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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1940
Page
8
Tuesday 8 00 p m weekly meeting at Odd Fellows Hall. Wednesday 12 30 p m Kiwanis Club meeting at hotel. 3 00 p m Old Fredericktown Garden Club at the home of Mrs Herbert Larrick on W Clifford Street.
Berryville Virginia December 17 Miss Kathleen Morrison daughter of Mr and Mrs Howrad Ison of Newmarket Clarke County Virginia married Mr Charles Oakley of Weldon North Carolina in a quiet home ceremony. Rev E D Vaughan officiated. The bride wore her mother's wedding gown and carried pink roses. Edith Morrison sister of the bride was maid of honor in blue velvet with red roses. Reginald Morrison brother of the bride was best man. A buffet supper followed. Guests included Morrison and Kerfoot families and local residents. The couple will live in Roanoke Rapids Virginia.
State Department officials in Washington announce that American citizen Mrs. Etta Kahn Shiber is being held by German authorities in occupied France. Widow of a New York newspaper editor she lived in Paris for three years. The U. S. Embassy cannot learn what charges are being made.
At the Little Garden Club meeting at Mrs. Frank Armstrong Jr home Miss Katherine Kern spoke on Evergreens and Their Significance. Nancy Larrick won the blue ribbon for outstanding exhibits while Mrs Woodhull Baker took red and Wes Benjamin Knight yellow.
A guide on office gift giving suggests no inexpensive present to the employer and recommends simply wishing four Merry Christmas upon departure. It also covers etiquette on rising in public dining with a girl and how to handle introductions and open conversation in social settings.
Richard Grove was elected president of the Crusaders Class with Charles Hartley as vice president and Smith Dorsey as secretary. Clarence Rogers became treasurer and Kenneth Patton was chosen superintendent of the school. The group opened with scripture.
Irvan T. O Connell has qualified as executor of the estate of the late Marie H. Heath with the official bond set at 20000 dollars. Appraisers named are E. G. Rusk, Harold Brown, Robert Glaize, Carl Gill, and Virginia Funkhouser.
Rescue workers described a blast that shook a four family twin building. Only Koebbe an awake shop owner knew how it started as gas was suspected. Minor fires were snuffed by dust clouds and firemen. Patrolman Kaufman called it a terrific whoosh as brick and clothing dangled from wires.
Nail shaping varies with finger length and hand contour, favoring oval or elongated caves. Caution against scratchy claws. avoid vivid polish on large hands. Colors influence mood and personality, with red for sorrow, yellow for cheer, green for cool, blue for calm, violet neutral, and purple dignified.
Paul Redfern departed Glynn Island near Brunswick Georgia for Rio de Janeiro Brazil on August 25 1927. He flew a single seater Stinson Detroiter named Port of Brunswick.
The long tough leaves of the pineapple plant yield a valuable fiber. In the Philippines the fiber is woven into fabrics. The delicate transparent cloth called pina is made from the finer leaves.
William J. Ashwood, 79, prominent retired farmer of Ridgeway, West Virginia, died at his home at 10 this morning after a yearlong illness. native of Mount Williams Frederick county, he was survived by his wife Virginia Gardner and daughter May Ashwood. a son Ernest J. Ashwood died on duty at Camp Meade, and another son William Robert died in infancy. Sister Emma Zinn of Winchester also survives. Funeral set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at Welltown Methodist Church with Rev. G. H. Fielding. burial Mount Hebron. Body at Omps Funeral Home until Wednesday afternoon.
A collage of stars including James Stewart preparing for a pilot’s license, Clarence Brown introducing Adeline ae Rerne, Judy Garland with a Nellie Kelly doll, Clark Gable studying travel guides, Tony Martin challenging Bing Crosby, and many others from the Hollywood scene. It captures personal preoccupations from fitness and fashion to travel plans and creative projects.
The lowest winter temperature recorded in the United States is minus sixty six degrees Fahrenheit at Riverside Ranger Station Yellowstone Park on February 9 1933.
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