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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1958
Page
6
The Rev J Goode leaves for two weeks visiting family in Roanoke Lynchburg and relatives. Infants born to Donald and Carver, and William Edward Grant, with mothers Basie Lee Conner and Mary Edith Anderson. Thomas Lee Racy and Ronald Dennis Carver in hospital. Vicki Lee Cummins born in Albuquerque. Deamond Todd Jobe named in Berryville. Visitors include Renner Weakley Fraley Hott Hott. Joseph Barton visiting Evanston Illinois.
July events list includes Bible School closing at Mt Pleasant E C B Church, tent revival at Gainesboro, hospital auxiliary meetings, fire company gatherings, lodge and bridge evenings, Lions Club, tryouts, AA at First Baptist, Moose and Rebekah activities, Hiran Lodge and Masonic events, dog show and theatre previews, art class, teenage lounge, and a Cedar Creek yard party with ham and chicken suppers. Also notes Moose ritual practice, Bible School at St John Lutheran, Friendly Grove H D Club gathering and picnic plans, plus local homecomings and family dinners.
Kernstown Methodist Charge hosts a July 12 yard party at church grounds with country ham and chicken suppers starting 5 39 p m rain or shine. Girls Athletic Association held a dance at Lee Jackson Restaurant honoring new members with breakfast served afterward. MT Pleasant Bible School closes with exercises Sunday at 7 p m and service at 8 p m led by Rev Daniel Agnew open to the public.
July 3 a daughter Bren da Gail blessed to Mr and Mrs Edgar Allen Shifflett Middletown Thelma Fry is the mother’s former name July 4 a daughter Vicki Carolotta to Mr and Mrs Eugene Ander son Clinedinst Stephens City Thelma Bradley is the mother’s former name July 5 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Norman Edward Pope 15 W Pall Mall St Mrs Pope formerly Miss Jean Marie Hovermale
A roundup of notable deaths includes George Judson King 86 former Morning Sun founder and National Popular Government League director who died of a heart attack. Also Dr Pedro Manini Rios 78 Uruguayan statesman and La Manana editor. William A Callahan 68 Baltimore contractor and Orioles director. Morris G Lewin 69 founder of Liquid Spears Inc.. Rev Dr Edwin Carlyle Lobenstine 86 Presbyterian missionary and former NCC China secretary. Graham Lee Davis 65 former AMA president and hospital administrator.
Miss Donna Marie Emerson left to spend two weeks with her sister in Berkeley Springs West Virginia. Mrs Harold Baker and children stayed at Five Oaks with sister Mrs Anna Brill. Mr and Mrs Thomas B Cooper hosted a birthday dinner for their son John Randolph Cooper. Mrs Cleta Clowser McDonald is a patient in a Washington hospital. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Rankin
English lesson notes by Gordon discuss words often missed mispronounced or misspelled. It defines helpmate and helpmeet and explains rarefied pronunciation and the difference between pearl and purl. The piece also offers a word study suggestion and highlights protract as a daily vocabulary goal.
The annual purebred ram show and sale will be held Monday at the Farmers Livestock Exchange, sponsored by the Virginia Purebred Sheep Breeders Assn. George Allen, associate extension animal husbandman, will be sales manager. Thirty-one rams from Hampshire, Southdown, Suffolk, Dorset and Shropshire breeds will be offered. The show starts at 10 a.m. and the sale at 1 p.m.
Memorial Hospital reported 126 live births in June 1957, including 65 boys and 61 girls, the highest June total for the year. The ten year record shows June averaging 109.1 births with two months having twins twice.
Seventeen divorces were granted in Winchester Corporation Court between February and May. Final decrees covered desertion in fourteen cases, with custody awarded in several, including Nancy L. Hall and Lois A. Ellison. One cruelty case awarded custody to the complainant, and three bed and board divorces noted desertion or constructive desertion.
The American Colonization Society formed to send freed slaves to Africa was founded in 1816 by figures including Judge Washington Henry Clay and Francis Scott Key. In 1820 the first shipload reached what became Liberia, with more settlers arriving over the next two decades.
Thomas Mac Dowell, a drug company salesman, allegedly poisoned his mother and three family members in Glen Ridge before fatally injecting himself. Police said he may have suspected his wife's complicity in a plan to wipe out loved ones, in a wealthy suburban home tragedy.
The column answers etiquette questions about engagement photos and wedding attendants. A separate report details Mac Dowell 49 poisoning his family in New Jersey, with authorities noting a possible motive tied to his mother’s health and the family’s mysterious deaths after juice was tainted.
Zion Baptist Church in Berryville hosts Youth Day with the Youth Chorus at 11 a.m. and Rev. A. W. Gilmore delivering the annual message. The Washington Sons of Harmony perform at 11:30 p.m. followed by a youth talent program at 7:30 p.m.
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