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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1929
Page
3
Social reporter Mrs. Isabelle F. Miller welcomes submissions by telephone for the next day between 3 and 4 pm. News may be mailed or called in, with the phone number provided as 33 for daily updates.
The Federated Garden Clubs of West Virginia plan a statewide meeting in October with representatives from all garden clubs to form a federation. Aimed at conserving natural resources and protecting landscapes and historic spots, the group will elect officers and six directors. Local members including Mrs. Boyd Wees of Elkins and the Fosbrinks of Winchester are involved. attendance at church and social ties noted along with regional moves and upcoming conferences.
Miss Louise Hawley plans a reopening of her dance studio at 407 West Cecil Street after the summer break. The event occurs this Saturday with ballroom classes starting at 4 PM on Thursday afternoon in October.
Dr. H L Pifer travels to Farmville Virginia joining Mrs. Pifer and their children who stay with Mrs. Pifer's parents Mr. and Mrs. C F Bugg. The family plans to return home next Sunday.
Mr. Edgar Krug of Hanover Pennsylvania assumes management of the Alexander Cut Rate Store on South Loudoun Street. He succeeds Thomas G. Kirby, who with Mrs. Kirby and daughter has moved to Warrenton Virginia. Miss Justa Prince, daughter of Mrs. Maude Yost Prince, has joined the store as a clerk.
Mrs Holmes Pingley who was operated on last week at Memorial Hospital after a grave health condition is slowly improving. Friends are encouraged she will be well enough to leave the institution within several weeks and be restored to health.
Mrs. Harry F. Byrd, her daughter Miss Westwood Byrd, and sons Masters Harry Beverley and Richard Byrd return from Rosemont Clarke county to Richmond. They will reside at the executive mansion through Governor Byrd's term ending in January.
A marriage license was issued in the corporation clerk's office to E. T. Horner Jr of Richmond and Miss Marian Chess of Pittsburgh. The groom is a salesman and son of E. T. Horner Sr. The bride is the daughter of Daniel Chess of Pittsburgh.
Miss Marguerite Peery of Baltimore arrived here today for a visit with her mother Mrs Helen V Peery.
The funeral for Jacob M. Poston 22 of Summit Point West Virginia will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Southern Methodist Church Summit Point with Rev C E Kir and Rev Hunter Baxidson officiating Interment at Edge Hill Cemetery Charles Town Pallbearers include James H Snyder Hugh Crawford Wilbur Ennis Howard Fellers Julian Glasscock and Francis Hulver. Garnett Smallwood son of Wade Smallwood injured in the crash was reported improving Raymond Kane of Summit Point recovering from minor injuries. A large Summit Point crowd discussed the outing. Poston’s neck was broken and one leg nearly severed in the Sunday night crash in Maryland.
Miss Louise Fly daughter of Dr and Mrs George W Fly of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is spending several days as guest at the home of her aunt and uncle Dr and Mrs F C Stuart at Hawthorne on the Northwestern Grade
The market opened with nerves as a few high priced specialties fell sharply but confidence grew with gains in high grade industrials and utilities. Trade news remained favorable and volume stayed heavy signaling increased public participation. call money moved at 8 percent.
An observer and another man counted 18 automobiles with out of state plates in front of the Piccadilly Braddock post office area for about 10 minutes. Two traveling men returning from the southwest reported even more non state cars on the Valley pike, signaling growing metroist interest in Shenandoah Valley and Virginia.
Washington dated analysis notes that Hoover and MacDonald easing toward naval parity may still face a long path through a fire power conference and Senate approval. Borah poised to steer, with Navy advocates like Hate Shortridge and Metcalf pressing for strength while preventing fear-inducing arms.
Frederick Palen, vice-president of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, testified to a Senate committee that he was more responsible than anyone for hiring William B. Shearer as the $25 000 observer and reporter for the American shipbuilders at the 1927 Geneva naval limitation parity. He said Shearer first proposed going to the conference after asking the merchant marine in 1926 for a remuneration of 7 59. Palen insisted he had the definite thought of guiding the conference and their cruiser work in mind when employing Shearer.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn was reelected president at the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union fifty first annual convention in Indianapolis. She has held the office since 1925.
Mr and Mrs John Coolidge spend about an hour with the groom’s parents at the Coolidge home in Northampton Massachusetts. They then depart in the bride’s roadster for a northernly direction.
Order of publication directs a master commissioner to inventory J Kate Guard estate liquidate assets, identify heirs and creditors, and report on Wilbur M Guard farm values and rents since 1924. Public claim day set for September 30, 1929 at 45 West Boscawen Street Frederick County.
A clipped line shows James P. Reardon named in an official note by Commissioner Jd. W. B, with reference to a pending completion date and designation p. q. (9-16-Daw/).
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