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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
3
Social and personal items note Leie F Miller will be available between 3 and 4 p m to receive a day. Local readers may contact the reporter for social announcements or requests.
In the Shenandoah Valley journey, Mr. Coutts recalls October 19, 1864, when he fought near Civil War command under Sheridan and suffered heat exhaustion. A later search for the caring family’s home connects Martinsburg to Cedar Creek history, with notes on Col. W. W. Fife and local topography. A separate report covers Red Men and Pocahontas attending a Winchester Hallowe'en gathering, plus a Kernstown birthday surprise supper for Mrs. William Carpenter and an Eastern Star card party planned in Martinsburg.
The Forward Club of the Montgomery Ward store held a Halloween banquet at Tokus Inn in the county. About twenty staff members attended along with manager J S Caffee and superintendent P B Gerbert and his family. Miss Virginia Baker serves as club president.
Members of Fort Loudoun Chapter D A R attended the Virginia conference in Alexandria this week and returned home last evening. Represented were Miss Rose MacDonald Berryville regent, Mrs. Katherine Glass Greene state librarian, Mrs. Samuel D O Neal, Mrs. William P Massey, Mrs. D W Ritenour, and Mrs. B M Roszel Mount Vernon Chapter. The next annual meeting will be held in Lynchburg. No officers were elected as Winchester officers kept two year terms.
Relatives traveled from Richmond Baltimore Philadelphia Luray and Cumberland to attend the funeral today for the late Mrs Ida Slusher Russell widow of Frank J Russell. Included were Mr and Mrs James Russell and daughter Garnett Russell of Richmond and others from Maryland and Virginia.
Mrs. Fred Matthews hosted a West Stephens street dinner for her sister Miss Charlotte Hensley, farewelling her before a move to Albany New York. Local Church members attended a Leesburg missionary meeting led by Rev. Page Dame and others. Franklin Strother, 13, underwent a second Memorial Hospital operation for a serious infection and was in critical condition. Welltown League plans a Halloween program at the Welltown schoolhouse to benefit its work. Miss Mamie Chiles, visiting from Gaithersburg, Md., is improving at the Talberts’ home on National Avenue. About a dozen Northern Virginia Power Co. staff joined a Martinsburg banquet at Shenandoah Hotel hosted by Potomac Edison Co. Peck Mills orchestra will play at Crandall's Hall Martinsburg for Winchester dancers. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Headley and others travel from Washington after the death of Mrs. Headley’s father, Mr. David Veach. Local officials Mr. Thomas J. Anderson and Mr. A Mills were recent guests of Mrs. F. D. Oppie. the Munhalls, formerly of Winchester, are now at Ambassador Hotel in Washington.
Several residents are mentioned with travels and visits. J L B Bosserman of Staunton Va visits Winchester on business and stays with friends. F Estes Kline of Vaucluse visits Edward Gilkeson in Moorefield W Va. Fred Stryker returns from a few days at home to a business trip. William F Harrison of Washington, H B railroad freight agent, spends days in town on business. James A Powell and wife depart for Yonkers N Y with Nellie Andrick Memorial Hospital nurse. Elizabeth Grim Memorial Hospital nurse patient slowly recuperating. Mrs Lester Shipley Baltimore arrives for a visit with Robert M Ward on South Washington Street. Mrs S Howell Gardner of Sir Mrs E Douglas Davis at 412 West Clifford Street.
Mr and Mrs Strother Shermen return from Washington and Laurel accompanied by Leslie Cooper. A Halloween social at Howard Lineberg's for Red Bud Church funds invites the public. Col and Mrs Leigh Fuller depart for Fort Ontario Oswego NY for the winter. Marcellus Anderson moved to Memorial Hospital after illness. Mrs Annie Funk travels to Los Angeles for the winter with son Collins Funk. Mr Burch of Millwood was a business visitor yesterday. Detroit News notes bread prohibitions could ease wheat farmer burdens as grapes rise to 175 a ton.
A long ledger of radio programs lists stations in Atlantic City Baltimore Hartford Newark Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rochester Schenectady Springfield Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit Atlanta Charlotte Louisville Nashville Richmond with hourly lineups. Programs include organ recitals news dance music talk shows and orchestras spanning 6 AM to midnight at WJZ WEAF WABC and others with multiple repeats and cross references.
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