Social calendar highlights diverse club meetings this week
A busy schedule features choir practices at United Brethren and Grace Lutheran, a Providence Chapel School program, Win Lodge and Royal Arcanum gatherings, Rotary Club luncheon, Shawnee Garden Club, Girls' Athletic Association, American Legion post lunch, Civic League, and a Marietta Johnson talk. Also noted are Modern Woodmen sermon, Needlework Guild, Lions and Kiwanis weekly meetings, and other community events across Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Young People’s
Providence Chapel
Frogtown
Win- Lodge No
Ellis
Piccadilly and
Braddock
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Clu
George Washington Hotel
Shawnee Garden Club
Harold G. Brown
South Washington Street
Girls’ Athletic Association
West Piccadilly Street
Royal Arcanum Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
Civic League
Handley Library
Marietta Johnson
School of Organic Education
Fairhope
Ala
Winchester
American Association of University Women
Oldest Man and Woman Honored at Winchester Picnic
The article notes awards for the oldest man and woman at a Winchester area gathering. Atwell Frye, known as Uncle Art, aged 92, claimed the male prize, while Martha Warden of Wardensville won the female award. The day featured a picnic, some rain later, and a committee led by Emma Frye Stickley, Fred Ridings, and H. M. Windle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atwell Frye
Woodstock
Art
Martha Warden
Wardensville
Emma Frye Stickley
Vaucluse
Fred Ridings
Stephens City
H. M. Windle
Winchester
Frye Family Reunion Held at Cedar Creek Fort
Frye family reunion moved from August due to infantile paralysis emergency and was held September 28 at the old Frye Fort twelve miles south of Winchester. About 150 attendees traveled from Detroit Michigan Eureka Kansas Weslaco Texas Washington D C and other places. The day featured visiting dinner with a loaded long table followed by a business meeting led by H M Windle and greetings from three visiting ministers. Prizes were awarded and amusements provided by the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frye
Old Frye Fort
Winchester
Cedar Creek
George Hodgson
Detroit
Mich
H. S. Wertz
Pauline
Eureka
Kan
Thomas Bowman
Weslaco
Tex
Millard Frye
Lois Stuckert
Washington, D. C
Allen Jones
H. M. Windle
Kernstown
Cartney Anderson
Synder Alleman
Stephens City
Surprise Shower Honors Miss Graves Before Wedding
Miss Emma Graves, soon to wed Berkeley Ball of Upperville, was honored at a surprise shower hosted by Miss Helen on Saturday evening. Guests, including former O Sullivan Rubber Co. associates, found gifts hidden around the house as refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Hoffman
Pauline Hoffman
Seldon O'Bryan
Berryville
Thomas F. Hardesty
Richmond
Miss Graves
The
O'Sullivan —Rubber Company
Mary Virginia Rosenberger
Winifred Clowser
Katherine Bradford
Elsie Locke
Gladys Stottler
Margaret Richards
Frances Preffitt
Melvin Lewis
Georgia Graves
White Conner Marriage License Issued At Winchester
County Clerk C C Brannon issued a marriage license to Carrie Frances Conner of Stephens City and James Elwood White of Stephens City. Conner is a carpenter by trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White-Conner
C. C. Brannon
Carrie Frances Conner
John William Conner
James Elwood White
B. F. White
Stephens City
Conner
Lions Invited To Roanoke For Special Meeting
The Roanoke Lions Club invited members to a October 24 special meeting in Roanoke where Melvin Jones founder of Lions International will be guest of honor. The club also discussed winter program activities and a drive to fund Boy Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Boy Scout Movement
The
Star
Roanoke Lions Club
Melvin Jones
Lions International
Sevso
Garnet Thomas
Uniontown
John Allen
Earl Mason
Sam Preston
Settlers Followed Buffalo Trails Westward
Early settlers chose buffalo trails for wagon routes believing these paths offered the safest passage over soft ground and gentle slopes as they moved westward. The text notes the buffalo’s instinct to avoid swampy ground and steep climbs guiding pioneer travel.
Mrs. Harrison Named President of Little Theatre
Mrs. Burr Powell Harrison was elected president of The Little Theatre at a meeting to elect officers for the coming year. Other officers elected include Miss Anne Brooke Kern as vice president Hary R Kern Jr treasurer Miss Georgia Conrad secretary Benjamin Belchie auditor and Miss Virginia Tayloe Boyd Mrs Ian MacCallum and E B Browning Jr as directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burr Powell Harrison
Little Theatre
Anne Brooke Kern
Hary R. Kern, Jr
Georgia Conrad
Benjamin Belchie
Missirginia Tayloe Boyd
Ian MacCallum
E. B. Browning
Harrison
Willie
Kempy
Love Is an Interlude by Richard Griffith Jr Read by Georgia Conrad
The Little Theatre presented several short plays at Handley School and Handley Library and offered a free Capitol Theatre performance. Miss Georgia Conrad read an original play titled Love Is an Interlude by Richard E. Griffith Jr with deep understanding and the group praised both author and reader. The organization previously staged There's Always Juliet and Joe the one act at Hagerstown Maryland last spring, competing with other groups and winning first award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Theatre
Handley School
Handley Library
Capitol Theatre
Juliet
Joe
Hagerstown
Georgia Conrad
Richard E. Griffith, Jr
Mr. Griffith
Conrad
Revenue Agents Join Hunt For Ticket Scalpers
Chicago crowds learned the World Series seats sold out in under four hours at Wrigley Field and fans planned to pay premiums for tickets held by scalpers. Police and the Internal Revenue Service joined the hunt to curb scalping and ensure tax on profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cub
Department of Internal Revenue
Wrigley Field
Hagerstown Uses Potomac River Water Supply
Hagerstown, Md. pumps water from the Potomac River as mountain reservoirs are nearly exhausted and feeder streams have dried up. Officials expect winter snows and rains to restore supply. Farmers say September rains soaked into parched ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Mad
Potomac River
Water Department
Note Decrease In Farm Debts
Washington reports a drop in farm mortgage debt since 1928 with statisticians citing debt liquidation and foreclosures by lenders. The shift of agricultural loans from life insurers to Federal Land Banks also noted. Total U S farm mortgage debt rose from 3.32 billion in 1910 to 9.24 billion in 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sae
Deesay
Bureau of Agricultural Economics Statisticians
Bureau Statisticians
Bureau
United States
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Golden Rule Bible Class
Braddock Street
M. E. Church
South
Woodmen of America
Ebenezer Church of Christ
Gore
J. Goode
Needlework Guild
G. C. Rose
North
Loudoun Street
Lions Club
Kiwanis Club
Obed Orndorff
Carter Brill
Star Tannery
Obed. Orndorff
Trout Run String Band
B. B. Orndorff
A. L. Orndorff
Eleanor
Perry W. Va
C. A. Henning
Clyde
Harrisburg
J. B. Hoffman
Strasburg
H. E. Jackson
Jake Hollar
John Miller
George Ashenfelter
Elon Sheetz
Maggie Clinchinstall
Edinburg
Jonnie Bowers
Garnet Heishman
Homer Strosnider
Perry
W. Va
Marie Heishman
Fred D. Maphis
Maphis
Anna Boyer
Jack Bower
Carmel Boyer
John Pifer
Fishers Hill
Odville Wake
Middletown High School
Raymond Borden
First National Bank
David F. Yost
Christian Church
Shenandoah Valley
H. Rozier Dulaney
Upperville
Virginia
Dulaney
George Bentley
Hampton
Joseph A Massie
Amherst Street
Cedar Creek Fort
Huntsberry
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Alfred McNulty
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
Arthur Cooper
Eugene Campbell
Cooper
Campbell
Westbrook Sanatorium
Jack Wilkins
New York Mart
New York
City
Smart
Lovett
R. E. Byrd
Gordon Newell
William Burr Harrison
T. W. Harrison
Washington Street
Kerby Pearsale
C. B. Pearsale
Norfolk
Meadowbrook
W. H. Huber
Macedonia-Stephens City Road
George Green
White Post
W. Pinckney Weatherall
Millwood
Marvin Griffin
Patricia
Bainbridge, Ga
R. S. Smith
Middle Road
Griffin
Frances Pence
Mount Airy
L. H. Pence
Parkway
Lions
Roanoke
Geneva Wolf
Evelyn Wisman
Herman Bly
Jess Bly
Fairview Avenue
Cordell Huff
United Brethren Young People’s Choir
Styl
Selby
the Esplanade
Lovett Brothers
N. Loudoun St
Mrs. Harrison
Burr P. Harrison
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Vicks Vatro Nol
Vanity Fair Beauty Salon
North Main Street
Chase & Sanborn
Chase
le Gant
Clara V. Fultz
W. Boscawen ST
U. S. Pat
Arte
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Underwood
Tol
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Lovett’s
Loudoun St
Land O’ Lakes
John M. Steele
W. R. Legge
Northern
Rockingham
Augusta Counties
Victor
Acme
AAACN
ICAAT
Stores &O
Aenea
R. M. Swimley
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