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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
3
The department invites social and personal notices by mail or telephone. Mrs Isabelle F Miller requests news by social telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number 33.
The Higgins Sisters Quartet from Shenandoah College Dayton won the national home group music contest in Boston linking to the American Federation of Music Clubs. The sisters Sallie Katherine Allie and May Higgins earned a silver trophy as National Home Group Champions of America for 1929. They will continue studies at Shenandoah College next session after completing at Bridgewater College this spring. Mr and Mrs Ritter Celebrate 30th Anniversary With Surprise Reception at 215 East Cork Street Fifty guests attended the informal event hosted by daughters Gertrude and Bernetta Ritter and other relatives. The couple married June 14 1899 Mrs Ritter formerly Ola Seal daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Seal. She is sister of Winchester painter John H Seal Sr.
Mr John B Childs and Mr Lacy Brumback, Frederick county youths at Virginia Tech Blacksburg, return home for a few days before summer camps of the Reserve Officers Corps. Childs to Fort Monmouth for training Brumback to Fort Leonard Wood. Childs won highest junior grade scholarship and civics department student assistantship. Brumback elected Shenandoah Valley Club president for the coming year.
The Christian Endeavor Union will hold an outdoor meeting Sunday evening at 6 30 oclock on the steps of Handley High School. It also marks the end of a contest between six young peoples societies in the city. Superintendent H S Duffey will present the banner to the winning society. Music by Floyd Haines and the Lucky Stone Quartette. Public invited.
Miss Saxon Sampsell of New City High School faculty Miss Ruth Sampsell of Middletown High School faculty and Miss Mildred Lee Grove of Handley faculty, all Stephens City residents, will depart Monday for Charlottesville to take the University of Virginia summer course for teachers. Mr Thomas Whitten of Richmond, district commercial simplex manager for Western Union Telegraph Company, is in town on business.
Mrs. E. Clay Krebs of Philadelphia arrived a few days ago to visit her brother in law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Krebs at their North Braddock street home.
Mrs. John 8. Miller slowly recovers from injuries and nervous shock after falling from the Handley High School steps Thursday evening. She struck her face on concrete, breaking eyeglasses and receiving glass fragments in her forehead. She rested at home on Fairmont Avenue and showed some improvement.
Floyd Flickinger, a University of Virginia graduate, earned the Society of Cincinnati medal for the best essay on Revolutionary history. He chose Maj. Gen. Daniel Morgan and the Southern Campaign as his thesis topic.
Mr. Preston Sartelle and Mr. Harper have returned from Hampden-Sidney College where they were students this past year. Harper hosted Finley Talbot en route to New York and Herbert Kann en route to Harrisburg Pa. Sartelle and Harper are sons of local residents Harry M. Sartelle and Charles H. Harper.
Mrs. O. E. King Mrs. William King and Miss Louise King of the Winchester Hotel traveled to Staunton Virginia to celebrate the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Lacy Dunsmore with a hosted dinner by Staunton friends.
Major S Porter House and Mr Al son S Hott attended the Rotarians meeting in Front Royal as 100 percent members. Major House plans a Florida business trip next week. Harriet Pearson returns from Virginia Military Institute finals to Harrisonburg. Mrs Mary Bruce Strother improves after appendicitis operation. W S Bromley and son travel to Richmond guests of Elbert T Magruder family. Billy Magruder to visit later. Henry Rann of Washington staying with Mary Pearson’s family. David Crockett of Gray Bar Electric Baltimore and Diller of Columbia Phonograph Baltimore were in town on business.
Mr. Harry Lovett, visiting Baltimore with relatives, stopped here yesterday on his way to Staunton Virginia. He was accompanied by Mrs. Frank Lovett who stayed in Winchester and returned to join her husband in Staunton after a week there.
Fort Loudoun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution plans its annual picnic on Tuesday June 25 at Mount Weather. Members meet at Handley Library at 1 45 PM with the Children of the American Revolution invited. Committee on arrangements includes Mrs Boyd R Richards Mrs S H Edmunds and Miss Anna Briggs. Members with cars should notify so all have transportation.
Mrs. Lewis H. Hyde and her daughter Miss Mary Hyde will travel by motor to New York tomorrow. They will join her son Lewis H. Hyde there and proceed to Norwich Connecticut and Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts for several weeks. They will then visit California and stay until early September returning to Winchester around September 10 via the Rockies.
Mrs R O Born and her daughters Marian Louisa and Gertrude Alma Born left for Boston to join Mr Born and establish a new home. Mr Born formerly worked at Arthur Jones Woolen Mills and now is with a mill in the Boston area. Also visiting Virginia hotel guests include Mr and Mrs Stuart L Gibboney and others from New York on a motor trip.
Mrs. Smith continues to improve after a serious fall on North Loudoun Street and hip fracture. Several others are mentioned visiting, traveling, or recovering, including Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bosserman and Mrs. M. K. Reed, with hospital stays at Memorial Hospital and guest visits across Winchester and surrounding towns.
Mr Reid Riely of Montana Hall, Clarke county, arrived in town today as a business visitor, staying brief and meeting local officials.
Handley Library shifts to summer hours effective today and will close each evening at 7 30 instead of 9 00 p m. The earlier closing time remains in effect until September 1.
Miss Mary Thomas won the Majestic Radio in Winchester with 43 790 votes, narrowly beating Miss Juanita Riley who had 32 895. The event, run by H J Mowery The Winchester Evening Star and Capitol Theatre, featured a winner crowned by Mayor Shryock and a future series of similar contests planned nationwide.
Victor Ransom, a colored man, ran amuck around 1 30 this morning at a colored hotel on Sharp street run by A L Saysiders. He hurled chairs, dishware and glasses at guests as they fled. the dance ended. He is jailed and will have a hearing Monday morning.
Amon Strosnider of the Winchester police department has returned from Strasburg Virginia after attending the funeral of his sister Mrs Catherine B Racey widow of Benjamin F Racey. Racey died last Monday night and her brother John P Strosnider died exactly two weeks earlier. She leaves four daughters and five sons, two sisters and four brothers.
Greenspring, V. June 5. Families visiting relatives include Mrs Howard Hensley and son and others at the Dix home. Multiple dinners and visits are recorded among neighbors and town residents, with several small social calls noted throughout the period.
Roy A Latrick of Winchester was reelected president of the Sunday School and Christian Endeavor Association at the Newport Church near Luray during the Virginia Valley Central Christian Conference. Over 100 delegates attended the two day session with Rev Dr J O Atkinson of Elon College as a principal speaker. Winchester attendees included Rev and Mrs R L Williamson, Mr and Mrs Roy A Larrick, and Misses Anna Amelia Seabright and Evelyn Cather.
Niagara Falls will host a General Electric radio program broadcast tonight across the nation. The 8 to 9 o clock program will use 45 stations coast to coast, delivering a one hour program from the falls.
Mrs Mabel Lee Dailey 384 years old widow of George Dailey died last night at City Hospital Martinsburg W Va after a period of illness. She is survived by her mother Mrs Sarah Pierson and sister Miss Lena Pierson of 1008 South Loudoun Street. She planned funeral from Mrs Piersons home Monday at 2 PM conducted by Rev R L Williamson First Christian Church with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Formal notification of House action on a joint conference committee as roll call reveals opponents of debenture and several party switches. Democrats voting against debenture and for the Tilson motion include Aswell Auf der Heide Black Bloom Boylan Carley Cochran Crosser Cullen Dickstein Douglas Douglass Crane Fitzpatrick Green Griffin Kinche
The passage lists several Republican lawmakers by state who supported the debenture and opposed the Tilson motion. Names include Browne and Hull of Wisconsin, Campbell of Iowa, James of Michigan, Johnston of South Dakota, Nelson and Lampert of Wisconsin, Sinclair of North Dakota, and others from Minnesota Kansas Kansas and South Dakota. A number of pairs were announced.
The monoplane Yellow Bird with three French aviators lands on a Spanish beach near Santander after an 81 hour crossing of the North Atlantic. Fuel shortage forced a course away from Paris while a stowaway aided by Lotti Sr. is spared police action.
Reports confirm a stowaway boarded the Yellow Bird before takeoff from Old Orchard Maine. The plane, after weather and fuel delays, landed safely in Portugal area with no damage, as crowds at Le Bourget grew restless and authorities frowned on the attempt.
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