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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1930
Page
3
Fragmentary social notes mention Mrs Mary P. Erie awaiting events involving relatives and a department gathering scheduled for the following day. The incomplete text hints at personal announcements and local appointments without full details.
Miss Fitzhugh married Mr. Cunningham in Trinity Episcopal Church Marshall on Saturday at 4 pm. Ivory satin dress with rose point lace veil. attendants wore yellow and green satin. reception at bride’s home followed. Guests from Washington Atlanta Hagerstown and Alexandria. The couple will reside in Washington.
Winchester Independent Football Team hosts a benefit dance at Jordan Springs Hotel tonight with local chaperones and the Pennsylvania Ramblers, a popular dance group, performing as the main entertainment.
The Rev Dr and Mrs William Page Dame of Christ Church Virginia invite guests to a Country Club of Virginia ball in Richmond on Friday November 7 to present their daughter Josephine Dame to society.
Mrs Ward of South Washington street shows continued improvement after weeks of illness. The United Brethren Church Young People's Choir will meet Friday at 7 o'clock for final practice before Sunday’s music program. Mrs D W Stine, ill in the county, is slightly better and travels to Roanoke to recuperate with her mother Mrs M A Shelton.
Miss Gertrude Clevenger departs for her annual vacation. She will visit Dr. and Mrs. Warren Sager in Washington and the Misses Dudley in New York. En route home to Philadelphia she will stay with her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Linden Sumption.
The Rev Norris A Lineweaver pastor of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church leaves for Berkeley Springs West Virginia to attend the annual Frederick District Conference in that town Clergymen and laymen from all sections of the district are present Mr and Mrs Maurice Ritter receive congratulations on the birth of a daughter Nancy Eliza at their home 209 South Braddock Street The little one’s mother is former Madge Lowery and Mr Ritter is a Berkeley Club Ginger Ale Company salesman The Young Ladies Bible Class of the First Christian Church will meet Friday at 7 30 PM at Miss Irene Headley s Valley Pike home for an important and interesting gathering
Troop No. 7 of the Boy Scouts of America will hold a public meeting for parents and the Scout Committee Friday at 8 o clock. The program will present famous quotations from great leaders led by Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Boy Scout movement. Prof. Hale and Mr. F Gladstone Crim left for Knoxville Tennessee for the day.
Recent guests include Slater of St. Louis Missouri and Messrs E B Higgs and Virgil Cline of Luray Virginia staying at the Norton Hotel.
A Baltimore attorney and former president of the first branch City Council is remembered in a note highlighting his leadership and service to the city.
Mrs B P Gaw is called to Winchester due to a diary incident involving her brother in law R N Guthrie who, with his son, was in an accident en route to a funeral for Virginia Hyde. Guthrie remains unconscious. Ralph Guthrie is badly hurt. Also notes Dr McFaden's Petersburg meeting, residents visiting/away, and social happenings around Winchester including hotel guests and clubBridge hosts.
Fisher's widow on North Lou doun street presents Barr's Studio display of about thirty pictures. The collection includes tinted prints silhouettes wash drawings enlargements and black and white photos with several miniatures. Highlight is a famous stage coach scene in front of the Elks Home near Piccadilly and Braddock streets just before the Blossom Festival last year.
Rescue teams work through rubble after a cave in on an Erie Railroad tunnel section. Al Romando, one of three trapped, reports a companion may be alive while Jerry L. Sells is found dead and E E Duga is presumed dead. Officials say 300 feet of tunnel collapsed. the 800 to 1000 foot tunnel runs through a 200 foot high hill. The train with 25 cars backed into the tunnel when the cave occurred.
On October 6 1930 Lucille Williams filed a chancery suit in Frederick County Virginia seeking an absolute divorce a vinculo et matri moni from Wilmer Williams on grounds of desertion for over three years. The court orders publication weekly for four weeks in Evening Star Winchester and posting at the courthouse door before October 20 1930 with service by mail to the defendant. The deputy clerk signs the order and notices.
Herbert M. Campbell charged with killing after witnesses framed a tense scene near Sixteenth and B streets. The car belonged to the girl, and Mr and Mrs Hugh R Woods could not positively identify Campbell as the man in the auto though the girl’s father Rev Thomas D Baker attended the hearing.
In New York on October 23 the stock market showed tentative recovery with rail shares wavering as Alleghany Corporation fell three points and Chesapeake Corporation Chesapeake and Ohio and Nickel Plate slipped a point or two in a brief unsettled spell. Pierre Marquette plunged about 20 points in light trading before the market regained footing led by utilities and industrials amid light turnover.
Prices in Chicago show mixed futures for wheat and corn with various December March May and July contracts. Notable values include wheat December old 80 percent new 80 with March old 84 new 34 and May 85 new 8544, while corn contracts display December old 179 percent and March old 8144 new 81 percent, with May at 83 percent and new 84.
In Alsdorf Germany the death toll from the Anna II mine explosion climbed to 251 as rescue teams continued searching for more victims. The disaster occurred Tuesday prompting a prolonged recovery effort and official investigations.
Newark N J Oct 23 Col Charles A Lindbergh began an inspection trip over the new Transcontinental Western Air Transport service in a tri motor plane. He departed Newark airport amid haze heading for Columbus Ohio.
Four persons were killed and a fifth shot, probably fatally, on a farm near Smokey Lake, Alberta. Police sought George Dwernychuk of Edmonton as the suspected slayer in the Edmonton Courier report dated October 23.
Two men were shot, one seriously, today in an attempted hold-up of a diamond salesman on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
Vicente Cardinal Casanova archbishop of Granada died in Sarragosa today at age 76. He led the church in Granada and served from a long tenure. His passing marks a major event for the local Catholic hierarchy and region.
In Marblehead Massachusetts police raided a noted rum plant early today seizing liquor valued at 150000 and arresting 17 men including Captain Edward W Flynn of the Salem fire department The raid described the facility as one of the busiest in the northern shore era
Miss Mary France of Washington died last Saturday at Sibley Hospital. The funeral was held Tuesday at noon at her home 1665 Harvard Terrace with Rev. Chesteen Smith of Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church officiating. She is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery Baltimore. A native of Washington she notablely served the Sibley Hospital Women Guild as membership secretary and was active in Methodist circles nationally. Her father once presided over Sibley Memorial Hospital.
East Liverpool Ohio October 23 Three Keenan children aged 8 7 and 5 were burned to death in a house fire that started when the mother poured kerosene on a stove. The mother was burned and the father Carl Keenan and another child suffered injuries. The fourth child escaped with minor burns.
Baltimore early today Patrolman John Barry struck a Black man with a baton after he wrestled the officer's stick from him and fled the scene. Barry fired two rounds in the air and pursued the suspect who died at the scene. The unhoused man had been arrested prior to the incident.
John W. Wade of Raleigh Court Roanoke was accidentally shot in the heel while hunting in Craig county. Amputation unlikely. Wade, a Norfolk and Western railroad store keeper, was with J W Jenks and others when the gun fired.
Six months elapsed between rains at Frankfort Illinois. The Arkansas Gazette notes a court ruling that Jake Buyer, paralyzed, is not entitled to damages though the item implies potential compensation may exist.
In Charlottesville on Oct 22 burglars blew open the Palmyra post office safe. an explosion was heard at 3 30 am and the theft discovered at 8 30 am. Four sacks of registered mail were taken from Charlottesville Union Station. Mail pouches were stolen from a steel box as a transfer clerk received pouches from a Southern railway train. Post office inspectors railroad agents and detectives conduct the investigation. Palmyra lies about 25 miles from Charlottesville.
The Annefield program showcases top thoroughbreds led by Light Sampson Index John Alden Volante Perdita Galloping Souvenir and Armageddoon with many entries from Foxcatcher Farm and owners Mrs Sommerville Mrs Gilpin Mr Skinner and others. The Old Dominion Cup holds a silver loving cup for the winner in this stellar edition.
Thieves raided the downtown diamond market at Legman and Abrahams in Fulton Street stealing platinum and unset diamonds valued at 125000. Police say the firm was insured for 100000 and allege the burglars used tape to breach a safe before escaping.
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