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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1934
Page
2
Local notes from Front Royal on July 24 cover visits and travel plans. Katherine Eckart and her niece plan a trip to Peoria Illinois while various guests from Washington D C Philadelphia and Fauquier County visit Front Royal. A birth is announced for Lieut Joseph Carson and Mrs Carson.
Mrs Irma Laws of Baltimore and Mr John Lee Krider of Baltimore and Strasburg were lunch guests at the Strickler House yesterday before continuing to Madison Court House.
Large gathering at Mrs. Robert A. Hoar home pays last respects as Rev. W. P. Saunders conducts services. Interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery beside Grace M. E. Church hymns Pace to Face and God Will Take Care of You. Mrs. Hoar, member of Stover Camp UDC, survived by husband, son, one brother and four sisters. one daughter Blanche Hoar predeceased her.
Mr. Waldo Marchi returned home yesterday from a trip through Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rudacile and their daughter Miss Pauline Rudacile of Limeton were visitors in town yesterday.
Miss Katherine Schwab of Warrenton is guests with Miss Harriett Harrison at her Cloud street home. Mrs. Julian N. Major, who had an operation at Winchester Memorial Hospital Saturday, is reported to be getting along very nicely.
One case heard in Police Court today resulting in Mary Grim being fined 10.25 on a drunk charge. Weekend guests visiting Amherst street hosts included Dr A R Timberlake and wife, John G Timberlake and son John G Jr of Clarksburg West Virginia, and Mr and Mrs George W Shirley and daughter Julia of Jefferson county.
The Red Cross will assign a nurse to Winchester and Frederick County for itinerant public health work. She will begin by organizing home hygiene and patient care classes. The nurse's name and arrival date are not yet set. I Malinde Havey, director, cites health and economics as linked and notes unemployment harms. The courses, practical and certificate earning, are popular and held in varied community venues.
Report indicates about 4400 cattle are moving from St. Paul toward Virginia pasture fields. It is unclear if any will stay in Frederick county, but around ten carloads are thought to be bound for the area. Western farmers face drought, while the cattle move is described as double barreled relief for both grass owners and cattle owners.
Winchester churches unite for an outdoor vesper at Handley High School on Sunday, July 29 at 5 p m. The Chanters led by Floyd Haines will sing as worshippers gather in the cool open air amid nature’s setting.
Local Reformed churchmen plan the forty fifth annual reunion of Reformed churches and the first reunion of Evangelical and Reformed churches across Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia at Pen Mar on July 26. Dr Boyd Edwards Mercersburg Academy will speak on Freedom and the Community Men’s Choir Waynesboro Pa will sing. Association president is W E Hoffheins formerly of Martinsburg now Washington.
Refuge Va July 24 There will be a layman's service at the Refuge Church on the fifth Sunday night in July the 29th Everyone is invited as an interesting speaker has been engaged Miss Thelma Ritenour is spending weeks in Washington DC taking a beauty culture course Also in Saint Stephens City Parasian Beauty Shoppe alumnus Thelma Ritenour attended initial course at Parasian Beauty Shoppe Refuge Church news notes list local residents visits and travels
A severe storm in Hampshire County West Virginia hit Romney seven miles away destroying the barn of John I and Samuel Pancake by lightning. A corncrib granary and much machinery burned. hay stored in the barn was lost. no livestock died. Loss about $3,000 with partial insurance.
In a violent storm resembling a deluge, Garrett County endured damaged cornfields and roofs in Kitzmiller Deer Park Altamont Deep Creek Lake Accident McHenry and the Swallow Falls CCC camp. No injuries were reported as the storm paused a heat wave that had reached 94 degrees in the region.
Jesse J. Weatherholtz of Corkville Shenandoah county a World War veteran joins the CCC and will entrain from the city for Fortress Monroe Virginia on July 27 then transfer to a CCC camp He is the first man enrolled for the fourth period One man from Frederick Clarke Warren and Loudoun counties will report to the Winchester Recruiting Station for service None have been called yet.
A lone civilian in a rowboat approached Governor’s Island and overpowered an armed sentry and seven soldiers to free Melvin Blanton of Camden, Ohio, who was serving a long term as a “bad man.” The pair were last seen in a rowboat heading toward Brooklyn.
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