Poppy Day Observed Saturday Across Caroline County
Poppy Day on Saturday May 24 designated by the American Legion Auxiliary with Caroline Unit No. 29 distributing the red crepe memorial poppies through Memorial Day. Mrs. L Stevens Browne and 125000 volunteers aid disabled veterans in Maryland hospitals. Donations fund welfare work for living veterans and families. 80 percent stays local, 20 percent to National Headquarters for child welfare and rehabilitation.
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American Legion Auxiliary
France
Belgium
Flanders Field
Caroline County
Caroline
L. Stevens Browne
Veterans Hospitals of
Maryland
William F Towers Dies at 75 in Denton Maryland
William F Towers lifelong Caroline County resident and Maryland State Roads Commission supervisor died suddenly at his Denton home after a brief illness. He was 75, survived by his widow Bessie M Towers four children and several siblings. Funeral held Wednesday at his Denton home with Rev. Thomas J Turkington. interment in Concord Maryland.
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William F. Towers
Caroline County
Maryland
Denton
Towers
Maryland State Roads Commission
George W
Julia Liden Towers
Bessie M. Towers
William G. Towers
Elizabeth Baynard
Irene Murphy
Dolly Allfather
H. Roland Towers
near Harmony
George W. Towers
Walter E. Lord Dies. Caroline County Farmer and Church Leader
Walter E. Lord retired farmer and longtime Caroline county resident dies at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Trice near Concord after years of illness. He was 63, survived by his widow Edith A. Lord five children sisters and brothers. Funeral at Concord Methodist Church at 2 o clock today with Rev. Melvin Kay officiating. Interment in Concord Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Lord
Caroline county
Ross Trice
Concord
Mr. Lord
William H
Wilhelmina Russum Lord
Edith A. Lord
Denton Falls 9 to 8 in opener with Chestertown
Three Mar Del League games last Sunday produced close scores. Chestertown beat Denton 9 to 8 as Denton rallied with five runs in the seventh. Rock Hall shut out Greensboro 11 to 0 while Hartly defeated Houston 8 to 5. Upcoming schedule features Denton at Camden Wyoming and Chestertown at Rock Hall as league play deepens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chestertown
Denton
Hartly
Houston
Rock Hall
Greensboro
Felton
Camden-Wyoming
Hardy
Legionnaires
Spencer
Selby
Robinson
Newman
Lord
Cy Cole
Lane
Scurto
King
Strong
Weaver
Witten
Mundy
Charley
Bilbrough
Porter
Brownie Coleman
Jacobs
Big Joe Vodvarka
Walls
Wes Roe
W. Johnson
Libby
Davidson
Howard Killen
Killen
Jack McGillan
C-W
Rash
McGillian
Minner
L. Killen
Maryland
Delaware
W. Berry
Chester
Frank Plummer
Geo. Wakeman
National Baseball Congress
Today's Children Are Citizens Of Tomorrow
Top row features Earl Towers of Federalsburg Louise Murphy of Denton and Larry Messick of Denton, all identified as children of local families in Maryland.
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Earl
Earl Towers
Federalsburg
Louise
Harry Murphy
Denton
Larry
Paul Messick
Southern States Membership Meeting Set for Denton Finalized at 6:30
Plans for the Southern States Cooperative annual meeting in Denton will be discussed at a 6:30 p.m. gathering on Wednesday May 28 at the Brick Hotel. Board president Harry H Nuttle will lead the session to set the meeting time and place, plan a program, and nominate candidates for the local board of directors and Farm Home committee.
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Southern States Cooperative
Denton
Southern States Farmers Supply ‘Cooperative Board of Directors
Southern States Denton Farm Home Advisory committee
Brick Hotel
Harry H. Nuttle
Board of Directors
Farm Home committee
W. H. Cawley
George Shaffer
Frank D. Zeigler
C. J. Kern
Richard Blackburn
Willie S. Carroll
Ridgely
Frank Zeigler
Charles Wood Jr
Earl Love
Co. J
Commencement Dates For County Graduates Listed In 1947
County schools publish commencement dates and lists of graduates across multiple high schools. Groesboro Greensboro Preston Federalsburg Ridgely and Lockerman include academic general and specialized courses with student names and dates.
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Greensboro High School
Faye Kish
Genevieve Ann Poore
John Alan Richard
Phyllis Ann Shively
Donald Fleming Stevenson
Phyllis Miriam Baynard
Priscilla Nellie Bishop
Bette Louise Bradley
Genevieve Helen Downes
Gertrude Olivia Hutson
Clara Hester Jarman
Elsie Elizabeth Klecan
Betty Emma Langrell
Anne Louise Morris
Dorotha Lee Stubbs
Eva Ashton Thawley
Carl Selden Ayrault
Charles Louis Bragley
Alithia Butler
Harold
Preston High School
Betty Nina Bradley
Margaret Patricia Ferguson
Elsie Isabel Flaharty
Victor Herbert Rieck
Victor Lindbergh Schmick
Harriette Anne Strickland
Beverly Stevens Blades
Willian Jennings Bryan, Jr
Leonard Norwood Hopkins
Dallas Gross Lord
Janes Edward Messick
James Oliver Ferry
William
Harry Rieck, Jr
ph Herbert Schulke
Carroll Devon Wooters, Jr
Annie Elizabeth Baynard
William Clark Andrews
Norman Robert Bradley
Wilbur Thomas Callis
Ralph Emerson Cook
Edward John Dietrich
Doris Imogene Edgar
Dorothy Margaret Richardson
Jewell Fairbanks Smith
Bruce Nelson Towers
Theodore Mace Turner
William Lester Williamson
Wallace Edwin Wilson
Betty Elisa D’Armi
Jean Fearins
Marie Elizabeth Glessner
Shirley Jean Lyden
Sarah Lee Zahniser
Ridgely High School
Joy Ann Hoffman
Elinor Marie Hart
Margaret Etta Jean Binebrink
Joyce Anne Wrightson
Betty Tribbitt
Nellie Goad
Verna Mae Crouse
Mary Splendora
Ann Kershaw
Elizabeth Betz Towers
Walter Norris Jarrell
Andrew Richard Rampmeyer
William John Sculley
William Joseph Connolly
Walter Augustus Lane
Edward Leroy Gallagher, Jr
William Henry Hollingsworth
Lockerman High School
Seventy-Three Pastoral Changes Announced by Bishop
The Peninsula Methodist Conference announced 73 pastoral changes and two new superintendents at its eighth annual session in Union Methodist Church Wilmington. Changes spanned Wilmington, Dover, Easton, and Salisbury districts with Dr. Hamilton P. Fox and J. B. Dickerson named new district superintendents, while several current pastors changed assignments and eight Wilmington-area churches received transfers.
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Charles Wesley Flint
Union Methodist Church
Wilmington
Dover
Easton
Salisbury
Hamilton P. Fox
Asbury
Oliver J. Collins
J. B. Dickerson
Zion Church
Cambridge
Ralph C. Jones
T. C. Mulligan
Essell P. Thomas
Collins
Baltimore
First Methodist Church
Robin Bould
McCabe Memorial Church
Edward J. Bond
Bellefonte
Calvary
Eastlake
Grace
Hillcrest
Peninsula
Union
J. T. Lord
Union Church
Charles S. Clarkson
Charles W. Brandford
A. T. MacFarland
H. G. Holdway
Charles C. Harris
D. C. Wildey
Mr. Clarkson
John N. Link
Westminster Theological Seminary
Otis P. Jefferson
George H. Pigueron
Del Mar Va Scouts to Join Sixth World Jamboree Team
Three Del Mar Va Council Boy Scouts Joseph Bantam George Gifford and Richard LeBrun will join 1,050 American Scouts at the Sixth World Boy Scout Jamboree in Moisson France August 9 to 22. About 30,000 Scouts from 39 countries expected.
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Del-Mar- Va
Moisson
France
Joseph C. Bantam, Jr
Easton
George E. Gifford, Jr
Zion
Richard M. LeBrun
Port Deposit
Park Avenue
United States
Paris
W. Arthur McKinney
U. S
Truman
U. S. Health Service
Ray H. Bryan
Engineering Service
America
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HARTYY
ROCK ITALL
Ghestertown
Norma Jean
Olin Griffith
Freddie
J. F. Gregg
Eloise
Robert Irwin
Southern States
Caroline High School
Virginia Lee Henry
Louis Irvin Howard
Elizabeth Ann Messer
Robert Dale Palmer
Patricia Loreen Pine
Sharon Lee Stewart
Nancy Jean Strong
Martha Ann Zeigler
Paul Deweese Butler
Edith Evelyn McNeal
Gloria Inez Skinner
Virginia Lee Smith
Mildred Caroline Turner
Robert Lee Werner
Herbert Alan Butler
Fay Elizabeth Carroll
Eunice E. Dean
Kenneth Carroll Dean
Doris Lee DeFord
Kathryn Elma DeFord
Charles Joseph Detwiler
Doris Harriett Eaton
William Dulin Fearins
James Frederick Fretterd
Howard Joseph Gannon
Carl Wayne
Geisel
Joseph Martin Good
Roland Philip Griffith, Jr
Amos Elijah Harris
Betty Lee Hopkins
Leon O. Hynson
Frances Marie Lane
Joseph Donald Laramore
Purnell F. Legg
Hester Ellen Long
Doris Virginia Melvin
Shirley Jean Melvin
Norma Elaine Melvin
Charles Harold Meredith
Pauline Morgan
William F. North
Thomas David Patrick
Paul Nelson Pippin
William Thompson Roberts, II
Elizabeth Jane Roe
Thomas William Sharp
Jean Eleanor Trice
Edward E. Wright
Grace Elizabeth Clark
Walter Leroy Acree
Jean Roberta Acree
Howard Solomon Beulah
Juanita Bernice Butler
Carolyn Clarke Bordley
Dorothy Pennington Brooks
Samuel Edward Briggs
Marshall Roosevelt Collins
Methodist
H. P. Fox
North Harrison Street
Bethel
Townpoint
Richard E. Hawkins
Cecil
Edward Hoffman
Cecilton
Roy I. Jones
Charlestown
Russell W. Simpson
Cherry Hill
John W. Jones
Chesapeake City
Harold Lewis
Chester Bethel
W. FE. Hubbard
Christiana
Jerry Cover
Claymont
P. W. Spence
Ebenezer
New Castle
John W. Wootten
Newark
A. J. Jackson
Newport
F. D. Milbury
North East
Perryville
Ralph W. Hopkins
pore Deposit
William H. Revelle
Red Lion
David J. Moore
Richardson Park
A. B. Frye
Rising Sun
A. W. Strickland
St. Georges
Charles H. Hudson
Jacob C. Hanby
T. J. Lard
William H. Hudson
Brandywine
L. E. Werner
B. M. Johns
A. W. Goodhand
Harrison Street
Carlton M. Harris
Kingswood
H. B. Flater
Madeley
Robert G. Conner
McCabe
Minquadale
J. BE. Layton
Mt. Salem
W. P. Roberts
Scott
Harvey B. Flater
Silverbrook
Roy L. Tawes
St.Paul’s
J. Earl Cummings
Trinity
W. Staney Grant
Wilmington Manor
Brooks E. Reynolds
H. N. Bailey
Chaplain Veterans Administration
a I. Carpenter
U. S. Army
Hamer
E. J. Hemphill
U. S. Navy
L. E. Windsor
O. A. Bartley
Wesley Junior College
Del
John M. Kelso
Dayton E
Eastern Star
Order of the Eastern Star
Mildred C. Butler
Mildred C. Johnson
Grand Chapter of
Masonic Hall
Edith Moore
J. Virgil Moore
Dolly Moore
Sallie P. Walston
Lillian C. Irwin
Del-Mar-Va
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