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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1941
Page
8
Tuesday 7:00 p m Young Adult Class at Claude Smalls Jr home. 8:00 p m Rebekah Association weekly at Odd Fellows Hall. Wednesday 12:30 p m Kiwanis Club luncheon at hotel. 2:00 p m Junior Century Club meeting at Red Cross rooms.
Harold and Ray Barrett, four year Navy veterans, have accepted positions at a Sacramento airplane factory and will keep their home on the West Coast. They received Navy department medals for obedience zeal and fidelity. Harold spent a month with his parents in 1949. the other brother hasn’t been home since July 1939. Both are Handley graduates.
Richard Venable of Stephens City prepares to depart for a year at Fort George Meade after a farewell party Saturday night at Skyline Terrace. Guests included Charlotte Stickley, Nettie Carbaugh, Mary Crisman, Catherine Van Meter, Elizabeth Jett, Sue Pullins, and many others from the community. Also noted is the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Rogers of Highland Avenue at Memorial Hospital.
Kemper Richards’ daughter born at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Carper and Sgt George Guthridge Jr wed in Washington at the Fariry Episcopal Church with reception on Wilson Blvd. Gertrude Reynolds to wed Gilbert C. McKown in Berryville. Luther Shutts hosts dinner with neighbors and friends. Guthridge stationed at Camp Lee VA after promotion.
Last night Mr and Mrs Ira Eaton announced the marriage of their daughter Theo Snow to Frank Otis Kerns son of Mr and Mrs Earl Kerns of Bloomery West Virginia. The wedding occurred in Gainesboro last Saturday officiated by Rev C B Larrick. The bride attended Capon Bridge high school and the couple live with the groom's parents.
The piece answers etiquette questions about dancing conversation during a dance being optional and not required. It states you may talk if you wish and that answering a phone call should identify you or the person asked for, with advice against blocking aisles or sidewalks.
Star Tannery High School hosted a large old time square dance Friday to raise funds for the school. About 50 attendees enjoyed contests with prizes. local participants included Nina Glenn Anderson Louise Line and Margaret Brill among others. An April 18 dance is planned and invites are extended.
The Girl Scouts of Winchester organize a father daughter dinner for Monday March 31 at the George Washington Hotel. Reservations due by March 26 via Mrs. Eugene Cooper at 927. Round Hill 4-H Club met with most members present to discuss raising funds for the treasury.
The passage urges women to stay modern without copying others. It contrasts standardized menswear with selective feminine styling, advocating lighter nail polish, natural lips, understated hats, and distinctive touches to look ladylike and important. It also recommends hand care including creams and cuticle care.
Representatives of Parent-Teachers Associations from Shenandoah District convene at Edinburg High School for the Cooperative Education Association Virginia branch with theme Education for National Security. Registration begins 9:30 AM and events run through 2:30 PM featuring addresses by Clarence Spain and Rev. Lynn C. Dickerson, luncheon, reports, and officer elections.
Dr BE L Fox of Ashland will deliver the closing address at the Shenandoah District P T A competition. He is a professor of History at Randolph Macon College and a president of the Capitulation Association. The event serves Clarke Frederick Oshannock Warren Page Rockingham counties and Winchester Harrisburg. The program starts at 2 50 o clock.
Deputy Sheriff Rome Wigginton has been hospitalized at Memorial for several weeks with no improvement. He remains in a coma or near coma as doctors report ongoing complications from his condition.
Shockeysville Methodist Church schedules a special service for Friday evening at 6 o'clock March 28. The time was moved from 7 o'clock due to concurrent services at Ganetown.
Mrs Tazewell Ellet returns to Richmond from Berryville after visiting friends including Mrs Wrenon and Mrs Lewis. Miss Anne Cabell Williams resigns from Washington Public Library and will marry Rev Ernest H Williams of Grace Episcopal Berryville on April 30. Rev E H Williams also to serve Colfax and Pullman parishes after rectorate at Grace.
Williams, selected by the Junior Board of Trade, will serve as chaplain at Washington State University in Pullman. He was recognized as an outstanding citizen for aiding teens during 1940 at the board’s January annual meeting.
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