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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1934
Page
3
Mr. James R. DuShane and his father planned a June 1 departure from Winchester to Yakima Washington with stops in Connellsville Pennsylvania Indianapolis Indiana and Chicago for the World’s Fair. Mrs. DuShane will visit Baltimore and Lake Forest Massachusetts before joining relatives for the summer.
Friday 400 p m Red Cross I corps meeting at Red Cross office. Sunday 200 p m Easter pageant Faith Triumphant at Trinity Church Stephens. Monday 30 p m Music Lovers Club at Mrs R E Griffith West Clifford street. Tuesday 230 p m Lions Club regular meeting and luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Wednesday 130 p m Kiwanis Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. 00 p m young people choir practice First Baptist Church. :00 p m Winchester Lodge Benevolent Order regular meeting. 15 p m Grace Lutheran adult choir practice. Thursday Rotary Club meeting and luncheon at George Washington Hotel.
Odd Fellows delegates from Lynchburg and surrounding counties return from the annual convention in Lynchburg. Includes C B tickley J L Jones William Perry Whitmire Steele Rev W Paunders Ruth Bucher and local garden director change at Winchester and Frederick County. Admiral Nulton to speak at Century Club dinner June 1 with Little School pageant scheduled for June 1. Carter Hall horse show attendance noted with guests from Washington and Fort Bragg.
Former Miss Mesmer Nancy Mesmer of this city visited New Haven guests Mr. and Mrs. Roger O Clapp and has now returned to her home. Mrs Crisa McDonamel Palmer gave birth to a baby girl May 23 named Gladys Emily Palmer.
Mr and Mrs Nelson Haines celebrate the birth of daughter Janice Lee Haines at their Berryville avenue apartment on May 23 Mrs Haines before marriage was Miss Edna Grubbs daughter of Mr and Mrs George Grubbs.
Attorneys R. Gray Williams and Harry R. Kern are in Harrisonburg today taking part in a $50,000 alleged patent infringement suit brought by Eugene G. Garb of this city against the National Fruit Products Co. The case is before Judge John Paul in the Federal Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Miss Edna and Miss Margaret Whitzel hosted a bridge party at their home near Clear Brook after noon yesterday. Guests enjoyed the rock garden and iris in full bloom as part of the afternoon event.
Local guests will attend a luncheon tomorrow at the home of the Rev B D Chambers in Millwood. Afternoon plans include a visit to the Millwood Horse Show at Carter Hall with Mrs F Allerton Read Jr and Mrs Percy Randolph hosting during intermission.
Mrs. Ralph Ware hosted a kitchen shower for Miss Elizabeth Ramsburg daughter of Mr and Mrs D L Ramsburg in Berryville Virginia. Guests wrote advice for the bride then joined a treasure hunt through the house followed by a reading of How To Keep a Husband. The event featured many attendees including Mrs D L Ramsburg Mrs C H Iden Mrs N F Wisecarver and others. The centerpiece included plans for upcoming luncheons and visits connected to weddings and social events in the area.
Miss Ruth Kelchner visits her parents on Millwood road and returns to Roanoke Virginia. Mr R Gray Williams comes back from Harrisonburg tonight where he has appeared in the Federal court.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Arthur will attend the Millwood Horse Show tomorrow at Carter Hall. They will be guests of Mrs. Percy Randolph and Mrs. F Allerton Read Jr. at luncheon in the Carter Hall grove. Mrs. Joseph Wright, confined by a severe cold at her West Boscawen street home, is greatly improved.
William Hampton Keister longtime Harrisonburg educator received a citywide tribute with a silver loving bowl and an oil painting. dignitaries including Mayor Ward Swank and City School Board Chairman Ernest R Lineweaver praised his 40 years guiding a $5 000 to a $500 000 school plant and 711 graduates, calling him a builder of character and one of Virginia's finest educators. the event spanned a dinner at the Kavanaugh and a tribute at Woodrow Wilson Hall with remarks from state and local officials and university leaders.
Dispatches from La Paz report 6000 Paraguayans killed and at least 12000 wounded after a Bolivian counter strike before Fort Ballivian. Col Bernardino Bilbao Rioja led the operation as Paraguayan divisions were surrounded and material and dumps captured.
A three day free course in Life Insurance Salesmanship will be held at the Shenvallee Hotel in New Market Virginia beginning May 31 at 9 A M. Open to men and women ages 25 to 45 of character and ability. Qualified attendees may be offered a position. For details contact Thomas B Sweeney manager Equitable Life Insurance Assurance Society of the U S 1520 New Hampshire Ave Washington DC.
Sale set for June 4 1934 at the Homestead Hotel Burlington West Virginia in the Eastern Panhandle a famous country hotel on Route 50 with 16 rooms and over an acre ground partly furnished bath running water electric lights large porches and an extra lot. It is offered as a tourist home with lunch stand in an ideal recreation center nearby Washington with down payment and terms available to a small family or hotel operator. Contact R A Welch or E G Kimmell Keyser WV.
At the same time the proposal to increase the period of service of army conscripts received tentative approval of the Radical Socialist party.
Ogden Mills sharply assailed the Roosevelt administration in a forum of the Economic Club with Bainbridge Colby opposing bureaucratic and institutional reforms. Mills contended against social and economic planning enacted into law.
Mills says the proposed system is not novel or liberal and would revert to medieval despotism, eroding individual liberty. Colby Hils warns of a vast bureaucracy that has grown without proper authorization and governs intimate daily life.
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