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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
5
The Forty two Club meeting was postponed due to illness. A colonial home hosted a ghost themed evening with mistletoe, pumpkins and rustic fare. Guests included many locals and a silent, stepwise audience of hosts and guests before a feast.
A parade of guests visits Lexington and nearby towns with relatives, including Mrs. J Griggs from Lexington and Miss Kathleen Earp in Chilesburg. Various residents such as Mr Richard Adams, Col Tom Phillips, and Mr Jesse Batson are noted as visiting or traveling, while illness touches Carolyn Woodford on Hickman Street with poliomyelitis infection.
A practical guide to durable college cushions using dark linen or crash fabrics with embroidered tulip designs in class colors. The article details rose and blue color schemes, crocheted rope edges, and pennant accents, noting cushions endure dorm life and serve as thoughtful gifts from home.
The article describes latest fashion with hand plaited frills on stock and sleeves, delicate hems, and mossy white Liberty satin gowns. At a Paris area chateau, outfits include a sheath with deep lace border, blue mousseline accents, and pink rose hair adornments.
To fatten the neck and improve throat form perform slow forward and backward head bends until tired. Tilt from side to side and roll the head. Lift shoulders in a full circle, then reverse. Massage neck and shoulders with cocoa butter daily for five to ten minutes.
The article advises prolonging lace lingerie waists by applying cut strips of common wash net to the under side of inserted lace. This method, begun when the waist is new or at first signs of tearing, can mend torn areas invisibly and even improve open patterns by adding the net. The Housekeeper.
The piece details hand painted and embroidered curtains and blinds using lace, Holland and luster materials in Adams style festoon garlands. It also notes fabrics for tailored suits in plain dark blue serge, including a Directoire skirt and cutaway coat with soutache trim and a gray corded silk hat with plumes.
Wire screens to fit over sardinieres bowls to hold flowers in place are now purchasable. Available in brass, silver, or nickel in circular shapes and sometimes oval. Mesh is medium sized and suits most shorter stemmed flowers needing support.
The John Dunsmore Opera Co staged Rossini Beaumarechais comic opera The Barber of Seville in Winchester this afternoon. Monti Baldini, John Dunsmore, Rom an Klekko, Pierre Gherardi, Beigh, Pick, and others received ovations for strong voices, fine characterizations, and expert accompaniment. Local patrons are urged to pack the Opera House tonight for a memorable performance.
A man in a hammock shares a quiet moment with a girl as they sit close together. The scene hints at a shift in mood and the subtle dynamics of their connection.
Local society group the Kings Daughters plans its biannual Christmas bazaar in a vacant storefront next to Winn Furniture on Main Street December 10. The event, a longtime pre Christmas fixture, aims to mirror past successes. Other notes mention Mrs Bettie Anderson returning from a visit to Mr and Mrs C J Boswell, Clarence Boswell improving slowly, Mrs W A Whitcomb ill at home on Hickman Street, Will Batson ill at his mother’s on Lexington Avenue, and the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Tom Rash. Mr and Mrs Taylor Fox have moved to a new home on Boonesboro Pike.
A marriage license was issued this morning to Mr. W. B. Mann of this county and Miss Kate Wheeler Beasley of Bourbon county.
Rabbits priced at 122 cents each. Spring chickens range from 25 to 380 cents each. Old hens at 16 2 3 cents per pound. Fryers 25 to 30 cents. Young turkeys 17 to 18 cents per pound. Young ducks 15 cents per pound. Eggs 25 cents per dozen. Butter 30 cents per pound.
One day only sale to be held Monday November 9th by the New York Furrier. Mrs Ella Haggard is noted among the names in the notice dated November 7 1911.
A brief comic exchange recounts a poet telling editors to lighten up, while the editor counters with a playful line about taking their own jokes with positive glee. The quip appears as a lighthearted item in the Philadelphia Record.
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