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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1939
Page
8
Sunday at 2 00 p m final rehearsal of chanters before trip to world fair to broadcast. Monday at 8 00 p m Madison Lodge of Odd Fellows meets at East Boscawen steel hall.
Lantz Hauptmann of Winchester has been promoted to manager in charge of the service department at the local Chevrolet dealer, continuing six years with the firm and coming from Clarke County’s prominent family. The promotion was announced today.
Widow Plama Louise Abatiello Palmer files appearance in New Jersey estate matter as two private detectives are jailed for following her. Dr Wade Marshall of Johns Hopkins and family guests visit Winchester for the Fourth of July as social rounds continue with local notables attending dinners and events.
Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions about who should stand in the receiving line at a wedding reception and how to pronounce negligee. It also says where to lay the napkin if the first course is served before guests are seated.
Miss Margaret Byrd and Miss Eleanor Flood departed for Washington today. Byrd will stay as guest of Flood over the weekend, continuing their social plans in the capital.
Millwood Virginia sees residents hosting visitors and planning trips. Tyson Gilpin leaves to visit Long Island host Mrs. Oliver Is lin. Gilpin family plans Canada fishing trip. Everard Meade Jr. departs for four years at West Point. Alice Winslow and Margaret Dole sail for England for a month. Local dances and dinners feature Clarke and Leesburg events.
Ardmore residents welcome guests from nearby towns. Mr. Robert Page III arrived Friday to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mitchell. Mrs. Prescott Huidekoper and Rosalind from Long Island returned Thursday to their Clarke home after visiting Corne lius Rathbourne and family. Mr. H G Phillips arrived Thursday to spend time at his Clarke residence.
Miss Margaret Scenmiskie of Baltimore and Miss Lorna Pottberg of Staten Island return after visiting Bryn Mawr graduate Miss Anne Cabell Williams. Other graduates include Jean Chandler Smith, Frances Heins, and Morgan McEwan. Mrs. Thomas Nelson Carter and Mrs. Robert Randolph plan a North Cape cruise. Edward Jaquelin Smith and Robert Cory sail to Europe for two months tour of Norway and Sweden.
Miss Ida Grenlaw of New Orleans enjoyed several days with Mr. and Mrs. George N. Buck before leaving Thursday for Blacksburg en route home. The Loving Service Circle of The King's Daughters met at Mrs. G. W. Cooles with Mrs. Meredith Buck assisting. about twenty two members attended. Mr. and Mrs. Obie Carter announce the birth of a son yesterday at the Johnson Nursing Home.
Santa Fe reports that meals in the city jail were being served to visitors, not only prisoners. Councilman John W. Chapman urged steps to restrict feeding to inmates, ensuring visitors do not receive meals at the jail.
Fort Wayne police officer on a day off found his car parked overtime. He wrote himself a ticket then paid a 50 cent fine at the traffic bureau.
Montgomery of Warrenton and two others surrendered after Washington columnist Count Igor Casini accused them of tar and feathering him. They waived hearing, posted 2500 dollars bond, and await grand jury action. If indicted, they face up to ten years in prison.
Hollywood police investigate the hammer killing of 56 year old Mrs Margaret Campbell. They seek her son Campbell Macdonald 23 for questioning. The slaying is linked to the February unsolved murder of Anna Sosoyeva, a Russian dancer and student at Los Angeles City College where Mrs Campbell taught.
Clarke Athletics host the Interior Department team tomorrow at the high school diamond in Berryville Virginia. The game features ex Yankee Jim Murphy on the mound with Jewett as backup and manager Perry Smith aiming for a Berryville upset ahead of the Fourth of July showdown with Winchester Park.
Public auction to be held at the front door of the Frederick County Courthouse Winchester VA on July 15 1939 at 11 30 A M. The sale covers 355 acres in Shawnee District formerly held by C A Wisecarver and Edna O Wisecarver now under The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore mortgage. Substituted trustee T Russell Cather will offer the property cash subject to the prior mortgage and existing liens. Auctioneer Co I Brumback listed.
A dozen shoe shine boys from Madison Square Garden area earned 75 cents to buy a $1.50 bouquet for former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. They took the flowers to Polyclinic Hospital and presented them to a special officer who delivered them to Dempsey in his room. He was asleep at tea time.
A plane nearly touched down when a mother pheasant led a brood of ten across the runway. Captain W. J. McDonough, flying 50 feet high, gunned his motors to grant right of way to the birds, causing the aircraft to swerve.
Stillwater police chief Horace Andrews promotes crime prevention by removing mail and newspapers from porches while residents are away. He says accumulated mail tips burglars to empty homes and announces patrol officers will cart off the litter if absentees leave their addresses at the station.
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