Social and Personal Note
Social and Personal notices indicate Mrs Taabelle P Miller plans a private visit between 3 and 4 for services to be held the following day.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal notices indicate Mrs Taabelle P Miller plans a private visit between 3 and 4 for services to be held the following day.
Wedding held on the lawn at the bride’s parents’ George home with bishopric official H A Dalton presiding. The bride wore ivory satin duchess lace and a lace veil, walking under sabre arch as soldiers formed the procession. After the reception the couple left for a West Point home and wedding trip.
Miss Catherine Chrismore became the bride of Captain Paul R. Hartman at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden officiating. Music by Elizabeth Grim and Eva Chrismore accompanied the ceremony. The couple left for a northern motor trip after the wedding. Captain Hartman commands Company I of the 116th Infantry, Virginia National Guard.
Mrs Ida M Brubaker of Winchester announces the marriage of her daughter Eleanor Margaret Brubaker to John Henry Fickner of New York. The ceremony was Saturday June 28 at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in New York. The bride, trained as a nurse at Mercy Hospital Baltimore, has practiced in New York. Fickner, German native, teaches electrical engineering at a New York college. The bride's late father was Dr G M Brubaker of Mercersburg. his widow has lived in Winchester since his death.
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club invites the public to the Handley Library lecture hall at 3 30 p m Wednesday to see lantern slides of Virginia gardens presented by Miss Nancy Lee Janney of Leesburg. A club business meeting follows at 4 30 p m at Mrs Louis L Baker's home on North Braddock Street. members are asked to bring narcissus bulb payments.
Dr. Walter T. Lineweaver and daughter Miss Mary Rhodes Lineweaver along with Mr. E. L. Fletcher of Harrisonburg attended the Rotary International silver jubilee convention in Chicago last week. Lineweaver is retiring president of the Marri sonburg club and Fletcher is the incoming president.
Mrs Nina Swalm Reed plans a Washington wedding with Rear Admiral Clark officiating at the Cordova Apartments. Reed, a noted lecturer and past editor of the National League of America Pen Women Bulletin, hails from a diplomatic family and is active in literary circles. Admiral Clark, a US Naval Academy graduate, has held high commands and was promoted to rear admiral in 1927.
Mrs Thomas Leeds and Mrs Wilbertine Worden of New York arrive by motor at Jordan White Sulphur Springs for an extended country stay. They will be joined Friday for the Fourth holidays by daughters Miss Elsie Leeds and Miss Helen Worden the latter a society editor. Worden plans weekend visits in Northern Virginia to gather material for a series of articles for the Evening World.
Announcement by H. R. Bryarly and Brother declares Robert C. Green and Charles R. Keeler qualified for the Honor Roll convention of Home Life Insurance Company. The event will be at Chateau-Frontenac Hotel in Canada on July 9 to 10. Keeler earned the qualification by meeting the required business amount within seven months.
Mr. Arthur mayor of Hartsville S C and Mrs W D Arthur Jr and Miss Mary Wallis Arthur of Union S C spent the weekend in this city as guests of Mr and Mrs B Arthur Jr on South Stewart street. They were en route home after attending the Rotary clubs international convention in Chicago.
West Virginia editor Mr William L Geppert of the Clarksburg Telegram and Exponent, with a small party, visited Stephens City to collect photos and information for a motoring edition on the Northwestern turnpike. Ladies Aid Society to meet at Nan Leidig home in Vaucluse Tuesday July 1 at 8 pm. Auxiliary No 2 of Braddock Street Methodist to meet at Mrs Gladstone Crim home 321 South Loudoun Tuesday 8 pm. supplies for mission box and program by Group No 9.
Miss Bess Rush married George Montgomery Jeweston at St Pauls Chapel on June 28 at 4 PM. Rev. Berry officiated. The couple hosted a reception at the St George Hotel and plan a honeymoon driving through the Adirondacks before settling in Hartsdale New York.
Mr and Mrs J W Carlisle and Mr G H Newcome of near Winchester traveled to New Oxford Pennsylvania and stayed with Mr and Mrs Edward Pope and family over the weekend They returned home with Miss Dorothy Pope and Mrs Newcome The latter has been visiting her son in law Mr H S Pope and family Also Mrs Carrie B Weakley of Boyce Clarke county underwent an operation at Memorial Hospital this morning
Mr and Mrs Ramon Penn have returned home after a two week wedding trip to Atlantic City and other northern points. Mrs Penn formerly Miss Edna Wisecarver. Mr P E Kennedy of Southern Pines N C is visiting relatives here. Miss Garnet Hamrick returns to Harrisonburg Va after weekend at home and attending the Hartman Chrismore wedding. Miss Hilda Gordon Correll is improving slowly after seven weeks in her room. Mr and Mrs L R Smith and children leave for Gates N C for two weeks and will visit Newport News and Norfolk Va. First Christian Church picnic planned at Jordan Springs. meet at church at 1 30 pm. Picnic supper at 5 30 pm with swimming expected. Mrs John W North Jr and daughter return from Baltimore. Miss Marguerite Wingfield of Washington visits Miss Hilda Patton. Mr and Mrs Lee Barr visit Washington to see their son Taylor Barr at Annapolis Md with Western Electric. Miss Myrtle Lewis of Woolworth on vacation. Mr and Mrs William Byrd return to Baltimore after a week at Rosemont near Berryville. Mrs Smith Adams of Highland Avenue hospitalized at Memorial Hospital. Miss Lena Riley recovering at home after appendicitis operation. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gregory of Manassas Va visit William White in Stephens City. Misses Jane Scully and Grace Kerr of State Teachers College Farmville visit their grandparents. Mr and Mrs E P Bean and daughters June and Margaret Bean spend time at Ocean View Va.
Fifteen gunmen controlled a government warehouse in Chicago for three hours and hauled away whisky brandy and alcohol worth possibly over 200000 dollars. The raid included 4000 cases of bonded whiskey shipped to Chicago from Jacksonville Florida likely by agents of Al Capone and seized by federal agents. Authorities investigate if Capone gangsters aimed to recover the seized liquor.
The H. J. Heinz Company plans a local plant along the Winchester and Western and the Baltimore and Ohio rail lines in South Winchester. The first unit includes five or six substantial buildings, with one three stories tall and brick and steel design. Local contractors and brick from nearby kilns will be used, and work will offer many city jobs.
Near Martinsburg West Virginia two young men were seriously injured when their car head on struck a telephone pole on the Martinsburg Hedgesville highway about two miles west of the city. James Jenkins of Sandy Hook Maryland and Bernard Fitzgerald of Martinsburg were rushed to King's Daughters Hospital where doctors found Jenkins had cuts and lacerations to the head and Fitzgerald had a broken hip and broken right leg. Fitzgerald said steering gear locked and the car ran out of control.
New York June 30 The stock market closed the first half of 1930 with January hopes unrealized and deflation continuing. Trading was extremely dull though brokers covered commitments and pivotal shares rallied. Car money renewed at 2 percent. Total sales about 1,800,000 shares.
Twenty two people died and twenty eight were seriously injured in a railroad wreck of the Irkutsk Leningrad express near Leingrd Russia. The disaster occurred on June 30. Authorities reported the high casualty count and ongoing rescue operations.
Funeral services were held at the Catholic Church in Harrisonburg for Mrs Helen McGrail Reilly widow of druggist John J Reilly of Harrisonburg death occurred Saturday in a Baltimore hospital where she had been confined five weeks Miss Nan and Miss Helen Keating of this city attended relatives from Parkersburg W Va passed through Winchester en route to the funeral Mrs Reilly youngest daughter of Mrs Margaret McGrail Parkersburg Survivor include husband mother three daughters two sons two brothers and three sisters Mr Reilly is a nephew of William Keating of Winchester
Miss Mabel Snowson a 55 year old private secretary to Joseph Wayne Jr president of the Philadelphia National Bank died after leaping from the roof of the twenty three story Philadelphia Bank building at Fourteenth and Sansom streets. Eyewitnesses said she waved wildly before falling onto Sansom street. Wayne said she had been in a highly nervous condition for months.
Capt Kingsford Smith and the Southern Cross crew landed in Washington for an official greeting from President Hoover. A note of greetings was dropped to Glen L. Martin in Baltimore aboard the trans ocean plane as it passed over en route to the capital.
The Senate approved a resolution to restore the Spanish name Porto Rico for Puerto Rico in response to a petition from the island's legislature. Chairman Bingham of the territories committee sponsored the measure, which now goes to the House for approval.
Harold Johnson a 12 year old from Corona California separated from a Boy Scout group and wandered for four days down the north side of Mt San Jacinto near Riverside before reaching safety.
Three persons connected to a Rock Creek swimming party where Mrs. Ella Geraghty drowned were summoned to testify at an inquest before Magistrate Everd at Arminger, Md. The body was recovered yesterday at Gibson Island. Named witnesses include J. Walter Woods Betty Simon and Carlton T. Clark who denies boarding the craft.
Bath claim offers painless feet with nightly soaks dissolving corns and callouses. Advertisement promotes Radox Bath available at Baker's Drug Store and other leading druggists, praising relief from soreness and aching feet.
Miss Mary Katherine Quick of William and Mary College visits her mother Mrs Justa Quick at their home on the Berryville pike for a time.
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