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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
8
Socials and Fashions note all Red Cross knitters and supervisors must turn in all completed articles and leftover yarn at the production room on the second floor of the Episcopal Church house at 134 West Boskow Street on Thursday in January between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Mrs Inda Fawcett was received as a new member during a Monday night meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars post 2123 at the Friendship Fire Hall. A Valentine Party was announced for Tuesday February 11, with adjournment by auxiliary chaplain Mrs Katherine Flickinger.
The Good Friend class of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church will meet tomorrow night at 7 30 with Mrs Holmes Ritter 365 East Piccadilly Street. Mrs Agnes Shade will lead the devotional program. All members urged to attend as important business matters will be discussed.
Quota Clubs in Australia Canada and the United States mark the 28th founding anniversary with the theme Women leaders for World Peace. During February Quotarians honor women in United Nations bodies and their nations aiding peaceful solutions. Miss Mary Lou Steel heads the Winchester club.
A Winchester Fredericks County World Federalists chapter planning meeting held at Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Steck Jr. elected temporary chairman T. G. Scully and executive secretary Mrs. Steck. A large public meeting and permanent officers planned. watchers urged to call Mrs. Steck at 3543 for info.
Local residents Bruce Gibson and M B Canter depart for Florida for three weeks in St. Petersburg and Key West. William P Massey visits relatives in Alabama with daughter Farley. Gainesboro Junior League meeting postponed with date TBA. Imogene Crocker to return to work early next week after illness. Mrs Helen Grubbs improving after appendectomy at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Wesley Shiley still at home. Lou M Larrick back home after appendectomy. Winchester Branch AAUW invites reservations for Elks Club card party Feb 4. Mrs J F Bly returns from Bethesda and Muncie trip with Leech family.
A reader asks whether hosts should meet guests at trains buses or airports and the answer advises meeting if possible or giving explicit directions to the home. The page also covers proper knife handling in a public restaurant and notes prompt relief with Bisma Rex antacid powder.
A luncheon at The Chanticleer Inn honored Miss Helen Abshire who resigns to pursue religious education and Mrs. Mae Brown who leaves for private employment. Abshire served four years and Brown ten and a half. attendees included state and local welfare officials and staff members Flora Yowell Natella Chaplin Dorothy Rice Katherine Lineweaver and Harry Dieckman.
Advertises Laura Wheeler pattern 953 for small to large gloves and a new 1947 Needlecraft Catalogue with 102 illustrations. Requests twenty cents for pattern plus fifteen cents for catalogue, includes instructions, charts, photos, and embroidery transfer. Pattern 4763 baby layette also mentioned.
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret boost the corgi’s stature as Britain's favorite canine. The Pembroke corgi, with Welsh roots and a history as a cattle and rat-catching dog, rises in royal favor amid rising registrations. two varieties exist, and breed specs note a fox-like head, hazel eyes, and short natural tails.
Major and Mrs Glenn Seabright of West Leicester Street welcome a daughter Alice Lupton born Tuesday at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Seabright formerly Dorothy Lupton. The couple also has daughter Sally. Mr and Mrs David Childs of Kearneysville West Virginia announce a son born Tuesday night at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Childs was Margaret Johnson.
Mr and Mrs Justine Salvdor of Boyce welcome a son born early yesterday at Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs W A King of 1830 East North Avenue Baltimore announce a son born Saturday January 11 at Church Home Hospital. Mrs King, former Miss Emily Baker, is the daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Harry Martin Baker. The piece adds a note on 16th century Persian rug designs influencing modern patterns.
Considerable interest is shown in the Stewardship Training School conducted this week at the Congregational Christian Church by Rev. Warren H. Dennison of Dayton Ohio. Sessions are held tonight and Friday night at 7 30.
A fragment discusses whether finishing another person’s sentence is polite or rude. It weighs whether this act helps or annoys the speaker and asks if such interruption is courteous or disrespectful.
The tariff on imported hand woven Oriental rugs adds about one quarter to the retail price of these prized floor coverings.
The entry presents paradox as a word of the day. It defines paradox as a statement or expression seeming absurd yet possibly true and cites Shakespeare to illustrate the idea.
Salvation Army in Winchester held a meeting to launch the World F. F. Day campaign advocating Fighting Faith. The effort aims to unite Salvationists in 97 countries to promote world brotherhood and peace on earth against unbelief and materialism.
Virginia members of the Potomac River Commission were to testify before Maryland’s Senate panel as Maryland weighs a bill to punish violators of Potomac oyster laws. The bill, held for a hearing after Virginians requested one, would shift prosecutions away from Virginia authorities who now often release violators.
Funeral services for Mrs. Nell Williams Baker who died last Saturday at the New Century Hotel in Romney West Virginia were held at her old home south of town. Rev. E S Wilson Rev Allen Jones and Rev J Perry Cox conducted the services with interment in Indian Mound cemetery. She was widow of the late W H Baker of Huntington and eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs S H Williams of Romney. She was sister in law of Mrs John Williams formerly Miss Virginia Gold Clendening of Winchester and had many friends and connections in the city.
Guidance on correct word usage and pronunciation. Highlights include preferred phrases for events, such as accident occurs yesterday, and the proper stress for subpoena. Notes common misspellings anemia versus anaemia and suggests synonyms like originate initiate create and devise.
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