Winchester News Briefs Roundup Holiday Club and Local Happenings
Social news from Winchester covers a December 31 holiday party at the Heishmans on Apple Pie Ridge with Handley High students, Anne Elting’s West Point visit, travels of Mrs. Griffin and family, Miss Obaugh to sing for United Brethren, and planned gatherings by Miss Mudd. Also noted are Gainesboro School dance postponement, students returning to Virginia Tech, and regional travel and illness updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence
Grace Heishman
Herbert Heishman
Apple Pie Ridge
Handley High School
Elizabeth Oates
Elizabeth Shade
Martha Shade
Cleda Todd
Helen Knight
Rosalie Beil
Josephine Wolford
Helen Hershman
Gracee
Messrs
Lutheratton
John Ross
John Hottel
John Sutton
John Gano
Robert Sutton
Allen Boyles
Charles Boyles
Eugene Fox
Beverley Bailey
Tom Rosenberger
Everette Holsinger
Billy Hershman
Clarence Hershman
Anne Elting
West Point
N. Y
Carroll Deitz
Miss Elting
Thayer Hotel
Cathedral School
Washington, D. C
Stewart O. Elting, Jr
Charles Elting
Stewart O. Elting
Merrimans Lane
Yale
Marie Obaugh
United Brethren
W. B. Obaugh
United Brethren Church
Miss Obaugh
Winchester
Frederick
Social Calendar Highlights Weekly Meetings and Celebrations
A dense schedule lists Friday night Cub Pack and Berryville Modern Woodmen anniversary events. It notes Lions Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel and Winchester Camp postponement to January 21, with Kiwanis and choir activities the next midweek, plus American Legion gathering at the George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Berryville
Modern Woodmen of America
Winchester Camp
Kiwanis Club
Young People’s Choir
United Brethren Church
Winchester Lodge
Ellis
Corner and Braddock
Graceautheran Church
Wonk Club
George Hotel
Otterbein Guild
Frances Chapman
North
Cameron Street
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
Return From Delightful New York Visit
The Rev and Mrs W Lindley returned home on South Cameron street after spending the Christmas holidays with relatives in New York. They visited Garden City for the former's son and daughter in law and saw many Greater New York sights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Griffin
H. Elmer Griffin
Charles Ae
Atlanta
R. E. Mudd
Mrs. Mudd
N. Charles Burke
Towson, Md
W.lindley
South Cameron Street
New York
Garden City
Homer Dudley
Wagers
Poucheyr
Greater New York
Doctor McQuilken De Grange Returns to College
Dr. McQuilken De Grange has spent Christmas with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay De Grange, on South Washington Street. He traveled to New York for a few days before resuming his sociology professorship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McQuilken de Grange
H. Clay de Grange
South Washington Street
New York
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N. H
de Grange
Liberty League Funds Show Big-Party Parity in 1935 totals
The American Liberty League reports 1935 contributions and expenditures nearly matching the two major parties. It lists Democratic and Republican tallies, loans from Du Ponts and other magnates, and notes unpaid obligations from prior campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Liberty League
Liberty League
Jouett Shouse
du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Black
D-Ala
Senate Lobby
Maverick
D-Tex
League
Democratic Party
Slum Clearing Begins On Big Scale By PWA
New York Jan 3 Secretary of the Interior Ickes started construction of the Public Works Administration largest low rent housing project in Williamsburg Brooklyn where 12 blocks of slums were razed to create homes for 1 625 families at a cost of 12 783 000 He urged cities to carry on such work and defended the slum clearance program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ickes
Public Works Administration
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
PWA
Virginia Budget Expected To Be About As Usual
Virginia faces a 1936-38 budget cycle with the governor outlining regular appropriations and possible separate measures for old age assistance. The plan may include two budgets, one for normal spending and another for financing a new old age program if enacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Gov. Peery
Assembly
ABC Board
ABC
State Education Department
H. G. Shirley
John Q. Rhodes
Wilbur C. Hall
The
Conservation Commission
State Health Department
Budget Commission
Aubrey Weaver
Front Royal
W. A. Garrett
Henry County
Saxon W. Holt
Newport News
Ashton Covell
Appropriations Committee
House
W. N. Neff
Abingdon
Thomas Stanley
Stanleytown
Frank Moore
Lexington
Science Gives Man An Eye To See In The Dark
In St Louis a nine inch circular glass disc with a fluorescent coat captures electron images from a vacuum tube. Dr V K Zworykin and Dr George A Morton of RCA Labs demonstrated a mechanical retina that converts electron images into visible light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
American Association For the Advancement of Science
V. K. Zworykin
George A. Morton
Radio Corporation of America Laboratories
Five Die in Buffalo Gas Explosion Destroys Tenement
A three story brick tenement in Buffalo New York was wrecked by a gas explosion killing five people and seriously injuring a sixth. A three year old child was initially forgotten in the debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Trimble Couple Return From Hawthorne Visit
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Trimble accompanied by Elizabeth Stuart formerly Miss Elizabeth Stuart have spent the holidays with her parents Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Stuart at Hawthorne on the Northwest grade and will return Sunday to Sewickley Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Rutledge, Jr
Richard Byrd
Baltimore
Berkshire
Ormond Beach
Fla
Beckford School
J. P. Hayley
Derek
Basil
Colin Hayley
Mary Elizabeth Ebert
Harry W. Ebert, Jr
H. W.rt
Ebert
Randolph- Macon College
Lynchburg
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Hubert Sydenstricker, Jr
Hubert Sydenstricker
Noble Pierce, Jr
Noble Pierce
Ashion
R. M. Trimble
Elizabeth Stuart
E. C. Stuart
Betty Riley
Sullins College
Bristol
Tenn
J. W. Riley
West Piccadilly Si
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Marie Mudd
South
Washington Street
Miss Mudd
Boyce
Gainesboro
Leslie D. Kline
Neaer
DeWitt, Jr
R. Clinton DeWitt, Jr
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
R. Clinton DeWitt
W. B. Nesmith
Leslie R. Smith
C. H. Smith
East
Cecil Street
Grippe
Smith
O’sullivan Rubber Company
Martinsburg
W. Va
Aubrey Armentrout
Armentrout
Wilton Hope
Hampton, Va
Stacy B. Lloyd
Carter Hall
Clarke County
Nina Carter Tabb
Middleburg
Florida
Cub Pack
Episcopal Parish
Mr. and
Mrs. Bauserman
C. Bauserman
Margaret Bauserman
Ralph Bauserman
Stephens City
Oscar Brown
Cecil Peer
George Lutz
Wallace Lutz
Winter
Robert Merkel
Iton
N. J
Louise ‘Thiel
Arlington
Miss 'Thiel
Miss 'Thiel and Mr. Merkel
Bauserman
Rinard Largent
Louise Largent
W. Largent
East Leicester Street
William and Mary College
Janet Largent
Aptis
Memorial Hospital
Dr. McQuilken de Grange
Margaret L
Hodgson
America
Pudding Brooks
Group
Bankers Trust Company of New York
John J Raskob
Alfred P Sloan, Jr
General Motors
Alfred E. Smith
White House
Irenee du Pont
Joseph E. Widener
Philadelphia
E T. Weir
Pittsburgh
NRA
District Nurses’ Association
Court House
James Fickenscher
Baltimore, Md
Anne Kerr Russell
Holton Arms School
Miss Russell
H. K. Russell
South Stewart Street
Virginia Cather
Hollins College
Roanoke
T. Russell Cather
Edward Green
Paltimore, Md
H. B. McCormac, Jr
Lyston Webb
Auburn
Ind
Edna Webb
Butler
Webb
Aoan Numskatr
Noah
Sis
Keim - Corbin
Arthur Weinreich
Dayton
Ohio
Victor Sundsyold Bear E
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ante
Loaias
Che Er Hay
the Commercial & Savings Bank
E. Gerrard
R.G. A. Grocer
Lovett’s
N. Loudoun 8&T
N. Loudoun
Underwood
N. Loudoun St
Enna Jettick Shoes
Lovett Brothers
R. M Swimley
East Geo. Washington Hotel
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