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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1934
Page
3
The Winchester Girl Scout council will host a silver tea Friday afternoon at Mrs. Water H. Bosserman's home 323 Fairmont Avenue. Uniformed Scouts serve tea sandwiches and cake for a light silver offering with proceeds boosting the summer camp fund.
Thursday 7:30 p.m. joint banquet of Winchester Park Association and South End Hose Company baseball teams at Appleway Tourist Camp with tea at Mrs. Walter H. Bosserman home. Tuesday 12:30 p.m. Lions Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Wednesday 12:30 p.m. Kiwanis Club meeting at George Washington Hotel. Late afternoon tea at Annefield followed by Winchester Lodge Benevolent Order meeting. 8:00 p.m. Winchester Lodge meeting and 8:15 p.m. Adult Choir practice at Grace Lutheran Church.
Harrisonburg Elks invite prominent community figures to judge a beauty contest to be held tomorrow night at the New Virginia Theatre during the minstrel show. Judges include Andrew Bell secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Sherman Farmers Exalted Ruler of Winchester Elks and Ansell B Sollenberger who have accepted.
Bellevue visitors include L. C. Brown and family at Or chars Slope hosted by Mrs D S Mattison. Dora Brown Collins and W C Brown along with other relatives. Ruby Jackson arrives from Hagerstown to spend day at Ruby Jackson Shoppe. Edward Capper and family depart for Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore for son Edward Capper Itt’s treatment. Mary Gray hosts bridge club on North Braddock Street. Conrad Smith returns to New York after visiting Mrs Bryan Conrad on West Boscawen Street. Smith spent summer abroad in Athens Yugoslavia Scotland and Italy.
Al fred E. Distelhurst Jr an 18 year old Nashville youth wandered through Florida transient camps under an assumed name for a year. He returned to Nashville after agents and his uncle found him near Jacksonville at Camp Foster. Officials called it a runaway case and noted he had never been to Florida before.
Millwood Virginia October events show a social season with artists, bankers families, and visiting guests. Notables include Pierre Tartoue painting Leslie C. Fain Jr. in Oklahoma City, high society gatherings at Rose Cottage, and visits by Virginia and New York residents. The Century Club meets to study Scotland, and the Blue Ridge Hunt Race at the Watkins estate draws top horses from Virginia and beyond.
Rome October twenty fifth Mussolini ordered cabinet ministers and grand council members to perform guard duty at the National Fascist Exposition. Uniformed guards with rifles and bayonets will stand at the expo portals until the event closes. Not all grand council members are confirmed for duty. Mussolini also holds multiple ministerial posts as foreign affairs interior corporations war marine and aviation.
New York data from the Literary Digest poll shows Frank F. Merriam Republican leading California governor with 18,241 votes, ahead of Upton Sinclair Democrat with 17,547. Progressive Raymond L. Haight has 3,753, while Sam Darcy and Milen C. Dempster trail behind.
The record notes that the oldest birds studied were about the size of crows indicating their relative stature in the period.
An old Foster Milburn Co advertisement touts Doan's Pills as safe quick relief for kidney troubles. It warns against risky cures and claims benefits washing out 15 miles of kidney tubes and no habit forming drugs. The ad urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
Stephens City High School announ ces a weekly column in the Winchester Evening Star with news from the high school and sixth and seventh grades. Frances Lillard selected editor in chief, Katherine Sandy editor, reporters named from each room. Senior Dance drew 65 couples at the bank building with Soddy Haines and his Virginians providing music.
In Baltimore on October 25, Catherine Bouserman a 23 year old Virginia school teacher faced six more local bad check charges. She admitted passing worthless checks to keep up appearances and a total of 36 counts involving 543 dollars stood against her. She pleaded guilty to six counts and was sent back to jail when she could not raise a 3000 dollar bond. A scene erupted in court when a young woman linked to a local dress shop claimed
A wine colored gown worn by Miss Bouserman was not reclaimed by the court as Magistrate Cadden refused the garment’s return, and Bouserman wore it away.
W A Rowe Independent candidate for Congress in Virginia's First District told the House clerk he had spent 50 cents so far in his campaign. He opposes Democrat S Otis Bland, as reported by the Associated Press.
Florence Desmond replies to Campbell Black after he wins the London Melbourne air derby and $50,000 prize. The couple, captured with the race winner, end a public suspense about their engagement. Desmond, a British stage star, confirms hopes of marriage following the victory.
Richmond Ohio contractors win highway construction bids totaling 320000. Five contracts went to low bidders from October 16 offers and seven more were awarded from bids opened Tuesday.
Swansboro in North Carolina traces its name to white swans sighted by English sea captain Daniel Bates who explored the area and settled there in 1713.
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