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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1931
Page
3
Social column notes that Mrs Laballe B Millen will receive a mailed notice related to the department. The item records a personal notice context without additional details or dates.
A long list of social gatherings, club meetings, and personal updates fills a Winchester page. Parties hosted by Mrs Lucas and others, Shrine Card Party plans, Bible class entertainments, visitors from out of town, a German Club event, and church society notes are detailed alongside marriages and local league events.
The market softened as the week began with expectations of lower crude oil prices and cautious sentiment about the final quarter of 1930. Traders showed no rush to sell, and the list looked briefly oversold in early trading, with oils and rails among the notable losers. Commissioner at 116.
M. H. Eckard of Martinsburg WVa Armour representative spoke to the Winchester Lions Club at the George Washington Hotel about the meat packing industry from slaughter to table. He described its magnitude as one of the country’s largest industries.
In a Southern California winter feel, roses tied to bushes in Professor Einstein’s front yard draw puzzled and uneasy reactions amid the balmy calm. The odd gesture prompts questions about propriety and motivation in a quiet neighborhood.
Navy officials refused to take responsibility for reinstating two midshipmen expelled last year for bringing two girls into the Annapolis mess hall. Rear Admiral Robinson and Capt Snyder defended the discipline before a Senate naval affairs subcommittee as questions arose over whether the punishment was too severe.
Mr. and Mrs. Bledsoe of Okron Ohio return home after visiting Mrs Lillian Giffin in Capon Bridge. Mr F R Stryker Sr leaves for Greensboro North Carolina on business. Mr J A Town and Mr H H Bell of Harrisonburg Virginia stay in town on business at the George Washington Hotel. Mr D J Breslin and Mr E R Pflung of United Utilities were en route to Washington for business. Mrs T C Martin of Worthington Massachusetts and Miss Mary Hanes Psie Gio Washington are guests at ton Boich.
In Washington on January 13 the drought loan appropriation bill moved to conference after President urged a $1 million relief fund. House defeat of a broader discussion blocks food loan talk. the measure stands at $60 million, with a Senate amendment for $15 million to aid drought area farmers. Differences between chambers will be reconciled.
The Rev Amos J Traver of Philadelphia resigns as general secretary of the Luther League of America effective March 1 to become pastor of the Lutheran Church at Frederick Maryland. The Luther League executive committee also approved an education building project in Porto Rico costing 25000 funded by league members.
Frau Marie Kardos, 46, executed by hanging in Szolnok prison yard for the murder of her husband and 22-year-old son. Witnesses numbered 70 as the first Hungarian woman hanged by court sentence in generations. She cried for help as the execution proceeded and was pronounced dead within a minute.
In Morgan County West Virginia John Sylvas Henry Unger Arthur Hovermale and Woodrow Hovermale pleaded guilty to charges of stealing chickens and gasoline. Unger received three years Sylvas two years and the Hovermales eighteen months each in the state penitentiary. The crimes dated to December 2 3 in Berkeley Springs and involved a burglary attempt on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight station.
R Gray Williams Winchester lawyer prominent will deliver the principal address to students and visitors at Washington and Lee University Founders Day exercises January 19 marking the 124th anniversary of Gen Robert E Lee birth. He is a University of Virginia trustee and Phi Beta Kappa member. University boards meet and a university holiday is declared.
Demand from Minneapolis millers lifted wheat options on the Chicago Board of Trade while corn oats and rye held near yesterday's levels. Closing figures show wheat March 82.5 May 84 July 67. corn March 70 May 72.44. oats March 34 May 34 July 33. rye March no sales May 43 July 43.
In Baltimore on January 13 an alleged robber was shot and critically wounded by plain clothes patrolman Edward Twele as he fled across western city rooftops. The wounded man, Joseph Elmer Boyd, 29, was taken to Franklin Square Hospital for emergency surgery. Boyd said he aimed to enter a woman's home after a quarrel and climbed over roofs when confronted.
Mrs Jacqueline Shawkey, 37, wife of former New York Yankee manager Bob Shawkey, died in a Miami Beach hospital shortly after he left Jacksonville to reach her bedside. Pneumonia, contracted after arriving from New York last Friday, was given as the cause.
Mr and Mrs C P Bell and Mr 8S O Turner of Va are guests at Hotel Jack in a brief social note.
Strasburg Virginia January 12 Graham Conner lunch room operator and Albert Bly auto mechanic were arrested yesterday on disorderly conduct charges from a Saturday night fight in Conner's Lunch Room. Conner grabbed a large flower vase and struck Bly bleeding his face. bystanders separated them as Bly was rushed to a doctor and Conner treated in a drug store.
State Corporation Commission member H. Lester Hooker says regular passenger buses must post a $10,000 liability bond or insurance and freight buses $5,000. Under the new law bonds or insurance are mandatory with no waive option, filed with the commission using standard for-hire forms.
The Rev J Lee McLean of South Carolina has accepted a call to lead the Capon Bridge West Virginia Presbyterian group succeeding the late Rev Dr John G Reeley. He takes charge the first Sunday in February and will be received by Winchester Presbytery at its spring meeting in April at Martinsburg. He will move with his family to Capon Bridge late January. The churches to be served include Capon Bridge Slanesville Hanging Rock and Bloomery.
Brucetown Briefs recounts visits to Boyce and nearby towns by Mr and Mrs Brent DeHaven and son and by Mr and Mrs Tom Price. Guests include Rev William Waters and Rev Harry Inextendley, with gatherings at Burnt Factory Baltimore Pittsburgh and Winchester. A birth is noted for Furman Bragg’s family and Junior and Senior League activities are mentioned.
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