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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1941
Page
8
Monday 8 00 p m weekly meeting of I O O F at their hall. Tuesday 9 00 a m weekly meeting of the Jr Century Club in the Red Cross rooms 12 30 p m weekly luncheon meeting of the Lions Club.
Noble Fiddler celebrated with a house party in Clarke County featuring relatives and friends including the Fiddler and Piotner families and others. A hospital bed fund from a Winchester Garden Party was noted as aiding ward safety.
Miss Anne Neville Barnett of Berryville will marry George Henry Pope also of Berryville on Saturday August 23 at 7 30 PM in the First Baptist Church Berryville. Rev Lloyd A Parker will officiate with Eleanor Messick of Roanoke as maid of honor and six bridesmaids from nearby towns.
A Sunday afternoon birthday picnic at Capon Park honored Mr. Herbert Fries. Attendees included numerous family members and friends from Washington Martinsburg Philadelphia and nearby towns visiting relatives in Winchester and Woodstock. Several travelers left for home after gatherings and motor trips to Missouri and Florida noted among the group.
Mrs. Charles Francis Scott announces the marriage of Joan Borden to Lt. Frederick Allerton Read Jr. of the Naval Reserve on Friday in Norfolk Virginia. Read previously lived in Winchester where he managed F A Read Inc. Miss Borden hails from New York.
The Lutheran Young Womens Bible Class meets July 8 at 8 pm at Mrs Arch Weatherholtz home for devotion led by Mrs Geneva Long. The Woman's Society of Christian Service meets at 7 45 pm with speaker Mrs Harold Rowe on Inter Church Cooperation and to collect Ferrum Training School supplies. The Stephenson Social Club meets Wednesday at 2 pm at Mrs Bertha Ashwood's home. The Everready Bible Class holds a 5 pm picnic at Front Royal Recreational Center. No Mary Martha Class meeting this week. Circle 1 of the Market meets Tuesday at 2 30 pm at Mrs B J Ford's Millwood Pike home.
District Nurse Association reports the Junior Auxiliary of Memorial Hospital led the annual diphtheria toxoid clinic with two local physicians and nurses. Thirty four white children and sixteen colored children received toxoid. Two school children were sent to the University of Virginia Hospital for admission. Two colored school children were admitted to Winchester Memorial Hospital for observation and treatment. Seven children had tonsils removed and one school child had an eye operation through the same service. Several pieces of used clothing were donated. Total June visits amounted to 291 including prenatal, postnatal, infants, pre school and school children, TB patients, and adults.
A columnist urges restraint in cosmetics describing how overdone mascara and heavy eyebrows hurt facial expression. Advice includes natural eyebrow placement, neat outlines, precise tweezing, and using sharp pencils to mimic fine hairs with dark brown tones for blondes and brunettes.
Alabama's Carter Manasco takes the oath in Washington to fill the vacancy caused by the death of House Speaker William BBankhead. Manasco had served as Bankhead's secretary and succeeds him in Congress.
Virginia Tech extension reports nematodes attacking wheat and rye across the state. The worms form galls that replace kernels, stunt plants, and contaminate seed and soil. Fenne advises crop rotation and avoiding spread of infested seed and manure to curb losses.
Roberta Lee advises to book as far in advance as possible when travel dates are known to curb limited room supply. She notes that business women may shake hands but it is optional. She recommends always saying goodbye at the end of a phone call to close the conversation politely.
In Berryville Virginia on July 7 Mr and Mrs William B Watkins depart from Annefield Clarke County for their summer home in Northeast Harbor Maine. They travel with daughter Virginia Watkins and expect to return in about two months. Mrs William Chapin Huntington of Washington and Virginia hosts guests at Journeys End on the Blue Ridge with sister in law Mrs John C Carpenter and daughter Mrs Joseph I Converse.
A flurry of social announcements lists engagements among Gilpin Tyson Fox and Dunkle Cunningham, Alma Harding Jones, and others. Guests include Mrs. Tyson, Miss Adamson, Mr. Mellick, Capt. Beardall, and many local and distant hosts at homes like Woodley Ellwood Clearmont Hawthorne and Cham. The items describe dinners, excursions, and upcoming summer plans across Clarke Town and nearby communities.
Joan Manners retrieves eight year old Joan Langan at Los Angeles airport after the child was returned from Brookline Massachusetts where father John Langan a motion picture director had taken her. The court ordered Joan to stay in a private boarding home pending custody suit outcomes.
Mrs Earl Droop of Washington and Virginia has opened her Blue Ridge summer home with guest Mrs Mc Conville of Washington. Miss Emily Powers hosts over the holiday her sister Mrs Estelle Johns of Washington and her daughter Miss Emily Trevor Johns, plus Mrs John D Winter and her daughter Miss Roberta Winter of Leland Mississippi. Winter is on Agnes Scott College faculty in Atlanta.
A. Francis Osborne, son of Dr and Mrs Archibald Osborne of Berryville, was appointed Regional Operations Engineer in charge of all operations in the region.
Osborne becomes head of a Rural Electrification Administration office serving Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma and Louise arn with base in Washington. He formerly directed TVA operations in the Southeast Western North Georgia region from Chattanooga Tennessee. He and his wife and daughter Mary Meade Osborne join relatives for the summer while he begins the new post.
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