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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1941
Page
8
A lawn party on the Jennings lawn at 23 South Stewart Street will serve country ham and chicken salad sandwiches ice cream and cake around 6 PM tomorrow. If rain forces a postponement the event moves to Friday night.
Evening listings show a Windhreter Till Tester session at studio 213 Market street at 8:00 p m. A GeAR Cut weekly meeting is slated for 8:00 p m. and a Blancheem weekly Rotary Claud gathering at the Golf Club at 1:00 p m.
Newark New Jersey visitors Mr and Mrs Krause and son and nephew stay with Mrs Elizabeth Steele on National Ave. Mrs Bertha Snapp visits Washington. The Shagogue family visits Monmouth St with Rev and Mrs Goode and others. Recruit trainer Charles F P Cooper returns from Norfolk leave. Strabburg and Chestertown trips noted. Front Royal golf match and summer trips to Columbus and Atlantic City appear among numerous visit plans.
The Star advertises contact for social and club notices with a single dial to 3424. Readers are guided to place notices through this media line to reach the publication.
A Q and A on musical event timings and proper etiquette covers morning afternoon and evening koncerts. It also instructs eating watermelon with a fork and leaving seeds, and states the bride stands to the left of the groom during the ceremony.
Gore Virginia announces Ruth Irene Larrick and James Oliver Funkhouser wed at the First Christian Church parsonage in Hagerstown Maryland. Ceremony Saturday July 12 at 2 o clock. Bride wore white crepe with American Beauty rose buds. They will reside in Capon Bridge West Virginia.
Circle No 5 of the Presbyterian Church met at Front Royal Recreation Park with Mrs. Philip Hunter presiding. Sixteen members and ten visitors attended as Mrs. Alison Hott read humorous selections from Edgar Guest before a 6 o’clock picnic supper and adjournment.
Berryville Virginia notes invite a Thursday afternoon tea hosted by Miss Julia Shirley of Summit Point in honor of house guests Mrs. William Wallace and Mrs. Walton Prazier Shanklin. The item lists local visitors and social visits among Berryville residents and guests throughout the week.
Daily care for nails includes gentle cuticle push back after washing, choosing mild soap, and wearing gloves with cleaners. Avoid biting hangnails, apply cuticle cream, massage nightly, and use proper filing from sides to tip with an emery board for a smooth finish.
Miss Reva Berlin of Washington visits relatives here with sister Ruth Berlin returning from White Post. Seline Dortch returns to Philadelphia after vacation at Mt Hemron with Mrs J Tyson Dortch. Mr and Mrs Oscar Ramsburg and son David stay at Bob Fowler cottage on the Shenandoah near Locke’s Mill. Announcements: Alma Garrick and Richard Jones wed at Duke Chapel July 9 at 4 30 pm. they plan to live in Culpeper with Farm Security.
Mr and Mrs H M Davis and family occupy the former residence on Academy Street. Berryville residents joined a car caravan to Caroline county to view a Virginia troops review from Fort Meade Maryland. Attendees included D G Cooley Donald Cooley Joel D Griffing Mary Boone Peyton Marion Ware and others. Griffing family members joined in Fredericksburg and returned home for the weekend. Regular visitors listed include John S Goldsmith and sister in law Mrs Henry Petterson of Petersburg. Isobel Sheffstall of Huntington guest of Miss Josephine Griffith. Mrs Alfred Kerfoot hosted Mrs Bobb of New Orleans and Mr and Mrs J W Carlisle hosted recent guests.
Harold Pope and Dorothy Pope of New Oxford and Kenneth Goddon of Hanover joined Mrs. C H Iden Hugh Owens John Livengood and Gladys Hart in returning home after touring southern Virginia and North Carolina to see the Lost Colony Pageant at Roanoke Island. Marion Ware returned to Richmond after a weekend with his parents while attending summer school. Hobson McGehee and wife hosted visiting cousin Sue Lewis in Fielding. Bell from Lewisburg West Virginia and Miss Lewis arrived Tuesday.
Gainesboro Virginia reports visits from Mrs. Anne Cadwell and others from Martinsburg and Winchester. Delmar Bayliss returns home after a week with his sister in Mt. Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. Raven Adams visit Mr. and Mrs. Nathanial Adams. Kenneth Loy, of Ft George G Meade, Md., spent the weekend with his parents. Locals work on making mattresses and more residents call on neighbors.
Sunday afternoon and evening visitors gathered at the home of Mr. Dean Rogers. Bolling Field guests Lynwood DeHaven and Ernest Castilitz joined Carson Cave of Edgewood Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel A called on O P DeHaven. Delbert and Bobby Eaton from Brucetown spent the weekend at Mr DeHaven’s.
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