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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1929
Page
3
A department notice invites mailing of special and personal news via Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller and requests submissions between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Includes a contact phone number 33 for further guidance.
The October 1914 Music Club Magazine reports the Higgins Sisters Quartet of Shenandoah College Dayton Va won the home music contest's voice class at the June 12 event. The Pfohl Family Ensemble won the instrumental class with a silver loving cup awarded to each class.
Winchester Rebekah Lodge marks its seventy eighth founding anniversary tonight at Odd Fellows hall. After the regular meeting a program features Rev. E. T. Clark of First Baptist Church as principal speaker with guests from Loyalty Lodge Front Royal and many local members expected. Mrs. Meta Wingfield D D P Mrs. Ruth Hottle and Mrs. Bessie Miller lead arrangements. Refreshments follow social hour.
The Carter family returns to 2338 Monument Avenue from their Clarke county estate Rosny with Miss Eda Carter’s upcoming wedding to Walter Armistead Williams Jr. Miss Susan Carter debuts this season and will join Miss Mary Hobson at a society ball on November 29. Beverleys return from the seashore as Frances Beverley heads to Louisville for the American Legion Auxiliary convention.
Invitations issued by Mrs. James B. Holmes for a October 9 bridge party honoring debutantes Miss Fannie Scott Matthews and Miss Rosalie Bruce Nelson of Winchester Virginia. Miss Nelson arrives to spend winter with cousins Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Rutherfoord.
The Sunshine Club of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South meets at 3 o clock Thursday afternoon at Mrs E L Grim 602 South Loudoun Street Hostesses include Mrs W H McIlwee Mrs Philip Crisman Mrs William Lupton Mrs R A Shafter and Mrs Alice Groves Also notes visitors in town and local social acts including guests at Fort Loudoun and appearances at area events.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery aged 67, longtime librarian of the Historic Society of Pennsylvania and former state librarian, died in Philadelphia on October 1. He served in reproductive roles and contributed to archival preservation.
Kons W C Kummer acting president of the American Berp berg and Glanzstoff Corp rayon mills was found dead at his Elizabethton Tennessee home with wrists slashed by a razor. The blade lay on the floor near the bed and blood marked the room and bath. Detectives arrived as inquest was halted awaiting them. Family offered no motive for suicide and police discussed murder possibilities. The house was closed to the public.
In Warren township Macomb county Detroit confectioner Martin J. Ficher 38 and Florence Vernor 18 his former clerk were found shot dead near a lane off the road. Ficher was shot through the car with a revolver in his hand and the girl was killed by two shots. Authorities could not account for two bullets in her body. Ficher's car with doors open was found nearby.
Senate ship building inquiry veered to the 1927 Geneva naval conference as witness William L. Shearer testified about traveling to Massachusetts to find Lewis K. Liggett and delivering a speech based on his Sea Power article. He noted payments of 25000 from three shipyards for his Geneva representation.
New York markets show sharp breaks in utilities and high priced industrials as liquidating advances resume. Stocks fall to new lows with three week downtrend, many issues down three to forty points. Call money climbs to ten percent.
A man found near the Northwestern pike in Winchester was reported killed but later determined to be dead drunk. Sheriff Pannett and a large official party found him in mud, loaded into a car, and jailed as authorities investigated the scene.
Fire of undetermined origin consumed historic North Sheffield Hall on Prospect street, home to Yale University mathematics, early today. The three story brick building with 54 rooms housed daily classes and was believed to be vacant when the flames began. hundreds of students watched from nearby dormitories.
Andrew Bell secretary of the Chamber of Commerce urged State Highway Commissioner Shirley to remove water pooling on Martinsburg pike just north of the city. He noted 12 to 15 inches of standing water hindering trucks and motorists and asked for temporary repairs via mandamus proceedings to protect state interests.
The Dornier Airplane Works announced a twelve motor Donier Do X plane would attempt a flight to America in mid January 1930. The route is undecided but may go across the South Atlantic to South America and then to the United States.
Nureen Orcutt of White Beaches New York upset Helen Hicks in the women’s national tourney at Oakland Hills Golf Club Birmingham Michigan. Orcutt won three holes to two after finishing six under par on the championship course.
In Frederick Maryland on October 1 a suit for separate maintenance with permanent alimony was filed in circuit court by Mrs Elizabeth A Heimer against her husband Rev Peter Heimer pastor of the Reformed Church at Fairmont. The complaint cites cruelty of treatment over years including times of violence.
The State of Virginia has filed to appeal a Winchester Corporation Court ruling that refunded taxes paid on income from a trust for Thomas Cover heirs. Judge Williams held no law authorized the assessment and nullified the tax, ordering reimbursement to Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore and Cover heirs. The appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals is expected this winter.
In Lewes England on October 1 Great Britain and Russia agreed to exchange ambassadors enabling a full resumption of trade and commercial relations between the two nations.
Secretary Arthur Henderson of Great Britain and Russian Ambassador Valerian Dovagleva, returning from Paris, reached a agreement in a meeting here aimed at parliamentary approval in land.
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