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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1941
Page
8
Social and personal notes announce a 6 30 p m Rotary Kiwanis and Lions Clubs dinner at the hotel and a piano recital by Kathleen McCartney pupils at Handley High School Auditorium on Friday at 8 00 p m.
Mr and Mrs C M Barrett hosted their grandson Emmett W Mason and wife Virginia May Rannals Mason for dinner. Birth notices include several families welcoming daughters and sons at Memorial Hospital, with names and parental lineages listed among local residents.
Miss Kath leen McCartney presents a recital tomorrow night at 8 in Handley High School auditorium with an open invitation to the public.
A Q A on telephone invitations condolence calls and dining manners. It states that replying to an informal invitation by phone is proper, a family member may accept condolence calls, and refusing a dish at dinner is discourteous.
Mary Washington College student plans a Fredericksburg summer with her parents. Reba Snarr and Phyllis Fowle attended a farewell ball at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal. Maryland residents visit local hosts, with bridge party planned at the Russell home. Louise Hicks returns from college to stay with her parents. Several guests arrive from Gordonsville, Reading, Harrisburg, and Baltimore for weekend visits and events.
Time Now advises on tanning with care for spring. Gradual sun exposure, protective creams and powders, and avoiding over tanning to prevent leathery skin. Deep ivory with a light flush is favored. bronze tones may misbehave with certain hair colors.
The Garden Club of Virginia hosts the annual Lily Show June 12 and 13 at Fredericksburg's Seacobeck Hall. Proceeds benefit British relief. The event gathers noted gardeners from state clubs with rare scales of lilies and displays on cultural care.
Mrs. Richard Griffith calls women volunteers in Winchester Frederick County to boost wartime Red Cross production this summer. She cites Mrs. Dwight Davis on enlisted volunteers serving through war and peace, with sewing knitting and surgical dressings for War Relief and the U S Army at Presbyterian Church rooms open weekdays morning.
Wilhelm II the former German emperor died after living in exile for over two decades without returning to Germany to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty. He refused to return while his dynasty was not restored, and he had briefly considered traveling incognito in 1937 if his wife Hermine’s illness had worsened. He remained publicly connected to his homeland only in memory, dying May 25 after intestinal and lung complications.
Beginning June 9 the Sewing Rooms at the Baptist Church will operate Monday Wednesday Thursday and Friday afternoons from 2 to 5 oclock. Knitting can be obtained from Mrs Griffith or by contacting the local Red Cross office.
The Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm succeeds to control of the Hohenzollern family fortune under a strict succession law. Louis Ferdinand is listed as next in line. The family remains Germany's largest landholder, with much of its estates turned over to settlers during Hitler's back-to-the-farm movement.
The Federal Trade Commission announced an agreement by Victor Silk Hosiery Corporation of Hagerstown Maryland to cease certain representations in selling women's hosiery. The company agreed to stop using the word silk in its corporate or trade name and in advertising or labels describing items not made wholly of silk.
Executor of Michael Lillis offers at public auction a 40 by 89 foot lot at 600 South Braddock St Winchester to highest bidder at 11:00 AM June 7 1941. Executor of Elizabeth Lillis offers a 41 to 5 acre apple orchard tract near Handley High School adjacent to Winchester corporate limits. Both sales in front of County Court House with cash terms and plat surveys available after May 20 1941.
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