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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1937
Page
3
At 3 30 p m the Junior Century Club meets with Mrs James. At 8 p m the Winchester Elks B P O E Lodge 867 holds a meeting in Elks Hall.
Sunday morning at nine Evelyn Margaret Barrett daughter of Nettie Barrett married Sherman Dick son of Edgar Dick of Mount Pleasant Virginia in a ring ceremony at United Brethren Church. Rev George W Stover officiated with Sadie Hamrick at the organ. The bride wore robin's egg blue and is a Handley High School graduate and county school supervisor aide. The groom runs a Winchester mercantile business. The couple left for a wedding trip to Washington and Baltimore and will reside at 306 Smithfield Avenue after returning.
Admiral R. E. Byrd is slated to lecture at the College of Colorado tonight drawing a thrilled student body response. The lecture tour spans the nation with Alaska dates planned after October.
A etiquette column answers reader questions on theater attire indicating remove coats at the aisle head, or in the row if time is tight. Notes with gifts are welcome and friendly, and children should introduce their small friends to adults as good training.
Miss Helen Wood daughter of Mr and Mrs James Wood married Mr Roy Curl son of Mr and Mrs C B Curl at Rev S J Goode parsonage in Winchester The ceremony drew only family and friends Also noted is county treasurer and agriculturist Robert S Smith recovering from illness and the Hardy couple traveling to Hot Springs Ark for a month with Stryker and Miss Robinson accompanying them
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union will hold a meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday at Handley Library with a special Crusade Day program. Additional notes mention various local visits and health updates, including Mrs. Campbell traveling to Chicago and others improving after illness.
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Officers guarded two inmates Fred Mason and Lawrence Myers in separate cells overnight after Mason tried to shoot himself with a stolen gun and then hanged parts of his clothing. Myers also attempted self harm while both were intoxicated. Myers’ wife was stabbed in an earlier incident.
Gainesboro Virginia January 11. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Ruble receive congratulations on the birth of a daughter recently. Mr and Mrs O P DeHaven return to Baltimore with Evelyn and Ray Le in school. Mr Zirkle DeHaven of Martinsburg W Va spent the weekend here with relatives. Mrs Minnie Lamp spent Thursday with Miss Julia Adams and others. Mrs Naomi DeHaven, patient at Catawba Sanatorium, remains about the same. Mr and Mrs D H Lamp and daughter Helen spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ed Lamp at Green Spring. Miss Effie DeHaven confined to bed with influenza at sister Mrs Robert Adams.
Mrs. Wyndam R. Lee announced committees for the President's Birthday Ball to be held in Front Royal on January 29. The floor, advertisement, ticket sales, music, telegram, and invitations committees include local residents such as Charles Ambler, Windham Lee, Lucien Moss, Mrs. Julian Major, Miss Caroline Carson, Mrs. Elmer Young, Miss Elizabeth White, and Mrs. Elliott Marshall, among others. A planning meeting occurred at the Davis home.
Attorneys Armstrong Carron Marshall and Boyd Jr visited Winchester last night. The Warren County Garden Club will meet at Mrs J Frank Forsyth home Thursday afternoon. Mrs Hilton Freeman of Richmond arrived to visit her mother Mrs J B Harnsberger for a few days. Mr and Mrs Millar Hilliard and children of Keyser W Va were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs John Hilliard. Mrs John Downing will entertain the Evening Bridge Club Friday evening. Mr Wyndam R Lee returned from West Virginia after visiting his parents. He was accompanied by his brother Francis Lee who will spend time with their parents in West Virginia.
Dr and Mrs H P Fox of Ocean Grove New Jersey spend several days at Fairlawn on vacation They plan to visit their son H P Fox Jr a student at Randolph Macon Academy and their other son Billy Fox a student at American University in Washington D C
At the Front Royal Town Council meeting last night the $19,000 issue of 30 year 5 percent electric bonds, issued August 15, 1916 and maturing August 15, 1946, will be called and refunded at a lower interest rate.
FRONT ROYAL January 12 Senator Aubrey G Weaver is hospitalized at Memorial Hospital after a fall last Sunday when a rug slipped on a polished floor injuring his shoulder.
A man named Brown was wounded at about 30 feet when a 32 caliber bullet from a loaded rifle exploded as Garland Lonas prepared to reload. The bullet pierced two tin tobacco cans in Brown’s hip pocket before lodging near his hip bone without breaking bones.
Has Chance To Recover Brown was taken to hospital after the shooting and is attended by Dr. E. C. Stuart. The afternoon report says Brown is seriously wounded but not necessarily fatal. Lonas and Clem expressed distress over Brown, who is the son of the late Len Brown of Gainesboro. His mother, now Mrs. Ossie DeHaven, has remarried. He has a brother Damuel Brown and sister Miss Mary Linn Brown in the city.
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