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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
6
Social and personal calendar notes list luncheon for American Legion Post at a hotel, surprise parties for Edward Lee and other gatherings. Numerous entries recount visits, birthdays, births in Memorial Hospital, travel to Charlottesville and Baltimore, and relatives visiting or hosting in Winchester and nearby towns.
If you cannot use a booked hotel room cancel is customary but not required so the property may relet it. When cutting meat keep fingers off the blade and rest on the handle rather than the knife edge. Do not underline to stress words in a letter rely on wording instead.
Mrs Ethel Coverstone visits East Cork street. Mr and Mrs Charles Royston of White Post host family. Nurse Gertrude Organ has moved to sister Mrs W T Sullivan on National avenue. Mr and Mrs R C Green of West Leicester street travel to Roanoke for niece Jeanette Dunlap to C Horner Johnson wedding in Philadelphia. The Baptist Church ceremony starts at 5 30 with a small reception afterward.
The Chanters meet tomorrow at 7 30 in the Presbyterian Church. The Mary Martha Class gathers tonight at 8 at Centenary Reformed Church hosted by Mrs William Goss of 407 South Kent Street. Braddock Street Methodist Comrade Bible Class meets tomorrow at 8 in the ladies assembly room for its first conference year gathering with officers hosting.
Families from Bedford Pennsylvania and Capon Bridge West Virginia visit Trone Virginia relatives. The Rev Russell of Capon Bridge preaches at 11 Sunday morning. Evelyn McCauley of Winchester visits grandparents Turner Anderson and Thurson Kerns. Candy Curtis and Charlotte spend an afternoon with Mrs Cletus Sirbaugh.
In Cross Roads Virginia on October 23 the Rev M L Zirkle conducted services at Fairview. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Ben Slane and Mrs Kidwell from Cold Stream. Milton Marple hosts his furlough with parents U J Marple after training camp in North Carolina. O F Marple of Monessen Pennsylvania visits U J Marple’s family.
A historical fitness piece urges stout women to be stout-hearted and persist in weight loss. It promotes a self image from the past, advocates visualization, lists exercises to tighten the waist and thighs, and prescribes a diet of poultry fish lean meats vegetables and dairy while banning cereals bread and sweets.
Frederick Maryland October 23 J Edgar Hoover will be asked to recommend a successor to Bert Pelissier who resigned as Frederick police chief to join a New York post Mayor Lloyd Culler says no other Frederick officer meets the city plan requiring a graduate of the FBI Police Academy in Washington for the chief’s job.
Frederick Circuit Court records show divorces in three cases Felix Palmer versus Thelma Palmer, Dunlap versus Dunlap, and Haymaker versus Haymaker all citing desertion. Decrees prohibit remarriage by the principals for six months.
Woodstock selects C. M. Shannon of Jackson as retiring county chairman after 25 years in leadership. New officers include French Boyer Woodstock and John Crim New Market as vice chairmen J J Crawford Strasburg as secretary and C M Shannon treasurer. An executive committee from each magisterial district names two members per district.
Federal employes rose by 53 296 from July to August as War and Navy departments added the most workers. War added 30 569 civilians reaching 358 788. Navy added 17 954 reaching 253 421. August payroll totaled 217 772 054 dollars, up 11 794 748 from July.
The second annual National Peanut Exposition opens in Suffolk next Thursday with five times the town population expected. The Peanut Palace is dedicated with a miniature circus, followed by a Harvest Ball featuring Norman Phelps and his string band in a peanut warehouse.
A U S congressional sub committee voiced disappointment over progress on new U S defense installations in Bermuda. Chairman William Sutphin said the group will detail reasons in a full report after touring U S bases on leased British soil in the West Indies and off South America. The panel arrived in Bermuda aboard a navy flying boat amid rumors of lack of cooperation.
Fort Worth, Oct. 23. George Walker, 15, an ex Marine, returned home from San Diego after disappearing Sept. 8. He had enlisted under a false name and was located after two friends alerted the family. His parents secured his discharge and he began the journey home on his 15th birthday.
Roanoke meeting of the Associated Clubs of Virginia for Roadside Development urged state legislation to guide roadside development and make county zoning retroactive. Leaders attacked unsightly dine and dance places and immoral trailer camps, aiming to curb such establishments.
ASHLAND Va Oct 23 David W Levi of Berryville a Randolph Macon College class of 1943 member was formally initiated into the Commons Club an organization of non fraternity men on Tuesday night It was announced today Levi a student assistant in the chemistry department and recently elected see student associate member of the Virginia section of the American Chemical Society has been listed in the A section of each dean s list since first matriculated at Randolph Macon
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