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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1944
Page
3
The Mens Open Door Bible Class at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will meet at 3 45 Sunday morning. Rev Joseph S Ducknall will teach the lesson. All men of the church are urged to attend and visitors will receive a cordial welcome.
The Harvest Home service at Centenary Evangelical and Reformed Church is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday, October 15. It offers thanks for the 1944 harvest with contributions of fruits vegetables meats fresh or canned to Homewood old folks.
Rally Day will be observed at Payne's Chapel Methodist Church Sunday at 11 oclock with Sunday School at 10 a m. On Monday evening at 730 color pictures of Mexico will be shown as announced. Sunday School at Bunker Hill Church will be at 10 a m.
The Ladies Auxiliary honors the memory of Mary I. Janney who died suddenly on August 26 1944. She was one of the oldest faithful members whose zeal and loving personality will be deeply missed and whose wise counsel remains an inspiration. The minutes record this tribute and a copy is sent to her sister Mrs Annie Foreman.
At a Half Century Club meeting in Urbana Illinois an old notebook entry from the 1850s described Abraham Lincoln, famed wrestler, winning a May 2 1851 foot race against Samuel Waters near the Walme Street front of the courthouse. Record verified by C A Kiler and William Harvey with notes from Peoria. The book will join the Eiler museum collection at the University of Illinois School of Journalism.
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church led by Rev R S Wilson Sunday worship at 11 with Rev Leslie H Patterson preaching and 6 pm vesper by Basil Starkey, midweek prayer, Prophets and the Problems of Life to begin. Other churches list Sunday School, services, and youth programs.
Sunday School at Highland Avenue Chapel led by lwood Willey with Supt. Mr Lee Rinker as assistant. Evening worship features sermon My Son Give Me Thine Heart by Mr Duckwall. West Cork Street Church of Christ lists services with sermons Take Pull Heed To Thy Ministry and Whither Bound. Eppley Sisters Gospel Quintette to sing sacred concert October 22 at 3 pm with no admission. offerings accepted. Congregational Christian Church led by Rev Robert A Whitten offers morning and evening services and 9:45 Sunday School. First Brethren Church on Berryville Ave lists sermons Travelling Without Baggage and There Is No Difference with midweek events and prayer meetings. Everyone welcome to attend.
The Braddock Street Methodist Church reports Rev T J Hawkins as pastor. Church School starts at 9 45 a m with Norval M Hottle as general superintendent. 11 a m sermon by Rev William D Smith and a 7 30 p m service with youth topics and song. Family Night Wednesday 6 30 to 9 includes meditation and prayer.
Richmond Virginia October report states Lt Daniel Dodd’s autopsy found no drowning. Coroner R M Wilson said death remains a mystery with head and throat injuries possibly from a fall. Army handled the case. mother Sadie Dodd of Chevy Chase Maryland notes his convoy duty abroad.
The note shows remaining collections of $19,885 and $2,415 to reach a target of $17,470. It implies a shortfall exists and totals are broken into two figures for tracking.
Lt Charles L Harper US Navy Air Corps son of Mr and Mrs Charles H Harper Peyton Street receives the Air Medal and Gold Star for meritorious aerial combat against Japan in 1943 44. Citations signed by Vice Admiral Tow ers and Admiral Nimitz praise his attacks on Wake Island Tarawa Truk Atoll and his ship damaging hits. He is now an instructor at Cecil Field Jacksonville Fla after eleven months overseas and service since 1940. He was formerly a University of Virginia student and Lane High School Charlottesville graduate.
Funeral services for Lottie Bell Brogue were held at Jones Funeral Home on Wednesday October 11 1944 at 2 o’clock pm. Rev J S Duckwall of Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church conducted the service. Jane as she was known to friends was born in Cedar Hill in 1895 and grew up in the Pannett household on Braddock Street. She was the last on her family line with Fred Brogue having died in Pennsylvania.
Town and close friends spoke warmly of Jane, each bearing eloquent testimony to the high regard in which she was held by all who knew her.
Eight new polio cases were reported for a two day period ending Columbus Day, raising Virginia’s total since January 1 to 644. The patients include one from Amherst, Arlington, Bedford, Gloucester, and Goochland counties, two from Roanoke County, and one from the City of Lynchburg.
Washington reports split expert opinions on when postwar cars appear after Germany falls. Estimates range from 90 days to 8 months, with production shifting from war to peace. Rationing and price questions loom as wage changes and OPA policies could shape costs and availability.
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson dies in Oakland on Sept 27 from an accidental sleeping pill overdose. In her March 27 will filed for probate, son Rolf McPherson is named executor without bond and residuary legatee, with modest bequests to daughter Roberta Salter and mother Minnie Kennedy.
Two men died when an Army trainer plane crashed near Camp Lee George County three miles east of the base last night. Victims were Second Lt. M. Tweed 27 RFC and Sgt. Max Cohen of Lebanon Pennsylvania, stationed at Craig Field Selmi Alabama. Bodies taken to Camp Lee morgue.
NEW YORK October 14 the bulk of the late former New York governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith’s estate was left to his five children. The will filed yesterday names S. Senator Robert F. W. Glynn as executor and sets other bequests including 5000 to sister Mary Glynn tied to Burma-India Theater.
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