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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
8
Coroner Roy Smith reports a grasshopper infestation in his Oakland City home. Eggs in potted plants overwintered, then hatched due to the warm indoor conditions, despite spring still two weeks away.
The parish lists two Wednesday study groups at Parish House for Little Vee and Little Theatre. Thursday features a Rotary Club luncheon at 1 00 p m a bridge club gathering at Mrs Hack's home 2 45 p m and Turner Ashby Chapter UDC meeting at Mrs Snider’s home 117 North Cameron Street.
Preparations for the fashion show and revue Fashion and Spinach at Handley High School on Friday March 24 proceed with full committee appointments and a large cast. Mrs. Minnigrode chairs general arrangements with sub committees for Fashions Spinach Finance Publicity and Properties. Tickets 5 and 25 cents go on sale soon. Proceeds benefit Winchester Memorial Hospital Auxiliary charitable work.
Mrs. H I Pifer of the Robert Y Conrad Unit announces National Defense Essay Contests for high school seniors and juniors with topics on adequate national defense and its role in enduring peace. A FIDAC Essay Contest on Queen Marie of Rouman ia also invites entries with a 1500 word limit. Local units set deadlines of March 25 and April 1 respectively.
Mr and Mrs Walter Pollard are congratulated on the birth of a daughter at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown Maryland. Former Winchester residents now reside in Hagerstown where Mr Pollard works in business. Mrs Pollard is the former Eleanor Skyles daughter of Mrs William N Skyles and the late Major Skyles.
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Lee Dame daughter of Mrs William Page Dame of Baltimore and the late Dr Dame to Mr Samuel Stevens Sands of Fiddlers Green Middleburg will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Episcopal Church Baltimore. The ceremony by Rev Dr Benjamin Lovett will be followed by a small family reception. Miss Dame is a niece of Mrs Robert M Ward of this city and is well known locally.
Dale Carnegie class members elect officers after three candidate slate debates. Winners include Miss Rachel Jennings as president and Dr. John B. McKee as treasurer with Miss Anne Kerr Russell as vice president and Miss Virginia Cover Russell as secretary. Awards honor progress with copies of Lincoln the Unknown.
A column discusses etiquette for repeating questions in conversation and when it is rude. It covers entertainments a bachelor can host in his apartment such as tea, dinners, after theatre suppers, and card parties. It also notes gifts to an engaged girl are optional and not obligatory.
The marriage of Miss Maryanna Spohn of Beverly Hills and Mr. Arthur Bayard Chandler of Pennsbury Lodge Chadds Ford and Mr. Percy M. Chandler of Philadelphia and New York took place March 1 at First Presbyterian Church San Francisco. The couple left for a Caribbean cruise and will reside in Palo Alto after returning in October.
Northern Virginia Chapter V V M I Alumni to Meet at 7 30 p m in Warrenton at the Warren Green Hotel General Charles E Kilbourne to address the meeting Study Groups in Make Up and Acting meet at 7 15 and 8 p m Parish House Woman's Auxiliary Of Winchester Memorial Hospital met at the nurses home Miss Gertrude Organ spoke on Health Program in the Schools W C T U to meet Thursday at Handley Library at 3 p m Mr and Mrs L Russell Miller announce marriage of Grace Elizabeth to Marshall Foltz Hayden ceremony February 15 in Kernstown Virginia Mae Hatchell to Samuel I Golightly ceremony January 19 at South Mills N C Mr Golightly is now in Portsmouth and will live there with his bride Mr and Mrs Ford Barry of Winchester with relatives leave for St Petersburg Fla to join wintering relatives in Tampa Bay area
Mr. Jess Peacemaker remains at home with a broken hip on West Hart Street as other residents travel. Palm Beach visitors Admiral Byrd and Mrs Rich ard Evelyn Byrd were guests of honor at a tea hosted by Captain and Mrs John H Gibbons at the Everglades Club.
Mrs. Henry D Flood and Mrs. Harry F Byrd return to Washington after visiting Mrs. Byrds son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Harry R Kern Jr Mrs Walter D Myers and sister Mrs Perkins Hazelgrove of Roanoke plan Roanoke departure today Miss Mary McCone resumed duties at Winchester Memorial Hospital after recovering from influenza Miss Mary Byrd of Baltimore to visit Washington Inn guests Mr Burke of Harrisonburg visited Winchester yesterday Mrs Robert C Green attends lecture by Mrs Spry flower decorator at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
Social visits mark a week in Front Royal with guests from Washington and Winchester. Local residents report hospital patients, travel for medical clinics, and community club activities at Edgewood Park and nearby towns.
Mrs. R. E. L. Miller is visiting her daughters Miss Edith and Margaret in Washington DC during her trip.
Social notes from Winchester and surroundings detail visits and recoveries. Miss Charlotte Santemyers spent the week in Winchester with Miss Margaret Brown while Mr and Mrs P H Cammer visited Washington DC with their son in law and daughter Capt and Mrs A T Thomas. Several club meetings and hospital updates are recorded including Garden Club of Warren County and Mrs James B Golden hosting the Afternoon Bridge Club.
Refuge Virginia March 8 There was a very large attendance at the sale of Mr O L Grim Monday March 6. Mrs E R Conner spent Monday evening with Mrs James Orndorff and others from Washington D C. Mrs Silas Grim celebrates birth of a son named William Hite Grim with mother and baby doing well. Visitors noted include Mrs Marvin White Highview and Mrs Marvin Hammock Ridings Chapel.
Sheriff E B Morse issues a warrant for a suspect in Rockingham North Carolina. He deputizes Odell Childers a former University of North Carolina sprinter who swiftly apprehends the man.
The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour holds its regular prayer service this evening at 8 o clock led by the Women s Missionary Society with the theme We Would See Jesus A brief address will be given by the pastor The service aligns with the United Lutheran Church week of Prayer and Self denial All are invited to attend
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