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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1931
Page
3
Social notes report routine appearances and announcements for local residents with names and events upcoming or recent. The brief highlights visits greetings and small community happenings in a concise society page style.
The post details dues for 117 members in 1931, a peak for the unit. It notes $50 from the department rehabilitation fund and grateful letters from United States Veterans Hospitals thanking the unit for apples sent as Christmas gifts to Virginia veterans. The group funded boxes to World War veterans, bought a health bond, and supported the District Nurse Association.
Miller O'Rear and her son Godfrey Miller O'Rear Jr. have returned to Knoxville to join Mr. O'Rear, manager of the Andrew Johnson Hotel. Mrs. O'Rear, formerly Virginia Kurtz, was with Mrs. Kurtz at her South Loudoun Street home in prior weeks. Evelyn Kerr Athey of 220 Parkway has been accepted as charter member of Capt. Joseph Emery Chapter D A R in Washington D C, tracing descent from John Athey and Colonel Noakes who served in the Revolution. She may attend the national convention in Washington in April.
Mrs. William E. Carson of Riverton joined out of town guests at the marriage of Miss Suzanne Pollard to Mr. Herbert Lee Boatwright Jr. Saturday evening at the Executive Mansion as reported by the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Mrs Kilella Hoshour chosen to preside over the Girls Athletic Club for the coming year with Miss Margaret Kelchner as secretary and Miss Elsie Mat as treasurer The club plans an initiation party on Thursday January 2 and will host a February show with John B Rodgers Producing Company director to finalize plans Various members and guests are noted including former president Miss Elizabeth Hollis and several local residents and visitors across Winchester Frederick and Monrovia MD.
Misses Dudley and other guests return to Scarsdale and Raleigh after visits with Rev. W. L. Dudley and the Jacques family. Several students and relatives from Hampden-Sydney, UVA, and Winchester joined relatives here for holidays. The Philathia Class of the First Christian Church meets at 7:30 PM.
In New York on January 6 the stock market struggled to move either way with a mild rally after opening selling and shorting. Leaders dipped briefly then bears covered, sending prices higher as call money rose to 1 percent.
In dense fog on January 6 a Long Island sound steamship rammed a car float and the George Washington was damaged, while the freighter William N Page issued an SOS after grounding off Southampton with 255 aboard. Coast guards responded as air traffic suffered with only five of 62 planes on schedule.
Twenty one men in Washington and Philadelphia were indicted on conspiracy to violate the prohibition act by moving alcohol related cargo. The first count alleges six defendants brought perfume from Philadelphia to Washington to be distilled into liquor. The second accuses all twenty one of conspiring to haul eighteen barrels of disinfectant into Washington for distillation, seized after loading on a Philadelphia truck.
The Star lists daily market figures for hogs calves sheep and cattle along with grain and feed items. Prices include soy and corn related feeds and dairy products though the page shows garbled OCR with mixed letters and partial entries.
Closing grain prices gained 1 to 2 cents as short covering and warmer weather expectations boosted July wheat while corn and rye advanced on fair demand. Traders noted Australia rains slowed wheat harvest and quoted March May July futures across wheat corn oats and rye with slight gains.
The 19 year old Doris Reiling was found dead behind a bakery on the upper west side. Her head had been crushed with a blunt instrument and a chair lay overturned beside the body. A bakery driver delivering bread discovered the scene. Police suspect the chair may have been the weapon.
The State Corporation Commission announced that the Bank of Vinton in Vinton and the Bank of Gretna in Gretna have been reopened after closing several days ago.
Manila reports at least 150 deaths from a central Philippines typhoon with substantial property damage in Cebu and Leyte. Official tallies and casualty updates continue to arrive from disaster areas as rescue and relief efforts begin.
The Department of Justice prepared to institute criminal action against Indiana members of Congress tied to postmasters paying for appointments. Four Indiana postmasters were dismissed and replaced as the case involves political angles and possible transfer of prosecution to a special attorney.
Christ Church in this city passes a resolution urging Washington Province churches to urge President Hoover to approve H F Byrd’s drought relief plan. The call targets social service committees and church congregations across Maryland Delaware West Virginia Virginia and DC to back farm to market road construction for drought relief.
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