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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1931
Page
3
Public notices indicate mail or telephone contact is available anytime via The Evening Star. No staff individuals are named. contact details reference a general communications channel.
Readers list Woodhull Baker and Master Woodhull Baker Jr Mrs Belle Baker and numerous relatives. Names appear with Mr and Mrs W D Smith Master Wallace Wooten, Mr and Mrs Paul Gaylord and children Billy and Isabelle, Horace Browne and kids Winifred Natalie, Mary Miller and Burr P Harrison among others.
Social events and meetings fill a week with posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Eastern Star Lions Club Kiwanis Rotary and American Legion at George Washington Hotel and related venues. Night dances feature Ike Dixon and His Plantation Orchestra and Southern Serenaders with entertainers Billy Heaton Louis Grammer Meyer Davis.
A large Stephenson gathering hosted Miss Carmen Owens in honor of her cousin Miss Julia Owens of Monroe Mich. Music by Howard brothers and E J Harman accompanied the lively evening. About sixty guests enjoyed games and refreshments at the home of Mr and Mrs H P Owens. Several attendees from Martinsburg W V and Winchester joined the celebration. Supper party followed at the Shenandoah River cottage for Mr and Mrs Thomas W Harrison Jr and children of Baltimore with guests including Mr and Mrs Paul Gaylord and Mr Lewis Barton.
A roundup of visits and guest stays across Alexandria, Fort Wayne, Baltimore, Charleston, and Atlantic City includes Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Roland of Alexandria visiting Miss Lou Hollis. Mrs. Frank Lovett joining family in town before Johns Hopkins hospital stay. J. J. Andrew Kater arriving to join Mrs. Kater visiting Clarke family. several locals taking vacations or hosting guests at Emmett's and Winchester Country Club. residents traveling to Washington and Virginia Beach. community members announced births and recoveries from illnesses and operations. Mrs. T. W. English hosting weekly bridge. multiple trips to Cape May and Atlantic City noted.
A burlap sack with most bones of a human skeleton was recovered from Puget Sound near Everett. The remains, judged male by Dr. H H Kretzler, spur renewed efforts to solve the disappearance of James Eugene Bassett. A moss agate and brass jewelry piece were found with the bones. A fisherman who found the sack disappeared after handing it to authorities.
Baltimore race horse owner Pat McGovern died suddenly at his home at 57. Physicians cited a heart attack. he had been improving after two years of impaired health. McGovern’s stable was campaigning at Empire City in New York.
The blazing sun today intensified its withering attack along a front from the Rocky Mountains and Dakotas toward the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures topped a hundred degrees in many areas, with Salina Kansas reaching 99 at 10 a m.
Chilean ex president Carlos Ibanez left Moneda Palace at 1 20 am amid a public uprising and headed for the port of San Antonio where the destroyer Lynch waited. He boarded for an undisclosed foreign destination. Pedro Opazo will act as president until elections are held. Opera will lead the government during the interim.
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, en route to London via Amsterdam, says Germany's financial trouble stems from a temporary lack of confidence and will improve with courage and renewed confidence. He avoids quoting the German president and calls his Berlin visit informal and noncommittal. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald also arrives in Berlin to a warm reception alongside Foreign Minister Henderson.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh will depart around noon for Washington to secure papers for their vacation flight to the orient. They expect to return tomorrow then proceed to Ottawa as the first stop on the long journey Wednesday.
Amy Johnson Britain's premier woman aviator leaves Hendon for Tokyo with J Humphreys. She seeks the Moscow and Siberia route, aiming to repeat her solo Australia trip after a previous winter forced landing in Poland.
Two flying cadets from the army advanced flying school at Kelly Field were killed when a bombing plane crashed at Fort Clarke. Cadet Robert P. Burke of Dyersburg Tennessee and Cadet George M. O'Rear of Jasper Alabama died in the accident near San Antonio Texas.
In Los Angeles a naval dirigible Los Angeles lifted at 9 27 for a five hour flight over the city carrying Siamese monarchs Queen Rambaibarni and her court. The queen and her lady in waiting became the first women to ride in the dirigible.
Wheat prices held near Saturday levels on the Chicago Board of Trade with fractional gains in coin puts. Weekend moisture reports spurred buyers while wheat showed little new influence. Closing prices were Wheat July 51 1/4, Sept 51 1/2, Dec 55. Corn July 204 1/4, Sept 50, Dec 44. Oats July 24, Sept 24 1/2, Dec 27. Rye July 34, Sept 35, Dec 38.
In Martinsburg West Virginia Miss Eva Riggs near Jones Spring was thrown through the windshield in a collision with a car driven by Ashley Harrison also of Jones Spring. Harrison was arrested for drunken driving. Miss Riggs was taken to the hospital with non serious injuries.
An ad from 211 South Main presents copper plate engraving services. Genu ine copper plate engraved name cards priced at $2.00 for 100 and 250 business cards at $5.75.
A trio of hitch hikers en route to St. Catharines Ontario were stopped at the Canadian border after immigration officials refused entry because Hazlett had only one dollar.
A sharp quip about Ford teaching Russians to build tractors and their price undercutting in Europe. The joke marks a rare favorable Ford line after years. A daughter doubts math used in daily life before learning calories in hash sparks humor.
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