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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal notices may be mailed or telephoned to Isabelle B Miller for vented “news by social reporter” with contact details including telephone numbers and preferred hours. Readers can submit items by calling Sand 4pm or the following day.
Mr and Mrs James Brill formerly of Hampshire County W Va celebrated their forty second wedding anniversary at their Tacoma Washington home. The event drew over 200 including former Fern Hill pastors and relatives. A church service reception dinner and program featured reminiscences and songs in honor of the couple.
Miss Elizabeth Tucker Hill of Charlottesville and W Donald Beard of Hagerstown Md wed in Martinsburg W Va Saturday. Hill trained as a teacher at Randolph Macon Woman's College and the University of Virginia. Beard a UVA graduate and Theta Chi member passed the bar exam in Roanoke.
Miss Sarah Elizabeth Phillips of Charles Town is engaged to John Laughlin Packer of Pittsburgh. No marriage date has been announced.
Mr and Mrs W Wood of Sperryville Rappahannock county invite Confederate veterans from Virginia counties including Rockbridge Augusta Rockingham Shenandoah Page Warren Frederick Clarke Fauquier Culpeper Orange Madison and Rappahannock to a reunion at their Sperryville home on Saturday July 20 Lunch will be served.
Mrs. Hicks formerly of this city now living in Roanoke Va has come to Winchester for special medical treatment after being struck by a golf stick on the Roanoke Golf Club links. She is a guest of Mr and Mrs W R Pifer at their West Clifford street home.
Mr and Mrs L B Gourley of Ridgeway Pennsylvania stopped in Winchester last week planning to travel to North Carolina but liked the city so well they rented an apartment on South Loudoun Street at the Hable Apartments and will remain in Winchester. Mr Gourley works with a large Pennsylvania tailoring establishment. Entertains At Kitchen Shower For Mrs Paul Haldeman. Miss Gladys Haldeman hosted a kitchen shower at 600 South Washington Street for her sister in law Mrs Paul M Haldeman.
The Original Shenandoah Valley Serenaders, a local orchestra, are booked to play at Rosemont Park Martinsburg W Va tomorrow evening. The resort is popular and expected to draw many locals. Winchester dancers also attended Riverside Tea Room dances between Edinburg and Mount Jackson with Shenandoah Serenaders booked for Friday night.
Mrs. George Fansler hosted the Tuesday Bridge Club at her West Monmouth street home yesterday. Three tables played and refreshments followed. Doll Jones won first prize and Alson Hott took second. Guests and residents cited include M Blum and L Wiel of Philadelphia, Swanson and daughter in Washington and Ta koma Park, Harrison of Baltimore and Washington as a traveling freight agent, and Dayton visitors Yeakley and relatives. Memorial Hospital saw Miss Lillian Perry improve after a major operation.
A string of social notes details visits and travels among residents of Cumberland Winchester and nearby areas. The Morrison couple welcome a son at 7 South Landoun Street and others journey to Baltimore Charlottesville and Massanutten Springs. Notable guests include Miss Edith Shanhlotz George Washington Hotel visitors and families from Red Lion and Keyser over the weekend.
Julian H. Eltinge, a famed female impersonator aged 46, and three others were injured when their automobile collided with a police traffic squad car in Los Angeles. Eltinge suffered a slight concussion, severe scalp lacerations, and body cuts.
The Tri-County Odd Fellows' Association comprising Clarke Warren and Frederick lodges will hold an outdoor meeting and celebration in Middletown Virginia on Thursday at 8 p m In case of rain the school building will host guests Grand Master of Virginia Thomas Morton of Richmond will attend along with other notables Degrees will be conferred in secret before the public gathering
Bullish operations resumed in utilities in vigorous fashion in today’s stock market. The entire list moved irregularly higher in sympathy, though profit taking in motors and some major industrials was evident. Call money held at 9 percent.
Market roundup lists local wholesale prices for wheat corn and mixed feeds plus hogs lambs and cattle with several figures. Retail lines include flour middlings scratch feed and screen products with fractional figures and notes from traders.
Williams and Yancey describe a 3400 mile solo flight from Paris to an eventual landing at Le Bourget after 12 plus hours in dense fog. They report no ships sighted and land seen near Cape Ortegal before landing at 9 30 p m. The crew says fatigue was not a factor in the journey.
Baker's Drug Store promotes LEE'S LAXATIVE and CATHARTIC COMPOUND with a 10 day sale. An extensive testimonial section claims relief from distress after meals, headaches, and rheumatism. The ad cites cleansing the system and restoring health, urging talk with clerks for dosage and best results.
The aviators Williams and Yancey, unable to reach Rome, aimed for Madrid to meet Maj Ramon Franco and the Dornier War 16 crew but were blocked by fuel issues. They ate four chocolate bars and drank coffee from a vacuum bottle during the flight, were warmly hosted at their landing, and decided to wait for refueling before departing tomorrow the Spanish authorities arranged special gasoline for the Pathfinder.
Mr. Norman Graber, simply operator of the Western Union Telegraph office, is on his vacation.
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