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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1940
Page
8
Mrs. Grange of Bryn Mawr announces the engagement of Banning Grange a prominent Philadelphia area society figure to the Right Hon. Lord Barnby a member of the British House of Lords. Lord Barnby previously served with the Sherwood Rangers in the last war.
Calendar lists 1:00 Rotary luncheon at hotel and 3:00 W C T U meeting at Handley Library. 8:00 p m Woman's Missionary Society at Grace Lutheran Social Room. Friday includes 12:30 Legion luncheon, 3:30 Girl Scout Council at Mrs Irvan O Connell, 7:30 Winchester Little Theatre meeting, and 8:00 Junior Board with chorus debut at the hotel and Handley Library.
Miss Margaret Byrd hosted a luncheon at her home for debutantes Miss Virginia Watkins daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Watkins of Annefield and Miss Vinda Boyed daughter of Mrs Karl Boyed of Callander. Both will be presented to society this year.
Miss Lillian Oakes to wed Andrew Babb on June 22 at First Baptist Church with sisters Phyllis and Rosalie Oakes in attendance. Fred Stine Jr will be ring bearer and Robert Babb will be best man. Engagements announced include Daisy Swisher and Paul LeRoy Stotler with weddings planned in August and June 20 events noted.
Mr and Mrs Warren Eddy announce the birth of a daughter yesterday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mrs Eddy formerly Miss Madeline Anderson. Miss Jane Cather, daughter of Mr and Mrs T Russell Cather, left for Louisville to visit her brother in law and sister. Mrs J K Luttrell has returned from Washington DC after a two week visit with her children.
Mrs. Edna Haskette Weaver of Millersburg and Grace V. Forney of this city have poems accepted for publication in the World's Fair Anthology of Verse announced by Exposition Press of New York. Forney’s Whistling Songs and Weaver’s Waiting are both first published works and eligible for the $100 Prize Poetry Contest.
Mrs. Dan O Henry will leave tonight for Danville Illinois to visit her parents the Rev and Mrs H G Beck. She will attend a college classmate wedding in Decatur on June 22 and return to Winchester late summer. This is her first trip home since marrying over 16 months ago.
Miss Dorothy Stouffer will wed Mr. Sam Scott Hansbrough on Monday afternoon June 24 at Grace Church. A tea honoring her was given by Miss Lillian Oakes on West Clifford Street. Guests included Mrs. Harry Stouffer and Mrs. Garland Hansbrough among others. Other items note visits by Miss Rosalie Oakes from Chester Pa and Miss Mary Jackson from Hagerstown Md plus faculty trips to New York and summer plans for several locals.
The Bridge Club meets Thursday and Friday sessions are led by Mr and Mrs Lewis Hyde. The Rachel Hodges Sunday School class of United Brethren Church gathers Thursday night at 7 30 at Mrs Dc A Marples 332 East Piccadilly Street.
The Girl Scout Council will meet Friday at 3 30 PM at the home of Mrs Irvan O Connell 214 West Cork Street Circle No 2 Miss Mary Lou Steele leader of Braddock Street Methodist Church will hold their annual banquet Thursday at 7 PM in the Assembly room of the Church School building A program has been arranged for attendees.
Plans are shaping for a Hospital tea on Macsfield grounds at Mrs. H. B. McCormac's home on June 21. General chairs are Mrs. B. B. Dutton and Mrs. Fred Glaize Jr. Committees include Carrie Hunter sandwich, B. M. Roszel cake, D. W. Ritenour and P. W. Boyd punch, Lewis Allen publicity, Dudley Field ticket chances. Refreshments served at small tables under lawn umbrellas. weather to favor Macsfield events.
The Junior Choir of the First Baptist Church will hold a rehearsal tomorrow afternoon at four o clock for its members. The practice is announced for choir preparation and participation.
Circle No 3 of Braddock Street Methodist Church will hold a meeting Thursday at 8 PM at 23 Shirley Street hosted by Mrs H H Huldum. Miss Bertha Kline announces the event for the leader. The Grace Lutheran Church Woman's Missionary Society will meet tomorrow at 8 PM in the church social room.
Public invited to Montague Avenue Methodist Church Yard Party on Friday evening. Proceeds go toward the building fund.
Dinner guests and callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ewing Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ewing and children and Mrs. Raymond Ewing and children, all of near town. Mrs. Aleck Rogers and daughter Margaret Lee of Front Royal were weekend guests of the former's sister and brother-in-law.
Q A reader asks about greetings and proper forms and the columnist says vulgar that How do you do is correct and offers alternatives. A husband should seat a guest first when a wife is present. A man should not constantly refer to his wife as she as it is disrespectful.
Social notes list weekend visitations and calls among Upperville Edinburg Winchester Strasburg and Maurertown residents. Mentions include Henry and Ada Ritenour Staples and Legg families plus lingering health update on Raymond Hausenfinck after a sprained ankle. Families gather for dinners with Lemley Barton Yeakle and Beeler households.
The Winchester Little Theatre launches a three month summer season led by professional director Frederick Walsh. Walsh, with a MA in drama and ties to Carolina Players and UNC Chapel Hill, will oversee amateur drama and join Ohio University later. A meeting at Handley Library will discuss plans and present the one act Ring on Her Finger directed by John Williams, with cast members Mrs. Ian MacCallum, Rachel Jennings, Joe Thomas, and Wally Massey.
Winchester called at the home of Mrs. Bessie Bean on Sunday. Callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Tobin on Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. Bill Andrews of Strasburg, Mr. and Mrs. Norton Stout and sons of Martinsburg, Mrs. Newlin and two children of Winchester, Mrs. John Madagan and Mozelle of Kernstown, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Whorley of Laytonsville, Mr. LeRoy Whorelly of Woodville, and Mrs. Elsie Ritenour and son Myron of near town.
Rock Enon Virginia reports a cloudburst Sunday evening causing creeks to spill over and floods reaching flood of 1936 levels. Cornfields and gardens suffered heavy washouts across the region.
The report mentions Charles Householder's slow improvement and Etta Good's partial recovery. Dr. G. Larrick from Baltimore visits. It recalls the first glove wearer Charles Waite of New Haven in 1875 and credits the catcher’s mitt to Paul Buckley in 1889.
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