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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1933
Page
3
The article notes fall openings at VMI Lexington and Washington and Lee University with cadet reports and class start dates in September. It also covers related orientation, freshman activities, and tests, plus brief local notices and a wedding report in Wardensville.
Attendees included Mr and Mrs David P Garvin and their son from Danville Virginia and Mr and Mrs George Cook of Jacksonville Florida visiting Mrs B F Line in Winchester. They attended the home coming celebration at the historic Christian Church on Timber Ridge near High View Hampshire County West Virginia.
The schedule lists Friday evening youth choirs at Braddock Street M E Church South and a Wei ner roast at Jordan Springs. Saturday hosts the Big Gore Picnic and children story hour at Handley Library. Weekdays include Lions Club luncheon, Kiwanis meeting, Elks lodge, Grace Lutheran choir, Rotary lunch, American Legion, Episcopal youth choir practice, and a three act play Expressing Willie at Capitol Theatre.
Lee Week events at the Old White Hotel White Sulphur Springs W Va climax with a Lee Monument Ball patronized by William E Carson and others. Stratford Day August 30 marks Stratford Hall birthplace of the Lee family as a national shrine. A Gay Nineties dinner dance August 29 and a Graham Eckes school children pageant August 31 add to the schedule. Mr and Mrs W M Alabaugh visit Elkins W Va as house guests of Claude Kitzmiller.
Plans completed for a weiner roast by the Young Christian's Class of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South. Members and friends meet at 6 at the church for transport to Jordan White Sulphur Springs near Stephenson for an evening of activities.
Lieut. W Abner Huntsberry and his wife are guests of his parents in the county after visiting Mrs Pattie Gardner Gwaltney in Reidsville North Carolina. They plan to leave early next week for Fort Benning Georgia where he has been assigned to duty.
About 115 relatives and friends attended the Beatty family reunion at Whiting beach in Chicago on August 17. The Hammond Beattys from Ohio Virginia Indiana Pennsylvania and near Washington D C joined the meeting where W S Sargent Kernstown was elected president for next year O L Grim Stephens City vice president and Mrs Shallenberger Detroit secretary treasurer. The next reunion will be in Virginia. Chloe Mudd plans to return to North Cameron Street after ten days in Bryantown Maryland as guest of Mr and Mrs John Mudd.
Priced 50c for a 454 oz package of BISMA REX Antacid Powder relieves acid indigestion and sour stomach. Brooks' Pharmacy offers a free trial package with this coupon.
Miss Mary Hiltebridle a Lutheran missionary on furlough from Japan stayed with Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Luther A. Thomas at Grace Lutheran Church parsonage on South Stewart street before departing for Somerset Pa She spoke at the Virginia Synod women’s missionary convention in Woodstock and then traveled on.
A late message shows Mrs C B Carr of Boyce her sister Miss Elsie Gray Hume of Leesburg and Mrs James Higgs of Rawson W Va were saved at Berlin Md by rescue parties after Ocean City Md was evacuated during a Norfolk storms Tuesday night. They were reported safe and uninjured though all baggage and belongings were left behind as powerful waves overwhelmed Ocean City.
The Girls' Athletic Association will sponsor a watermelon party Thursday August 31 in the club rooms and lawn beside the Elks Club on West Piccadilly Street. It starts at 5 30 in the afternoon with sandwiches drinks and homemade cakes. Miss Alice Clinger of Philadelphia is visiting relatives in the county.
Social notes from Millwood Clarke County describe Mrs Richard P Whit ing and Miss Agnes Esten Kennedy hosting a refined dinner in honor of Kennedy who retired from the Veterans Bureau in Washington. The section records several visits to Pen Day, Blue Ridge Country Club dances after Berryville Horse Show, and a long stream of guests from Winchester Baltimore and Pittsburgh attending lunches dinners and weekend gatherings. A Clarke County drive for the Richmond Children's Home Society raised over 500 dollars with volunteers praised for strong local support.
Farmers estimate a multi million dollar toll from the storm damaging apples to the ground and bruising stock, with thousands of barrels likely to spoil. Peach crops, corn, and vegetables suffered extensive harm across Timbleville Crozet Frederick County and nearby areas, with early damage tallies rising into the thousands and higher.
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