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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1941
Page
8
Friday programs include a 7 30 p m rehearsal of The Late Christopher Bean at the American Legion building and Clarke Little Theatre presenting The Spooky Tavern at Boyce Parish Hall.
Announcement notes that Miss Genevieve Garner daughter of Mr and Mrs Tully C Garner of Amarillo Texas will marry Mr John Currie Jr of Texas on February 24 in Amarillo. Garner is granddaughter of former Vice President John Nance Garner and was 1939 Apple Blossom Festival Queen.
Miss Dorothy Francis of Madeira School Virginia visited her grandparents Admiral and Mrs Louis Nurton on North Loudoun Street with her mother Mrs Dean D Francis and aunt Mrs Laurance Browning. Several figures including Miss Virginia and Goldie Dave, Grant J Smithy and Dallas M Manning, and Mrs Minnie LaMonds are noted for trips and returns. Midshipman John R Beardall Jr graduated from the Naval Academy. Peter Glascock recovers from appendicitis at Memorial Hospital. various residents travel to New York Washington Baltimore and Fredericksburg for weekends illness and family visits.
A guide to social manners covers Dutch treat lunches, sermon interruptions, finger pointing, and introductions. It advises one person paying or separate checks, quietly leaving for coughs, not pointing, and only asking introductions when mutual pleasure is likely.
A noted piece extols inner kindness over vanity, urging women to cultivate affability. It warns against sharp tongues and haughty airs and emphasizes pleasant behavior toward neighbors and service workers. It discusses natural eyebrow shaping as part of balanced appearance.
A chicken supper for the Ladies Aid of Little Mountain Church will be held Wednesday February 12 at Mrs. L. H. Ashton's home. Meals served from 12 noon to 9 pm. Mrs. Brad Beverley will not attend mid winter dances this week. nd at Sweet Briar College. The Woman's Society of Christian Service meets February 8 at 8 pm at the Ridgeway home of Mr. and Mrs. C E Ridgeway Ridgeway West Virginia. All members invited. D A R Fort Loudoun Chapter meets February 12 at 3 pm at Handley Library. Election of delegates for state and national conventions will take place.
The Junior Euterpian Club meets tomorrow at 3 o clock at Miss Anne Lee Funk's Gray Avenue home. Miss Brenda Carter presents a paper on Mozart with participants Thelma Edwards Lee Rosenberger Anna Lee Funk Blanche Stanley and others. Jolly Ette Club holds bi monthly session at Mrs Bruce Sheard home with Mrs Donald Smith presiding due to the president's illness. A third Red Cross project is planned. Attendees include Mrs Miller Saffele Mrs Henry Bursey Mrs Maurice Foreman and Miss Polly Ramaciotti. Mrs Elizabeth Bott will teach the Women's Bible Class at the Congregational Christian Church Sunday at 9.45.
Edward Strosnider in charge of Epworth League at Macedonia Church as program leads the Sunday meeting at 7 30 o clock. The public is invited and an interesting program is promised. Christ Church supper Sunday by Women’s Auxiliary in Church House 5 30 to 6 tickets via Mrs John Minnigerode.
The American Association of University Women schedules a 3 PM meeting tomorrow at Mrs. Arthur Robinson’s residence on South Stewart Street. Chanter’s tonight at 7 30 at Mr. Floyd Haines’s home on Montague Avenue.
Clarke County women mark twenty five years of the Women’s Club with a commemorative program including a short club history and charter member names. Maj. R M Youell will speak February 20, new members join, and a roundup of local social notes follows.
In Millwood Virginia on February 7 Col Charles Consolvo hosts weekend visitors Col Charles Consolvo Mr Joseph Hunt of Norfolk and Maj Clinton Wright of New York at Eventide. Mrs Consolvo plans a birthday dinner for Col Consolvo while Mrs Burwell Jacobs returns home after two weeks in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs Edward G Butler hosted dinner at The Play House with guests Mr and Mrs George H Burwell.
Berryville Virginia item lists social visits and comings and goings. Mr and Mrs William Bell Watkins entertaining Mrs Karl Boy-Ed and Miss Virginia Boy-Ed at Miami Beach wintering group includes Virginia Watkins. Other notes mention military, hospital, and local civil officials movements and a minor auto accident near Leesburg.
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