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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1960
Page
8
The Laymen of the Caras Bridge Christian Church will take over Sunday worship at 10 a.m. Roy Wolford will deliver the morning message Workman Unashamed. Carlton Sirbaugh will preside. Candy Wolford and Ray Whitacre will handle the communion table. The service is open to the public.
The Lord Fairfax Garden Club earned the blue ribbon in the Inter-Club Class at the Cedar Hill Garden Club Flower Show in Strasburg. Other winners included Town and Country Garden Club of Berryville with red and Hawthorne Garden Club with white ribbons. Grant Seabright won the Award of Distinction for arranging. Additional honors went to Mrs. Hugh Crisman and others in blue, yellow, and honorable mention categories.
The cornerstone of the new Relief Methodist Church seven miles south of Winchester on the Middle Road will be laid with services Sunday. Dr L Oakey Wilburn district superintendent will preach at 11 a.m. and officiate at 2 p.m. Century Club meets Tuesday at Mrs John M Steck Jr’s home with a paper "Brasilia A Planned City."
October 21 events include Shawnee Fire Co Auxiliary sale at 22 S Braddock St from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Rummage Sale at Parish Hall from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Woodmen of the World and Fraternal Order of Eagles hold evening meetings. October 22 features additional Auxiliaries and hospital rummage sales at Episcopal Parish Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. respectively.
Friday from 7 30 to 11 p m the War Memorial Building hosts an open house The Teenage Lounge offers a social space with activities and gatherings for young people in the community.
Mrs C Ridgely White and Mrs Richard E Byrd from Winchester Clarke Garden Club attended the GCA Southeastern Zone Meeting hosted by Albermarle Garden Club at the University of Virginia. Charles Webester spoke. Mrs Warner Snider received a conservation award.
A hymn sing is set at Fairview Methodist Church Dou ble Churches near Stephens City on October 23 at 7 30 p m Specials will be provided by Allen Cochran The White Brothers Quartet Mrs Betty Von Snapp Mrs Ruby Beck and others Mrs Howard White leads the program
The Round Hill School Parent-Teachers Association met on Tuesday and approved a Halloween costume party for October 31 from 6 30 to 8 30 p m at the Community Center for school children. A favorable report on a recent supper and discussion of buying a movie projector for classrooms followed. The next meeting is set for the second Tuesday in November.
Madeline Myers spoke at the Doe Club October meeting at the Elks Club on making Christmas decorations. She displayed many items to illustrate her talk.
Members of the Stephenson Women's Society of Christian Service are asked to bring their Week of Prayer envelopes to church on Sunday.
Mrs Cather guest spoke at the Winchester Jayceeettes meeting at the Lee Jackson Restaurant on Drying Flowers for Arrangements. Guests introduced included Mrs Apgar Order Clements and McIntire with new members Long Fleming and Carroll welcomed. Halloween dance set for Oct 29 York Motel and Restaurant and a funeral home tour planned Nov 6. Club voted to send gifts to Central State Hospital Petersburg before Nov 15.
William Minor was guest speaker at a Lord Fairfax Club gathering with Mrs. Shirley Bly. He spoke on house plants while ribbons were awarded for various classes. Blue ribbons went to Mrs. Warren Rice and Mrs. Huntsberry, with many others earning red, yellow, or additional blues in line mass specimens and miniature classes.
Birth notices list Wanda Faye born to Mr and Mrs Lee Roy Orndorff of Stephens City with mother Gladys Peacemaker. Howard Theodore born to Mr and Mrs Theodore Patrick Hoover at 329 E Kern Sr with mother Pauline Bryson. Edward Lee born to Mr and Mrs Edward Doland Wilkins of Nain with mother Mrs Wilkins.
A surprise reception and miscellaneous shower honored the Rev. and Mrs. Paul E. Dick after prayer service at First Brethren Church in Winchester on October 19. More than 200 attendees praised twenty years of ministry, with gifts presented.
The text notes a birth announcement for Margaret Elizabeth Malone and Patricia Ann Funk, mentioning Mr. and Mrs. Franklin K. Funkhouser and Mr. Jackson as part of the family details.
MR and Mrs W Boyd Rae Mey return from Day ton Ohio where their son Bill studies at United Theological Seminary. MRS Evelyn Riser attends Sophomore Parents Weekend at Randolph Macon College in Lynchburg. daughter Shanda also studies there. Hugh Price of Front Royal Road is a patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital. MISS Jean Dove returns home from Winchester Memorial Hospital where her father George K Dove remains a patient.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Lamar Sager of Moorefield West Virginia are congratulated on the birth of a daughter Tamara Ann born October 17 at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mrs Sager is the former Miss Phyllis Ann Silvester. John Ivan Miller, age 11, son of the Reverend and Mrs Harrison L Miller of Timberville, was
An accident Saturday left William T. Bosserman Jr. injured after his bicycle hit an automobile. He is a patient at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Also noted are Henry C. Lewis and the Lovell family visiting or residing in Maryland and Virginia, with multiple hometown references.
Robert Earhart, son of Mrs. Harriet Adams Earhart, chosen as a clarinetist in the Western Reserve Academy Orchestra in Hudson Ohio and also a member of the Junior Varsity Soccer Team. Other notes include attendance at a motel association convention in Cincinnati, a funeral trip to Los Angeles, and a Horn Camp School reunion with Eston Hott elected president.
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