Social and Personal News Note
Social column notes that Mrs. Isabelle P. Miller will collect for the next day, with payments ranging between one dollar and four dollars per minute.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1930
Page
3
Social column notes that Mrs. Isabelle P. Miller will collect for the next day, with payments ranging between one dollar and four dollars per minute.
Miss Gertrude Miller wed Mr. C. McKay Hoke in Trinity Church Martinsburg with family members attending. The bride wore heirloom gold jewelry and a lace handkerchief. out of town guests included Washington area socialites and regional families. Mrs Hoke will reside at 1750 Harvard Street NW after October 27. In Washington Catherine Huyett married Robert Early at St Alban’s with a palace of flowers and a host of relatives. the couple planned a Canada trip and will live at 3800 Fourteenth Street NW after November 1. A governor’s daughter Suzanne Pollard prepared for a winter Virginia wedding to Herbert Boatwright while pursuing theatre roles in Washington. Washington and Lee University hosts a Dante event on Oct 25 and a planned dance as part of inauguration weekend festivities. A Winchester man, Winston Grimm, wed Elizabeth White in Washington with a minister confirmation. A photographer, Lawrence Jolliffe, had a sleet study hung in Paris after earlier showing in Pittsburgh Rochester and London.
The Winchester Red Cross chapter hosts a Ladies P Luncheon to encourage membership and donations above $1. Rev E T Clark leads workers assembling subscription blanks and buttons for distribution at the event. Committee led by Mrs Fred L Glaize includes numerous local volunteers and Cyril Mee arranges the musical program.
The regular monthly meeting of the Workers' Council of the United Brethren Church of Red Bud will be held at the home of Mr and Mrs Howard Linaburg on the Red Bud road at 8 o'clock Thursday evening October 23. Refreshments will be served during a social hour following the business meeting. A full attendance of members has been requested. Mr and Mrs Perry Are Parents of Daughter. Mr and Mrs Thomas Perry are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter at Winchester Memorial Hospital on Saturday. The new arrival weighed nine pounds. Mr Mr and Family Leave For Oklahoma Home. Mr and Mrs Samuel Miller and their daughter Miss Virginia Russell Miller of Skiatook Okla who have been visiting relatives and friends in Winchester and Frederick county the past week left early this morning by motor for their home. They went by way of Washington where they will spend a day or two attending the International Convention of the Church of the Disciples of Christ.
The Winchester Independent Team hosts a Thursday October 23 dance at Jordan Springs Hotel with out of town guests and local dancers to support the team. Music by an established orchestra will be provided and the venue heated for comfort under chaperones. Local manager G Edgar Soutter arranged the ball room and dressing rooms for attendees.
George Bugs Moran was arrested at a roadhouse 15 miles west of Waukegan, held on a $50,000 bond on a vagrancy charge. He is listed by the Chicago Crime Commission as a public enemy with ties to Al Capone and had been missing since the June 9 death of Alfred Lingle.
Captain General Valeriano Weyler was buried in a simple wooden casket carried by a hired hearse in San Lorenzo Cemetery amid heavy rain. The Weyler family funeral at his home occurred earlier to avoid crowds, with the Bishop of Tenerife saying mass over the improvised coffin.
Chicago October 21 opening grain prices show wheat for December at 79 3/4 with new 79 1/2, March 83 1/4 and 84, May 85 3/4 and 86, July 87. Corn for December 79 with 79 1/2, March 81 and 81 1/2, May 84 1/8 and 84, July 84. Oats for December 37 4/3 and 37 1/4, March 39, May 40 and 40.
President Hoover announced that railroads will keep a 50 percent rate cut for moving livestock out of drought areas and feed into those areas until December 1, 1930.
The first fall and winter meeting of the Winchester Reserve Officers is set for 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Shenandoah Valley Academy auditorium. Major F M Miller will supervise the Officers' Reserve Corps session, with further winter meetings planned and all members urged to attend.
President Hoover backs the entire Republican slate in Pennsylvania for the November 4 election. Gifford Pinchot the Republican gubernatorial candidate spoke in Washington Pa delivering his plea amid the campaign push.
Porto Alegre Brazil October 21 The revolutionary headquarters says Mato Grosso the second largest state has joined the insurgent cause Federal gunboats bombarded villages across the coast at Florianopolis Itarare fighting shows rebel forces dispersing Embassy reports insurgent activities have decreased north and south of Parana and Sao Paulo zones no counter attack planned in Itarare area.
New York stock market opened the week with a brief rally then slid as selling intensified. Volume remained modest but prices fell toward last week’s lows as investors faced renewed pressures. Call money rose to 2 percent amid continuing liquidation.
The Prussian press bureau reports about 100 miners killed in a dynamite blast at the Anna coal mine in Alsdorf on Oct 21. By afternoon 45 dead and 60 buried underground with 76 hospital injuries were tallied. bodies recovered numbered 35. Two office workers also died as buildings collapsed.
The administration moves to remove restrictions on federal work long provided for. Mr. Woods, who formed a postwar veterans employment committee, will travel to the Capitol to help develop the relief program with a six member cabinet committee and Governor Myers of the Federal Reserve Board.
Miss Virginia Henretty visited relatives in Pittsburgh and stayed with Mrs. Jack Brown in Washington. Mr. Russell Rogers and Miss Graves from New York spent a day with Mrs. Wade Muse. Victor Larrick of Mason and Dixon Pa and Mrs. Charles Hammack hosted weekend guests. Hannah Walters returned from Brunswick while Lela Ludwig and Lelia Almond of Flint Hill visited. Mrs. Lem Brown and Mrs. Will Fewell of Washington visited. Shenandoah residents Mr. and Mrs. Roger Edmondson spent days with Mr. and Mrs. Williams and others. T. A. Ister stayed several days in Georgetown.
Three robbers armed with a sawed-off shotgun robbed the Prudential Life Insurance office on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx yesterday afternoon. They held up about a score of employees and several customers and escaped with $9342 in cash.
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