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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1930
Page
3
Social notes indicate delivery details for the social reporter Mrs Taabelle P Miller and a phone contact for updates though the fragment provides no clear event or person actions. The incomplete text suggests scheduling or mailing instructions for society items.
Sydney G. Larrick Jr a college student in the commercial department at Roanoke institution is recognized for achievements. His father Sydney G. Larrick Sr is a Middletown resident and a noted local citizen.
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson of Washington and Virginia is reelected president of the National Capital Horse Show Association. The event will be at the Bradley Hills Maryland grounds May 14 to 17 with the hunt ball. Grayson's horse My Own boosted his turf reputation and his ancestral Highlands homestead houses a trophy room. Polo Grounds at Potomac Park await spring meets as the Riding and Hunt Club resumes after a suspension.
Twelve members of the Girls' Athletic Association surprised Mrs Cra mer Lycett a recent bride and club member at her South Braddock street home with a gift. Mrs Lycett, formerly Ida Fisher, is a past president and well liked by the group. The monthly club entertainment for winter, delayed from March 20 to March 97 due to Geraldine Farrar's Handley High School concert, continues to draw interest. Committee in charge: Miss Helen Keating chair, Mrs Hunter Gaunt, and Miss Ruth Newcome and Miss Mary Wise Carver.
The Kernstown Community League hosts a debate at the school house Friday at 8 pm on March 21. The topic is the Motor Vehicle as a benefit to the country with E Omps J D Chemmer and W S Sargent for the affirmative and S M Chiles Jacob Beaver and S Driver for the negative. Refreshments and homemade cake will be sold for league benefits. the public is invited.
Secretary Miss M Frieda Koontz of the Virginia Educational and Cooperative Association visits Frederick and Clarke counties to coordinate with rural and high schools for fete parade participation.
Armel Community League met at Armel School on March 13 for a business session and student musical program. County Schools Superintendent Leslie D. Kline attended and spoke on education. The league will hold a debate with subject to be announced and Armel students will join the Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester this spring.
Mr. Thomas J. Cooper a Winchester business man and his daughter Mrs. Walter H. Bosserman have returned to their Fairmont avenue home after over a month away. They traveled by rail to the Pacific coast and California, then by steamer down the coast through the Panama Canal with side trips to Cuba and Florida, ending with a voyage to New York.
Mr. J. W. Morrow of Baltimore is appointed agent at Winchester for the Railway Express Agency and has begun duties. He will be joined soon by Mrs. Morrow and their young son. John W. Swisher has returned to Weston, West Virginia and D. I. Fairney succeeds him as cashier.
Joop No. 7 Boy Scouts finish arrangements for a bake sale of home made cakes pies and bread from 2 to 8 pm Saturday at 139 North Loudoun Street. They invite friends and the public to judge the bakers' skill.
Indianapolis March 19 The United Mine Workers of America convention authorized L Lewis to revoke the charter of Kansas District No 14 led by Alexander Howat and to set up a provisional fund for Kansas workers. The plan calls for removal of Howat and the district executive board. Howat had led a new miners organization formed from a rump Springfield meeting last week.
Justice Weems presided over cases tied to missing 1930 Winchester license plates and liquor law violations. Edwin Sibert received 118 dollars fine, one month jail, and a one year car operation revocation. Other defendants paid small fines for unlicensed car use and liquor possession.
Salisbury Md March 19 Harrison Disharoon a farmer near here killed his wife who had left him Saturday then fatally wounded himself with the same gun. Mrs Disharoon 44 taken to her parents home fled to Mar dela after taking the children. She died en route to hospital. Authorities found Disharoon dying with a self inflicted wound after the shooting. The gun had been borrowed from a neighbor.
Mr. cae T Newlin returns from Grand Rapids after Burleson Sanatorium treatment and prior stay in 1922. Mrs. Carroll Menefee and son plan to return to Sperryville Va with Colonel Menefee joining them. H W Cook of Fort Wayne arrives in Winchester for six to eight weeks. T Neser of Baltimore visits George Washington Hotel on business. Mr and Mrs Fred L Glaize sail from New York aboard the Essiquibo to Cuba for several weeks. W B McWilliams of Huntington is a guest at the hotel. Miss Sarah Forney stays home ill. she is a stenographer for C W Trenary city revenue office.
About 75 men from Virginia wool growing areas gathered in Roanoke to discuss forming a state or Southern body to coordinate with the National Wool Marketing Association and the Federal Farm Board. Speakers outlined plans to back a national effort, with later inclusion of nearby states if an association forms.
Iowa dairy herds subject 900 bulls to a mock trial by the dairy extension service at Iowa State College. Forty eight associations list bulls as unprofitable to promote a better herd sires contest. Farmers act as jury judging failure of daughters to match dam production. guilty bulls are slaughtered or sold.
Richmond March 18 1930 The legislature adjourned after a two day session that produced 383 bills signed by the Senate president and House speaker Appointment of seven legislative committees was announced including recommendations for forestry development a state insurance fund for workers compensation and a plan for pensions for public school teachers and state employees Delegates and senators were named to meet Rear Admiral Byrd and to study taxation transfers to localities and highway landscaping efforts
Tomorrow night at 8 15 the Handley School Auditorium in Winchester hosts singer Geraldine Farrar. The renowned soprano, praised by peers, offers a rare personal performance with special 50 cent school child admission. tickets are available at Baker's drug store.
Shanghai reports say organized bandits killed 2 000 people in Fuan Kiangsi province and threaten further attacks on American and other foreign shipping along the Yangtze. Kiangsu officials appeal for troops as raids extend upstream toward the Yangtze river and its tributaries.
Washington's Woman's City club forms an aviation section the first U S women's club to add flying courses to its program Thirty members largely mature women enroll to learn to fly Some plan to own and pilot planes with grounds for a field at Mrs Meritt O Chance's Maryland country home Others including lawyers will join to commute to offices Ground work will feature talks by aviation experts
Several score of women at the South Covington Rayon Corporation plant walked out over a piece scale cut they say lowers pay below a living wage. Management says the new scale includes a bonus for skilled workers, but workers note most cannot reach the bonus.
Pittsburgh researchers say electrical circuits can produce organ music instead of wind pipes. The idea aims to shock audiences with new electronic tones.
The Chase National Bank of the City of New York will combine with the Equitable Trust Company and absorb Interstate Trust to form the largest bank, with about 2.8 billion dollars in resources. Directors and trustees approved the merger and will vote on ratification on April 24, led by Albert H. Wiggin as senior executive.
An executive officer announces Wiggin will chair a newly created governing board of the United States’ largest financial institution. Winthrop W. Aldrich, president of the Equitable, becomes president, and he is also John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s brother-in-law.
The electric railway sector reports record net revenue for last year after carrying 16 billion passengers. The statistician provides no data on how many passengers remained seated.
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