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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1941
Page
8
A luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club is scheduled for Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the hotel. Also on the same day the semi monthly W C T U gathering will be held at Hand Library.
A village shower honored the couple Mr and Mrs Clarence Slim Hershman last Friday hosted at Apple Ridge by Mr and Mrs H R Hershman. The bride Mary Liberine Stryker, daughter of Fred Stryker Sr., wed L Plickinger at the Cen Evangelical Reformed Church in Winchester on December 26. The couple traveled to Washington DC and Virginia on their wedding trip. The couple received many gifts and guests included Evelyn Bowers Irene Heltzel Marshall Stryker Dorothy Reed and others. Edward Pushie Cather celebrated his fifth birthday with a party hosted by Roy and Mrs Cather.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Sargent hosted a Saturday night gathering at their Kernstown home in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Finley who depart Monday for Washington D C. Attendees included Mrs. Percy Manuel, Mrs. Eva Hamilton, Mrs. Beeler, Mrs. Willey, Mrs. Oates, the Ritter and Barrett families, Roy Donald and Breton Barrett, George and daughter Evelyn, Miss Gladys White, Mrs. Bernice Perkins, the Clowsers, Mrs. Licklider, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Copenhaver, Miss Betty Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Copenhaven, and Mr. Ralph George. Cards and refreshments followed. Also today, several local women attended the Quarterly Conference at the Methodist Church in Woodstock from Berryville and Winchester.
Mrs Eva Swanson 35 gave birth by cesarean to three girls and a boy in Michigan Ind. The four infants died within six and a half hours of delivery. Swanson weighed 98 pounds and stood four feet 11 inches tall.
Mr and Mrs Branson Brill announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Kathleen Brill to Mr William Ratlief son of Mrs Grace Ratlief. The ceremony occurred Monday morning January 6 in Oakland Maryland. The couple will reside in Winchester.
A formal dinner etiquette guide covers passing dishes once then returning them to the pantry, offering seats to standing passengers including women with babies or disabled riders, and presenting people to one’s mother rather than mothers to others.
The Star asks readers to submit social and personal items by 12 noon daily. Call 33 or 32 to place notices or announcements.
Mrs Roy Campbell and Mrs J F Bly return home after visiting Arlington guests of Mr and Mrs Shirley Bly. Mrs Frank Smith and her sons Jack and Jim go back to Port Clinton Ohio from the area guests of Mr and Mrs D A Smith. Lorenzo C Lewis leaves Berryville for Pensacola Florida with the Geographic Survey. David H Allen Jr leaves Berryville for Washington DC to take a new position. Ralph N W sidewalk and Richard Palmer attend the Pennsylvania State Fair in Harrisburg. Virginia Funkhouser ill with pneumonia at Memorial Hospital. Frank Armstrong Jr W B Glover and W W Hunt represent National Fruit Products Company in Chicago at the Canning Convention. Margaret Sullivan confined at National Avenue home with the flu. Charles Roberts returns after a weekend on Maryland's Eastern Shore with his parents.
The Girls Athletic Association hosts a tea in card party form at Liberty Hall tomorrow evening at 7 45. Bridge clubs meet at Mrs. Joseph Wright home on West Boscawen Street. Winchester Little Theatre lists rehearsals for The Late Christopher Bean each Mon Tue Wed and Fri at 7 30 in the American Legion Building.
Cy Mee of Kernstown departs for New York City to direct singing for service clubs and town hall meetings near the metropolis on a several week engagement under contract with the Lyceum Bureau.
The article urges business girls to value sleep as the real energy source for productivity. It warns that lack of rest depletes nerve forces and overall efficiency, and notes beauty routines cannot compensate for fatigue. It also gives scalp care tips including weekly shampoo, bland soap with borax, thorough rinsing with a spray, and a witch hazel prefriction rub.
The National Defense Commission disclosed that 67 companies receive special tax privileges for 120 million dollars in defense plant expansion. Certificates let firms amortize new additions faster, deducting costs from taxable income over five years. The certificates cover expansions issued through January 15 with more to be announced.
The Star notes deadlines differ by location with 9 P M in London 10 P M in Berlin and 11 P M in Rome and Alexandria and Bucharest outlining late news timing.
Millwood Virginia social column lists guests of Mr and Mrs William Bell Watkins and Miss Virginia Watkins at the North Wales club Warrenton. tea entertainments and visits to Charlottesville Baltimore and Boston referenced along with hospital news about Tom H B Meade and travels of Mrs Alexis Sommaripa.
Stephens City High School library has spent about 400 on new books this session. Teacher Joe Walker ordered 60 worth for biology and agriculture instructor Fred Dobbins placed a 60 book order. The library now holds roughly 1 500 volumes under principal R E Ayler with librarian Miss Sue Pullins.
Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio will headline a banquet in Harrisonburg on February 12 Lincoln's birthday at 7 30 pm The event is the Seventh district Republican conclave and Fred Robinson of Winchester serves on the arrangements committee.
The Rev Lavily D Gruber announces services at Shockeysville Friday night January 24 at 7 and at Howard's Chapel Wednesday night January 29 at 7. Also explains why marionettes are called marionettes in the Middle Ages.
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