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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1936
Page
3
Lions Club meeting scheduled for 12 30 p m at the ton Hotel. Veterans of Foreign Wars to meet at 8 00 p m at Post Headquarters on Loudoun Street. George Washington
The local Women’s Christian Temperance Union met Thursday at the Friends Meeting House to review the year’s work. 450 members are on the Winchester union. a gold star for gaining 13 members in 1936 was awarded at Charlottesville. A January 16 Red Letter Day crusade is planned to promote temperance in churches on January 17. The group aims to raise funds for temperance advertising.
Notices of social events include a Montclair wedding invitation for Kathryn Genevieve McManus and John Quincy Adams with a Christmas season church ceremony planned at the Imaculate Conception in Montclair New Jersey. Local congratulations greet the newborn Chester Anthony Jr son of C A Hobert and Barbara Ollar.
Mr and Mrs Hobart celebrate the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Co A Hobart at Winchester Memorial Hospital on Monday December 14.
Miss Elizabeth Farrar and Miss Fisher return from a Virginia Tech convention in Blacksburg while students and families visit for Christmas. Many guests travel from Elmira Columbia Cleveland and Richmond to celebrate with local households including Browne Leigh and Guggenheim plans to vacation in Charleston with a Christmas church program in Winchester.
Grace Lutheran Church hosts a Christmas party on Christmas Day at 7 p m with a cordial invitation to all. The Church of Christ presents a Christmas Pageant on Wednesday December 23 at 7 45 p m for community members.
A Q and A style excerpt covers morning social calls only for intimate friends, the French feminine term for dear friend chere amie with pronunciation, and etiquette advising against using a knife for salad with a fork preferred.
Handley Library offers Not Under Forty by Willa S. Cather, a first essay collection where she discusses admired authors and her views on writing. The note lists earlier works including Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Moral Enemy and notes Cather’s Virginia origins.
Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard seek mayoral consent for their January 7 wedding. Crowds cheer as the couple arrives at the town hall in a roadster and presents the handwritten request to mayor S. J. de Monchy. Palace decor features fir branches and white electric candles. Grandstand prices rise with the approaching wedding day.
Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the Republican presidential candidate, is invited to a brief White House call on Monday morning. He will meet President Roosevelt while in Washington to attend the Gridiron Club dinner that evening.
Hable’s Palace Theatre presents a big double western program today featuring Tim McCoy in Lighting Bill Carson and Buck Jones in The Phantom Rider. A thunderbolt of western thrills and frontier romance precede the feature.
Middletown High School features Senior Meditations on choosing a vocation, college plans, and pranks, plus Goings On in the Cottage with Home Economics activities and Christmas preparations. The page includes jokes, dialogues, and classroom projects, ending with a quip about a cemetery inscription observed by a negro boy.
Junior leaders announce Friday and Saturday performances of The Hen pecked Husband at Middletown after three weeks of diligent practice. The cast benefits from Home Economics Department help and community props with extra vocal acts by Kit Fox Willey and Charlotte Kelley. FFA notes outline turkey sale plans and a new Middletown Stephens City joint banquet on January 27 1937 with speaker W R Legee of Winchester.
A playful quip filled dialogue contrasts Shakespearean misfortune with modern office banter. Billy laments nailing misfires and Bob advises alternating grip to avoid finger strikes in a lighthearted exchange.
Students describe decorating rooms with Christmas trees pictures and poems. They plan a Christmas program with carols stories and songs. Several classmates are out sick with mumps and pink eye while others return from Florida.
New York radio highlights announce WEAF NBC special from overseas at 6 35 PM Monday featuring street scenes and night spots of London. Saturday lineup includes Hampton Singers 1 15 PM and multiple music programs on WEAF WABC and WJZ with Ed Wynn John McCormack and Glen Gray Orchestra among others.
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