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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1929
Page
3
Social brief mentions a local event with Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller coordinating reception times between 3 and 4, and references to Berea gongpiece and related items in the district. The readable fragments describe social planning and informal notices within the community.
The Berryville couple Miss Leora Kackley and Mr. Eugene Wright married last Tuesday in Baltimore. They will reside with Leora’s parents in Clarke county and plan farming work. The couple had traveled to Atlantic City and Niagara Falls before returning home.
The George Washington Hotel ballroom is decorated in an ultra modern motif by Gordon Aiken ahead of the New Year’s dinner dance. The event draws hundreds from Winchester and nearby towns with a Washington orchestra, twelve color pillars and tube decorations. Dinner runs 9 to midnight and dancing to 2 AM with a $3 cover.
The Girls' Athletic Association will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday evening January 2 at 7 30 in the club rooms. Local society notes list many residents and visitors returning from holidays to area homes and hotels.
Grace Willet a 19 year old girl abducted by an armed man while in an auto with escort Glenn W Grover returned home early today after being released in Oakland California on December 31 19XX. The incident ends with her safe return and details remain sparse.
Five bank robbers fought with citizens and deputies at Philipsburg Ohio after kidnapping Ralph Davenport cashier of Philipsburg State Bank. Davenport escaped. two gunmen fled in a car while others hid in woods as a 20 citizen posse pursued. Floyd Davenport alerted by flashlight and the town siren prompted a rapid armed response.
A cinema fire in Paisley Scotland on a holiday matinee killed between 60 and 80 people, mostly children. Over 150 children were hospitalized with burns and injuries as firemen and civilians battled flames and toxic fumes.
Handley Library will be closed all day tomorrow for New Year Day according to librarian C Vernon Eddy. The library notes it observes few holidays and will reopen afterward.
Postmaster H C Stouffer reports about three hundred unclaimed automobile license cards. Andrew Bell of the Chamber of Commerce urges residents to check for their name at the local office and write to James H Hayes in Richmond if missing. Tags must be renewed by January 15 to avoid rush.
Dr. E Raymon Turner a professor of European history at Johns Hopkins died at Union Memorial Hospital after a Christmas dinner illness. Born in Baltimore in 1881 he studied at St Johns College Annapolis and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Bryn Mawr Michigan and Yale before joining Johns Hopkins in 1925.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa called for the resignation of Andrew W. Mellon as secretary of the treasury amid the ongoing prohibition controversy. He urged not only Mellon’s removal but also others in the Treasury department identified with enforcement efforts.
Rochester reports a burglary gone wrong as Mrs Winifred Shields 35 disguised as a man flees with her husband Jama Sr and two of their six children. Storekeeper Ernest Scott awoke to the alarm fired five shots wounding Shields who died before a doctor arrived. Jama Sr and two sons James Jr 17 and John 16 were arrested at the scene.
Charles P Taft age 86 half brother of former President William Howard Taft and publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star is critically ill at his Cincinnati home. He has reportedly been unconscious for the past three days.
New York trading on the last session of the year showed bulls marking up many issues by 2 to 20 points. The rally was strongest in steel, utilities, railroads, and electrical shares on light volume with cash sales high as investors seek income tax losses. Call money stood at 6 percent.
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