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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal notes request news from readers via mail or phone. Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle P Miller asks to receive updates by telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number provided as 33.
Miss Margaret C. Bishop weds Allen C. Myers at Bishop home in Charles Town with Rev. Sydnor officiating. Bride active in Charles Town Junior High teaching. groom Swarthmore and Drexel alum, WWI gas service, now in Hagerstown grocery business. Also Miss Dorothy Russell to marry Clift P. Berger in Waterford Presbyterian Church with multiple regional honors noted.
Girl justices plan a post poned swimming party at Jordan Springs Hotel for the Girls' Athletic Association tonight. A dinner will follow at Echo Lodge near Yellow Springs W Va with sign up by 5 pm Wednesday at Northern Virginia Power Company.
The Green Way United Brethren Church Ladies Aid met at Mrs. C. E. Pifer’s home on July 11 with good attendance. Attendees included Rev H B Richardson and family, Jack Woodyard of Roanoke Va, and many local members. Refreshments followed a business session and music by Rev and Mrs Richardson.
The engagement of Miss Marie McCord head of the music department at Shepherd College Shepherdstown West Virginia to Mr Shirley Grantham of Pikeside Berkeley County is announced. Miss McCord will resign her position before the marriage this summer. She recently was guest of honor at a shower hosted by friends at Shepherdstown.
A midnight benefit program at the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown drew many Winchester residents for a fund raiser for the Hagerstown baseball team. Attendees included Miss Hilda O Leary Miss Swimley Dr E C Stuart L Marshall Baker Al Norton John Miller Robert Stratton Edward Bailey William Doran and Robert Kerlin. Jack Schill's West Virginians Orchestra headlined the attractions.
The Rev Norris A Lineweaver pastor of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church leaves tomorrow for Fort Eustis Virginia to serve as chaplain reserve for 14 days He is a member of the Officers Reserve Corps US Army.
Mrs. Dowdell and her son Donald depart for Charlotte N C after visiting Mrs. Horace McKinster in Martinsburg. Numerous locals enjoy short trips and guests including Miss Myrtle Alright in Durham and Martinsburg, and visitors at the George Washington Hotel.
At the Baltimore Conference Epworth Assembly in Massanetta Springs Virginia the Winchester District Senior and Junior Leagues earned the conference district banner for another year. Officers elected include Mrs W E Collins and Miss Louise Steele with Lorens Steele continuing as junior district secretary. Other items note births and visits of local residents and visitors from Winchester Stephens City Millwood and Baltimore across the region.
The Berkeley County Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a native limestone memorial at the William Small farm six miles north of Martinsburg. A bronze tablet commemorates General Stonewall Jackson and his bravery as described by H. H. Byrer. The ceremony recalled Jackson’s ties to the Shenandoah Valley and noted the early Civil War movements beginning with Patterson’s 1861 Potomac crossing.
The account recounts Colonel Jackson directing a skirmish line with 100 cavalry and four artillery pieces to slow Union advance. A cannonball near the oak tree where he wrote orders, his troops holding the Federals for hours. A blue uniformed cavalry leader drove 44 green Federal troops to surrender. The monument was later unveiled by local children.
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