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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
4
Grace M E Church led by Rev DeWitt Beery offers Sunday sermons at 8 pm with a 9 45 am service and midweek prayer. Local families, visits, and travel plans populate the page including Earl Saum in Alexandria, Miss Grace Jackson in Winchester, and a 44 lb bass catch by Earl Saum amid community announcements.
Miss Genevieve of Charlestown guest of Miss Myrtle Hensel. John Rhodes of Basic City visits his parents at the Wayside Inn. Miss Lucile Faulkner returns from Winchester. Harold Matthews and others return to Cumberland after a visit. Washington visitors Eva Kern Bertha Adams stay with the Parkers. Getzendanner of Frederick visits sister Grove at the Kline House. Virginia Parsons and brother Leon visit Mrs. Maude Grove. H and Colliflower Windsor Kessler from Woodbine Md on motorcycle trip spend time with the Ownings. Cora Larrick leaves for ten days to Washington and Baltimore. Mrs. Ward Rhodes and family leave for Topeka Kansas. Mrs. Rhodes, daughter of Simmons, last visited home thirty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weaver of Hood Va visit then travel to Elkton to see Dr. Z L Weaver. Mrs. Martha Mowery improves after illness. Rev. Fred Willey and family visit Mrs. Geo. Clark. Charles Henson and Grace Jackson fish on the Shenandoah, bring home twenty five fish. Agricultural School building gains a concrete walk. J R Watson builds a new bank barn replacing a lightning struck one with separate grain and machinery buildings. James Blackburn adds a concrete walk on Main Street. Mrs. Nannie McNeer and Bessie leave for Berryville.
In the Circuit Court of Frederick County on August 8 1912 Jas L Gardner et al sue Sarah White et al to obtain a deed for land spanning Frederick and Warren Counties Virginia to settle Jno H Gardner deceased estate and partition fealty. Unknown heirs of Stephen Austin and Isaac Russell must appear within 15 days after publication. notice to be printed weekly for four weeks in Middletown Weekly and posted at the courthouse front door.
Stephens City and surrounding areas list church services for Evangelical Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist, and Baptist congregations with preaching on specific Sundays, Sunday School times, and midweek meetings. Local residents including Reid, Headley, and Stickley families are noted visiting or returning from trips. services may be canceled due to pastor absence.
Sunday morning services at the Lutheran church with Rev. Walter Mitchell to conduct the evening service. Miss Marguerite Perry leaves for Gaithersburg Maryland for a week or ten days with Miss Clara Gloyd. Mr. and Mrs. Galliday of Martinsburg return after visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon of Strasburg visit Mrs. Gordon's parents. Mrs. O Rowland and Mrs. William Horner of Roanoke visit their relatives. Mrs. Bessie Peoples and daughter Elizabeth visit Mrs. H B Dean.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg lists degree courses in Agriculture Horticulture Applied Chemistry Applied Geology Civil Mining Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Metallurgy and paper. It notes forty four instructors thoroughly equipped laboratories and barns steam heating electric lights dormitories a 1200 volume library and a farm of 1100 acres. Total nine month session cost 274.90 with Virginia students paying 224.90. Next session opens Wednesday September 18 1912. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE PAUL B BARRINGER MD LL.D. President.
Attractive house on Rail road Avenue offered by widow on farm seeks reliable housekeeper for a food home. Apply to E Barr in Winchester Virginia. Additional insertions offered for display. Twenty words or more rate details indicate pricing for two issues or more.
A man discovers his lack of a natural gift for invention when he struggles to fit a key into his door at 3 o'clock in the morning, a moment of frustration that underscores the gap between ambition and skill.
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