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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1933
Page
3
Several clubs from Brooklyn New York Patterson New Jersey and Baltimore Maryland stayed at the Southern Inn and Tea Room during the past week for luncheons. They toured Virginia to view the Apple Blossom Festival and Gardens open for Historic Garden Club Week.
Regular auxiliary meeting of the Robert Y. Conrad Post American Legion at Mrs. Ralph Snapp home on Fairmont avenue. Lions Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Young people chorus practice at First Baptist Church. Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel. United Brethren Church and First Baptist adult choirs practice. Winchester Lodge Elks meet. Grace Lutheran adult choir practice. Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Jewish Woman's Club meeting at George Washington Hotel. Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church youth choir weekly practice and meeting.
In Peninsula Methodist Protestant Church at 11 am Miss Sallie S McDonald and Mr Ira S Cordrey married by Rev W P Roberts with Ferns and spring flowers. Bride given by her father attended by Miss Elizabeth E Mast. best man James H Jacobs. They plan to live in Carlton Hall Apartments and work in Wilmington firms E I du Pont and Atlantic Refining.
Mrs. Marshall Willis hosted her grandsons John T and Marshall Roddey from Rock Hill South Carolina during the festival holidays last week. John T has returned from a postgraduate course at the University of Berlin and was met in New York by his brother who works for a banking institution in Rock Hill.
A busy social calendar note lists several meetings including the Ladies National Memorial Association at 8 p.m. on South Cameron Street to discuss National Decoration Day plans. Also shows upcoming gatherings of the Gen Turner Ashby Chapter UDC and Century Club with venue details and hostess names.
The article details after bloom spray timings for apples pears peaches plums cherries and grapes. It explains disease and insect controls using lime sulfur Bordeaux mixture arsenate of lead and additives, with rates and precautions for spray strength and timing.
Jolson headlines the Palace in Hallelujah I am a Bum first rhythmic dialogue film with Madge Evans and Harry Langdon. The program includes the Apple Blossom Festival film record shot by Paramount News and local photographers. Palace announces six Fox pictures two Radio films and three United Artists titles coming soon.
Mrs Evelyn M Southard 27 wife of Clarence W Southard formerly of Frederick and Winchester died last Wednesday morning at Seat Pleasant Maryland from bronchial pneumonia and heart trouble after a week long illness Funeral was held Friday at the home with a Baptist church minister and Cedar Hill Cemetery Washington she left husband her parents C E Pedigo and two sisters Verna Salemme and Agnes Gribble She was raised by C R Hodgson in Frederick County and survived by relatives in Washington and Riverton Va
Kenneth Buck and his brother Cyril, both of Harwichport, are jailed in Barnstable awaiting arraignment on kidnapping and extortion in the Margaret Peggy McMath case. Prosecutors plan a special grand jury session and vow full prosecution.
Kenneth broke down as he gave a detailed crime account and agreed to reenact it for authorities, with Cyril confined in a cell nearby. Sheriff Crocker noted they slept well. Kenneth asked about his wife and the jailed brothers await Judge Robert A. Welch's appearance in court.
Gaston B. Means and Norman T. Whitaker known as the fox go on trial in Washington DC for conspiracy tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping case. They allegedly sought 35000 dollars from Evalyn Walsh McLean after Means swindled her out of 104000 dollars.
Washington and New York dispatches describe a conservative Republican faction led by Reed Mills Mellon Snell challenging Hooverite control and planning to back James W. Wadsworth. The piece notes split in Republican ranks, looming confrontation over debt moratorium, and efforts to purge by annual corporate reports on Wall Street.
A foreclosure suit targets the Sherry Netherland hotel on Fifth Avenue noting its opulent features and high priced suites from 20 000 to 30 000 dollars a year. TheOnce glamorous property opened Nov 1 1927 and has struggled since.
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