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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1930
Page
3
Social and personal items indicate Mrs Jaba Miller, the social reporter, will vet game details by telephone between 9 and 4 for the following day.
Invitations sent for the marriage of Miss Virginia Bluhm and Athol William Cliff at Orange New Jersey with wedding party details. Local students, including John B. Childs and William B. Kern, appear on Virginia Tech honor lists. Mrs. Affleck sails for Europe aboard the Europa with plans to tour foreign countries.
Miss Issabel Hollis president of the Girls' Athletic Association entertained at a dinner at Tokas Inn last night for officers and members of the old and new executive councils. Guests included Mildred Millison Elsie Mathews Mary Sullivan Lou Hollis Dorothy Kremer Salome Crisman and Mesdames Lycett Brown Campbell and Hoshour.
Masters Frederick and Dickie Crisman hosted a gathering for many young friends yesterday at 2 South Loudoun Street, the Crisman residence. Children spent hours in games with prizes awarded to winners, while refreshments were served and yellow decorations with sunflowers adorned the tables.
Announcement from Lynchburg states Judge Henry Clay McDowell and Mrs McDowell presided at the August 10 1928 ceremony in Baltimore uniting their niece Miss Mary Clay Jackson and Mr Joseph Beale. Mrs Barton and son depart Richmond townhouse for Darien Conn for the summer with Major Barton to join them.
Dr and Mrs Charles Noyes Tyndell from Terre Haute Indiana Mrs H C Coale of Baltimore Maryland and Mrs William Gulick from Washington DC have arrived to spend the summer at the Washington Inn on South Stewart Street Dr and Mrs J A Richard departed for a ten day trip to New York and New England likely staying at Lake Seneca New York
About fifty Market Street Methodist Church Epworth League members plan a day trip to Camp Elizabeth Smith in Fort Valley leaving Winchester at 6 am. They will join contests and an open air service at 11 am led by Rev. P. R. Deihl, with activities throughout the day and return late tomorrow night. The trip is organized by Rev. N. A. Lineweaver and Epworth League president Harold Rowe.
The Rt. Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd and Mrs. Lloyd celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in New York with more than 300 friends. Daughters Mrs. Churchill Gibson of Richmond and Mrs. Lymington and Mrs. Haddon of Charlottesville attended with their husbands. Gifts included two goldfish, gold dust beggings, Episcopal robes, and an Oriental rug.
Mr. Gladstone Crim, long time clerk at the George Washington Hotel, leaves tomorrow for Ithaca New York to enter Cornell University for its summer course in hotel administration. Miss Ruth Bucher of Hammans store takes a week vacation. Miss Isabelle Hammack of Washington will visit her mother in Middletown for the weekend.
Several items recount visits and gatherings around Winchester including Miss Mary Renner’s birthday gathering hosted by Mr and Mrs Herman Adams on the Mount Pleasant lawn. The text notes improving health of Miss Eleanor Willey and various relatives traveling for visits and trips to cities and overseas sites. An eight year old Arkansas City youth speaks multiple languages.
A sleeper car of the Bar Ber Express from New York to Portland tipped over at a grade crossing in heavy rain as it left a station. A 70 year old Maryland counsellor, a Lowell Massachusetts man, and a Philadelphia porter were injured slightly. Passengers were camp counselors and matrons headed to summer camps.
The funeral for Mrs. Mary E. Hupman, who died Monday at the home of her son the Rev J B Hupman in Middletown, was held yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter near Waynesboro Virginia with burial at Riverview Cemetery. She is survived by ten children including J B of Lees Va W L of Ween M of Mebane N C H H Paul Minn Flosa Coiner of Waynesboro Lena of Kalamazoo Mich Mrs Leon Stoutsenberger of Washington DC and H B of Norfolk Va.
Mrs Annie A Littlefield mother of Inspector Gerard Littlefield of the New York police department and her brother Edward Bracken with his daughter were injured in a Long Island automobile crash while traveling to Winchester to see Nina Glynn Anderson. Inspector Littlefield said his mother suffered a skull fracture and multiple contusions but has a fair chance of recovery while in St Johns Hospital. Bracken and his daughter had less serious injuries.
Fifteen people were killed and many injured when a Milan bound passenger train collided with a freight train eleven miles from Bologna in Fasso Italy. The crash occurred today prompting emergency response and investigations.
Former bootlegger George Williams 48 of Wood River is shot dead by machine gun fire just before midnight. Williams' companion Herbert Cult 50 sustained minor injuries when the car hit a post after Williams lost control. They were returning from the Kingshighway Kennel Club dog racing track and were followed by unknown occupants. Forty bullets were found in Williams at the morgue.
Joseph Raymond Foster 22 of Woodstock Virginia was brought to Memorial Hospital about 8 last night with a bullet wound believed accidental. The bullet glanced off a rock striking Foster during gun practice. Dr Fravel treated him and Dr P W Boyrd performed lead removal surgery. hospital staff report he is doing very nicely.
A survey by the California Automobile Association finds 16 500 rural consolidated schools in operation with 42 000 motor buses.
Berryville hosts a two day horse show with 29 classes including Clarke County hunters, ladies hunters, hunt teams, saddle horses, pony classes, and color drives. entries range from 1 to 10 dollars with prizes and free entries for racing events and championship hunter in hand.
Several clergymen will take part in the annual memorial service at Fairview Lutheran Church in Frederick county next Sunday July 6 announced by the arrangements committee. J E Eaton will be choir leader Grace White organist two services 11 am and 2 30 pm program includes prayers sermons and talks by Revs C H Anderson J C Spindler H W Shickle J R Collis with special music and benedictions.
New York July 3 The stock ticker showed speculative exhaustion as prices drifted lower and trading slowed to a two year low before the triple holiday suspension. Call money finished at 2 percent and total daily sales were about 1.2 million shares.
Elizabeth Gill, Gertrude Broun Reynolds and others are listed among society guests in Berryville. Attendees include Miss Sarah Crown and Miss Hilda Levi, with notes on travel and family ties. Nearby families host reunions and holiday gatherings at homes like "Woodlawn" and "Rosney" in Clarke County.
Clarke County prepares for the second annual horseshoe pitching contest sponsored by the Washington Star for Northern Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia. County Chairman Walter Rutherford notes growing interest with entries due July 9 and preliminaries starting July 16.
Mt Williams Virginia notes announce church services at the school house on Saturday July 5 at 8 p m led by Rev J Russell Curran. The item also reports local moves visits and guests including Milton Williams at Mrs N C Williams and Mrs Harry Smithey from Winchester visiting Mrs West.
William Kibler and Mrs Himer Cook with Miss Bly visited grandfather J H Kart. I N Wallace and children spent Sunday with Mrs West. Mr eeree Rumine t is improved after months ill. Arthur White moved to a new home on the Northwestern Turnpike. Miss Jeanetta Brewer visited aunt Mrs Dc J Keckley in Winchester.
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