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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1966
Page
3
Local notes from Del Ray and Hanging Rock detail visits and health updates for residents. Mrs E F Oates improves after illness. Clyde Lupton, Denny Lupton, and others recover from operations or illnesses. Community events include Hampshire County Fair Association planning and Tearcoat Ladies Aid auction.
Miss Pam Moore of John S. Mosby Academy eighth grade has been nominated to represent the eighth grade as queen at the Sweetheart Dance. Mrs. Walter Derflinger visited Bufflick Heights, Winchester, Monday and Tuesday. Earl Cooke is a patient at Warren Memorial Hospital.
Obituary notes Bobby Montgomery died early Saturday at NIH Hospital Bethesda Md. Local life updates mention Irene Burch painting class resuming Wednesday and a flurry of visits, hospital stays, travel to New York for the Paris Show, and family gatherings across Shanks Winchester Martinsburg and nearby towns with many names and events.
The Stephens City Fire Company will host an Honorary Fire Chief Contest on March 5 to choose a girl 16 to 20 in the Fire Company area to represent the department at the Apple Blossom Festival. Contact Mrs Ray Ewing by calling Stephens City 326. Local residents and visitors from Arlington Bowie Dundalk Hagers town appear in weekend greetings and travel notes.
A long listing of visits and guests from Roanoke Falls Church Arlington and Winchester plus residents from Cross Junction and nearby areas. Mentions snowbound relatives, hospital stays, and wind storm damages. Lester Bowles Pearson noted as Canada’s first ambassador to the United States.
Brucetown Methodist Church holds Sunday worship at 10 am with youth meeting at 6 pm and evening services at 7 30 pm. The official board met Monday night. W S C S met last Thursday at the home of Mr and Mrs Roy Campbell with a devotional and Acts study. Numerous local residents and visitors from Arlington Winchester Stephenson and Martinsburg were noted visiting relatives and hosting dinners in Brucetown and nearby areas.
Mrs Maude Deed of Winchester and Mrs Dorothy Walker of Cedarmeade visited aunt Mrs Irene Copenhaver on Sunday. Weekend guests were Mr and Mrs David Snow and daughter Angela of Tokoma Park Maryland. Additional calls were made by Clarke Copenhaver of Harrisonburg and the Fiddlers of Hagerstown to their mother here last week.
An anthem using T S Eliot verses set to music by Dr Martin Shaw will premiere in March with a London choir. Eliot who died in London last year disliked singing his verse but made an exception for Shaw. Composed for Liverpool Cathedral, The Greater Light was once believed lost in bombing and was found among Shaw's papers by Mrs Shaw.
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