Mrs. J Wesley Perry Observes 100th Birthday
Mrs. J Wesley Perry marked her 100th birthday on Tuesday July 7 at home with daughter Mrs. William F Wolf. Surrounded by over a hundred visitors she received cards letters and telegrams including from President Eisenhower Governor Tawes Senator Butler and others. Local and out of town relatives joined neighbors in a day of flowers cake and birthday wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tawes
John Marshall Butler
Ella Raleigh
Miami
Fla
John S. Lalley
Baltimore
Walter George
Perry
Arlington
Melvin Bennington
Beverly
Betty Bareford
Gail
Wesley Reese George
Harwood George
Bridgeville
Carroll Norris
Leipsic
George Wright
Carol
Bryan
Smyrna
Ethel Fore
Wilmington
Edward Perry
Cordova
George Markell
Stanton Clark
Edward Wilson
Venetta Adams
Rehoboth
Oscar Flynn
Billy Flynn
Philadelphia
Walter Everngain
Federalsburg
Charles Coul
Mrs. Perry
Five Maryland 4-H'ers attend Dover Chicken Festival
Five Maryland 4-H members earned expense paid trips as region winners in the statewide broiler production contest and joined Delmarva Chicken Festival events in Dover Delaware on Friday and Saturday June 26 and 27. Attendees were James Riley Na omi White Myra Holsinger Bill Oakley and Hank Eslin escorted by Bel Air's Bobbie Busbire Asst County Agent.
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Maryland
Busbire
Harford County
Caroline Boy Dies In Fall Off Uncle's Pickup Truck
Alan Lee Engle thirteen son of Wilber and Ethel Engle died after falling from a pickup truck driven by his uncle Otto Robtn Quidas. Deputy medical examiner Dr. D O George cites skull and neck fractures as the cause. He lived near Tanyard Preston Easton Road and would have started seventh grade at Preston public school. He belonged to Immanuel Lutheran Church Preston and was active in Boy Scouts. Survived by sister Irene and grandparents Fred Quidas and Richard W Engle. Funeral Wednesday at Frampton Funeral Home Federalsburg with Rev Carl A Schuette. burial Junior Order Cemetery Linchester Md.
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Alan Lee Engle
Wilber
Ethel Quidas Engle
Otto Robtn Quidas
D. O. George
Caroline County
Alan
Tanyard
Preston-Easton Road
Preston
Sthgerade
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Boy Scouts
Irene E
Fred Quidas
Near
Richard W. Engle
Near Preston
Frampton Funeral Home
Federalsburg
Carl A. Schuette
Junior Order
Linchester
Peeping Tom Convicted in Federalsburg Incident
Hubert Harden, a migrant farm laborer near Federalsburg, was convicted of trespass on private property by maliciously looking through a window under the new Peeping Tom statute. He received 10 days in jail after extra days held pending trial. Witness Henry Mitchell testified. Officer Wilson Shores made the arrest. In other cases George Henry Curtis was fined 30 dollars for reckless driving and Goldsborough Mitchell 10 dollars for simple assault.
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Hubert Harden
Federalsburg
Harden
Henry Mitchell
Wilson Shores
George Henry Curtis
Goldsborough Mitchell
Maryland Farm Queen Contest at Timonium
The Maryland Farm Queen Contest is set for August 31 at Timonium Fair Grounds with coronation on September 6. Sponsored by the Maryland Farm Bureau, 23 county Farm Bureaus organize contests for girls aged 16 to 18, with multiple county preliminaries listed by date.
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Maryland
4-H Club Week Dates Announced at University Park
State 4 H Club Week will run August 3 to August 8 at the University of Maryland College Park campus. W Sherard Wilson says about 11 4 H members from every Maryland county are expected. Registrations close July 20 at county extension offices for those turning 12 by January 1 1959.
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Panama Canal
St. Swithin’s
Nicholas II
Columbia University
King’s College
Cunard Line
Britannia
Boston
University of Maryland College Park
W. Sherard Wilson
Maryland
Wilson
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Third Haven Meeting Attains 275 Years In Easton Md
Third Haven Monthly Meeting in Easton Maryland marks 275 years since its frame meeting house opened. A commemorative program Sunday September 13 1959 features Clarence Pickett co author of Speak Truth To Power as principal speaker, with Kenneth Carroll SMU and three youth playlets dramatizing Quaker acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Third Haven Monthly
Easton
Third Haven Meeting
Clarence Pickett
American Friends Service Committee
Kenneth Carroll
Southern Methodist University
Third Haven
Caroline County Garden Club Met In Federalsburg
Thirteen Caroline County Garden Club members met June 30 at Mrs. James B. Johnson’s Federalsburg home. President Mrs. Austin Murphy presided. W. Edwin Unger spoke on Birds with Audubon slides, noting the Golden Plover, Cow Bird, Ouzel, Humming Bird, Wood Duck, and Passenger Pigeon. He warned on man’s tampering with nature and demonstrated a new feeder and carved birds. A buffet luncheon followed in the Johnson home, then a garden visit to Mrs. Enoch Nuttle’s yard, described as sum ers essence and a vivid mental scene for garden lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline County
Unger
Johnson
W. Edwin Unger
Gilbert Banning
Donald Jefferson
Mrs. Johnson
Enoch Nuttle
Mrs. Nelson Covey Named TB Association Committee Chairman
Mrs. Nelson Covey of Federalsburg is named Chairman of the Annual Meeting Committee of the Maryland Tuberculosis Association. She has served as Representative Director of Caroline County Tuberculosis Association since 1954 and for 30 years as a 4 H Club Leader. Covey directs the Maryland State Homemakers Council District 4 and sits on the Caroline County Health Association board. She leads Caroline County Chapter American Red Cross and belongs to the Associated Women of the Farm Bureau. Her 4 H work earned national recognition and her Miracle House remodeling project in Hynson, Caroline County, was featured in a national magazine. She organized an annual sewing school for beginners. "I have no degrees," she said, "unless you could give me one for volunteer work or as a home maker."
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Nelson Covey
Federalsburg
Maryland Tuberculosis Association
Frank J. Fischer
Covey
Caroline County Tuberculosis Association
Maryland
Caroline County Health Association
Caroline County
American Red Cross
Associated Women of the Farm Bureau
Hynson
Truck Breaks Utility Pole Near Denton On Saturday
State Police report a reckless driving charge against Charlie Gleaton of Concord after his truck struck and broke a utility pole on Hobbs Road about 1 mile east of Denton late Saturday night. Trpr. Quillen investigated.
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Charlie Gleaton
Concord
Hobbs Road
Denton
Trpr
Quillen
Barry F. Mountain
Fairfax
Stafford’s Market
Vesper Services at Nagel's Pond This July
Harmony Methodist Church will hold two outdoor vesper services at Nagel's Pond on Sundays July 19 and 26 at 7 30 p m In case of rain services move to the church Rev Olin J Shockley of Cheswold Methodist Church Cheswold Del will speak July 19 Dr George H Pigueron Executive Director of Methodist Country House Wilmington will speak July 26 Flo aided by Rev William Owens will provide special music and the public is invited
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Harmony Methodist Church
Nagel’s Pond
Olin J. Shockley
Cheswold Methodist Church
Cheswold
Del
George H. Pigueron
Methodist Country House
Wilmington
Flo
William Owens
4-H Girls Fashion Day at Preston High School June 27
Caroline County 4-H Girls Achievement Day and Dress Revue was held at Preston School in Preston Maryland on Saturday June 27. Sandra Coulbourne chaired with Judge panels for Clothing Foods Home Furnishings and more. Ribbons were awarded across forms from formals to sewing boxes with numerous blue red and white honors.
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Preston High School
Caroline County
Preston School
Preston
Sandra Coulbourne
Preston Twiggs 4-H Club
Rudolph Coulbourne
Jane Aden
Dotlie Billmeier
Sarah van Dyke
Merry Lee Engerman
Claire Downs
Ann Segar
Patricia Jones
Dottie Stirn
Margaret Eveland
Sharon Eye
Sharon Carroll
Ellen Fuchs
Pat Bennington
Ann Billmeier
Elaine Campbell
Ellen Wheedleton
Ann Decker
Mary Lou Wyatt
Carolyn Dukes
Charlotte Ruf
Betty Koenig
Mary Mezick
Diane Coalla
Carol Mandrell
Sarah Lane
Vickie Lane
Carole Ann Koenig
Jeanie Ledman
Diane Brown
Bonita Wooters
Nancy Lister
Ann Sanders
Sally Bash
Barbara Dukes
Kay Spidle
Phyllis Engle
Emma Pepper
Karen Hackett
Margaret Wilson
Dorothy Vanville
Lois Baker
Janice McGinnis
Judy Quidas
Mary Pepper
Mary Ann Uber
Sally Eash
Sharon Brooks
Betty Saathoff
Pat Redden
Pajamas
Jean Aden
Donna Lomax
Lorna Corwin
Kay Schmick
Linda Bowman
Joyce Zlock
Lillie Frase
Donna Hill
Georgann Long
Vickie Moore
Susan Moran
Betty Pinder
Barbara Wood
Nancy Greeson
Gloria Greeson
Phyllis White
Mary Pinder
Peggy Collins
Cheryl Webster
Joy Griffith
Annette Moore
Joyce Gargani
Gail McMahon
Betty Thomas
Suzanne Chike
Ellen Zeigler
Nancy Wheat
Ruth Nuttle
Gail Noble
Marian Knott
ABC
Regina Lindeman
Sarah Ledman
Dale Lednan
Arlene Nagel
Joanne Alliston
Cathy Koenig
Gaye Wise
Dorothy Petroski
Connie Stafford
Susan Rogers
Susan Chike
Marsha Bailey
Julia Ann Nagel
Karen Leese
Linda Orme
Carol Ann Kreigh
Sharon Brown
Kathy Luff
Carolyn Hubbard
Susan Brinsfield
Carol Fountain
Edna Scudder
Julie Arnold
Karen Sue Hall
Sharon Trice
Beverly Trice
Bonnie Todd
Dale Ledman
Joy Ben Griffin
Phyllis Ann White
Norna Corwin
Patsy Thomason
Patricia Redden
Betty Jean Saathoff
Dorothy Billmeier
Imma Pepper
Sallie Bash
Kay Engle
Janet Kay McGinnes
Carole Koenig
Jeannie Ledman
Betty Lou
Karen Haeckert
Dottie Bill
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J. Wesley Perry
Dover
Weather Data
Sun
Caroline
Peeping Tom
Timonium
Denton Volunteer Fire Company
Elre’ Company
Cadillac
Denton Volunteer Fire Co
Wolfington Body Co., Inc
Geo. Bryson, Smyrna
Denton Ambulance Service
Third Haven Monthly Meeting
Vesper
William Cooper
Walter Dell
Leon Schmick
William Lynch
Linwood Everett
Charles Patterson
Rodney Holsinger
Barbara Fuchs
Paul Satterfield
Charles Hackett
Anne Billmeier
Champion
Georgeann Long
Mary Lou Pinder
Patty Jones
Betty Lou Koenig
Dorothy Ann Vonville
Bonita Eaton
Linda Brown
Betty Sue Pinder
Sandra Hopkins
Vicky Lane
Patsy Harding
Patricia Bonner
Seann Schmedly
Sandra
Walter Coulbourne
Beverly Towers
Dottie Billmeier
Patricia Bennington
Eileen Nagel
Dale P. Counsel
Judy Thornton
Roberta Downs
Barbara Zlock
Cookie
Nancy Greceson
Peggy Collings
Mary L. Covington
Bonnie Sparks
Lynette Gaveille
Linda Hignutt
Debbie King
Anne Segar
Beth Thornton
Joanna Allston
Georgann Schmedly
Canning
Walter D. Dell
Associated Women of the Farm Bureau and
Homemakers
Homemakers’ Executive Council
Furman’s Grove
Homemaker’s Club
Tuckahoe Homemaker’s Club
Ridgely Jr. Homemaker’s Club
Unity Homemaker’s Club
20Th Century Homemaker’s Club
Edenton Homemaker's Club
Harmony Homemaker’s Club
Federal Homemaker’s Club
Homemaker’s County Council
Johnette Dircewell
Betty Ann Thomas
Margaret Ann Flaharty
Sharon Todd
Faye Hicks
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