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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal news can be mailed or phoned in any time. The social reporter Mrs Isabelle F Miller will receive news by telephone between 3 and 4 pm for the following day. Phone number 33.
Mrs. Robert M. Ward presents Liberia as the center of a talk at the Century Club on December 17 with Lady Dorothy Mills as chief authority. The account covers Liberia’s climate, history, government, capital Monrovia, and details of native society.
Boxwell, Sydney Poston, Hubert Snyder, Clarence Willingham and John Poston will lead a theatrical performance. The event will be repeated for the local PTA and the Kabletown Aid Society.
At the Apple Shop in the George Washington Hotel building visitors across the United States guess the number of pennies in a glass jar. Prizes include baskets of apples for exact or nearest guesses. The shop, operated by Gladstone Crim, features winter greens and draws customers from Maine to Florida and Ohio.
Mrs Agnes Greene Foster will be an honor guest at the National League of American Pen Women Celebrity Breakfast at the Willard Hotel. Her new poetry book Your Happy Way will be reviewed by Mrs Nina Swalm Reed and Foster will host Miss Agnes Boysen of Minneapolis as a special guest.
The Senior Epworth League will meet Sunday at 9 o'clock instead of 6 45. Members will tour the city singing Christmas carols at shut ins homes with cars provided or furnished by those who can drive. All members and friends are invited to join.
The senior class of Boyce Agricultural High School was tendered a delightful party on Thursday night by the home economics class. Guests included the high school faculty and outsiders, some alumni. The evening featured dancing, games, refreshments, and farewell regards to the organizing girls.
A marriage license was issued in Corporation Court to J Robert Martin Jr of Greenville South Carolina and Lydia Pritchard of Huntington West Virginia. The couple includes a student groom and a bride native to Charleston West Virginia.
The First Baptist Church choir presents its third annual Christmas cantata His Natal Day by Norman at 8:50 Sunday evening with 53 voices led by Floyd Haines and Chandler Crisman as organist. Soloists include Elsie Carpenter Gladys Patton Mrs Clyde DeHart Philomon Laren Louise Glass and Joseph and Harry Haines Marshall Kline Amos Fincham. The pageant under Mrs Edward T Clark features 15 participants with lighting by Robert Stratton. The program includes Ring Bells of Christmas Prepare Ye the Way Hark What Means Those Holy Voices He Shall Be Great Softly the Night Is Fallen We Come To Worship Him O Little Town of Bethlehem Sleep Holy Child Hail to the Lord s Anointed Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne Hear the Joy Bells Ring and finale to My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord.
The Winchester and Frederick county almshouse sale of livestock and personal property yielded a modest $2,400.95 as John M. Massie, a Winchester policeman, wins a one year lease to run the poor farm and care for up to ten inmates free of charge, with savings for the city or county on beyond that limit.
Grace Lutheran Sunday school hosts its annual Christmas program at the church Sunday evening at 7. Younger members take lead roles with songs and recitations. Rev. Dr. W. E F Stahler will deliver a short address. The entire school and Men's Bible Class attend, and a Christmas tree will be lit for the celebration with gifts given after the service.
The choir will render the old Christmas choruses and anthems along with special Christmas features. The public is cordially invited.
John Kerr School pupils sent decorated Christmas trees to Memorial Hospital patients to brighten their holidays. Each tree came with a note naming the room responsible for its making, and about ten Santa Clauses were also sent to the institution crafted by pupils and teachers.
An old advertisement promotes Q623 and Q1623 as a famous specialist prescription claimed to relieve rheumatism neuritis arthritis sciatica and lumbago. It asserts rapid results and high value with endorsements from Baker's Drug Store Winchester Gardner's Pharmacy Boyce.
The Mount Carmel F. B. Church junior choir will present The Song and the Star Christmas Cantata Sunday night at 8 30. All music lovers are invited to attend. On Thursday December 26 the B Y P U will render their Christmas program.
The stock market staged a brisk recovery in New York on December 21 as heavy trading for a half holiday session produced gains of 1 to 10 points on many active issues. After belated tax selling and liquidation of speculative accounts, the market closed strong with total sales around 1,750 shares.
The International Paper Sales Company informed members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association that the current news print price of 55 dollars per ton would hold for the first half of 1930. No increase will occur after June 30, 1930 without 30 days notice. Canadian efforts to raise prices are noted.
The Indianapolis Star comments that the first seventeen amendments show bias and uneven application, noting concern over impartiality across historical protections and rights.
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