Social Calendar Week of Meetings and Events
A schedule lists Monday through Wednesday club and church gatherings including Girl Scouts at Lutheran Church Lions Club at George Washington Hotel Kiwanis Club luncheon Clarke County convention Kings Daughters Grace Episcopal Grace Lutheran and BPOE lodge meetings at various venues all times local.
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Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
Clarke County
Order of Kings Daughters
Grace Episcopal Church
United Brethren Church
Winchester Lodge No
Ellis’ Hall
Piccadilly
Braddock Streets
Grace Lutheran Church
Many Pre-Nuptial Parties Honoring Miss Harrison and Mr. Mitchell
The Winchester area hosts numerous pre nuptial gatherings for Cary Harrison and Henry Post Mitchell ahead of their September 26 wedding. Attendees include prominent local and regional figures at estates such as Mt Airy The Glen Rosemont Saratoga and others with social and family circles across Clarke County Washington and Winchester.
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Winchester Country Club
Cary Harrison
Henry Post Mitchell
William B. Clagett
George Burwell
Mt. Airy
The
Glen
F. Allerton Read
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Rosemont
Harry F. Byrd
Spencer Carter
Etiquette Q A Answers on Hats Invitations and Smoking
A man should remove his hat in hotel elevators when a woman enters but not in offices. Send one wedding invitation to both parents and separate invites to each child. A woman smoking in a public restaurant is not ill bred as the custom is now accepted.
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Daugh
Local society notes on departures and travels
Miss Jane Bickers heads to Millbrook New York to enter Bennett junior college with her father Mr M B Bickers accompanying her. Mrs R E Byrd III and Mr Beverley Byrd head to Alexandria for Episcopal High School. Miss Margaret Byrd returns to Gunston Hall Washington as a junior. Bruce Nelson departs for Alexandria to attend Episcopal High School. Robert Barton Jr and son visit in Richmond with Mrs Barton. Tom Baldridge leaves for Cambridge and Ocean City Maryland on a short business trip. Rosalie Nelson returns to Alexandria after weekend with parents Rev and Mrs Robert B Nelson. Margaret Campbell leaves Gray Gables Inn for Charlottesville then visits Baltimore and Washington later. Horace Browne reopens Cameron street home after summer cottage on Shenandoah River. Nancy Larrick goes to New York City to enter Columbia University graduate school. Dr James Shanklin of Bluefield WV spends weekend with Miss Anne Brooke Kern. Isaac Isner and family motor to Harrisonburg for Margaret Isner to attend State Teachers College.
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McKinley
Order of Eastern Star
Madeline Wallace
Roanoke
Virginia
Southern Inn
Wallace
McKinley Chapter
Lottie Irons
West Virginia
Blanche Swinger
Ruth
Maryland
Order
Million Dollars Campaign by Nation's WCTU Announced
Evanston Ill Sept 20 A $1,000,000 drive launches the Women's Christian Temperance Union temperance education program. National president Ida B Wise Smith says funds fund unbiased scientific findings on alcohol from Johns Hopkins Harvard Yale and other centers to inform the public not preach moralize. Notable supporters include Senators Capper and Morris Sheppard and leaders from the National Education Association and YMCA.
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Evanston
Ill
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ida B. Wise Smith
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Carnegie Institute
Mayo Clinic
Wise
U. S
Arthur Capper
Rkan
Carrie E. Chapman Catt
New York
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Joy Elmer Morgan
Washington
Journal of the
National Education Association
John R. Mott
Y. M
Theft of $1500 From Wrigley Field Vault
Police report thieves broke into a vault at Wrigley Field in Chicago and fled with 1500 dollars. Investigators believe the burglars hid in the park and entered the office after closures last night.
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Chicago
Wrigley Field
Chicago Cubs
Winchester Branch plans October National Concert drive
The Winchester Branch of the National Concert Association announced a membership drive for the week of October 5 led by chairman Mrs. Richard Griffith. The drive promotes season tickets at 3 dollars for adults, two tickets for a family at 2.50 each, and student tickets at 1 dollar, with membership securing seats for all concerts.
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Winchester
National Concert Association
Richard Griffith
Richard
Arists
William Harms
Josef Hoffman
Jose Iturbi
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Symphony
New York Philharmonic
Elizabeth Myers
Robert J. McNally
A. C. Halvosa
Griffith
Alfred Kerfoot
Gladys Cochran
J. M. Sniveley
Bicycle Hike By Girl Scout Troop No 3 Seventeen Miles
Members of Troop No 3, Girl Scouts, led a bicycle hike Saturday starting 9 30 a m from Miss Helen Masseys home on North Washington street. The group rode via Fairmont Avenue and North Frederick Road to Albin then along a dirt road to the Northwestern grade returning about 2 p m. Thirteen girls participated with the mascot dog Pretzel. Two mishaps occurred a flat tire and a wheel coming off. The route covered about 11 miles.
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Helen Massey
Washington Street
Fairmont Avenue
North Frederick Road
Albin
Shawnee Club To Hold An Exhibit
Miss Elizabeth Farrar announces a Shawnee Home Demonstration club exhibit at the club house on Thursday afternoon and evening September 24. Entries accepted 12 to 4 with public viewing at 8. Rev. Allen Jones will speak. Public invited to enter flowers and apples. canned goods exhibit for members only.
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Elizabeth Farrar
Shawnee Home Demonstration Club
Farrar
Allen Jones
Opeation Group of
Presbyterian Churches
Golf Exhibition At Winchester Club Draws Crowd
A large gallery watched a golf exhibition at Winchester Golf Club. Jimmy Nichols the one armed pro appeared with Rut Coffey who posted 67 three under par with five birdies. Philip Fowle shot 81 and Lester Arnold 82. Nichols needed 75 to finish.
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Winchester Golf Club
Jimmy Nichols
Coffey
Winchester
Philip Fowle
Lester Arnold
Nichols
All-Bran hailed as relief by Alabama reader
Four years of constipation left Mr. A. W. Murphy of Tuscaloosa out of work until he started Kellogg's All-Bran. The cereal's bulk absorbs moisture to form a soft mass and cleanse the intestines while supplying vitamin B and iron. Two tablespoonfuls daily suggested.
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A. W. Murphy
16Th St
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Battle Creek
Cedar Creek Flow Report Prefaced by District Engineer
Winchester Virginia city officials received J J Diazulaitis district engineer report detailing Cedar Creek daily flow from July 2 to September 11 1936 with a maximum of 21 800 000 gallons per day on August 6 and a minimum of 3 900 000 on September 10 Diazulaittis urges storage to balance low water and notes groundwater conditions and 1930 comparisons.
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J. J. Dirzulaitis
State Commission of Conservation and Development
Cedar Creek
Arthur M. Field
Cirtulaitis
Winchester
Virginia
Mr. Field
Shenandoah Park
J. J. Diazulattis
Nebraska dirt fetches ten dollars for Laurel merchant
Laurel merchant A E Mittelstadt received ten dollars from the U S Treasury for a shovelful of soil. The funds were a replacement for two five dollar bills Mittelstadt had lost months earlier. The bills were found rotted to pieces and the dirt sent to Washington contained the fragments.
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Laurel
Neb
Nebraska
A. E. Mittelstadt
U. S. Treasury
Sam
Mittelstadt
Mittelstad
Washington
Emancipation Day Program at Madison Square Garden
Radio highlights note a New York Emancipation Day program from Madison Square Garden with speakers and an all Negro talk. Republican CBS 6 east and CBS 10 west cover commentary by William Hard. WJZ NBC and WOR MBS air 8:30 PM segments with Democratic topics and remarks.
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CBS
East
West
William Hard
WJZ
NBC
WOR
MBS
Madison Square Garden
New York
WEAF
James W. Ford
London Radio Club
Wjznbc
Wm. Brown Meloney
Barer
F. H. LaGuardia
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Patrick Hurley
McKay Jones
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Rozier Dulaney
Leudoun County
R. E. Byrd
Thomas Byrd
J. D. Griffing
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Joseph F. Moore
Richard Jones
Hobson McGehee
E. Butler
Ivy Sanders
Andrew Lavelle
Clarke Co
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C. Worthington Lowe
St. Paul’s Church
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Middletown
Hunter Williams
Bertha Williams
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Berryville
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Lillian Marie Obaugh
Mr. Perry
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William B. Obaugh
National Avenue
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Jack
Wheeler
First Presbyterian Church
Longstreet
Bertram Longstreet
Mr. Longstreet
Mary Bruce Baker
Goodwin Baker
Underwood Typewriter Company
A. H. Morgan
South Washington Street
Henry Williams Morgan
Calvert Brent Morgan
Washington, D. C
Calvert Morgan
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Miss Ada Woore
Clearbrook
Loring E. Woore
Ansell Solenberger
Harry Ridgeway
Georgia Turnipseed
Charles J. Blair, Jr
Maysville, Ky
R. F. Kline
Baltimore
Ella Engle
Thurston Boyd
Cumberland
Gray Gables Inn
Douglas DuShane
Annapolis
St.John’s College
Mrs. J. T. Engle
Ralph B. Snapp
Strother Shiley
Beatrice Wisecarver
Woodstock Fair
Jane Bickers
Millbrook
N. Y
Bennett Junior College
M. B. Bickers
Beverley Byrd
R. E. Byrd III
Alexandria
Episcopal High School
Margaret Byrd
Gunston Hall
Bruce Nelson
Robert Bi , Jr
Robert Barton, III
Richmond
Mr. Barton
Robert T. Barton
Tom Baldridge
Cambridge
Ocean City
Rosalie Nelson
Robert B. Nelson
Margaret Campbell
John Campbell
Charlottesville
Horace Browne
Shenandoah River
Nancy Larrick
New York City
Graduate
Columbia University
James Shanklin
Bluefield
Anne Brooke Kern
Harry Rogers Kern
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Margaret, Isaac, JT
Martha Lou
Harrisonburg
Margaret Isner
State Teachers’ College
WCTU
Soil Conservation Pays
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Underwood
N. Loudoun St
Politics
A. M. Landon
Weaf-Nbc
Daniel J. Tobin
Labor Division
Democratic National Committee
Wjz-Nbc
Uncle Ezra
Mollie
Margaret Speaks
Switzerland
Dick Himber
Eastman
Fisk
WABC
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Heidt
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Pick and
Pat
Grace Moore
Jack Shannon
George Givot
Jean Dickinson
al Donahue
Music Guild
Mayfair Singers
Ernie Stemm
the Commercial & Savings Bank
N. Loudoun
Big Joe
Winchester’s Bakery
Colonial
Nina V. Wolford
Weller & Rum Bill Pottery
Yardley Beauty Secrets
Bond Street
London
Yardley Agency Books
Oakland
R. M. Swimley
George Washington
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