Society Calendar and Local Society Notes
Society events cover Monday and Tuesday meetings across Winchester clubs including Post 2123 W F and Lions Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Also reports on a Martinsburg couple wed here, a newborn son to the Funkhouser family in Winchester Memorial Hospital, and visits by Skyles and Pollard families from Hagerstown and Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post 2123
North Loudoun Street
Madison Lodge
East Boscawen Street
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Winchester Rebekah Association
Odd Fellows Hall
Corner-of-Garden Tri-Club Show Opens June 15 at Hotel
Three local interclub clubs stage a corner-of-a-garden exhibit at the George Washington Hotel on June 15. Winchester Clarke County Fredericktown and Little Garden Club members organize the event with committees led by Mrs. Baker McCormac Jenkins Byrd for Winchester Clarke County Mrs. Brown Brooks Snarr Haldeman for Fredericktown and Mrs. Cooper Miller Barr for the Little Garden Club. The event promises practical garden design ideas and a new competitive format for flower lovers. Also a Strawberry Festival is planned by Grace Lutheran Church Mary Martha Class on Thursday 9 to 3 with the Men's Bible Class orchestra providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
W. A. Baker
H. B. McCormac
Edward Jenkins
Tom Byrd
Winchester
Clarke County
Harold Brown
S. C. Brooks
George Snarr
Paul Haldeman
Fredericktown
Clark Cooper
James Miller
Edward Barr
Little Garden Club
Mary Martha
Grace Lutheran Church
Merenes Castleman
Modern Etiquette Q&A by Roberta Lee
The column offers advice on handling friends with faults by overlooking flaws and focusing on positive traits. It notes that wearing many conspicuous jewels is in poor taste unless at a very elaborate dance, and states that the bride’s family should pay for the maid of honor’s bouquet.
Silver Tea To Be Feature Of Hospital Auxiliary Garden Party
The Winchester Memorial hospital auxiliary will hold a garden party Friday at Mrs. Philip W. Boyd’s Fairmont avenue home. A silver tea and a cake sale led by Mrs. W. H. Bosserman Sr. are planned, with entertainment by the Winchester Little Theatre and a lace tablecloth donated by Mrs. Heber Flood for the fundraiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip W. Boyd
Fairmont Avenue
Winchester Memorial Hospital
W. H. Bosserman
Schuyler Larkin
Winchester Little Theatre Group
Heber Flood
Baltimore and Philadelphia Market Quotations May 29
Market prices for produce and livestock in Baltimore and Philadelphia show dull apples and sweet potatoes, steady poultry, eggs varied by grade, and butter and animal prices. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep traded mixed with notable declines and gains, while Chicago and Baltimore grain prices and cash grain values mirrored a sluggish, fluctuating market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U. S
Eastern Shore
Maryland
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rocks
Long Island
Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock Baltimore
U.S. Dept. Agri
Chicago
Grain quotations dip then recover near holiday
In Chicago on May 29 wheat prices fell about a cent due to pre holiday profit taking, then recovered almost all losses. Strength in corn supported December futures, which rose as much as a cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Stock market closes with mixed gains across majors
Quotations at close show Alcoa 167, American Can 90 3 4, American Radiator 13, American Smelting 44 1 8, AT&T 165, Anaconda 25 1 4, Bethlehem 59 3 8, Chrysler 71 1 8, General Electric 36 5 8, General Motors 45 3 8, Goodyear 28 1 2, Intel Harvester 60 1 4, J Manville 76 1 2, Kennecott 33 1 2, M Ward 51 7 8, National Dairy 16 3 8, NY Central 15 7 8, Packard 3 1 2, J C Penney 87 3 8, Penn RR 19, Republic Steel 17, Southern RR 16, S O of N J 44 1 2, Texas Corp 40 1 8, Union Pacific 98 1 2, U S Steel 50 1 8, Western Union 20 3 4, Woolworth 46 5 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al. Chem
Am. Can
Am. Rad
Am. Smel
B. and O
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Can. Edison
Corn Prod
Genl
Elec
Penn. R. R
Republic Steel
Southern R. R
Texas Corp
Union Pac
U. S. Steel
Western Union
Woolworth
Local retail market flour price list
Short patent brand flour offered in 12 pound bags at 6.00 per barrel and 24 pound bags at 5.80 per barrel. Prices indicate bulk packaging for local retail traders with emphasis on cost per bag by size.
Feed and dairy product listings with varied bag weights
The page itemizes feed ingredients and dairy products with prices per bag or per barrel. It lists corn meal feed mixed feed dairy feed turkey grower and horse feed prices, plus creamery butter priced at 29.
Services Today In Clarke For Mrs Ella Locke
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Moreland Locke 99 widow of Charles H. Locke were held at 2 p.m. in Clarke County Baptist church. Rev. L A Parker officiated and burial followed at Green Hill Cemetery. She was born in Clarke County to William and Margaret Moreland and survived by four children, a sister, three brothers, and several pallbearers named in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Baptist Church
Ella Moreland Locke
Charles H. Locke
R. Earl Crossen
L. A. Parker
Green Hill Cemetery
Clarke County
William and
Margaret Haley Moreland
Ernest F
Charles E
Thomas Marlow
Crosen
Julia BE. Moreland
Frank
Charles Town
Edward
Washington
George
New Jersey
Digby Willingham
A. B. Huenmer
W. E. Hart
Tom Shepherd
W. D. Wisecarver
Col. Cochran to Lie in State at Home Before Rites
Lieut. Col. Charles W. Cochran a county native died after an operation at University of Pennsylvania Hospital. His body was brought to his Welltown area home and will lie in state until funeral at 9 30 tomorrow in the First Congregational Christian Church with Rev. Robert A. Whitten presiding. Masonic and American Legion rites will be held at the grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Cochran
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital
Welltown
First Congregational Christian Church
Robert A. Whitten
Masonic
American Legion
Local Bicyclists Return Home After Washington Detour
Four Winchester boys Kenneth Lofton Clifford Olinger Carlton Printz and Dick Jackson rode to Washington Saturday night aiming for travel by Route 50. They reached Washington Sunday 1 25 AM then wandered through Hyattsville Dawsonville and Pooleville Maryland before realizing the error. They crossed the Potomac ferry at Leesburg and arrived home in Winchester at 6 30 AM tired but relieved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Winchester
Maryland
Corrigan
Kenneth Lofton
Clifford Olinger
Carlton
Printz
Dick Jackson
Potomac Crossing
Leesbur
Tir
Mrs. Julia Reid Succumbs After Long Illness at Boyce
Mrs. Julia Elizabeth Reid 62 wife of John M. Reid died at Bradford Farm Clarke County near Boyce Virginia after a long illness. She was born Julia Royston daughter of the late T A and Lucy Lee Royston. Survived by husband two sons Floyd William and Bax ton D. Reid three sisters Ada Vowell Lady Dove and Annie Vorous and four other relatives.
Royston Brothers Funeral Arrangements Update
Brothers Charles Luther Jame and Ben Royston are named in the notice. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Luther
Jame
Ben Royston
Legionnaires to Conduct Rite for Lieut Col Corran in Winchester
Members of American Legion Winchester Post 21 meet tomorrow at 9 15 AM at Congregational Christian Church to honor Lieut Col Charles W Coran in the National Cemetery. At 2 15 PM the legion forms in front of the George Washington Hotel for decoration services at 2 30 PM. Members are asked to bring cars to assist those unable to walk. J G Frosbrink Commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legionnaires
American Legion
Winchester
Congregational Christia
Charles W. Cocran
National Cemetery
Legion
George Washington
J. G. Frosbrink
Also Mentioned on This Page
Euladin Savage-Nally
Margaret H. Rowe
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Cora Elizabeth Fries
John H. Stains
Roy Schmucker
North
Loudoun
Justin Funkhousers
Justin Funkhouser
William N. Skyles
Walter Pollard
Hagerstown
Rexall
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Otham
Sig
Gotham Adjustables
N. Loudoun St
Rebekahs
Erice Edwards
Rebekah Lodge No
Grand Lodge of Virginia
Danville
Fredderick County School Band
Paul Riley
Gerard Lamberts
Gerard B. Lambert
B. F. Line
Virginia Avenue
Washington, D. C
McKinley Turner
Virginia Renner
William Cochran
Dayton
Ohio
Cochran
Martin Cochran
Anne Douglas Seal
Ruth Pape
Kenneth Brengle
Donald Clowe
Billy Boyce
George Hott
Front Royal Recreation Park
W. B. Snider & Son
Haldeman’s
Seafood Market
Huntsberry
Roberta Lee
Miss Richards
William M. Richards
Julia Richards
Lynchburg
Norma Richards
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Jeanne Miller
Eton
N. C
Irene Hook
Elon College
Miss Miller
Amherst Street
Mrs
William Hohannes
Atlantic City, N. J
Douglas A. Sale
Newark City
Julian Lindsey
Fort Meade, Md
Hunter H. McGuire
Jack T. Engle
William Payne
Westmoreland Apartments
Daniel McCall
Fred A. Read
James Cordon
Raleigh
Messrs
Herbert Schutte
Lee Dick
John Minnigerode
Roy Cather
Chesapeake Bay
J. Pinckney Arthur
Otis Sargent
Herbert Bean
Leesburg
William T. McGuire
Mrs. McGuire
Margaret Clarke
Hawaii
Julian Funkhouser
Underwood
Pennsylvania
Virginia
U.S
Chicago Cash Grain
Baltimore Grain
Sunshine Cleaners
Stock Market Report
The
Star
Valley Pride
All United Food Stores
Clarke
Ella Locke
Col. Cochran
Child
Hagerstown, Md
May Miller
Highland Avenue
Rena May Brudger
Robert Brudger
Washington County Hospital
R. M. Mills
Miller
City
R. C. Miller
W. Va
Hyattsvill Dawsonville
Pooleville
Julia Reid
Boyce
America
Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Abc
Come
Bill Folds
N. Lou
Parker Pens
Idom St
Shaeffer
Poppy
Westinghouse
Baker & Anderson
N. Braddock St
Trey
Rae
Abt
Les
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