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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1950
Page
8
Mrs. Ebert and her son Harry Jr and daughter Deirdre arrived home yesterday after a four month stay in Europe. They toured England Holland France and other places during the trip.
Miss Lillian Jene Snyder daughter of Mr Nain wed Mr Westley Loring Boone son of Mr Marshall Boone and the late Mrs Boone in a double ring ceremony in Hagerstown on December 1 at 1 45 pm Rev Wilson Ard officiated. The bride wore a white satin gown with veil and a single strand of pearls. Her sister Mrs Evelyn Abe was matron of honor with attendants Judy and Larry Abe. Best man was Mr Michael Abe. The Boones reside in Albin.
Dec 10 to 12 schedules include musicales and meetings at Christ Episcopal Church Tilford City Hall Rouss Hall Salvation Army Hall George Washington Hotel 503 S Stewart St 220 W Wolfe St Legion Home Friendship Fire Hall and more with groups Lions Club Lord Fairfax Garden Club Century Club Winchester Camera Club Madison Lodge Moose Club Rebekah Lodge Alcoholics Anonymous and the Woman's Auxiliary through Dec 12.
Miss Ann Elizabeth Robinson served as bridesmaid for Mrs Mary Dixon Phipps of Baltimore as she wed Mr Richard Puller Shyrock of Washington at the First Unitarian Church in Baltimore this afternoon at 2 o'clock. A reception followed at the Baltimore Country Club. Attending from here were Mr and Mrs H Delmer Robinson and Mr Wayne Whitman.
Local social notes: Mrs. Melvin Bayliss of Luray honored with a stork shower hosted by Mrs. Russell Oliver and Mrs. Hugh Dailey at Grimes. Attendees include Mesdames Raymond Bayliss Buzzella Jackson Charles Baker Nellie Jackson Chauncey Dorsey Esten Rudolph Evelyn Jackson and Alice Jackson.
Mrs. Cook entertained at tea this afternoon 4 to 6 o clock in honor of Miss Marguerite Mountcastle whose engagement to Major Giles B. Cook Jr was announced last month. This evening she hosts supper for the bride elects parents Mr and Mrs Vernon Mountcastle of Roanoke.
Dee. 8 births announced for Jerome Garver couple a girl born to the former Miss Wilhelmina Sipe. Norman De Lawder family Berkeley Springs W Va welcomes a boy wife’s maiden name Corinne Rice. Martin K Wiley Charles Town W Va welcomes a girl wife’s maiden name Rosie Silvius.
Cecily Brownstone shares a recipe for Fried Bread with Raisin Filling from Sunday Breakfast. Ingredients include raisins currant jelly butter cornstarch and flour. The method instructs boiling the raisin filling cooling creaming shortening with sugar and folding in egg milk then frying dough squares until golden with a raisin filling.
The notice lists weekly meetings for 4 H and HD clubs across Stephens City Middletown and Frederick area. Activities include Christmas observances and plans for 1951, plus USDA Council at the Courthouse and club meetings at schools and community halls.
The New England Primer, first published before 1690, is the earliest US schoolbook. Compiled by Benjamin Harris, an English printer who moved to Boston, it went on to sell between 6 and 8 million copies.
A fashion guidance feature explains how to judge facial color and skin tone before choosing powder and lipstick. It outlines pigment needs for sallow versus clear complexions, and gives tips on matching shades to enhance or camouflage tones, plus a postage offer for further guidance.
Lesson in English teaches proper usage and pronunciation. It notes common errors such as pled vs pleaded and lan gu id while explaining misspellings and synonyms. The piece urges readers to grow vocabulary by mastering one word daily, today morbid defined as gloomy minds.
Severe snow storm and heavy winds disrupted mail and school routes for days. Mrs. Charles Ziler was bitten by a dog tied to a mail patron at Green Spring, delaying her duties. Residents finish Musselman Cannery work and prepare for holidays while gathering an abundant apple crop lost to ice.
A Q and A on wedding etiquette discusses whether a bride’s father should stand in the receiving line with his wife, whether a wife should join her husband greeting guests at a stag party, and if a person’s call should be permissible. The guidance emphasizes discretion and traditional involvement.
The rules require plain white invitation cards of good quality in black engraving with no decorations of any kind. The guidance emphasizes simplicity and no embellishments.
Pattern T4909 offers a reversible weskit with matching toy bunny, sized 6, 2 to 6, 8, using fake fur or plaid. Includes illustrated instructions and transfer, requires 1 2 yd fabrics, send thirty cents to Anne Adams, Winchester Star, New York. Also twenty cents for Pattern Book and a free child dress pattern.
Estimates of annual losses from worthless checks run as high as 300 million dollars, highlighting the scope of check fraud costs and the impact on banks and merchants nationwide.
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