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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
3
A dated column debates wide skirts and morals, argues for mid width of two yards around the bottom, critiques fashion pressure, and offers Apingham fabric notes. It includes sewing tips for belts and buttons plus a simple almond cake recipe and notes on home job printing services.
Daily notes from Lebanon list visitors including Miss Stella Bowman Woodstock and Miss Crisman Bedford City Virginia visiting aunt Annie Borden. Local residents attended the Confederate Reunion in New Market and an excursion to Washington and Baltimore. Box Supper planned for Saturday night August 31. attendance urged.
Items From Star Tannery note Mrs. Hershman and daughter from Wardensville returned home after visiting friends here. Miss Maggie Singhass visits Miss Stella Himelright as Mrs. Nannie Chapman and kin visit Elijah Pifer. Willie Sales stays with P W Sales family at Mt Falls. Winnie Hershman returns from near Wardensville. J Y Himelright and grandson spend days in Winchester. Mr and Mrs G S Brill and family stay near Zepp for several days.
Rev Fred Willey of Branchville New Jersey will preach at Meadow Mills schoolhouse Sunday afternoon September 1 at 3 oclock. Other notes mention Rev Ernest Watson sermon to Sunday School and congregation and various local visits and health updates in the community.
WANTED men women and children to subscribe for the Middleton Weekly. One year cost one dollar six months fifty cents three months twenty five cents. Can you afford to do without it.
Mr and Mrs James I Wise and son Norman visit friends in Carlisle Pa Mrs H B Kline and daughter Mary Eliza return home to Chevy Chase Md after visits Mrs Holmes McCauley ill with typhoid at Winchester Memorial Hospital Mrs Susan Reinhardt returns to Chevy Chase Md from visits S F Kenny returns home from Mt Jackson limekiln Mrs George Fisher and daughter Jean visit F Estes Kline Rev Druid Jones preaches at Cedar Cliff church Mrs Robert Gillock visits from Lexington D M Leidig visits relatives in Chambersburg Pa Mrs Samuel Williams of McKeesport Pa and Mrs Cora Scaggs visit brother Robert Larrick at Greenhill Annie Kline visits Elk Ridge Md Mrs R L Boggs visits Harvey Funkhouser in Pittsburgh Dogs kill one and cripple several of S B Kline's sheep M M Stickley in Winchester on business W W Stickley leaves for Atlantic City and Philadelphia for a two week visit Newport society belle adopts one black stocking and shoe and one white ditto. The question What is a ditto The fellow who blows his own horn is always a soloist.
A crowd attended a Tulip event with a pleasant afternoon program by local schools. The grove hosted a feast with many tables of delicacies around noon. Mr and Mrs Grover Grim visited relatives in Tulip. several families and visitors were noted across the area. Protracted services opened at Refuge church on the 26th led by Rev Knox as dry weather dampened farmer spirits.
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