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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 28, 1949

Page

8

Mixed Society Notes From Elmira And Nearby Towns

A July society column lists wedding details for oe tien Gee Trott and Elmo Liyod Bloom with attendants and dress notes. Other items cover Convocation Day at Elmira College where Miss Barbara Bond is honored, Virginia Yates pledge at Northwestern, and visits from Mrs. Losier and Mrs. Payne plus Danleys returning from Greenville.

Dorothy Anne Bursey Winchester Elmo Liyod Bloom Bavannan Tnnah Stephens City Ritenour Barbara Bond Elmira College Elmira Lee Bond

Calendar of events page listing sales and performances

Calendar notes rummage sales at the Cooper building on Oct 28 and 29 sponsored by GAA. events include World Whopes show Oct 28. Girl Scout week events Oct 31. Madison lodge program and Municipal band at Rouss hall in the evening.

Cooper Building Round Hil Goemenail Buil GAA Madison Lodge P. m. Municipal Rouss Hall

Peffer Enters Newton D Baker Hospital for Treatment

Mr. Clarence L. Peffer Sr. of 1024 S Kent St entered Newton D Baker hospital Monday for treatment. Mr. Wilkinson of Richmond will address Braddock Methodist adult classes Sunday at 9 45 am in the church and present musical numbers. Also notes of a Halloween party in Martinsburg and Rotary attendance in Strasburg.

Peffer Newton D. Baker Hospital Clarence L. Peffer Sr S. Kent St Wilkinson Holland R. Wilkinson Richmond Sunshine Hour WRVA Braddock Methodist Church Golden Rule Bible Comrade Margaret Collins Wesley Fellowship Followers Rotary Strasburg C. E. Hofer Howard Melton Rotary Club St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

Home Guide To Health advertisement

This compact page ad promotes the Home Doctor Book a home health guide with topics Care of the Sick Diet for the Sick Infant Care Home Medicines Personal Hygiene arranged alphabetically. It offers forty pages of information for 15 cents and instructs readers to mail a gh coin to Information Bureau 316 Eye Street N E Washington 2 D C with the request and return instructions.

Bruce Vanscoy Christened at Methodist Church

Infant Bruce Vanscoy Christened son of Mr and Mrs M F Vans Coy at Market Street Methodist Church with Rev Lewis F Havermale officiating. Phyllis Terry of Salem to visit the Arnolds for the weekend at their home on 8 Stewart Street.

Bruce McKay Vanscoy M. F. VansCoy Market St.“Methodist Church Lewis F. Havermale Phyllis Terry Salem Mrs. Lester Stewart

Winchester Girl Scouts Mark Founder's Week

Winchester Girl Scouts plan a seven day Founder's Week honoring Juliette Gordon Low born October 31 1860 and died January 17 1927. Activities include Girl Scout Sunday birthday homemaking day citizenship health and safety international friendship arts and crafts and outdoor day with a Juliette Low World Friendship Scouts Own at 5 p.m. Sunday November 6 at the Lutheran Sunday school auditorium.

Winchester Juliette Gordon Low Juliette Low Girl Scouts of

Virginia Tech horticultural exhibit opens at Student Activity Building

The annual Virginia Tech horticultural exhibit begins a two day run in Blacksburg with divisions for vegetables fruits ornamentals and processed foods. Proceeds from auctions at close support scholarships library material meetings and recreation. C F Marks show manager and students oversee divisions led by A R Omps J F Otey R D Hubbard Cr DeHaven J H Binns and Miss E C Wamkersie.

Blacksburg Virginia Tech Student Horticultural Club C. F. Marks Norfolk A. R. Omps Ridge W. Va J. F. Otey Roanoke R. D. Hubbard Cr. DeHaven Stephenson J. H. Binns Holdcroft E. C. Wamkersie Orange

Four Petersburg teachers die in Strasburg crash crash

In New Bohemia a trailer truck sideswiped a car stopped on Route 460 and collided with another vehicle killing four Petersburg teachers from Disputanta training school. Two victims were thrown free. one perished in flames. one died later in hospital.

New Bohemia Here Prince George Veneces Negro Petersburg Elsie Royal Cora Reese Gertrude Mitchell Elizabeth Nichols Disputanta Training School H. Mellichampe Miss Moss William Green Charles Price Strasburg Green

Reynolds Store Update Notes Visitors From Shanks and Romney

Miss Flora McDonald of Shanks and Miss Glenna Gene of Romney spent the past two weeks with Mr. I. D. Shade as Reynolds Store reports social visits and local travel notes.

Track and Coupe Collision at Kent and Pall Mall

Damage about 200 dollars from a collision at Kent and Pall Mall Streets between a Clowser Transfer Co. truck driven by Orville Clowser and a Ford coupe owned by Mary Preston Bowman of Baltimore. No injuries.

Kent Pall Mall St Clowser Transfer Co Orville Clowser Kerr St Mary Preston Bowman Baltimore

Judgement Appeal Slated for Trial in Berryville Case

Five man jury considers appeal from Brosius trading as Engineering And Supply Co of Loudoun County who built a Quansit hut type building for Drury under contract on Berryville edge. Brosius claims Drury agreed to pay 4800 but owes 983 leading to a 500 judgment in Brosius favor. Drury appeals the judgment.

Brosius the Engineering & Supply Co Loudoun County Drury Berryville

Modern Etiquette answers by Roberta Lee

The column advises returning neighbor calls within two weeks to show interest in new friendships. It states that a judge's wife is not addressed with the husband's title and should be called Mrs. Hoffman. For a gift doubt, flowers are always an appropriate choice.

Judge Hoffman

Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon

Daily English instruction notes misused words mispronunciations and common errors. The excerpt teaches correct phrasing for costs and pronounces Mayoralty while highlighting tab leau and harmful properties. It also defines medicative as possessing curative qualities and urges daily vocabulary growth with domestic plants having medicative properties.

Early U S tin can history and Underwood cannery

The first U S cannery was founded in New Orleans in 1817 by William Underwood for pickles jellies catchup and sauces. Early cans were handmade and sealed. complete automatic can making was not used until 1885.

United States New Orleans William Underwood Underwood Boat

Dolly doll sport resort wardrobe pattern appeal

A doll pattern by Anne Adams offers ski suit skating outfits tennis clothes swimsuits dance and party frocks for 12 to 22 inch dolls with yardage and illustrated instructions. Send 25 cents to Pattern Dept Winchester Star to obtain the pattern and order the Anne Adams Pattern Book with catalog and a free hat helmet pattern for 15 cents more.

Dolly Anne Adams Winchester Star Pattern Dept West 17Th St New York

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Uste Oste Marie Reaves Henry L. Ritenour Yates Virginia Yates James B. Yates Northwestern University Alpha Gamma Delta Losier L. M. Walker Jr Robert T. Lozier Washington St Payne E. L. Payne Ofenson Mr. and B Colston Sargent London Kuhn Irene Chapman Peacemaker Guntyside Winchester Soleil Te Teeta Arthur Dolphin Gary Dana Stotler Martinsburg Howard Slonaker Carole Home Guide State Washington, D. C Bruce Vanscoy Arnolds Girl Scouts Simpson Wallis Warfield Simpson Britain Edward VIII Romaine Simpson Marques of Milford Haven England Miss Sloan Simpson Mayor O'Dwyer DeHaven of Stephenson Velvet Florsheim Oey Auntsherrys Loudoun ST Reynold’s Store Gaunt’s Drug Store Roberta Lee W. L. Gordon Campbell ST. Loudoun J.B EWING Delilo Dees Trard Perregaux Girard-Perregaux W. Boscawen Lovett Brothers N. Loudoun St the Commercial & Savings Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Virginia Hodgson & Brown Aldeman Field Crest St. Mary’s Cather Margaret O’brien Elizabeth Taylors Lacy Timberlake Oval Ping Margaret L. Hodgson HAT & Dress Shop
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