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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1934
Page
3
A January 3 audience at Stephens City High School enjoyed Mrs. Julian Steele's music class operetta The Poor Little Rich Girl. Lighting by Joe Funk created a fairyland stage as the gem of music and score by two noted composers pleased patrons and friends.
Regular weekly meetings and practices listed for multiple clubs and churches each day. Includes Music Lovers Club Lions Club Kiwanis United Brethren First Baptist Elks Grace Lutheran Rotary American Legion Post and Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church with locations on George Washington Hotel North Washington Street and churches.
A miscellaneous shower honored Mrs Orville Wake at Mrs Zeas home with guests from Strasburg and local teachers. The event featured gift displays and refreshments. The Jewish Woman's Club holds its regular meeting at the George Washington Hotel with officers to be elected and a birthday party in the evening.
The Junior Century Club met at Miss Nancy Gray Larrick’s West Clifford Street home with January programs on British drama. Virginia Tayloe Boyd reviewed Ibsen’s Doll House and Ghosts. Georgia Conrad spoke on Ibsen and His Influence, followed by a tea. Next meeting set at Miss Rosalie Nelson’s West Boscawen Street home. Walker Bond improves from accident. Fred Fries returns to University of Virginia. Henry Trout Jr. hosts turkey dinner at Shenandoah River camp with Front Royal guests.
An old medicinal preparation labeled as a cough remedy combines tar syrup with cod liver extract and menthol. It is marketed for throat irritation and coughing relief in period pharmacopoeia style.
Massachusetts attorney Herve Moison from Lawrence visited this city for the weekend staying with his sister Estelle Newlin on West Clifford Street after recent business in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter W. Ritenour became proud parents of a son born Tuesday at their home near Stephens City weighing eight and a half pounds. This is the couple’s second child, and Mrs. Ritenour before marriage was Mary Ellen Conner daughter of George W. and Mrs. Conner.
The Shenandoah Valley Ramblers will broadcast a program Wednesday afternoon January 10 from 1 to 1 30 at Station WTBO Cumberland Maryland. The group plays old-fashioned tunes and ballads. Members include Charles Boyd manager guitar and banjo James Jeskey violin Paul Riley second violin and William Anderson guitar.
The governor of Virginia and Mrs Pollard will host a reception Wednesday at 9 pm with guests including Lieutenant-Governor James H Price and Mrs Price and Mr J Sinclair Brown and his daughter Miss Lucy Brown Former Governor E Lee Trinkle and wife will attend and join Blues ball on January 18 for incoming governor George C Peery.
Mrs. Lucy Powell Foley 42, a Clarke and Frederick county public school teacher for nearly 20 years, died suddenly Saturday in Winchester after attending a teachers meeting. She leaves a husband Walter Foley five daughters a son a sister and a brother. Funeral services were at Grace Episcopal Church and interment in Green Hill Cemetery.
Mrs Milton Cornwell of Double Tollgate was the New Year's guest of Mrs Dora Brill. Miss Anna Elizabeth Wisman has returned home after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs James Wisman near Toms Brook.
Fort Loudoun Chapter D A R will hold its monthly meeting at 3 o clock Wednesday at Mrs Grover Coopers home on North Cameron street. Several members and guests are noted in the community updates.
Personal and social notes from Berryville recount a New Year reception hosted by Miss Rose MacDonald in honor of Senator Harry F. Byrd at her Knock home. Numerous guests from Winchester Front Royal Leesburg and Philadelphia attended along with family members and local residents.
Mr and Mrs J D Griffing return to Annapolis. Mrs A Moore Jr hosted guests including Peggy Stalnaker at St Margarets Tappahannock Anne Williams at St Catherines Richmond and Joseph F Moore Jr a graduate of Episcopal High School near Alexandria. Virginia Page returns to Wilmington Del. Hardesty family hosted Douglas Hardesty West Point and Rob ert H Thomas III Charlottesville with Gregory Jamestown N Y and Ella Baldwin Detroit. Anne Owen Allen visits Washington before returning home. Collins Dakeman returns to Washington. Rev and Mrs James Carr visit Richmong relatives before leaving.
George E. Cook a well known colored resident of Winchester and Frederick county is seriously ill after a stroke at his home 1102 South Loudoun street. Known as Uncle George he served in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier acting as an officer's bodyguard to Lieut Nathanial Cooke of Hanover county in the Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry.
The Junior Auxiliary of Winchester Memorial Hospital will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 3 pm at the nurses' home on West Clifford Street. Members are urged to attend for important business discussions and reports. Mr Harry K Thaw hosted a dinner at Kenilworth on Martinsburg Pike for friends. Miss Anne Tucker McGuire and Mrs McGuire will travel to New York City mid month after visiting Dr Hunter H McGuire at North Braddock Street.
A local Red Cross chapter mobilized. first aid instruction started with topics on bleeding, cuts, burns, fractures, fainting, frostbite, and CPR. A telegram from the Civil Works administration requested training for one thousand men. Windsor arranged a thirty-seat classroom and supplied textbooks.
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