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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
8
Social and personal items list church banquets and meetings for Thursday and Friday at Grace Lutheran Church and other local groups. Notes cover weddings engagements births travels illnesses and minor family updates from Winchester W V and nearby areas.
Virginians and Kentuckians will share the social spotlight at the thirty fourth annual Fancy Dress Ball at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia. Kay Keyser and his College of Musical Knowledge will provide music and the event will be broadcast from WRVA Richmond. President Francis Pendleton Gaines will speak and Jack Watson will lead the ball with a Kentuckian governor portrayal.
The Rev. Robert E. Hannon joined Mrs. Margaret Fleming and Mr. George L. Madigan in marriage Saturday at Sacred Heart Church. The couple, both employed by National Fruit Prod. Co., will reside in the city. Guests Eleanor Flood and Stanley Reed arrive from Washington, D. C. Ada T. Oppie, formerly at Winchester Memorial Hospital, is improving at the Woodward home on Loudoun Street.
The American Guernsey Cattle Club of Peterborough N H reports that a registered Guernsey bull was sold by Daniel C Sands of Middleburg to T M Rudolph of Winchester. E O Tabb of Bunker Hill WV sold a registered Guernsey bull to H A Boyles of Winchester and Tabb also sold a registered Guernsey cow to C L Taylor of Winchester.
Millwood Virginia reports a large Blue Ridge Hunt Club gathering followed by a hunt breakfast at Annefield hosted by Mr and Mrs William Bell Watkins. Guests at a Chapel Hill dinner in Clarke included Polly Winslow Susan Meston Eloise Randolph Page Mary Dougherty and others. Various Clarke residents traveled to New York and Mexico and attended the President's Ball at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester. Notables include Lester Cappon professor of history at the University of Virginia. New homes are noted for A A Baldwin and Dunridge near White Post.
Comforted by Mother Mr Emlen Hare of Harrisburg spent the weekend in Clarke as guest of Mr and Mrs Henry P Mitchell at Minturn. Mrs Cornelius Rathborne of Long Island and Prescott Huidekoper Harvard student visited Mrs Prescott Huidekoper and Mrs Hugh M Nelson at Long Branch. Mrs Roland G Mitchell hosted luncheon at The Glen with guests including the Mitchells Hare and Benjamin Harrison. A. Mackay Smiths welcomed a daughter born at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
A Reuters report from Salonika Greece notes loss of life after an earthquake in the Mount Olympus area. Several houses collapsed in the rugged east central region near the gulf of Salonika. Mount Olympus rises to 9 793 feet.
Roberta Lee Q answers wedding seating, knife handling, and transportation etiquette. Half bridesmaids stand on each side of the bride while ushers stand with the bridegroom. Knives should have the sharp edge toward the plate. A girl with a car may offer to share rides if invited by a noncar owner.
Adela Rogers St Johns briefly worked as a taxi driver in New York in the early hours. She argued with a driver over destination, hopped into another cab, and a police chase ensued ending with her arrest for driving while intoxicated and other charges. A doctor later said she was ill and not fit to appear in court.
Simple funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs Betsy Tyles Fugitt 83 widow of Byrd W Fugitt. She died Tuesday morning at the home of her son and daughter in law Fred M Fugitt 124 East Cork street after a long illness. Rev Dr S L Flickinger Centenary Reformed Church pastor conducted the service at the home.
Scriptural selections set a reverent tone as many family and friends attended the service. Floral tributes were numerous for the casket, and interment followed in the Mount Hebron family lot with six nephews serving as pallbearers: Frank, Boamer, Hugh, Fred Grim, Douglas Spillman, and Ernest Swanson.
Treasury figures show January 30 receipts of 13.3 million dollars and expenditures of 27.1 million. The net balance stands at 2.332 billion, gross debt at 42.128 billion, with an increase of 8.403 million from the previous day.
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