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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1929
Page
3
Society page notes the social reporter Mrs Isabelle Fviilier will receive tips by telephone between 9 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Call phone number 33 to share news and updates.
Miss Gertrude Ritter became the bride of William Alan Peery at 8 p.m. in the Ritter home on Cork Street. Rev. Murray D. Mitchell officiated before an altar of ferns and palms. The couple and families celebrated with a reception for about two hundred guests.
The Spotswood Garden Club hosted a luncheon at Spotswood Country Club in honor of Mrs. Herbert McK Smith of Staunton, president of the Garden Club of Virginia. Following, Mrs. Harry Lee Dechert hosted tea at Rawley Springs with guests including Mrs. Fitzhugh Elder, Mrs. Bradford, Miss Bessie Landis, Mrs. Charles East, Miss Smith of Lexington, Miss Rose McRonard of Berryville, and Nan Thomas of Berryville.
Multiple notices report engagements and marriages including Katherine Margaret Lambert to M H Howenstein with a Europe trip after a New York ceremony. Other items note family reunions church events Tom Thumb wedding Lions Club meeting and various travels and illnesses among residents. Local readers are urged to attend events and view summer outings across Winchester and surrounding towns.
A group of Winchester youths will attend Camp Shenandoah at Island Ford in Virginia, run for years by the Harrisonburg Rotary Club. Local registrants include William Bell H B McCormac Jr Jack Pennybacker Walter Massey and Charles Eltinge. 5 Rev James R Graham Jr of Hampden Sydney College faculty arrives for Winchester Presbytery examination before ordination and licensing as minister.
Dennis H. Palmer and Carrie Murnan daughter of W. W. Kipps were married Saturday afternoon by Rev. George W. Stover of the United Brethren Church. The ceremony occurred at No. 327 Highland Avenue.
Miss Mary Rathman has recovered from several weeks of pneumonia at her parents home on East Cecil street and resumed duties at the Capitol Theatre box office after serious early illness. Her recovery followed attentive medical care and nursing.
Mr. Charles L. Bowly returns from an extended business trip to Atlanta with his daughter Miss Nancy Devereux Bowly. They stay at Willow Lawn on the Valley Pike where Mrs. Beck will join them next week for a lengthy visit at their home, with relatives in the city.
Numerous residents and guests were spotted at Burlington Beach West Virginia over the weekend. Names include Bosserman, Smith, Richard, DeWitt, Keeler, Baker, Barnett, Eddy, Thomas, Kremer, Widmyer, Kerlin, Bailey, Tanquary, and Crowl among many others. Several out‑of‑town visitors arrived for leisure, plus local residents Miss Daugherty and Miss Fuller returned home from vacations.
A seven year old boy, Fauvre, was playing atop baled paper at the Shenandoah Boxboard Company when he touched a 220 volt overhead line. He was unconscious, revived by the fire company using oxygen, and taken home where a physician said he was out of danger.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports weaker US winter wheat estimates and drought damage to spring wheat, with Canada also having a smaller crop. The July 13 market week saw rising marketings, better cash prices at Kansas City, and higher protein premiums, while overall supplies remain tight.
At the start of July the crop of soft red winter wheat stood near 199.5 million bushels with a 60 million bushel increase over last season. Premiums dropped though early offerings sold above hard red winter equivalents. Bid prices included 1.30 for choice No 2 soft red wheat at St Louis and 1.22 to 1.23 at Cincinnati. mills paid 10 to 15 cents premium for good old dry wheat. Virginia soft red winter quoted 1.05 to 1.07 for No 2 and 1.02 to 1.04 for fed No 3 at Richmond.
Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Gainesboro for Miss Bran don Adams 49 found dead at her brother Holmes Adams home after a nine week illness from heart complications. Rev John N Parlett led the rites and interment followed in Gainesboro cemetery. Survived by a brother Fannie DeHaven Adams and three brothers Holmes Harry and Early Adams all of the area.
A monoplane piloted by Glass and Glenn L. Loomis failed to set a new endurance flight record near Houston. They took off yesterday and landed this morning after flying less than 20 hours in their craft named Houston-Bilton Della City.
Grand jury in Corporation Court yesterday indicted Walter M. Grim for forging a signature on another man's check for a small amount. The report notes crime details and references public concerns over taxation and consumer cash purchases.
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