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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1929
Page
3
Department social notes highlight the wedding of Mrs Jee Miller and updates on upcoming society events. Readers are invited to mail or telephone notices to share announcements and personal news for the community page.
Colonel Roszel addresses the D A R chapter on The Reds In the United States at the regular meeting held at Mrs Boyd R Richards home on South Washington Street. The group agreed to buy a Tuberculosis Society bond and welcomed three new members.
Mrs Ada L Draper of Balesburg and Kalamazoo Mich announces the marriage of her daughter Agnes Draper Ab bott to Mr D Lemon Fries near Berryville Clarke county. The wedding occurred November 28 in South Bend Indiana. Fries a Frederick county native has farmed in Clarke county for years. Woodstock Bay Returned Home Acquilla Bowers son of Mr and Mrs James Bowers Woodstock returns home after hospital stay for appendicitis surgery.
In Harrisburg Cathedral a quiet noon wedding united Myrtle Jackson White, daughter of Lewis Cass Jackson of West Virginia, and Felix J Schneiderhan, a former Winchester resident. They will reside in Martinsburg after January 15. she is an anaesthetist at Winchester Memorial Hospital and trained at St. Vincent in Norfolk.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute students from fifteen sectional clubs plan dances to raise funds while showcasing rivalries. Most events will be formal with cadets in full dress uniforms and feature signature dance figures. Clubs include Southwest Virginia at Saltville and Richmond at Richmond among others.
Herbert Trotter Jr of Woodstock, Hampden Sydney college student, elected editor of the Kaleidoscope annual. He is son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Trotter and nephew of Dr J I Triplett. Mrs W G Hardy hosted a bridge party for Shenandoah Valley National Bank girls, with Elsie Matthews and Mary Cather winning top prizes.
Mr F E Grove a Strasburg merchant and cousin of William B and Frank C Grove fell on an icy sidewalk in front of his home Thursday morning and fractured his hip His son Dr Cecil Grove and Dr B R White assisted and he was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital for treatment Miss Jane Hastings Scully daughter of Mr and Mrs John S Scully has been pledged to the Alpha Tau Delta Sorority at Denison University Granville Ohio according to word from the university
Judge Thomas W. Harrison, a Winchester lawyer and former congressman, was injured when his car overturned on a slick Warrenton road last Saturday. He returned home from Memorial Hospital, where he had been treated since Monday, and his condition is improving.
Mrs Isham Randolph widow of the Illinois Central chief engineer arrives in Charlottesville to spend months with daughter in law Mrs Wellford Randolph on University Circle. Her son Col Robert Isham Randolph of Chicago recently left for Washington to attend a rivers and harbors committee meeting. Mr and Mrs T H Sprint and others spent yesterday in Washington.
Norfolk resident Mr Frank Remley and Misses Henrietta Martin and Estelle Remley arrive in Front Royal for a weekend at Randolph Macon Academy and plan a dance. Washington visits include Mrs Edgar L Hook and her sister Mrs Robert Anderson. Shoppers from multiple towns were seen in town, with several Mrs and Misses named among them. Major Thomas I Steere of Hollywood Calif departs soon for Knoxville and Chattanooga Tennessee. Dr and Mrs B Page and Mrs L W Page of Buckhannon are guests at the George Washington Hotel. Mrs Carlin Gray and Miss Sue Schlack visited Washington for a day.
Mr J F Bly of Fairview avenue remains confined at home after a sudden illness. Mrs G F Dove welcomes a newborn son at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Walter Anderson recovers well after Memorial Hospital surgery. William Byrd of New York and others visited Mrs Richard Evelyn Byrd and Tom Byrd. Mrs Frank Gearing improving at Memorial Hospital plans return to Handley avenue. Dr Carroll Iden of Berryville on business. Cornelius Bond of Worthington Valley visits for weekend with friends. Franklin Strother improving at Memorial Hospital. Anna Mary Pence visits Edinburg. Mrs J W Conner of Stephens City injures right wrist in fall. W H Hill of Postal Telegraph Company in town on business.
Mrs. William Astbrook of Philadelphia and Mrs. Joseph Scattergood of Wes Chester Pa are house guests of Mr and Mrs Walter R Talbot in this city. Mr Paul Clendening of Bunker Hill remains ill at his home. Mrs JD C Randolph of Opequon, guest in Washington, returns home today.
Rhodes Scholar John Davisson Phillips of Morgantown West Virginia wins the Rhodes award. He is a senior in the law college at West Virginia University.
An advertisement promotes Cystex for bladder irritation and backache with a 48 hour test and money back guarantee. It urges readers to try at Baker's Drug Store for 60 cents and promises rapid improvement or a full refund.
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