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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1929
Page
3
Social and Personal department invites news by mail or telephone for De B. Miller. News should be sent to social reporter Mrs. I, with calls accepted between 9 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number 33.
Twenty two Civil War veterans aged 81 to 91 met at Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Wood’s Sperryville home for an annual reunion. Judge Alden Belly spoke, a Virginia ham banquet was served, and the day featured reminiscences of battles on Ivy Hill. "Mother" Crim, 91, attended and recalled New Market defense in vivid terms. Camping and picnics filled nearby Opequon Lake Park with new tennis courts nearing completion.
An engagement in Virginia is announced for Miss Mary Lamar Birdsey of Savannah Georgia and Mr John Collier Hogg of Norfolk Virginia. No wedding date is set. Miss Birdsey is a Dana Hall graduate with notable Virginia ancestors. Mr Hogg is a Yale graduate and manager at Pure Oil Virginia and secretary of South Atlantic Oil Company.
Mr Howard F Anderson of Harrisburg Pa traveling for Donaldson Paper Company visits Winchester with paper trades friends after four cold nights in a mountain town near Erie He recalls wearing heavy clothing and pleading for blankets at a hotel. Grace Lutheran Church picnic set for tomorrow at Jordan's Springs meeting at 1 30 at the church transport provided Swimming pool reserved for the afternoon.
Miss Regina Love Kimmell formerly of Clarke county Virginia and long time resident of Washington passed through the city today en route to Massanetta Springs for a fortnight for the Virginia Synodical meeting and the auxiliary leaders training school as a delegate from Potomac Presbyterian Auxiliary. She will spend several days with cousins Mr and Mrs Edwin C Henshaw in Burker Hill West Virginia before returning to Washington.
Anne Polk Cuculla of Lynchburg will marry Edwin Anderson Alderman Jr. son of the University of Virginia president. The wedding is set for Saturday afternoon July 27 at St Pauls Episcopal Church in Lynchburg. The bride elect is a Hollins College 1929 graduate and the couple will reside at 1060 Park Avenue New York where Mr Alderman works for Harcourt Brace and Company publishers.
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church Circle No 7 will meet this evening at 8 o clock at the home of Mrs Marcellus Anderson 411 South Kent Street Members urged to attend Aiken returned from Waynesboro Pa with her mother Mrs Charles Rice and grandmother Mrs Viola Harbaugh for two weeks at the Aiken cottage Opequon Lake Park. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Whettell of Hackensack New Jersey and Frank Miller and family with Mrs George Affleck who visited Edinburg Va last Sunday with Mr and Mrs Charles Hamrick.
Mr. Lester Keene of New York stays at the George Washington Hotel while in Winchester on business. Mr. Marcus Stottelmyer resumes duties at the Western Union Telegraph Company office after a week’s vacation.
George Pingley of Frederick County was fined 26 dollars 50 cents for disorderly conduct and assault. His son Harry Pingley faced DUI charges and was moved from county magistrate court to the Circuit Court of Frederick. A second Juvenile Court warrant declares him a minor in need of care.
President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg treaty in effect and thanked diplomats for advancing world peace. Japan became the last signatory to deposit its instrument, making the pact binding for 46 nations with no ceremony at the State Department.
Representative Leslie J. Steele of Decatur Georgia died in Garfield Memorial Hospital after gallstone surgery. He was 60 and completing his second term having defeated William D Upshaw in both races for Congress.
Avon Foreman a 15 year old flag pole sitter in Baltimore remains atop a 22 foot sapling in his yard at noon marking his nineteenth hour with no sign of weakness. He slept on an ironing board on a third night and began the day singing before breakfast. His mother sent up hot bath water and a towel and he changed into a clean suit before resuming his vigil as ground crew tend to his needs. He plans to stay up until next Tuesday reaching a ten day total.
In New York on July 24 the call money rate rose from 7 to 8 per cent causing irregular stock movements. Public utilities railroads and communications stocks led gains while overall activity totaled about 3.9 million shares traded.
Mrs. Jacqueline Knight 19, of Washington, and Miss Lee Chiswell 19, of Dickerson, were in a car trio bound for a sorority reunion in Buffalo when the vehicle first veered off the road and struck a pole near Harmony Grove, three miles from Frederick. Knight died at the hospital. Chiswell suffered shock and bruises.
In London July 24 Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced cancellation of some naval ship contracts and slowed construction. He said disarmament talks with the United States precede another naval disarmament conference. He may visit the United States in October to urge peace with President Hoover.
Ernest Dupris a 34 year old mill worker shot and killed his wife and her mother Mrs Meander Dyer 55 at the Dyer home in Salmon Hill New Hampshire then killed himself by shooting himself in the head. Dupris wife had been living with her mother since separating from him three years ago.
Two Marines from Quantico were killed and a third seriously injured in a car crash near the base today. The dead are John Manning of Milwaukee Wisconsin and Arthur Thomas Smith of Salem Ohio. Kenneth Albert Cover of Youngstown Ohio suffered serious injuries.
Advices from Manchuria indicate Chinese and Russian officials aim to meet in Changchun to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute.
A small Canadian village hotel used for weighing fish weighed a newborn baby at 48 pounds. The event occurred in a local guest house where guests' fish were previously measured, prompting curiosity about the unusual weighing.
Cy Mee of the Appleway Cabin Camp on the Valley pike was chosen president of the Southeastern Tourist Camp Association Inc at a Charlotte North Carolina meeting. The 22 member group consists of cabin camp proprietors of high standard, with territory along Virginia State Route No. 1 from Washington to Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley.
Sy4 nor Henson of near Middletown and Mrs. Ashwood of Strasburg suffered injuries after a German police dog at Mr. Kline's home attacked them. Henson, returning from Strasburg, sought water and was bitten on the leg as he ran from the house.
A dog bit a woman on the leg near a teen and required four stitches at a local doctor’s facility. The wounded victim, identified as Mrs Ashwood, is recovering along with a boy named Henson. County authorities are investigating the incident involving the dog at the Kline house.
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