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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1930
Page
3
The department announces muted social events as reported by Isabelle F Miller. She schedules a brief social notice between 3 and 4 p.m. for the following day.
Capt Bower R Patrick and Mrs Patrick announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Jane Clark Patrick to Lieut Julius L Thompson United States Navy The couple plans a May wedding Lt Thompson is a 1921 Naval Academy graduate and son of Judge and Mrs J E Thompson of Bolling Green Missouri Miss Patrick has ties to Norfolk Winchester Norfolk society and naval circles
Rev Dr Tyndell of Terra Haute Indiana has accepted a call to become rector of an Episcopal church there after serving a Memphis church. His daughter Miss Rebecca Tyndell recently moved with her parents to Terra Haute and arrived in Winchester to visit relatives Mr and Mrs Peyton J Marshall at their S Stewart Street home. Miss Virginia Nye Duval is visiting Mart insburg West Virginia for the weekend with Miss Elinor Lyne.
Dr Douglas R Semmes a Richmond native and son of Rev Thomas Semmes was elected president at the San Antonio Geological Society annual session in Uvalde Texas. He earned an MA from the University of Virginia and a PhD from Columbia in 1916. He authored A Geological Survey of the State of Alabama.
Mr and Mrs W Lathrope return from Kansas City and other western cities after a month away. Mr Lathrope resumes work at Griffith Paint and Sign Company on South Louise Avenue. The marriage of Mrs Helen Hammerly Ingraham of Round Hill Virginia to Monsieur Jean Charles Goetz of Mulhouse is noted with plans to reside in Kobe Japan.
Two Winchester Memorial Hospital nurses plan weekend home visits Miss Fannie Smith to Fredericksburg and Miss Hal lie Y. Carper to Waynesboro Va. Carper welcomes hospital guest Miss Victoria Albaugh. 8 P C A To Hold Annual Meeting
Mr. James B. Russell president of the Union Bank of Winchester and his sister Miss Lucy W. Russell have returned to their South Washington street home after spending a couple of weeks in Florida. They traveled by motor and toured much of the state along both the east and west coasts.
Local note column reports Mrs. Charles Baird nee Ursula Harrison has returned to Marshall Virginia after an operation at Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore. Other updates include Mr and Mrs David Miller leaving for Baltimore and several residents visiting for health or family reasons.
Minn ie Wood Chapel Virginia March 14 Farmers peg plowing sowing clover seed for spring. Many friends attend funeral of Fannie Fenton and visit relatives in Winchester Berryville and Charles Town. Green notes on local visits illnesses and upcoming King's Daughters lunch at Wisecarver sale March 26.
Mr Russell Edmondson repairs a house bought from Miss Laura Finley for occupancy. Tim Messick moves into the Racey property in West. Ada Loving is able to be out after six weeks illness. Andrew Balmer moves to George Glaize farm near Oak Grove. Sam Robinson moves from Dr Hopewell farm to another Hopewell farm in Warren county. Gertie Putman moves to Dr Hopewell farm. Henry Kline moves from Warren county to Mace Stickley farm. Henry F. Richards 69 dies at Francis Richards home on the factory farm and will be buried at Zepp Sunday.
The will of Belle Barley widow of Capt Louis Barley formerly of Winchester who died in Harpers Ferry last week was filed for probate in Charles Town. She left all personal property except money to daughter Katie and directed the cash to be divided equally among her three children.
Mrs. John T. Noonan of Stephenson shows steady improvement after a major operation at Memorial Hospital. Owen Renner, son of Mr and Mrs James Renner of Kernstown, is admitted to Memorial Hospital for treatment. Robert DeHaven of Naperville Ill visits relatives then travels to Washington to stay with brother and sister in law Roy DeHaven. George F. Gill of Washington guests at the George Washington Hotel. Mrs. Robert L. McCarty leaves for New York to shop for the Betty Shop.
Acting Secretary Cotton said the Byrd pledge not to claim Antarctic lands is not binding on the United States. He noted national claims cannot be erased by a discoverer’s verbal relinquishment. The issue arose as Britain claimed most of the Antarctic region by prior discovery. Byrd later suggested his findings were global in scope and aimed at US Britain understanding.
Marvin Mitchell a 14 year old from Buckton Virginia shows improvement at Memorial Hospital after pneumonia and injuries from a shooting in the Mitchell cornfield. The bullet remains unfound as surgeons plan to locate the missile while Harry Day and his father Frank are held as suspects in Front Royal. Wesley Smith was released after arrest.
The Senate rejected a 10 percent tariff on green hides by 49 to 34. It declined to accept a 15 percent rate, leaving a 4 cent per pound levy about 25 percent to be acted upon.
Williamsburg delegate Ashton Dovell will deliver the principal address at the Friendship Fire Company banquet on April 3 in East Cork street hall. The ceremony will include several short speeches in addition to his address. Dovell is the Democratic floor leader of the House of Delegates and noted for speaking ability.
Four jurists were urged for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Sanford’s death. Henry W. Anderson of Richmond Va a Hoover Law Enforcement Commission member was named along with K Parker A S Van Valkenburg and Xenophon Hicks by Virginia Representatives Lankford Garber and Shaffer who said Anderson acted without solicitation.
In Dubuque Iowa on March 15 two boys Ray McCormick 17 and James Heberman 16 confessed to shooting and killing Henry Hanfeldt marshal of Dyersville after robbing Matt White at a Luxenberg gas station. The suspects fled in a car with $30.
A fragmented listing shows a Pittsburgh U Pitt Walton League program with WIZ and WIJIZ sessions, then Rochester WHAM and Rochester 1150, plus WGY Schenectady Albany WEAF dance and hour blocks, detailing times and program types across multiple stations.
Testimony and documents were presented as the government rests its case against Edward L. Doheny charged with bribing Albert B. Fall to secure Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases. Justice Hitz denied a direct verdict. Fall testified he personally executed leases and that only two were signed by him.
A fresh outbreak of psittacosis is suspected in Potsdam Germany after a locally imported parrot arrived. A physician and a nurse who treated the patients have died. The report notes a Frenchman using a night out as an excuse to be selected premier.
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