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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1929
Page
3
The department welcomes social and personal messages to be mailed or called in. Mrs Isabelle F Miller will receive news by telephone daily between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. Phone No 33.
Mrs. P. N. Georges entertained in honor of her sister Mrs. Ww. J. Hottel of Winchester with a bridge party on Pennsylvania Avenue. Attendees included Mrs. Hottel Mrs. Currier Mrs. Gail Francis Mrs. Bush Mrs. Bryant Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Laughlin guest from Selma Alabama plus Mrs. Blood. Mrs. Crawford Worsham assisted with refreshments. Mrs. Bush won top score a Hershey glass bonbon dish. consolation went to Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Hottel won a jar of bath salts in the cut.
Invitations announce the wedding of Miss Virginia Evans Cochran daughter of Mr and Mrs Joel Minter Cochran of Charlottesville to Lieut Powhatan Moncure Morton of the Thirty fourth Infantry US Army. The ceremony will be at Cedarly at 530 pm on Saturday September 21. Morton a West Point graduate 1928 now stationed at Fort Eustis VA is the youngest son of Rev Dr and Mrs William Jackson Morton of Alexandria. His father is rector of Christ Episcopal Church Alexandria and the couple are noted in regional society circles.
Mrs. Maysie Fechtig of Palm Harbor Florida Mrs. Margaret Myers of Mount Clinton Virginia and Mr. James Rhodes of Elkton Virginia drove Saturday from Harrisonburg to the Shenandoah Caverns near Mount Jackson and then to Winchester where they stayed with Mrs. Rose Hawse on South Braddock street. Mrs. Myers and Mr. Rhodes returned home yesterday and Mrs. Fechtig left today for Washington before a Florida return in October.
Invitations reach northern Virginia connections for Olive McBanbie Janney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Muzzy Crosby, to wed Mr. Benton Sencer on Wednesday afternoon September 11 at Westminster Church Minneapolis. Reception at 2120 Park Avenue home follows. Case a Janney relative and pioneer lumberman in Minneapolis.
Mrs Rutherford hosts as Miss Rosalie Bruce Nelson arrives from Winchester to be presented at the first Bach elore Cotillon. Several parties planned in her honor as she joins Baltimore society and Mon terey guest status.
The Lions Club holds its regular weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at Jordan Springs Hotel with dinner in the main dining room and a dance to follow. Ladies of the club are special guests and friends of the Lions are invited.
Members of the Girls Missionary Guild met at Miss Frances Forney’s home on East Cork street. Visitors include Donald O Leary of Philadelphia staying with aunt Ursula O Leary, R D Crabill of New Market in town on business, Clarence O Leary recovering at Memorial Hospital, Minnick of Atwater Kent Radio Company in Washington on business, W J B Allen and daughter of Washington as guests, Kutler of Hagerstown on business, C J McDonnell of Baltimore as hotel guest, and Mr and Mrs W B Potts visiting Whitacre relatives. Frank Aston of Cincinnati also staying in Winchester.
The Senate naval committee decided to investigate American ship building firms' roles in international naval limitiations talks. The move, likely to be approved by the Senate, follows a Bethlehem Steel letter about its relations with William B Shearer, a self styled naval propagandist. Senator Borah plans to introduce a resolution to empower the panel.
Ten crew members and their families died when the Soviet oil tanker Medveditz exploded at Norsky, ten miles down the Vega. Nine crewmen from a nearby tanker were gravely injured.
Three Gastonia strikers Ben Wells C M Sell and C D Saylor told Charlotte authorities they were seized by a mob in Gastonia after a labor leader trial, driven to Cabarrus County eight miles from Concord, lashed, and dumped to find their way home. The mob reportedly attacked in Gastonia and Charlotte after the trial related to Police Chief Aderholt’s murder.
Rainfall in August around Winchester was below normal with only 1.9 inches measured at the Winchester Research Laboratory. The month saw scattered showers from August 3 14 and a light shower on August 22, while Berryville nearby had only a sprinkling.
A. B. Groves of Arkansas was announced as plant pathologist at the Winchester Research Laboratory of the Virginia Experiment Station. He will work with entomologist W. Ss. Hough and succeeds F. J. Schneiderhan who moved to pathological work for West Virginia University.
An elderly man named Lamp living on Southent street was struck and run over last evening near Boscawen and Kent streets by a disabled automobile being towed to a garage. Lamp reportedly crossed the rope connecting the two machines and was knocked down and run over. He received medical care and remained at home today.
Agents of the Barnett Brothers three ring circus completed arrangements for a town appearance on Wednesday September 25 with two complete performances and trained animal shows.
Bernhard Baron great benefactions include gifts to Americans in his 25 million dollar will. He left 10,000 pounds about 50 thousand dollars to Mrs. Charles Katz of Baltimore and 5,000 pounds about 25 thousand dollars to his nieces Mrs. Otto Sherry of Baltimore and Mrs. Lena Seigal of Dallas Texas.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh left Lambert-St. Louis field at 10 48 a m heading for New York. They were piloting Capt. Frank Hawk s Lockheed Vega and had flown to the scene of the prior search for the City of San Francisco airship.
Thirteen people are killed and four seriously injured when a passenger bus overturns on a road near Alcoleo Cordova Spain. The tragedy occurred on September 10 as the bus toppled.
Mrs. Maria J. Leslie former housekeeper to Mr and Mrs Isaac E Emerson of Baltimore pleaded not guilty to grand larceny for allegedly taking on credit in Mrs Emersons name and reselling jewelry worth 486000 from John Wanamaker stores in New York and Philadelphia Bail set at 10000 by Judge Max Sle Le vine with plans to raise bail later.
A bolt of lightning struck the barn on the McCune Farm near Middletown, Frederick County, Sunday afternoon, setting the structure ablaze. Hay and straw burned in the blaze, but no livestock were harmed. Pearly Jenkins manages the farm after the death of Dr. Samuel McCune.
Three young pilots of the City of Baltimore waited for landing gear repairs from a Detroit factory before a planned non stop flight route from Wichita to Los Angeles to Baltimore. A shock absorber was smashed and an aileron bent when the plane landed in fog at Municipal Airport after spinning out of Wichita en route to Los Angeles. Lt. William L. Snowden piloted the craft with owner George R. Hutchinson and co pilot A G Graham aboard.
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