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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal News notes mail timing and reception details by Mrs Isabelle P Miller the social reporter. The note specifies a delivery window between 3 and 4 pm for the following day.
Mrs Reed, daughter of the late Col Albert W Swalm, a Washington based speaker, will address the Winchester chapter at a Wednesday meeting at 313 Leicester Street. Tickets 75 cents. guests may attend tea afterward. Mrs Reed is known for art and literature discussions and radio book reviews on WRC.
Announcement from Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Conner of the marriage of their daughter Dorothy E. Conner to Maynard L. Patterson. The ceremony occurred in Martinsburg, West Virginia, January 4, 1930, at the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Patterson is a farmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson. Conner, born in Harrisonburg, has lived with her parents here for eight years. A dinner honored the couple at Chambersville, hosted by the groom’s sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. R. Bayliss. A large gathering attended.
Numerous brief items announce arrivals and departures of residents and visitors. J Frank Patterson stays at George Washington Hotel in Philadelphia. Lucille Jackson returns from Philadelphia Reading with relatives. Katherine Manuel from Pittsburgh visits friends. Mrs. Painter convalesces at home. W J Craig of Harrisburg attends uncle J P Stryker's funeral. Further entries list guests, travel, church guild meeting, patients, and students from local families and nearby towns.
Winchester youths resume studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia after winter break. Included are Garner Edmonds Jack Crowl John Warren Rice Richard Eddy Randolph Shields and Pembroke Thompson of Clarke county. Elizabeth Krouse returns to Irvington New York to continue school studies after holidays.
Instructions to the prohibition commissioner call for stricter denaturing of ethyl alcohol used in varnishes and lacquer. Reports said bootleggers were converting industrial alcohol for beverage use, prompting orders that four gallons of denaturant be added to every hundred gallons of ethyl alcohol.
The testimony describes quantities of denatured wood alcohol and normal duty alcohol, plus refined fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Doran suggested the new ingredients would end the conversion.
Former Chief Judge William C. Walsh forwards to Governor Albert C. Ritchie a petition signed by over 5,000 Allegany county Democrats asking him to run again. He notes rapid circulation and potential for more names, and states Republicans asked to sign but were advised against it. The letter cites Ritchie’s public service and endorses continued governorship for the state.
East Liverpool Ohio man G W Shultz 19 was forced to drive three Philadelphia youths as they held him up near Chambersburg Pennsylvania Police say the trio Peter Caponi Joseph Cacciadaci and Jakey Abuzsi as admitted the crime A motorcycle officer stopped the car allowing Shultz to shout for help and the suspects were arrested at headquarters.
Miss Mary Sartell resumed her studies at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg Virginia following a Christmas visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Edwin B Sartell at their home.
A man brandished a revolver and compelled a driver to take two companions to a destination as passengers endured a tense ordeal. Authorities report a robbery attempt with the suspect driving the trio before authorities intervened.
Washington news reports Chief Justice Taft, aged 72, forced by a weakened condition to end court work and rest. He suffers recurrent bladder trouble and has shown nervous strain after overtaxing duties and recent hospital visits. The illness followed a summer trip to Cincinnati and hospitalization, with relief at Murray Bay.
The Chief Justice will travel to a southern city, likely Asheville, North Carolina, for several weeks of rest and recuperation.
The auctioneers plan to sell 100 shares at 8102.00 per share with Tar values at $100 and 15 shares yet to be offered later. The stock trades around $102.06 per share amid a steady, long term value swing tied to local financiers and the Potomac region.
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