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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1941
Page
6
Community news listing engagements, campus notices, travels, and club reports. Readers learn of engagements Evelyn Edmunds in Martinsburg chain, college events at James Madison University, visits by families to Charlottesville and Washington, and Handley Library meeting plans.
Sunday night the Epworth League will meet at Macedonia Church at 8 o'clock with Mr. Ernest Hall as leader. He has planned an entertaining program and the public is invited. Mrs. Roy Russell hosted the Evandale Home Demonstration Club September meeting on Front Royal Road. Elizabeth Sprouse contributed to the session.
Millwood Virginia society items list visits by Mr and Mrs John Richardson and son John to Saratoga New York. James and John Tucker Lindsey return to Jackson Mississippi. Anne Meade Baltimore visits Winchester. Meade Baltimore guest weekend with Louis Meade. Dunning family returns to Strasburg. Rosalind Huidekoper Long Branch trip. Miss Jane Cary Randolph visiting Berryville. numerous luncheons dinners and home guests including Mrs Percy Randolph Mrs Thomas Carter and others. Baldwin family hosts Mason Phelps. Amory Sommaripa wins blue ribbon at Richmond Baby Beef show. local gatherings at The Glen and Rectory hosted by Rev Claudis Shelton.
Beauty editors report women now have thicker healthier hair than in the past. Shorter styles boost shampoos scalp cleanliness and oiling helps prevent dandruff and infections. Proper diet supports hair vitality while gentle brushing and light root stimulation can encourage new growth.
Sept 27 report from Apple Pie Ridge notes social visits among Graham Zeiler Adams and Hausenguck families. Movements include R Anderson moving into Casaway Clark’s house and water hauling due to drought. Apple harvests peak with workers from W Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania. Winchester circuit United Brethren Church delegates attended the annual meeting in Winchester.
The notice urges readers to submit social, personal, or club events to the Star either the day before or the day after they occur. It emphasizes printing only news that is fresh and current.
The dialogue covers name suffix usage when the son shares his father's name with junior in lower case and a comma before the surname. It also clarifies gloves during handshakes and using fingers to lift bread rather than spearing with a fork.
Inwood West Virginia on September 27 the Musselman canning plant operates on two nine hour shifts. Residents note visits and illnesses among locals including Mrs William Adams visiting Charles Adams inlaws and Mrs David McCarty improving at Martinsburg hospital. Minnie Omps has been ill and A V Graham is ill at home. Hunter Sencindiver visited relatives near Whitacre with his wife.
Daisy Batt spent Sunday with Earnest Batt. E W Luttrell guests at R E Place home. Richard Pugh and son Robert and Albert Thompson visit Mrs C W Moore. John Davidson and family visit Robert Luttrell. Place family visit Martinsburg West Virginia. Austen Hovermale family visit with Mrs Richard Hovermale.
Two young women from Upper Sandusky Ohio completed a 3100 mile horseback trek to Los Angeles. They rode 40 hours without saddle sores, crossed the Mojave desert, and even hired an airplane to locate fleeing horses. The journey included birthday celebrations and a plan to return by automobile.
The Associated Press unveils a new portable transmitter for wire photo transmission using a compact three and quarter watt photo cell, enabling 9 by 7 inch images with less retouching. The model, about half the size of prior units, operates on battery or AC, and is tested in New York with production to start soon.
ADescription notes that a similar apparatus now returns to photographic film. The first portable wirephoto unit aided flooded Pittsburgh in 1936. There are 35 units in use across the United States Canada and Mexico. They complement APs 20 000 miles of leased wires serving 128 newspapers with wirephoto.
The Virgin Islands were found by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 and named Virgenes in honor of Saint Ur.
Frederick county officers seek three women accused of stealing 27 dollars from Ernest Reynolds near Cross Junction on Route 522. They allegedly posed as buyers for Reynolds home and while he showed the second story, two of them found the money. A similar theft was reported near Fredericksburg.
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