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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1930
Page
3
Social and personal news items may be mailed or telephoned to the social reporter Mra. Isabelle F. Miller for next day coverage. Submissions accepted between 3 and 4 p m by phone or mail.
The Civic League garden committee awarded first prize of 3 dollars to Mrs. Jacob Streit for flowers and general garden appeal in Braddock street. Second prize of 2 dollars goes to Mrs. James B. Winkfield for a neat lawn at Winkfield Manor National avenue. Honorable mentions include Mrs. Fleet Gray avenue and others. Prizes awarded again late July. entrants may call Mrs. Fred Barr Boscawen street.
Twenty one members of Madi son Lodge No. 6 Odd Fellows attended a meeting of the War densville Lodge in War densville West Virginia on Tuesday evening and conferred several degrees on candidates. The party traveled from Winchester on the Winchester and Western bus with R T Mason grand master of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia. Attendees included C B Stickley of Vaucluse grand conductor R B Carter J B Bywaters H C Brill E J Snapp Harry Seabright David Hottle S R Kirk M M Hottle L J Light L L Heisman J P Sheetz E B Hildebrand R L Jones E N Larrick J R Everhart N B Grove C A Snyder of Winchester and J E and Fred E Kline of Middletown.
Social season at Jordan White Sulphur Springs features Mrs. Thomas Seeds and Miss Elsie Seeds of New York, Mrs. Charles George Worden and Miss Hele Worden of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Voigt of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee of Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Williams of Harrisonburg. Ione Soutter and Elizabeth Soutter from Washington also visit. Picnics and the swimming pool are popular. J W Stipe hosts a large bridge party with Mrs. Daniel Lupton. Dr E W Miller, a U S Army reserve captain, hosts a Thursday night hotel bar and departs for Carlisle, Pa., for two weeks of camp training. Valley Veterinary Hospital remains under Dr Floyd I McClure in his absence.
Miss Eliza Wingfield entertained at a Jordan Springs wetney roast and swimming party. Guests included numerous Martins, West Virginia residents and many Wingfield family members with accompanying friends and relatives.
Mr. O L Jamison travels to Mackinac Island Michigan for a one week Aetna Life Insurance Company sales conference at the Grand Hotel. About 600 agents and home office staff will attend with sessions recreation and a banquet aboard boat travel across the Great Lakes.
Mr. J. D. Cammer manager of the Cammer Tire Company and local Goodrich dealer reports a visit to Akron Ohio at the B F Goodrich Rubber Company. He observes changes and improved tire manufacturing methods and notes his Akron Industrial University training. Dr and Mrs George William Small return to New England after visiting Battle field Inn Kernstown and Ban cor Bar Harbor with Mrs Chiles. Mrs Hyde leaves Florence Alabama after news of her mother’s illness. Mr and Mrs Hyde had wintered in Alabama. Mr J Walter Nail and son William Nail visit relatives in this city.
Miss Esther M. Thomas married Dr. B. B. Young Thursday evening July 3 at the East Piccadilly Street home of relatives. The ring ceremony was used with Mrs. Ella Thomas and Mrs. William Thomas among the attendees. Dr. Young, son of Mr. B. W. Young of Washington, recently served on the Garfield Memorial Hospital staff. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Ella Thomas, is a Handley High School alumna and Garfield Memorial Hospital graduate. The couple plan to move to New York where Dr. Young will join the New York State Hospital staff. Also noted is a Pennsylvania marriage license issued to David F. Shearer and Fannie D. Bryan of Osboro, Pa. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bryan.
A marriage license was issued in the Corporation Court clerk's office to Miss Madge Rinard and Mr. William M. Humphrey, both of Wardensville, West Virginia. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Humphrey, and the bride the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rinard.
Mr and Mrs Bernard Travers of Stephenson announce the birth of a son on June 27 weighing 11 pounds 2 ounces named George Osborne Travers. Mrs Travers was formerly Miss Faith Jackson.
Mrs Maynard Clowser entertained for her daughter Colleen Clowser on her seventh birthday. Twenty guests attended an afternoon of games followed by refreshments.
In Chambersburg a couple filed intent to marry in the corporation clerk's office on Thursday. The bride is Catherine Eby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Eby, and the groom is William Ludwig, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ludwig. Christian Church Ladies Aid Elects Officers. The Ladies' Aid Society of the First Christian Church met at Rev. R. L Williamson's home and elected officers for the year: President Mrs. R. L Williamson, Vice President Mrs. Martha Kbaugh, Secretary Mrs. Gertrude Orndorff, Treasurer Mrs. Lemeul Anderson.
Messrs R T Bryarly C R Keeler of this city and F L Jordan of Charles Town W Va depart Monday for Quebec to attend the Home Life Insurance Company of New York honor roll convention July 10 at Chateau Frontenac. They expect to return late week.
Local Paynes Chapel Sunday School plans a yard party at Ridgeway on Friday in July. Many members and friends are invited, with various residents visiting from Washington and Baltimore and others attending dances, travels, and family gatherings around Winchester and nearby towns.
Chicago July 5. After 23 days aloft in a new world refuelling endurance flight the Hunter brothers John and Kenneth consider offers of cash and contracts. They landed at 5 21 30 pm yesterday with their second hand monoplane and attended a banquet before resting. Walter and Alfred, their refuelling crew, assisted in 223 air contacts.
President Hoover met Senator Fess at the Rapidan presidential lodge amid reports he may involve himself in the Huston tenure controversy. The Ohioan arrived as national committee officers prepare to meet in five days. Hoover rode with White House physician Captain Joell T. Boone while others hiked or stayed in camp.
In Houston on July 5 eight balloons began a national elimination race drifting north with light winds. The entrants crossed into Arkansas near Texarkana after about 270 miles aloft from Houston where 15 hydrogen bags went up late yesterday. Officials believe all participants remain airborne and fate varies little among them.
The Arkansas Florida and Utah entered Kiel harbor with Naval Academy midshipmen aboard. German and American naval officers welcomed the ships as Consul General Kehl and Rear Admiral Cluverius conducted official calls and ceremonies.
The Virginia Department of the American Legion reports a record 8132 members, aiming for 8500 by the Harrisburg convention. State adjutant W. Glenn Elliott notes many districts back State Commander B. M. Roszel as a candidate to be elected national commander in Boston.
A July 5 report from Constanza notes sixteen people drowned when an excursion boat capsized and wrecked in the Black Sea during a cruise off Romania. Local authorities launched rescue efforts and investigated the cause of the incident.
National Fruit Product Company of Washington expands operations by acquiring Shenandoah Apple Products Corporation at Strasburg Virginia. The Strasburg plant remains under John Grubbs supervision while E G Grab becomes general manager of the Winchester based network of plants.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports a two cent per gallon cut in the state yesterday effective at noon dropping from 20.7 to 18.7 cents per gallon. Local dealers say no reduction occurred locally and no official word was received. Other dispatches note independents in California cutting prices.
James Hart and William Snowden den were arraigned before Mayor Shryock on fighting and disorderly conduct charges. Hart testified a thief grabbed his watch on Fremont street and fled. a struggle ensued and both men were jailed for 30 days.
Six people are dead after a race conflict in Emelle Alabama. A gun battle erupted late yesterday followed by a lynching of a Black man and the burning of a Negro dwelling.
A fire razed the Transylvanian village of Bosha destroying 260 houses four churches and four synagogues leaving about four thousand homeless. Gerlachos also burned with only a church and school spared. Three people were likely fatally injured.
Massanutten Airways Inc unveils a large six passenger Fokker plane at Harrisonburg to promote rapid air travel between Shenandoah Valley towns. Captain J Hamilton Brown pilots the craft with Charles D Shank and family aboard, demonstrating routes from Teterboro to Washington and Winchester.
A Fokker plane follows the Valley Pike from Stephens City through Middletown Strasburg and Woodstock to Staunton saluting locals along the way. The 11 minute Harrisonburg to Staunton flight showcases villages and farms in a bird’s eye view with speed between 90 and 110 miles per hour.
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