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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
6
The Star reports Mary Scully has become secretary of the Junior class and student editor of the Briar Patch the school annual at Sweet Briar College. Pictured earlier as maid of honor in 1937 she is shown with Gretchen Thomson then Queen Shenandoah 14th.
Surprises mark 15th birthday for Bobbie Womeldorph with gifts and games as guests from Winchester area attend. Separate note reports a 65th birthday surprise for Mrs Frances A Snapp of Brucetown with a dinner party and a parish house reception planned for the Episcopal Church.
A terse ad like fragment shows cigars described as wine soaked and mellow with pricing 2 for 5 cents and a box of 50 at $1.15. A Brooks' Pharmacy phone 766 appears as a contact amid the blurred trade slang and mentions of wives and smoking mixture.
Circle No. 2 of the Market Street Methodist Church plans a cake sale in Solenberger's window on Saturday morning October 14 starting at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Robert W. Snapp leads the circle.
Miss Anne MacKinnon left yesterday morning after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Herman B. Stine. She will spend a day with Mrs. Lionel M. Ives in Westwood before returning to Boston. Mrs. Charles Clanahen of Quicksburg Va. has returned home after visiting the Harrisons of Armel Va. Dennis Cole is convalescing at home after Memorial Hospital. Rows of residents attended the World’s Fair in New York City. Mrs. W. South Taylor visited Kernstown. Miles B. Dean and wife return from summer in Maine to their Northwestern Grade home.
Miss Anne Preston Starling announces a Monday extension music class for rural Frederick County teachers. Attendees should meet in the Handley high school music room at 4 o clock with the same cost and conditions as last year. All interested should be present Monday.
A reader asks about courteous speech in strangers replies and guest etiquette. The columnist endorses civil language, advises against apologizing for simple meals, and suggests tipping a dining car waiter fifteen to twenty five cents.
The article details a crowded school fair with exhibits across farm and garden products, poultry, apples, vegetables, and crafts. Winners include Franklin Brumback, Richard Cather, Harold Fawcett, Maurice Carpenter, Gervis Grim, and many others across numerous departments with cash prizes for top entries and notes that Junior Farmer winners will be published soon.
Prime Minister Chamberlain argues that peace is possible if Germany accepts definite acts and guarantees. He looks beyond victory to lay a foundation for a better international system and to prevent war from becoming a recurring fate.
Chamberlain warned that Britain and France will continue the war to its full extent unless Germany proves its peace aims by definite acts and guarantees. He said Hitler’s overtures must be tested by actions and consults with dominions and France, not words alone. The issue is plain: convincing proof or continued struggle for a real, lasting peace.
Powell Harrison of Leesburg State Vice president of the Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce will direct a work conference for officers and leaders from northern Virginia at the George Washington Hotel at 6 30 this evening. About 40 officers and leaders from Winchester Loudoun Clarke Woodstock and Staunton will attend to exchange ideas and discuss projects. He spoke this afternoon.
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