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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1921
Page
2
Centenary Reformed Church hosts a community service featuring the religious film God Is Love. An assortment of old hymns will be sung by a mixed quartet, with music and service emphasizing communal singing on Sunday nights.
Miss Louise Haymaker arrived back last evening after a week spent with friends in Baltimore.
Haller Beaver of Bartonville and Miss Bertha Strode were quietly married at the Lutheran parsonage in Stephens City with Rev. R. H. Cline presiding. The bride is the daughter of Joseph Strode and the late Mrs. Strode. The groom is the son of Jacob Beaver of Bartonville and described as hardworking.
President Harding invites the Virginia American Legion to attend the November 11 memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The unknown WWI soldier's casket will be in state in the Capitol rotunda from November 9 to 11, with a processional to Arlington where the remains will be interred.
B Marcer Hartman of Portsmouth was elected grand chancellor of Virginia Knights of Pythias at Alexandria. Other officers named include Dr Thomas E B Payne Roanoke grand prelate Jefferson Wallace Richmond grand keeper R H Bell Jr Staunton A A Fisher South Boston Walter Sibert Norfolk J A Slaughter Bristol M L Walton Jr Woodstock Charles D Fox Toatcke Capt James T Bailey Richmond Winchester Lodge 66 sent a delegation led by B Promit. Mrs William P Hottel attended.
The Centenary Church invites all to Sunday events starting with a 9 45 a m Sunday school and a progressive men's Bible class taught by the pastor. Worship follows at 11 a m with Holy Communion and a 730 p m community service featuring the film God Ive.
Mildred Lee Grove resumes her Hollins College studies while Miss Virginia Brumback hosts a visiting relative. Principal Clarence Smallwood leads Bryarly school as it opens for the year. Stephens City High School also begins with record attendance after last Monday’s opening.
A clipped dialogue features Mr Pompass and Fargorn discussing marriage and preferences with humor about stout girls and odds against a match. The exchange captures a light comic mood and character quirks in a melodramatic tone.
A humorous wedding vignette unfolds on day two of marriage. The wife fears her husband’s love despite flaws then confesses her teeth are false. He reacts with relief and removes his wig, quelling his own heat of the moment.
At the local sewing circle Mr I heard the Honorable O Rator delivered a quip about the greatest thing on earth being a hem then sat down. Mrs Yes recounts the playful scene with humor and light chatter.
Dialogue reveals Miss Liza agreeing to marry Ras tus, admitting she would marry him because he was the first to propose, amid a strained wedding moment with the parson asking if she takes Ras tus for better or worse.
A humorous dialogue depicts a couple frustrated by laundry service delays and unpaid bills. They quip about money owed and a slow reading of The Decline and Fall, noting the footnotes distract from the plot and the hero and heroine.
A dialogue contrasts a self styled genius with a physician and a comic sufferer. Willie asks what ai ge nius means and Mr Know it all defines genius as someone who cannot collect enough of what the world owes him to pay his debts to society. The doctor urges mastication and the sufferer retorts the teeth were bought.
A fragment describes an aviator waving to friends before a gust of wind. Dialogue touches on velocity and auto suggestion. Mrs. O. L. Jamison left yesterday for a short visit to relatives in Frederick Maryland.
Sunday morning at 9 46 the Sunday school will hold its Rally Day with a Junior Choir solo duets and violin and trombone accompaniment. Morning worship at 11 features a sermon Living up to Our Name. Evening service at 7 30 includes solo by Mrs Boyd Richards and sermon Where There is No Vision the People Perish.
Acca Temple Mystic Shrine announces a ceremonial session in Charlottesville on October 13 and 14. Local representative C. W. Trenary notes many Shriners will attend to aid novices, with certificates giving one and one third fare for round trips if properly filled. others pay full fare.
Jack Vance died at his Cove home on September 28 after long illness. Funeral services were held the next day with interment in St. James graveyard. Rev J C Dugger to lead annual protracted meeting at Star Tannery M E Church starting October 10. Epworth League night observed October 13. Grandson welcomed at J N Heishman’s home in Mountain Falls. Rennie Wirtz and family and Chas Tabler from Washington visited over the weekend. Gravel Springs School opened September 26 with Lola Pingley as teacher.
The listing advertises two homes on Fairmont Avenue priced at 7000 and 5000 dollars with electric lights and in-house water. Also offered is a water powered flour mill with a self rising plant on 17 acres of limestone land, plus a good barn and silo. the owner plans retirement and will sell the mill as a valuable property along a main road.
For sale listings include a single dwelling on Pall Mall Street for 1000 dollars a double dwelling on Main Street for 2000 dollars an eight room dwelling with bath for 5500 dollars an eight room brick dwelling with basement and attic modern in every respect for 12000 dollars 60 acres improved farm near city for 4000 dollars and several large commercial orchards likely to interest prompt buyers Good Company fields the notice with these property details and prices ready for buyers
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