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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1939
Page
8
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Dorothy Brown Rust to Mr. William Backus. Family notes mention Dorothy’s education at Arlington Hall and Blossoms Festival attendance. Background on Russell family and universities cited.
Mr and Mrs Cecil Barr entertained at their Mull road home Sunday to honor their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Wun ei Lee recently married Attendees included H Barr Strasburg Arthur Lee and family Berryville Garland Ridgeway Leroy Stephenson Ray Lee and Miss Lottie n Winchester. Junior Auxiliary of Winchester Memorial Hospital To Meet Tuesday at 3 30. Circle hostesses Lois Hammond sets 7 30 at 381 Ea Piccadilly. Meetings include Circles One Two Three Four with listed hosts. Turner Ashby Chapter U D C to hold fall meeting Thursday 3 oclock at Mrs C Fred Barr 221 West Boscawen Street all members urged to attend.
Mrs Verlus Sirbaugh and Mrs Jack Blackburn hosted a tea and kitchen shower at Liberty Hall Tea Room for Miss Bessie Manuel who will wed Mr John Lamb this Saturday. Numerous local women attended and Circle No 5 of Brad dock Street Methodist Church planned a meeting for Tuesday. Also noted are hospital and travel updates about residents including Loring Pangle, Betty Riley, Mrs George Wright and others with several relatives visiting.
Miss Margaret Byrd will dine with Mr and Mrs Robert Winmill in Warrenton Virginia this evening, continuing a social visit. The event highlights local society circuits and hosting families in town.
Lawrence Boerner spent Saturday in Baltimore on business. Mrs. Willey visits in Berryville. Alden Steed announce birth of Joyce Elizabeth on September 5 in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Miss Charlotte Dickinson returns to Westhampton College Richmond for senior year. Funeral for Emma Moore held in Arco with Rev. Shannon officiating at Maddox Funeral Home Chapel.
Calendar lists Circle No 8 Braddock Street Church Lois Hammond 381 East Piccadilly Circle No 5 Braddock Street Church at Mrs Linden Singhass Madison Lodge I O O F East Boscawen Street Lions Club luncheon George Washington Hotel Junior Auxiliary Hospital Nurses Home Kernstown Community League officers Winchester Rebekah Association Odd Fellows Hall Market Street Church circles meet at announced locations
Interment held at Prospect Hill Cemetery for a 57 year old woman, daughter of Lemuel and Flora Fristoe Moore. Survived by two sisters Effie Moore of Arco and Sylvia Wicks of Front Royal and four brothers Basil Moore of Maryland Lunsford Moore of Illinois Hayward Moore of Harrisonburg and Herman Moore of California.
Col J C Boggs and Capt Rid Dick of R M A attended a Pittsburgh chapter dinner meeting. The Warren Rifles Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy held its last meeting of the year. Officers were elected and delegates named for the Virginia division State convention in Richmond October 3 6. Mr and Mrs Bruce Wood announce the birth of a son September 7. Front Royal Ministerial Council met at the Methodist Church parsonage. Mr Chester Dodd spent the weekend in Arlington.
Mrs Goulden and family visited Mrs Nathan Allnutt over the weekend. Miss Margaret Brooke Weaver hosted a Friday picnic at Dickey Ridge Lodge. Kathryn Supinger's shower honored ahead of her September 30 wedding to George Wines in Front Royal. J G White injured at Warren County High School. hospitalized in Front Royal. George Dunglinson Jr of Roanoke spoke to the Front Royal Rotary Club with N and W Railway officials present.
Harold Smith Jr departs for Lexington to enter V os, with plans set for his next steps. No further details on program or destination confirmed in text.
A Q and A column discusses gossip as a bad habit, lateness to dinner is rude unless illness or accident explains it, and a house guest should keep her bedroom neat to avoid being a one time guest.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Amick Aitkins 39 native of Winchester who died in Gallinger Hospital Washington D C will be held tomorrow at 2 30 p m from Jones Funeral Home with interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery Reverend E T Clark D D officiating She is survived by her husband her parents daughter Miss Ethel Aitkins and two sisters Margaret Ennis and Katherine Jones. She was a member of the Westernport Baptist Church.
Washington reports the Civilian Conservation Corps will recruit 100 000 replacements while assuring enrollment will not entail military service. An aide to CCC director Robert Fechner says sons accepted as October volunteers will not bear arms. Officials compare CCC to Germany’s labor service but insist differences in purpose and structure.
Treasury data shows receipts of 21 million 369 thousand 872 dollars and 51 cents and expenditures of 22 million 467 thousand 125 dollars and 60 cents. Gross debt stands at 40 billion 904 million 784 thousand 931 dollars and 87 cents, down 32 million 792 thousand 75 dollars and 71 cents from the prior day.
Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Duncan 67 wife of E A Duncan were held at their Front Royal residence with Rev T J Swann and Rev Charles Hume Funk officiating. She died after a heart attack while visiting her sister in Narrows Giles County Va. She leaves husband three sons Walter Oscar Ray Duncan of Winchester and the Duncan Brothers tire firm on Millwood Ave plus three daughters and step children and siblings. Interment followed at Hillsboro Loudoun County.
President Roosevelt, the Army, and the Navy are supplied with detailed updates on the European conflict from over sixty military and naval attaches in key countries. Col. John Magruder provides daily summaries to the President, supplementing State Department and press reports and the President’s own telephonic contacts with envoys abroad.
Mary Patricia Donnelly of Detroit, Miss Michigan and Miss America 1939, seeks funds to cover her mother’s hospital bills. She reported winning the title by telephone to her mother, and pageant director George Tyson notes she already has endorsement and modeling contracts totaling $8,000.
Middletown Virginia reports a Grange meeting planning Booster Night set for September 29. The event will feature an open program for the public and Pomona degree for new members during the Frederick Pomona Grange visit to Friendly Grove Grange on September 18. A Middletown Juvenile watermelon feast was also noted.
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