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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1941
Page
8
A Sunday surprise birthday dinner honored Mrs John McDonald on turning 64. Attendees included numerous families from Berryville and surrounding towns, with updates on relatives visiting, illness recoveries, and local travels.
Miss Anne Robinson hosted a dance at her Leicester Street home honoring Miss Ann Dudley Field of Memphis visiting her grandmother Mrs. Robert T. Barton. Guests included Misses Charlotte Meade Pegsy Shryock Betsy Conklin Jean Whitham Beatrice OConnell Alto Mae Myers Doris Register Kitty Lou Arnold and others. Also attending were Messrs Ben Dutton Pat Duffey Bobby Williams Stuart Bailey and more.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner welcomed their daughter Miss Doris Turner and Mr. Roy Harper of Winchester as weekend guests. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Turner and Mr. Jack Boetcher of Bridgeport Conn. Ben Turner and Jack Boetcher are engineers with General Electric. Lieut. A W Johnson, former GE engineer, and Lieut. Gerald M Houck of North Carolina, stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, were weekend guests.
Miss Marion Catherine Moore and Sgt. James W. Thrift wed July 6 in Union City New Jersey officiated by Rev. George F Kamke. Thrift is a Handley High School graduate class of 1934 stationed at Winson Locke Connecticut. Lucille Corinne Whitacre wed Harley Martin Powell February 16 1941 Elkton Maryland. she is Sear Roebuck assistant manager. Powell is son of Mrs Della Powell Martinsburg and late Frank Powell connected with Virginia Barrel and Cooperage Company. Hugh Peters is hospitalized in Philadelphia Presbyterian Hospital after mastoiditis operation.
A column by Robert Lee discusses church etiquette and dining rules. It covers handling coughing in church with small soothing candies, sending bread and butter letters to a friend’s mother, and keeping a plate in front of each guest until the salad is served.
Betsy Ter has moved from Wolfe Street to 112 Handley Boulevard. The notice notes a change of address for Betsy Ter.
The September business meeting of the Girls Athletic Association was held at 139 South Loudoun Street. An Invitation Party is set for September 18 at eight o'clock replacing the regular tea, with committees led by Mrs. Cornelia Richard and Mrs. LuVella Widmyer. The club also hopes to field a bowling team in the Winchester Evening Star Ladies League. Circle No 9 of Braddock Street Methodist Church meets Monday at 8 with Mrs. Dudley Lichliter for the final church-year gathering. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Campbell on the birth of daughter Alice Loraine on August 21. Mrs. Campbell formerly Miss Bessie Clowser.
A reflective, humorous guide to personal grooming pieces together a vanity routine. It extols regular professional care and at home rituals from shampoo to facial massage, stretching, and nail care, ending with bedtime hair and nail prep.
Berryville social column reports guests and travels including Lillian Deavers in Atlantic City with Rose Pitta, Whitaker family visits from Virginia, and arrivals of Mrs. Cleve Pierce and Mrs. James Hibbard in Baltimore. News also comes of Aviation Cadet Samuel M B Stonestreet death from Miami Naval Air Station after an aviation accident, linked to Washington via his mother Est her Whiting and cousin Beverley Whiting.
End with Col. Charles Consolvo, Mr. John T. Burwell who has been spending his vacation in Clarke with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Townsend Burwell, will re turn to Boston Sunday. There will be a Sunday night supper at The Blue Ridge Country Club on Sunday Sept. 7, for members of the club and their guests. Rev. Robert Magill who has been spending some time at Abbyeville with his family returned to his home in Lynchburg on Tuesday. Mrs. Alexis Sommaripa returned to Bellfield Friday from New York where she had been spending a few days. She will have as her guest this week end Mr. Charles Thorndike, of Dover, Mass. Next week her brother and sister in law, Mr. and Mrs. Amory Thorndike, of Bar Harbor, Me., will arrive for a visit.
In Millswood Virginia on September 6 Mr and Mrs Walter Lee hosted a dinner honoring house guest Mrs Roland Clapp of the Eastern Shore Maryland. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Geo P Greenhalgh and others with guests later departing for Perrysville Perrysburg and Maine.
The article lists multiple families traveling or returning home from visits in Virginia and Maryland. It notes new Berryville Public School faculty arrivals including Miss Ann Jones and Miss Mary Young Unruk, and mentions families visiting relatives in Richmond Norfolk and Alexandria.
Berryville Va September 6. Mrs S A Beyland of King George Va visiting her aunts Miss Florence Shepherd and Miss Lula Shepherd. Mr and Mrs Henry Scanlon of Madison Wis have left Berryville after visiting. Mrs Eddy Joyce and Master Pat Joyce return from Washington. Mr and Mrs Robert Shenk and Mr and Mrs Gus Hark return from Atlantic City after a several days stay. Little Gussie Hark visited.
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