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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1933
Page
3
The article notes that historic figures including Nellie Custis and Charles Washington toured the property. Stone slabs quarried on the estate were laid in porch floors and garden walks, showing impressions of pre historic dinosaurs that walked the tidal sands of Oak Hill around a hundred million years ago.
Social calendar lists regular choir and club meetings at United Brethren Church First Baptist Grace Lutheran Winchester Lodge Elks and Rotary Lions Kiwanis. Includes Big Gore Picnic Saturday at town grounds and Handley Library children story hour.
Oak Hill near Alaie Loudoun county will open to the public on the fourth Saturdays August September October and November with a 50 cent admission for Loudoun County Hospital relief. The house designed by Thomas Jefferson and built under Captain James Hoban has historic ties including Monroe Jefferson and Lafayette associations.
Miss Beulah Kathryn Pangle daughter of Mrs Vernon Le Ogden wed Edgar Walter O Harow son of Mr and Mrs William E O Harow of Hatton North Dakota in Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church Washington. The ceremony featured a white satin gown and lilies of the valley bouquet with wedding party including Miss Kathryn Baker and others. After the ceremony the couple planned trips to New York and Chicago with home to Hatton after August 26.
Doctor Woods, long a steady presence in Winchester presbytery circles, rests in good health while his family shields him from strain after a life of ministerial service. He counted among his close associates three noted peers in the presbytery, all now deceased.
Tickets for the Little Theatre production Expressing Willie go on sale from Anne Carr Russell Beatie Bentley Thomas Mary Warden Boyd Molly Glass Elea nor Stephenson Mrs Henry Nev ile Stephenson Mr Maurice Pifer Baker's Drug Store Harper Method Shop Capitol Theatre or by calling Miss Georgia Conrad No 304 A no monthly meeting for August is announced but a business meeting will be held the week after the play.
Mrs. Louis L. Baker, general chairman of the Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club Flower Show, calls a Friday morning meeting of all committee chairmen at 10 o clock at Mrs. Fred L. Glaize’s home on East Piccadilly Street. Amateur flower raisers are urged to enter displays for the September 8 show and interest will be appreciated.
Mrs J Bradshaw Beverley entertained at her West Clifford Street residence in honor of sister in law Mrs J Gray Beverley newly married Julia Smith-Womack of Bolling Green Kentucky. The event followed a string of social functions in Beverley's honor since marriage. Mayor Dr Charles R Anderson and Mrs Anderson departed by car for an undisclosed vacation, with officials noting he would be away several days.
The Winchester Gun Club participates in the 34th annual Grand American Handicap Trapshooting Tournament opening Monday in Vandalia Ohio. Local entrants include Claude B. Stickley Earl Cuthbert and Tony Renner from the club.
Clarence Hardy longtime Winchester post office staffer is seriously ill at his South Braddock Street home. He suffered a long illness, leading to retirement years ago due to health impairment.
Student nurses from Winchester Memorial Hospital set to depart September 8 to complete training at University Hospital in Richmond due to closure of the local training school. List includes Inez Bear Carrie Webb Vernie Sacra Esther Keckley Audrey Long Helen Watson Mabel Cleek Hazel Spiggle Lillian Fries Frances Venable Betty Ailes Ruhama Henshaw Odessa Thompson Jayne Harvey Ally Cleek.
Major A. Willis Robertson of Lexington congressman from this district takes two weeks vacation traveling to Michigan and Canada for a fishing trip. He will return to Virginia about September 1.
At Mrs. Ada Littleton Tavenner’s home in Jefferson county a reunion brought together four generations of her kin. The event celebrated Mrs. Tavenner’s eighty fifth birthday, with notes recalling a prior reunion forty three years earlier for her grandfather James Nelson Corbin’s hundred first birthday.
The fiftieth birthday observance of Mrs. Samuel Largent was held at Unger's Store picnic grounds with about 140 attendees including friends and relatives. A lavish dinner was served as guests gathered at 10:30 in the morning and left around 4:30 in the afternoon. Mrs. Largent, formerly Miss Maggie Omps, is sister to Lafayette Omps of Martinsburg A L Omps of Winchester and Mrs. Al Place of this city.
The Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South Young Christian Class invites members and friends to a weiner roast Friday evening August 25 at Jordan White Sulphur Springs near Stephenson. Notify Mrs M R Anderson at 834 7 by Thursday. Cars depart church at 6 pm with indoor option if weather is bad.
Miss Elizabeth Goodyear of Carlisle Pennsylvania and Miss Mary Craig Suter of North Carolina stay a week with Miss Mary Glenn Lupton at the Luptons North Braddock street home. Several social functions have been held or planned in their honor. Goodyear was Lupton's roommate last year at Randolph Macon Woman's College Virginia and Suter also attended the college.
Mr A Lée Coble of George Washington Hotel takes his yearly break at Mr Woodhull Baker's cabin on the Shenandoah river to bass fish despite rain. He is joined by Mrs Coble and daughters Nancy Lee and Adelaide.
The Young People's League of the Southern Methodist Church at Macedonia has postponed its planned Thursday evening weiner roast until further notice due to rainy weather.
Dr and Mrs B B Dutton and their young son Ben returned last evening from ten days visit to relatives at Dr Duttons old home in Middlesex county. Dr Dutton resumed his medical practice today.
Miss Lillian Anderson superintendent of Memorial Hospital is on her annual vacation. She plans to visit friends in Virginia and North Carolina and will return in about a week. Mr. and Mrs. B A Grayson Mr E S Grayson Miss Mollie Lowery and Mr Harold Ludwig traveled Sunday to Burlington West Virginia for a camp meeting. Senator Carterlass of Lynchburg and Admiral Cary T Grayson of Washington were in Paris and head to Czechoslovakia for weeks of partridge shooting. Mrs J M Lowery has been ill but is improving.
Miss Marie Becher, lately staying with Mrs. John B Parsons at Gray Gables Inn, departs for Cape May New Jersey to spend a week before returning to her Philadelphia home.
The young people's choir of United Brethren Church will meet at 6 45 this evening in the church auditorium. All members are urged to attend.
Lynn M. Harris a Hollywood landscape architect hosted a Luray gathering in a hunting lodge style apartment. The menu centerpiece was rattlesnake steak broiled over an open fire sourced near the Shenandoah National Park area.
Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin plans a luncheon tomorrow at Thornhill, home of Mrs W A Baker, honoring prominent society members. Miss Rose MacDonald hosted a lunch in Berryville for friends with guests including Mrs. W Nelson Page and Mrs. Joseph E. Massie.
The Marlboro Notes announce a church yard party for Thursday August 24 to benefit the church. Residents and visitors list frequent travels and gatherings including Hoke of Baltimore with Nora Jane Headley family, Mitchells in town, and various visits among Linebures, Shanholtzs, and others. Local outings include a Modern Woodmen picnic at Middletown and several weekend calls across nearby towns.
City painters and paperhangers are asked to meet at 8 tomorrow evening in the South End Hose Company hall on West Monmouth Street to discuss and act on the code issued by the National Recovery Administration. A spokesman said full details of the code will be presented and all contractors and journeymen are urged to attend for unified action.
Mrs. Massie of Amherst Street will motor Friday to Maryland to visit her daughter and sons at a summer camp near Baltimore and will bring them home for the winter. Mrs. Harrison will host a large luncheon at South Washington Street tomorrow with many prominent society members attending.
Mrs. William E. Byrd leaves North Braddock Street residence to resume duties in Washington. Her husband, Mr. Byrd, holds a government post with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
A First Federal Home Loan program is formed to stop mortgage foreclosures. The loan supports Schley’s two story frame house on contract payments he has struggled to meet, with the grant aiding the owner facing missed payments.
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