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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1948
Page
8
A double wedding was performed at 11 a.m. July 17 in Hagestown. Colleen Jones wed Harry F. Whitlock and Gertrude Nicholson announced engagement to Alfred C. Clark. Mrs. Nicholson celebrated a family birthday with an outdoor chicken dinner.
The Evening Star calendar lists activities from July 21 to 22 including VFW auxiliary picnic at Recreation Park, Macedonia Methodist Church Young Peoples council meeting, Elks at home, Rotary at George Washington hotel, Albin HD club at Burnt church, Evansville Homemakers at Mrs Solenberger’s home, Men of the Church supper at Loudoun Street Presbyterian, Boyce and AA speakers, and the Men's Fellowship at Carlton Hawkins’ home.
Births July 19 list three Berryville boys with parental details and former names. Short notices: Jack Duvall visiting Hazard Kentucky for weeks. Henkles return from Grand Rapids furniture shows. Patricia Pugh marks eighth birthday with party. Lenora Rusk accepts computer position with National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Langley, Virginia.
Miss Bette Louise North daughter of Mrs Holmes Patton Winchester and Mr John W North Washington will wed Mr Robert Elwood Manuel son of Mrs M Lillian Manuel of this city at 4 30 p m Saturday in the First Baptist church The double ring ceremony will be performed by Rev Clark Miss North to be given in marriage by her step father
Mrs Gladys McWilliams of Strasburg announces the engagement of her daughter Yvonne Carlotta to Arthur Gladstone Shipe son of Mr and Mrs W F Shipe of Middletown. Yvonne a Strasburg high school and Shenandoah business college graduate has been a secretary for Old Virginia Packing Co at Front Royal. Arthur a Middletown high school graduate attended Shenandoah College at Dayton served two years in the armed forces with 16 months overseas and now works for Southern States Cooperative.
Mrs L P McKee of North Ave learns her daughter Mrs A H Jackson and her granddaughter Alice Lee, with Miss Lucille Jackson, will reach July 30 from Evansville Indiana. Mrs Jackson stays until September then joins Maj A H Jackson in Kansas for nine months at Fort Leavenworth Officers Staff and Command school.
HAL BOYLE muses on the iconic cold mask of the American woman, noting a uniform, expressionless public facade. He contrasts male chivalry, European observers, and theories from mannequins to fashion, suggesting the face masks social change and dampens courtesy.
The Albin High School club will gather at 1 p m Thursday at Burnt church to discuss the August picnic besides bread making. The Good Friend Class of UB church plans a covered dish supper at 6 30 p m Friday in the church basement and asks each member to bring a covered dish. The Miller reunion for the descendants of David Hensell Miller will be Sunday at Bandane Community Center Jefferson County West Virginia with dinner served at noon and baskets requested. The Helping Hand Circle meets July 29 at 8 p m at the home of Mrs Joe Shenk and Mrs George Peek.
Government researchers counted mosquito bites on clothing during 1000 strikes. Mosquitoes scored five hits on an Army field jacket but broke through 690 times on light Navy nylon. After testing 56 fabrics, the Agriculture Department concludes no cloth is skeeter-proof.
Oysters rank as the most valuable of American fisheries with salmon second, menhaden third, eed fourth, and halibut fifth.
Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions about a man greeting a woman with a hat tip and removing a cigarette and the correct way to respond to invitations by phone. She also advises on a woman letting a man pick up a dropped item before she retrieves it and thanking him.
W L Gordon explains proper usage of often and the correct pronunciation. He notes mispellings of millennium and emphasizes synonyms for vivacity while encouraging daily vocabulary growth. The featured word today is embryonic meaning undeveloped and applied to a business in an early stage.
Reynolds Store Va July 21 report that a picnic and yard party will be held at Wesley chapel at 4 p.m. Saturday. Mrs. C. W. Moore hosted a weekend guest, Mrs. I. Kerns of Kearneysville W Va. Mr. Lonnie Shenk is indisposed.
Mrs Harley Place is ill at her home. Mr and Mrs R Place spend the weekend with relatives at Winchester.
The list ranks Canadian seafood by value with salmon from British Columbia topping the national fisheries, followed by lobsters in second, cod third, halibut fourth, and herring fifth.
The ad promotes Pattern 4707 for Junior Miss sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 with a waist emphasis and easy sewing, priced 25 cents plus a catalog for 15 cents more. It invites readers to mail name, address, zone, size and style number to Winchester Star’s Pattern Dept in New York.
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