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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1948
Page
5
Rockingham Poultry Marketing Cooperative will reopen its Winchester plant next Thursday with George A. Heitz as manager succeeding Howard Pringle who becomes production manager for all co op plants. Annual stockholders meeting is set for Broadway on June 25.
Elizabeth Whitney noted horsewoman marks her 42nd birthday by marrying Dr. Cooper Person 38, Cornell University surgery assistant professor and New York Hospital surgeon. Ceremony at Llangollen Farms Upperville at 5 p m officiated by Rev C J Ryley.
The report outlines the Whitney divorce from John Hay Whitney in 1940 and her subsequent marriage to Betsy Cushing Roosevelt. It notes her beauty, consideration for Scarlet O Hara, ownership of a premier stock farm, and success of her thoroughbreds in national shows. Since the war she has focused on raising and breeding horses at Llangollen.
Rev W P Good of Capon Bridge West Virginia will lead a one week revival at Be church starting 8 p m Sunday. Memorial services June 27 prompt a cemetery cleanup by Bethel attendees with relatives and friends buried there. Also reports visits by Mr and Mrs Russell Lupton and daughter Farris and by several Wingfield and Dailey families from Winchester.
Oysters take two to five years to grow to marketable size, according to the report.
Grimes Virginia June 17 preaching scheduled for Sunday morning at Galilee church. Mrs. Cora Fries of New York visits her aunt Mrs. Minnie Unger who is critically ill at Mr. Johan Good's home. Rev and Mrs Stewart of Martinsburg visit Galilee church and stay with the Good family. Dewey Brown returns from Ablin to Jacksonville Florida after visiting his son in law Rudolph Hepner and daughter Bonnie Ann. Miss Anna Kerns visits sister Miss Bill Bailey in Chambersburg Pennsylvania.
Meeting at White Hall church with Mr Donald Fleck returning home. Mr Lawrence Orndoff and Mr Kinny Roberst of Ridgeway visited on business. Farmers plowing thinning replanting corn and preparing hay and barley harvest this week. Mr Tenton Garber of Winchester was here Wednesday.
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