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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1938

Page

8

Community Meetings Schedule for Bunker and Nearby Towns

The notice lists upcoming meetings: Woman's Missionary Society at Mrs. Elmer Swartz's home in Bunker. Maddison Lodge I O O F on East Boscawen Street. Episcopal Church Auxiliary all guilds meeting. Business Woman's Circle of Presbyterian Auxiliary in the church annex. Circle No. 1 Braddock Street Church with Mrs. W S Clark as hostess.

Woman's Missionary Society of Rest M. Hes Elmer Swartz Bunker , We'Va The Maddison Lodge, I. O. O. F Hall East Boscawen Street Circle No. 1 Braddock Street Church W. S. Clark Amherst Street Ee Society Inter Hill W. Va Woman's Mission- Society of Rest M. BE Gates Baltimore Missionary Society of the Womans Auxiliary Christ Episcopal Church St. Hildas Ralph Snapp Fairmont Avenue St. Catherines Carrie Hunter South Washington Street St. Agnes Tilman Shumate North Braddock Street St. Cecelia Walter Talbot St. Marys Clarke. Cooper St. Elizabeth R. B. Nelson St. Joan Paul Rhodes

Notable Cartoonist Slifford K Berryman To Speak

Slifford K Berryman renowned American cartoonist and longtime Evening Star art staffer will address the Pitts Clarco Theat Berryville club at 3 PM Thursday May 12. He is a former Gridiron Club president noted for clean humor in portraits of national figures.

Mble Slifford K. Berryman Pep Star Pitts-Clarco Gridiron Club

Norton Family Visits Winchester For Weekend

Mr and Mrs Vernon S Norton and son from Mount Vernon New York arrive in Winchester to stay with Mr and Mrs Peachy Hockman on South Washington Street. Miss Mollie Gallagher of Naugatuck Connecticut accompanies them. Norton attended Handley and works with the Standards in Mount Vernon.

Vernon Norton Vernon Norton Mount Vernon N. Y Winchester Aterday Peachy Hockman South Washington Street Handley Hockman Nortons Miss Gallagher Yorks Garland Canter James Madden Juanita Riley C. E. McCormack

Winchester Guests Attend Warrenton Gold Cup Races

Winchest er residents travel to Warrenton Virginia for the annual Gold Cup races on Broadview course with notable Virginia figures and many social events. A bus trip back to Winchester is planned for some attendees. Also notes a May 28 spring recital by the Ewing School of Dance Art at Handley High School and a visit by Mrs. Mary Lewis to her daughter’s home after two weeks in Hagerstown.

Warrenton Winchester Broadview Virginia Burr P. Harrison James Cordon Fred A. Read, Jr Jane Bickers Georgia Conrad Taylor Pierce Walter Bosserman, Jr H. R. Kern, Jr C. Ridgely White Virginia Boyd Virginia Steck Margaret Dortch Mary Bowles Helen Glass Anne Eléy Virginia Bean Joe Johannes Bill Johannes H. K. Benham Nancy Bowly Anne B. Kern Roy Ryden H. B. McCormac J. P. Arthur Ian MacCallum Clarence LeFrois Virginia Russell Anne Kerr Russell Gilbert McKown William Harris Phyliss Meem Guest Mary Thompson Baltimore Dan Henry George H. Morris, Jr Billy, Clagett Clarke County Ewing Dance School Ewing School of Dance Art Handley High School Mary Lewis E. B. Lewis Hagerstown William Trigg

Modern Etiquette Q&A Highlights From Roberta Lee

The column answers guest disturbance etiquette at hotels noting loud behavior is ill-bred and complaints may be justified late at night. It advises seating the bridegroom's mother to the left of the bride's father at the wedding breakfast and cites the simplest introduction as "Mr Crane, Mr Perry."

Winchester Civic League Holds Friday Business Meeting

The Winchester Woman's Civic League held a Friday business session at the Home Service rooms of Northern Virginia Power Co on North Loudoun street. President Mrs. Alvin B. Pennypacker led the meeting as luncheon committee praised Miss Margaret L. Flickinger and the power company. Secretary Mrs. Martin Wisecarver was to send a thank you letter to Mr. Wilbur M. Krise, manager of the electric company.

Woman’s Civic League Winchester Woman's Civic League Northern Virginia Power Co North Loudoun Street Alvin 8. Pennypacker E. G. Rusk Earl Parsons Harry Schmidt Margaret L. Flickinger Miss Flickinger The Power Company Martin Wisecarver Wilbur M. Krise Electric Company

Luncheon in Delaplane for Misses Russell and guests

Mr and Mrs Alvin Baird hosted a luncheon at Oak Hill near Delaplane Va for Miss Virginia Cover Russell and Miss Anne Kerr Russell of the city. Afterward the party drove to Broadview for Warrenton Gold Cup races held that afternoon with escorts Mr Gilbert McKown of Martinsburg and Mr William Harrisamong attendees.

Delaplane Misses Russell Alvin Baird Marie Baird Oak Hill Virginia Cover Russell Anne Kerr Russell H. K. Russell South Stewart Street Miss Baird Gilbert McKown Martinsburg William Harris Broadview Warrenton

Robert Pages Of Ardmore Pa To Visit In Clarke This Week

MILLWOOD VA May 7 Mr and Mrs Robert P Page of Ardmore Pa arrived Friday to be weekend guests of Mrs Pages Misses Mary and Agnes age Dinner guests of Mrs F A Read at her Clarke home Wednesday night George Greenhalgh Jr visiting parents Springsbury Richmond trips for church convocation Rev Robert Goodwin to preach at Christ Church Millwood Sunday May 8 11 am Others planned visits include Miss Anne Meade at Charlottesville for the State Track Meet with Miss Virginia Bean and Mrs Read hosting guests Mrs Mollie Dole and daughter Margaret to return from New York City later this week Virginia Sem Pae Dean Wal Rollins to preach at Christ Church Millwood May 8 11 am

Miss McCarty Geraldine McCarty Clinton McCarty Sunnyside McCarty Freda Smoot Martha Braithwaite Pearl Carper Virginia Baughman Evelyn Braithwaite Gale Getz Caroline Lewis Mary Janice Fletcher Louise McDonald Josephine McDonald Betty Pugh Betty Lou Havermale Betty Lauck Holmes Carper Bobbie Carper Junior Smoot Eddie Baughman Doyle Getz John Fletcher Charles Lauck Donald Anderson Donald Patton Buddy McCarty Millwood Robert P. Page Ardmore Page Mary Agnes Age Henry P. Mitchell Benjamin Harrison Harry Byrd F. A. Read Clarke George Greenhalgh, Jr Cleveland, O George Greenhalgh Anne Meade Charlottesville Virginia Bean Robert Goodwin Richmond George Thompson Mrs. Thompson Mr. Thompson Richard E. Dole Margaret Dole New York City Ane Virginia Semaipaes Andr. Ars Wal E. Rollins D. D Christ Church Phil Meade Benjamin Randolph Beverly Randolph Tom Meade Charles Consolvo Baltimore

Miss Marie Baird Hosts Luncheon Before Warrenton Races

Miss Marie Baird daughter of Mr and Mrs Alvin Baird will entertain at a luncheon at Oak Hill their Delaplane home for the younger set before the Warrenton Gold Cup races on Saturday Clarke attendees include Miss Mary Dougherty Louis Meade Roland Mitchell and Graham Dougherty Jr Mr and Mrs Bell who had stayed with Mrs Bell s sister and brother in law at Woodley have returned to Philadelphia

Graham Dougherty Mary Dougherty Philadelphia Francis Dougherty Woodley Mrs. Bell Clarke Marie Baird Alvin Baird Oak Hill Delaplane Louis Meade Roland Mitchell Graham Dougherty, Jr Mrs. Graham Dougherty

Market quotations and livestock prices in Baltimore Chicago and Philadelphia

Market notes show unchanged apples and sweet potatoes in Baltimore with mixed grain and poultry prices. Livestock in Baltimore and Chicago range from lower cattle and hog prices to steady to weak calves and lambs, with hogs down and cows weak. Philadelphia poultry and eggs listed with unchanged flour and butter.

Baltimore U. S Alabama Louisiana Baltimore Livestock U.S. Dept Philadelphia

Business Women's Circle to Meet Monday Night

The Business Women's Circle of the Presbyterian Church meets Monday at 7 45 in the church annex with plans for a birthday pageant and the auxiliary group. The Circle hosts the program and will act as hostesses. The birthday meeting is set for Monday May 16. Mr and Mrs C R Coile have returned from Honolulu to visit Capt and Mrs D M Sprinkle on National Avenue.

Business Woman’s Circle The Presbyterian Church Church Annex C. R. Coile Honolulu D. M. Sprinkle National Avenue

Market shifts favor aircrafts as utilities retreat

New York May 7 trading forces moved toward aviation with hopes of foreign plane orders boosting the sector. The aviation group rose fractions to a point or more while utilities gave back earlier gains as investors cashed profits on a recently climbing tape.

New York Aviation Group

Financial stock roundup with late counts and notices

The column lists quotations for General Electric General Motors Goodyear 1938 Int Har J Manville Kennecott M Ward Natl Dairy N C Packard Penney Penn R R Republic Steel Southern R O of N J Texas Corp U S Steel Va Car Pfd Western Union Woolworth with various fractions. It notes speculative contingents awaiting Washington assurances about the hatch being buried.

Genl Elec Genl. Motors Goodyear Int. Har J. Manville Kennecott O. of N. J Texas Corp U. S. Steel Car. Pfd Western Union Woolworth

Grain futures rise on frost fears in southern belt

Frost and freezing predicted in parts of the southwestern winter wheat belt helped lift wheat prices by about two cents a bushel in early trading. The market peaked early and then fluctuated, ending with varied closes across May July and Sept contracts for wheat corn oats soybeans rye and related grain products.

Philadelphia Chicago Cash Grain Chicago Baltimore Grain Baltimore Winchester Grain Market

Public sale of D C Orndorff property in Frederick County

Public auction at 11 o clock A M on May 14 1938 in Winchester Virginia to sell two parcels of land totaling 88 acres the first 64 acres in Back Creek district the second 24 acres adjoining the first in Frederick County with terms one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance policy Dunn Duvall Austioneers advertise this public notice of sale due to debt default on a July 27 1931 deed of trust held by the Orndorff heirs.

D. C County Court House Winchester Virginia Back Creek Frederick County Star Tannery D. C. Orndorff Ananias Orndorff Eliza Jane Orndorff Circuit Court Hester Himelright

Two Young Men Enlist With Local Army Recruiters

Two youths Graf ton E. Alexander of Berryville and Curtis C. Chambers of Orlean in Fauquier County joined the colors as enlistments resumed. They were assigned to the State and sent to an unspecified destination. The office invites eligible residents to apply at the Winchester Army Recruiting Station, with in person or written submissions welcomed.

Grafton E. Alexander Berryville Curtis C. Chambers Orlean Auquier County Ash Army Ting Winchester

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