Winchester social calendar features picnics and meetings
Weekly events include the Shenandoah Club picnic at Miss Virginia Hancher’s home near Hall, Rotary luncheon at Winchester Country Club, Sunshine Club at Mrs. Wisecarver’s, Old Fred-Pickstown Garden Club flower show at George Washington Hotel, Frances Asbury Union picnic at Berryville, Girl's Athletic Association meeting, and R. Y. Conrad Post Americans Legion gathering at the hotel. Also Class of 1932 Handley High School reunion and Saturday dance at the Winchester Country Club.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Club
Virginia Hancher
Hall
Rotary Ib
Winchester Country Club
Sunshine Club
Braddock Street
M. E
Martin Wisecarver
Fred— Pickstown
George Washington Hotel
Frances Asbury Union
Austin Riley
Berryville
Girl's Athletic Association
Luch Rooms
Handley High School
Ntry Club
Herbert Larrick
West Clifford Street
Old Fredericktown Club
Eg Downing
Front Garden Club
Moncure
Orndorffs Host Birthday Party for Daughters and Kin
Mr and Mrs James Orndorff of rae Va hosted a Sunday party honoring four birthdays: three daughters Mrs R C Mrs Phil Bowman Mrs Marvin White and grandson Beverley Bowman. Guests included the Hicks family and local relatives at the lawn dinner amid thirteen candles on the cake.
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James Orndorff
Rae. Va
R. C
Phil Bowman
Marvin White
Beverley Bowman
Orndorff
R. C. Hicks
June
J. Herbert Orndorff
Aughter
Olivia Annisburg
Ley
Icock
Mar
Glen
Beery Weds Rev. Hugh Edgar Powel in Harrisonburg
Miss Beery former head of Handley High sewing department and costume lead for Apple Blossom pageant married today at the First Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg Virginia to Rev. Hugh Edgar Powel of Knoxville Tennessee. They plan a wedding trip and will reside in Knoxville where he assists Rev. McGukin at the First Presbyterian Church.
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Handley High School
Hugh Edgar Powel
Knoxville
First Presbyterian Church
Miss Beery
Rev. Powel
Harrisonburg
Family heads to Ellensburg for winter study
Mrs. John A. Kern and her two sons Bentley and Jack will motor to Ellensburg Washington to study for the winter with Bentley to attend school there. The Girls Athletic Association will hold its regular meeting tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the club rooms. Attended Luncheon Today In Riverton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephenson M. E
Stephenson M. FE
Elizabeth Furnace
R.L. Omps
John A. Kern
Bentley
Jack
South Cameron Street
Ellensburg
Wash
Girl's Athletic Association
Riverton
Winchester
A. C. Carson
R. E. Byrd
H. H. McGuire
Henry Gilpin
Sophie Baker
Kernstown Cabin Camp seeks beer license in Kernstown Va
R. W. Baker owner of Kernstown Cabin Camp will appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on or before September 11 1937 seeking a license to retail beer and ale over 3.2 percent for consumption on and off the premises at Kernstown Camp Kernstown Virginia.
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Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Kernstown
R. W. Baker
Modern Etiquette Q and A on Shower Thanks and Dining Room Manners
A bride to be may skip written notes after a gift shower with a verbal thanks. Show genuine appreciation and avoid favoring any gifts. Use proper language to refer to a guest as a woman rather than a lady. It is appropriate to greet fellow guests in a hotel dining room.
Heat wave prompts India traffic safety idea for Bombay
Report notes a suggestion from India urging heat relief measures while police in Bombay guard busy streets with a concrete sunshade and safety island at Central Presa.
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India
Bombay
Central Presa
Beery Threats Target Actor Wallace Beery Family
Police guard Wallace Beery home in Beverly Hills after a note threatening Beery's adopted daughter Carol Ann, six years old, with kidnapping unless $10,000 is paid. Central Press reports authorities say the threat came via mail.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Wallace Beery
Rte
Beery
Carol Ann
Torpedo Fired At British Ship Off Spanish Coast
An unidentified submarine fired a torpedo at the British destroyer Havock off the eastern Spanish coast. The Havock was not hit as two destroyers rushed to assist. Simultaneously Spanish insurgent planes bombed the Greek cargo steamer Tsepo 20 miles north of Barcelona, killing the helmsman and wounding a sailor.
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London
Admiralty
Alicane
Valencia
Barcelona
Britain
Paris
Guests Marooned as Pittsburgh Hotels Strike
A walkout by elevator operators cooks and other service workers idled 1400 guests at the William Penn and Fort Pitt hotels in Pittsburgh. Picket lines around the 1600 room William Penn and 800 room Fort Pitt blocked access as unions rejected management offers of a closed shop. Guests lingered in lobbies hoping for a settlement with some unable to reach rooms and service.
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Pittsburgh
American Federation of Labor
William Penn
Fort Pitt
Pittsburgh Hotels Corporation
Knights Without Armor at Capitol Theatre
Exotically glamorous star Marlene Dietrich appears in her first English film Knights Without Armor with Robert Donat in a release by Alexander Korda arriving at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday.
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Marlene Dietrich
Alexander Korda
Robert Donat
Capitol Theatre
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A compact word puzzle item listing across and down clues with numbered hints such as gloomy sucking brisk annelid at all times fuss and more. The page offers a grid reference set including many standard crossword prompts and a few partial phrases like Putumayo town and Lloyds Register style entries.
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Putumayo
Prussia
Extra Meal A Day and Free Mugs Draw Brits to Army
London reports Britain facing 23 000 army vacancies as recruiting opens for a 205 000 quota. Reforms aim to overcome World War memories with perks: four meals a day uniforms with fluttering style steam heated barracks extra furlough money and free shaving mugs and canes. Age limit raised to 28 with pensions after 21 years.
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King’s Army
Scotty Reston
London
Great Britain
Britain
Polio Outbreak Delays Chicago School Opening
Chicago health officials postponed the reopening of 619000 pupils as the city endures its largest August infantile paralysis outbreak. The decision aims to wait until peak illness passes and wanes.
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Chicago
Schools to Reopen After Health Board Postponement
Public and parochial schools slated to reopen next week after a postponement ordered by the board of health. One hundred nine cases of the disease were reported last month, with the peak previously nine in August 1916. Dr. Herman N. Bodensen, board president, warned the disease was approaching an epidemic stage and most cases involved school age children.
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Board of Health
Herman N. Bodensen
Copy of New York Sun 1833 issue found in home
Mrs. William T Barr found a copy dated September 3 1833 among family effects. The four page penny paper lists shipping news and a Charlottesville earthquake tale. It notes hotel business boomed with one New York hostelry recording 1795 registrations in a month.
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New York Sun
William T. Barr
Peyton Street
Benjamin H
Eos Prine Ne
Mattae Oh
Oka
Lottesville
Caltion
New York
Ford Sunday Hour resumes with new stars and guest artists
Three new stars join the Ford Sunday Evening Hour to begin September 12 on WABC CBS. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and pianists Robert Casadesus and Amparo Iturbi join conductors Jose Iturbi and guest conductors including Alexander Smallens Fritz Reiner and Eugene Ormandy. Notable guests include Thomas Crooks Flagstad Bori Lehman Sayao Meier Menuhin Pinza Onegin Rethberg Bonelli Pons and Eddy.
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New York
Ford
Wabc-Cbs
Lawrence Tibbett
Robert Casadesus
Amparo Iturbi
Jose Itubi
Miss Iturbi
Alexander Smallens
Fritz Reiner
Eugene Ormandy
John Charles Thomas
Richard Crooks
Kirsten Flagstad
Lucrezia Bori
Auritz Melchoir
Lotte Lehman
Bidu Sayao
Jascha Heifitz
Gladys Swarthout
Nino Martini
Hepzebah
Yehude Menuhin
Ezio Pinza
Sigrid Onegin
Elizabeth Rethberg
Richard Bonelli
Lily Pons
Nelson Eddy
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R. Y. Conrad Post Americans Legion
Mrs. Orndorff
Oah College Club
Eee
White Hall
Frederick County
Shenandoah College
Dayton
Middletown Grange
Parkersburg
Eulalia Savage Nalley
Bertha V. Kline
Thomas FcGrail
W. V
McGrail
Nan Keating
Little Garden Club
Clarke Cooper
Frank Armstrong
Blackburn Moore
Moore
Brown
West Pittston
John S. Brown
Donald
Woodstock
Broga
Winchester Playgrounds Association
Eleanor Fravel
Walter Fravel
Miss Ruth Beery
John A. Kern and Sons
Washington
Maury Trimble
George Bolling
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio
B. M. Roszel
Stonewall Avenue
Robert Kennedy
Mrs. Kennedy
Caroline Hunter
Gray Gables Inn
Columbia
S.C
William Massie
Joseph Massie
Amherst Street
Lower
Virginia
State Highway Commission
Marguerite Daugherty
Roberta Fleming
Ashby Stouffer
Lucy May Boyer
New York City
France Boyer
W. A. Baker
Austin Morgan
Young Austin Morgan, Jr
Norfolk
J. H. Ketner
Emma Ginn Baker
Bluefield
W. Va
Lawrence Tierney
Courtney B. Jones
Mont Alto Hospital
Mr. Jones
Claude R. Cammer
Margaret Anne
Baltimore
Boston Mass
Boston
Paul Campbell
J. W. Crider
South Stewart Street
Campbell
Anna May Snoke
M. V. B. Snoke
Winifred D. Orndorff
Elizabeth Steel Magee
Panera V. Orndorff
Ipeat View
Hayfield
Edwin B. Orndorff
Wilmington
Del
R. S. Maines
Haddonfield
New Jersey
John Somerville
Cumberland, Md
Douglas DuShane
H. D. Fuller
Somerville
Mr. DuShane
St. Johns College
Annapolis
Isabell Cain
Mrs. J. Mack Cain
Highland Park, Ill
E. H. Grove
C. M. Grove
City
L. H. Grove
Colonial Beach
Potomac River
Fredericksburg
Roberta Lea
U. S
ASCO
Beery Girl
Central Press
Carol Ann Beery
Spanish Coast
Knight Without Armor
W. W. Bird
Loudoun St
Rexall
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Rexall Store
Daily Cross
Lloyd's
Jain
Oma
Ein
Ale
Royal
Pifer Printing CO
N. Loudoun St
Jane Pickens
The
Fashion Academy, of
Crestwood
Huntsberry’s
Loudoun
WEAF
NBC
Uncle Ezra
One Man's Family
Town Hall
Parade
Eddie le Baron
Paul Whitman
WABC
CBS
Boake Carter
Victor Herbert
Ken Murray
Connie Boswell
Jessica Dragonette
Charles Kullman
Roger Pryor
WJZ
Zee
Roy Shields
Frank Black
Symphony
Matt Kenny
Herman Middleman
Henry Luce
Time Magazine
Institute of Human Relations
Frank C. Nesbitt
American Legionnaire of France
the O'Neills
del Casino
England
Harry Kogen
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Underwood’s
Buhl’s Cash Grocery
Sunshine Cleaners
E. Piccadilly St
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