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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
8
The calendar notes an 8 p m Shenandoah Rebekah Association gathering with Winchester Lodge at Odd Fellows Hall and a 12:30 p m Kiwanis meeting and luncheon at the Washington Hotel.
Former Arlington Hall Junior College graduate Lois Ruth Johnson of tington West Virginia is engaged to Marshall Jones Beverley of Alexandria Mississippi. Beverley a Shenandoah Valles Academy graduate and banking examiner in Washington D C is a great great grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall with best man Rixey Smith secretary to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. The wedding is set for August fifth in Norfolk Virginia.
The annual reunion of the Johnson family of Jefferson County West Virginia is planned for Sunday August 13 at Priest's Field in Middleway. About 400 attendees are anticipated with a John son clan committee arranging the event.
The Tri Angle Club of the Church of Christ announced a yard party and fashion show at the Butler home on North Braddock Street Thursday night at 7. Models include Winchester citizens John Hattie Andy Bell Clarence Butler Claude Grove Paul Riley and Leonard Riley. A fortune telling booth and refreshments will be offered.
A fictional biography of Lingley presented as part of rehearsals for Outward Bound. The narrator describes rising from family hardship as a seventh child, perfecting a turbine engine, profiting from invention, investing in cinemas and pubs, and pursuing revenge for past wrongs while questioning whether caring for others pays.
A bride and groom wedding reception etiquette guidance covers who to congratulate and how to pronounce detour. It notes extend best wishes to the bridegroom while not congratulating the bride, and gives the recommended pronunciation de tour with stress on the last syllable for detour. It also advises saying How do you do when introduced to a young man.
Mrs R J Funkhouser and sister Margaret Clark and Mr James Clark and Miss Judith Owen spent the day in Washington. Charles A Meelllwee moved from Memorial hospital after another amputation on his right leg and is convalescing at home near Rosenberger Frederick county. C E Grove of Miami Fla who came for the sudden death of his father E H Grove will remain with his mother at 1301 Valley avenue until August. Grove has been in Florida business for 23 years. Harry Ebert Jr and James Goode spent the weekend in Richmond Va returning Sunday night. Stanley T McCann of Peebles Ohio has returned home after visiting George Clark Jr on North Braddock street. Bobby Fincham ill in Memorial hospital reported a little improved today. L F White and family of Winchester Va motored to New York for a few days at the World’s Fair and other points.
Mrs Blackburn Smith and Mrs E L Tessier journeyed to Ocean View Virginia to visit sister Mrs James Riddle at her cottage. Rehoboth Beach rentals for August divide between Mr and Mrs Blackburn Moore and Mr and Mrs Ralph N Dorsey with family staying first two weeks and last two weeks respectively. Miss Sarah Blackburn Crown visits Woodlawn later this week with Mr and Mrs J W Bauer and daughter Sarah Jane Bauer of Aiken South Carolina and Mrs Frederick Crown of Mobile Alabama. Rose MacDonald and Mrs John B Neill dine with Mr and Mrs Robert Browse in Charles Town Tuesday, in honor of their brother Rev Pierce Naylor MacDonald of Montgomery Alabama. reception to follow by Mrs Walter Washington. Mrs Graham Dougherty reports $700 gross from An Evening on the Shenandoah at Springsbury July 19, largest Clarke County Nurse Association benefit. Mrs Peter Williams of Pittsburgh and Virginia hosts guest mother Mrs Carrington of Pittsburgh at Riverside.
A crude bomb threat targeting Mrs Angela Kaufman’s Newport mansion The Castles demanded Father Divine stay away from the resort The note found in a broken dining room window warned of a bomb and referenced the K K K and Black God Devine Police investigated as threats of violence while Mrs Kaufman was away and previously received tar and feather threats.
Mr and Mrs Richard Mann of Jackson Heights Long Island welcomed a son born July 12 at a physician s hospital Mrs Mann formerly Miss Katherine Rhodes daughter of Mr and Mrs M H Rhodes of Middletown A yard party at Little Mountain church is planned on Friday July 28 for the church fund Miss Mary Elizabeth Ebert of South Stewart Street visits Beckley with Miss Margorie Wriston They will vacation at Virginia Beach after a Randolph Macon women s college school year Miss Olivia Dellinger returns from New York and Bermuda en route to Winchester with Mr and Mrs Paul Collison in Wilmington Delaware.
Berryville Virginia July 25. Mr and Mrs Walter West of Barnaby Ridge leave for Hot Springs for August. Miss Anne B C Moore plans a three week motor trip to New England with companions and will meet Anne Cabell Williams in New York. J Britt Ellington returns from Alexandria and will preach at Grace Episcopal Church until September. Rev Hubert Lloyd returns from Japan and will fill Grace Church pulpit for August. Mrs C T A McCormick hosts dinner with Mrs Minnie Mitchell and niece Mrs Thomas Payne. Rev George S West and Mrs West attend visitors at Emanuel Episcopal Church in Alexandria. Mrs S C Williams and Annie Moore dine with Mary and Louise Lippitt in Charles Town.
New York July 25 drought threatens water power of factories across lower New England as the worst July drought in a generation spreads through Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire with shortages in rural New Jersey and Central New England.
Each rainless hour intensified damage to apple orchards pastures and vegetables. In Pennsylvania officials reported over 200 timber fires since the month began. New York state forest may close to the public if the rain famine continues with no forecast before the weekend.
The annual leadership training school of the Methodist Protestant Church, held for the last time, records its largest attendance with 37 registered participants for the week long course. The merger of the church branches will end the school once run by a single branch.
Made for sizes 12 through 20 with busts 30 to 38 inches. The pattern offers several fabric options in gingham linen pique or sharkskin with braid or bias trim. Size 14 for 32 inch bust requires 554 yards of 35 inch fabric and 10 yards braid or bias. Includes step by step sew chart and patterns priced 15 cents each. Pattern book also 15 cents. Bundle deal 25 cents.
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