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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1929
Page
3
Social and Personal News information for the Cee invites items by mail or telephone. Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller will accept news by telephone between S and 4 p m for the following day. Phone No. 33.
Engagement announced at Town Hill Mountain dinner as Miss Ethel Turner Webster, daughter of Mrs Webster and the late Rev. Dr. James Webster, to Mr. Charles Shoemaker of Hancock. Miss Webster, a Frederick College graduate, will be the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival princess. she teaches in Hancock schools. A quiet wedding followed the next day as Miss Lois Lee Orndorff wed Mr. Harry C. Lewis at the Church of the Disciples of Christ on West Cork Street.
Mrs. Carrie Gary spoke at the Phil Sheridan Woman's Relief Corps in Washington detailing relief efforts and her engaging meeting with Jos F. Bean the sole Grand Army of Republic veteran in Winchester during a recent visit to her brother in law and sister at West Gerrard Street.
Mr John H Srautman from Me eeeee Pa and Miss Louise Brandt of Greensburg Pa wed at 4 pm yesterday, by Rev George W Stover at the United Brethren Church parsonage on North avenue. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis C Brandt, will live in McKeesport where the groom works as a machinist. They traveled to Winchester by automobile.
Mr James B Downing of Warren county and Miss Beulah Marguerite Deford daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Deford of Baltimore and Luray Virginia will marry in Luray this autumn and make their future home in Charlottesville Virginia Downing will engage in business there as a member of the noted Warren county family.
Mr and Mrs Dudley Lichliter called in Chambersburg Pa where Miss Mildred Milleson suffered an acute appendicitis. She was admitted to a hospital and reported slightly improved last night while staying with Mr and Mrs George Guyer.
Miss Margaret Richards discussed her attendance at the International Convention of Christian Endeavor in Kansas City and gave a report at the United Brethren Church society meeting. She plans to continue sharing impressions with other local church groups having Endeavor Societies.
The Black Diamond Orchestra will play at Jordan Springs Hotel Thursday night under Miss Sue Schlack and Mr Earl Grim. A large crowd is expected with many out of town guests and locals anticipated to attend in Winchester area.
The W C T U will hold its semi monthly meeting at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Meeting House on the corner of Piccadilly and Washington streets. All members are urged to attend. Delegates Return From Young People's Conference. Mr and Mrs Dick Greenawalt Miss Opal DeHaven and Mr Lester Funkhouser motored to Massanetta Springs and were accompanied home by Miss Nannie Pelter Emily Hawkins Ellsworth Orndoff Herbert Buncutter and William Mack Brown, who attended the Presbyterian Young People's Conference as delegates from Burnt Church.
Congratulations pour in for Mr and Mrs Bruce Lodge of White Hall on the birth of a daughter named Nancy Bruce. Mrs Lodge formerly Winifred Smith.
Rev H E Richardson of Reliance visited yesterday on business. Robert Stratton Capitol Theatre organist is vacationing with his parents in Winston Salem. Frank Grim and family plus Nellie Leafe and Elizabeth Grim visited Warrenton Virginia. Mrs Peter Winchester Rouss of Brooklyn and Mrs W H Swan of Barton Florida with Mrs S H Walker and Miss Lee M Walker of Brooklyn stayed at the George Washington Hotel last Saturday and toured the valley caverns.
Eldred Frye, who had surgery at Memorial Hospital last Saturday, is reported improving and expects to leave the hospital in about two weeks according to relatives.
Miss Katherine Grant spent the ast weekend in Martinsburg and Quincey with friends. Numerous guests and visitors are listed including Mrs. Walter Beck and daughter Barbara Beck of Bristol Virginia, Mrs. Milburn and daughter, Miss Bessie Rourk of Baltimore, and many others visiting relatives, shopping in New York, or returning from trips to Richmond, Newark, and Atlantic City.
An American, likely John D. Rockefeller Jr., bought Houdon’s 1783 George Washington bust for 25000 dollars in London. The purchase was reported by the Associated Press and the piece is expected to be donated to an American museum.
St Louis July 23 Associated Press President Sam Brendon said William McKechnie will take the Cardinals’ manager job again with Billy Southworth moving to Rochester to manage the club there. McKechnie guided St Louis to the National League title last season before a late summer slump and World Series defeat.
Stocks moved higher today after an irregular opening as grain prices fell. About 3,900,000 shares traded with gains ranging from one to six points across a broad set of active issues including several public utilities. Call money steady at 7 percent.
In El Paso Texas two negro rum runners are believed killed and three wounded after a night clash between four immigration border patrol officers and over 20 smugglers. No Americans were hurt. Patrol chief H C Horsley says prominent El Paso citizens may be implicated in large raids.
President Hoover announced plans to create a general staff army commission to review expenditures and identify obsolete programs and ways to extend operations without compromising readiness. He noted U S military spending surpasses other nations and tax relief could depend on trimming military and naval costs amid Kellogg pact considerations.
Lieut Clarence M Knight United States Marine Corps passenger in a plane crash near Octotal Nicaragua yesterday died of injuries overnight Word of his death came from the Navy department Two other Marines Capt E D Howard and Private Robert K Mody were killed in the crash The airplane fell in the Coco river Knight's home was in Chambersburg PA where his widow resides.
President Hoover ordered the withdrawal of twelve hundred marines from Nicaragua. About 2,300 marines will stay in the Central American republic as reports indicate order has been restored and fewer troops are needed.
Messrs R P Anderson of Ebenezer and Roy Wingfield of Gore motor Sunday evening to Del Ray West Virginia where they attended the prolonged meeting led by Rev J Goode of this city.
Richmond report shows 2 052 divorces granted in the state led to 2 805 children affected from 2 073 unions. White couples accounted for 2 107 of the divorces. Most petitioners appeared between the fifth and ninth years of marriage. Desertion and infidelity were the main causes cited with cruelty also listed.
Elizabeth City editor W O Saunders was arrested for wearing pajamas in public then praised by Mayor Jerome B Flora who proclaimed it the citizen's right to dress as they please. Saunders accepted a dress reform challenge but would not wear nightclothes on command.
In an interview reported by the World’s Work, Benito Mussolini says he plans to reduce Italian wine drinking for economic reasons. He claims to have closed 27,000 saloons in five years and vows to close all. He notes Italy spends 8.5 million acres on vineyards, owns over half of Europe’s vineyards, consumes all production domestically, and still imports wheat.
Playwright Eugene O'Neill married actress Carlotta Monterey in Paris and the couple plans a Tyrol honeymoon. O'Neill's ex wife Agnes Boulton O'Neill obtained a Reno divorce on July 2. Back yard disorderly conditions in Alexandria noted, with owners likely to claim spring cleanup already done.
Tension in the Russo-Chinese dispute eased as both nations pledged to honor the Kellogg pact. Reports say Soviet forces captured a Chinese river steamer and took prisoner the captain’s wife and child. Border movements continued on the Manchurian Siberian line, with observers cautious of actual clashes. Shanghai and Washington expressed optimism for a peaceful settlement.
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