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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1930
Page
3
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More than fifty former students gathered at the Parish Hall Boyce for an annual Alumni Association banquet and welcome for the 1930 graduates. Officers for 1930-1931 were elected: president W D Burner, secretary Virginia Baker, treasurer Oscar M Carr.
Six Christian Endeavor societies plan a Friday penny social at 8 pm in the Friends Meeting House lane. Guests pay a penny per inch of foot measured and donate after each stunt to crown the best society. Miss Margaret Richards leads games. refreshments served. social aims to fund Lynchburg convention travel.
The Women’s Civic League ended its season with a luncheon at Battletown Inn Kernstown hosted by Mrs 8S M Chiles. About 40 members and guests traveled from Mrs Melvin Green’s home on South Washington Street. Rev Robert B Nelson spoke on statewide sanitation and officers reported milk fund results for John Kerr Public School.
Cumberland Md reports the marriage of Dorothy Du chane Swimley daughter of Mr and Mrs L R Swimley Laurel Md formerly of Cumberland and Alton Hagan Middlekauff son of Mr and Mrs Frank Middlekauff Hagerstown Md on June 1 at St James Episcopal Cathedral Chicago Middlekauff a Washington and Lee graduate works with National City Company Bride attended Stuart Hall Staunton Va and had lived in Winchester before moving to Cumberland years ago.
Former residents Mr and Mrs Thomas Fitzpatrick of Columbia Pennsylvania and Mr and Mrs John Casey of Philadelphia visited Mr William Keating and daughters Nan and Helen on South Loudoun Street. Mrs Casey sister of Fitzpatrick was formerly Katherine Fitzpatrick of this city. Leaves to attend board meeting. Dr Ralph B Snapp went to Richmond to join the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners for licensing exams and will return to his office June 16. Kathryn Twiford Taylor left for Romney West Virginia to attend a banquet for the 20th anniversary of the First National Bank of Romney hosted by her uncle A L Pugh who is bank president.
The senior class of Charles Town High School received a baccalaureate sermon from Rev. E T Clark pastor of First Baptist Church in Charles Town W V The ceremony marked the regular graduation address for the class.
Miss Edith P Taylor of Washington visits her parents on Fairmount Avenue. Wade K Dixon returns from Pittsburgh where he spent a week with relatives. Harry Hardy longtime Winchester accountant and former Common Council member shows improvement after hospital stay at Memorial Hospital Medical Department.
Judge John W. Fishburne of Charlottesville will be the Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia's Seventh District as he was the sole petition filed by the June 5 deadline. With no other filings, no August primary is required. Senator Carter Glass from Lynchburg also faces no primary and is declared the Democratic nominee for U S Senate.
Lieutenant Apollo Soucek holds both land and seaplane altitude records for the navy. A NA A calibration shows he reached 43,166 feet, the highest ever flown. He surpassed the prior land plane mark of 42,122 feet, beating German flyer Willie Neuenhofen by about 328 feet in May 1929.
Four robbers bound a woman and three men at Krause Mortgage and Bond Company on West Chicago avenue and escaped with between 6000 and 7000 dollars. The incident occurred in Chicago on June 9.
The text shows a wife expressing deep sorrow and exile as she contemplates final separation from her husband. She calls him her only happiness and laments an unbearable grief, indicating a strained relationship and imminent separation.
A religious tract discusses biblical judgment for sin and the necessity of repentance and faith in Christ. It cites Dives and Lazarus and warns that the righteous barely saved, while the ungodly face eternal punishment, urging belief in Jesus as salvation.
A joke about the mother daughter and son driving the car and the father always getting his shoes half soled hints that the American people may have enough income this year to pay last year’s tax, per notes in Cincinnati Enquirer and Lorain Journal.
Paul Miller a 30 year old ex soldier was attacked by three men near Hagerstown Massachusetts. He suffered a shoulder stab wound a head cut and head and hand bruises. A hand written note pinned to his sweater read It is all your fault and another note with Time will tell Ben was found in nearby woods and Miller could not identify his attackers. Police believe bootleggers may be involved.
Multiple offenses heard in police court include drunkenness for Lou Miller Elmer Henry and Lewis Jackson colored with fines or jail terms. Melvin Michael jailed for unauthorized motorcycle use. Maynard Orndorf William Smith held pending witnesses. Cassius Fletcher N W Ashwood traffic case postponed.
A Middleburg horse show highlights entries across divisions including ponies under saddle, jumping, and hunter classes. Winners include Beauty, Comet, Long Level, Running Hand, Kitt, and Wood Pigeon with multiple riders such as Bronson Rumsey, Arthur White, Mrs. D. Sands, and Miss M. E. Altemus noted among top placements.
Shanghai June 9 One hundred passengers and crew aboard the Chinese steamer Litung drowned when the Yangtse vessel struck a rock off Lungchow at the river mouth and sank.
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