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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal items note updates and reminders. Telephone confirmations are requested for next day, with service hours between 8 and 4 pm for the following day.
The Piedmont Hunt met Tuesday at Old Welbourne the Cary home near Winchester. More than 300 guests including Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd and Maj. Gen. George Patton attended the breakfast after a morning fox hunt prior to leaving for further events.
Mr Neale presents a plan for a scenic triangular drive from Winchester to Boyce and back with 1 1/2 miles of road chosen for initial work. The Wood and Stump properties supply land. Miss Clara Wood and Miss Mollie Wood donate strips for beauty spots to be planted by native materials. Billboard removal is part of the project with a Garden Club committee guiding roadside planting. Berryville news notes marriages and local society updates alongside a correction about Miss Virginia White’s essay authorship.
Mrs Natalie P Smith and family left Richmond after visiting the manse on North Braddock street. Harry R Mathis of Hagerstown is in town on business registered at Hotel Jack. Herbert Rhodes and Mrs E D Funkhouser spent the weekend in Baltimore with relatives on North Calvert street. Estelle M Newlin returned home after visits in Washington and Baltimore. The Bowmans of Baltimore spent holidays with their parents in Richmond. M V B Snake travels to Willsburg Pa to visit her mother. Forrest S Racey of Roverton W Va and Alexander Leverety of Richmond are noted visitors. Sgt Arthur Dunlap on 24 hour leave returned to Danville Va. J W Crider back from Charlottesville for Virginia State Horticultural Society meeting. D L Barnes of Kansas City and Hot Point rep Alexander Leverety registered guests at Hotel Jack. Jess Willey and Claude Massie shopped in Baltimore. Samuel K Cox, formerly of Richmond, shopped in town. Helen Buckley, illness, improved but still under physician care. Frank Lovett back from business trips to Harrisonburg and Staunton.
Fire that swept the Pratt Works of Standard Oil on the Brooklyn waterfront renewed this forenoon after initial containment. Beginning before midnight the blaze endangered the plant, destroying 200000 gallons of gasoline crude oil and turpentine and 18 tanks while damaging piers barges a fire boat and a tanker as flames belched into the East River. Officials estimated losses between 250000 and 500000 dollars.
William S. Baker, president of the Philadelphia National League Baseball Club, died in Montreal from a heart attack during the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues convention. He arrived the day before and fell ill in his hotel room.
Communist led unemployment protest in Berlin with two deaths reported earlier. Demonstrators at Busch Circus chanted for bread and work, then marched through the northeast suburbs. Police faced rocks, clubs, and volleys fired into the air to disperse the crowd.
A Maryland state penitentiary has opened a course in journalism. The city editor notes the reporters’ locations are known by some, signaling readiness to begin the class as indicated by Detrqi Nev.
Harold Biser 24 of Moorefield Junction West Virginia dies in Maryland after fleeing to evade questioning in a Pennsylvania murder case. Maryland and Keyser West Virginia officials plan an inquest to determine cause, suspecting accidental discharge from a small calibre rifle as Biser slowed the car with a foot on the brake.
Agnes Dillon Randolph of Richmond Virginia and a founder of the Virginia out-patient tuberculosis service died at home at age 55. She organized a Texas TB association in 1929 and was a great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Funeral services are set for tomorrow with burial at Monticello.
Frederick Maryland December 4 Nathaniel P Wachter 84 was found unconscious at the car wheel after exposure to carbon monoxide fumes His pulse was absent on arrival of Frederick fire department inhalator crew revived him within 15 minutes and two hours later he showed no ill effects leaving his condition reported good.
A listless downward drift of prices extended into another session with losses from one to three points. A few rails touched new lows but the overall list stayed well above last month’s bottom. Trading was extremely slow and call money remained at 2 percent.
Mr. and Mrs. Logan R. Fay returned from Ardmore Pennsylvania after the death of Mrs. Louis Hepburn on Saturday November 29 at her home. Funeral services were December 1 and interment followed at Laurel Hill Cemetery Philadelphia. Mrs Hepburn leaves her husband and two daughters Miss Virginia Kitterlinus and Mrs Curtis Janney.
Mrs. Durken aged 25 and her children Madeline 3 Frederick Jr 2 and Jean 1 perished when a fire destroyed their isolated New Jersey home near Montville. Investigators suspect a defective chimney sparked the blaze.
Three men armed with guns invaded Matteawan State Hospital for the criminal insane in New York early today. They overpowered four employees and liberated six inmates. The gang leader was identified as William Nelson of New York, a former inmate.
A Burma night quake killed 22 people and injured many more, with severe material damage especially in the Pru district as two earthquakes rocked Rangoon and surrounding areas.
Infant son of J Andrew Kater dies in Clifton New Jersey at about 1 30 this morning from pneumonia developing yesterday Relatives here report the child seen for a few days and a brief service will be held at the grave with interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester carries the body to the Clark home Amherst Street.
Lefty Shields former professional baseball player and Nemes king visited Hagerstown for a few hours en route to New Orleans for the winter. He praised the town saying it looked well and noted he plans to return to train the local Blue Ridge League club. Shields claims many records including throwing a baseball 180 feet from a grain elevator and winning a 383 foot 5 inch amateur distance event in 1909.
Winchester ministers announce evangelistic meetings moved from January to March 1629. A city religious census is set for March 1 with union prayer services 5:45 PM nightly at listed churches January 9 to 15 led by named pastors.
A marriage license was issued to William Arthur Lowery and Saloma Ann Roe, aged 18. With the bride under legal age and without parents, Martha Stowers, executive secretary of the local Red Cross, consented to the license. Bride’s father is William Roe. groom’s father is Robert Lowery.
Millwood and nearby households host gatherings and visits as a busy social scene unfolds. Bowling parties at Parish Hall in Boyce, mid night suppers at Minturn, and Christmas-season plans at Minturn and Powhatan accompany visits from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington figures. The Whatsoever Circle of Kings Daughters meets at Wayside with Evelyn Page presiding. Blue Ridge Hunt gathers at Clay Hill with a Winchester guest, while Col. and Mrs. Consolve plan a Christmas opening at Old Welborn and a hunt breakfast at 1 p.m.
A Chicago firm touts unbreakable clear-vision spectacles guaranteed to improve reading and distant sight. The Shut-Fit Optical Co. offers 1,000 free pairs to readers who promote the product and explains how to obtain agency and earn $250 to $500 monthly without experience or money.
The grand champion steer "Jimmy" at the 10930 International Livestock Show sold for 2.50 a pound to the Breakers Hotel of Atlantic City New Jersey. Owner J P McKenny of King City Missouri notes last year’s champion sold for 8.25 a pound.
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