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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1934
Page
5
Frederick County notices a flurry of social visits and small events as residents travel between Highview West Virginia and nearby towns. Families such as the Larricks White Clowsers and Otts share Sunday gatherings while Pauline Clowser recovers from illness. A fire at Amos Mauck’s property and a henhouse theft affect area households, alongside visits from Galloways Cummins and Evans.
Mr Earl Prince and Mr Amos Mauck drove to Washington for a day. Mr and Mrs Amos Prince called on his brother R W Buckner in Harpers Ferry West Virginia last Monday.
Mrs aura V Hartley travels to Martinsburg W Va Miss Raycelle Fleming returns from Jefferson MG and Summit Point W Va Miss Virginia Welsh vacationing with her parents Mr and Mrs H C Welsh Mrs J M Jett and Virginia return home after a week with Mrs D S Hughes Charles Town W Va Master Robert Jett spends four weeks with grandparents Mr and Mrs B J Cabell Mr and Mrs James Welsh and infant daughter move to Jett's Bakery apartment Roy Johns visits parents E G Johns for the week
Mrs J A Perkins of Coatesville Pa spent several days last week in Wickliffe Virginia and was noted in local records.
Refuge, VA September notes Mrs Do Orndoff of Stephenson visits Mr and Mrs Silas Grim. Misses Jane Lee and Shirley Lillard visit Frenk ee near Stephens City. Mrs Sementha May Grim visits son Howard Grim in Memorial Hospital Winchester. Sunday visitors include Isaac Grim family Silas Grim Ollie Grim and two sons Aubrey and Gervis. The Refuge Church young people install a piano and pursue growing participation.
Grimes Virginia announces preaching at Galilee Church next Sunday at 7 30 in the evening. A cordial welcome is extended to all. Mrs. Mattie Grubb of Martinsville is mentioned in the notice.
Mrs Minnie Hay of Clearbrook and Mrs B F Hubbard visited Mr and Mrs James Grimes in Burg West Virginia. The White Hall Church Mite Society met last Wednesday at Oscar Leight's home Woodbine. Miss Margaret Kerns spent a week with her uncle Irvin Kerns near Reynolds Store. Carl Ritter and family from Winchester and Mrs Charles O Rourke of Newport News called at the Grimes home. Several residents motored to Capon Bridge to attend Rev H D Coffey's closing services at the Church of Christ. Cecil McVay returned to Blacksburg for his second year at VPI.
Short, quirky notices report an 18-year-old who exploded a pipe after placing a cartridge in his tobacco in Greensburg. An apple tree in Lacrosse yields blossoms and fruit in one, while a Pittsburgh golfer hits a robin with a Brassie on the way to a costly extra stroke. At Missoula, enrollment spikes push students to hotels due to housing limits, and in Wilmington a premature wedding follows a black eye from a fiancé’s displeasure, as magistrate charges loom over the elopement.
George Moorehouse of Hopewell, organizer for the United Textile Workers, appealed a $5 fine from Danville police court for disorderly conduct. He and three Hopewell unionists were jailed overnight after leaving a Danville Textile Union meeting. The case centers on rights to travel to other cities and attend union meetings amid the Hopewell rayon strike and the flying squadron tactic.
Shenandoah Boy Scout Council members will attend the regional meeting in Washington. Clem D. Johnston of Roanoke will preside and M A Smythe, council president, will discuss Interracial Scouting. Dr. James E B West will attend with other national figures as Sea Scout Ship Nautilus receives the flag from U S S Penguin at the October 13 banquet.
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