Public program invitation with Bennie Davis noted
Erin accompanied by Bennie Davis invites the public to attend an upcoming program described as very interesting.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1933
Page
3
Erin accompanied by Bennie Davis invites the public to attend an upcoming program described as very interesting.
Weekly listing of meetings and luncheons including Elks Lodge, Prohibition reform group, Grace Lutheran adult choir, American Legion Auxiliary, Rotary Club, Delphian Society, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a Gypsy Romance play at White Hall School House, Braddock Street church youth choir, Music Lovers Club, Lions Club, Kiwanis luncheon, and church choirs.
A Washington afternoon tea and bridge party under the Woman's National Democratic Club honors Mrs Roosevelt as guest of honor. Notables including Mrs Nellie Tayloe Ross and many society figures preside, with D. C. notables present and Mrs Woodrow Wilson at bridge tables. Spanish recital at Handley High follows in the evening with Miss Kathleen McCartney’s pupils presenting a varied program of Spanish music and guitar pieces.
Mrs. David B. Wills hosted a Washington luncheon for city society members at Ashmead Place, followed by a Woman's National Democratic Club garden party at Admiral Cary Grayson's home. Attendees included notable Washington and Winchester figures. Plans are set for the Middleburg pony show to aid Middleburg High School at the Middleburg race course with Miss Nancy Gartrell as secretary. The show features twelve classes including horses and ponies with post entries accepted for all categories.
Mr William J Flannery of Baltimore announces the engagement of his daughter Miss Margaret Flannery to Mr Joseph Arnold Jr of Mount Washington Md. Though a date is not fixed a wedding is expected early in November Miss Flannery is a popular figure among the city’s younger set and has often visited Miss Jane Mudd on North Cameron Street.
A festive birthday gathering for Master Gabriel Ensogna at 225 East Boscawen Street featured refreshments and games with guests including Earl and Wanda Kerns Earl Hawn Dorothy Copenhaver Doris VanLear Naomi Van Leer Lorraine Haines Margaret Kidwell Paul Ensogna Louise Ensogna and Marie Ensogna. Also noted is Miss Holloway Kinney of Asheville and Florida visiting family in town. A separate item mentions a severe appendicitis case, and a Baltimore Sun note on marriage licenses for Dr Edwin Cooper Yost and Miss Olga Marie Devere.
Invitations were issued for the marriage of Miss Madeline Whitlock to Mr. Hoye L. Riley at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Winchester on June 14. Whitlock, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. J Lawrence Whitlock, has a strong educational background and teaches music at Handley High School.
National guardsmen hurled tear gas bombs into a crowd of 7 800 Amoskeag workers on strike in Manchester New Hampshire near West Central street gates. A police car was hit by stones breaking windows as guards patrol the mill area amid ongoing labor actions.
Postmaster General Farley announced he would send letters to all campaign workers urging repeal of the 18th amendment. As chair of the Democratic National Committee he directs the campaign to back Roosevelt and place him in the White House.
The Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church meets June 5 8 at Hood College Frederick to mark the college s fortieth anniversary of Dr Joseph H Apple s presidency. Dr Robert E Speer will open with a sermon and deliver Hood College commencement address.
In San Francisco May 23 the Mooney trial opened with the prosecution announcing it will present no evidence. Judge Louis H. Ward oversaw proceedings as Mooney pleaded not guilty to the 17 year old indictment connected to the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing.
Rev. Robert B. Nelson announced that Ascension Day services will be held at Christ Episcopal Church tomorrow at 11 o'clock with Holy Communion. The public is invited to attend.
Four people were seriously injured and 21 others sustained minor injuries in a rear end subway collision at the Brooklyn Museum station of the Interboro Rapid Transit System. The motorman of the rear train was pinned in his cab and freed with acetylene torches by a fire emergency squad.
Nearly 100 Christian Endeavorers from the western district gathered at Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church near Lexington for a spring rally. The program included worship, scripture, reports from Roanoke and Milwaukee conventions, leadership sessions, music, and a closing benediction praised for its prayer meeting.
The Federal Reserve board authorized its open market committee to purchase 25 million dollars in government bonds as the first step of inflation act operations. The move aims to pull securities from circulation into reserve banks to increase currency in circulation and loosen bank credits for business use.
Secretary Swanson urged national backing for a 32 ship naval expansion, warning the fleet is slipping toward obsolescence. He cited Admiral Moffett and outlined a program to build 20 destroyers four submarines four cruisers two aircraft carriers and two gunboats.
Brooks Pharmacy promotes Kodaks and Kodak films with quality developing and printing and a 4 hour service option. The catchy ad highlights Brooks as a place to get quick photo processing and film products.
Nettie P. Allemong crafts a lyrical scene of June’s royal procession through sunlit fields and verdant lanes. Flowers, pageants, and singing sylvan courtiers herald a lavish coronation in a forest realm.
Winchester attorney Harry K. Benham injured in Fairfax county crash last Saturday was moved to Pagebrook near Boyce Clarke county from Alexandria Hospital. He shows improvement and is treated with multiple head lacerations and a sprained ankle. Passenger Miss Anne Kern and Mrs D C Harrison Jr were in the car. Harrison died from the crash.
Luray May 73 Borders affecting around a thousand employees of the Maryland Company increasing their wage scale five per cent were approved by H E Weinberg of Baltimore president and forwarded to M J Barrett at Luray headquarters. The order takes effect June 3. The Maryland Company runs offices in New York Baltimore and Luray and operates in Maryland Virginia and West Virginia with six Shenandoah Valley plants headquartered at Luray making overalls shirts play suits mechanics suits and work trousers.
Clarke LaFollette a Hampshire county West Virginia native dies in Ottawa Lake Michigan at 77. Telegram to Mrs. Harry F. Melton names surviving widow Mrs. Asbarine LaFollette two daughters Mrs. Leonard Barber and Mrs. Henrietta Argenbright Edgerman Md two sons Elden LaFollette Toledo and Ernest LaFollette Ottawa Lake one sister Mrs. Reed
Edward Arnold of Hook's Mill West Virginia and his brother Frank La Follette of Canada mourn the death of their sibling. Funeral services are scheduled this week with interment in the same city.
John A. Lewis a local painter injured yesterday when a ladder slipped while painting the roof at 424 Fairmont Avenue is reported to be improving at Winchester Memorial Hospital. He sustained lacerations of the head and face and nervous shock.
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