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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1929
Page
5
Social and Personal items may be mailed or telephoned any time. Edna F. Miller will receive news by telephone between 3 and 4 pm for the following day. Call Na 33.
Miss Mary Jo Matthews of Mannington West Virginia who was Queen Shenandoah VI at the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester will wed Mr Charles B Coleman Jr of Pratt West Virginia on Wednesday September 4 at 7 30 pm at the Matthews home in Mannington The couple's engagement was announced at a recent dinner and the celebration featured roses and pink and green decor. Matthews a WVU alumna 1929 and Kappa Kappa Gamma member is famed for campus honors and musical talent Coleman a WVU senior now in Charleston and a Sigma Nu member is a Greenbrier Military School graduate.
Little Miss Mary Elizabeth Schmidt hosted her second birthday yesterday from 3 to 5 PM at her Valley Avenue home. About 20 children played outdoors, enjoyed a yellow and green table setting, stories by Miss Marguerite Schmidt, and a gift shower as guests wished her many more happy birthdays. Mr and Mrs B R Brady of Norfolk VA are guests at Hotel Jack.
About 350 Baker relatives gathered at Belle Grove Inn last Thursday for their annual social day. G. F. Baker of Richmond and Rev. Harry F. Baker of Roanoke spoke briefly as music filled the event. Next year’s reunion will be at Shenandoah Caverns with Minnie Strickler as president and Ruth Bucher as secretary treasurer.
Mr and Mrs Arthur R Cockrell of Hast Falls Church Virginia welcome a son weighing eight pounds born at their home on Saturday August 24. Mrs Cockrell is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Loy, formerly of this city now living at East Falls Church. The baby will be named Arthur Richard Cockrell Jr.
The Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, spends the week at Falling Waters in Berkeley County West Virginia. He preaches during a series of evangelistic services at the Spring Mills Presbyterian Church.
Mrs A C Welch entertains a party of guests at her Glen Lee residence on Fairmont Avenue. The party includes Mr G W Owens and his daughters Louise and Lois from Brooklyn New York and Mrs T R Crawford from Philadelphia.
The weekly dance at Hill side Lake Park near Martinsburg occurs tonight with music by the Mason-Dixon Orchestra. Several local residents will attend the event.
Miss Mary Yeakley hosted a lively weenie roast Tuesday evening in Jordan White Sulphur Springs with guests including Lois and Bessie Hammond Genevieve Massie Dorothy Wingfield Helen Renner Pauline Smalls and Lou Larrick Carl Holks a Harry Hammond Mrs Ray Hick Mrs Harry Butler and George Yeakley. Edna Wisecarver and Ray mond Penn returned from Cape May New Jersey where they visited Mr and Mrs Roy L Foster formerly Mrs Claire Dotterer. A Meredith Woore of Miami Florida visited Martinsburg and friends before returning to practice law. R A Foster Portsmouth Fire Chief and Mrs Foster visited Winchester en route to Lexington Virginia for the Virginia State Firemen's Association convention. Chief Foster spoke to Friendship Fire Company and toured historic sites with Mrs Foster.
Mrs S Rosenmeyer and her daughter Miss Frieda Rosenmeyer of this city arrived in New York last Friday aboard the S S America. They have spent eleven months in Europe and expect to reach home this week.
Arrangements are complete for the annual Sunday school picnic of the Little Mountain Church. The event will be held in the grove near the church on Saturday, August 31, by church members.
Mrs L R Markwood and daughter Jessie return from Charley Town West Virginia. Gray family back from Atlantic City with Dorothy Anderson visiting Baltimore friends. Various locals and visitors including Hicks from Woolworth in town on business and families from Chicago Albany and Oklahoma City vacationing or visiting here.
Mrs C A Dean and family plus several named locals enjoyed a Sunday afternoon at Burlington Beach West Virginia. Weekend travel included Mr and Mrs John Munhall Jr and others driving to Hagerstown for the day. Edward Harris and Mrs Harris plan a Virginia Beach trip and will visit Warrenton for a horse show en route.
Warren Packard, heir to the Packard motor millions, died in an airplane crash near Grosse Isle, Michigan. Packard was 35, married with two children, while pilot Talbott Barnard, a Packard salesman, was seriously injured but expected to recover.
The Cleveland airport hosted cross country derby fliers at the National Air Races with five derbies on the schedule two finishing this afternoon. Portland Oregon to Milwaukee, Louisville to here from Miami Beach, and a Los Angeles to finish anytime today. Lee Schoenherr opened the event with a coast-to-coast flight in 13 hours 51 minutes 10.8 seconds.
The Graf Zeppelin crosses the Rockies by moonlight on a Pacific crossing milestone. After a 10 day flight from Lakehurst it lands to refuel at Lakehurst and continues toward home as observers hail a new era in lighter-than-air travel.
New York Aug 26 three present day conditions a falling birthrate restricted immigration and the near stabilization of the death rate are leading this country faster than realized to a point where the population will become stationary or may even decline according to Dr Louis I Dublin and Dr Alfred J Lotka of the Statistical Bureau of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co They say the correction applied to births over deaths shows 1928 natural increase was 2 3 per thousand rather than 7 8 per thousand and warn the decline could begin once past high fertility and immigration effects fade The bulletin notes fertility continues to drop and further mortality declines may not offset losses in births risking a natural decrease.
W C Lauck editor of the News and Courier defends supporting Pollard for Virginia governor, arguing Dr Brown’s platform lacks decisive grounds to overthrow the Democratic party. He notes Brown’s tax and governance proposals, warns of a Republican anti-organization coalition, and questions long term gains from reform, urging party loyalty.
Judge M V Barnhill indicated severe restriction of state evidence in the murder trial of sixteen Gastonia cotton mill strike leaders. The ruling came as he overruled a defense motion to compel amendments to the state bill of particulars in the O F Alderholt killing case.
Winchester fair opens with multiple events including shoe pitching bicycle and sack races greasy pig contest and acrobatic acts by the Clarke Brothers and Troop B. Citizens Band concert nightly at 7 30 with free acts by Clarke Brothers and Troop B. Program outlines gates open 8 a m horse races baby show pony and running races throughout the day with performances by Troop E Fort Myer Cavalry and Clark Brothers acrobatics.
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