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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1930
Page
3
The social reporter Mrs. Isabelle P. Miller accepts news by mail or telephone. News should be sent between 3 and 4 pm for the following day. Phone number provided in the notice.
Announcement reports the June 9 ceremony at a Baptist church parsonage with Rev. J Homer Councilor officiating. Miss Edna Catherine Wisecarver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wisecarver, wore white traveling attire and works at Woolworth. Ramon I. Penn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Penn, is employed at Anderson meat market. The couple left for Atlantic City and other stops, to return by early July.
Miss Jeanne Brown Scott known horsewoman and Donald Weston Darby a Philadelphia banker are announced as engaged by her parents Mr and Mrs John R K Scott of Philadelphia. Tentative wedding date July 10. Scott has shown horses since age six and earned prizes at Richmond and Olympia. Her 1928 engagement to Hon Nigel Colman was broken after trousseau voyage to London.
Norma June Richards celebrated her tenth birthday with a party at her home The Elms on Valleypike last Saturday afternoon. Friends and relatives attended, games were played under guides Louise Walters and Virginia Richards, and refreshments were served. Guests included Mary Lyn Irwin Evelyn Merrell Margaret Lowry Marjorie Lowry Evangeline Ebersole Gertrude Jones Ella Jackson Rudolph Ann Douglas Seal Lucille Kiracofe Winifred Bailey Elizabeth Oates Hilma Hottel Dorothy Larrick Dorothy Sencindiver Betty Price Betty Shryock Kathryn Liggett Odeta Carpenter Billie Richards Charlotte Nicodemus Julia Rena Richards and Masters Jack Smith Howard Allen Edgar Stultz Charles Hurst John Rudolph and Billie Green.
Last Sunday visitors at the Smoke residence in Bloom included Isaiah D Wright and wife Loring Wright and their children Conrad Lucille Kenneth and James James Keiffer and children Virginia Fay Op her Brill and Fannie Shepherd all from Winchester Also T S Cooper and William Keiffer from Mountain Falls were present.
Upperville High School will host a Tuesday flower show on June 17 from 3 to 6 p m in the auditorium. The organizing committee announces eleven prize classes led by Mrs. Warren G. Jones, secretary, covering wild flower collections, potted plants, cut flowers, table decorations, rose collections, best named rose, and a children’s under-12 arrangement class with overall judging on quality and variety.
Mr and Mrs Bruce Ford of Wilmington Delaware announce the marriage of their niece Miss Alice Hounsfield Harvey to Mr William Samuel Potter on Saturday June 28 at 6 30 PM in Trinity Church Wilmington Del Potter is son of Mr and Mrs Dorsey Potter of Clarksburg WV and grandson of Mrs Leo P Wheat of Morgan's Spying Clarke County Potter earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1926 and joined Gray Ward law office in Wilmington He has resided there Miss Harvey frequently visited Rosney the home of Mr and Mrs Spencer Carter in Richmond and Clarke County
Mr and Mrs Ray Lewis entertained at their No 555 North Loudoun Street home in honor of Leon Cross recently. Cross has worked with J G McCrocy store for months and will transfer to Parkersburg West Virginia. Guests included Henry Burgan Mary Fulk Ernest Siler Samuel Skiner Silas Fulk Ruby High Ruth Heckrotte Donald Shipe Raymond Shirley John Kerns Nell Austin Abner Johnson Russell Harper from Martinsburg and this city.
The Rev Dr J H Brunk of Martinsburg West Virginia presided over a special session of Shenandoah County Virginia United Brethren quarterly conference at Edinburg. Mr Forest Sheldon Racey son of the pastor was granted quarterly conference license to preach and plans to enter Bonebrake Theological Seminary to prepare for the ministry.
Mr and Mrs John Renalds marked fifty years of marriage with a golden anniversary at their Blue Ridge Avenue home in Front Royal attended by about 200 guests. natives of Luray Page County Va they wed fifty years ago by the late Rev Dr Henry M Wharton. The couple were joined by nine children Dyce Walter Estelle Emma Kenny Roland Cook Lulu Stephen Robert and Marvin Renalds all residents of Washington D C Front Royal and Hampton Va and other locations.
A card party will be held Friday evening at the Winchester Memorial Hospital nurses home to raise funds for extra service trays. Play begins at 8:30 and ends at 11. Admission is 50 cents per person. Miss Lillian Anderson, nurse supervisor, oversees arrangements. Reservations may be made by calling phone 69. Refreshments will be served.
Miss Shirley Claiborne Oakes has returned home for the summer vacation from Virginia Intermont College in Bristol Va after a year of study. She visited Pulaski and Roanoke along the way. Mrs E W Cather, recently ill at her West Water street home, is reported much improved today.
Handley High School Alumni Association reorganized to host an alumni dance at Jordan Springs Hotel on Friday June 13 Invitations have been issued to a partial alumni list Eligible former Handley School members may attend despite lacking invitation Music will be by the Original Shenandoah Valley Serenaders of Winchester A list of chaperones will be announced later Committee members include Sue Schlack Peck Rehill Kitty Barnett Dick Gray Nat Hawkins and Bill Glass
Miss Virginia Nye Duvall hosted a closing party at the Typical Home on Greystone Terrace for Northern Virginia Power Company office staff based in Martinsburg West Virginia. A large turnout attended as Duvall thanked the women’s organizations for their support and praised the entertaining program offered during the weeks the home operated by the Northern Virginia Power Company.
Members of the Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club travelled to Leesburg to attend the regional flower show hosted by garden clubs from Fauquier Abadoun Clarke and Frederick counties. Mrs Louis L Baker and Mrs C Fred Barr led groups of friends in their cars. Mrs Edward G Butler from Clarke county attended with an exhibit from the Rose Test Garden as Rosarian for the Garden Club of Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Emmet Dettra have returned from a wedding trip to Niagara Falls and Canadian points. They left the city about ten days ago after their nuptials and toured through many sections of the north United States. They expect to reside at Kernstown. Mrs Dettra is a daughter of Mr and Mrs W T ORear and her husband is a son of Mr L R Dettra, city manager.
Mrs Alfred M Kerfoot of this city attends the regional flower show in Leesburg Virginia today. While in Loudoun she will be guest of Mr and Mrs G W Hume at their home Rushpark.
Mrs Luther Pannett and her daughter Mrs Tom Boyd visit Frederick Maryland as Mrs Boyd attends a Visitation Academy Alumni Association meeting. She joined the association upon her graduation six years ago today.
J C Penney store staff were entertained Friday evening by manager Charles S Lowry at Shawnee Inn on Valley Pike. News notes include Roanoke College students John Fisher and Raymond Kerlin returning for the summer, Dickinson connections in Lynchburg and Hagerstown visits, UVA travelers to Europe, Woodberry Forest alum Harrison Davies back, Fannie Holt visiting, Garnet Hamrick home from Harrisonburg, and a Richardson family at St Johns graduation events in Brooklyn.
Mr Edgar L Hershman returns home to Mountain Falls after schooling in Winchester guests include Miss Carrie Allamong Mrs Delbert Judd and Mr Amos Judd from New Carlisle Ohio. Birth announced of a son to Mr and Mrs Charles Algers on East Gerard Street. Major and Mrs Bar return to Richmond after visit. Green and friends head to New York by motor. Guests at George Washington Hotel include Mrs Schenderer and Mrs Christman. Pool at Jordan Springs Hotel drained and cleaned. Miss Bessie Thornton and Miss Allamong return from Ohio visit. they travel with Judds to visit relatives. Several residents visit Washington and Toronto. some plan further visits in Virginia. Dorothy Feltner, critically ill at home, remains unimproved.
Washington June 9 The tariff bill nears a final Senate vote with indications of a close result while Republican leaders remain confident it will pass Senator Smoot Utah reported the measure after noon after corrections to meet points of order predicting a final vote by Thursday Debate opened a day earlier than expected with Mississippi Democrat Harrison urging caution over foreign investments and American industry concerns Other Senators Addie Nevada Republican and Democrats Thomas Brock Oklahoma Tennessee weighed the bill’s impact while questions arose over protest notes from foreign nations and copies of the bill to inquiries A tribute was paid to Senator Smoot for his long efforts on the legislation
Washington reports a government inquiry into the source of an SOS that halted former Senator James A Reed’s radio attack on the so-called radio trust. Senator Dill and Navy and RCA officials coordinate probes while Reed and friends seek the SOS’s origin amid nationwide CBS broadcast.
Veterancrime reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune was shot dead in the Randolph Street subway near the Illinois Central terminal. Police, led by Commissioner Russell, rushed a roundup of known gangsters after an attack that followed threats and a noted feud with hoodlums.
The Senate finance committee approved a House bill to liberalize World War veterans compensation with reduced projected outlay from at least 150 million dollars to about 74 million. The measure aims to ease veterans benefits while trimming government spending.
Cincinnati bank shut by state official after a reported shortfall of roughly 575000 to 590000 in Henry L. Doherty Company accounts. Investigators cite stock gambling by Amos W. Shafer, former Doherty manager, as cause. Doherty company not blamed. Shafer held on embezzlement charge. bank remains closed with affairs in state hands.
The German American mixed claims commission announced an award of 74 243 000 dollars to Germany for vessels seized by the United States in American ports at the outbreak of World War I.
Richmond reports State Budget Director J. H. Bradford will send a letter urging utmost economy to departments and institutions. The note accompanies forms for quarter ending Sept. 30 allotment estimates, warning continued low mood could hurt state revenues.
Capt Louis A. Yancey and his co-pilot arrived in Lima, Peru from Talara after leaving their radio operator behind due to bad airfield conditions at France Field Balboa and fuel demands. The trio plans to reunite in Lima in two or three days before heading to Antofagasta, Chile on the next Pan American Grace Line.
The Chicago Board of Trade celebrated its eighty second birthday in a new 44 story building at $22,000,000 in Chicago. The opening featured President Hoover tapping a golden telegraph key in the White House and a later international line to Liverpool to signal the first trading. Leaders from finance and industry joined in the dedication banquet with speakers including Silas H Strawn and John A. Bunnell.
At Winchester Golf Club last Saturday a planned supper match fizzled, prompting a sweepstakes handicap over 18 holes. D. E. Stultz won with net 71, edging E. C. Goss who netted 72. Marshall led low gross with 82, while Charlie Isaacs prepares for Richmond Open play.
Washington June 9 Malfunctioning Senate lobby committee failed to agree on steps against Bishop James Cannon Jr for defiance and possible actions. Chairman Caraway returned from Arkansas and postponed a decision until he studies the record. He noted the panel cannot probe purely political activities unless tied to lobbying and regretted any embarrassment to Senator Walsh and Senator Blaine.
Bombay reports indicate the War Office dispatched troops and warships to India with a third destroyer flotilla and a Lincolnshire regiment en route. London sources suggest cautious optimism about the Peshawar district situation, with mobilization timing depending on further developments.
Washington June 10 Senate foreign relations committee hours of debate over a London naval treaty paper center on the administration’s refusal to release secret details. Senator Borah predicts approval after redrafting, while Black pushes for disclosure and states rights remain contested. Prolonged discussion delays any action on the treaty itself as Volstead era references surface.
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