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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1930
Page
3
Social and Personal notes report limited details of events and announcements. Mrs Isabelle B Miller will receive messages by telephone between 3 and 4. A fee is noted for the growing turn phone number 33.
Judge Williams will speak at the Woodstock tablet unveiling. The inscription recalls Rev. Peter Muhlenberg’s Revolutionary act and Shenandoah county clerks linked to John Marshall. Dr. John W. Wayland led the effort with local officials organizing the ceremony.
A community supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Fries near White Hall raised funds for the Old Stone Church and its graveyard restoration. The event featured fried spring chicken and country-cured ham, supporting a church over 140 years old that was rebuilt after a fire.
The new imported Deauville Sandals are handwoven from soft leathers and offered with molded or regular soles. They come in narrow American lasts, with widths from AAA to C and include Cuban or high heel options. See the broad selection stamped with the Deauville mark.
A large Baltimore contingent expresses interest in restoring Kenmore in Virginia. A committee of prominent Baltimore women is formed with Mrs. Tun Stall Smith as regent, Mrs. Charles Ellet Rieman as secretary, and Miss Elizabeth Chew Williams as treasurer. Mrs. Robert Y. Conrad of Winchester serves on the junior committee supporting the project.
Shenandoah Garden Club of Woodstock Va announces its annual flower show to be held in the County Court House on Friday and Saturday May 23 and 24. The event opens at 4 PM Friday and runs until 10 PM Saturday with public viewing welcomed.
Virginia pharmacy officials led by Mr. 8 C Brooks and Mr. Littlejohn of Leesburg travel to Washington for the national conference revising the United States Pharmacopoeia, updated every decade under federal act.
Professor Charles Evelyn Buckner of Leesburg Virginia was invited to address the Society at College on June 18. He is a graduate of the college and son of the late Colonel Jesse A Buckner owner of the Bolingbrooke estate, brother of Clinton C Buckner, and nephew of former Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner. Buckner has not yet accepted the invitation.
The five charming Misses Copen haver Miller Sullivan McQuay and Fugitt will dine with the Winchester Lions Club at 7 pm at the Red Robin Tea Room on North Loudoun Street. Committee members Roye Riley and Leonard Sirbaugh organized the event.
In Rangoon Burma a girl flyer mistook Insein playing fields for a race course and attempted a landing. Her plane landed safely but taxied into a ditch. Miss Johnson said she would try to fly again tomorrow if possible.
Apple broker Major 8. Porter House returned from Washington after spending Mother’s Day with his mother Mrs C C house who is 92 and recently confined to her room. Mrs House was a former member of the Bt family of this city. Guests at Greenwood last Sunday included Warren Garrett and family of Martinsburg West Virginia along with the Carper family of Boyce and E C Cooper. Mrs Charles J Athey visited Washington to see her daughter Mrs William B Sinnott who is recovering from grippe. Aubrey G Weaver of the Warren county bar Front Royal spent the day on professional business in town.
In-One Magazine highlights Winchester and Shenandoah Valley with a favorable feature supplied by the Winchester Chamber of Commerce. The piece praises the city as the queen of the valley, notes apple industry scale, the Shenandoah blossom festival, and includes photos of Handley High School, National Fruit Products, Luray Caverns and more.
West Point cadet Christian Keener Cagle resigned after presenting proof of marriage. Army officials confirmed reports that the football captain violated West Point rules by marrying nearly two years earlier.
Richmond Virginia May 13 police indicated an arrest would be made soon in the slaying of Harry Rohm 45 a Richmond leather merchant found shot to death in his home shortly before midnight Investigators said it was a murder case detectives were checking family statements and a neighbor described a stranger who called at the Cotrell home seeking Rohm before the body was found
Typewritten notices warning Sherman’s Black residents to evacuate within 24 hours were found attached to several houses in outlying Black sections by National Guardsmen in Sherman Texas on May 13.
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