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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1929
Page
3
Social and Personal News notes request items by mail or telephone. Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller welcomes free tips by telephone between 3 and 4 p.m. for the next day. Phone No. 33.
About 14 000 dollars was cleared from Historic Garden Week profits held by the Kenmore committee of the Garden Club of Virginia. Some 8 000 came from garden entrance fees near Richmond and Fredericksburg. gardens opened April 29 to May 10 statewide to raise funds to restore Kenmore. 20 000 visitors statewide included many from other states. planning for surplus use and final receipts to be reviewed at a meeting in Albemarle county.
A battlefield marker at Ball's Bluff road and state highway two miles north of Leesburg was unveiled by Confederate veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy from northern Virginia. Principal address by Representative R. Walton Moore. other speakers include Mrs. William A. Roberts and Miss Lucy F. Kurtz. Hillside Lake Park near Martinsburg announces opening May 30 with dancing and boating. Virginia Tech reports eleven pledges to Tau Beta Epsilon, including Walter Tanquary Anderson, son of Albert and Mrs. Anderson, Shenandoah Valley Academy graduate.
Mr and Mrs C D Winslow of Bronxville New York are guests at the George Washington Hotel staying in New York City during their visit.
George Lauder brother of Mrs Gene Tunney denied reports of critical condition after Polly Tunney reportedly rested comfortably per a cable from their mother. He pledged to inform if her health worsened.
The Rev. C. H. Anderson will preach at 8 o'clock Sunday evening in the Union Sunday school hall at Gore. Everyone is invited. The note adds a humorous aside about speeding automobiles as the only things being overturned by radicals.
New York stock prices recovered modestly in trading that remained quiet with waves of selling. Call money stayed at 6 percent and the session closed heavy after about 3.3 million shares changed hands. The article notes ample money in circulation despite weak bids for community projects.
Four robbers held up the Hast Orange Trust Company in Orange New Jersey and escaped by car with a nominal sum. The bank is the city’s second largest and patrons faced walls as the heist unfolded in swift, precise action. Officials later believed the haul would exceed $50 000.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America voted unanimously to pursue union with five major Protestant denominations. Commissions will be appointed to meet with the Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, and Southern Presbyterian churches.
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