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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1932
Page
3
A list of local women including Mrs. Robert Y. Conrad and Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd organizes a series of functions in the city. Proceeds will be devoted to the rectory of the Episcopal Chapel at Upperville.
Mrs Lewis M Allen hosted a informal bridge party at the Winchester Golf Club in honor of Mrs Gibson Bradfield of Barnesville Ohio visiting her mother Mrs Ernest S Ely on South Stewart Street. The Davidson workers from Newport News arrived to visit Mrs David Wingerter who is eighty one and lives with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Miller Jenkins. Miss Larew To Sing At Open Door Bible Class
Regular weekly choir practices and club meetings fill the week. The calendar lists Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church youth choir 7:00 p m Sunday memorial services at Shiloh Church Timber Ridge 12:30 p m Lions Club lunch meeting at the Washington Hotel Kiwanis at 12:45 p m Wednesday United Brethren choir 6:45 p m Grace Lutheran adult choir 8:30 p m Rotary Club 1:00 p m at George Washington Hotel Loy al Temperance Union meets 7:30 p m at Braddock Street Church South
Miss Edna Jane Ailes daughter of Mr and Mrs Eugene Ailes wed Mr Robert Bolton son of Mr and Mrs James Bolton in St Marys Church Scarborough New York The ceremony was by Rev Charles Bald win The bride wore her mothers ivory satin gown with seed pearls The bridal party included Miss Anne Ailes maid of honor and bridesmaids from Washington D C Upper Montclair Ossining and Scarborough The reception followed with Madonna lilies and palms in the altar setting The couple will reside in Alexandria Louisiana A card party for church benefit follows at Welbourne near Upperville with guests noted
Shenandoah Valley Attractions, Inc. invites the public to a dance at Rosemont Park near Martinsburg West Virginia on Thursday evening July 12. Dancing starts at 9 p m and continues until the early morning. Percy Glasco e and His Southern Plantation Orchestra a twelve piece group of recording and broadcasting artists will provide the music.
The Winchester Post Veterans of Foreign Wars announces a regular meeting for Monday evening July 11 at the post. Attendance urged due to the importance of the agenda.
Mrs H B L McCormac hosted an afternoon tea at Handley Boulevard in honor of Mrs Edvin Amiss Palmer of Richmond. Palmer is visiting as the guest of her son Mrs William Beverley at their West Cork Street home, part of a long sequence of honor events since her arrival several weeks ago.
Miss Ethel Snider and Wiloe Holland of Washington stayed several days with Holland's mother Mrs. A. P. Holland at her Gainesboro area home.
Yesterday evening the Regular GAA examined summer plans and disbanded the Literary Club for summer activities. A swimming party is set for July 21 in Charles Town and a cake sale is planned for July 16 with a formal sign up by July 20. The semi annual officers were elected: Philomena Loren president Irene Headley vice president Salome Crisman secretary and Cramer Lycett treasurer. Multiple social and travel notices follow including marriages and visits by local residents and club activities around Winchester and surrounding towns.
Mr and Mrs R Maurice Trimble Jr return to their Sewickley home after visiting Dr and Mrs E C Stuart at Hawthorne Northwestern grade. Frank Feinberg, off Loudoun Street, returns to work after ptomaine poisoning illness. Mrs avid Petrescu and nieces Betty and Janet Gibson of Buffalo NY leave Handley Avenue home with Charles P McVicar Jr en route to Danville for several days with Mrs Harvey.
James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, attempting a world speed record, crash a plane in a peat bog halfway between Berlin and Moscow after mistaking Borisov lights for Moscow. Both men escape unharmed and proceed by train to Moscow as the attempt is abandoned.
Berlin reports eight people were killed by lightning yesterday at Tuc hola, formerly Tuchel, a site once used as an American war prisoner camp, with the tragedy noted in a Warsaw telegraph dispatch.
In Lausanne France and Germany finalize a debt and reparations accord. Final German payment set at 3 billion gold marks about 750 million dollars. Bonds to be issued at 90 per cent, with a three year withholding and a 37 year maturity.
The Galilee Church of Disciples on Welltown Road presents a children’s day program at 10 30 a m with Charles E McVay in charge. Rev F B Sapp leads preaching at 8 p m all are invited to attend both services.
Reliance U B Charge with Pastor Rev H E Richardson listed. Services include Sunday School at 10 am and 2:30 pm, Christian Endeavor at 7:30 pm, sermons at 8 pm, and Wednesday prayer meeting at 8 pm. Friendship and Stephens City congregations noted with service times and cordial invitation to all.
County records note a sale of road machinery by Carson Road Machinery Co. The itemized list appears on page one. Also mentioned are expenses from the dog fund totaling sixty dollars and seventy five cents for livestock losses and a dog's burial.
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