Local Homemakers Club meets in Oct for social notes
The Double Hills Homemaker's Club met on Tuesday Oct 28 at Mrs Bruno Nier's home with 12 members present. They opened with the Maryland State Song and Collect. Reports included Health Department notes no new polio cases in the county. They discussed a county nursing home and the Loan Closet. The group contributed 10 to Canteen Cards for the State Hospital at Cambridge and collected pennies for friendship. November meeting planned for Nov 25 at Mrs Milo Crane's home. Various local visits and social events of members are listed, including trips and hospital stays and attendance at church and district events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Double Hills Tfomemaker’s Club
Bruno Nier
Maryland
Collect
L. Jay Smith
Health Department
State Hospital
Cambridge
Frank Depew
Milo Crane
Miss Venia M Kellar dies after long Maryland tenure
Miss Venia M Kellar longtime University of Maryland Home Demonstration leader died October 13 at Doctors Hospital Washington after a brief illness. Born in Iowa she led Maryland extension work guiding about 1000 clubs and 20 000 members. Services were held in Valentine Nebraska where she is buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venia M. Kellar
University of Maryland
Doctors Hospital
Washington, D. C
Miss Kellar
University
Dorchester County
Maryland
South Dakota
Prole
Iowa
Nebraska
Wesleyan University
University of Nebraska
Columbia University
Land Grant College Association
Covington Dies at 40 in Queen Anne Home
William Walter Covington, 40, died suddenly at his home near Queen Anne on Sunday October 26. A native of Queen Anne's County, he farmed at his home for 17 years and is survived by wife Elizabeth Barton Covington and three children Sonja Lee 15 William W 10 and Roberta 3, plus his mother Lydia Mae Covington of Queenstown a sister Elva Covington Cooper of Lansdowne and a brother John Wesley Covington of Queenstown. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p m at Carroll Funeral Home Easton with Rev J W Holliday Jr of Queenstown officiating. Interment followed at Greenmount Cemetery Hillsboro. Pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Walter Covington
Queen Anne
Queen Anne’s County
W. D. Wilkes
Lydia Mae Anders Covington
Elizabeth Barton Covington
Sonja Lee
William W
Roberta
Lydia Mae Covington
Queenstown
Elva Covington Cooper
Lansdowne
John Wesley Covington
Carroll Funeral Home
Easton
J. W. Holliday, Jr
Greenmount Cemetery
Hillsboro
Howard Pinder
J. Robert Barton
Charles W. Sewell
Elmer Whitby
H. Barton Butler
Charles Shortall
Cordova
United Fund Drive Surges in Caroline County
The United Fund of Caroline County reports the drive started strongly on Monday October 27 with Advanced Gifts near completion. The campaign unites Memorial Hospital Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and Mental Health under one fund with chairmen listed across Federalsburg Denton Ridgely Preston Greensboro Hillsboro and other districts. President W IE Unger of Federalsburg chairs the fund as Judge J D Carter of Denton leads the budget committee. The piece ends with a reflection on civility and self control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sk. Thomas Iverngam
Advanced Gifts
Se. W. Nuttle
United Fund
Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
J. Dallas Blades
A. W. Sisk & Sons
Canning Brokers
Preston
Federalisburg
K. W. Nuttle
County Advance Gifts
Denton
K. T. Everngam
R. R. Hallowell
Federalsburg
W. S. Hoppengardner
M. H. Smith
W. F. Davis
Advance Gifts
P. A. Croll
E. J. Harris
Advance Gift
A. T. Blades
W. E. Thawley
C. E. Hadaway
Ridgely
Burrsville Homecoming at Wesley Church speakers and guests
Burrsville Tlomecoming is planned at Wesley Church on Sunday Nov 2 at 2 pm with Revonna Todd as speaker and a special musical program. Invited attendees include Javersone and local residents share visits and hospital news including Roland Draper Sr returning from Milford Hospital and Fred McCabe a patient there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Church
Revonna Todd
Javersone
Roland Draper
Milford Hospital
Fred McCabe
Mary Sue Thawley
Milford
Shirleen Wilson
Houston
Robert Stafford
Myrtle Mitchell
Chester
Touston Thawley
Elizabeth Ann
Donna Werner
Fred Lewis
Ilenry Stafford
John Anderson
Massey
Dick Gooden
Dover
Mrs Verena Sigrist 72 dies after brief illness in Salisbury
Mrs Verena A Sigrist 72 wife of Joseph Sigrist of Atlanta Road Seaford died Sunday at Peninsula General Salisbury after a brief illness. She was daughter of the late Fred and Elizabeth von Ah of Switzerland. Survived by four sons Joseph Jr Westover Md John Paul Pomokoke City Frank Salt Lake City Utah. five daughters Verena Pusey Mary Phillips Ann Walls Mae Hastings Goldie Pusey Salisbury. 19 grandchildren and a brother Olois con Ah of Switzerland. Requiem Mass held Our Lady of Lourdes Church Wednesday 10 a m. Interment Wicomico Memorial Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verena A. Sigrist
Joseph Sigrist
Atlanta Road
Seaford
Peninsula General Hospital
Salisbury
Fred
Elizabeth von Ah
Switzerland
Joseph, Jr
Westover
John and
Paul
Pocomoke City
Frank
Salt Lake City
Utah
Verena Pusey
Mary Phillips
Fruitland
Ann Walls
Marydel
Mae Hastings
Goldie Pusey
Olois Con Ah
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Eeugene T. Stout
Father McKinley
Wicomico Memorial Park
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Grand Patrons Association of Maryland
Order of the Eastern Star
Brick Hotel
Mildred C. Johnson
Price E. Wilson
Mary V. Randall
Baltimore
Donald L. Watson
Wilmington
M. C. Watson
W. K. Scotton
Joseph Scurto
College Park
Conrad V. Scurto
James Ward
Victor Davis
Scurto
Lorenzo W. Lowe
Raymond
J. Bradford Shawn
Hagerstown
Sebring
Fla
Walter B. Palmer
Buck Hill Falls
E. Paul Knotts
Willard Knotts
New Orleans
Knotts
Southern Medical Association
General Practice
Charles Butler
Ernest J. Brown
Howard Anthony
Harrington
Edward Brown
Charles E. Barton
Nina Smith
Joanna Hambleton
Virgil Moore
Robert J. Moore
Haddonfield
N. J
Philadelphia
Messrs
Frank Gerhardt
Jas. K. Cooper
Percy Scudder
G. A. Werner
Choptank
Camp Rodney
De-Mar-Va
John W. Wesner
Wayne
Walter Wesner
Huntington
L. I
John T. Wesner
Charles G. Newman
Silver Bay
Wilmer Parker
Delmar
Father Farrington
Farrington
Milton
Mass
Quentin R. Walsh
J. Owen Krotts
Joseph H. Johnson
George Lowe
Florida
Lavinia Palmer
Walter B. Bardsley
Collingdale
Harvey Collins
Lana
Barbara
Greenwood
Norman L. Rairigh
Arthur Lee Rairigh
Andover
Bert Messenger
Schenectady
N. Y
Bruce Greer
Washington
S Kauffman
Ruth Williamson
Hugh Williamson
Greensboro
Merriken
Second Street
Venia
M. Kellar
Caroline County
Burrsville
Air
Howard Hopkins
WSCS
Leslie Spence
Ars. John Anderson
Henry Stafford
Pictorial Review
Good Old Days
Louella Parsons
Trouswood
Joseph Whitney
Our New Age
Baltimore Sunday American
Walt Disney
Ae Lael
Allied Artists
Sun
Rock Hudson
Twilight
The
Gods
Drive-In Theater
Charlton Heston
Allied Artists Pictures
Gary Cooper
Wallach
Tocar
Market St
Western Auto Store
Clark
Alma T. Morrison
Clark Shop
Denton, Maryland
James A. Wise
Democratic
House OF Delegates
J. D. Keller
Magnolia, Delaware
Felton
Canterbury-Magnolia Road
James
Bridgeville, Delaware
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