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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1938
Page
8
Mayor Luis de Hoyos issues order limiting shorts to old women in Monticelli igniting protests. Gull joins street picket line while White Néssie B. Pecker rails against placards. Ida Glick shuns business in protest as Sam Rosenblatt faces a diplomatic dilemma over city uniforms.
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club met on Mrs. E G Butler’s Clarke County porch to hear Mr. de’s talk Autumn Gardens. He cited delphinium chrysanthemum asters phlox roses and dahlias as key fall garden flowers and urged pruning or thiinning for vigor. Ribbons were awarded for flower of the day with colors and themes.
The text notes a focus on thoughtful attention to details and understanding human needs during hours. It mentions the Jones analysis and implies a description of qualities or processes tied to perceived organization.
Thursday program lists a G A A swimming party at Front Royal recreation park with picnic to follow. Rotary Club picnic at Richards orchard on the Marlboro road. Baptist Woman's Missionary Union meets in the church lecture room with Wiley Circle in charge. Frances Asbury Union meets in Stephenson M E Church with young people in charge.
Mrs Horace Brown entertained at a luncheon yesterday for Paul Gaylord visiting her brother Woodhull Baker and Mrs Baker at their home on South Washington street. Guests included Mrs Paul Gaylord Mrs Gray Beverley Mrs Philip Fowle Mrs Clarke Cooper Mrs Jack Engle Mrs Robert Green Mrs J D Glover Mrs Woodhull Baker and Mrs Delmar Robinson. After luncheon cards were played.
Mr E W Argenbright longtime manager of Lovett Brothers Shoe Store on North Loudoun street plans a move to Cumberland Maryland to lead the Ladies and Childrens Foot Wear Department at Pesking Shoe Store. He and his wife Miss June Mason will relocate with their one child. Argenbright is a Staunton Virginia native.
Mr and Mrs J W Clark entertained Tuesday evening at Evendale near the city in honor of their granddaughter Miss Mervie Briggs who was celebrating her eleventh birthday. Those present included Ruth Clark Elizabeth Larrick Ruby Smith Mildred Hackley Ruby Shiflett Evelyn Briggs Minnie Barbara Russell Kathleen Racer Phyllis Armel Betty Jean Manuel Eddie Manuel and Donald Smith.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Ebert and her houseguests Miss Nell Lashley of Lawrenceville and Miss Virginia Sydnor of Ashland, all Randolph Macon College for Women classmates, vacation at a Capon river cabin. Other locals on the trip include Miss Marion Martin, Miss Louise Marlin, H. W. Ebert Jr., Miss James Goode, Ralph Sprinkle, Jim Largent, and Frank Pierce.
Announcement says Miss Hilda Irene Hechtel and Mr Ellis Miller Yost wed yesterday at the Southern Methodist Parsonage in Luray Virginia at 4 o clock. Rev D L Fringer officiated. They will reside near Ridgeway West Virginia on a farm.
A readers questions about thank you notes after bridal showers and hosting etiquette for dinner invites. It notes that a wife should decline when her husband cannot attend and that paper gifts are appropriate for the second wedding anniversary.
Miss Evelyn Hurley and Howard Kenney quietly married yesterday in Frederick Md. Rev Charles E Webler officiated. Witnesses included Mr Jessie Snapp and H C Kenney. The couple will reside in Alexandria Va where Kenney works as a mechanic.
Robert Blois of Belleville Illinois, visiting the Amos Shryocks on Millwood avenue, turned up another black widow spider in the back yard under a board.
Maryland Senator Millard E. Tydings denounces outside influence in the 1936 election and distances himself from the New Deal. He argues for independent nominative process versus Washington designation and rebuts NRA support claims while mocking a 100 percent New Deal stance. He notes Roosevelt’s NRA remarks and defends his own record against accusations of not goose stepping to party lines.
Miss Gwynne Harrison and Mr. Benjamin Harrison hosted a buffet supper at Long Wood. Guests included Miss Mary Rank of New York, Miss Agnes Mitchell, Miss Mary O Fallon, Archibald and Mrs Dunning, William and Mrs Powell, Owen McGruder Jones of Alexandria, Henry Mitchell, Mrs Billy Jacobs Weatherall, Robert Page of Philadelphia, North Fletcher, Alexander Calvert of Warrenton, George Greenhalgh and Fred Read.
Mrs Richard E Dole Miss Margaret Dole and Mr Richard Dole left Sunday for New York City to spend a week then return to Clarke. Mr Charles Lee Burwell hosted weekend guests at Athelone before they traveled to New York and New Bedford Conn. Mr and Mrs Henry P Mitchell and Miss Agnes Mitchell left Wednesday for New York City to spend the night then proceed to Ipwich Mass to visit Mr and Mrs Lebaron Willard.
Mr and Mrs Archibald R Dun ning of Strasburg were dinner guests Friday night of Mr and Mrs Allen Richards of New York who are visiting Mrs Richards mother Mrs Lewis Hyde. Mr and Mrs Prescott Huide koper have returned to their Ruxton Maryland home after a stay at Mt Storm near Romney West Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Reed Riley and Mrs Twigg of Washington DC visit Mrs Riley s sister Mrs Philip Walker at Page Brook for several days. Mrs Courtney Jones and Miss Agnes Kennedy lunch with Mrs Joseph Massie at her Winchester home. Mr and Mrs Thomas Pine entertain at a Sunday picnic reunion. Rev and Mrs Robert McGill and sons Bobby and Allen depart Abbeyville by motor to Niagara Falls, guests of Mrs McGill s sister Elizabeth Bradford. Miss Margaret Della Meade hosts luncheon at Edgewood with Miss Mary Dougherty Miss Edith Beardall and Miss Anne Williams.
Acontinued social notices list string of visits and hosting at homes like Sprout Run Ryton Long Wood Springbury Saratoga Minturn Milton Valley and guests from Alexandria Richmond Cleveland and Jackson including Mr and Mrs Lindsey Miss Rank Mr Page and Mrs Mitchell with several weekend and weekday movements among family friends and extended relatives.
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