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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1944
Page
5
At 8:00 p m Red Cross Motor Corps meets in Council Chamber. Winchester Aerie No 824 Fraternal Order of Eagles meets at 211 North Loudoun Street. Rebekah Association holds a meeting at Odd Fellows.
Mrs. John M. Steck Jr entertained the Little Garden Club and tea guests Monday afternoon at her Fairmont Avenue home. Speaker Mrs. Clark Cooper discussed planting bulbs. Ribbons awarded for floral arrangements included Blues to W Barron Glover Harry Benham and Paul Rhodes Red to William Lawrence Clark Cooper and Lewis Barton Yellow to William Lawrence Sloan Kuykendall Blue to Clark Cooper and Rodney Taylor and a specimen double white anemone blue to Peyton Mar.
The Victory Exchange will be open Wednesday September 20th this week instead of Thursday. Next week the schedule returns to Thursday and Saturday openings. Members are reminded to visit during the midweek session.
Mr. Atkinson is improving satisfactorily ten days after major surgery at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Birth notices include a daughter born Sept 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Elam of Strasburg and a daughter born Sept 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Bursey. Also a daughter born Sept 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Smallwood. Mrs. Smallwood is Blanche Griffith. Mrs. Sampson, patient since Sept 5, is improving. she is Hilda Ruffner by birth.
A Brooks' Pharmacy notice urges pupils to acquire high quality school tools. It highlights pens pencils tablets notebook paper ink crayons rulers and related items as aids to better marks and learning.
Winchester music lovers will hear Hazel Jone Moses of Richmond Va in concert at the George Washington Hotel on October 17 at eight thirty. Tickets are on sale from ensemble members and the event recalls her previous appearance in the city.
The Women's Society of Christian Service at Market Street Methodist Church will hold its regular monthly meeting tonight at eight o'clock at the church.
Allen Bond Jr left Monday for St James School in Maryland. George W Miller son of Col and Mrs Miller left Sept 13 for Fishbourne Military School. Miss Joan White of Bradford and Miss Barbara Hall of New Haven visited Miss Farley Massey on North Washington street. Miss M Warden Boyd and Miss Virginia Russell of Washington spent the weekend with their parents.
Announcement that Lelia Aiken Turner of Virginia and South Carolina marries Major Robert de Treville Lawrence of the U S A F on September 15 at Comhabahee Plantation South Carolina. Officiants include Rev James B Lawrence and Rev A W Scardon with reception following. maid of honor Caroline Pearefey and best man Carlton Currie.
Millwood Virginia events list a Saturday afternoon welcome for Miss Alice Winslow and Lieut. Everard Kidder Meade following their Sunday marriage at Christ Church. A dinner at Chantaclair and luncheons at The Cliff host Gen Edgar Conley, the Thorndikes, and numerous Meade relatives among other guests. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Dunning and sons travel to Orange New Jersey to visit family.
Miss Agnes Mitchell hosted a buffet with guests Cpl. Albert Kelley Lieut. Philip C Meade Mrs William Bell Wat Jr and Mrs Sherman Joost Tr. Georges P Greenhalgh and Jr returned from Villa Nova Pa after Devon Horse Show where Springs Stables showed Coral Sea won three year old greenhunter class and related preliminaries Lieut Philip C Meade returned from overseas and left for Miami Beach redistribution center Lieut John Townsend Burwell spent weekend at Barnaby Ridge with parents and other Washington visitors at Spout Run with Mrs Lindsey and Edward Lindsey Mrs Hugh M Nelson hosted Long Branch with Prescott Huidekoper Eloise R Page and Dr Hugh Judge Jewett Lieut and Mrs William Rust Jr guests of Mrs Rusts mother at Summerville Mrs Clifton Poston hosted a Sunday birthday for Mrs Royston with Rennner son and Mrs Calvin Nickodimus Mr Albert Royston and children Mrs Thomas Huff Ida Huff Claud Poston and Luther Poston were among those at the gathering
Clarke county clerk records show several land transfers in Berryville and Battletown Magisterial District. Norval Carter transfers to Chester S. Rosenberry and Ruth V. Rosenberry for property at Buckmarsh and Academy streets. Nora F. Hardesty to Charlotte F. Pitta for a lot in the Thomas Jones Addition near the Berryville turnpike. Cornelius Thompson and Rosa Thompson to Wm. Blair for 104 acres near the Shenandoah River. Ed. McC Williams to Randall Paige on Main Street Jose phine. Hattie V. Williams and James A. Williams to John Lampkins in Josephine City.
Berryville Methodist Church elected Charles J. Enders to the Church and Parsonage Trustees. All current Stewards were reelected. Henry M. Davis named Sunday School superintendent and Hugh N. Ritter lay leader for another year. Pastor Rev. George S. Lightner’s salary was boosted for another year.
Sgt W Howard Clark returns from a twenty day furlough to Alaska to visit family at 524 South Loudoun Street. Cpl Thomas Stover Clark serves on Corsica after seventeen months overseas. both brothers previously worked at local stores. Pvt Lee H Chapman arrives in England with the Engineers. Pvt Joseph Moore returns from service overseas and awaits reassignment after receiving a Purple Heart in Italy.
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce helped revise B and O Railway passenger trains to reduce Harpers Ferry waits. Train No 54 from Strasburg Junction to Harpers Ferry Washington and Baltimore will arrive at 5 34 PM, linking with east bound No 22 to Washington and No 121 west to St Louis, with earlier Harpers Ferry arrival 6 42 PM for connections. Train No 55 from Harpers Ferry to Strasburg Junction arrives 10 49 PM, ten minutes earlier.
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The Armel family thanks friends for deeds of kindness shown during the illness and death of their wife and mother. Special thanks to the Sumption family pa and maryant and Mrs. Lo max Parker. Signed C. E. Armel and daughter.
A traditional bake combines finely chopped suet and raisins with sifted flour sugar and spices folded in grated apples and molasses. The mixture is placed in a greased casserole set in a pan of hot water and baked at 350 F for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, served hot with sauce or cream.
The Woodstock Ministerial Association schedules a service at St Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church at eight if news of Europe’s ceasefire arrives by four. Major Guy Benchoff leads music with a choir from town churches. Bells ring seven to alert citizens. If the news comes after four, the service moves to the next evening.
In Hamilton Montana a young bull moose invaded a victory garden that reached maturity and consumed all plants down to their roots. The moose remained for a week, and the Cash family could not chase it away due to game laws.
Digestive relief product promises quick happy relief from gassiness and acid with doctor used ingredients. The text advertises a tasty stalwart remedy in bottles priced at 60 cents or 1 dollar with a money back guarantee.
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