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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal notes muddled in a brief item. Mentions a reporter and a contact phone briefly, with unclear names and timing for the next day. No clear events, venues, or individuals readable.
Officers for Camp No 8 Patriotic Order of Americane were installed by District President Bessie Mason with help from Laura Mills and Pearl Campbell. New officers include Violet Ritter as Past President and Viola Thrift as President among many others. The Lions Club met at Jordan Springs with a pool swim and dinner, featuring a Spain England France sightseeing talk by Thomas W. Mathews. Guests included C C Lady Eckhart Julius Goldberg and Rev George Carver.
Mr Ivan Jackson former featured pianist with Jack Schill s West Virginians Orchestra returns home after engagements in Lynchburg Waynesboro Orange Va and Hanover York Hagerstown Cumberland Md The nine member group remains on tour with future performances at Carlin s Park Baltimore and southern Virginia and Morgan town WV area
The ladies and children of White Hall Methodist Episcopal Church rehearse the humorous play Tom Thumb Wedding in this city. They plan to present the production at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church Friday night, under Miss Hilda Flowers who taught there last session.
Mr and Mrs Bryan Kern of Alexandria celebrate their twelfth wedding anniversary with Mrs John Mason and Mrs Frank Campbell in South Kent Street. Their son Douglas Kern and nephew Raymond Campbell join. Jack Schill s West Virginians to play Hillside Lake Park Martinsburg tomorrow. Local dancers expected. Park opened early season and enjoys good patronage. A Mary Martha Class meeting is set for Centenary Reformed Church Friday at Mrs Ida B Fawcett s home. Ada Walker, recently ill, recuperating at home. Various locals and visitors noted through Martinsburg and surrounding towns with travel plans and hospitality. Mrs Theresa Owen Smith s condition at Memorial Hospital slightly improved.
Mr and Mrs Harry H Woodward have returned from a motoring trip to Asbury Park and Atlantic City prior to a % J note.
A parade of travelers is noted in Winchester and Frederick county with Mr and Mrs Edward Yeakley ending a 14 year gap by returning to Dayton Ohio. Others include Mr and Mrs B F Russell from Baltimore visiting Ida Russell and Mrs Sadie Hamrick taking a two week vacation.
Bloomery Virginia reports visits among Hawkins Johnson Leith Hammock Omps and Largent families over the weekend. Mrs Leith consults a doctor in Cumberland. July 21 church service at Bloomery Presbyterian and July 27 annual Sunday school picnic with brass and string bands in the grove north of Bloomery.
Miss Branson Adams died July 12 at her brother Holmes Adams home. Funeral Sunday at Gainesboro Church led by Rev. J. H. Parlett. Pallbearers named F. M. Bageant W. O. D. De Haven L. H. Ruble W. E B. Adams Jamney Davis Frank Flowers. Also notes on visitors, a sick person Ernest Price improving, a 42 inch blacksnake found and killed in the Clark Baker kitchen, Epworth League Sunday service at 8 pm led by Mrs. W. O. Kirk.
County fair readers are invited to join the Winchester Fair’s sixtieth year, emphasizing education and amusement. Ladies Department revenues rise with new premiums and outside judges to ensure fair appraisal, plus an Apple Pie Special awarding a sterling cup and gold prizes for top pies.
Motion picture magnate William Fox showed signs of improvement at Nassau County Hospital Mineola New York after a July 17 automobile accident. A blood transfusion followed a restless night and he asked that important letters from the morning mail be forwarded to him.
At the twenty first annual governors conference in New London Connecticut the group declined to vote on recommendations for enforcing prohibition. Governor Ritchie warned of Democratic doom for opposing prohibition and praised Hoover as a great dry president.
An Evanston Illinois preacher offered a thief money to keep his shirt but return a sermon left in the pocket. The editor notes the preacher likely knew which choice would comfort his erring brother.
George W. Galliford, a Rochester New York native and longtime Stephens City resident, died last night at Memorial Hospital after a week of illness from Bright's disease. He was 53. Funeral at 2 p.m. Sunday from Refuge Methodist Church South conducted by Rev. C D Lambert. Burial in nearby graveyard. Survived by wife Lula Ritenour and two children Eva Lee Galliford and Lucy Elizabeth Forney, plus a sister in Billings New York and a son and daughter in New York from a prior marriage.
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Plum of Worcester Massachusetts stay a month at White Post with relatives from North Carolina. They occupy the rectory of Meade Memorial Episcopal Church which has lacked a stationed rector for months. Rev Plum will conduct services and preach Sunday morning at Meade Church.
Range guidance from W R Chapline U S Department of Agriculture stresses year round forage and well drained ground with watering beds. Key browse plants include mountain mahogany bluebrush fendler ceanothus fendlera bitter brush and service berry with oaks less palatable but important. A windbreak should use six rows of trees with two rows of white elm green ash and poplar and three tree varieties overall.
The article stresses preventing dirt and bacteria in milk by using efficient straining and grooming cows. It urges frequent grooming to remove loose hairs and manure, plus cleaning the flanks udder and belly with a moist cloth before milking.
Unease over the weekly federal reserve statement issued after the close of the market caused widespread irregularity in price moves. About twenty specialties showed declines of two to nine points, with railroads among the hardest hit as professional traders lightened long positions. Call money rose to 8 percent as total volume neared 3.8 million shares.
Four men were injured when the car they rode in, claimed by police to be stolen, crashed into a tree at Lansdowne Baltimore. Police said larceny would be charged against the men once they recover from injuries.
Quote from The Christian Science Monitor suggests when discouraged at work, adjust attitude rather than alter the job. It emphasizes mindset over task changes.
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