Social And Personal Notes From Winchester Area
Weekly Rotary lunch at the hotel and American Legion post gathering. W O W. meeting at Odd Fellows Hall. Local residents Mr. Nelson C Hensell to Washington for Christmas railway mail service. Numerous social events, weddings, dances, and holiday visits detailed with regional names and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Post
Odd Fellows Hall
Nelson C. Hensell
The
Star
Grimes
Shenandoah Apple Corporation
Washington
C. C. Helmick
Hensenl
Modern Etiquette Q A on church ceremony exit order
The etiquette guide notes the conclusion order mirrors entry with the bride and groom first followed by bridesmaids and ushers. It advises restraint in gift spending and explains dessert utensils are not set at table but brought in with the tea plate.
Social notes from Clarke County gatherings and Washington visits
Yesterday afternoon Mr and Mrs Graham Dougherty hosted an informal gathering at Woodley in Clarke County honoring their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs William Bell Watkins. Guests included Mr and Mrs Watkins and many locals and visitors from St Louis. This afternoon Mrs Wendell Goode and Mrs Robert Underwood host a small tea on Peyton street. Monday night Mr and Mrs E B Coffey Jr visited friends and then departed for Richmond and Florida for the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John DeHaven
Sunnyside
Henson Sirbaugh
Clarence
Mary
John
James
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Ross Sirbaugh
Berryville
Dorothy Sirbaugh
William Deery, Jr
Harrisburg
James DeHaven
Constance Anp
Winchester
Stines Chapel
Robert L. Mason
E. L. Stine
Paul Fahnestock
W. B. Hicks
Kurtz Butler
Mary Janney
Granvil Davis
Bryant Stottler
Pansy Butler
Ruth Hicks
Anna Lee
Michael
June Bicks
William Miller
Bageant Stine
St. Albans School
Washington
Billy Mitchell
Thomas Byrd
Graham Dougherty
W Bell Watkins
Percy Randolph
David Donovan
Kenneth Gilpin
A. A. Baldwin
William Beverley
Alexis Sommaripa
Margaret Byrd
Virginia Watkins
Agnes Mitchell
Mary O'Fallon
St. Louis
Polly Winslow
Della Meade
Henry Post Mitchell
Thomas Scully
H. B. McCormick
Wendell Goode
Robert Underwood
E. B. Coffey, Jr
Richmond
Florida
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Frank Burton
Westbury
L. I
Charles Clarke
Mt. Krisco
N. Y
Shelton
William Bell Watkins
Ralph Richardson
Annefield
Countess de Castellane
Walter Tuckerman
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Watkins
Patriotic Order of America Meeting Tonight
The Patriotic Order of America will meet at 8 o clock in Od Fellows Hall. All members are requested to be present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Jimmy Doman
Winchester Business College
Patriotic Order of America
Od Fellows Hall
Windsor Willing To Serve Here As Ambassador
The Duke of Windsor said he would accept the post of British ambassador to the United States if offered and in the interest of both nations. He spoke aboard the Southern Cross off Miami as the Duke and Duchess prepared to sail to Nassau. The former king said he had not been offered the position yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Duke of Windsor
United States
Axel Wennergren
Southern Cross
Nassau
Duke
University of Miami
Edward
Washington
Beauty Foe No 1 Tenseless BEWARE of tension
A beauty column urges women to avoid tension and fatigue to preserve youth and look. It advises calm shopping, tea breaks, and smiling husbands, and warns about goose pimples from poor skin care. It prescribes nightly oiling, talcum, and brisk patting to improve skin tone.
Lady Decies Recalls Meeting Goering in Paris Shop
Eliza beth Drexel of Philadelphia known as Lady Decies describes an encounter with Marshal Hermann Goering in a Paris shop. She bought a coat, and Goering immediately claimed the same coat for his wife, and she did not argue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Europe
Decies
Elizabeth Drexel
Philadelphia
Marshal Hermann Goering
Paris
Goering
Heart Disease Tops Death Causes in 1939
Washington report shows heart disease killed 360,634 Americans in 1939, far ahead of cancer at 153,846 and other major killers. Cerebral hemorrhage, nephritis, influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, accidents, and homicides also noted with motor vehicle deaths at 32,386.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Lady Decies Encounters Goering in Paris Salon
American-born peeress Lady Decies recalls Reich Marshal Hermann Göring entering Paquin's salon in Paris and attempting to buy a coat for his wife. She notes Parisian conditions under the occupation, with limited rationing and scarce essentials as luxury goods move into the Palais du Luxembourg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New York
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
Philadelphia
Hermann Goering
Decies
Goering
Palais du Luxembourg
Greenhalghs Coming East For Christmas
MILWOOD VA December 18 Mr and Mrs Kenneth N Gilpin hosted a luncheon before the Charles Town races. Greenhalgh Jr and Billy Weatherall arrive Saturday to visit Mrs Burwell Jacobs for a few days. Christmas will be spent at Springsbury with halgh. Various guests from New York Ohio and Washington gather for holiday visits and dinners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Trimble
Grundy, Va
W. H. Trimble
Woodland Avenue
J. E. Herbert
William
Fort Dix
N. J
Trimbles
Herbert
Dr. Herbert
Trimble
Millwood
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Charles Town
George P. Greenhalgh, Jr
Billy Weatherall
Burwell Jacobs
Springsbury
George P. Greenhalgh
Sally Libby
Charles Ashley
Cone
Robl Cone, Jr
Toledo
Frank Burton
Charles Clarke
Westbury
Mt. Crisco
Alice Winslow
Alexis Sommaripa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rotary Club
DeHavens
Robert L. Masons
Honolulu
Masseys
W. P. Massey
Lawrence M. Judd
Judd
Islands
Havana
Cuba
Business College Dance
George Washington Hotel
Raymond Newlin
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mr. Lee Stine
Holmes Lewis
Betty Hack
Southern Seminary and Junior College
Buena Vista
van Meter Hack
Bartonville
Shirley Carter Williams
Philip Williams
Shipley School
Bryn Mawr
William P. McGuire
Glen Rock, N. J
XMAS
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Betty Shoppe
Huntsberry
N. Loudoun &J
Mary Warden Boyd
Virginia Russell
Mary Virginia Steck
B. B. Dutton
J. B. McKee
Windsor
Pifer's Store
Pifer
Beauty Foe No
Helen Follett
Lady Decies
Frond
Cleaners
East Piccadilly
Gen. Goering
Pingley & Carper Plaza Cleaners
Greenhalghs
A. R. . Dunning
Orange
Mr. Dunning
Mrs. Dunning
Thomas N. Carter
Fitzburg
Mass
Douglas Crocker
Walter Lee
Isobel Lee
Ashton Lee
Harvard Business College
Charles Consalvo
Evantide
Baltimore
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Poinsettias
Cyclamen
Hahn
E. Piccadilly St
RAYON
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