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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1937
Page
8
Friday evening 5 to 9 Mary Martha hosts a yard party at Miss Mae Crabill's Amherst street home. Saturday night dance at Winchester pond runs from 10:00 to 2:00, starting a half hour early.
Miss Martha Wright fiancé of Herman Bly has been the guest of honor at multiple Washington engagements. Guests hosted at the Ambassador Hotel dinner. personal showers in Washington and Cleveland Heights. a long table dinner in Washington. and a marriage dinner in the county prior to the Alexandria wedding. The couple plans a Shoreham Hotel reception and a wedding trip to Ohio.
Mrs B F Sager leaves for Miami Fla to complete a dieticians course at Jackson Memorial Hospital. She had been visiting her mother Mrs Hunter Davidson of West Germain street. Miss Nancy Gray Larrick returns from Baltimore Norfolk after two weeks as guest of Lieut and Mrs Jos Jelley at Norfolk Naval Base.
An old classified style ad proclaims The Coolest Place in Town offering Jumbo Ice Cream Sodas ten cents, Gigantic Milk Shakes ten cents, Double Dip Ice Cream Cones five cents, and Old Fashioned Plate Ice Cream ten cents.
Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions about using full names in invitations and addressing a guest presented to a woman. The column suggests formal language, mentions a polite reply when reintroduced, and asks about hatwear at luncheon without a hat.
Miss Virginia Rebecca Butler wed Grafton A Bierlein in a July ceremony at the First Baptist parsonage in Cherrydale Clarke and Frederick county. The bride, daughter of George Butler, plans to reside in Balliston with the groom, a Macey's Grocery employee and Cherrydale High School graduate.
J C Brumbaugh of this city learned today of the death of his sister Mrs Mary Alice Heishman aged about 86 at her home near Conicville Shenandoah county. She was a Shenandoah county native daughter of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Brumbaugh widow of Dick M Heishman. Survived by three daughters Mrs J H Moorman Conicville Mrs John Faulkner Martinsburg W Va Mrs Stella Stickley Conicville and Archie Hershman Harrisonburg Va plus three brothers J C Brumbaugh Winchester J W Brumbaugh Morgantown W Va B F Brumbaugh Converse Ind. Funeral will be tomorrow at Conicville with interment in the family lot Relatives from this city depart for Conicville to attend.
Relatives hear of John Andrathy's death from a heart attack at his Baltimore home. He worked for years at the Emerson Hotel. Survived by widow Katie Trier and children Joan Bernard Charles Gorsuch Annie died last May. Family from town travels to Baltimore for funeral at St. Paul’s Church tomorrow morning at 38 30 o'clock.
Burglars break into Gary Cooper and Veronica Balfe home while they visited friends, thefts totaling over 25000 with jewelry worth 18000+ and other items missing. Police report entry by cutting a screen in a lower floor bathroom. Sol Wurtzel also reports theft of a jewel box and star sapphire ring worth 7500.
Mrs Sallie Sager widow of late Andrew Sager stonemason dies aged in this section. She leaves brothers John Orndorff Berkeley Springs Edward Orndorff Strasburg Junction Arthur Orndorff Mr Olive and sisters Ellie Conner Frederick county Greatha Penn Indiana and Bertie Smith Winchester. Funeral Sunday at Jubilee Brethren Church with services at 2:30 pm conducted by Rev Cephas Fahnestock. Interment Macedonia.
The ordinance requires a memorandum of the building line and street grade to be provided to the property owner and a duplicate to the street and water department. If a permit is refused the applicant may appeal to council. Violations may bring fines from 20 to 50 dollars and required removal of obstructions at the owner's expense.
In relentless mopping up operations, forces press against the remaining units of the Twenty-ninth Chinese Army as noted on page one. The advance emphasizes finishing the pursuit of enemy pockets still resisting in the vicinity.
The report notes heavy fighting west of a Chinese city with a possible major engagement. Chiang Kai-Shek orders 50,000 central army troops to support entrenched divisions on the west bank as Japanese forces push near Wanpingsien and the Marco Polo bridge. President Roosevelt says the far eastern crisis is disturbing and will be monitored over the weekend. American missions back Chinese education at Yenching University amid severed communications.
Traffic enforcement notes indicate officers seldom issue fines and typically dismiss summons with warnings. The item mentions a parking lot aid program and its role in public safety.
Vague notes describe increasing congestion amid crowded streets on Saturdays. Limited relief measures provide partial progress, with parking lots and maps referenced as part of the ongoing response.
NBC Chicago WEAF and station downers grove to test pigeons homing with short wave fields. Six birds released near aerials and several blocks away to measure 30 mile flights. Engineer Carl Hassell notes Navy findings suggest potential confusion under radio waves and possible insight into human radio sensitivities.
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