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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1935
Page
2
Busybodies report weekend visits and family gatherings across Stephens City and nearby towns. Names include Glenn, Ca, Leggett, Yeakle, Bean, Syndor, Carbaugh, Rudolph, Calvert, Parker, Walker, Brumback, Campbells, Ewing, Eversole, and Cadwallader. Grace Orndorff dies. memorials and church events noted.
Mr J T Fries suffered a painful accident while sawing cross ties when a tool slipped and mashed his thumb. Attendees joined the reopening of the Highland Church near Berkeley Springs with Rev William Wolfe as pastor. Pleasant Valley United Brethren Senior C E plans six week contest starting Sunday night July 7 with captains Lucille Smith and M Harold Barrett guiding programs. public invited.
Chestnut Grove Virginia notes report a Ladies Aid Society picnic and yard party set for Saturday July 13. Local families including DeHaven, Taylor, Bowers, Luttrell and Greenspring helpers are mentioned visiting and harvesting. Several members hosted dinners and visits across Chestnut Grove and nearby Inwood West Virginia areas.
The presser conca group lists numerous hostesses including Harry Daler and Mrs Braithwaite family members. The next meeting will be at Mrs Margaret Mc Tiwee home in July with Mrs George Clark as assistant hostess. Reports include health updates for Mrs Clark and Mr Evers Shanholtz, plus harvest activity and visits from nearby towns.
A sketch of social visits includes Julius Beeler involved in a near collision near the M. F. Hockman bridge and Gertrude Hockman visiting the Jack Cook home. Various families share Sunday church events, illnesses, birthdays, and dinners, with updates on Mrs Mary Catherine Beeler and other local residents.
Nineveh Virginia July 5 Mrs D S Hughes has returned to her home in Charles Town West Virginia after visiting in the area.
Cross Junction Va local notes list visits from Miss June Whitacre and Miss Evange Whitacre and Master Pat Whitacre to grandparents Mr and Mrs E W Braithwaite. Washington guest Mrs John Gunn and son Philip stay with Mr and Mrs C G Baker. Capon River weekend trip by area residents. Cross Junction Modern Woodmen of America camp to hold annual yard party Saturday night August 3.
Gainesboro Virginia scene includes Ida Marple nursing Mrs. A R Rinker and visiting kin near Bethel. Lorraine Bayliss stays with aunt Branson Reynolds near Boyce. Barbara Ann Darlington visits Whitacre area with Mrs. Clarke Whitacre. Harriet Adams and Walter Adams return from White Rock. Joe Lee family and Jack Fout from Pennsylvania camp nearby. Naomi Richards of Mi Falls visits Rev G Russell and family DeHaver.
A group including a daughter named Bobby Lee and Miss Jennie DeHaven of Winchester called in the village Sunday. F M Bageant installed a Delco plant at home while W Mack DeHaven lost a valuable cow the previous day. Work on the new school building progresses nicely.
Albin Virginia residents report several recoveries and social meetings. Misses Hilda Orndorff and Mildred Snyder and Messrs Ellsworth Orndorff and Luther Patton returned home after a week away. Mrs Carrie Clayton shows improvement after illness. Local church officers and teachers planned a July Bible School with Rev Seastrunk. Congregants attended Gravel Springs parish services at Mt Williams. The Albin quartette performed. Rev and Mrs Seastrunk hosted guests from Pelion South Carolina visiting Gettsyburg and Orkney Springs with Lutheran pastors.
Middletown Virginia notes report Mr. and Mrs. John Hafford of Washington DC visiting Mrs. G Wright as she grows weaker. Mrs. Samuel Cooper and daughter Helen of Martinsburg WV returned home after visiting Alice McInturff. Washington visitors include Benny Dean and Geraldine Sperry. Local families hosting include the Legges and Sperrys. Masonic leaders C B Stickley I M O F of Virginia and staff installed officers in Madison Lodge 6 Winchester Front Royal and Stephens City and Bentonville.
ISAAC CREEK Va July 5 The Union Ladies' Aid Society held its monthly gathering June 20 at Mrs E P Brown home with Mrs Harry Largent assisting. Mrs Paul Braithwaite opened with the Thirty Seventh Psalm as two songs were sung and group prayer led. Officers for the year were elected with Mrs Robert McIlwee as president and Miss Frances Braithwaite as treasurer. A $3.25 collection was taken and Miss Robertine Brown sang. Refreshments followed and the gathering closed with thanks for a pleasant evening.
Miss Light spent Wednesday at a funeral in White Plains for her nephew War ee Mr. een eon. Dorothy Larrick will serve as camp nurse at Camp Overall near Front Royal for six weeks. Various residents travel to Kansas City Iowa Missouri and New York to visit relatives and celebrate birthdays.
P F Harris a professional exterminator was hired to rid the White House of water bugs and roaches. He reports collecting more than five pounds of insects after his efforts and says chemicals cause the pests to seek water and drown. Carpenters later found nearly five pounds of dead insects behind a basement icebox.
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