Greensboro Social News Busy Weekend and Community Updates
Mrs Charles Bilbrough Sr hosted family including Ellen whose husband works in Iceland. A May 12 bingo fundraiser for the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Co Ladies Auxiliary is planned at Fire House. Local visits and sympathy notes, WSCS officers elected, and Greens boro High School graduates returned from New York. Blue light stars are 100000 times brighter than the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Bilbrough
Ellen
Iceland
Greensboro
Greensboro Homemakers Make 1952 Report
The Greensboro Homemakers Club reviews 1952 activities including new member gains, a 55 dollar rum mage sale with 4-H girls optional tables, a year end treasury balance of 194.77, and a hospital bed purchase for First District. Members hosted meetings at Mrs Hol singer’s Ridgely home, a March covered dish luncheon, a plant care demonstration, May basket weaving workshop, and aluminum tray making with Mrs Charles S Bilbrough. Financial gifts supported cancer polio Red Cross Christmas Seals and 4-H camp, plus cookies for the College Park Festival and attendance at county and tri county meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Eveland
Concord
Charles S. Bilbrough
College Park
Card of Thanks for Bereavement Support
We thank all who helped in our recent bereavement for flowers cards and food. Special thanks to Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company for their efforts on Friday and to Goldsboro Volunteer Fire Company for the use of their resuscitator. Mrs. Ethel Thornton and family.
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Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company
Goldsboro
Thanks for Kindness During Illness and Return Home
Mr and Mrs Wade Isner thank friends and neighbors for cards flowers fruit visits and acts of kindness while they were at Johns Hopkins Hospital and after returning home.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Mrs
Wade Isner
Greensboro Firemen Carnival Prizes Announced
Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company held its regular meeting with 32 members. They report the wall addition is half done and girders for the third floor are laid. Donations are sought for carnival prizes to start late June, including three $100 bills as first prize and a steer as second prize. Children’s prizes include bicycles and rink roller skates.
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Greensboro
Unlucky Lady Mystery Story Featured in May Issue
Patrick Quentin presents a bizarre case of a woman innocent of murder who was ordered to hang by a mad judge. The feature appears in the May 10 issue of The American Weekly, a color gravure magazine published with the Baltimore Sunday American.
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Patrick Quentin
American Weekly
Baltimore Sunday American
Marriage Licenses Granted in Delaware and Philadelphia Couples
Lawrence Morris and Mildred Morris of New Castle Delaware obtained a marriage license. Daniel Weiles Powell Jr and Elizabeth Pritchett of Harrington Delaware. James F Ableman and Dorothy E Arrington of Philadelphia Pennsylvania also received marriage licenses.
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Lawrence Morris
Mildred Morris
New Castle
Del
Daniel Weiles Powell, Jr
Elizabeth Pritchett
Harrington
James F. Ableman
Dorothy E. Arrington
Philadelphia
A Mother's Day Tribute to Carrie Griffith
A tribute from Martha and John honors Carrie FEF Griffith on Mother's Day. The poem recalls missing her presence yet expresses comfort in the enduring love and memory of a faithful mother.
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Carrie Fef. Griffith
Adams' Cross Roads Social Notices and Visits
Mrs Floyh Garey of Denton Mrs Noble Brown and daughter visited Mrs Neal Heller on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Walter Truster of Philadelphia spent Wednesday at their Bloomery home. Misses Minnie and Althea Adams of Wilmington spent the week end with Marian Robinson and Edna Adams. The Adams family mourns the death of Mr James Adams Friday at the Adams Homestead. Bernice Adams and friend Chatty of Wilmington spent the week end with George Wheatley. Harold Adams granddaughter Edna Adams Grace Horsey and Frank Adams visited at the Adams Homestead Friday evening. Nellie Scott and Elva Lyden called in the neighborhood Tuesday. Lester Adams and daughter spent Sunday evening with the Johnson Sisters. Blanche Stetler visited relatives in Philadelphia this week. Irene Rust of Bridgeville spent Tuesday evening with Virginia Lee Robinson.
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H. P. Wagner
Philadelphia
A. E. Carter
John Ray Luff
John Luff
Hanover
Robert Biss
Lester Stevenson
Ralph Sharp
Thelda Roe
Alvin Simpson
John Coyle
New York
James Thawley
L. W. Taylor, Sr
William Hugg, Jr
Barbara
Milford
Del
Leon Griffith
Effa Plummer
Town
Jo Purcell
Circle No. 1
Walter Weaver
Greensboro High School
New York City
Harold Butler
Norman Rickard
Smyrna
Wilmer Webber
Floyh Garey
Denton
Noble Brown
Neal Heller
Walter Truster
Bloomery
Minnie and
Althea Adams
Wilmington
Marian Robinson
Edna Adams
Charles Adams
Grace E. Adams
West Atlantic City
Adams Homestead
James Adams
Bernice Adams
Chatty
George Wheatley
Harold Adams
Grace Horsey
Frank Adams
Lester Adams
Johnson Sisters
Blanche Stetler
Queen Elizabeth Lineage Traced to Odin in Fourth Century Roots
Genealogists trace Queen Elizabeth II’s ancestry to Woden, a Fourth Century Germanic king later identified with Odin, the god associated with Wednesday. This ancient line links the monarch to early royal and mythic figures across Europe.
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Elizabeth
England
Woden
Odin
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Beacon
Irwin Feed Company
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Turkey
Red Ranger Dog Food
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Nellie Scott
Elva Lyden
Irene Rust
Bridgeville
Virginia Lee Robinson
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