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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
6
Society calendar notes a 7:00 p m yard party at a church for Red Cross war relief and a Friday tea hosted by Mr and Mrs John Herrick for the Front Royal Bridge Club members. social items reflect community fundraisers and local gatherings.
A birthday gathering for Mrs George Wisecarver of Bunker Hill White was held at her home on November 22. Guests from several nearby towns attended including Rosa Dunham and family Emma Hoffman and daughter Pauline, and many others. Refreshments and music completed the evening.
Rosabelle Dorsey and Annie Scrivener staged a miscellaneous shower at Miss Dorsey's home on the Martinsburg pike for Mrs. John R. Gano formerly Katherine DeHaven of Stephenson. Guests included Gretchen Dorsey Frances Triges and many DeHaven and Dorsey relatives. Meanwhile John I. Brown Jr. and family arrived from West Pittston for a summer visit and Brown oversees Winchester Playground Association recreation lots. Miss Marshal Stryker, recently operated on at Memorial Hospital, is recovering with visitors expected as she remains hospitalized.
Mrs. Lorene Holloway of Jackson Heights L I adopts the motto No Knitting When War Comes and aims to form a women flying corps to aid U S defense efforts.
Miss Annie Sue Boles of Strasburg will wed Fred C. Vose at 4 pm June 30 in the bride’s parents home. Rev. Floyd B. Lingle will officiate. Nuptial music by Edyth Schneider and Geraldine Douglas. Sister Mrs M G Ramey matron of honor. Best man Major M G Ramey. Reception to follow.
A reader asks about handling irritability after a partner’s blunder in card games and rude guests. Roberta Lee emphasizes self control under pressure and polite leaving phrases, advising small portions and preferring good-bye over bye-bye in good etiquette.
The Rev A J Secrist and his wife of Martinsburg West Virginia observed their forty sixth wedding anniversary in Winchester They have lived at Pleasant View for years and their daughter Miss Elena Secrist is at home The couple long served as leading preachers in the Virginia Conference and held several important appointments before retiring Mrs Leona Catharine Scott from Grant County was Miss before her marriage Miss Scott lived between Petersburg and Maysville The news notes numerous social visits and local engagements including dinners teas and trips of residents and Scouts returning from Rhode Island and travels to Washington Atlantic City and Pittsburgh.
Women who dieted to the limit seek solace at beauty shops with muscle toning treatments. Energetic manipulation aims to revitalize tissues, stimulate blood flow, and firm slack fibers through spinal kneading, shoulder work, and hot and cold applications. Freckles result from sun stimulated pigment cells and cosmetics act as deterrents. a well oiled face is likened to a buttered frying pan to prevent burning.
Lillian eet of Turlock was named the GOP's fairest by news photographers covering the Republican national convention in Philadelphia. The club congratulates Mrs. Pole on her appearance and invites the public to view the event along with attendees from Shenandoah and nearby counties. Special programs announced include Brucetown Methodist Church musical event on June 30 at 7 30 and Opequon Union Sunday School yard party on June 27 with an evening plate supper.
Mr and Mrs Brice Bowie of Riverdale Md and Mr and Mrs Joseph Bowie of Chevy Chase were guests of Mrs John Affleck on Wednesday. Bernice Hepner and Louise Ensogna hosted a weiner roast at Smiths park with Doris Boyce Peggy Bockey Ada Webber and Billy Ensogna Eddie Lewis Eldred Frye Charles Bockey Billy Dorsey and Paul Ensogna present. Marnie Grimm of Cumberland Md visits town staying with Clifton and Mrs Grimm on Millwood Avenue. Preston Boyer and John Locke visit Hagerstown Md on Sunday. Mary Williams of Moorefield W Va guests of Pauline Taylor on Fairhont Avenue.
Mrs Lanier Pole of Hot Springs Virginia returns from a lecture tour through Connecticut to address the Shenandoah Garden Club at Woodstock Christian Church on Tuesday July 2 at 2 pm. She will speak on flower arrangements and bring new displays with backgrounds and accessories.
Telegraph operators at 48 Union Pacific stations along a 492 mile route aided a wartime reporting test. Army officials demonstrated how quickly a station can flash time and flight details to a central point, with seven to twenty seconds from flash to message.
The Zion Trio from Detroit Michigan presents a sacred music program at Hayfield Assembly of God Church Sunday night at 8 o clock. It closes a five week series and the public is invited to attend.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive examinations for many positions across agencies. Vacancies include chief medical officer, construction inspection coordinator, alphabetic card-puncher operator, instructors at Air Corps Technical School, aeronautical and mechanical engineers, associate aeronautical inspector, graduate nurse Panama Canal service, junior farmer, sound recording technician, motor transport manager, interior decorator, and rural sociologist. Full details and applications available from Herman Lee at the local post office.
Treasury figures report receipts of 8,732,698.38 dollars and expenditures of 23,429,225.71 dollars. Gross debt stands at 42,913,103,491.20 dollars, a decrease of 3,598,474.93 dollars from the previous day.
Revival of interest in needle arts described in a new booklet NEEDLE WORK just off the press. It covers knitting crochet embroidery and decorative sewing with clear directions and many illustrations. The beginner can learn quickly and, once mastered, the full field opens. Cost ten cents including handling.
The reader encloses ten cents for a copy of the new Needle Work booklet from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau directed by Frederic J. Haskin. Mail to Washington D. C. with name, street or rural route, state.
Hollywood June 27 John Barrymore declares at least ten actors surpass him in film. He names Lionel Barrymore as first, with rivals including Spencer Tracy George Raft Roland forrester and others while defending the art against critics and a wandering newspaperman’s challenge.
Former pastors members and friends of the Hershman Sperry and Baker United Brethren Churches of Hardy county are invited to an all day home coming service at Baker West Virginia on Sunday June 30 announced by Rev. B F Spitzer pastor.
Lester Finley, colored, injured in a crash at Gerard and Loudoun, remains in fair condition at Memorial Hospital. He suffers from four fractured pelvises and internal injuries. Una Dixon, colored, in the same collision, is in satisfactory condition with a fractured pelvis after a bus collision and crash into Riley's Market.
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