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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1930
Page
3
Social reporter Mrs Toabelly F Miller invites news between 3 and 4 for the next day news item. Readers in the department may submit items about engagements, visits, and social happenings.
Mrs Richard E Byrd Jr was guest of honor at a Willard luncheon hosted by Mrs Gilbert Grosvenor wife of the Geographic Society president. The event in Grosvenor’s Wild Acres home honored Admiral Byrd with Vice President Curtis leading officials in attendance alongside military and diplomatic members and their spouses.
Col and Mrs Thomas H Russell of Staunton celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at Benbreagh the Russell home. About 200 guests attended a buffet supper on the shaded lawn with out of town friends among the crowd. The host couple were joined by their children Miss Peggy Russell and Thomas H Russell Jr and a large group of attendees included Mrs Hampton H Wayt and Mrs W S Morriss at the punch bowl.
Plans announced for the annual Fort Loudoun Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution picnic to be held next Tuesday, June 24, on the Long Meadows estate lawn near the Shenandoah river and Cedar Creek. The outing includes visits to Old Stone Fort, Mount Pleasant, and Harmony Hall, with supper back at Long Meadows and possible bathing. Members of the Lawrence Augustine Washington Chapter and local hosts will attend, and several papers on historical topics will be read at the grounds.
Mrs J Wilmer Biddle announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Sarah Stanley Gordon to Mr Archibald Edwards of Oklahoma City The couple will be married in the autumn Miss Gordon is the daughter of the late Douglas Gordon of Baltimore and has studied at Bryn Mawr Mrs Biddle and daughter reside at Binderton House Chestnut Hill PA and have summered at Kenmore Manor Virginia Gordon sisters include Miss Elizabeth Gordon Mrs Keppel Palmer England and Mrs Joseph F Dahlgren Philadelphia
The marriage of Olive Anne Brown of Grosse Pointe Detroit to Thomas Cover 3d of Green Spring Valley takes place this afternoon at Grosse Pointe Protestant Episcopal Church. A reception follows at Lake Court. Attendees include the groom’s relatives from Baltimore and Winchester along with Dr. Fred Boland of Washington visiting local friends.
The article lists delegates registered for the Christian Endeavor State Convention with named church groups and attendees. It notes plans for travel via Natural Bridge and a return by a different route and covers other local society events including weddings and public service trips.
Reverend J. Goode leaves for Romney West Virginia to fill regular appointments tomorrow then travels to Franklin West Virginia for services next week and the third Sunday. He plans to return home by early July. Numerous visitors and guests fill local hotels including Miss Agnes Moore from Wooster Ohio and families from Chester Millville Zanesville Charleston Syracuse and Riverdale. Local society notes report improving health of Mrs Georgie Groves and various residents visiting or staying in town.
Circle No 2 of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South will hold a benefit luncheon at the church office 116 North Braddock Street from 11 30 to 2 next Tuesday June 24 to which friends and the general public are cordially invited.
Baltimore police recovered 10 000 dollars worth of diamonds stolen from Mrs Es tella Rodgers May 24. Patrolmen arrested 19 year old David Levy and found 60 gems at his home. Earlier 77 gems were found at Ernest Levy's home, with the father awaiting trial on robbery charges.
The First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue invites all to Bible school at 9:30 a m and gospel services at 11 a m and 7 45 p m Pastor E J Rohart announces an open air rally near the new public school site with an address by R Lee Stickel from Handley High School faculty.
Sheriff Luther Pannett of Frederick County and West Virginia officers arrested Austin Fogle near Highview on murder charges tied to an Ashland Kentucky case. Fogle denied the crime and was jailed in Romney awaiting extradition. he had been released from Ashland on $5,000 bail for liquor violations. Local authorities said they had no details of the alleged murder.
Admiral Byrd arrives for a civic welcome in Winchester with a city greeting by Mayor F A Shryock. He will lunch with his mother and attend a Handley stadium service with speeches by Rev. Dr. McFaden and Rear Admiral Byrd, followed by a reception and evening events before a Berryville to New York train departure.
Ottawa dispatch reports that War rington of Toronto a parachute jumper and his brother Stephen of the Royal Canadian Air Force were killed in an automobile accident near Ottawa on June 21.
United States battleship Utah with about 1 000 Annapolis midshipmen arrived Cherbourg France for a ten day port visit. Captain George Washington Steele Navy attaché and French authorities welcomed the officers and cadets aboard. Midshipmen James B Vredenburgh and Alfred B Tucker are among those aboard with local connections named in the arrival.
An aircraft fell near Tipon ten miles east of Altoona injuring three people. Pilot Walter Griffith of Huntington sustained rib fractures while passengers Catherine Hastings of Hollidaysburg and Hayward H. Webb, secretary and manager of the Central Pennsylvania Airport Company, escaped with minor bruises.
Weather outlook for week beginning Monday calls for show ers in the North and Middle Atlantic States around Wednesday and again Friday or Saturday. Temperatures will be moderate in the first half and warmer in the latter half of the week.
Chicago reports showcase wheat dropping to 92 cents a bushel in a week of declines. Prices slid below the dollar for deliveries, marking a rare postwar low with losses of 1.5 to 2 cents. All principal grains posted record low prices for the season.
In Coeur d Alene Idaho on June 21 a federal jury convicted thirty two defendants in the Wallace Idaho rum rebellion case. Defendants including county and city officials were found guilty of collecting the tax disguised as fines from bootleggers and resort proprietors to defray municipal expenses.
State law bans all net fishing in inland waters and prohibits buying selling or transporting fish caught with net. Violators face court fines with already fined violators reported. Open season for bass and trout allows only hook and line angling with bag limits of 15 per day and 150 per season. rock bass redeye and goggle-eye have separate dates and limits.
Four robbers kidnapped H A Green cashier of the Reading Bank at his home in Cincinnati Ohio and forced him and his family to the bank for five hours while awaiting a time lock to open the vault but fled when a bank bell rang twenty minutes before the safe would have opened. One robber guarded Mrs Green and their 14 year old daughter at the home.
In Jacksonville on June 21 Louis Weiss, a retail merchant, drowned his 16 year old son Francis in a bathtub and then shot himself. Family members said financial reverses and the son’s condition weighed on him.
New York June 21 markets fell under heavy selling pressure ending the third week of declines. Important shares on the New York Stock Exchange dropped about two points to new yearly or longer lows as broad selling intensified across sectors.
The note references a measurement standard described as day-1500 season length not less than a specified inches from nose tip to tip or ho standard. The fragment implies a physical measurement criterion tied to a season label but lacks clear context or outcomes. Entities include Atx and unspecified inches.
Stribling defeats Von Porat in the opening round with a sharp left hook to the jaw. The bout drew about 21 000 spectators indoors with receipts near 80 000, setting a local boxing attendance record. Porat was knocked down and counted out after the decisive blow.
Minneapolis report notes claims that Morrow damaged his political trajectory. The piece mentions political factions and association with the Anti-Saloon League and a New Jersey senator, with references to dates and limits on trout.
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