Social and Personal Notes for the Department
The social reporter Mrs Isaballe P. Milles will receive between 3 and 4 months for the allowing day.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1930
Page
3
The social reporter Mrs Isaballe P. Milles will receive between 3 and 4 months for the allowing day.
The article details upcoming wedding plans for Miss Baker of the Baker family near Winchester and Laurence Edward Tierney of Bluefield with weekend receptions. It lists multiple tea luncheons and dinners hosted by relatives and friends, prewedding entertainment at the Country Club, and out of town guests arriving for the ceremony at the First Christian Church. Post nuptials, the couple will host a garden reception at Thornhill and a wedding dance at the Country Club before a honeymoon trip to northern U.S. points and Canada. Cadet Leo Cather has returned to West Point after attending Evelyn V. Cather's ceremony.
A party of 15 Boy Scouts from Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church along with leaders depart by motor convoy. Drivers include the group’s guide and Messrs Chandler Crisman John Milburn L C Moulden and Lawrence Jones. They plan a Niagara Falls visit with side trips to Canada Watkins Glen N C and Philadelphia before returning next Saturday afternoon.
Middlebury and U sec tions of Fauquier counties mark a vast Virginia estate near Upperville tied to Mrs. Coats, a friend of royalty, with wedding plans in London next month. Mr. Field, age 35, heir to a multi hundred million fortune, and Mrs. Coats seen at horse races, amid divorce and settlement rumors in London society. Also notes Lt. Lester Branner to Camp Holabird for two weeks and family visits near Stephens City.
The Hon John Loomis, adviser to the Republic of Liberia, and Mrs Loomis hosted Sunday guests in Fort Loudoun including the Hon Earle S Haskell, his wife, daughter Ruth Haskell of Washington D C, and their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs J M Wayman of Strasburg Va with their two children McKay and Harriet Wayman Haskell is an agricultural expert with the Federal Farm Board.
Invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Iona Harry to Mr. Robert B Dale at the Harry home 331 East Piccadilly Street. The ceremony is set for Monday August 4 at 8 30 p m. Mr Dale is son of Mr and Mrs T J Dale of South Kent Street.
Mr. Frank G. Walter, a well known retired Winchester man and Confederate veteran aged 93, remains bed bound at his South Cameron street home with little improvement after a week or two of illness. Friends miss him on the streets and family grows more concerned. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Creswell and daughter Evelyn left for Ohio to visit Dayton South Charleston and other relatives.
Dr and Mrs Charles Fox Graham of Wytheville Virginia return home after visiting Mrs Adams mother ill in South Boston Virginia. Dr K W Adams homecoming from South Boston due to Mrs Adams mother Mrs Joseph T Nicholas illness. Charles H Neikirik and Virginia visit for Evelyn Virginia wedding to Robert Stockdale of Hagerstown. Wilbur McCarty and Hilda Hibbard welcome a son Lewis Vernon. Mary P Rowe leaves as assistant ticket agent for Harrisonburg and Bristol trips. Baltimore and Ohio station to close after train 51 arrives.
A marriage license was issued in the Corporation Court to Luther Garland Clem and Miss Irene W. Jones of Winchester. The groom is a weaver, son of W. H. Clem. the bride is daughter of Frederick R. Jones. Jacob Randall left for Grimes to visit his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Randall.
A flood of visitors arrive and depart including Mrs. Lewis M. Allen in Cape May New Jersey and families from Baltimore Philadelphia and Washington. Several residents return from Atlantic City and Niagara Falls while others plan trips to Gettysburg Harrisburg and Cumberland. A yard party is announced at Crums Church and hotel guests are noted at the George Washington Hotel.
Radio chatter linked two rival endurance planes The Red and The Green as they began attempts to break the 554 hour record set by the Hunter brothers. The Red team Louis Riechers and Robert J Black lifted at 4 p m EST while The Green carried Kent Andling Rosebud Texas and Jack Charleston Ottawa. Exports of North Carolina merchandise were valued at 99524789 in 1929.
The July term of the Corporation Court opened with Judge Philip Williams presiding as a grand jury of 13 returned ten indictments. two were marked No true bill. Indicted individuals include Raymond Sirbaugh for forgery, Paul Cremer, John Willingham, Leo Gaunt, Franklin Peyton for thefts and forgeries, Blondella Jackson for auto theft, Walter Smith for forgery, Lawrence Wood for check forgery, Walter Winston for burglary and theft, and R. V. Smallwood for forgery. foreman was W. Nelson Page.
A freak whirl wind toppled an oak near Berryville Virginia tearing telephone wires and narrowly missing cars. Traffic on the highway to Millwood was halted as debris blocked the road for hours while crews cleared the tree and restored service. No other damage reported.
Lee Dehlvach of Detroit piloting a low winged commandaire led eighteen entrants in the all-American flying derby into Buffalo today landing at the municipal airport at 8 13 am eastern standard time. The around the United States race covers 5520 miles with starts from Detroit at 7 01 am and continues across the nation.
In Baltimore a 71 year old shore keeper Joseph Ruth died after an altercation at his Turner Station property. Four men Samuel Piazzol James Liberco Charles Serio and Joseph Diano are jailed for investigation with Piazzol charged with causing Ruths death.
Twenty people were injured in Port Said as Egyptian troops fired on a mob during rioting in the Egyptian quarter. Six of the injured are in serious condition and sixteen police were injured before the disturbance was quelled.
A field near Parkway burned Saturday afternoon prompting a full fire department response. Investigators say a boy dropped a lit match in tinder dry grass starting the blaze. The report notes the field was partly burned before firefighters contained it.
Christian Endeavor units gathered at a 1st Baptist Church event to welcome young members and hear delegates report on the Lynchburg state convention. Winchester will host next year. Christian Church has 25 registrations for 1931. A August campaign offers a silver loving cup as prize for the society with the most registrations. The union trio Miss Gladys Patton and Floyd and Harry Haines performed, and plans for the Playtime Banquet were postponed due to heat.
The Star presents a market snapshot with farm and livestock listings including calves lambs and chickens. Prices and item descriptions appear garbled with several typographical errors but reference local wholesale markets and vendors such as Boers hens and spring lambs for sale.
The Star letter from Winchester Virginia July 21 1930 calls on prosperous farmers who received rain to aid neighbors burned out by loss to provide corn and supplies. The writer urges returning with help for the needy and recalls Egypt Joseph supplying his people.
Mutiny in the bull ranks sent stock prices back in New York trading. The regular advance of four weeks paused with about a third of earlier losses from April to June recouped, though by afternoon the market showed no sustained recovery and selling diminished. Prices edged up about 2 percent as activity steadied.
Virginia reports total crop acreage rising slightly with seven crops up three down and three unchanged from 1929. Corn grows to 1,537,000 acres up 1 percent while peanuts fall. hay holds about 24 percent of total area and wheat declines about six percent. Tobacco acreage rises 8 percent to about 182,000 acres.
The court orders a Master Commissioner to identify heirs of Charles O Williams of Frederick County Virginia and to report the estate debts real estate and tax liens. A meeting is set for July 25 1930 at Herbert S Larrick office Winchester VA for all parties to appear and creditors to prove claims.
The report notes Sécorid's crop ranks high in total output but occupies 43 percent of total crop acreage. Oats acreage grows 22 percent from last year while barley remains at 1929 levels. Potatoes tea and sweet potatoes rise, while peanuts remain a small 12.2 percent of total crop acreage.
Ernest Puffinberger of the county has joined his brother Ward and Jake Puffinberger in the local jail. Ward was convicted of breaking into Waugh's home and stealing valuables. Ernest is alleged to have threatened Waugh for testifying. Ward received 18 months for the robbery and related theft. the Puffinbergers received prison terms.
Weather observers predict cooling rains within 36 hours across the eastern region. Farmers like J Erle Romine of Otic county warn a crop could fall within 24 hours unless timely relief arrives, with Pittsburg and Martinsburg, W Va cited in efforts to curb damage.
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