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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1954
Page
3
Public domain style column offering beauty and self improvement tips. It covers personal inventory for appearance assessing hair skin eyes voice and makeup. Includes thigh and chest exercises depilation methods facial blackhead removal and step by step routines.
Social notes describe multiple Winchester families hosting and visiting relatives in Washington and nearby towns. The column mentions Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lloyd moving into a former Lloyd home, hospital improvements for James Pine, and various dinners, picnics, and visits among local residents and guests from Holly Oak Del and Washington. An ice chest coin box notice from Anders Self Service urges return of the coin box after a season.
The celebrated composer Verdi died in Milan on January 27 1901 and was buried in the House of Repose the musicians home to which he had given royalties from his operas. A chorus of 900 led by Toscanini participated in the burial.
An exclusive column offer describes solo dance steps to increase grace and reduce measurements, claimed to be proven by test. Readers are instructed to mail a self addressed stamped envelope and 10c to Secrets of Charm, National Newspaper Service, Box 305, Michigan City, Indiana, for a copy.
The First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue will start its Vacation Bible School Monday at 9 a.m. The two week program runs June 14 to 25 with weekday sessions 9 to 11 30 a.m. Activities include handwork memory work games and exercises.
Hebron Baptist Church in Gore hosts a series of revival services starting Monday and continuing nightly at 7 45 except Saturdays through June 25. Speaker is Rev George W Bowman III pastor of Woodville Mt Lebanon Baptist field. Song service led by Rev Morris Cather.
Harold G. Brown president of Shenandoah Valley National Bank was elected to the American Bankers Association nominating committee by Virginia members during a meeting aboard the Queen of Bermuda. The committee will name the ABA president for the coming year.
Kathleen McCartney leads high school pianists in a Handley School Auditorium recital Tuesday at 8 PM. The program features Chopin, Tchaikowsky, Brahms, Bizet, Grieg, Gershwin and others in solos and duets performed by students including Darlene Youngblood Betty Jean Rodgers Judy Cather and more.
Braddock Street Methodist Church schedules Church School Day this Sunday at 11 am with full church school in attendance. Children and youth divisions will perform playlets by Junior and Intermediate departments. Rev Forrest Bedford Oglesby speaks at 9 am on Giving Our Souls a Chance. June 20 11 am program features church college students and 1954 high school graduates as guests.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet Saturday at 8 p m EST at the home of Mr and Mrs Newton Snapp in Inwood West Virginia Mrs M S Snapp will conduct the program The Rest Church Youth Fellowship will hold its regular social and business meeting Sunday at 6 p m at the home of Mr and Mrs Ray Place A picnic will follow the business meeting The Rev and Mrs L H Smallwood were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Elmer Swartz on Sunday
Graham Rosenberger son of Mrs Graham Rosenberger of 20 Shirley Street received his BA degree in Geology from Berea College on Monday He graduated Handley High School in 1950 He made the Dean's list and belonged to Pi Alpha and Sigma Beta Gamma honor societies
The Montague Avenue and Round Hill Methodist Churches authorize the Pastoral Relations Committee to ask Bishop Paul N. Garber to return Rev. E B White to the Montague Charge at the Virginia Conference session in Richmond. Miss Myrna Payne praises the Rev and Mrs White's work to conference delegates Gerald M. Hepner and Mrs J W Newcome noted as alternates.
Robert Kern a former Handley student will speak at Cork Street Christian Church 11 a m Sunday. A Valley Forge graduate and Wheaton College senior Kern has spoken at many area churches and groups. Claude M. Grove will preside at worship and Lord's Supper observance. The pastor Rev Rhodes M Artz and others attend the Virginia Christian Men's Fellowship retreat at Lynchburg College.
Julian A Everly secretary treasurer of Shenandoah Production Credit Association and National Farm Loan Association of Winchester will lead a two day meeting at the Colonial Hotel Ocean City June 14 15 with assistants Lacy A Boyer and William W W Hammond. About 33 representatives from Virginia Delaware Maryland and Puerto Rico will discuss membership promotions credit and loan servicing. Officers of the Farm Credit District of Baltimore will attend.
Market Street Methodist Church plans a Student Recognition Day honoring high school and college graduates. W S C S will present tokens to each graduate. Recognized are Ronald Johnston, Diane Laign, Robert Lewis, Alan Peer, Sidney Shull, Margaret Wilson, Robert McDonald, Martha Robinson, and Ted Staples.
Dr. J. Warren Hastings pastor of National City Christian Church in Washington D C will be guest speaker at Hebron Baptist Church Gore Sunday at 8 pm He will also speak in the afternoon at Ebenezer Church Hastings is among Washingtons best known pastors.
Arthur H. Edmunds assistant cashier at Bank of Clarke County Berryville will conclude a three year banking course this summer at Rutgers University Graduate School of Banking New Brunswick New Jersey June 14 to 26. He attends the two week session as one of more than 1000 bank officers enrolled sponsored by the American Banker Association.
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