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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1929
Page
3
Bulletin invites social and personal news to be mailed or phoned. Mrs Isabelle F Miller welcomes updates by telephone between 3 and 4 p m for the following day, phone number 33.
The Albemarle Garden Club announces a fall flower show in Charlottesville on October 15 and 16 with seventeen sections and fifty four classes. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded. visitors vote for the best arrangement, and judging emphasizes foliage and stem quality along with blooms. Amateurs may enter in categories for dahlias gladioluses roses zinnias chrysanthemums and more.
Dedication notes Dr William H Wilmer of Baltimore as the hoped for idle hour finder as Booth Tarkingtons Penrod Jashber is released and praised amid Johns Hopkins ties. A Girls Athletic Association card party at club rooms charges 50 cents per player with a table committee named. Shenandoah Valley Serenaders to play for Crandalls Hall Martinsburg dance on Saturday October 12 drawing local attendees.
Mr and Mrs Doycé Hall of Washington visited three weeks touring the southern states and stayed with Mr and Mrs Marshall Kline on South Braddock Street. Mrs Hall formerly Esther Rutherford of the city.
Invitations issued by the Norfolk German Club for 21 young social members to debut at the Ghent Club on Friday November 15. Miss Caroline Carson daughter of Judge A C Carson and niece of Mr and Mrs Henry H Little is among the debutantes. Chaperons include Mrs Henry H Little and Mrs W Ludwell Baldwin. A dinner at 8 precedes dancing replacing the midnight supper.
Mrs Dora Brill hosted a kitchen shower at East Boscawen Street for Mr and Mrs Persell Plank wife of Katherine Evans. The event featured tasteful decorations and refreshments with the bride receiving many valuable kitchen gifts.
Miss Lela M. Payne and Floyd D. Miller were married by Rev H M Canter at 5 pm on Saturday October 5. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs R L Payne and the groom the son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Miller. They will reside in Washington.
Mr and Mrs A E Bryant of Wheeling West Virginia visited over the weekend with Mrs Nannie Turner on East Piccadilly Street. Mrs Bryant formerly Miss Maude Turner of this city. They were en route from Washington where Mr Bryant served as best man at the wedding of Mr John Frowman and Miss Jeannette Newman.
A supper will be held on Saturday night October 12 from 5 to 8 at Willow Spring Lupton home one half mile north of Clearbrook on the Martinsburg pike. Proceeds benefit state Sunday school work with a 50 cent supper charge.
The Woodbine Community League holds its regular monthly meeting on Thursday October 10 followed by a reception for teacher Miss Violett Keller. A short program and refreshments will follow and all school patrons are urged to attend. Weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs Koppy and Mr Curtis Bly of Washington staying with Mr and Mrs J F Bly.
The Turner Ashby Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet Thursday at 3 30 PM at the home of Mrs. George W Kurtz 21 South Loudoun Street. Also tonight Centenary Reformed Church Modern Miriam Class will meet at 7 30 PM at the home of Mrs. Frank Horton West Cork Street.
The Junior Auxiliary of Christ Church offers Bittersweet bunches at 25 and 35 cents. Call 502 S. Washington St or 523-J to order from Sarah or Virginia Baker. Proceeds support Mountain Missions and brighten homes.
The account details a Chicago Cubs with Ehmke dominating as a starter and striking out Hornsby Wilson and Cuyler, while Foxx hits a home run for the Athletics in a sluggish early series game.
By distreeés warrant in Cecil Huff vs William B Mac Millan the sheriff offers sale at Stephensons Depot garage on Friday October 11 1929 at 10 am. Items include emery wheel stand air compressor lathe shaft pulley drawers testing table lifting jack chain hoist automobile parts and junk. Terms cash. Deputy A J Wigginton Frederick County Virginia. Duvall and Dunn auctioneers.
The piece profiles Jimmy Foxx at 21 with six years pro experience since joining the A's in 1925 and breaking into the lineup last year. It also notes Bing Miller’s breakout season after being acquired in the Sammy Gray deal and mentions Jack Quinn at 44 still vying to start. Hack Wilson is highlighted as a major attraction for his power and strikeouts.
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