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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1944
Page
6
There will be a Nurses Aide Corps meeting in the class room at the Nurses Home on Thursday January 6 at 7 p m Miss Hamilton Superintendent of Nurses at Memorial Hospital will present certificates to aides who finished training in October Plans will be for the Blood Donor Clinic.
A listings page outlines weekly events at Braddock Street Methodist Church Stephenson home on Pennsylvania Avenue and local lodges. Activities include Rebekah Association at Odd Fellows Hall and Winchester Avenue No 824 Eagles. Kiwanis and Rotary luncheons. Elks and WO W weekly meetings. Sun shine and Junior Century Club gatherings. Visitor’s day and luncheon events at various venues.
Mr Sloan Kuykendall will address the Civic League Friday at 1245 PM at Golden Glow. He will discuss Delinquency in Winchester and Frederick County. A large attendance is desired.
War Service and entertainment committees of Winchester Lodge 1298 B'nai B'rith sponsored a New Year’s Eve party at Sarah Zane Hall. About fifty guests from Winchester Martinsburg and nearby areas attended with service members from Newton D. Baker Hospital Martinsburg Camp Patrick Henry and guests from Romney W Va Richmond Philadelphia and Washington. Chairmen Hyman J. Fine and Myer Hamburg led the War Service and entertainment committees.
The Macedonia Methodist Church Women’s Society of Christian Service will hold its regular January meeting Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Boyce on Front Royal Road. Mrs. J. W. Newcome to lead the evening. all members urged to attend.
Mrs. Ann Harry of Gray Gables on Washington street will entertain the Fri gey neerexa Bridge Club as hostess this week.
Miss Isabelle Shatzer returns home after spending the past week as the guest of Mrs. Felix DiPrisco in Greenwich Connecticut. Mr and Mrs Walter Huntsberry were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Herbert Rhodes in Vaudcluse. Mr and Mrs Abney Payne return to Amherst Street after spending several days in Charlottesville. Mrs Robert Forney returns to South Loudoun Street after a weekend in Washington with her son and daughter in law.
Mrs. Boyd Headley Sr and Mrs Boyd Headley Jr and their son Stuart attended the Chester Pennsylvania funeral on December 26 for Mrs Headley Sr brother the late Shuler Veach.
Cpl. B. G. Headley Jr has been hospitalized in England for some time and has now returned to the United States to become a patient at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Mr and Mrs B G Headley Sr and Mrs B G Headley Jr were recent visitors at Walter Reed to see Cpl Headley.
Staff Sgt. Harry T. Smith, patient at Walter Reed Hospital since October, is reported to be gradually improving. His wife, Mrs. Harry T. Smith of 344 National Ave, often visits him at the hospital.
Mrs Isadora Bowman, previously ill at 421 Millwood Road, has been removed to Winchester Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Miss Ann Yost returns to Westhampton College in Richmond Virginia after holiday visit with Mrs Clifton Gaunt at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Loring Bean on West Clifford Street in Winchester.
Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Young and daughter Betty return to Wingdale New York after visiting on Dunlap avenue. Capt. and Mrs. C. L. Bittinger and children Charles Jr and Anne go back to Fredericksburg Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Bittinger return to Hampden Sydney after holidays with Mrs. J. B. Bittinger on West Leicester street. Miss Dorothy Moore leaves Winchester for New York City to resume studies at Neighborhood Playhouse. Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn Moore and daughter Peggy recover from influenza and resume activities on Boscawen street. Sylvan Ashworth of Norton Virginia returns home after holidays with infant Lloyd Williams Ashworth.
Lieut. and Mrs. Harry F P Stimpson will arrive in Winchester this afternoon from Pareeke where Stimpson has been stationed. He will spend a few days in the city.
Berryville residents share holiday departures and returns as Dr. and Mrs. Blanton Allen plus son return from Flu vanna County. Cadet Mumma leaves Berryville for Virginia Military Institute. Numerous locals visit family in Richmond, Charlottesville and Washington D C with students and cadets resuming schools in Farmville Charlottesville and Lexington.
Mrs Ethel Hereford and daughters hosted guests including her son in law Mr Taylor Lee Va and Marine Pfc Tom Stough stationed at Quantico. Jack Kilner of Baltimore joined. Mr and Mrs Zachary White returned to Leslie after Berryville visit. Seaman William V Wallace and Corporals Wallace Yob Rodgers visited. Private Charles Suddith of Fort Meade visited Lena Suddith.
The Navy invites 17 year old boys to enroll as radar technicians. Applicants need two years of high school math plus basic physics and electricity or radio knowledge. Enlistment begins at Seaman First Class, 66 dollars monthly, with potential for petty officer ratings after training.
Clarke County records note transfers across districts including Ernest E Andrews and Davis E Andrews to Vincent Rogero for land on Blue Ridge Mountain west slope in Chapel District for 10 dollars. The Prudential Insurance Company of America to Amos A Hoff covers 249 acres in Greenway District. John W Vorous and others transfer 187 acres in Chapel District to William du Pont Jr with added consideration. Francis W Vorous to William du Pont Jr one fifth of the same 187 acre tract. Clyde W Hardesty and Lucia W Hardesty with Ada J Hardesty to A S Robinson two parcels in Longmarsh District of 35.94 and 7.15 acres.
Jacob Gratton Carper died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Mirgil Malone in Millville West Virginia on Wednesday morning December 29 after about two years of illness. He was 79 and had lived in Frederick county Virginia most of his life until health decline. He married Ada Bell Orndorff who died in 1905. Surviving is his daughter. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Lewis B. Young at Dunway funeral parlor in Charles Town West Virginia on Friday at 2 o clock. Interment was in Munrill Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers Ralph Rickel William Lancaster Sr William Ott Hugh Wiley William Lancaster Jr and William Dennison.
Rest Church Christmas service on Christmas Day 1943 drew praise from the Sunday School for a peaceful tale and fine singing. Pins were awarded to twenty attendees who had perfect Sunday attendance for a year. A watch night service was held at the Snapp home with the Youth Fellowship and Sunday School.
Miss Ethel Barrett hosted a Christmas week dinner with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lupton and Miss Margaret Lupton in Winchester. Other gatherings featured Mrs. Shippley Smallwood, Rev. W. F. Bull, and relatives in Miggersville and Martinsburg. Families such as Swartz, Smallwood, Schlack, and Swisher shared holiday meals and visits with kin across Capon Bridge and surrounding towns.
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