Virginians Deliver Excellent Music in Valley Farewell
Social and Personal Virginians perform in the valley for the last time, delivering exceptionally refined music amid a warm reception and nostalgic mood.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1931
Page
3
Social and Personal Virginians perform in the valley for the last time, delivering exceptionally refined music amid a warm reception and nostalgic mood.
A sequence of scheduled gatherings includes a Sunday Christian Endeavor meeting at Centenary Reformed Church at 3 PM. Monday hosts McKinley Chapter Eastern Star and a Nurses' commencement at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Lions Club lunch at George Washington Hotel on Tuesday at 12 30 PM. Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel on Wednesday at 12 45 PM. Rotary luncheon on Thursday at 1 PM. American Legion luncheon at George Washington Hotel on Friday at 12 30 PM.
Century Club meeting at Mrs Harry Russell's home May 19 featured a musical program arranged by Mrs Russell with Mrs Bryan Conrad giving a Scandinavian music talk. The program included Grieg numbers, dances, and performances by Mrs W Nelson Page Mrs F L Buckley Miss Evva Stouffer and Miss Georgia Conrad. The Riverside Tea Room dance near Edinburgh drew attendees Miss Helen Buckley and Mr Harold Sheetz among others.
Miss Grace Heatwole wed Mr. Davis Ommert in Harrisburg with family and clergy present. The bride, a Winchester native educated at Handley and Columbia Business College, and the groom, a Lemasters native, will reside in Lemasters. Virginia track and golf letters awarded with Luc Jones and Aldrich Dudley noted. Miss Eleanor McCartney headlined spring events at Handley. Additionally, new marriage license issued to James Frye and Hester Scherer. Social teas and bridge events featured with local guests and decorations.
Handley High School alumni plan a luncheon June 12 from 12 to 1 30 in the school cafeteria with a small charge for meals. Alumni Day also includes a dance at Rouss Hall with Red Bailey and His Collegians. The organizing committee lists several local residents and graduates.
Mrs. James Anderson, improved after major surgery at Memorial Hospital in New Castle Pennsylvania, is mentioned among local health updates. A parade of relatives and friends travel between Edinburg Maryland, Charles Town West Virginia, Hagerstown Maryland, and Shenandoah area to visit family, attend weddings, or spend weekends at cottages and homes, including Mr. and Mrs. E W Cather, Mr. and Mrs. Layton Stockdale, and Miss Sarah Stanley Edwards.
The Army of the Air postpones its New York defense air show three hours due to drizzling rain and thunder storms. Five hundred seventy two planes on Long Island bases will now depart at 3 30 p m EST. Weather hampers the event but planes remain undamaged. Thousands head to Fairchild Mitchel Roosevelt and Curtiss fields in anticipation.
Prices from W B Hibbs & Company show Wheat May 86 should be 86 1/2, July 58 5/8, September 58 1/2, December 60. Corn May 65 1/2, July 65 3/4, September 53 5/8, December 47 Oats July 27 59, September 26 3/4, December 29 Oats July 38, September 38
Secretary Doak cabled Miss Mary Anderson director of the women s bureau not to attend the international labor conference starting May 28 in Geneva. The State Department advised that no one officially or unofficially should go. Anderson was sent as an observer from the United States.
Richmond May 22 Representatives from Virginia Rural Child Welfare agencies conferred here to review progress and defer a public campaign until after the governor's November conference. They outlined aims to boost interest and responsibility for rural child life and press for more support for necessary measures and agencies.
Mrs Angie Ridgway 37 wife of Farm Board director Fran Ridgway died after falling from a fifth floor window in their Connecticut Avenue apartment She had gone to call her 8 year old son Charles who was playing below and investigators said she became dizzy while recovering from an illness
In a quiet New York exchange session on May 23 the market drifted lower amid speculative apathy. Liquidity continued to slip away, depressing several prominent issues one to three points after rails led briefly in early trading.
A scientist watched a single family of microscopic creatures for five years and noted that they multiply by splitting into two complete living parts once every 16 hours.
Article notes the Pacific and Atlantic water volumes with rough figures and claims the entire world’s sea water could flow over Niagara in about two million years. No clear source events or dates provided.
John N. Garfield grandson of President Garfield died from a bullet wound at his Mentor Ohio home. Sheriff Maloney found a gun near the body and the cause of death remains uncertain. Survived by widow and five children, he served in WWI and was connected to steamship interests. Burial planned at Mount Hebron with Odd Fellows and Presbyterian church members as pallbearers.
Business leader Chas W. Ramsburg died last night after a long career shaping local commerce. Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden of the ministry delivered remarks at the wake and funeral plans were announced by Ramsburg’s family.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania three juveniles, Paul E. Boggs Russell Wentz and John Greenwald, convicted of first degree murder for the February holdup slaying of barbecue stand operator Francis J McGreevy. They were serving Cambria county jail terms for another robbery at the time. McGreevy's wife lives in Hancock Maryland.
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