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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
6
Front Royal residents list visitors and travelers for Christmas. Brooks Brown of Louisville, Julian Major hosts. Mrs Whitsell and Mrs Pence travel to Washington. students Reeves Mathews Scheuer head home for holidays. Lieberman from University of Maryland also returns.
A St Teachers College student from Harrisonburg visits her family while Teddy Mathews from VPI plans to arrive Saturday for Christmas. Miss Estelle Carter leaves for New York City for winter with relatives. Mrs. Elizabeth Grubbs goes to Paris Church for the season with the Owens family. Virginia Gibson of Charles Town visits Jennie Moore. Mrs. A B Crigler and son return from Fredericksburg visit. Virginia Smith from Arlington Hall comes home for holidays. The Remount Depot couple Mr and Mrs Marcelle Bodel announce a daughter born at Walter Reed. Attorney William Armstrong, Sr. remains ill in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Louise Borden, Helen Bowman and Frances Simpson, Farmville State Teachers College students, plan to return home for the holidays.
Dr and Mrs Joseph Turner of Front Royal now in South Hill Virginia hosted by relatives Mr and Mrs J D Borden. Various families including Sewell Downing Olmstead Cookman Major and Borden clan plan Christmas gatherings with children in Annapolis Philadelphia Washington Gloucester and Richmond areas.
Edward Walter Kenney, 67, of Happy Creek, died after a monthlong illness. He was a son of the late Mr and Mrs John Williams Kenney and survived by his wife, three daughters, and one son. Services at his late home at 2 30 conducted by Rev C G Russell of Linden, with interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors invites sealed bids to remodel and enlarge the County Clerk's office in Winchester Virginia. Bids due January 20 1937 at 10 am with 5 percent bid bond and 25 dollar bid deposit. Work must begin by April 1 1937 and finish within five months.
In sad memory of our mother Marenda Chrismore who died December 17 1924 and our father Lewis Chrismore who died October 4 1936. Deep in our hearts you are fondly remembered your children Pansy Myrtle and Lillian note.
A December 18 1936 8 p.m. benefit event at Boyce Parish Hall hosted by the Boyce Methodist Church features music by the Lonesome Road Ramblers. Proceeds support church efforts.
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