Trousseau Shower Honoring Miss Shirley Oakes
Miss Margaret Richards hosted a May afternoon tea and trousseau shower at her South Washington home for Miss Shirley Oakes ahead of her June 18 marriage to Mr. I Fred Stone. Class of 1929 guests from Handley High included Miss Oakes and Miss Richards with numerous friends. The unique centerpiece featured a green beer Stein with gifts, miniature dolls, and orange blossoms, amid a green and pink decor and tea service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Richards
South Washington Street
Shirley Oakes
I. Fred Stone
Miss Oakes
Miss Richards
Handley High School
Helen Buckley
Margaret Hansbrough
Mary Louise Sartelle
Lucy Ritenour
Louise Glass
Rosalie Nelson
Trousseau
Pre Nuptial Parties Planned For Miss Byrd
A series of social events honor Miss Catherine Byrd of Harrisonburg and Winchester with engagement to Mr. Frank O. Barkley Jr of Maysville Kentucky. Activities include informal luncheon tea and breakfast gatherings hosted by family and faculty friends from Winchester schools Handley High and Virginia Avenue Elementary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Byrd
Harrisonburg
Frank O. Barkley, Jr
Maysville
Edward P. Browning, Jr
Miss Byrd
Winchester Public Schools
Washington Inn
Stewart Street
Clara Berry
Handley High School
Joseph C. Byrd
Virginia Avenue
Mr. Barkley
Frank O. Barkley
Shenandoah Valley Academy Social Calendar Highlights
A week of school and community events is listed from Wednesday to Tuesday. Fraternity banquets and dances at Tokus Inn and Winchester Country Club. Relief Methodist Church benefit play. Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Delphian and Civic League meetings. Upperville Flower Show. Girl and Boy student activities. Shenandoah Valley Academy commencement and ball. Handley High School finals and junior senior prom. Lions and Kiwanis luncheons and banquets. Events span Shenandoah Valley Academy, Handley High School, Front Royal, and local venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delta Sigma Nu Fraternity
Tokus Inn
Relief Methodist Church
League
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Winchester Country Club
Rotary Club
George Washington Hotel
Delphian Society
Handley Library
Upperville
Upperville High School
Woman’s Service Guild of
Market Street
M. E. Church
Alpha Phi Fraternity
Tokus’ Inn
Front Royal
Updyke’s Hall
Warren County Garden Club
Hugh R. Millar
Chester Street
Handley High School
Handley Gmmnasium
Lions’ Club
Kiwanis Club
Girls' Athletic Association Plans Summer Dance
The Girls' Athletic Association will hold its regular meeting tomorrow at 7 30 pm in the club rooms on West Piccadilly street. Members will finalize plans for the summer dance on Friday evening June 3 at Hotel Drusilla in Jordan White Sulphur Springs. Reservations can be made by calling Mrs Virginia Harrell at 1023.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls’ Athletic Association
West Piccadilly Street
Hotel Drusilla
Jordan White Sulphur Springs
Virginia Harrell
Sunshine Club Meeting Tomorrow At Braddock Street Church
The Sunshine Club of Braddock Street Methodist Church will meet tomorrow at 3 pm at Mrs. Harry W. Butler home 315 West Clifford Street with hostesses Mrs. E P Bean Mrs J W Crider and Mrs Emma Benson. Members urged to attend for an important session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Bertie Hicks
Fairmont Avenue
Sunshine Club
Braddock Strest Methodist Church
Harry W. Butler
West Clifford Street
Butler
E. P. Bean
J. W. Crider
Emma Benson
Hit Run Driver To Be Questioned In Auto Tragedy
Willard Dickel a 27 year old Mount Savage Maryland umpire died after being struck on the Paw Paw Great Cacapon highway early yesterday Police said Ernest Compton a 17 year old Paw Paw WV student drove from the scene with two girls did not stop and officers planned to question them and likely hold an inquest Dickel worked at a Mount Savage fire brick works and was married his body returned to his home for burial
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Dickel
Mount Savage
Great Cacapon
Ernest Compton
Paw Paw
W. Va
Dickel
Martinsburg
Church and Graveyard Clean-Up Planned at Mount Olive
Hayfield Va June 1 The church and cemetery committee of Mount Olive United Brethren Church designates June 7 as clean up day. Burials helpers meet at 1 pm with tools while funds are lacking for upkeep. Ladies will renovate the church interior. Visitors include Dr and Mrs Hedricks of Washington and Aberdeen and Mrs Wotring of Morgantown formerly Miss Shockey of Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayfield
Mount Olive
H. B. Hedricks
Washington
Aberdeen
Jackson Singers To Give Concert In Mount Carmel Church
The Jackson Jubilee Singers from Charles Town W Va will perform at Mount Carmel F B Church South Braddock Street at 8 30 p m tomorrow under the junior choir and Honey Bee Club. Tickets are at Hodgson and Brown's jewelry store. The program features negro spirituals plantation melodies and high class ballads. They will sing a song they composed in memory of William F Keller of Winchester a loyal admirer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Jubilee Singers
Charles Town
W. Va
Mount Carmel F. B
South Braddock Street
Honey Bee Club
Hodgson and Brown
William F. Keller
Winchester
Von Papen Asked To Form New National Coherent Cabinet
President Hindenburg commissions Franz Von Papen to form a temporary national concen point cabinet to carry on until a larger government is formed. Papen, wartime military associate and alleged director of German propaganda in the United States in 1915, is a former military attache to the United States. Miss Marcia Allen returns to New York City after visiting Miss Anne Brooke Kern on Fairmont Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Papen
Berlin
Paul von Hindenburg
United States
Germany
Franz von Papen
Washington
Marcia Allen
New York City
Anne Brooke Kern
Fairmont Avenue
First Annual Garden Club Rose Show Planned in Winchester
The Garden Club of Virginia and the Winchester Clarke County Garden Club announce a first annual rose show at the George Washington Hotel on June 10 from 3 to 9 PM. Entries open to amateur growers with classes for roses and other flowers, prizes in each class, and a Rose Test Garden exhibit nearby June 9–11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden Club of Virginia
George Washington Hotel
Winchester and
Clarke County
Garden Club
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Play Gardens
Millwood
Rela Ir
Paul Neyron
Also Mentioned on This Page
Civic League
The
Robert T. Barton
Persell Plank
Daughters of the American Revolution Society
Evelyn Marshall Rinker
Ralph Rinker
William Reed
Staunton Military Academy
Reed
Boyd R. Reed
Jamie Glynn
Mountain Falls
Mollie Rinker
Peggy
Nettie Carbaugh
Alice Funk
Reba Rinker
Captain
Gertrude Borden
W. P. Saunders
Alice
Grace
Mae Craig
Mitchell
Miss Eckley
Bristol
Hattie L. Eckley
Virginia Intermont College
First Baptist Church
Mary Virginia Vincent
Franklin Patton
Valley Pike
Lewis M. Allien
Patton
Miss Sherman
Mary Sherman
William Irwin
L. C Cooper
O'Neill
Oscar Pangle
Washington, D. C
Leslie Shopsher
Chester
Virginia
Army Nurse School
Army School of Nursing
Army Medical Center
Evelyn L. Lovett
Stephens City
This County
Mary A. White
Linden
Warren County
Miss Cook
American Association of University Women
Christina Cook
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Drusilla Hotel
Mary
Red Cross
Huntsberry
Lovett
N. Main St
Maxine
Ballyshoo
Bentley
George Bentley
Hampton, Va
Riverton
Louisa Carson
Joseph A. Massie
Miss Carson
Briscoe
Maryland
J. W. Briscoe
Parkton
Leslie E. Fries
North Loudoun Street
National Cemetery
Decoration Day
Young People’s Choir
United Brethren Church
Florence H. Shuler
Mrs. W. M. Alabaugh
R. Maurice Trimble, Jr
Sewickley
E. C. Stuart
Hawthorne
Martine Kellam
Knoxville, Tenn
Sue Schlack
North Braddock Street
William Brubeck
Memorial Hospital
Valley Avenue
Harry A. Lewis
White Post
Herbert Reid
Berryville Avenue
Fauquier County
Brown Rector
Virginia Gibson
Bridge Club
T. W. English
John W. Downer
Willow Springs
Radnor
Philadelphia
Arabella Davies
Gunston Hall School For
Miss Davies
Julian Ward
Peter Yates Brinton
West Cork Street
Raymond J. Funkhouser
Hagerstown
Glenn Hopkins
G. W. Riley
Jackson Singers
Congress
Shenandoah Valley
National Bank
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
AYS
Benneteet
Aucp
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Swift
Lebanon
Pure Food
Nee and
Boscawen Streets
Voss Electric
R. M. Swimley
Jack
Paris
Lovett Brothers
X-Ray Shoe Fitters
Margaret L
Hodgson
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