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A fragmentary social column notes marriages and arrivals. The text is incomplete with names and dates missing, leaving unclear specifics about who married whom and when the events occurred.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1931
Page
3
A fragmentary social column notes marriages and arrivals. The text is incomplete with names and dates missing, leaving unclear specifics about who married whom and when the events occurred.
Miss Juliang of Norfolk helps prepare Virginia Music Festival to be held April 14 to 17 in Charlottesville. The event, backed by the Music Federation and Virginia State Music Teachers Association, aims to revive colonial songs with 800 to 1,000 voices and a national symphony orchestra. Also notes garden club tours, hospital charity dance, University of Virginia mid winter dances, and local civic visits.
The Girls Missionary Guild of Centenary Reformed Church is asked to attend a meeting this evening at 7 30 at Miss Lillian Grim’s home on South Kent Street. Miss Virginia Butsler has just returned from a week visiting friends in Washington D C.
The Sadler Circle members divided the Missionary Society to form two new circles at the First Baptist Church in Martinsburg. Officers for both groups were elected, and meetings set for next month with hosts Mrs. W. O. Holliday and Mrs. Max Lewis.
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Mary Ellen Franklin of Norfolk to Mr Joseph Straus Gillespie of Tazewell. The wedding is planned for March at Leesburg. Friends in Norfolk have hosted many social gatherings in her honor amid local criticism.
Charles E Elting of Winchester and Mercersburg Pa attending Mercersburg Academy has been chosen president of the 1934 class. Announcement from academy authorities notes his parentage as Col and Mrs Stewart O Elting of Winchester.
Patriotic Order Sons of America Camp No. 5 will meet tonight in lodge rooms for regular session and initiation followed by an oyster supper. Full attendance requested. Gardner B. Hillyard of Baltimore visited town on business. Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Harker of Trenton are guests at the George Hirston Hotel.
Mrs. F M Hayes plans a departure to Pittsburgh after visiting her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Allen Bond. Mrs. Harrison of Hagerstown Md arrives on business. Heine family returns from Washington after attending a automobile show. Frances Page and Mrs Hunter McGuire spend day in Washington. Mrs R T Barton hosts a tea for her daughter Mrs Arthur M Field of master N Y. Mrs Earl Massey visits Harrisburg with sister Miss Dora White. Samuel Abrahams of New York City, with Robert Reese Company, staying on business. Mr and Mrs Harry Pappas guests of Gus Haknis at North Braddock street, Pappas former local resident. F M Boucher Warner Brothers theatres district manager visits on business. formerly Capitol Theatre manager. Mrs Lester Morgan of Berrysville shops in town. Miss Hilda Patton and Velma Pannett attend Mason Small funeral in Martinsburg W Va from Winchester. John Eddy Robert Glaize and Lyle Herrell return from Washington where Martin H Thurmond of Potomac Edison Co is here on business.
New York stock market moved higher on rail shares but failed to lift the broader list. Bond market rallied on this week's ease in money rates while midweek statistics disappointed bears' estimates of fourth quarter steel earnings due next week. Call money renewed at 12 percent.
Several hundred American Legionnaires marched to the Capitol to press legislation allowing cashing of World War I veteran adjusted compensation certificates. Delegates from Maryland and other states attended and spoke, including Representatives Patman Rankin and Conery, all urging action.
Mrs Asbury Endacott, wife of a Tulsa architect and former water commissioner, fired two shots at Miss Charlsie Caudell near the University of Tulsa campus. Caudell, 28, was wounded critically after Endacott accused her of breaking up her home.
In Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania the Polish National Alliance College suffered a devastating blaze that destroyed the main building and its fine museum. Authorities estimate the loss near $1,000,000 with valuable relics including George Washington correspondence among the fire’s victims. No injuries were reported and the origin remains undetermined.
South End radio owners complain of almost continuous bad reception over three weeks. They accuse interference and noise from locomotives to warlike sound effects, urging action by the City P&hares committee and the Wickersham report supporters to alleviate the nuisance.
After the stockholders meeting adjourned, the board elected officers: Captain Lewis F. Coper president, W. A. Baker vice president, H. D. Fuller secretary, George H. Heist treasurer, with R. Gray Williams serving as legal counsel.
The writer Djo Joseph Hergesheimer asserts writing demands greater vitality than light digging. He emphasizes the energy required to create vivid fiction and meaningful prose.
Ohio Senator supports the dry cause while cautioning no direct talk with the President. Governor Pollard of Virginia warns against granting Congress broad power to regulate liquor if the eighteenth amendment is revised, calling for ongoing public turmoil and Congress supremacy in prohibition matters.
J. D. Martin of Richmond Va. earned $200 for an old copper cent after Numismatic Co Fort Worth purchased it. The ad urges readers to request a large illustrated coin folder to learn what coins, bills and lamps carry big cash premiums and how to spot valuable pieces in everyday change.
Grain futures drifted with light trading as traders noted profit taking and fatigue in the pits. March wheat at 80 1/2, May 82 7/8. corn March 67 1/4, May 69 5/8. rye May 41 3/4, July 42 1/4. no sales in some positions and limited activity across the board.
Seven of eight Bavarian stables buried in an avalanche near Munich were found dead under snow. The eighth was alive but seriously injured.
Grimes Va January 21 preaching will be held at Galilee next Sunday evening January 25 at 7 30 by regular pastor C E Beckey who has been ill. Visitors Mrs Eva Miller and Misses Mary and Alice Newcome of Winchester were seen here last Sunday. Wade Brooks and Paul of Winchester visited A B Orndorff. R B Hensell has had a cold. William Groves of Martinsburg formerly lived here. A light snow fell Tuesday night with colder weather.
The Warner Brothers Capitol Theatre adds live stage attractions to film showings. Van Arnam's Minstrels opens today and tomorrow alongside Constance Bennett in Sin Takes a Holiday, with popular prices and urged attendance for maximum entertainment value.
Judge Donald L. Weems in police court yesterday afternoon ordered Blair March to serve 90 days in jail for public drunkenness. This follows a prior suspended sentence, which he violated, leading to the reinstatement of the original term.
Review hails the picture as supreme merit with a dramatic tense plot set in New York and Paris. Miss Bennett shows a flair for romance while Kenneth MacKena Basil Rathbone Rita La Roy Louis Bartels and Zasu Pitts support the cast.
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