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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1941
Page
8
Community updates list weddings and social events in Winchester and Markham. Attendees include Frances Bolen, Frank Rees, Miss Patricia Stephenson, Miss Nancy Buckingham, Miss Margaret Byrd, and many locals visiting relatives, attending meetings, or traveling to Capon Springs and Virginia Beach.
A subscription dance tonight at Winchester Golf Club hosted by the dance committee chaired by Miss Louise Moore. Music by the George Washington Hotel Orchestra directed by Mr. Henry P. Seal. The event runs from 10 until the closing time indicated. Everyone is invited to attend.
Miss Rose MacDonald and Edward Lee named to Shenandoah Valley Regional Defense Council announce Clarke county campaign to collect aluminum. Berryville Boy Scout Troops will canvass households July 21 with Red Cross Motor Corps support. Aluminum weighed at the Berryville community building and reported to William S. Knudsen. Virginia quota is 200000 pounds.
Agricultural leaders from 12 states protest any government move to cap farm prices near current levels. J Roy Jones testifies at a Senate subcommittee, noting cotton yarn ceilings by Leon Henderson cost southern farmers millions as the market fell about $2 a bale. He urges a price floor to ensure fair returns for farmers.
Funeral services for Mrs Hat tie Amick age 58 widow of Luther Amick of Berkeley Springs were held at Wesley Chapel with Rev Joseph Collis of Martinsburg officiating. Interment followed at Wesley Chapel. She was sister to Sam Boyd and Mrs Helsley of Winchester and to Mrs Joseph Catlett of Whitacre.
The article encourages readers to craft cosmetics at home using traditional formulas passed down through generations. It advises buying materials from a reliable druggist, weighing ingredients carefully, and following steps precisely to create massage cream and hand lotion. It details melting waxes and oils, flavoring with flower waters, and preparing a thick four ounce tragacanth lotion for family use.
Fern Thompson, sole survivor of a Marquesas voyage disaster, may regain memory via a shock therapy using her ship log. The Wing On crew perished after 75 days at sea, with Thompson and the Conly couple’s deaths noted, while she recovers with her two children and parents in Los Angeles.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. from Enders Funeral Home Berryville for William H. Lane 83 retired coach painter who died Thursday afternoon. The Rev E D Vaughan Berryville Presbyterian Church officiated with interment in Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers included Daniel Shepherd Harry Lee Boxwell Oscar Hamilton Hugh Thomas W D eae and W W Smallwood.
Ziggie the male Indian elephant at Boorkland Zoo Chicago is regarded as the largest in the United States. He stands 10 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 10,096 pounds, about 21 years old. He was given by the late Florenz Ziegfeld to his daughter.
A bride should cut the wedding cake during the last course of the wedding breakfast or only the first slice if an attendant cuts the rest. A man meeting a woman in a restaurant is not obligated to offer to pay the check. A woman should not sign a hotel register as Dorothy Smith without a Miss or Mrs prefix.
Berryville Va July 19 Mr and Mrs Edward Jaquelin Smith recently married at Fountain Valley School Colorado Springs are guests of Mr Smiths parents at The Glen Mr Richard B Smith Sr entertaining from 7 to 9 with a long list of attendees including Miss Ella Smith Mrs Robert Randolph Smith and many others.
Mrs Anker formerly Miss Cornelia Ware daughter of the late Rev Sigismund Ware of Berryville visits Washington with her husband Mr John Anker as guests of Mr and Mrs William Dix.
Mrs J Wade Bell of Lewisburg West Virginia visits cousin at Fielding with guests from Winchester and Pittsburgh. Mrs J Peter Williams of Pittsburgh hosts luncheon at Riverside Shenandoah home for her mother Mrs Carrington and daughter Mrs Charles Lyle with a list of social attendees. Mr and Mrs Kenneth N Gilpin attend Philadelphia wedding of Tyson McGee to Logan Fox, then return to Scabby for a reception by Mrs Francis Grant.
Mrs. Graham W Dougherty and Miss Mary Welsh Dougherty return from Philadelphia to Woodley. Mrs. Dougherty hosted a party for Philadelphia guest Mrs. Francis Lewis in honor of her daughter Miss Mary Lewis and son Mr. Joseph Lewis. George T. Oliver and infant daughter from Pittsburgh arrive to stay at Riverside with Mrs. Oliver's parents. Mr. Oliver will leave soon. Mrs. Williams hosts Miss NeH Williams and J. Peter Williams Jr., who has just returned from Lexington, Kentucky with Neal Robinson.
In Madrid on July 19 General Francisco Franco led a flag laden event marking five years since the civil war began. He urged relief from the war blockade and said Spain would seek food imports while promising workers a living wage amid shortages.
Large gathering attended the funeral of Rebecca Ann Randolph at her home "Grafton" on Friday morning at 11. Interment followed in Randebury burying ground. Pallbearers included Harry Frost Arth White Gwynne Tayloe Sr Gee Gaither Rozier Dulany Jr and Robert Carter Randolph.
SAN DIEGO July 19 Lone's short and short's long Camp Callan. Dorsey C. Short 31 of Middletown Ohio stands 6 feet 1% inches. Ernest C. Long 27 of Charleston West Virginia is 5 feet 3 inches.
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