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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1935
Page
3
Norman Thomas greets Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt congratulating on the marriage of Anna Roosevelt to John Boettiger. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch stands center as the group meets at a slum clearance conference.
Wednesday 12 30 regular Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel 6 45 Junior choir practice United Brethren Church 8 00 Winchester Lodge Elks regular meeting 8 15 Grace Lutheran Adult Choir practice 8 15 United Brethren Senior choir weekly practice Thursday Rotary luncheon Weekly 5 30 Ladies Auxiliary supper South End Hose Company 12 30 Robert Y Conrad Post American Legion meeting and luncheon at George Washington Hotel End Hose Company
Miss Nancy Lee Janney, daughter of Charles P Janney, of Loudoun County, married the Rev A D Pollock Gilmour, pastor of Wilmington NC, at the Presbyterian Church in Leesburg. The ceremony featured Elizabeth Carter Davis on music and a reception followed at the bride’s Leesburg home.
Middleburg's fox hunting season closes with the fifth annual trials at the Glenwood estate of D C Sands on February 22. The event draws society and sportsmen from the east and features the Middlebury Bowl worth 2000 dollars to the owner of the highest scoring hunter. Bon Diable the gray gelding and Whatll Do the chestnut gelding have topped prior years. The program includes Masters Plate and Virginia Plate classes plus a new six hunts minimum eligibility rule.
Mrs Luke Lea of Nashville sells a portrait of her father Percy Warner to fund her campaign to secure the release of her husband Senator Luke Lea from prison. Lea had 55 dollars left of a 10 million fortune after his banking law conviction in North Carolina last May.
Handley faculty stage three one act plays Friday at 8 p m The Drums of Oida directed by Garland R Quarles is set in 1850s India with Mrs Warren Eddy and Mr Quarles in leading roles The Wedding directed by Edith Cornwall centers on a nervous groom and a collared button mishap Miss Ruth Beery plays the bride In Passing of Chow Chow under Opal Robinson the wife and husband quarrel over a dog Chow Chow and a painting with R L Stickel playing a key role in the couple's decision
Mrs Grover Lewis, previously ill with grippe, is slowly improving according to family reports.
The goat has served for milk and meat across Europe Asia and England for millennia. Early colonists also brought goats to this country as grazing farms grew and cows were seen as more adaptable.
Paris reports French forces including camel troops and air units moved to the southwest frontier of French Somaliland to quell a tribal outbreak. The conflict has already cost 97 French colonial administrative lives with a January 18 battle at Lake Abbe leaving M Bernard an official regional leader, 16 native soldiers, and 80 Somalis dead.
A sequence of Wednesday night New Testament studies continues at the Congregational Christian Church with brief lectures each evening. This week the topic is Why Mark Wrote His Gospel led by the pastor with T. W. Mathews on devotionals. All interested attendees are invited at 7 30. The theme for upcoming weeks is How The Testament Grew.
First aid instruction resumes at 7 15 PM in the Winchester Frederick County Red Cross office. Frank R Barton chairs the committee and will oversee nightly classes taught by different instructors as the group explores adding highway aid stations on the Berryville Pike Front Royal Road and Berkeley Springs Road with sites under review.
John A. Boyd has qualified as administrator of his father John O. Boyd s estate and posted personal surety of 1600. Gardner B. Hillyard has qualified as administrator of Mrs Jessie Hillyard Trenary s estate and posted a 9000 bond with Maryland Casualty Company as surety.
Pearson’s Weekly recounts the Eddystone lighthouse history from the 1698 first beacon to the present fourth structure. The tower endured a gale that swept away the second, stood at sixty three feet with timber stories and an octagonal lantern, and has shone daily for fifty years without fail.
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