Social News of Interest Returns From Vacations
Miss Aletta Rudolph and Miss Audgey and Margaret Creswell have returned to their homes after vacations in Atlantic City and New York City visiting Miss Rudolphs aunt Mrs Abram James.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
7
Miss Aletta Rudolph and Miss Audgey and Margaret Creswell have returned to their homes after vacations in Atlantic City and New York City visiting Miss Rudolphs aunt Mrs Abram James.
Mrs. Dudley Field returns to Winchester after a ten day stay at Cape May New Jersey with a Philadelphia stop en route. August visitors to Cape May include Mr. Arthur Field of Memphis and Mrs. Lewis Allen among others. In July Winchester residents vacationing at Cape May include Judge and Mrs. B P Harrison and several relatives. A large gathering at Lord I Combs home near Hayfield Va included many relatives and friends from Winchester Hagerstown Needmore Rock Oak Martinsboro and Boonsboro. The Stephenson Youth Fellowship plans a picnic Thursday evening at seven thirty on the church lawn.
Memorial Hospital treats several locals including C I Brumback of Stephens City and A F Huffman after incidents and illness. Mrs S D McReynolds leaves for Baltimore after a week with Mrs Henry Bryarly. Ellwood White and Miss Walda White visit Winchester. birthday dinner for Gerald Ambrose. Mercer announces birth of daughter Patricia Jean. Major and Mrs Mitchell Giblo visit before moving to a new post. Bruce Gorham on leave. various other medical updates and family notices in Winchester and surrounding towns.
The Berryville column lists residents and guests including Mrs Horace Munson and three children from Richmond, Miss Palmer Beverley from Camp Carysbrook, and Mrs Robert Riddleberger of Front Royal with daughter Alex. It adds Clarke County names such as Marion Levi, Louise Derflinger, Kenneth Levi on furlough, and visits by William Carroll, Charley Locke’s son Ronald, Ray Foltz family, Virginia Shenk, and others visiting relatives in Berryville, Winchester, and nearby towns.
The weekly Berryville column records illness and deaths in the Foltz family, visits from Ellen McCubbin of Ellicott City and James Galloway from the Naval Academy, and multiple local social visitations. County officials, educators, and residents like Wiliam Burtner, the Revercombe family, and the McGehees figure among attendees and travelers.
The Civil Service Commission announces that applications for Woodstock Virginia postmastership will be received until close of business September 12.
Telegrams notify William C Miller of the death of his cousin Miss Mary Newton Blakemore of St Joseph Missouri at 95. Born in Berryville Clarke County she moved church membership from Loudoun Street Presbyterian Winchester to St Joseph and will be buried there with most of her family.
The Lord Fairfax Soil Conservation District in Frederick County Virginia seeks three elected supervisors from candidates filing nominating petitions at the County Agents office in Winchester. The district aims to conserve soil resources through erosion control and has operated since 1942.
Mrs. J. E. Woodward, a Portsmouth native living in this city via her daughter Mrs. Clarissa Woodward Cadawallader, died from injuries after a car hit a train in Portsmouth Virginia. Her daughter Mrs. Josephine Holloman was critically injured. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Portsmouth.
Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay told the Senate War Investigating committee forces in a recent landing operation failed to obtain half of the 155 millimeter ammunition they needed. He cited serious shortages across categories due to manpower problems and noted the issue was part of surpluses and war snacks investigations.
In Vandalia Ohio the Grand American Trapshooting Tournament opens with shooters seeking thousands of dollars and 600 targets. Orla Booher of Farmland Indiana aims for a second North American clay target title after a perfect 200 last year. Women contenders Florence Mos of Cincinnati and Betsy Herndon of Georgetown Kentucky also prepare to defend titles amid shell shortages.
Ralph Henry Combs 17, of Winchester area, reported for Navy boot training on August 19 after enlisting July 31. He recalls a Pearl Harbor era uncle and another uncle in the South Pacific, with local family roots in West Virginia and Frederick County, Virginia. He attended Stephens City High School and worked for Rusty Engineering Co. in Front Royal.
Winchester Lions Club members at a weekly luncheon discussed the September 14 Charter Night for the 20th anniversary with Hove Riley in charge. Guest speakers included Robert C. Jasper now in the U S Navy and Lt. Charles Harper on leave. Jasper just returned from a 67 day Atlantic tour aboard a carrier and Harper served as a Navy bomber pilot in the Pacific, including Saipan operations. The club also voted to sponsor its annual Fun festival in October.
Polish women in Warsaw urged Pope Paul XII to bless the patriot forces defending the city for church and liberty. They complained world attention ignores their plight, noted Russian troops at Warsaw gates for three weeks, and said British aid via air drops is insufficient.
Swiss federal council announced via radio that it recognizes Petain as no longer head of state and has broken off diplomatic ties with the Petain Laval government, noting he has been forcibly removed from Vichy.
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