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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
8
The schedule lists a dock Street M. E. Church lawn gathering, a semi annual officer election for the G A A on North Washington street, a Grace Lutheran Woman's Auxiliary meeting at Mrs C E Aulick's home, and a semi monthly Modern Woodmen of the World camp meeting, all at 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. within the local area.
Miss Mary Rutherford Whelchel daughter of Dr and Mrs Cleveland Whelchel of Gainesville Florida was presented in a senior piano recital by Mary Ellen Whitson at the Whitson studio school. The program featured Brahms Haydn Chopin and Liszt with a reception hosted by the Whelchel family after the performance with several relatives assisting.
The regular Wo man’s Auxiliary meeting of Grace Lutheran Church is set for this evening at 7 30 at Mrs C E Aulick’s home on South Braddock Street. Members may contribute toward placing the tablet on the old Lutheran Church wall in Mount Hebron cemetery. Miss Josephine Ebersole of Washington is visiting Mrs Louis Grimm and Mr Grimm.
An United Brethren youth choir session decided on a yard party at Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cather home on Northwestern grade for Thursday night August 4. The event follows a business meeting at the church.
Modern Etiquette column discusses manners in golf and dinner responses. It notes women should be treated as equals in play and that dinner invitations require prompt acknowledgment. The piece lists a Tuesday evening dance with many attendees from Winchester and nearby towns, and records several residents visiting or traveling between Frostburg and Bartonsville.
Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo, a 69 year old liberal on the U S Supreme Court, is seriously ill in the Portchester home of Judge Irving Lehman a member of New Yorks highest court. Lehman is brother of Governor Herbert H. Lehman. Previously Cardozo served on New Yorks highest court before his U S appointment by President Hoover.
Florida Pardon Board refused to commute the death sentence of Franklin Pierce McCall for the ransom kidnapping of James Bailey Cash Jr. at Princeton on May 29. McCall's attorney urged mercy while the prosecutor urged execution. Mrs McCall and the Cash family spoke and wept as the mothers met to seek clemency.
Relatives from Morgan County West Virginia travel to Frederick Maryland for the funeral of Mrs. Clara Olivia Oates 40 wife of Charles R. Oates who died in Frederick City Hospital after a heart ailment. The service will be led by Rev S J Goode and interment will be near Frederick. She was daughter of A G and Mary Sargent Hav er male and leaves three brothers and three sisters.
Advertisements claim RIS Eight-day compound cures backaches and acidity, stopping nocturnal awakenings and improving sleep. The ad urges readers to buy at local Winchester and Berryville drug stores with specific outlets listed.
Mrs. Alexander Gordon of Baltimore spends weeks at her Front Royal country estate and hosts a luncheon with bridge. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Jordan and daughter Betty from Winchester attend the 75th Gettysburg anniversary in Gettysburg with veterans from both sides.
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