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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 24, 1941

Page

6

Community calendar headlines and local notices

Monday events include Stamp Club meeting at Market Street Methodist and I O O F gathering at their hall. Tuesday features Lions Club luncheon at a hotel and home meetings for Century Club and Young Adult Class. Rebekah Association meets at Odd Fellows Hall. A long list of social notices follows detailing birthdays, gatherings, hospital updates, visitors, and local movements among Clarke County residents and nearby towns.

Stamp Club Market Street Methodist Lions Club Century Club Helen Massey Claude Smalls Rebekah Association Odd Fellows Hall

Etiquette Answers on Introductions Dress Trains and Paper

The guidance covers whether to repeat a name in introductions, the option of a train on a wedding dress, and whether ruled paper is suitable for social correspondence. It notes that a simple How do you do may suffice and that trains are optional. It suggests using black ruled guides under notepaper if straight writing is hard.

Apple Blossom Dance Heads to May 2 With Tommy Tucker

For the third year running Tommy Tucker and his orchestra will provide the music for the festival’s dance on May 2. The event marks a continuing Apple Blossom celebration with the band returning to steer the evening’s entertainment.

Tommy Tucker

Local Visitors Return to College Town Homes

Miss Margaret Clarke of Honolulu and Miss Lynn Woods of Lincoln Nebraska spent spring vacation at the home of Mr and Mrs Justin Funkhouser and returned to Kings Smith Studios where they study. Other locals welcomed guests including Mr and Mrs P Georges of Bristol Tennessee and Mr and Mrs W R Strader with their son Harry Strader a Hampden Sydney student. Dr and Mrs Chester Riley hosted weekend guests Mr and Mrs John Horne of Beaumont and Mr and Mrs W R Parker with Sam and Lucy from Powhatan.

Leslie Bell Alison L. Cooper Westhampton College Richmond Virginia Douglas Cooper St. James School For Boys Hagerstown Maryland Eugene B. Cooper Melvin Green M. M. Green St. Petersburg Florida James Brooks 8. C. Brooks Citadel South Carolina Military College Charleston Fferson Street Margaret Clarke Honolulu Hawaii Lynn Woods Lincoln, Neb Miss Clarke Justin Funkhouser Kings-Smith Studios P. Georges Bristol, Tenn J. M. Lamb North Loudoun Street W. R. Strader Harry Strader Hampden-Sydney College Chester Riley John Horne Beaumont W. R. Parker Sam and Lucy Powhatan

Facial Tactics and Beauty Etiquette In A Beauty Class

A columnist questions beauty class members about facial expressions and the consequences of grimacing. Advice covers preventing wrinkles, daily cream routines, cold water toning, and using toilet water to erase powder, with notes on alcohol’s effects on scalp and oily hair.

Antrim Elected President of College Alumnae

Mrs Antrim elected president of ShenandoahAlumnae Association of Randolph Macon College during a Lynchburg luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. About 20 alumnae attended. Miss Mary Elizabeth Ebert of Winchester named secretary. Socials noted for Braddock Street Methodist Young Adult Class at 7 pm at 656 Berryville Avenue. Donations sought for Mrs George Smith via 324.

George Smith Mrs. Smith South Washington Street Braddock Street Antrim Shenandoah Alumnae Association Randloph- Macon Women's College of Lynchburg George Washington Hotel Robert E. Antrim Boyce Shenandoah Valley Mary Elizabeth Ebert Winchester

Teachers Attend Harrisonburg Meet for Educational Problems

About a dozen Frederick County teachers left for Harrisonburg to attend a conference on long range instruction and educational problems. At the Saturday courthouse meeting Supt. Leslie D. Kline announced the budget would include a salary increase funded by greater state aid. R. E. Ayler of Stephens City presided.

Frederick County Harrisonburg Leslie D. Kline R. E. Ayler Stephens City

Get Registration Cards At Once

State officers urged immediate action on mailed automobile registration cards. Those with new purchases should apply now, others should trace or reissue missing cards. The new license deadline expires April 15.

Department of Motor Vehicles

Little Theatre Moves Into New Headquarters

The Winchester Little Theatre leases ground floor at 213 North Cameron Street owned by Thomas Bailey, planning a small stage and one act and experimental plays. A special meeting at the Jolliffe studio set moving plans for April 16 with committees formed for moving scenery, library, decoration and other tasks.

Winchester Little Theatre North Cameron Street Thomas Bailey Grubbs Market Winchester Recreation Ralph Hardy Little Theatre Ian C. MacCallum Jolliffe Betty Riley Irvan O’connell Harry Paul McCoy Ethel Jolliffe Bennett McCarthy Alvin Tavenner Ian MacCallum Tom Baldridge Bruce Alexander Virginia Funkhouser

Bus Boy Turns Playwright With Ambitious Two Scripts

New York writer Georgie Batson once kept a bus boy job on Fourteenth Street and now debuts as a professional playwright. His comedy Treat Her Gent ly stars Ruth Chatterton and opens in Amarillo on Saturday before Broadway next season. His prior work Time On Your Hands was for a WPA exhibit. He teases meeting Chatterton and predicts good reviews or not for Treat Her Gently. Ted Hammarstein has a two week option on Don’t Mind the Rain.

New York Fourteenth Street Automat Georgie Batson Pardon George Donald Batson Ruth Chatterton Amarillo Texas George Miss Chatterton Ted Hammarstein

Orators To Hold Banquet Friday In Front Royal

Twenty three members of Dale Carnegie Class No 2 will hold a banquet at Skyline Terrace restaurant Front Royal Virginia Friday night. The class sponsored by Dan Leatherman recently awarded their diplomas.

Dale Carnegie Skyline Terrace Front Royal Dan Leatherman

Miss Myrtle Keener Returns for Rest in Reliance

RELIANCE March 24 notes Miss Myrtle Keener, recently nursing at Washington DC's Waverly Hospital, has arrived for rest with her sister Mrs. F. L. Derflinger. Other items include Mr. Scott Owens returning to Charlottesville for observation and local health notes on whooping cough and measles affecting the school.

Reliance Myrtle Keener Waverly Hospital Washington, D. C F. L. Derflinger Scott Owens Charlottesville Katie Manuel Cline Middletown C. C. Bowen Thelma Hyde Amelia Ralph Saunders Cecil Hyde William Stickley Rolf Derflinger Stubensville R. R. Stickley Tilden D. N. Grover Willie Branner Elwood Werrick

Spring Fashion Book offers over 100 new fashions

Advertises a sewing pattern and pattern book featuring more than 100 new styles for all sizes from 1 to 52. Includes sports clothes home clothes and dress-up styles with an easy sew chart. Pattern 15c and Pattern Book 15c. Orders to the address in the box.

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Henry Bell Schmitt Leon Bell Richard Venable Charlotte Stickley Soddy Haines Robert Lewis John Chiles Nettie Carbaugh Mary Crisman Katherine van Meter Elizabeth Tillett Sue Pullins Raycelle Flemming Elenor Summel Mariam Watson Sybilla Crisman Alice Kay Lemley Elmodyne Grimm Eugene Chiles Howard Massie Ray Rinker Roy Wisecarver Phil Carbaugh Powell Jolliffe Roy Downey Ralph Woodside Victor Carbaugh Ashley Stouffer Franklin Patton Robert Sowers Maurice Bowen Kenneth Simpson Henry Sowers Clarke W. D. Burter Clarke County Winchester Memorial Hospital Clay B. Carr Near John A. Chew Peter Chew New York City Ellwood Berryville Winifred Largent Mary Washington College Fredericksburg Mrs F. L. Largent Buddy Locke Hugh Crisman Alan Richardson Lewis Hyde Mrs. Richardson Taft Dr. Smith Eleanor Flood Oliver Iselin Middleburg Paul Mellon Red Fox Tavern Edward C. Boyer Shamokin Sarah Breslin Harrisburg James C. Boyer West Clifford Street James Boyer Peggy Ritter Sears, Roebuck and Company Philadelphia Walter Lee Fred Jefferson Baltimore and Ohio Memorial Hospital Chet Hobert Sandusky Ohio Dorothy Larrick Shenandoah College Dayton Emory Larrick H. B. McCormac White Sulphur Springs W. Va Emmett Stuart White Post Edward Williams David H. Allen, Jr Bisma-Rex Brooks’ Pharmacy Libby the Food Center N. Loudoun St For All the Flower Shop Piccadilly St Margaret L. Hodgson Hat & Dress Shop Gladys Carver Millard Canter Lewis Barton Thomas Parlett Falls Church Women's Christian Temperance Union Llewellyn Jackson Morgan Street St. Agnes Guild St. Agnes Guild of Christ Episcopal Church Guild Huntsberry Lucy Monroe Helen Follett HOT Cross Underwood North Cameron Street Florence Bus Boy North Kent St Adler Ie Estate Security the Commercial & Savings Bank Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Pingley & Plaza Cleaners ARPER Haldeman’s Wayside Inn Inten Bates Pifer Company, Inc Loudoun St Barbara Bell Ricrac Winchester Evening Star N. Y
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