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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1939
Page
8
Society calendar notes a weekly meeting of Madison Lodge of Odd Fellows at East Boscaweaster hall on Monday at 6:00 p.m. The item places local fraternal group activity in a community schedule context.
Sunday gathering at Mr and Mrs Charles Davis honored their children with relatives from Berryville Gerrardstown Chestnut Grove and nearby areas. A watermelon feast followed a 3 PM dinner and guests included the Lights Kerns Evans and Sargents. Also noted Mildred Largent wed Homer Peer at a quiet Hagerstown ceremony and Jack Brandon planned a weekend trip to Elkins North Carolina for the Fourth of July with his parents.
Mrs Elma Braithwaite formerly Miss Elma Braithwaite and Paul Anderson were honored at a Saturday night shower and roast at Hogue Creek. Guests brought gifts and the evening featured campfire games with hot dogs and marshmallows.
Questions and answers discuss whether a man should precede a woman in uncertain or dangerous settings, whether to answer a church wedding invitation when not invited to the reception, and ink color for correspondence advising black ink for both social and business notes.
Mr and Mrs Grover C Cooper and their daughters Ethel Athey Cooper and Retha Carson Cooper have returned home on North Cameron street after a week at the Hotel Piccadilly New York City and visits to the World's Fair and other sites. Little Miss Helen Garner Edmonds daughter of Mr and Mrs Garner Edmonds now of Washington DC was operated on for tonsils at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Edith Brecker a 17 year old German refugee living in Brooklyn received a $100 prize for designing a flat fountain pen. The Greater New York Fund will match the gift and present Edith with a duplicate.
Commonwealth Attorney James P. Reardon and his son run two Clarke and Frederick county farms totaling 900 acres. Rose Hill covers 420 acres once owned by M. H. Reardon. Russell Farm adds 480 acres, purchased last November near Cook's Garage. The springed Russell farm yields about half a million gallons daily. Expected harvests include 1,000 bushels corn per 65 acres, 600 wheat, 1,000 barley, 700 rye, 700-800 oats from 25 acres, plus 32 loads of clover hay from 18 acres. The properties include 57 acres of apples and livestock including Hampshire sheep, Poland China and Chester White hogs, Herefords and Black Pole cattle. Six regular tenants operate the farms.
Miss Martha Virginia Kern wed Thomas Jefferson Starett at Rev. S. J. Goode’s parsonage on West Monmouth Street. Starett, a Winchester police officer, and the bride, daughter of Mrs. Virginia Kern, plan to live in Winchester after a wedding trip to Atlantic City.
Miss Cora Fletcher has returned to her brother’s home near Hayfield after nine weeks of treatment at Mrs. Alison Kline’s nursing home in Midletown, greatly improved. Mr. Lemuel P. Johnson also recuperates satisfactorily at the same facility. Dr. Robert Nelson of Washington D C visits with his parents, the Rev and Mrs R B Nelson, on West Boscawen Street during the holiday weekend.
Mrs Zella Jeffers wife of Rev Joseph Jeffers testified in Los Angeles as the couple faced morals charges. She said a drink at a district attorney's request made her sick and she woke up in jail amid allegations of anti Jewish and anti Catholic remarks by the minister and related conduct.
The Rev. Mr. Honeycutt accepted the call to Grace Church in Marion serving as supply from August 1 to November 1. A prominent young minister from the Virginia Synod, he led the church while plans for a regular pastor were completed. He and his wife have no children.
Postmaster W Nelson Page outlines 30 cent per half ounce air mail rates for trans Atlantic service. Eastbound New York to Marseille departs Wednesdays at noon, 3 p.m. arrival in France. Winchester chute must be used by 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Northern route NY to Southampton departs Saturdays 7 30 a.m. with Friday deadlines. Return trips begin Sundays 8 p.m. for the Southern Route and Wednesdays 2 p.m. from Southampton for the Northern Route.
Mrs Norborne- Cole formerly Miss Katherine Lee Mudd of Baltimore visits her parents Mr and Mrs R E Mudd in Vaucluse. Mr and Mrs Forrest Jones newly married return to their apartment after a week long wedding trip to Atlantic City Ocean City Philadelphia and nearby locales.
By virtue of an attachment in my hands in the matter of H. Larrick vs. W. T. Hayden I will offer for sale at public auction at No 23 E Piccadilly Street Winchester Virginia July 10 at 10 A.M. the defendant's personal property including dishes and glasses ice refrigerator case scales cash register tables and chairs. Cash terms. Taylor L Barr City Sergeant. 1-1,3,5,7,8-5t
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