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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
3
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Springfield Massachusetts plans unification of the two main Methodist bodies. A call for a special session of the Southern Church is expected today or tomorrow.
Misses Isabelle and Sally Cameron daughters of Mr and Mrs Bere Cameron of North Carolina attended the Brockers Carter wedding in Richmond on April 30. Miss Elizabeth Palmer of Richmond arrived in Clarke County last evening and will visit Mrs Hugh M Nelson at Long Branch for several days before proceeding to Baltimore on Monday.
Mass conference session debated admitting women to pastoral roles. A committee urged restricting women to local pastorates for now. A delegate asked if women were being pushed into a blind alley as the session adjourned until tomorrow.
Mrs Dabtee Nelte of Cingehon and A E Davis manager of the Peo Company underwent an operation for illness yesterday in Memorial Was. She rested comfortably this afternoon and reacted satisfactorily to the anesthetic. The operation appears to have been highly successful.
Miss Rosenberger travels to New York City area and parts of New Jersey for an extended visit. She plans to stay partly with her brother, a student at Columbia University’s Pulitzer School of Journalism.
Mother's day services will be held at 7 30 p m on Sunday May 2 at Opequon Chapel. The Sunday school superintendent leads a special program for the occasion and the public is cordially invited to attend.
An old classified style prompt urges readers to ask their dealer for Valley Belle Bread with a cryptic code 4-23-1p-11, suggesting a product or promotion alignment in a newspaper ad fragment.
Diving champion Aibers Riggin celebrated her eighteenth birthday with a Long Beach Long Island pool party. She invited fellow swimming and diving champions for impromptu races and exhibitions after cake cutting, with Lillian Stodard Helen Wainwright and V Whitenak present in the photograph.
Berryville Virginia stages a May 8 convention at the courthouse to nominate candidates for mayor, recorder, treasurer and four council seats. Election is set for the second Tuesday in June amid civic notices and club activities.
A young couple applied for a marriage license from Clerk C. Brannon but assumed Winchester was the only license office. They learned licenses are issued in Berryville and, after an argument, returned home near Boyce to defer the ceremony until Saturday, last seen on Main Street with their belongings.
The Board of Supervisors voted to purchase an air compressor drill for 1031.71 and three light road graders at 180 each, totaling the road equipment upgrade.
The Senate debates a conference report on immigration policy with sharp partisan attacks. Senator Robinson leads Democrats against postponing Japanese exclusion, joined by Senators Borth of Idaho and Johnson of California as Republicans challenge the Coolidge era gentlemen's agreement concept and domestic control of immigration.
New York on May 8 reports indicate weakness in the foreign exchange market and another rise in crude oil products by the American Petroleum Institute. Morning selling in stocks was modest with oils the hardest hit. Call money opened at 3.12 percent and total sales ran about 600000 shares.
The resolution by Senator Lodge proposes establishing a world court at The Hague to which the United States would adhere. It requests the calling of a third Hague conference and outlines the court’s compulsory jurisdiction over legal disputes interpretations of treaties and issues of indemnity.
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