Miss Elizabeth Welbourn to Wed Rev Secombe
The engagement of Dizabeth Clagett Welbourn to Rev Al fred Burdon Seccombe is announced by the Rev and Mrs J Armistead Welbourne of Petersboro New Hampshire. Mr Seccombe is a Virginia Theological Seminary graduate and assistant minister at St Paul's Memorial Church University of Virginia. The couple plan a Christmas holiday wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Armistead Welbourne
Dizabeth Clagett
Alfred Burdon Seccombe
Will S. Seccombe
Mr. Seccombe
Petersboro
N. H
Miss Welbourn
Lyceen Duray
Paris
America
St. Catherine’s School
Richmond
Bryn Mawr College
Cotillon
Baltimore
London School
Washington
University of Virginia
Theological Seminary
Alexandria
St. Paul's Memorial Church
Seccombe
Zeta Psi Fraternity
Eli Banana
Skull and Key
Miss Heloise Matthews Private Beauty Consultation
Brooks' Pharmacy offers 45 minute private consultations for complexion care during the week of October 21. Only 10 appointments daily, reserve now by phone 766.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Winchester religious groups schedule meetings this week
Friday 8:00 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church hosts Winchester Council of Religious Education. Also at 8:00 p.m. Tri County Odd Fellows meets with Marsh Run Lodge of Middletown. Saturday 3:00 p.m. Junior Music Club meets at Betty Joe Stretchberry’s home. 8:00 p.m. Rest Methodist Church Women’s Society meets with Miss Ethel Barrett of Rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Council of Religious Education
Grace Lutheran Church
Tri-County Odd Fellows Association
Marsh Run Lodge
Middletown
Time With Family Noted On Gray Avenue
A social note records time spent with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Elmore Norris on Gray Avenue, highlighting familial ties and local gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Elmore Norris
Gray Avenue
Euterpian Club Plans 1940 41 Program and Officers
The Euterpian Club schedules its 1940 41 program at Miss Mary Glenn Lupton's home 430 North Braddock street October 15 at 8 pm Officially elected officers are President Garnet Hamrick Vice President Georgia Shoppe Cather and Secretary Treasurer Eulalia Savage Nally The theme Contemporary Musical Artists will guide study Circle No 2 of Braddock Street Methodist Church installs officers Circle No 2 led by Miss Mary Lou Steele elects Mary Glenn Lupton assistant leader Goldie Affleck secretary and other posts The group meets again in November with Mrs Clarence E Hardy for a social hour and new acquaintances formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euterpian Club
Mary Glenn Lupton
North Braddock Street
Garnet Hamrick
Georgia Shoppe Cather
Eulalia Savage-Nally
Toay
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Welltown Methodist Church
G. Y. Yeakley
G. T. Yeakley
I. W. Ebert
Anna Belle Russell
Edith Russell
C. F. Shillingburg
R. B. Moore
C. M. Barrett
Robert Hoover
Lena Teets
R. L. Ridgeway
S. K. Ridgeway
Circle No. 2
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Mary Lou Steele
John L. Glaize
Goldie Affleck
D. M
P. G. Ireland
Merlin Bly
Victor Wheeler
Ann Butler
Grover C. Lewis
Irwin Carper
Harry W. Butler
H. L. Vance
Clarence E. Hardy
Rest Methodist Church Women Plan October Meeting
The Reston Service of Rest Methodist Church sets a Saturday Oct 12 8 pm gathering at Miss Ethel Barrett's home in Reston VA with president Mrs G H Fielding presiding. The Junior Music Club meets tomorrow 3 pm at Miss Betty Jo Stretchberry 223 Parkway Ave featuring English Irish and Scottish tunes with Colleen Shine Thelma Edwards Allen Cochran Jean Whitham Anna Lee Funk Betty Jo Stretchberry Morris Cather and Leigh Rosenberger on the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Society of Christian Service of
Betty Jo Stretchberry
Parkway Avenue
Colleen Shine
Thelma Edwards
Allen Cochran
Jean Whitham
Anna Lee Funk
Morris Cather
Leigh Rosenberger
Bertha Kline to Lead Joint Devotionals at Braddock Street
Miss Bertha V. Kline will lead a joint devotional session at Braddock Street Methodist Church with the Margaret Collins Denny Bible Class and the Comrade Bible Class. Mrs. Godfrey M. O'Rear will teach the Comrade class. Sunday at 9 45 a m. A full attendance is requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Kline
Margaret Collins Denny
Comrade Bible
Braddock Street
Pervewss
Godfrey M. O'Rear
Factories Make Farm Labor Scarce In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report notes busy mills and factories reducing hired farm help. It cites high service funds and wages while signaling improved prospects for potatoes buckwheat and tobacco but lower corn production due to September weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Modern Etiquette Q A Glove Handshake and Theatre Manners
The reader asks if a woman in gloves should apologize for not removing the right glove before a handshake and whether eating candy at the theatre is poor form. The answer says no apology or glove removal is required and candy at a venue is not strictly bad but best avoided. Oliver Wendell Holmes described afternoon tea as "Giggle gabble gobble git."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Clagett Hosts Guests in Millwood Social Evening
In Millwood Virginia on October 11 William Clagett hosted a social gathering with guests including Mr. and Mrs. David Donovan Mr. and Mrs. Henry Post Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. William Bell Watkins Jr Miss Agnes Mitchell and others. Weekend visitors arrive from Boston and Philadelphia and nearby locals attend dinners and hunts. The Rose show at Farmington and garden club events are noted along with various travel and hospitality updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millwood
David Donovan
Henry Post Mitchell
William Bell Watkins
Agnes Mitchell
Fraser Dougherty
Roland Mitchell
William Clagett
Gertrude Peabody
Boston
Mass
Percival Parish
Philadelphia
W. Stanley Stokes
Clarke
Karl Boy-Ed
Edward Butler
Charlottesville
Garden Club of Virginia
Farmington Country Club
Perkins
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Mrs. Butler
Mrs. Gamble
Washington
Roosevelt signs pay bill for Puerto Rico mother over son’s Fort Jay death
President Roosevelt approves $5 000 compensation to Mrs Francissa F Rivera of Santurce Puerto Rico for the 1936 death of her 13 year old son James Rivera struck by an army truck at Fort Jay New York. The boy lived at the post with his father Sergeant Epifanio Rivera who later died at Fort George Meade Maryland. The Riveras then moved to Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Francissa F. Rivera
Santurge
Puerto Rico
James
Fort Jay
N. Y
Epifanio Rivera
Riveras
Fort George Meade
Maryland
Rivera
Energy Foods In Your Diet NOW
Bakers defend white bread as an energy carbohydrate suitable for reducing diets. The piece notes fat content is low and emphasizes balancing carbohydrates while warning against excessive dieting and hard water effects on skin. It scoffs at refined fat avoidance and suggests a lavender flavored hard-water rinse to aid makeup wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our
Fair Land
For Sale Upright Piano in Excellent Condition
For sale upright piano in excellent condition. Apply at 113 Morningside. Call 96 J. Also for sale a player piano and side board at Fairfax Inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morningside
Fairfax Inn
Banks To Close For Columbus Day October 12 1940
Banks announce holiday closing Saturday October 12 1940 in observance of Columbus Day. All paper maturities due that day will be payable on Monday October 14 with respected bank officials Harold G Brown J H Yost J I Sloat Geo B Bushnell and the Union Bank of Winchester listed as signatories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold G. Brown
Shenandoah Valley Nat'l Bank
J. H. Yost
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co
John
Sloat
Commercial and Savings Bank
Geo. B. Bushnell
Union Bank of Winchester
Treasury Status and Debt Figures Highlight Daily Briefing
October 9 receipts total 8.41 million dollars and expenditures 27.74 million. Gross national debt stands at 44.072 billion with a daily increase of 7.594 million. Plus a literary aside noting Addison and Hesiod as early humorists in fables.
Send Your Orders to the Address in the Box
Notice directs readers to forward orders to the postal address printed in the accompanying box. The instruction emphasizes using that box for submission and payment. No additional details about deadlines or contact points are provided in the readable text.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elizabeth Welbourn
Mr. Secombe
St. Joan's
Christ Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church House
Walter Barr
F. C. Doyle
Tennessee Avenue
Martinsburg
Mr. Doyle
Doyle
Winchester
Stafford
Genn
Berkeley Woolen Co
Leonard Sirbaugh
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Sirbaugh
Lelia Shipp
Crewe, Va
Hugh 8. Lupton Insurance Agency
Rouss Avenue
Margaret Byrd
Princeton
Loudoun
J. Henke] Henry
George Bennett
Mary Stine
Catherine Rowe
Martha Barnhart
Cumberland
Miss Heloise Matthews
the Flower Shop
Piccasilly St
Steve Ont
Sunshine
Betty Joe Stretchberry
The
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Euterpians
Welltown Service Group
Miss Barrett
Junior Music Club
Walter Lee
New York
Gwynne Harrison
Great Neck
Long Island
Walter Roesler
Mrs. Pittman
Charlotte Meade
Everard K. Meade
Richard Dole
Miss Margaret Dole
Alice Winslow
Alexis Sommaripa
Bellfield
Hope Shewbridge
Burkhard
H. H. Shewbridge
Miss Shewbridge
Union Memorial Hospital
L. Savacool
Orange, N. J
Burwell Jacobs
A. R. Dunning
Mrs. Birch
Alexander Stronach
Helen Follett
Virginia Simms
S. Loudoun
Loudoun St
J. B. Cather
Hable’s Real Estate
Stephens City
A. Taylor Ritter
E. Cork St
Bill Bakers Restaurant
Housetork
Leicester St
J. Edward Klingaman
Sensency
Box
W. O
Care Star Office
Valley Ave
W. W. Easter
N. Main
Ext
RED Cross
the Tempta
Huntsberry
Eaton
Highland
Fear Company
Ine
Underwood
F. A. Shryock
Olga Stoker Coal
W. B. Snider & Son
N. Cameron St
Valley Pride
United Food Stores
N. Loudoun St
A. Joseph Addison
Hesiod
Igt
Columbus
Old World
New World
Columbus Ound
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
E. Piccadilly St
Dole Or
del Monte
Sanitary Seurce Market
N. Braddock St
Barbara Bell
Winchester Evening Star
New York, N.Y
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