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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1941
Page
6
The Warrenton Gold Cup races drew many locals and festival guests to an eventful afternoon. Guests included Miss Mollie Lee, Mrs. Robert C. Lee, several Byrd and McCormac family members, and visitors from New York and Richmond. Births, recitals, dance events, and weekend visitors populate the social page with dinners, greetings, and plans around Apple Blossom festivities.
The Loyal Temperance Legion invites children aged 6 to 15 to a Monday afternoon rally at 3 30 at Braddock Street Church led by Mrs. Bly. The American Legion Auxiliary holds its regular meeting Monday at 1 30 at Mrs. J C Horns home 107 North Avenue. Winchester Memorial Hospital opens May 5 in the nurses home at 4 o'clock. Visitors include Mrs B Brooke Smith Grant J Smith and D M Manning of Richmond who dined with the Kings in Brunswick.
The Presbyterian Church youth group will host a social Tuesday night at 8 o clock to announce the attendance contest.
Questions and answers on proper conduct in public spaces. A man hosting a party should enter first with tickets for all guests and step aside to let others in, women first. A borrowed book should be kept no longer than two weeks. Boisterous laughter and a high pitched voice are vulgar. a well bred person keeps a low modulated voice at all times.
Dr I C Riggin argues heart disease, like infectious illnesses, deserves prominence in public health. Functional and organic forms arise from infections and lifestyle. prevention depends on periodic exams and adult and parental cooperation.
A nostalgic editorial urges women to embrace outdoor activity over passive habits. It extols walking and swimming for fitness, notes archery and rowing as toning exercises, and criticizes dependence on cars. Emphasizes earlier era values and gendered health routines.
St Pauls Sunday School 10am Service 11am sermon From Sorrow To Joy Luther League 8pm Trinity Sunday School 9 45am Luther League 7pm Vespers 8pm sermon Where Man Came From Prayer Service Thursday 8pm
Americans join Bundles for Britain in 900 U S branches to support British Volunteer Hospitals bombed during the war. Collections on streets fund London and provincial hospitals, with Queen Elizabeth urging aid and banks drugstores acting as collection points and names of local organizers listed for contributions by check.
The third selective service call for May brings 1,210 Maryland men to Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory for induction into the Army between May 21 and May 29. Officials said the requisition is for 1,010 white men and 200 negroes, part of a May total of 2,715 for Army training and 9,934 since the program began.
A man identified as Chan Chong is struck at a Chicago street corner when two autos collide. One car is thrown onto the curb and propels Chong onto its bumper then through a drug store window. The vehicle hits a soda fountain, pins two clerks against a wall, and injures them.
The Navy announces a 43366 dollar contract to Baltimore branch of National Lead Company for wire and bar tin lead solder with delivery date unspecified. The War Department also awards a 6971 dollar lumber contract to Baltimore Lumber Company in Baltimore Maryland.
Gertrude Saeholtze-Klink became Reichsfrauenfuhrerin in 1934 and was charged with shaping German women into fit and productive mates for Nazi men.
Ridgeway Circuit Methodist Church announces services at Arden Darkesville Gerrardstown Paynes Payne s Chapel Rest and Epworth League times. Paynes Chapel hosts a covered dish supper at the parsonage on May 9 at 6 30 to complete the organization of the Society of Christian Service.
The annual state wide Central Police Recruit School will start June 16 at the University of Richmond and run two weeks. Harold I. Baumes announces the event sponsored by the State Division of Trade and Industrial Education and police associations. Sessions are open to officers who have taken the oath, with emphasis on defense training and routine duties.
Cross Junction Virginia notes show Mr and Mrs Arthur Baugh and other Washington visitors at Braithwaite and Luttrell homes. Cumberland Maryland and Martinsburg West Virginia guests stop by, with several improved health reports and attendance at Phi Chi Sorority dance at Shepherd College.
Millwood Virginia May 3 At a club meeting Millwood Country Club elected officers and announced afternoon openings starting May 15 with formal opening May 31. Board of directors include George P Greenhalgh president Capt Ewart Johnston vice president Kenneth N Gilpin secretary Benjamin Harrison treasurer and a slate of Mrs George H Burwell Mrs George P Greenhalgh Mrs Kenneth N Gilpin Miss Mary Page A A Baldwin Henry and Roland Mitchell and Hugh L Willoughby. Golf committee named Miss Mary Page Henry Post Mitchell co chair, Mrs A A Baldwin and Mrs Stacy Lloyd.
It is estimated there are not less than 10 000 mineral springs with about 1000 producing waters in commercial quantities.
The report lists juniors and committees led by Greenhalgh Hewitt Dougherty Meade and Johnston with Donovan Mitchell and Gilpin on pool and Burwell on house. It notes gatherings at Bellfield Rosney Minturn Tuyleries Tong Branch and visits by guests including the Pierces and the Nilsons.
Mr Samuel Froelick visited his brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs James Hubbard then left Thursday for Pensacola Florida. Mrs Howard Bunch left Wednesday for Washington DC for a few days before returning to Long Branch. Mrs Graham Dougherty hosted weekend guest Graham Dougherty Jr of Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania and then left Thursday for Gibson's Island Maryland. Mr and Mrs James Hubbard will host weekend guests Dr and Mrs Cristin Cooke of New York.
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