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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1934
Page
3
Mrs John W Rosen berger hosts at 210 West Germain Street with Miss Virginia Barr as assistant hostess. Mrs Ian Crawford MacCallum and Mrs Arthur Robinson in charge. Meeting hour changed. members asked to bring books suitable for the school library.
Thursday events include a chicken supper at Reformed Church and a joint Kiwanis Rural Urban meeting at the George Washington Hotel followed by social time. Other activities feature American Legion luncheon at the hotel and parish hall suppers and teas for church and Sunday School fundraisers.
Baltimore dates mark the engagement of Mary Davidson Wight daughter of Mr and Mrs William Davidson Wight to John Southgate Lemmon Roszel son of Mr and Mrs Julian Roszel. Wight is noted as a debutante and Junior League member. Roszel is described as a great grandson of Col Richard Dulaney of Virginia.
The Cross Junction Junior League selects officers led by Miss Harriet Adams as president and Miss Fern Moore as vice-president. Other officers include Miss Kathleen Stotler secretary Miss Kila Hottle treasurer with aides Miss Lor ee Bayliss Raney Spitzer and Miss Helen Lamp and Purcell Braithwaite as reporter. The committee plans a Christmas program for Friday December 21.
The Snow bound on Christmas Eve cast meets at United Brethren Church Friday at 7 30 PM. About 20 actors rehearse for the Christmas Eve presentation as the Christian Endeavor Societies sponsor this annual church event led by Miss Margaret Anderson.
Mr. A Meredith Woore of Miami visits relatives in Winchester Friday and Saturday before returning to his law firm. He stays with his parents Mr and Mrs A J Woore of Martinsburg. Mrs B B Dutton and others toured Baltimore for the day. Miss Nancy Larrick hosts the Junior Century Club. Mrs John Steck Jr spoke on Queen Marie of Roumania. The club is hosted next week by Mrs James A Miller. Anne Kern and Harry Kern Jr and Harry K Benham drove to Hagerstown to see the Potomac Players in a play.
The Little Theatre conducts nightly rehearsals for its next production a melodrama titled The Drunkard of The Fallen Saved. It will be presented here during Christmas week.
Mrs R B Byrd hosts a dinner for Mr and Mrs J Victor Arthur at her Amherst street home. Billy Barnes the local organist returns from an overnight Washington trip where he attended an artists luncheon at the Madrillon Club. Sophie Baker expects to return from Washington DC after a month with Mrs Robert Chapman. Mrs W A Baker travels to Bluefield WV to visit son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Lawrence Tierney and infant granddaughter. She will then visit daughter Mrs A H Morgan and family in East Radford VA for Christmas holidays with the family joining later.
A horse was killed yesterday near Middleburg after a truck with District of Columbia plates hit it. Ten horses were in the highway when one crossed into the path of the vehicle driven by Homer F. Coffey. The truck sustained $40 damage. the horse reportedly belonged to S. H. R. Fred.
This week the Negro Adult School will hold an assembly meeting at 8 o clock tomorrow evening at St Pauls A M E Church on North Loudoun Street. All enrolled students and interested residents are invited to attend.
The AAA said processing taxes paid to farmers for production control raise the cost of living by less than one percent. Louis H. Bean noted these taxes are a small share of total living costs and that in some commodities the net outlays do not rise. He estimated 1934 retail sales at about 28.0 billion dollars with taxes under 0.5 billion.
The passage notes prices harming farmers and factory employment, and mentions a person awaiting results of a Tag Day sale who should be sent to a sanatorium to regain health.
Tag Day and Christmas seals funds will support a county man with tuberculosis his wife and baby. Volunteers led by Mrs Thurman Rit and 25 others plan the sale on Saturday December 15 to raise money for the patient’s transfer to a sanatorium.
Frederick county farmer Isaiah D Wright III, long ill at his home 3034 East Piccadilly street, is reported in grave condition from pneumonia and pleurisy. No improvement noted at noon as his illness remains extremely serious.
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