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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1929
Page
3
Teabelle P Miller will be glad to receive social notices by phone between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone number not provided.
Dr. Henry Louis Smith receives a green and gold jeweled watch from Washington and Lee University students after a campus assembly and prior to his retirement on December 31. The event follows his long tenure and a farewell speech by Lewis F. Powell Jr. Also, a New Year’s Eve dance at Jordan Springs Hotel with the Original Shenandoah Valley Serenaders promises a festive sendoff for Winchester residents.
Miss Salome Crisman entertained the Tuesday Evening Bridge Club at her South Braddock street home with a guest tableIncluding Lucille Jackson Kath erine Barnett Gladys Cochran and Mrs Leonard Leech of Flint Mich Miss Jackson won the guest table prize Emily Sanford took high score with Crisman second The note also mentions Mr and Mrs Paul W Ryder of New York stopping in Winchester on a Texas motor trip for the Norman Company and two V P I students Wir Albin Cadwallader and Mr Charles Flowers of Blacksburg will spend Christmas at home in Stephens City arriving Friday
The people of Winchester and Frederick county are invited to a country store and businessmen's lunch Saturday in the rest room building beside the county clerk's office. Proceeds support the Virginia Tuberculosis Society Christmas seals drive. Mrs. Clarence Hardy, vice president of the District Nurse Association, leads the arrangements.
Miss Frances L Sine daughter of Mr and Mrs J D Sine of Capon Springs West Virginia wed Roy A Orndorff son of Mr and Mrs M B Orndorff of White Sulphur Springs West Virginia in a ceremony conducted by Rev C H Anderson The bridegroom is a farmer.
Visitors from Brucetown Virginia attended the Martinsburg P O A meeting Monday night. The session included a music program and refreshments. Mrs A L Weplinger won a ton of coal in the drawing conducted last night.
Practices are underway for the pageant While Shepherds Watch ed to be presented by the Sunday School of Trinity Lutheran Church Stephens City on Christmas night at 7 30 o clock. Participants are being trained by Mr and Mrs J P Samsell Mrs Harry Stick ley Mrs Elsie Smallwood and Mrs Howard Evans.
Announcement of the marriage between Miss Madeline Whitacre of Trone and Mr. J F Oates of Gore. The ceremony was performed by Rev C H Anderson. The couple will reside near Gore where the groom farms.
Miss Margaret Frances Richards is due to arrive Friday from Goucher College Baltimore to spend Christmas with her parents Mr. and Mrs Boyd R Richards at their South Washington street home. Mrs Peyton J Marshall and her son Peyton Jr have returned from an extended visit to her parents Rev Dr and Mrs Charles Noyes Tyndell in Memphis Tennessee.
London dispatch reports royal aircraft flyers missing after dawn takeoff for Capetown a 6000 mile nonstop journey. Squadron Leader A G Jones Williams and First Lieut N H Jenkins failed to relay messages as radio may have failed. last sighting placed the plane 50 miles northwest of Alvinia.
New York December 18 Prices on the New York Stock Exchange moved erratically in light trading. An initial heaviness gave way to a midday rally before selling pressure reappeared on the recovery. Much of the activity was professional with some stock weakness blamed on liquidations for tax loss purposes. Call money held at 4% unchanged.
The Hon. Miss Nancy Astor, daughter of Viscount and Lady Astor, was thrown from a horse while hunting with the Pytchley hounds. She was carried to Guildreugh Hall and described as severely shaken and bruised.
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, president-elect of Mexico, is reported “up and around” at Johns Hopkins Hospital after being admitted Sunday for rest and observation. Doctors say no operation is needed as digestive discomfort is checked, despite rumors of surgery denied by his aide Lt. Col. Eduardo Chazaro.
Senator Tidings charged Richard J. Hopkins failed to turn over state fees collected as Kansas attorney general, claiming $3,086 more in two counties than the $11,132.01 he sent to the state treasury. Kansas officials disputed the accusation, saying records refute the Maryland Democrat’s claim and defend Hopkins.
A curtain of fog that paralyzed New York harbor traffic for 24 hours lifted intermittently allowing incoming liners to reach their piers and outbound ships to head toward open sea. Upstate areas also faced travel disruptions as conditions persisted.
Cities and towns lay isolated as telephone and telegraph wires failed after hours of rain and a heavy coating of ice formed, cutting communications across the region.
Trustee will sell at public auction in front of the Frederick County Court House at eleven o'clock A. M. on Saturday December 21 1929 the 75 acre farm with improvements located about 2.5 miles southeast of Stephens City on Nineveh Road. Purchaser may assume a $1899.45 loan to the Federal Land Bank Baltimore. Terms: one third cash and balance in one and two years or by mortgage assumption.
Elizabeth Virginia Jones widow of Reverend L R Jones longtime Baltimore Conference Methodist Episcopal Church South clergyman died at her son in law and daughter’s Laytonsville home after a long illness. Born March 25 1840 in Virginia she spent years aiding her husband’s ministry until his death in 1914 in Luray Virginia. She moved to Maryland last summer to live with her daughter. Funeral held at Hammond home then body sent to Baltimore for interment.
She had a wide circle of friends in Winchester who held her in the highest regard and veneration. Mrs. Jones is survived by one son, Howard Marvin Jones, of Brunswick, Md. and three daughters, Mrs. Townsend Jolliffe, of Winchester, Mrs. L. C. Brubaker, of Luray, and Mrs. L. Hammond, Laytongville, Md. She was the last member of her immediate family.
Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist Church for Mrs Fannie dy Knight widow of Jos seat Knight of Frederick died at 51 West Pall Mall. The Sunday morning service followed a Saturday night attack. The church choir rendered favorite hymns as friends sent flowers and tributes. Reverend Edward T. Care led the service with members and mourners in attendance.
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