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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1932
Page
3
Acknowledgments praise Mrs. Wigginton for garden plots Mrs. E N Hardy for flower beds and Mrs Levi Fletcher for a flower box and flower beds in a local tribute to volunteers.
A weekly rundown lists Sunday sermons at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church by Dr Ernest Cherrington. Monday brings Christ Episcopal ChurchAuxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary meetings. Tuesday includes Lions Club luncheon and Leesburg Garden Club flower show at Thomas Balch Library. Wednesday covers Kiwanis and church choirs. Thursday features Rotary Club. Friday continues Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church activities.
Announcement of Miss Annie Elizabeth Rowland marrying David H Scanlon Jr both of Durham North Carolina. The vows were said Saturday at the bride’s mother Mrs W B Rowland home in Durham before friends and family with Rev Dr D H Scanlon officiating. The couple plan a brief wedding trip and will reside in Durham. The bride, a Duke graduate, wore a blue suit with grey fox trim and sweetheart roses. The groom is with Wright Dalton Automobile Packing Co in Durham. Church Women Prize List Noted Later in Article.
The annual Luther League New Market Conference picnic drew several hundred members with visitors from Winchester and Staunton. Rev Amos J Travers spoke in the morning. a basket lunch followed in the grove.
The Fort Loudoun Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution holds a business meeting on Wednesday September 14 at 3 p m at the home of Mrs Frank B Crawford 20 North Washington Street All members encouraged to attend Episcopal Choirs Will Meet Tonight at Christ Church West Boscawen Street Boy Choir 715 Adult Choir 745 Mae Sartelle Returns From Summer School to Loudoun Street Home after UVA session then visited family in Lynchburg
Mrs. C E Koontz returns home from Charlotte Court House Virginia after the death of her mother Mrs F C Thornton. Several local residents travel home from visits including H G Gibson Franc is Gibson and Ruth Chapman plans to return this weekend to Lynchburg. The Little Theatre meets September 13 at 7 30 pm in Handley Library Auditorium. Shenandoah Valley Attractions present Dan regory and his Orchestra and Red Bailey and His Collegians at Jordan Springs Hotel from 10 pm to 2 am. Women’s Auxiliary Christ Episcopal Church Section B holds fall meeting September 18 at 3 30 pm in the parish house.
The Ridgeons Meadow annual Pope reunion gathered many relatives from Maryland West Virginia and Virginia including Mr Herman Raeden Mr G C Perks Mr Walter Chatman and families from Winchester Martinsburg Chambers and Grafton Pa The Schlack family also held its annual Rest gathering with dinners on the lawn and several Schlack relatives from Berryville Martinsburg White Post and Cumberland attending.
Special to The Star reports Mt Williams School began on Wednesday September 7 with Miss Ethel Batten of near Staunton as teacher and 29 pupils enrolled across Premier First Second Fifth and Seventh grades. Local residents welcome the teacher back for a second term amid community updates and travel notes.
Miss Mary Warden Boyd and Miss Virginia Hunter Boyd came back to their home in the city this week after a week’s stay at Virginia Beach. Mr. Charles J. Blair Jr will return to his Cameron street home this evening after several days in Washington.
Mrs. Edward P. Browning Jr and her infant Elizabeth Browning were discharged from Winchester Memorial Hospital and moved to their home on South Stewart Street early this week. Miss L Fairfax Frazier returned to Washington after visiting her parents. Miss Frances Moulder, a Johns Hopkins student nurse, has time at her Rest home.
The week centers on community home demonstration group meetings led by Miss Bess M. Hodsden, state poultry specialist, assisting Miss Farrer. Activities include judging at Woodstock Fair, breeding stock selection, culling, and feeding demonstrations at Cross Junction, Gore, Stephens City, Mt. Williams, and Piney with public invitations extended and meetings at 2 or 8 PM as listed.
Prices for wheat corn oats rye on the Chicago Board of Trade show September December and May futures with values. Wheat September 525g December 56 1/2 May 61. Corn September 29 33 December 32 44 May 37. Oats September 15 2 December 18 34 May 19 44. Rye September 32 1 4 December 34 1 2 May 39 7.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucie Humston Boyer were held at Bloomfield Farm near Gaylord with burial at Mount Hebron in Winchester. She was the wife of H Edward Boyer and daughter of B F and Rebecca F Humston of Clarke County. Survived by husband two daughters two sisters and two brothers.
Services at the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Stephens City will run through Wednesday night September 14. On Tuesday at 8 p m the Rev J W Rosenberger pastor of the South Charles Town West Virginia will preach and the Charles Town quartet will sing.
State Highway Department counts show Valley pike traffic near Winchester Staunton stays strong with about 170000 vehicles monthly and 840000 yearly. Monroe Miller of Edinburg reports 1570 passenger cars and 126 trucks in an 8 am to 8 pm 12 hour count, with 338 out of state cars and more southbound travel. A 24 hour July tally records 2070 cars and 206 trucks, with peak hours 10 am–12 noon, 6 pm–8 pm, and 10 pm–12 am. heavy truck movement occurs at night.
Joshua E. Norris, a 60 year old Baltimore contractor, was found in the back of a Fredericksburg truck after recalling a Wednesday car strike in Baltimore. He cannot explain his movements since the accident and arrived travel worn with bruises and a swollen ankle. several dollars were missing from his pocket though his watch and fountain pen remained.
Mrs Edwin A Jones, 40, shot her sons Edwin Jr 19 and James H 8 then killed herself at their Whitefish Bay home. A note to "Daddy" explains the act as the only solution to their hay fever problem. Jones the engineer discovered the bodies. he himself suffers hay fever.
New York stock list moved back from early declines after the weekly freight car loadings report. Losses of a point or two were largely recovered with several issues gaining, and the market closed steady with total sales around 1,300,000 shares.
Washington reports a postponement discussion for Germany's September 30 debt payment. Secretary Mills says no formal notification yet. conversations with Rudolf Leitner, German embassy counselor, considered funds-raising options. Total 33.05 million Reichmarks due, including 20.4 million for mixed claims and 12.65 million for occupation costs, with prior relaxations in 1932.
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