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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1912
Page
3
Mrs. Nora Cartmell spends summer in Winchester and visits Mrs. J R Watson. Numerous social trips and visits follow, listing names and towns including Berryville Front Royal Pittsburg Cumberland Woodstock and Millwood. The piece notes ice cream parlor and soda fountain promos and upcoming events.
Mrs Lula Tabler and family of Washington stay in Star Tannery. Luther Brill improves his mill with a new water wheel. Mrs Maggie Cover and son James of Narrows visits. Harry Cooper spent Sunday with Walter Stine. Frank Shumaker and family of Capon Bridge WV visit Mrs Shumaker’s parents. Mrs Milton Hockman visits her parents. Miss Sarah Racey visits Miss Minnie Orndorff. Mrs Mary Bentley and Mrs Mary Himelright visit J Himelright. Osware Ritter and family Sunday with Mrs Cora Himelright. King at Gravel Springs Sunday at 3 PM.
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium hosted a Thanksgiving party at Brussels Palace for 1800 women and maids, celebrating a 56000 donation to the Dispensary for Tuberculosis Patients. Each guest wore an artificial edelweiss in her corsage, symbolizing loyalty and aid.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, in a Newport luncheon, noted a nouveau riche family striving for acceptance. He observed Mrs. Nouveau Riche boasted she is snubbed by a better class of people with each passing year.
Miss iSertie Barr of Gaithersburg Md visits relatives in Stephens City. Virginia Dean returns from Martinsburg. Holmes Yogel and Lloyd Argenbright visit, then return to Shepherdstown to work in a barrel factory. Cadwallader Bros thresh wheat. paving work on the pike continues to curb dust. Dry weather, poor corn prospects, new homes nearing completion, and a Lutheran church program in Toms Brook are noted. Local races in Front Royal reward winners. several residents appear at social events, with a remarkable wheat yield and a Florida trip ending in the display of a young alligator.
Mr and Mrs George Hottel spent the Fourth with friends in Woodstock. H M Sonner of Cumberland Md visited family. Claude Cayton recently in Lu ray and Edin burg with Mrs Rose Spengler then home Saturday. Mrs C M Borum spent Monday in Woodstock. James Campbell in Edinburg Monday. Maggie Spengler left for Alexandria to visit Mr and Mrs George Le Hew. Mrs Grace Kneisley and sons returned from Woodstock. Misses Caroline and Mary Keller back from Toms Brook. Little George Everly very ill with high fever. Mrs Julia A Culler from Ogonny Pa visiting her aunt Mrs Samuel Keister. G W Armentrout decorating R S Wright home. Stickley Browning of Falls Church VA spent Sunday with Hugh Stickley. H A Calahan leaves for Seattle to become general manager for Fidelity Mutual Insurance Co Philadelphia.
A seventeenth century consistory court entry notes Thomas Anderson of Swinhoe fined for playing a bagpipe before a bridegroom on a Sunday and for not frequenting church or taking the Holy Sacrament. Elizabeth Mills is recorded for scolding and drying fish on the Lord's day.
A philanthropist sent a poor man with a note to request a meal today. The bill is twenty cents for four beers and two cigars.
A satirical remark mocks the idea of war between the United States and Great Britain over who should host the next peace congress. The quip frames the dispute as a trivial scheduling issue rather than a real conflict.
A collage of light items from Variety Life and social notes. It mentions a sociologist on divorce costs, the Canadian four dollar bill removal, ragtime compared to whisky, and a tossed remark about eggs and headlines.
A brief item notes the search for Mr Jones during July, framed as a testament to perseverance. The piece hints at public interest in his fate or whereabouts, reflecting a London Opinion voice.
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