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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1940
Page
8
Junior Club members will attend as guests a Century Club meeting tomorrow at 3 30 PM at Mrs H Jay deGrange home on South Washington street. Mrs J Victor Arthur will present a paper on Rembrandt Van Rijn.
Winchester Girl Scouts present their annual Juliet Lowe Commemorative Program at 7:30 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel. The event honors Juliet Gordon Lowe, founder of the Girl Scouts, with a play showing scenes from a Scout meeting. Miss Virginia Lupton is feted at parties. engagements and upcoming wedding noted. The page also mentions Dorothy Smith’s selection as Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival princess and local residents Asa Rosenberger and Edgar Mason's health.
Mrs. Lester Kerlin hosted a Sunday dinner at South Loudoun Street with guests including B R a i t h w a i t e s and families such as Whitacres Forneys Collins and Kerlins. The gathering featured Mrs. James Chauder and Mrs. Rebecca Patton among others.
Miss Marion Hammill and Miss Lucille Spillman co hosted a party for the Handley senior play cast at Miss Hammill home. Attendees include Misses Farley Massey Jacquelin Womack Wenona Alcombrock Margaret Dick Kathleen Garrett Marie Cline Carolyn Hoffman and Messrs Robert Bridgers Steve Spanos Bill Kingree Nelson Buhl John Knight KE Browning. Future weddings announced Nancy Baird to marry Robert Peyton IV and Dorothy Willson to Joe Frye Jr. Engagements of Dorothy Willson to Joe Frye Jr and Nancy McCluer Baird to Robert Eden Peyton IV are noted along with related family ties and recent travels.
Bethany Circle Presley auxiliary hosts meeting at 8:00 p m in East Street hall. James Lodge I O O F at new street holds meeting. Lions Club luncheon at 12 30 p m at the Hotel weekly. Junior Century Club hosts at Mrs H Clay deGrange home on South Washington. Winchester Memorial Hospital ladies host at 3 30 p m. Mary Mat Class Grace Lutheran at 7 30 p m. Rebekah Association meets at Odd Fellows Hall.
Miss Virginia Steck and Mr Mary Warden Boyd were in Washington DC today. Mr Peggresage of Washington visited Winchester over the weekend. Bruce Slonaker has been confined at home on Amherst Street and is recovering. David H A Jr of Middleburg spent the weekend at his Berryville home. Mrs Myra Horn and Mr Harry Copeland travel from California to visit Ssa Kern on Amherst Street this week. Leonard March is now able to be up after a recent severe cold. Mrs Reginald Mapp of Richmond visits with her mother Mrs Sally Groves at Valley Avenue. Emma Grimmb een confined to her South Loudoun Street residence for two weeks with a cold. An Alfred Roosevelt A cousin of President Roosevelt helps England by driving an emergency ambulance. The President is also her godfather.
Winchester branch of the American Association of University Women met at Mrs. Ian Crawford MacCallum's home. They elected two delegates for the April state convention Lola Moore and Mrs John Scully Jr. Dr Gallagher cannot speak April 12. Dr Stimson will fill in on an international fellowship. Garland R Quarles spoke on the Early History of Education in Winchester. Girl Scout leaders trained at Sweet Briar. four Winchester captains named Anne Kerr Russell Helen Massie Norville Montague and Mrs Robert McNally.
Circles of Market Street Methodist Church schedule a meeting tomorrow night at 8 o clock. Circle One hosts Mrs Gordon Mackie of 608 West Cork Circle Two hosts Mrs Eva Spillman of 715 South Loudoun Circle Three hosts Miss Annie Dorset 109 East Monmouth Street Circle Four hosts Mrs T J Dale and Mrs Robert Dale at 318 Parkway Avenue.
The regular meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of Winchester Memorial Hospital will be held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the nurses' home on Clifford Street. Officers are to be elected. Also, Turner Ashby Chapter of the U D C holds a meeting on Thursday March 14 at 3 o'clock at Miss Nellie Lupton's home 138 Amherst Street.
The Ladies Aid of Pleasant Valley United Brethren church will hold its annual business meeting and officer election all day Wednesday at the home of Mrs. H. K. Dick.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Independent Hose Co. of Stephens City will meet tomorrow at the home of president Miss Mary Tevault.
Public auction Saturday March 16 at 11 A M to sell household articles including antiques and furnishings as part of settling the estate of the late Oliver C Dix. Items listed include corner cupboard chest drop leaf table beds chests bureaus wash stands chairs range stove coal oil stove heating stoves safe medicine cabinet bed side stand bedding china glassware and cooking utensils. John Livengood Extr.
A quiz on sportsmanship and etiquette notes that a poor sport shows up quickly in games and a good sportsman stays cheerful after losses, avoids boasting after wins, and that public reprimands by employers are ill bred. Wedding announcements should go to those invited or not invited.
Geneva report says three trans Caucasian exile regimes based in Georgia Azerbaijan and Armenia claim Britain and France will strike at Russian oil fields and manganese deposits. Georgian delegate Kana Chavichvily says a Paris rebirth meeting elected premier Euythyme Takaichvili and promises allied support as war nears. They anticipate Britain or France acting and exploiting captured resources near the Black and Caspian seas.
The Civil War diaries of the late Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas of Maryland will be published in book form by the University of North Carolina Press. The volume, expected next September, is reported from Hagerstown and reflects Douglas's connections with Winchester and nearby areas.
Joseph McCord edits the diaries of General Douglas the youngest colonel on Stonewall Jacksons staff. Douglas later served on Generals Johnson Gordon Early staffs. The Hagerstown chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is named for him and Ferry Hill near Sharpsburg is Beckenbaughs property. The memoirs will include the only published account of the Battle of Boonsboro. Two young men encountered a federal cavalry detachment from Sharpsburg at the public square.
Report describes a Confederate Army incident where the commander, riding from camp near town, tried to mount his horse as federal soldiers pressed in. The event is characterized as the leader's closest brush with capture during the war, highlighting a tense moment of near surrender and swift withdrawal.
President Roosevelt is confined to his White House quarters with a nasal head cold. Doctor Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire said the illness is mild and asked the President to stay at the White House while continuing to meet callers there.
Rain disrupted the Staunton Military Academy cadet corps and band arrival for the 1927 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester. About 700 cadets were to stay 10 days for training and performances, but a heavy downpour drenched the camp and forced the group to pack up and leave.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1938 B offers a slip, petticoat, and collar set in sizes 12 through 20 with busts 30 to 38. It describes fabric needs for a slip and petticoat in various materials, plus trimming and ribbon requirements, and promotes the Barbara Bell Fashion Book for home sewing ideas.
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