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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
2
Jr. and Mrs. C L Robinson and Mrs. Fred Frobinson are home from Fairmont West Virginia where they drove to attend the dedication of a bridge over the Monongahela River. TheTh bridge cost about one million dollars.
A stalled Arkansas debate condemns bond issuance used to back state debt. The text argues the 1876 constitution protected homeowners from forced mortgages and accuses banks of profiting from bonds while denying petition rights, urging public scrutiny and accountability for misused funds.
Centenary Reformed Church adds a social worker and deaconess Miss Dorot Earlson of Philadelphia comes to Winchester with training. She will devote full time to social Sunday school and work among girls and women, expanding the church's community service.
Miss Jessie Bishop spent the weekend with Miss Corrie Swimley and Mrs Alma Brady of Rest visits Miss Fannie Smithey. Mrs Smith and Gladys Smith of Clarke county were guests of S B Purcell. A Bible Class play in town hall drew a small admission fee of 19.20 dollars.
The Brucetown and Wadesville baseball teams plan a lawn party in the school house yard Saturday night June 4. Little Melvin McKee of White Hall visits his grandmother Mrs. 8 M Purcell. A large village delegation attended Stone Chapel to unveil a memorial to Robert Russell who died in France in World War I. Memorial exercises will be held in the village cemetery Sunday morning June 5 and children’s day exercises Sunday night at the church. An ice truck will visit the village Monday and Friday this summer.
General March announces nine national training areas with Camp Meade Maryland hosting the camp from August 4. The program opens to able bodied male citizens aged sixteen to thirty five and will cover the regular army national guard and organized reserves aiming to train reserve officers and non commissioned officers.
Mrs. Brooke Smith is very ill with heart trouble at her Greenspring home under Dr. E B Smoke care. J F Allen of Kernstown visits friends nearby. Mount Pleasant Sunday School holds children day services Sunday June 56 at 10 30 am. Greenspring Band yard party at White Hall school lawn Saturday night June 4 with music. Children day services at Greenspring Sunday June 12 at 3 30 pm. J E McDonald was in Mar.
Lieut Col Archie Miller, one of the army aviators killed in a Maryland crash during a fierce storm, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery after services at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Bolling Field personnel attended the rites. relatives include Col and Mrs W W Whitside of Winchester. Miller, a prominent aviation figure, commanded camps at Waco Mineola and Kelly Field before later studies at the war college. He leaves a son and daughter. He was a thirty second degree Mason.
Miss Mabel I. Loy of Yeakley School wins a year’s Youth’s Companion subscription for best essay on the Junior Red Cross work by Frederick County pupils. The winning piece will be printed in full later.
The Pentecostal assembly hall at 409 North Kent hosts Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m on Sundays and at 8 p m on Wednesdays and Fridays William DeHaven a miner of Gainesboro and Miss Grace Malinda Painter daughter of Barney Painter of Steph ens City received a county marriage license in the clerk's office.
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