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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1927
Page
3
The Girls' Athletic Association hosts a combined business meeting and bridge event with an afterhours carnival. Highlights include baby show features, side shows with corn, entertainment, and careful preparation for the late-night program.
Local society pages list Miss Didier. Dr and Mrs B B Dutton as guests at a tea. A Romney Kernstown wedding unfolds for Earl Nicholson and Evelyn Smith with Rev T H Papin officiating. Helen Hardy joins Alpha Delta Pi at WVU with about 100 students selected. Governors Byrd and family visit Shenandoah Valley Academy and area residents host and travel amid campus events and football games.
H. P. Frye, aged about sixty one, native of this county, died in Des Moines Iowa from uremic poisoning after an operation. He had lived in Nebraska and Kansas near Little River where he married Lula Robinson and raised two sons Clifford and Ross. He leaves his widow, two sons, his brother I B Frye and was a prominent Little River citizen. Remains were brought home for funeral and interment.
Mrs J Walter Barnes of Charleston has been chosen to succeed herself as president of the West Virginia branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The forty fourth annual convention was held this week in Huntington. Barnes is sister to the late Charles L Robinson of Winchester and has led the WV WCTU for many years.
A section of the Mayo Island Park stands at the University of Maryland vs Virginia Military Institute game collapsed with hundreds present. Ambulances and firemen cleared the wreckage. injuries were not yet known.
William Ledch of Overbrook Pa. tops the middle Atlantic open golf championship after 54 holes with 221, one stroke ahead of Fred McLeod of Columbia Club and Glen Spencer of Baltimore who trailed after 36 holes.
State police detained three men in connection with a mine explosion at the Galloway mine of the Simpson Coal Colliery Company in Barbour county six months ago. The blast damaged the mine and was followed by a several day fire.
Thelma Anderson, 22, pleads guilty to transporting 195 bottles of whiskey from Florida with two Tampa men T Douglas Britton and John G Miller. Prohibition agents found the liquor in an automobile. one man pawned a pistol. Anderson says the car belonged to her father is a Portsmouth Ohio minister. Police investigated the trio.
Earl Carroll theatrical producer arrives in New York from Atlanta to a crowd of friends and actresses who embrace him amid flashes and applause. He poses with his wife in the station rotunda after being released from prison following a perjury-related part of a probe into a Broadway bath tub party.
Dr Ralph B Snapp received a letter from Governor Byrd appointing him to the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners. He will replace Dr KF W McC of Lexington on a three year term among six board members. Snapp formerly served in the U S Navy dental service and led the Shenandoah Valley Association.
Col. Charles A Lindbergh arrives in Philadelphia as the last stop of his three month journey from Europe. He is scheduled to depart for New York tomorrow to begin the final leg of the trip.
The Color Gravure section of The Sunday World features The Intendant by Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellécour as No 3 in a series reproducing Metropolitian Museum of Art works. This striking French costume study in color gravure invites readers to frame the image and request The World on Sundays.
Epstein, the renowned sculptor who left New York as a boy, returns to exhibit his work in America. He discusses Christ and the Madonna and Child pieces, with the latter featuring an Indian mother and child. He aims to portrait several leading Americans and tour with his works after studying in Paris and settling in London fifteen years ago.
M P Carter of Winchester Virginia writes in The Star recalling R E Funsten brother of Mrs Ward of Virginia. Carter and Funsten once worked together on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad surveying crew in southwestern Pennsylvania highlighting Funsten's sincerity reliability energy and integrity. He notes Funsten’s later service in St Louis Missouri and his valued character and legacy. October 22 1927.
John Mills, a longtime employee of the Arthur G. Jones Woolen Mills Corporation, was badly bruised when he became caught in a spinning machine at the Jones factory. He freed himself before serious injuries, received medical care from Dr. B B. Dutton, and remained upright in his room after the incident.
The American Department Stores Corporation of Delaware announces it has acquired the Brager department store in Baltimore. Albert B Brager and son A Stanley Brager sold their interests. the Bragers retain real estate and lease the premises for 20 years. The Brager store dates back 44 years.
In Wallenburg Colorado on October 22 women led a group of male I W W strike pickets in stoning guards at the Federal mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Women taunted guards to "start something" while men stayed in cars. Ten women and 30 men were arrested and brought to town.
Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell primate of Ireland died in Carlingford after weeks of illness from double pneumonia. Bonfires lit Donegal hills on December 14, 1925 to mark his elevation to cardinalate by Archbishop of Armagh Mon. Patrick O'Donnell who rose from a Donegal cottage to prince of the church, succeeding Cardinal Logue who died in 1924.
Alabama officials report 180 indictments and 12 convictions in a state wide crackdown on masked flogging parties. Grand juries in Crenshaw and Jefferson counties heard testimony from Klan leaders and officials as 45 men were charged in Crenshaw with kidnapping and assault. Trials set in Luverne and Jefferson county pursue whipping cases involving several named figures and local authorities.
In 18 months the organization produced Red Cross goods valued at over 10 million dollars. Frederick county hosts 52 junior units in schools with active participation. The group runs a school of correspondence to connect members worldwide and fosters peace through student exchanges. They also fund and pack Christmas gifts for ex soldiers in hospitals, providing much needed cheer.
An automobile caught fire around 4 o clock yesterday evening at a station near the Winchester fairgrounds. Fire apparatus arrived promptly and the blaze was extinguished without using water.
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