Social Calendar Highlights Local Church and Club Meetings
Wednesday schedule lists 6:45 p m choir practice at United Brethren Church 8 30 p m Grace Lutheran adult choir practice 1 00 p m Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel 3 30 p m Civic League Handley Library event 7 30 p m Winchester Historical Society lecture Handley Library. Also notes community visitors and engagements including tennis figure Miss Penelope Anderson’s February wedding to Frederick Bennett McBride and other social arrivals and the Ladies Aid Bank opening at 111 West Piccadilly Street.
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Younges
United Brethren Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Christian Endeavor
First Christian Church
Rotary Club
George Washington
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
American Legion Post
George Washington Hotel
Civic League
Handley Library
L. M. Allen
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Church of Christ
Minnie Slonaker
West Piccadilly Street
Winchester Lions Club entertains with Hawaiian guitar
At the Winchester Lions Club luncheon Donald Patton son of Frank and wife performed on a Hawaiian guitar. Patton a Handley High School student impressed members and guests with skillful playing.
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Winchester Lions
Church Society Banquet Planned by United Brethren
The Christian Endeavor Society of the United Brethren Church will hold a banquet in the church basement tomorrow at 7 30 p m with Edwin F Ritter as toastmaster. Rev J Paul Gruver of Keyser West Virginia will speak, and the church orchestra directed by Melvin Miller will perform with Kenneth Wendel at the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Society
Christian Endeavor Society of the
United Brethren Church
Edwin F. Ritter
J. Paul Gruver
Keyser
W. Va
United Brethren Church Orchestra
Melvin Miller
Kenneth Wendel
Mr Smith Improves at Home After Hospital Stay
County Treasurer Robert S. Smith is reported able to sit up in his Kernstown home. The attending physician notes continued improvement over the past week since his transfer from the hospital and calls his condition favorable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conal Brady
Philadelphia
Brady
Northern Virginia Power Company
Cameron Street
Local residents return from holiday visits in Martinsburg and beyond
Holiday travels bring the Neidemeyers to Lancaster from Martinsburg and Mrs Hirth back to West Monmouth Street after a Pittsburgh stay. Community notes list choir practice at Union Brethren Church and Woman’s Missionary Society prayers at First Baptist with several residents traveling or visiting Washington, Baltimore, and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Hirth
West Monmouth Street
Thankster
Pittsburgh
Marshall H. Russell
Messrs
James and
John Russell
New York
Mr. Russell
James B. Russell
Washington Street
Baltimore luncheon honors debutante Helen Jones
Mrs. Thomas W. Harrison Jr of Baltimore hosts a luncheon at the Mount Vernon Club in honor of Miss Helen MacSherry Jones debutante daughter of Mr and Mrs John Marshall Jones of Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Harrison, Jr
Baltimore
Mount Vernon Club
Helen MacSherry Jones
John Marshall Jones
Divorced man shoots girl then self in Baltimore scene
Ezra H Harrison forty was placed under technical arrest at Maryland General Hospital after shooting Grace Robert twenty one on a downtown street and then wounding himself in the head. The pair were taken to hospital where both are expected to recover. Harrison had been divorced twice and formerly worked as a train dispatcher.
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Baltimore
Ezra H Harrison
Maryland General Hospital
Grace Robert
Brushtown
Hanover
Harrison
New York
Cumberland
Robert
Cumbeland
Ezra Harrison
Western Maryland Railroad
Kansas City Mother Surrenders Son After Robbery
Mrs. E. A. Johnson of Kansas City Missouri turned in her 20 year old son George Johnson after learning he robbed a couple of $4. He is now serving two years in a reformatory for highway robbery. She says justice will be done and compares it to a previous tragedy when another son drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Johnson
Kansas City
George Johnson
Johnson
Garter Hall Beautified by Gerard Lambert at Millwood
Gerard B Lambert spent the weekend at Carter Hall near Millwood planning evergreen plantings with Edward G Butler placing hemlocks. Guests include Miss Rachel Lambert in Philadelphia and Mrs Howard E Wilson of Washington visiting Mrs Kennedy Edsall with hunting events at Foxcroft and a basketball game between Foxcroft schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millwood
Gerard B. Lambert
Wilson
Edsall
Edward C. Browne
Cambridge Mass
Kennedy Edsall
Blue Ridge Hunt
Middlebury Hunt
Foxcroft
Edward B. Jacobs
Virginia
Billy Jacobs
Basil Bryan
Allen Campbell
Mary
Frances
Elizabeth Campbell
Mary Campbell
Milton Academy
Milton
Mass
Kentmere
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Everard Kidder Meade
Edgewood
Margaret Della Meade
Adis’ Meade
Prospect Hill
Ann Meade
Jane Cary Randolph
Lewis Burwell Meade
B. O'F. Randolph
Foxcroft School
Christ Church, Millwood
Foxes and Hounds
Edward G. Butler
Cook
Eleanor Chambers
Washington
B. Duval Chambers
Agnes Page Mitchell
the Glen
Mary Carter
George H. Burwell
Mount Airy
Charles Consolvo
Bal‘more
Louise Bell
Baltimore
Hunter McGuire
Joseph Wricht
Shirley Carter
Winchester
Railway wage cut urged by Canadian conciliation board
Ottawa Ont December 2 The majority report of the board of conciliation recommends a ten percent reduction in the basic pay of conductors engineers firemen hustlers trainmen yard men telegraphers agents and linemen of the Canadian Railway. The minority opposes the cut calling it an inopportune time for such a decrease.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian Railway
Board of Conciliation
Bayles Record On Plane Speed Declared Invalid
Lowell R. Bayles whose world land plane speed record was questioned as invalid by Ray Cooper official observer of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale after a camera failure left an incomplete record of his four swoops over the three kilometer course in Springfield Massachusetts yesterday.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Lowell R. Bayles
Ray Cooper
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Springfield
Mass
Record speeds beat 1920s air race benchmark
The racer noted an average speed of 284.72 miles per hour surpassing the 278.48 mph 1924 French record set by Warrant Officer Bonnet.
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Cooper
Bonnet
France
Man Accused Of Killing Amick Held For Court
Philadelphia police arrest 28 year old Peter Abbott on murder and holdup charges tied to the Bladens tea house robbery. Court appearance scheduled as investigation continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amick
Philadelphia
Peter Abbott
Bladens
Manhunt in Burg Md Ends with Killings and Widespread Wounding
In Burg Md on November 23 Grover Amick of Winchester Va was killed and five others wounded. Abbott was arrested after police traced him for several hours. Nicholas Tronco and Cilberto Renzuilli are held in connection with the case, with Renzuilli facing $6,000 bail on Mann Act violation warrants tied to a DOJ investigation of the holdup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burg
Grover Amick
Winchester
Abbott
Nicholas Tronco
Cilberto Renzuilli
Renzuilli
Department of Justice
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the Evening Star
Florida
Fridis
Meredith Woore
Shingleton
Miami
Fla
Joseph H. Cooper
Berryville Avenue
Woore
Arthur Woore
Martinsburg
Dick Richards
Emma Woore
Wilton Whitmore
Clearbrook
Penelope Anderson
Penelope Weddell Anderson
Richmond
Frederick Bennett McBride
Anderson
Europe
Helen Wills
St. George Mason Anderson
McBride
Alexander McBride
East Orange
N. J
California Insurance Company
Marine Corps
Fremont Ha
Joshua Fletcher
Upperville
Fremont Hadley
Paul R. Powell
Arthur Chilton Powell
Hadley
Exum Carter
Middleburg
Geo Robert Carter
Mr. Dettra
Emmett Dettra
Round Hill
Loudoun County
W. O. Luttrell
New Market
Dettra
Luttrell
Luther Paulsen
Lohring C. Staples
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Kitty Byrd
Lorene Turnipseed
Frank Barkley
Charles Blair
Maysville, Ky
Harry Taliaferro
Orange, Va
John M. Steck, Jr
North
Harold Shirley
The
American University
French Thompson
Amherst Street
John and
Thomas Scully
Princeton
Princeton University
John S. Scully
South Stewart Street
Lions’ Club
Sunshine Club
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
A. Taylor Ritter
East Cork Street
Delphian Society
Winchester Delphian Society
H. H. Jennings
Daniel Green
Huntsberry
P. C. Neidemeyer
Anna Muir Neidemeyer
Lancaster
Woman’s Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Richard Carpenter
John Taylor
West Albany
Archie Vaughn
Smith
Floyd Courthouse
Virginia State Grange
Thomas M. Hiltzhimer
Kathleen Sutton
Mr. Hiltzheimer
Miss Sutton
Cork Street
Mrs. Hiltzheimer
Fred A Read, Jr
Allen
Rochester
N. Y
Athione
Clarke County
L. B. Resseguie
Lord and Spencer, Ltd
New York City
C. E. Dean
Misses Lucy
Helen Dean
Calvin Shade
Hagerstown
Courtland Warfield
Alexandria
Jane Mudd
Mary Thomas
Mary Sullivan
Fietta Fenberger
Vero Beach
Richard Mudd
de Troit
Rosenberger
Harry Copeland
Jane Scully
Catherine Gibb
Hunter H. McGuire
Frances Page
A. C. Carson
Caroline Carson
Riverton
Miss Marie Mudd
M. T. Reed
Fort Lee, N. J
Teddy von Witt
Richard Arias
Georgetown University
Manuel and
Albert Arias
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Dan Wright
Lexington
Washington and Lee University
Dorothy Woods
Velma Pannett
Nancy Canter
Garfield Memorial Hospital
Elsie Rosenberger
John W. Rosenberger
Union Memorial Hospital
Miss Rosenberger
Young
W. C. Marshall
Stewart Street
Bedford, Va
Woodhull W. Baker
Elizabeth Harrison Baker
Memorial Hospital
Gerard Lambert
Mr. Butler
Canada
Lou Bernstein
Art Fashion Clothes
Loudoun St
Bayles
Christmas Savings Club
United States
the Commercial & Savings Bank
National Credit Association No. 1
Fifth Federal Reserve District
Happines
Warner Bros
Pure Food Store
Braddock and
Boscawen Streets
R. M. Swimley
Jacobson Furniture
S. Main St
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Notive
Lovett Bros
Frank Lovett
Crisfield Oysters
G. ©. Snapp
Margaret
Hodgson
Bell Clothes Shop
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