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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal items may be mailed or phoned to the department. Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller, the social reporter, will accept news by telephone between S$ and 4 p.m. for the following day. Phone number 33.
Members of the Winches and Clarke County Garden Club met at Mrs. R. T. Barton’s home on Som Washington Street to hear delegates’ reports from the Garden Club of America convention held in Philadelphia May 13 17. The event featured garden tours at Chestnut Hill Whitemarsh Hall and Stenton plus a 1500 guest dinner and open air stage fountains. The Winchester and Clarke County club was hosted by the Georgetown Garden Club with luncheon and tea at local homes. A radio broadcast on KRLD in Dallas May 26 29 was noted. A surprise birthday dinner honored Mr. Francis M. Strother at Gainesboro with family guests from nearby counties.
The new organist, Robert Stratton, receives broad acclaim from Capitol and Colonial theatre audiences. Stratton, formerly with Publix-Sanger Theatres and Eastman Chicago, is a Rochester Conservatory graduate with notable honors. Shenandoah Valley Theatres Corporation has brought him to Winchester.
Mr and Mrs John F Rodman Jr depart for Dallas Texas where Rodman will represent the Winchester Rotary Club at the annual Rotary International meeting. They travel via Roanoke Virginia aboard the Dixie Special with Virginia Rotarians. Rodman is the local club secretary.
Franklin Wesley Smalts son of Mr and Mrs C B Smalts of National Avenue is a candidate for a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. Degrees awarded Tuesday morning at War Memorial Hall follow his Handley High School class of 1925 and VT record of academic achievement.
Misses Anta and Emma Yingling of Baltimore arrive for the funeral of their uncle A L Ebersole. William DeVries of Hagerstown stays at George Washington Hotel. Mrs Alva Richards and others travel by motor to Philadelphia for the weekend. Senator Richard S. Wright visits Strasburg. W Nelson Page returns from Philadelphia. J L Carper and others from Boyce shop in town.
A New York broker sails May 22 to join his wife abroad aboard the Graf Zeppelin. He announces he will travel with her if she comes home aboard the airship.
Garrett Putnam Serviss, 78, widely read writer on science topics, died in Englewood New Jersey from meningitis. He served as an editorial writer for the New York Sun in 1892 and later lectured on astronomy travel and history.
Washington weather forecast for the week starts with showers Monday and probably Tuesday. Generally fair conditions expected midweek with another chance of showers at week’s end. Temperatures rise above normal Monday and Tuesday, near normal midweek, then rise again toward week’s end.
Chicago May 23 Jimmie Coyne called a beer hustler for Joseph Bolton s bootleg liquor trade was named by Deputy Police Commissioner Stege as the slayer of Detective Joseph Sullivan shot yesterday in Bolton s West Side saloon. Several hoodlums were in custody and Bolton faced possible murder charges after refusing to identify his visitors.
Evangeline Booth commander in chief of the Salvation Army in America was seriously injured in an automobile accident yesterday. She suffers concussion and multiple cuts around the eye. She progresses as could be expected and there is no immediate alarm. The crash occurred en route from her Hartsdale home to New York headquarters.
A blaze on wholesale row in Roanoke Va last night damaged three buildings owned by private interests with losses estimated at 500000 fire under control today fire chief says little risk of further outbreak origin of the fire unknown as water still applied by firefighters
BRIONI Italy May 25 Mrs. Gene Tunney will be re examined tomorrow by Prof Meyer a Berlin specialist who performed the first operation April 30 for an undiscovered abscess of the appendix Dr Meyer will arrive tomorrow with an assistant from Berlin Two specialists who examined Mrs Tunney last night reassured the former heavyweight boxing champion Her wife condition was stated to be much better.
In New York on May 25 the stock market showed frequent shifts as investors worried about credit conditions. Prices fell early, then recovered irregularly. the session closed irregularly with about 1,200,000 shares traded.
A Grace Lutheran Church gathering showcased Troop 1 Winchester activities. Eugene Cooper outlined goals, Handley High School quartet performed, and service stars were awarded to members for 1 to 16 years. The meeting honored team sportsmanship as the Winchester troop earned a 152 point January to March tally and received the efficiency trophy.
Bert J. Fahy took off at 5 15 A M Pacific time from Los Angeles aiming to set a new solo endurance flight record in a Lockheed Vega. His craft carries fuel for 40 hours to beat the official 39 hours 50 minutes and the unofficial 35 hours 3 minutes mark.
Miss Virginia Willys daughter of an Ohio automobile manufacturer, wed Luis Marcemino de Aguirre of Buenos Aires at Henrietta Street registrar office in London. A religious ceremony followed at Savoy Chapel.
Julius Moriceau the French speed champion enters the Decoration Day race at Indianapolis challenging American hopes and joining compatriot Louis Chiron in the field.
Newark reports the fourth metropolitan hold-up in 24 hours. Contractor William Stites was robbed of 10,000 in cash by three gunmen on a road. The total losses in this north Jersey area reach 40,700.00.
In St Paul on May 25 the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States decided to submit three overtures to presbyteries to change the constitution. The first would make women eligible for ordination as ministers.
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Edinburg Hatchery in Edinburg Virginia offers White Leghorn Reds and baby chicks at ten dollars per hundred with first hatch June 5. No deposit required. This two week only sale urges readers to mail their order and request specifics to secure stock.
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