The Gift of Fire Pageant and Girl Scout News
The Winchester Girl Scouts present a pageant The Gift of Fire at Christ Episcopal Church led by Miss Margaret Richards and Miss Edith Cornwell with a 50 girl chorus and organ accompaniment The program invites public attendance. Community notes cover Brownie troop formation under Adele Hutchinson and Helen Crisman and a Christmas party for orphans arranged with Grace Lutheran Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Scouts of
Winchester
Christ Episcopal Church
West Boscawen Street
Margaret Richards
Edith Cornwell
the Spirit
Virginia Butsler
the Flame
Phyllis Oakes
Everyman
Dorothy Lupton
Girl Scouts
Helen Hatcher
Rachel Jennings
Jane Jolliffe
Marjorie Atwell
Henrietta Cornwell
Edith Jones
Adele Hutchinson
Helen Crisman
Cross
Red Cross
Grace Lutheran Church
Santa Claus
Bernadine Knee
Valley Avenue
Saturday and Monday Social and Music Club Calendar
A sequence of church choir rehearsals and weekly meetings plus club luncheons and benefit events listed for the coming days. Activities include Christ Episcopal Church choirs, Lions Club luncheon, Kiwanis luncheon, Ladies Aid Society benefit luncheon, Daughters of the American Revolution, Rotary Club, and American Legion events at George Washington Hotel and local churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland T. Bryarly
Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Winchester
George Washington Hotel
Lions
Kiwanians
Rotarians
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
People’s Drug Store
Miller’s Hardware Store
Crystal Confectionery
Woolworth’s
Young A Choir of
Christ Episco- Church
Christ Episcopal Church
Music Lovers’ Club
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart
Lions’ Club
Ladies’ Aid Society
Centenary Reformed Church
Kiwanis Club
Junior Century Club
Anne Brooke Kern
Fairmont Avenue
Fort Loudoun
Daughters of the American Revolution
Rotary Club
Niel Lupton
North Washington Street
American Legion Post
Young People’s Choir
Braddock Street
M. E
South
Century Club hears papers on Rouen and Corneille
Mrs Dutton and Miss Chew spoke at the Century Club on December 6 with Miss Sophie Baker. Mrs Dutton described Rouen sights including the Tour de Beurre and Joan of Arc burial. She noted Rouen as a WWI hospital base and promised a full Star feature. Miss Chew discussed Corneille born in Rouen 1606 and compared him with Marlowe as Tudor drama rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Dutton
Miss Chew
Century
Century Club
Sophie Baker
Rouen
Normandy
B. B. Dutton
Joan of Arc
Rollan
England
France
William the Conqueror
Utton
Frange
Marlowe
Shakespeare
Corneille
Rehearsal Set For Christmas Cantata at Capitol Theatre
Director Floyd Haines requests all singers who consented to perform in the cantata to meet at the Capitol Theatre at 2 30 tomorrow afternoon for a full rehearsal. After tomorrow only one more rehearsal will remain and full attendance is urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Theatre
Floyd Haines
Sectional Auxiliary Meeting For Christ Church
Announcement calls Sec tion B of the Woman s Auxiliary of Christ Episcopal Church to meet Monday afternoon December 12 at 3 30 in the parish house adjoining the rectory. Officers will be elected and other important matters discussed. The note ends with a humorous proverb about plum trees suggesting needs for more plums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Auxiliary of
Christ Episcopal Church
Labor Leaders Clamp Down on Low School Wages in Virginia
Richmond reports say Waverly school construction paid unskilled labor 10 cents hourly with bricklayers from North Carolina earning as little as 2 a day. Labor officials call bids a travesty while school leaders defend economy amid state wage comparisons and fund loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Waverly
C. J. Hughes
Virginia Federation of Labor
T. D. Foster
Division
John Hopkins Hall, Jr
North Carolina
N. C
Foster
Weldon
State Board of Education
Hughes
School Board
Federation of Labor
State Labor Department
Virginia
Sussex County
R T. Bowden
Virginia Labor Federation
Mountain Lion Deserts Family in Field Museum Exhibit
In a Field Museum display a mother lion with kittens is shown alone in the den as the father lion deserts his home during the cubs early life. The curator notes the male returns only after the cubs gain partial independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Weekend Visit Planned by Mrs Blair in Washington
Mrs. Charles J. Blair Jr. of North Cameron Street left yesterday for Washington to spend the weekend with Mr. Blair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas M. Hiltzheimer
Kathleen Sutton
West Cork Street
Washington
Lewis Dinkle
Albert Larrick
Alma Bean
Thomas S. Ferguson
Martha E. Tucker
North Stewart Street
Margaret Hansbrough
Larchmont
N. Y
A. Tanner Scofield, Jr
North Braddock Street
Charles J. Blair, Jr
North
Cameron Street
Mr. Blair
First Snow of Season Blankets Virginia and Maryland
The first snow of the season spread from Winchester to Roanoke and Charlottesville as snowfall neared two and a half inches. Maryland also saw a statewide snow blanket from a northeast gale, with two inches in Cumberland and wet flakes in Baltimore. Washington reported light, rapidly melting snow with a festive appearance on lawns and roofs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mond
Roanoke
Richmond
Washington
Charlottesville
State Department of Highways
Baltimore
Maryland
Cumberland
Popular Town Boy Wins The Palace Automobile Award
Rol and Bean, a well known Winchester youth nicknamed Beans, won the Essex Terraplane autocar prize at Hable's Palace Theatre during the Palace Theatre five week promotion. Dr E C Stuart announced the winner from a Palace coupon as a crowd watched the moment. Beans said he already owned a car but welcomed the new prize with happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hable’s Palace Theatre
Roland Bean
Winchester
Beans
The
Palace
Palace Theatre
Beker's Drug Store
A. C. Oates Lumber Company
Shenandoah Motor Company
Essex Cars
Fifth District Stores Holding Up Very Well
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports that Fifth District department store sales held up better than the nation in November and the first eleven months of the year. The district shows a 16 percent November decline vs 20 percent nationally and 19 percent year to date vs 23 percent nationally, with 55 reporting stores. Virginia, North and South Carolina, and West Virginia stores showed smaller declines than the national average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
H. Bradford
Virginia
Pollard
General Assembly
Bradford
Carillon
W. Worth Smith, Jr
Norris Committee On
Smith
Norris Committee
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Federal Reserve
Boston
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
North
South Carolina
West Virginia
Kicker Murmurs Stir Up Quiet Controversy
Residents fret over persistent mouthy chatter from local kickers, amplifying disturbance beyond prior concerns about heart murmurs. The long running din prompts calls for calm and better etiquette amid civic worries.
Draisine as precursor to bicycle described
A fragmentary note explains the draisine, the forerunner of the bicycle, invented by German Baron Drais around 1816. It had two tandem wheels of equal size connected by a perch and was propelled by the rider pushing his feet on the ground while steering with a bar linked to the front wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlowe
Corneille
The
Kid
France
Comedie Francaise
Vot Drais
Legalizing Wines At Meals Advocated Before Congress
Marion DeVries testified before the House Ways and Means Committee urging legislation to legalize naturally fermented wines for use at meals. He argued Congress can deem such wines non intoxicating and cited Supreme Court support. Other grape growers from New York and New Jersey joined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Grape Growers, League of California
Marion DeVries
Congress
Supreme Court
New York
New Jersey
Flapper Opinion on Thrifty Boys Sparks Debate
A playful remark notes a flapper mocks a boy who has 3.65 dollars after laundry and still refuses to buy two items on the shelf. The quip reflects social attitudes toward frugality and shopping in the era.
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Ark
Girl Scout
Elsie Peters
Elsie Mae Peters
Pauline Grant
Margaret Carper
Beatrice Morris
Frances Armel
Colleen Hoover
Mary Anna Morris
Catherine March
Louise Richard
Lois Lewis
Messrs
Charles Rowe
Rupert Morris
Earle Polhamus
Wesley Morris
Herbert Cather
Joe Hershburger
Howard Snow
Harry Foreman
Robert Grim
Bobby Boyd
Julian Armel
Colonel Roszello
Winchester Century Club
Sara Chew
B. M. Roskel
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Col. B. M. Roszel
Philip W. Boyd
Pairmont Avenue
Bernice Willis
Harper
Cork Street
Frank Lovett
New York City
North Loudoun Street
Libby McCormick
Mount Victoria
F. M. Reeder
W. L. Dudley
Church of Christ
Memorial Hospital
Roy Ritter
Whitman, Reynardt and Smith
Mrs. C. W. Ritter
South Braddock Street
Ada Lakeman
Hagerstown
Helen Buckley
Stewart Street
Grippe
Huntsberry
Omuw Ucuntade
Federation
Wright
Know What Administra
State Fundation
South Main St
Palace Automobile Award
Fifth District
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
the Commercial & Savings Bank
the Bell Clothes Shop
Crosley
Balanc
Ed Superheterodyne
A. M. Swimley
George Washingto
Loudound
Boscawen Sts
Margaret L. Hodgson
Lovett
Main St
Ohio
California
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