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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
3
The social department invites readers to mail or call with items. Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller will gather and report social news by telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number 33.
The Robert Y. Conrad unit of the American Legion Auxiliary appeals to 1929 members to renew dues promptly for 1930. Virginia and Vermont are in a close membership race, with Winchester highlighted for its leadership. The drive emphasizes timely renewal by December 6 to support hospitalized World War veterans and aid via the department and national auxiliary. Dewey Keedy visited Winchester from Martinsburg, W. Va.
The Sunshine Club of Braddock Street Methodist Church will meet at Mrs W H Reed’s home at 224 South Braddock Street at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Assisting hostesses are Mrs John I Sloat Mrs Ella Miller Mrs Walter Shade Mrs John W Rosenberger and Mrs William B Snider.
At the bi monthly luncheon the league will discuss the Girl Scout movement and Winchester sanitation along with the latest fashions. Attendance urged for all members. The meeting time shifts from 3:30 to 3 o'clock to avoid conflicting with a 4 to 6 tea at Mrs. R. T. Barton’s home supporting mountain missionary work.
Announcements include Woman's Auxiliary tray covers ready for distribution and unsigned volunteers asked to pick them up at Winchester Memorial Hospital. A silver tea hosted by Women’s Auxiliary groups at Mrs. Barton’s residence on South Washington Street runs 4 to 6 PM Friday. Also reports Mrs. James Lee Shelton, guest of Mrs. Tunstall Smith, to spend winter in Baltimore, and a birth announcement for Donald McLeod Zea Jr. in Woodstock.
John Kern arrives from Ellensburg Washington to visit wife and children on North Washington Street for about two months. Several local residents and visitors are noted, including Taylor Lee Barr recovering from surgery, Ramona Stroder returning to Minneapolis after visiting Winchester, and various social visits of S Swart Funkhouser Adams Yost Sprint Grant McCann W Adams.
Mr. Ryland Conner of the post office force is slightly improved after a week at home on South Kent street. Mr. Paul Poston of Baltimore visits his parents on North Kent Street. Mrs. R. H. Stokes and Minnie Baker depart for Rockville Maryland this afternoon after winter at North Cameron street. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kennedy of Pittsburgh are guests at the George Washington Hotel. David Crockett of Hagerstown is in Winchester for business and registered at the hotel.
Hagerstown Maryland December four two youths Paul R Hesson and Fred A Stouffer both aged twenty one and nineteen respectively were sentenced by Judge Frank Wagaman to four years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbing the Mauginsville branch of the Hagerstown Bank and Trust Company. They admitted holding up the bank and striking cashier C E Riggs with a rubber mallet escaping with eight hundred sixty dollars most of which was later recovered.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved the administration's 160 million dollar income tax cut plan today and will send it to the House for action Thursday.
William S. Ware, crippled by a prior stroke, appeared in the Senate to urge fair consideration of his claim to be seated as Pennsylvania's Republican senator. He challenged accusers to cite fraud in the 1926 campaign while accepting no oath of office.
William R. Orndorff son of Solomon and Eliza Orndorff of Gravel Springs Frederick county died at his county home after a second stroke of paralysis. He had been in failing health two years, married twice, survived by sister and brother, and a family of eight children with three sons now deceased. Funeral at Mount Hebron Chapel conducted by Rev. G M Morrow. Pallbearers were six nephews.
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