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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1941
Page
6
Social and Personal notes announce 12 30 p m weekly luncheon of American Legion Post at a hotel and an important 7 30 p m Little Theatre meeting in Handley Library Auditorium.
A Tuesday gathering at a South Washington Street home hosted pupils from Gertrude Barton Nursery for a buckeye picking contest and races. Teachers Eva Kinsey, Helen Strawederman, and Pauline Lillis led the event with refreshments of sandwiches, milk, and ice cream. The school, in the Eagle Building, promotes early child training and nutrition with community support in Winchester.
Mrs. C H Lillis received a surprise party last night hosted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lillis on South Braddock Street. Family members and many friends attended, with fall flowers decorating tables and meal arrangements by Mrs. Gene Pennypacker. The gathering included numerous local residents and friends who visited briefly after a trip to Hagerstown.
Mrs H D Flood is expected to return to join her son Rolling Flood at his West Cork street apartment. She traveled with her daughter Eleanor Flood and another son after attending the wedding of her nephew John Alexander Porter and Miss Erveana Massey in Raleigh.
Mrs. Douglas Cather hosts a tea and personal shower for Miss Harriet Krise this afternoon at 4 30 at her West Cork street home. On Saturday morning Miss Mary Elizabeth Ebert will honor Miss Krise with a breakfast at Willow Lawn Inn, South Stewart street.
Tonight at 7 30 at the Episcopal Rectory in Millwood the Rev and Mrs C P Shelton will host a dinner for Boyce School teachers. Attending will be new teachers Misses Jones Norma June Richards Opal Janie Gardiner Helen Anders and Mr DeHaven plus Lily Garver Retha Gaunt Mary Thompson Jessie Carpenter Elizabeth Blackwell Helen Dooly Mr B Miley and Mr Davis. The Section B of the Woman's Auxiliary will serve.
A Q and A feature explains etiquette choices. It covers entering a club room with friends, presenting a business introduction letter with a card, and whether a maid of honor should straighten the bride’s train as she leaves the church.
The Civic Theatre of Martinsburg presents M liss My Western Miss a modern three act Bret Harte tale at 8 p m Friday in the high school auditorium. Capt and Mrs D M Sprinkle plan a Wilkinsburg weekend visit guests of Mr and Mrs A J Wilson.
The Chanters will hold an important meeting tomorrow night at 7 30 in the Presbyterian Sunday School rooms. All members urged to attend. The Friday afternoon Bridge Club meets tomorrow at 2 30 at Mrs Nelson Page’s home, following today’s Thursday meeting.
The piece discusses shade choices for different eye colors and hair types, advising subtle application and careful placement. It notes blue flatters blondes and brunettes while washing out redheads, and suggests mauve or bronze for other tones. Guidance on eyelid placement and stopping points is included.
Pittsburgh hotels face a strike by 2,400 service workers leaving managers to run elevators, cook meals, and handle duties. Guests carry luggage, beds are made by staff, and dining rooms close while a Pennsylvania Medical Society convention nears the William Penn Hotel.
The Lincoln assassination conspirators trial records are housed in the National Archives in Washington. They were moved from the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army and comprise three groups: transcriptions and testimony, depositions, and exhibits.
Clarke County reports detail verdicts and fines from Loring C. Rackley’s Trial Justice Court in Berryville. Defendants include Charles Butler Clifton Bray Charles Perande Glen Wolfe Frank Ashby Walter Lichliter Charles Lichliter Henry Taylor Robert Blevins Raymond Blevins Calvin Priest Norman Thompson Kenneth Trenary Donald Huffman Edgar Chilcott J C Phillips Roger Bermassdaffer James Michael and others for reckless driving speeding drunkenness parking on the sidewalk and DUI second offense with fines ranging from 9.25 to 163 for the DUI. several cases list appeals.
Reynolds Store Virginia October reports visitors and gatherings around Berkeley Springs Martinsburg Hayfield and Washington D C. Elden Luttrell hosted by D C Fernon with R E Place family spent time with S Place near Martinsburg. J E Helsey guests at E C Shank and others. Richard Hughes to Washington D C next. Lucy Hovermale visiting E C Stotler near Hayfield. Mrs C W Moore visited L Shank recently.
Rochester bulletin from R G Phillips secretary of the International Apple Association notes Apple Week runs Friday Oct 24 through Friday Oct 31. He cites wartime food needs, nerve nutrition from apples, and publicity efforts including cooperation from railroads steamships and airlines.
More than 300 members and guests of the Maryland Lutheran Synod Women’s Missionary Society attended final sessions of the fifty ninth annual conference in Frederick Maryland. They celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the departure of the first Lutheran missionary to India with services at Evangelical Lutheran Church after the annual dinner. Speakers included Miss Susan Glatz furloughing from India Miss Mary Heltibridle returned missionary from Japan and Miss Katrina Umberger from Konnarock Virginia training school for girls.
Berryville Virginia funeral services were held at Berryville Methodist Church for Miss Anna Neille Anderson who died Saturday in Clarksburg West Virginia. The Rev. A O Lyons and Rev Harry S Myerly led the rites with choir hymns and burial followed at Green Hill Cemetery. Miss Anderson was a daughter of the late Joseph E and Eliza Ware Anderson and was known for kindness and church attendance. One brother Bruce G Anderson survives.
The Star invites societies and clubs to submit social and personal notices. Call or write ahead of events or within a day after they occur for publication. The policy emphasizes fresh information and timely printings of local happenings.
Cross Roads Virginia October 2. The Marples of Monessen Pa claim the brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs A J Marple. Wilson Riley daughter Lillian Riley Ellen Oates Delvina Ramsey with Mrs J B White and Mrs Rosa Nelson spent Sunday with the Keffers Piedmont West Virginia. Wade Haines Willie Haines Fannie Haines and Buckbee visited W W Hicks Sunday Jersey Mountain West Virginia.
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