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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
2
Front Royal residents host tea and linen shower for Miss Gertrude Borden as she prepares to marry Mr. Ray Jones. Local visits include Charles Town races and University of Virginia events. The Glee Club, bridge luncheons, and a Standard Oil dinner underscore a crowded civic scene with many named participants.
Terbuck and Hawkins with Hinson Schubert and Mrs. Tucker Watkins Tayloe and daughter Bettie spend time in Farmville Virginia with Tayloe’s mother in law Mrs Rice. Mrs A H Iseley arrives to join her husband connected with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, who has been here for several weeks.
Winchester fight fans are promised a spectacular welterweight title contest between Jimmy McLarlin and Barney Ross at the Palace Friday and Saturday. The event features fifteen rounds and ringside seats advertised at twenty five cents while others paid as high as fifty five dollars. An estimated 39 968 fans attended Ross’s crown win.
Mrs. Bertha Hicks announced the Winchester Frederick County Red Cross will host an advanced first aid course for motor corps members Friday at 7 30 in the Red Cross office. Taylor Barr will teach the class with prior cooperation from the Red Cross C W A and other groups in the area.
The O Sullivan Athletic Club baseball team will play two away games this weekend. On Saturday June 9 they meet the Chambersburg club in Chambersburg Pennsylvania. They then travel to Martinsburg West Virginia to face the Blue Sox. Both clubs share a one game lead in their head to head series.
The squad routed West Virginians in a weekend game before suffering a defeat on their home floor last weekend.
Inspection of subsistence gardens in Frederick County led by garden director Mrs. John W Whitacre showed progress in this relief phase. At a district committees meeting plans for food preservation and canning were discussed, with 245 gardens listed across the city and county, including 150 in the county 75 in Winchester and 20 at large.
Harold Teen described as the laugh riot of love and comedy comes to the Capitol Theatre Hailey with Carl Ed cartoon characters and a cast including Hal LeRoy Rochell Hudson Guy Kibbee Clara Blandick Hugh Herbert and Chic Chandler. Local district committee members and garden assignments noted with daily reports to boards.
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