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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
3
The Brown and Mrs Swinson presented a performance featuring Good King Wenceslas Away in a Manger The Cherry Tree Carol and We Three Kings as part of a holiday program.
The schedule details weekly and holiday events across local churches and groups. Highlights include legion lunch at 12:30, church choir practices, and Christmas performances from Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Congregational Christian Church, Christ Episcopal Church, Round Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, Burnt Factory, Epworth League, and others.
Mrs Kate Glass Greene presided at the Fort Loudoun meeting on December 19 with many guests. The program featured read plays by Yeats and Hyde and a chorus from the Music Lovers Club performing carols. Readings were by Mrs Massey and others with Virginia C Russell on piano.
Announcement outlines the Christ Episcopal Church Christmas program to be held in the church at 4 30 pm with opening hymn devotional service violin and organ pieces readings and a Santa Claus gift distribution. Nearby, weddings and holiday events are reported with details on venues attendees and guests.
Capt C A Macatee former Warren county circuit court clerk and Porto Rico representative and Mrs Macatee arrived in San Juan after visiting Capt Macatee's daughters Mrs W G Olmstead and Mrs Elizabeth Poulton here and his son Dr Henry Macatee of Washington.
Dr William H. Wilmer, renowned ophthalmologist and director of the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, will retire July 1 under university age rules. He will continue private practice and writing, with a successor to be named by a Johns Hopkins committee.
The Presbyterian Sunday School of Loudoun Street presents a Christmas Cantata Why the Chimes Rang performed by the Junior Choir and Sunday School. The story follows Pedro and Little Brother and the ringing of Cathedral Chimes after gifts of love sacrifice. Cathedral tubes and organ by William Barnes. Following the cantata, a song service and gift distribution will occur for attendees.
The primary department hosts a Christmas service next Sunday December 24 at 11 o clock in the main auditorium during the preaching hour. The adult department presents its annual Christmas entertainment Christmas Day December 25 at 730 p.m. Good programs have been prepared and the public is invited.
Harry Pingley a six foot youth claiming 14 was tried in Juvenile Court before Judge Donald L Weems on delinquency charges. The case was remanded from Frederick County Circuit Court for lack of a petition. Hearings today aim to determine sending him to the house of correction for petty stealing and frequent carousals.
Lavonia Evelyn Carter a colored child aged 3 and daughter of Eugene Carter died yesterday. Funeral rites will be held from the parents home at 879 South Loudoun Street tomorrow at 3 PM with burial in Orrick Cemetery.
Radio listings for December 21 and 22 present a schedule across WEAF WJZ and WABC featuring orchestras choirs and comedians. The piece promotes the Philco Inclined Sounding Board as a top sound reproduction device and urges gifting Philco for Christmas.
Christmas services and a two act musical play titled Going Home For Christmas will be presented at the United Brethren Church on Monday at 7 30 p m. The cast includes Granny Holly Mrs Bowles and Curtis Blue among others with a twenty minute musical program directed by George Jones. Proceeds benefit Quincy Orphanage in Quincey Pa. The public is invited.
Front Royal Va Dec 21 About 48000 the largest allotment of C W A funds yet approved for this section of the state will be expended in the employment of 125 men for the next few months in construction of permanent improvement at the Front Royal fish hatchery.
Herman H Hable owner of Hables Palace Theatre invites all Winchester area children to a free Christmas party Sunday December 24 at 2 30 PM doors open 1 30 PM Santa and two helpers will attend with gifts candy oranges and toys. Extra ushers will ensure seating as the theatre staff greets youngsters and welcomes families.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Stephens City Lodge 383 holds its regular meeting Friday at 8 pm in Red Men’s Hall. The annual election of officers for the coming year will be held and every member is urged to attend.
Deeds recently admitted to record include rights of way with Virginia for widening the Valley Pike between Winchester and Stephens City. Transactions list H R Butler to Hugh Brill for 3844 acres at Kernstown and W O Pippin to Samuel A Riley for 130% acres in Stonewall district one mile east Stephenson, with nominal or stated sums. Other entries name M M Lynch and James P Reardon as commissioners and H T Snapp and C C Brannon as trustees to E H White for 33 acres near Stephens City, and Charles William Winesburg to John A Painter for a house lot and furnishings in Middletown, plus the Greenbrier Joint Stock Land Bank to Ida Elizabeth Purdue for 110 acres, nominal consider.
Henry E Shirley and wife transfer 158 acres in Gainesboro district to I 4 Whitacre for 800 dollars. Robert S Stump conveys 54 acres northeast of Winchester to Ray and Marshall Brown.
Miss Jean Snow, daughter of Mrs Pauline Snow of West Corn Street, studying in Paris this winter, will spend Christmas in London as guest of her sister Claire Luce a noted stage and screen star and current star of Gay Divorcee. Another sister Miss Polly Snow is also appearing in a London production.
Mr. Leslie Polhamus a Virginia Polytechnic Institute student arrives today to spend the Christmas holidays as the guest of his grandparents Mr and Mrs G O Snapp at their Fairmont avenue home in Blacksburg Virginia.
Dr and Mrs William H Wilmer of Baltimore and Clarke County Va will leave Baltimore tomorrow for Virginia to spend the holidays as guests of their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Thomas Alexander Scott
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