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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1929
Page
3
Social and Personal News notes indicate submissions may be mailed or telephoned, with social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller accepting calls between 3 and 4 p.m. for the next day. The telephone number provided is 33.
Seventy or more Eastern Star members from Front Royal and Winchester attend at Mr and Mrs Irwin G Bierer home to view gifts made during Mrs Bierer’s year as worthy grand matron of the Grand Chapter of Virginia O E S. Displayed items include silver pieces silk bedcovers linens china and a stone mountain coin silver chest.
The Pine Hill Hunt Club hosts a dance at Massanutten Lodge this evening. The West Virginians Orchestra will provide the music following a prior popular event at the Shenandoah river home.
Local readers report the Aladdin Club Harvest Dance tonight at Spotswood Country Club with decorations in place. Young people from Charlottesville, Staunton and Winchester will attend, attracted by music from Al Bowman and his Georgian Owls after a two week New York engagement. Chaperones will be present for the community event.
At the regular monthly meeting the Girl's Athletic Association finalized plans for a swimming party to be held next Monday afternoon at Jordan Springs. Members sign up with Miss Emily Sanford at the Northern Virginia Power Company office by noon Monday. Attending members meet at the club room at 5 15 o'clock. Also reported, Mr William South Taylor, injured in a recent automobile crash, has been moved home from Memorial Hospital and is progressing toward full recovery.
Baltimore visitors Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beale stay at Hotel Jack. Sheriff Luther Pannett recovers at home after tonsil operation at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Edward Taylor and daughters visit to see Ollie Taylor patient at Memorial. Mrs. B Mason Ambler returns home to Parkersburg after stay with Mrs. Stokes and Miss Baker in Baltimore. Other arrivals and departures include guests from West Virginia and Iowa.
The Boston Varsity Quartet visited the Winchester Rotary Club and performed a half hour program at the lunch meeting. Members George Wheeler Ralph Tailby Raymond Simmonds Hudson Carmody with pianist Arthur Schofield presented songs including The Song of Songs and On the Road to Mandalay.
A large Rosemont Amusement Park crowd attended a special dance last night featuring the Original Shenandoah Valley Serenaders. The Winchester Orchestra, led by John Dunn, earned high praise for its program of tunes noted as making Broadway Broadway. Various local residents and visitors were mentioned in attendance and during recent travels.
Daily price listing shows local wholesale quotes for flour corn meal butter fat and mixed feed, with figures including 600-6550 for flour and 2.81 for crude meal. Retail notes include local flour per barrel 7.00 to 7.50 and mixed feed at 2.5 per kilogram, with several entries unclear or misread.
Panic in Manchuria as 80 expelled Russian officials flee toward Eastern Siberia after authorities seize the Chinese Eastern Railway. Russian troops mobilize near the border as tensions rise, seen as the worst crisis since major Great Britain Russia and China tensions.
Mr. Ollie Taylor of Opequon is recovering well after an appendicitis operation at Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. Miss Cornelia Wyndham of this city visits Svar Spring Maryland as guest of Mrs. John Smith at the Country Club.
Dispatches indicate rapid confiscation, arrest, and expulsion by Japanese authorities amid fears that Manchurian seizure of key routes may set a precedent. The concern centers on the South Manchurian Railway, a crucial line controlled by Japan and its strategic implications.
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