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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1935
Page
7
Myersville residents and relatives visit in Front Royal and Washington area. Local hospital movements report serious illness but some improvements. Several families travel to Mount Vernon and Bealeton while others return from Portsmouth and Pittsburgh for winter visits.
White Post notes from Oct 14 mention Carl Ferguson visiting Natural Bridge residents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Haymaker. Mrs. Archibald Osborne and Mr. Hubert Pflaster dined with Mr. Ernest Meade. Eleanor Conley and daughters Fritzie Gay and Carter Meade visited Miss Mamie Hall in Catonsville. C W Gaunt spent weekend with Miss Joy Chrisman. Minnette Kennerly left Winchester Hospital for winter with Mrs. Patton on Piccadilly Street. Anna and Laura Robinson with Louise Clarke and Mack Robinson and Arthur Carmotored the Skyline Drive. Ella Keys returned from a visit to her sister in Luray.
Mr Sherman Mesmer remains ill with rheumatism in a Washington D C hospital while Mrs Gaunt and Miss of Chrism nurse his store. Numerous friends of Mr and Mrs Reynolds attend to Miss Cathleen and others. Relatives and friends visit at Berryville Strasburg Hamilton Avon Catonsville Staunton and nearby towns.
Rev B F Spitzer and Branson Myers were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Cleve Marple. Mrs Vernon Baker was a guest of Mrs Ella Bowman. Mrs A O Cooper and Mrs Wilson Gardiner and daughter visited Mr and Mrs S T Larrick. Master Richard Orndorff and sister Betty spent Sunday evening with Miss Mildred McCormick.
Mr John Gouchenour has recovered from an operation and may be out again. Mr and Mrs Walter Miller and visiting Mrs lam, Mr Abraham Foster are on the sick list. The Ladies Mount Olive plan a Halloween social at Clark Braitwaite's home. Vernon Baker stays at his Pennsylvania farm. Mrs Jennie Taylor of New York aids in New York with her sister Mrs A L Nail. Arthur Marple of Cumberland Maryland visited cousins Cleve and Mrs Marple on Monday.
Mr and Mrs Paul Triges of Martinsburg visited the Brill home in Brown. Rev H L Myerly is improving at Winchester Memorial Hospital after weeks as patient. Mr and Mrs Robert Smith visited friends in Martinsburg Sunday. Andy Whitacre continues to improve at home after illness. Miss May Jane Brill, employed in Martinsburg, spent the weekend with her parents.
The Winchester Scoutmasters and assistants meet tonight at 7 30 p m at the Scout office to plan the Court of Honor set for Friday October 25 at the George Washington Hotel. Free moving pictures and banners with pins and merit badges will be awarded. A Lee Coble aims to secure a speaker.
The National Park Service plans a historical survey of Winchester and nearby areas to identify sites worthy of marking and preservation. A. E. Demaray says current reviews of Shenandoah area cabins and historic spots will guide federal interest and possible designation. The city manager had urged federal involvement to maximize use of local heritage.
Maxwell D. Mathews of West Cork street, long connected with W. E. Cooper and Son for seven years, has accepted a position with the C. F. Sauer Company in Richmond, Virginia. Friends in the city regret his territory change.
Paris reports United States Treasury Secretary Morgenthau cancelled reservations on an Italian liner to comply with President Roosevelt’s proclamation. He planned to meet French officials, including Marcel Gegnier and Jean Tannery, and sail aboard the Normandie on Wednesday.
President Roosevelt aboard the U S Houston anchored near Perlas Island in Panama Bay before 9 am as destroyer Manley delivered mail. Roosevelt dedicated the morning to reading mail and Washington radio updates amid overcast skies and rain, about 75 miles from Balboa at the canal’s Pacific end.
In Harrison Michigan Ferrin Rowland a farmer who killed his two stepdaughters hanged himself in a Pontiac jail. His wife Elizabeth Rowland confessed to police that she had planned with him for months to kill her two children and to conspire against her father.
Robert Rosecrans led motion to stay Hauptmann's execution and seek a writ of certiorari from the U S Supreme Court. He asked the Court of Errors and Appeals in Trenton to consider the case after a stay of remittitur and judgment. The state seeks to return the record to trial court Hunterdon county as Rosecrans plans to file within a month.
Washington reports a coroner's jury will begin inquest into the death of 21 year old Mrs Willie Mae Wood found nearly decapitated in a hotel. Investigators say undertaker W H Reaguer 50 of Culpeper VA and cousin Ann O Bannon 17 allied with threats over Mrs Wood's marriage to Reaguer. A shotgun was located in Reaguer's car and the coroner notes he may attend the inquest despite injuries.
The Palace showcases Redheads on Parade today and Tuesday starring John Boles and Mrs. Bing Cros in a tuneful whirly-girly revue. The bill also includes a Fox News reel supplement.
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