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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1940

Page

8

Belhaven student honored on fall honor roll list

Miss Jean Moling of Winchester is among twelve Belhaven College students named to the first quarter honor roll for maintaining a 90 average or higher in each subject with good conduct. The sophomore, from Jackson, Miss., is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Moling Jr.

Jean Moling Winchester Belhaven Miss Moling Jackson Miss J. H. Moling, Jr Miss Kendrick Lucille Kendrick Graya Fairmi W C. F. Prickett Hazel Spiker Irsh Wil- Penn Winchester Business College Bell Building

Social and Personal Calendar of Local Meetings

Social and personal calendar lists 7:30 p m meetings for Ladies Act Congregational Church at Mrs. Clayton Pugh 568 N Loudoun St 7:30 p m Ladies Aid Society Frederick Circuit parsonage Whitlock Ave 8:00 p m W O W Odd Fellows Hall Saturday 2:00 p m Ebenezer Ladies Aid Mrs Bertha Adams Monday 4:00 p m First fall meeting Woman's Auxiliary hospital Nurses Home 7:30 p m Woman's Auxiliary R Y Conrad American Legion Mrs Mabel Aiken N Braddock St 8:00 p m Madison Lodge I O O F Odd Fellows Hall

Ladies Act of Congregational Church Clayton Pugh Loudoun St Ladies’ Aid Society of Frederick Whitlock Avenue Odd Fellows Hall Ebenezer Ladies Aid Bertha Adams Woman's Auxiliary of Hospital Nurses Home Woman’s Auxiliary R.Y. Conrad American Legion Post Mabel Aiken N. Braddock Madison Lodge Winchester Memorial Hospital Robert Y. Conrad Post American Legion North Braddock Street

Divorces Granted by Judge Williams Included Desertion

Divorce decrees issued by Judge Philip Williams name Viola Pearl Hottel versus Cletus Franklin Hottel desertion, Thomas Frederick Trenary Jr versus Nellie Virginia Trenary desertion, Dorothy Harris Mason versus Ellswood D Mason desertion, and Floyd Chapman Ash versus Salvatrice Baglia Ash desertion. Principals are forbidden to remarry for six months after the decree.

Philip Williams Tion Court

Local student returns home for weekend visit

Mr. Frank Yeakle Jr a Potomac State College student Keyser West Virginia will spend the weekend at his home on Valley Avenue Mrs Stanley Cooper returns home after two weeks in Washington with her sister who has been ill for some time.

Rae Wyatt Bill Winchester Miami Fla Hunter David West Germain Street Virginia Sager Hunter Davidson Middlebore Frank Yeakle, Jr Potomac State College Keyser, W. Va Valley Avenue Stanley Cooper Washington

Ladies Aid and Missionary Society Meet at Mrs Adams Home

The Ebenezer Church group schedules a 2 o’clock meeting at Mrs Bertha Adams residence with a note of date change. Congregational Christian Church Ladies Aid Society gathers tonight at 7 30 at Mrs Clayton Pugh 568 North Loudoun Street with Division five leading.

Ladies Aid and Missionary Society of the Ebenezer Christian Church Bertha Adams Clayton Pugh Congregational Christian Church Ladies Aid Society North Loudoun Street Division Five

E P Browning Speaker At Beta Sigma Phi Meeting

E P Browning was guest speaker at the Beta Sigma Phi October meeting in the George Washington Hotel. The chapter discussed the State Convention in Danville October 19 and 20, planned two representatives, and reviewed recreation and membership efforts. Guests included Mrs Ralph Hann and Mrs George Snider.

Beta Sigma Phi George Washington E. P. Browning Danville Epsilon Chapter Winchester Rodney Sirbaugh William Glaizer Dorothy Rice Ralph Hann George Snider

Bundles for Britain appeals to Winchester locals

Local Bundles for Britain chapter urges immediate support for Britain with no membership or drives required. Donations fund medical supplies wool for knitwear and clothing for sailors and families affected by air raids. Contributions may be mailed to two Winchester addresses or at local banks.

Bundles For Britain Britain Winchester Bundles For Britain, Inc England America

Walk to Keep Young KEEP ACTIVE for Women Over Forty

A beauty column urges women past forty to walk daily for vitality and form. It contrasts brisk walking with sauntering and notes eye brows rise at the idea, offering tips on posture, chest, and abdominal alignment. The piece promotes regular exercise and dismisses passive motor use. It ends by inviting readers to send beauty questions to the Beauty Box Editor.

Etiquette guidance on dating and party invitations

A reader asks if a direct line asking what a date is doing that evening is crude. Answer advises a straightforward invitation to a show. It discusses theater party invitations for debutantes and whether all white attire for a wedding is permissible, with conditional yes.

Knitters Sought for Soldiers and RAF Aid in Winchester

local clubs urge volunteers to knit sweaters helmets gloves and other garments for soldiers sailors and airmen. Winchester knitters have completed around one hundred items and need more. drop off at Mrs Edgar M Whiting 411 West Clifford or contact 1930. Bundles for Britain asks for nine inch squares for RAF hospital afghans brought to Mrs Whit ing or Miss Helen Massey 101 North Washington for Girl Scouts squares.

Robert H. Barton South Washington Street Winchester Edgar M. Whiting West Clifford Street Britain Royal Air Force

New Method For Treating Burns Described At Meeting

At the Pennsylvania Medical Society convention in Philadelphia four doctors announced a new burn treatment using separated blood plasma. Dr. Walter E. Lee and colleagues said plasma injected into veins acts like a suction pump to draw blood back from surrounding tissue, used with chemicals on burned areas.

Philadelphia Walter E. Lee Pennyslvania Hospital Pennsylvania Medical Society Lee J. Russell Elkinton William A. Wolff Lee

Virginia Plans Mass Invasion of New Haven

Charlottesville reports that University of Virginia students and alumni chartered a special train for a mass visit to New Haven for the Yale game. They will join an alumni train in New York after traveling from Charlottesville, with UVA Day proclaimed for October 6.

Virginia New Haven Charlottesville University of Virginia New York

Dr. Harry P. Gibson Dies in Leesburg Home

Dr. Harry Preston Gibson who practiced medicine in Leesburg for 31 years died at his Leesburg home early Wednesday. Born in Loudoun County he studied at UNC and Sewanee where he earned his degree in 1909. He belonged to local and national medical societies and St James Episcopal Church. Survived by wife Jean Penuel Gibson a daughter Betty Gibson brother Dr. John A. Gibson of Leesburg and sister Mrs James Fraser of Georgetown South Carolina. Funeral at St James Episcopal Church followed by burial in Leesburg Cemetery.

Leesburg Harry Preston Gibson Loudoun County University of North Carolina University of the South At Sewanee, Tenn Gibson Betty Gibson John A. Gibson James Fraser Georgetown 8. C St. James Episcopal Church Leesburg Cemetery

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