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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 29, 1946

Page

6

Social Notes Highlight City Weekend Weddings and Visits

Miss Wanda Gayle Berry wed Charles Russell Grim in a Montague Avenue Methodist ceremony. Bride wore gold with black accessories and red rose corsage. groom serves in the U S Navy in New Jersey. Other notes show guests and weekend visits across Gainesboro Winchester and nearby towns.

Wanda Gayle Berry Wm. R Gainesboro Charles Russell Grim Charles W. Grim Winchester John Teter Montague Avenue Methodist Favre Grim In Store New Jersey United States Navy

Winchester First Lady of the Year Revealed at Inn

Mrs. Samuel C. Brooks was named Winchester’s First Lady of the Year at a Beta Sigma Phi reception at The Chanticleer Inn. The secret nominating committee cited her 22 years in the city and extensive Red Cross Civilian Defense and community work including the U. S. O Room, cancer education, and church activities.

Samuel C. Brooks Winchester Brooks Epilson Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Chanticleer Inn Books American Red Cross Red Cross Irs Newton D. Baker Hospital Martinsburg W. Va Winchester Girl Scout Committee Gertrude Barton Nursery School Britain Frederick County Loudoun Street Richmond Jefferson Street James W. Brooks College of Virginia Marenae Handley High School Citadel Charleston Samuel C. Brooks, Jr Dr. Brooks Brook's Pharmacy East Piccadilly Street L. M. Allen Beta Sigma Phi International Linda C. Brooks V.K. Sirbaugh Norma June Richards Beta Sigma Phi Dorothy Rice Jack Blackburn

Miss Ollie Kline Guest Of Parents

Miss Ollie Kline of this city spent Monday at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Scott Kline near Stephens City in a family visit.

Miss Kline Ollie Kline Scott Kline Stephens City

Illnesses and Visits Span Local Community Circles

Eddie Manuel, son of Mr and Mrs H Clay Manuel, is ill at home with scarlet fever, improved. Mrs Wayne Warren of Kerns town underwent an appendectomy Saturday. improving. Mr Harold Baughman of Baltimore visits Sunnyside. Beverley couple spent weekend in Washington. W Dailey of Ridgeway recovering after major surgery in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Ruth Owens returns home from Washington. Rev and Mrs Teter host Pittsburgh guests. Mrs Stroup called by father W D Dailey’s illness.

Fred Stotler Marlboro Winchester Memorial Hospital Eddie Manuel H. Clay Manuel Valley Avenue Memorial Hospital Wayne Warren Kernstown Daily W. D. Dailey Ridgeway W. Va Teter Pittsburgh 8. E. Stroup John Teter

Norwegian survivor testifies on ride of death across Germany

A Norwegian witness at the International Military Tribunal described a death march from Gross Rosen to Dachau. He testified 1,447 captives were dumped from open cars at Hanns Chappelen’s station as SS guards beat and starved prisoners during a five day transit in subzero weather.

Nernberg Germany International Military Tribunal Hanns Chappelen Gross Rosen Silesia Dachau Red Army Oslo Charles du Bost

Fettered by Engagement After Thanksgiving Dinner Incident

A reader recalls ending an engagement after Thanksgiving dinner when her fiancé uncle’s bet on who would help the mother after the meal triggered doubts. She still loves him but questions a future together.

Leva Jerry

War Memorial Benefit Auction Seeks More Donations

Boyd G Headley announced that many antiques have been contributed for a War Memorial benefit sale at his south Braddock Street auction rooms Thursday. He urged more contributions, especially furniture, offering to call for items to boost the fund’s proceeds.

Boyd G. Headley South Braddock Street War Memorial Fund

Modern Etiquette Q and A guidance from Roberta Lee

A Q A on proper length of friendly informal calls and how a man may reprove a boisterous escortee. It confirms a well bred man may end a friendship by such reproof and gives the valet pronunciation with emphasis on the first syllable.

Shoppers Reminded of Sale With Donor Contributions

Donor items added to the display in the Northern Virginia Power Company office on Main Street to remind downtown shoppers of the sale.

Northern Virginia Power Company Main Street

The crazy Queen of Lebanon in Snowbound

G. G. A. Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, an Englishwoman who died near Sidon in 1839, inspired Whittier as the famed queen despite her 1810 voyage to Syria and long residence there. Bedouins admired her kindness as a superior being.

Lebanon Whittier Hester Lucy Stanhope Sidon Syria England

Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon

A compact English study note lists common word issues. It covers misused phrases mispronunciations misspellings and synonyms with a daily word focus on disputation as a form of controversy and debate.

W. L. Gordon

Social Hub Hosts Hunt Breakfast at the Glen

Millwood Va residents gathered for a hunt breakfast hosted by Mrs Roland Mitchell and Miss Agnes Mitchell at the Glen. Guests included Mr and Mrs Tom Byrd Mrs Edward Jenkins Capt and Mrs William Barrett and many Clarke and Millwood families with trips to Richmond and Washington noted for several members.

Millwood Roland G. Mitchell Agnes P. Mitchell William Bell Watkins, Jr Graham Dougherty Benjamin Harrison A. A. Baldwin George H. Burwell Jean Pentecost

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Berry Charles Grim James F. Good Heights Good W. J. Goode Jus L. Goode Washington, DC Army Ppines Japan Fred Lintz Warrenton Joseph Paugh Denny Jameser and Son Berkeley Bailey Cecil Bailey South Cameron Street Calvin Allison Dan Coffinberger Sandra Lou and Baltimore, Md Iberger B. Prank Johnson North Kent Street Mrs. Campbell Ruth Whitmore Harold Campbell White Post Committee’s Choice P. O. of A Order of America Weblake Odd Fellows Hall Con Red Bud Ladies Aid Shoreham Hotel Washington H. J. Oates Gon Alan B.F. Liggett Acorn Heights Valentine DeRay Boston Brooks’ Pharmacy Winchester Food Center N. Loudoun St Caliente Huntsberry Fashion Front Boral Chambersburg Baughman Baltimore Harold Baughman Mr. Baughman Virgil Baughman Sunnyside Ruth Owens Washington, D. C Gaunt’s Drug Store New York City Lmart Munich Gestapo Norway Bernadotte Heinrich Himmler Cappelen Fetters South Lovpoue Roberta Lee Berryville Boyce & Clarke County E. Piccadilly St Millwood Social Thomas B. Clagett Anne Clarke Walter Lee Thomas B. Meade Edgewood Arsenal Louis B. Meade Phil Meade Richard E. Dole Summerville Jane Cary Randolph Mrs. B. O'F. Randolph Burwell Jacobs Geo. P. Greenhalgh, Sr Springsbury Bill Weatherall George P. Greenhalgh, Jr Roland Mitchell Mr. Mitchell Mrs Henry Mitchell Dugie Scholer Joseph Moore, Jr Louis B. Meade, Jr Thomas H. B. Meade Kenneth N. Gilpin Mrs. Neely Major Gilpin McGhee Tyson Pin Nassau New York Lovett Brothers Medicross Staunton, Va the Commercial & Savings Bank Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Haldeman’s Hill’s Novelty Store Abbott, Proctor & Paine New York Stock Exchange East Main Street Virginia Timberlake Ladies’ Store General Electric Philco Kelvinator Maytag Bendix Molden Electric CO Loudoun St Daily Crossword Fuss Fen HI al RIV USA Pri
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