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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1933
Page
3
Winchester items describe state regents and officers, Girl Scout activities, a Cross Junction birthday party for Mrs Braithwaite with family, a planned Gainesboro show, and a Teachers College play Springtime with alumnae cast. Articles mention travel to Washington for a field institute and local preparations for regional camp advisory visits.
Social calendar lists weekly choir rehearsals at Braddock Street churches and Grace Lutheran, Rotary luncheon at George Washington Hotel, Youth classes at Braddock Street M E Church, American Legion gathering, Music Lovers Club, Lions Club luncheon, Kiwanis meeting at the George Washington Hotel, and Handley High Girls Athletic Association activities.
Daughters of the American Revolution gather in Staunton for their Virginia state conference at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel. Decorations feature hemlock cedar and laurel with forsythia accents. events include an organ recital, a morning assembly, a Mary Baldwin College tea in honor of Miss Mary Julia Baldwin, and a buffet supper at Waverley Hill.
The Cap tain Sally Tompkins estate at Poplar Grove in Mathews county will open April 28 and 29 as part of Virginia Garden Week. The historic house overlooks Mobjack Bay and Chesapeake Bay with a mill and serpentine garden walls. George Upton of Boston currently owns the property. An earlier owner was Samuel and Thomas Williams.
A meeting of the Little Theatre is planned for Wednesday night March 29 at 7 30 in the Handley Library Auditorium. Chairmen of all committees are urged to have their groups attend for important instructions. Hugh Crawford joins Lovett shoe store in Winchester after arriving from Charles Town West Virginia. He is an experienced salesman and invites friends to visit. Mr and Mrs S Carroll Smith of West Clifford street visited Harrisonburg today as guests of friends.
A gathering of the Womans Missionary Society from Front Royal Rockland White Post Boyce Berryville Summit Point West Virginia will convene at Berryville Methodist Church on Saturday March 25. Morning and afternoon sessions will feature Miss Leslie Fox as group leader with discussions on The Missionary Organization As An Educational Factor and Children s Work In One Church In Our Group. Other talks include Opportunities For Service and programs led by several local members. Dr L S Rudacille of Baltimore will lead the quiet hour after the morning session. Frank Yeakle Jr of Front Royal is reported improving after illness.
The United States post office letter carriers in Hagerstown hosted a gathering with visitors from Harrisburg Waynesboro Winchester and Martinsburg. Dinner and music accompanied speeches by E J Ga ner Victor Brown and D P Dougherty.
A marriage license was issued in the Corporation Clerk's office to Miss Hilda B Reynolds and Mr Raymond H Davis both of Yellow Springs West Virginia. Reynolds is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Reynolds and Davis the son of Mr and Mrs John W Davis. Davis works in construction.
Master Eugene Lillis ten year old son of Mr and Mrs Co G Lofton and pupil of Handley High School was thrown from a swing at home this week and sustained a severe leg fracture. He is suffering shock but reported to be improving.
The Rosenberger family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for sympathy kindness and support after the death of Mr James Rosenberger their father and husband They thank for calls cars and flowers from wife and children.
Frederick County Pomona Grange postpones the meeting from March 16 to Thursday night March 23 at 7 30 PM due to the state lecturers conference. Fourth degree and Pomona members from nearby counties urged to attend. Public program to follow including songs, readings, and a discussion on voting rights.
Warren county members of the Eastern Cooperative Livestock Marketing Association and other livestock producers meet Saturday at 2 PM in the Warren county courtroom Front Royal. Expected speakers include T Skeffington Baltimore agency manager and Thomas B Glascock Upperville president of the Eastern Association. An organization into a county unit of the Carger Association may be formed. The group is part of the National Cooperative and includes Virginia producers and eight nearby states.
Wives boast they can bake biscuits while husbands test the outcome. Household curiosity surrounds whether the baked goods please the men as the domestic wager unfolds.
Middletown Virginia notes include locals C F Carper C B Stickley Julian Kline and C L Wright visiting Hoto ver O Smith of Point Peters Ga visiting L Y Treham home. Barn raising at L L Trehan farm with many Middletown Winchester Shenandoah participants and a picnic meal. Katherine Keith ill at home. Abram Zirkle and Rev W Pavanlere attend weekend in Winchester.
Richmond plans to send a delegation to Washington to oppose moving the United States Veterans Bureau to Roanoke. A conference with Senator Harry F. Byrd and Representative A. J. Montague will be sought. The bureau employs about 100 people.
In England the game is presented as a distinct national pastime with more than 20 000 courts. Separately Kentucky employees gain an hourly paid vote access for elections across all firms and industries.
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