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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
4
Grace M E Church in Middletown lists Sunday sermons at 11 a m and 8 p m with 9 45 a m Sunday School and midweek prayer. Junior and Senior Leagues meet Sundays. Numerous local visits, travel, and errands noted including church guests, horse shows, shopping, and Sunday greetings among residents.
The column lists numerous visits and stays by residents and relatives from Woodstock Wardensville to Stephens City and nearby towns. Names include Miss Elizabeth Hammond, Mrs. Frank McGhee, Mrs. Larrick, Dr. Ford, Mrs. Heller, Miss Lottie Johnson, Howard Owings, Miss Ella Smeltzer, Mrs. Nicodemus, Miss Dade, Mrs. Edward Grove, Mrs. Walter Edmonson, Miss Shelby Rhodes, Miss Bess Rhodes, Miss Letty Wormeldorf, Mrs. John Newell, John Smeltzer, Wise Larrick, Mrs. Alice Butler, Mrs. Kate Yates, Charles Rogers, E. E. Rogers, Mrs. G. L. Wallihan, and others. Edmonson’s shoe sale advertised. Edmonson’s dresses promoted. Edward Hansel displaying large “Stone” tomatoes.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg lists degree courses in Agriculture Horticulture Applied Chemistry Applied Geology Civil Mining Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Metallurgy and memory. The campus shows sixty four instructors fully equipped shops laboratories and barns with steam heating electric lights in dormitories a 1200 volume library and a farm spanning 1100 acres.
Star Tannery items report visits by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Shenk and daughter from Winston-Salem to Mrs. Luther Brill. Bettie Brill stays with her mother, Nettie Brill. G. W. Pifer visited Winchester. Selma Brill is ill. Joe Orndorff has been very ill. Gravel Springs Church will hold Sunday preaching at 3 PM. Subscription offered for the Weekly.
Local church schedules for Stephens City and nearby areas list preaching on Sundays and midweek meetings at several parishes including Episcopal Trinity and Evangelical Lutheran. Community notes mention visits, family news, a typhoid fever case, a Sunday School convention in Middletown, and local shipments and births.
Judge T W Harrison of the Circuit Court sustained Shenandoah county revenue commissioner in denying KE H Thompson a license for slot machines. The decision found machines varying in payout and upheld the licensing law cited by the commissioner.
Chapin Sacks Mfg Co in Woodstock Virginia asks readers to send written price offers for twelve months of 4 percent milk. They note a typical price around 1.30 dollars per hundred and claim daily car usage in Middletown.
Strsburg items record S. L. Burgess heading to West Virginia for insurance work while Lawson Armentrout returns to Boyd’s Drug Store in Winchester after vacation. Visitors include Spenglers from Harrisburg and Uniontown, with several attending the Winchester Agricultural conference and church events. Groundbreaking for a manse, visits by Dr. Strosnider and Rev Peery, and college canvassing mark a week of social and civic activity.
FOR SALE Attractive house on Rail road Avenue Apply to C E Ed mondson WANTED a reliable woman for house keeper by widow on farm A food home for the right person Barr Winchester Va
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