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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1940
Page
8
Social and personal items cover weddings in Charles Town and Roanoke, engagements, parties, and visits. Notables include Owen McCormick and Miriam Dunlap wedding announcements, Gail Patrick’s divorce filing, and gatherings hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Gr ifth, Captain and Mrs. Barrett, with invitations for British War Relief Ball and Hallowe en party plans notices.
Advice on who should suggest leaving when visiting friends. It says either spouse may initiate departure by asking the other. It also condemns unwanted touching while conversing and advises against finishing another person’s sentences or supplying words when they seem to grope for the right phrase.
Mrs. E P Bean hosts a small luncheon at her South Stewart Street home for Miss Marian Martin ahead of her November marriage to Mr. Douglas Cather. The item notes social events, travel plans, hospital recovery, and local society activities.
The Evandale Home Demonstration Club held its regular meeting at Mrs. Carrol Solenberger’s home. Officers elected include Chairman Carrol Solenberger and Vice Chairman J W Newcome with secretary treasurer and club leaders named. plans for Achievement Day discussed. next meeting set for November at Mrs. Petrie’s home with Christmas Gift Suggestions on the agenda.
A health note urges daily activity not to plod along and suggests dancing and jumping rope to strengthen calves ankles and thighs. It advises leg exercises, high kicking, and toe work, plus a scalp care routine to combat dandruff with oil treatments and washing. It frames dance as fun and normalizing for the body.
A local Bundles for Britain committee explains the volunteer effort aiding suffering in England after bombings in the Battle of Britain. Mrs. Winston Churchill is the representative in England. The group promotes donations from a dollar to five cents for bandages and medical supplies. A Calvacade film showing November 10 at Capitol Theatre Winchester funds an X-ray machine unit, with no film costs.
At the Century Club gathering hosted by Mrs. Lewis Hyde on West Boscawen Street, Miss Helen Massey presented a paper on Ontario and McKenzie King. Mrs. E. G. Butler read Kipling's Our Lady of the Snows. Bundles for Britain Cavalcade planned for Capitol Theatre Sunday night November 10 at 9.00. Proceeds fund a mobile Xray unit for England costing $500. Winchester and Clarke County committees aim to raise that amount.
The Boyce Patrons League led by Miss Mary Thompson will stage a Halloween Frolic in the high school auditorium on Thursday Oct 31 at 730 PM. The event features a menu of cider gingerbread pumpkin pie doughnuts and popcorn with prizes for best costumes and various games. The program includes dancing a house of horrors a fortune teller and music to raise funds for library and athletic equipment.
Teachers at the school gather and bring in various donated items to serve as prizes for student activities and programs.
Mrs Karl Boy Ed entertained guests in Millwood Virginia on a weekend gathering. Notable attendees included Capt and Mrs Ewart Johnston Mrs Everard Meade Mrs B O F Randolph Mrs R G Mitchell Dr Frank Tappan and many others with extended visits and Sunday lunches listing multiple local hosts and visitors.
Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin and companion left Friday for Hot Springs Virginia for a few days before returning to Colorado. Mr. Edward G. Buth and Mrs. Buth were guests of Mrs. William H. Wilmer Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Burnett of Chatham Virginia were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Shewbridge. Miss Agnes Page returned from Washington after visiting her cousin Ralph Skystead. Afternoon News is late. press time shows 9 P. M. in London, 10 P. M. in Berlin, 11 P. M. in Alexandria and Bucharest.
Morgan and Bonita Granville join the cast alongside Dan Dailey Marjorie Main and Connie Gilchrist in the MGM production of Wild Man of Borneo. Frank Morgan Billie Burke and Donald Meek were already announced with S Sylvan Simon directing from Herman Mankiewicz and Sam Marx scripts.
Paul Tross, 41, a Black man punished for attacking a white schoolteacher in Keyser, received a third death reprieve to allow clemency review by Gov Holt. The appeal to the U S Supreme Court was denied.
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