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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1937
Page
8
The local American Association of University Women group meets at 3 30 p m this Saturday at Mrs Ian MacCallum's Washington street home A final Saturday night dance runs at 10 p m at the Winchester Golf Club with Bob Riley providing music.
Miss June Elizabeth Scrivener and Mr. Harry W. Aikens were united in marriage at the Scrivener home in Clearbrook. Rev. George Earle Owen officiated with a simple ceremony amid ferns and candles followed by a reception. The couple, afterward, left for a short honeymoon and will reside in this city. Gaining attention were guests from several towns including Paw Paw and Martinsburg.
Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club hears Mrs. Duncan K. Brent speak on Topiary and Espaliered Trees. Discussion covers history, styles, and space-saving wall plants with notes on colonial revival and Williamsburg examples.
A friend or relative should call to see the mother send flowers or a gift to the baby. For a theater party transportation is not obligatory for guests. The butter knife belongs on the butter plate.
Canal Zone official Mr. Bentz and family depart for New York after months in the United States. Memorial Hospital reports Mr. Thomas J. Orndorff's stroke leaves him unconscious. O'Hara returns from Richmond. he to Raleigh for cosmetic company job in October. Miss Anna Allen sails to Baltimore to teach. Bridge Club postpones due to Dr. Dutton’s mother illness. Antietam reenactment draws local attendees and a Roosevelt speech. Page Louderback heads to Purdue. Duke and Washington outings noted.
Young Clayton Cha Chapman, son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Cha Chapman, has returned home after a tonsil operation performed at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Marvin Robinson and Miss Glanna M Dodson of Strasburg Virginia were in the city on business today.
Miller's Drug Store will be featured on NBC's National Barn Dance program on Saturday night September 25. The firm, celebrating its 173rd anniversary, will be highlighted with a history from its founding in 1764 by Godfrey Miller and notes on notable figures connected to the store. The broadcast aims to publicize Winchester and its prominence to a national audience, with Alka Seltzer sponsoring the segment.
Progress on the Cameron street bridge across Town Run has opened almost the full street to traffic. Only the extreme western side remains to be completed.
Christopher Sullivan and Alfred E. Smith head a Tammany faction backed by New Deal leaders in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond. The Mahoney victory signals New Deal forces may shape future Tammany policy with James A. Farley possibly steering governor plans.
The Cape Good Hope lighthouse on the Swatow coast was seized by Japanese forces after earlier clashes. Chinese maritime officials under British supervision called the act high-handed and a violation of international law, stressing its impact on Vital Import revenues used to secure a British loan to China. They noted the light was later recovered by Chinese custody after Japanese evacuation and accused Japan of stealing British nautical equipment.
Front Royal Sept 17. Mrs Julian N Major hosts a reception for Mrs Thomas Ferguson who spends summer with her parents the Mot Carson and leaves next Thursday for Fort Benning Georgia. Out of town guests include Miss Virginia Wickersham Calvin Wright and Mat Brown of Pittsburgh for the weekend. Elizabeth Major of Washington to visit. Front Royal Glee Club met with Miss Elizabeth Thompson bridal party news. Local movers include Mr and Mrs Henry Crewdston moving near Rose Hill and Mr Hitch Downing visiting Washington with children. What-So-Ever Circle meets Sept 21 for elections and state convention delegates. Various locals and visitors noted including A G Green in Winchester Hospital and others in town for events and football in Washington.
The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church meets in Winchester on October 6. On Sunday October 10 Rev. Nolan B Harman of Roanoke will preach in the Front Royal Methodist Church where he previously served as pastor.
Classified notice for J. F. Massey & Son seeking a full time delivery boy and noting the ad appears in a 1931 issue of the newspaper. The brief vacancy asks for reliable applicant with no further details on requirements or contact.
The Rev L B Williamson resigns as pastor of Lutheran churches in Hardy county to join the Lutheran Orphans Home in Salem Virginia effective September 26. Mrs Williamson will join as music teacher at the same institution.
Radio listings detail NBC and CBS schedules with speeches by Henry Wallace and Burton Wheeler, and WOR and WABC programs. NBC announces Toscanini Christmas night concerts starting December 25 with a 100 piece orchestra, plus six introductory concerts led by Monteux and Rodzinski.
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