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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal notices indicate contact with Mrs Isabelle B Miller the social reporter. Readers may telephone between 3 and 4 pm for next day items at phone number 33.
Dr and Mrs Joseph H Roe of Washington DC entertained last evening for Miss Leona Lauck and wedding party at Shawnee Inn on the Valley Pike. The dinner followed the rehearsal with a large wedding cake as centerpiece and guests including Rev Albert Shirkey and many Lauck and Shirkey relatives from Virginia Maryland and West Virginia.
The First Baptist Church of this city expects strong representation at the Virginia Baptist Summer Encampment. The event runs July 10 to 17 in Virginia Beach with sessions by the Baptist Young People’s Union and the state Sunday school conference July 13 to 17. Reservations proceed via Mr. B. T. Smith in Richmond.
Mr and Mrs Burr Powell Harrison who wed last Saturday at St James Episcopal Richmond are due in Winchester tomorrow evening to live with Judge Thomas W Harrison and his wife on South Washington Street. Mrs Harrison is Polly Brinton Yates, daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Y Brinton of Richmond. The groom works with his father in their local law practice. Mrs C D Baker undergoes a second gallbladder operation in Elkins West Virginia and is slowly recovering while Mrs H F Kern and Mrs W L Poston visit and support her daughter.
Announcement reports the marriage of Miss Mary Armistead Lippitt daughter of Mrs Armistead Selden Lippitt formerly of Charles Town West Virginia now of Washington to Mr Frazier Guthrey of Washington. The wedding occurred in Washington on Saturday June 1 with no cards issued due to the bride’s mother’s illness. Also noted is the illness of Mr Clayton Maddox a respected Rappahannock County farmer who was treated for acute appendicitis at Memorial Hospital Winchester and was reported to be improving.
Cards from Winchester announce the marriage of Miss Alice Filhanek of Winchester to Mr. Lee Ward Luttrell formerly of Winchester now residing in Chicago. The ceremony occurred there on Saturday June 15. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Filhanek. Luttrell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Luttrell of Winchester. He studied drafting after moving to Chicago and works for the city government there.
Mr and Mrs Frank Walter and family visit relatives, splitting time between South Cameron Street and Clarke County homes. Prominent Loudoun politician Charles Lowenbach visited Winchester with family. Numerous locals and out-of-town guests called on friends. several travel to Washington and Williamsburg for studies, shows, and hospital visits.
Mr John Seabright returned home after a tonsil operation at Memorial Hospital. R C Benthram of Westinghouse, Baltimore, visited on business. Several locals left for Cumberland and Dayton while Miss Sponseller attended a wedding in Braddock. Mrs Morrison Brooks from Atlantic City arrives for the Clauser Jackson nuptials.
Ohio State Journal reports Dr. James Snook confessed to killing Theora Hix on a rifle range after a quarrel. He allegedly struck her with a hammer and severed a jugular vein, then left the body as he planned to plead guilty to a first degree indictment.
Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois says his wife’s White House tea attendance involved no social equality issue. He states she was invited as the wife of a congressman, not due to race or party.
Russell Everett a 22 year old porter from Peru Indiana confessed stealing a bag containing 75000 in cash and securities from a private car of motion picture actor Tom Mix. The bag with 4000 missing was found hidden under a car and Everett was held by a New Hampshire grand jury on grand larceny charges.
Republican Independents meeting in Washington outline plans to restrict tariff increases to agriculture and seek farm relief. The informal conference included one Democrat Senator Wheeler and Senators Norris, Howell, Frazier, Nye, Brookhart, LaFollette, Borah, and Wheeler. They aim to press amendments such as Glass tax proposals and export debenture farm relief in the tariff revision.
Gloucester Va June 20 In the opinion of Charles 8 Smith Jr chief counsel for oyster rangers the Supreme Court ruling today allowing planters two years to remove plantings from grounds found to be public does not mean a cessation of the rangers fight. Attorneys for the planters indicated they are prepared to mount further legal action.
Charles 8. Smith Jr. comments on a Supreme Court ruling saying the tongers case is far from lost. He vows to fight to a final conclusion and plans to challenge the validity of leases on the disputed grounds held by the planters.
An advertisement urges readers with stomach ailments to build up a run-down stomach and eat freely. It promotes Lee's Laxative and Cathartic Compound as a tonic elixir sold at Baker's Drug Store in Winchester Virginia with a 10 day sale and a dollar bottle price.
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