D C. Mrs Florence Martin and daughter Imogene and Roy Cave of Martinsburg spent days at Robert White's home. Lawrence and Leonard White visited David Hausenfluck. I N Painter plans weeks in Baltimore. Thelma Hausenfluck visits a sister in Winchester. Arthur Carper delivered a sermon at Friendship A B Church. Ella Rae White returned home from the home of her grandmother.
Mr and Mrs Sam Bartlett and their family attended a Sunday family reunion at Culpeper highlighting extended kinship ties in the Berryville area.
Marshall T. Miles of the Miles Music Co. departs for Chicago to attend the National Association of Music Merchants trade show August 1 to 4 at the Stevens Hotel. He will tour Zenith Radio’s factory to view 1939 models and notes Zenith’s one floor factory. The event displays over 2 million dollars in instruments from pianos to pipe organs. Miles expects innovations in piano styling and aims to preview all models for his customers. He cites piano sales surging 300 percent over 1932 and plans a postconvention visit to Baldwin Piano in Cincinnati.
Three of six prisoners who escaped from the Washington county jail after knocking Deputy Sheriff Leister Isanogle unconscious remained at large. The breakout occurred late last night after Kuhn, who had been jailed for prior escape, was recaptured shortly afterward.
Benefit planned by Ladies Aid Society at Congregational Christian Church August 18 at Hayfield Tourist Camp with home made soup pies ice cream cakes and refreshments. rain date August 19.
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