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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal News column notice shows garbled text about reporter Mra Taabele Miller receiving news between 3 and 4 with unclear department details and timing.
Fort Loudoun Chapter schedules its annual committee meeting for June 24 at Memorial avenue extension of Gerard street. Members plan a motor trip to Old Stone Fort Middletown Mount Pleasant and Harmony Hall Strasburg then return to Long Meadows for supper on Cedar creek. Papers on local history will be read at the picnic grounds.
Ray mord B. Edmundson earned a master of science in geology at the University of Virginia. He served as geology assistant, joined the Graduate Scientific Club, the Virginia Academy of Science, and the Virginia chapter of Sigma Xi. He will work with the Virginia Geological Survey this summer and start a geology assistantship at Cornell University this fall. Penny Social Tonight unites six local Christian Endeavor Societies on the Friends Meeting House lawn with games and surprises. If bad weather, events move to First Baptist Church basement. Delights at Middleburg social include a dance after the Upperville horse show at Grafton Hall with Chauncey Brown’s band. Mrs Shafer and family depart for Parkersburg West Virginia for a short visit with relatives and stops in Clarksburg and Buckhannon.
Miss Lucy F. Kurtz, sponsor for the D. H. Lee Martz Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, reports 3,300 veterans registered at Biloxi headquarters. The Manassas Battlefield Park project is funded, Biloxi rendered hospitality, and Montgomery will host the 1931 reunion with plans to meet again.
Mr Edward C. Jackson and Mr Rupert Stewart from Washington arrived yesterday and stayed with Mrs Hilda K. Jackson on Gray Avenue. They left today by motor for Winnipeg Canada and will take a train to northern Manitoba to visit Mr Stewart's uncle.
Rear Admiral Caryl Grayson sails for Europe with Mr Bernard Barauch and plans to stay abroad most of the summer. Mrs Grayson and the Grayson boys remain in Washington until August then move to Warrenton for the rest of the season. Meanwhile several of Grayson's horses are expected to be entered in Virginia horse shows this summer.
Mrs. George Barnett widow of General Barnett United States Marine Corps will sail for Europe on July 5 to visit her daughter Mrs. Robert Dickey Jr at her villa in Pau in the south of France. She is at Wakefield Manor Virginia with her mother Mrs. Montague.
The Handley High School Alumni dance will be held at Jordan Springs Hotel tonight from 9 to 1 with the Shenandoah Valley Serenaders as the entertainment. Former Handley students lead the organizing committee, and numerous chaperones will ensure proper conduct throughout the event.
Local dancers fill Spotswood Country Club as Tal Henry and his Carolinians provide music. Attendees travel from Winchester Staunton Waynesboro Luray Elkton Front Royal and towns in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The club plans more dances with various orchestras this summer.
Out-of-town visitors from Washington, including Miss Capitol Noel, Miss Mabel Thompson, and Mr. James R. Lupton with son James Jr, travel to Handley High School to see Virginia Noel Lupton graduate and receive her diploma. Lupton, niece of Noel, helped publish The Handian in 1930 and may pursue commercial art.
The Rev. Murray D. Mitchell, pastor of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South, received a Doctor of Divinity from Randolph-Macon College Ashland Va during this week’s commencement. Mitchell, a Tennessee native and longtime Baltimore Conference member, has led Winchester church for three years after posts in Staunton and Roanoke. He is an Emory and Henry College graduate and moved from Holston to Baltimore Conference.
Mr and Mrs Nelson Ritter hosted a informal reception Tuesday evening at their home in honor of their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Norman P Ritter whose marriage took place June 6 About 75 family connections and friends attended the event and offered congratulations and best wishes for wedded bliss.
Mrs George H Eagle, who has been frail since a stroke a year ago, suffered another stroke at about 7 this morning. Her condition this afternoon is reported as extremely grave. She is a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Hamilton of this city.
A Winchester church delegation attended the Southeastern district Bible Conference at Mount Olive near Harrisonburg Virginia. The group included Rev Emerson J Rohart and several families with guests during a motor trip through the Shenandoah Valley.
In Gainesboro Virginia Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal South hosts the fifteenth annual Sunday school convention. Rev. J R Collis urges parental support and attendance while Rev. Anderson emphasizes engaging youth with Bible study. Redland chosen for 1931 convention with $39.50 to state work.
A dense list of city and station identifiers with program blocks and times for multiple markets. Entries mention orchestras, jazz, news, and variety hours across WABC WJZ WEAF WOR WWRQ and more, spanning Atlantic City Baltimore Hartford and beyond with delays and overlaps.
Berryville Virginia June 13 At a Golden Rule Circle meeting it was announced that Dr Smart of Folk would hold the first of three summer clinics for adenoids and snails in the Hawthorne building June 23 and 24 with the circle assisting in provisions. The board was asked to increase pauper aid for home care and promised to consider it. The county convention of the order will be held June 20 at Grace Episcopal Church with Mrs Henry S Eley speaking. The circle voted to disband for two months. Various local residents and guests were noted, including ties to families in Mobile Washington and Argentina with summer visits and travel plans.
Fragmentary text notes the effect of new novels on readers causing sleepiness and curiosity. It hints at Sophineticont as a term or misread title, but offers no concrete names, places, or dates.
A car crashed into a group of gas and electric company workers on Reisterstown Road Baltimore killing James Tony and injuring four others. The driver Gifford Blaylock was knocked unconscious as crews responded near the scene. The workers were preparing for a firemen convention parade.
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