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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal News for this department may be mailed cee social reporter, Mre Miller, with gad weer naws by telephone between 3 at p m1. for owing day, "Phone No. 33.
The Kenmore Association prepares a Wednesday evening service led by Rev Henry St George Tucker bishop of Virginia with Mrs Harris Childs addressing. The Kenmore mansion once owned by George Washingtons sister was bought and restored by the association with Fielding Lewis funding the earlier work.
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club will visit Baltimore on May 7 with tours of two Roland Park gardens. They will luncheon at Mount Vernon Club and tea at the Baltimore Country Club with Blue Ridge Summit Garden Club.
The Rev. R. L. Williamson and Mrs. Williamson spend the week in Raleigh North Carolina for the annual Southern Christian Convention meeting and expect to return home next week.
The Star reminds residents in the First Virginia Census District that those not yet counted should sign and mail the free census coupon with the envelope marked Official Census Business. Enumeration continues in Winchester and surrounding areas including Handley High and Memorial Hospital sections, with officials stressing no one will be missed if they participate.
Mrs. Beverley formerly Miss Elizabeth Amiss Palmer of this city arrived to spend a short time with her mother Mrs. Ed win A. Palmer at 410 West Franklin street. She was among Mr and Mrs Robert Daniel's guests in their box for the performance of Aida. Church Classes Entertained At Typical Home
Mr and Mrs W D Nau of Littlestown Pennsylvania visited during the Apple Blossom Festival hosted by Mrs Walter Capper and daughter Mrs May Carper. Nau, a former Winchester resident, had not returned in twenty years and was impressed by the city’s growth and the festival.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Green came home by car from Williamsburg Virginia where they attended a Thursday tea honoring Mrs Woodrow Wilson and Garden Club of Virginia members staged by Mr Arthur Shurtleff of Boston the restoration chief for John D Rockefeller Jr. Apple Festival Princess III of Pleurisy Miss Winifred Ward travels to Romney West Virginia due to her sister Miss O Nile Ward’s pleurisy illness.
Mrs Alexander W Kinney wife of a prominent local engineer is in Memorial Hospital for treatment. She is daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Bentley Kern and plans to join her husband in Russia this summer. Also noted are Master Robert Mue Jt son of Dr and Mrs R M Glass at Memorial Hospital and Mrs Lee Miller Eva Stein who returned home after hospital stays during the Apple Blossom Festival.
New York trading opened with heavy selling and a weak close as the market responds to a federal reserve rate cut and Hoover’s upbeat industrial readjustment report. Total volume neared 4.8 million shares with call money at 3?4 percent. Social and local society notes follow, detailing visits and arrivals around Baltimore and Philadelphia, with family news and a funeral of public interest.
The Senate interstate commerce committee split six to six on the revised Couzens plan to bar railroad consolidations deemed anti trust violations. The panel authorized Couzens to report to the Senate after a six member poll, with two absent and two others mixed on provisions. The measure would pause ICC authorization of consolidations until March 4, 1931.
National Guardsmen at an Ohio penitentiary thwarted an attempt to burn tents in the stockade housing 600 convicts. A fire damaged a tent and was extinguished. An inspection by Col. Robert S. Haubrich revealed extensive prison damage including 800 cell blocks needing replacement or repair and multiple tunnels and holes indicating escape effort.
From the office of the Virginia Council of Religious Education Bridgewater: Russell Colgate of New York City and Dr Hugh S Magill of Chicago will attend the State Sunday School Convention in Richmond May 14 16 1930. Colgate presides over Colgate Palm Olive and International Council of Religious Education activities. Magill elected for a third term as General Secretary of the International Council of Religious Education.
Washington May 2 government sources say the enforcement body asks for a larger appropriation to fund the commission's operations. The request aims to cover staffing, investigations, and compliance activities amid ongoing regulatory duties.
Regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co is set for Friday at 2 p.m. May 2. Final arrangements for the carnival will be made along with other business of importance.
Rouss Fire Company schedules regular meeting Friday night May 2. All members requested to be present. Uniforms to tee turned hot later than May 3. Lee M. Lamp, president.
President Hoover told business leaders at the 18th annual Chamber of Commerce convention that the stock market crisis worst is over and recovery lies ahead. He outlined plans to reduce speculative fluctuation and to study past booms and slumps to propose preventive and remedial measures for steady business conditions.
Willis A. Sutton, superintendent of Atlanta public schools, will deliver the address at the Harris onburg State Teachers College 21st commencement on Tuesday June 10 announced by President E P Duke Dr Beverley D ckers will preach the sermon on Sunday June 8 The 1930 program lists alumnae events June 7 8 9 and final exercises June 10 with tennis swimming class day faculty reception and a graduating class play
Chicago May 1 Prices for the May wheat contract slipped to a year low as delivery began. May futures closed at 1.01 3 8 and a mid season low of 1.00 3 4, with a 5 8 cent drop from yesterday amid a regulatory change easing delivery from elevators to carload tracks. About 9 million bushels were in private warehouses, adding to Chicago warehouses, potentially increasing movement to satisfy futures delivery this month.
Washington May 1 The Chamber of Commerce urges amending the Agricultural Marketing Act to strip the Federal Farm Board of its main powers while keeping only information dissemination The measure faced little debate at the 18th annual meeting.
Rev. Dr. Louis Tucker announces the annual Order of the King's Daughters and Sons service will be held at Grace Episcopal Church. Social notes cover house guests, Historic Garden Week tours of Berryville estates, Apple Blossom Festival visitors, and plans for Grace Church mission auxiliary meetings.
The original 1861 Declaration of Independence of the seceding states, unseen since 1904, was found in a Spartanburg bank vault. Found among the papers of the late Rev. Thomas H. Laws, it had been missing from the Southern Presbyterian Church archives for over 25 years and was disclosed by R. E. Magill.
A preserved declaration from 93 ministers and elders affirming separation of church and state was unearthed in Spartanburg. The paper, placed in a metal cylinder by Rev Joseph R Wilson, traces back to Woodrow Wilson’s era and was drafted in Augusta Georgia by Dr Jane Woodrow, pastor in Columbia.
On December 4, 1861, Dr. B. M. Palmer pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orleans served as moderator for a church document signing. Other details in the fragment reference state clerical and ceremonial roles in the context of the era.
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