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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
3
Miss Leah and her husband, Mr. Tulip with Moe, spent Saturday and Sunday with the M Bar-Good home. Mrs. Sadie Grover and son from near Reliance visited relatives Mr. and Mrs. B. T. White. Miss Katye Evans returned home after two weeks in Riverton.
Miss Bessie Stickley enjoys good health as Martha Stickley mourns a lost valuable horse. M M Orndorff hosts guests from Baltimore and Carlisle while relatives from Huntington visit. H B Keener smiles with five young sons. Jinkens family from Washington and locals welcome visitors amid budding showers.
Miss Zepp Miss Jessie Orndorff visited Isie Shull in their home town days last week. Milford Shull and Lawrence Keller spent a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Shull. A box supper at the Christian Church Saturday evening. Preston Richard returned to Alberton Maryland last Monday.
Emma Gods is ill. Mrs D M Pingley and family are mentioned. Miss Annie Lin and Miss Gertigg Lin damood visited Winchester. Lorraine Pingley spent days with her father. Miss Sue Kneisley from Minebanck visited recently. Miss Mattie Holtzmanish is at Star We are glad G H Snarr is recovering after surgery. Claude Kellican in jail in Winchester on a bank charge. He will be in court this term.
Frank Bowman, former head of Borden Bros. slave factory in Manassas, died July 3 after a long tuberculosis illness. He was 43, a loyal citizen and Lutheran church member. Funeral services led by Rev. Efird and Rev. Oney. Survivors include relatives and friends.
Kennedy Kane McArthur of South Africa wins the marathon race at the Olympic Games with a time of 2 hours 36 minutes. Gaston Strobino of New Jersey finishes third, clocking a little over 2 hours 38 minutes.
Instructions for late Irish potatoes planted in July. Prepare furrows twice, mix 200 lb acid phosphate 300 lb cottonseed meal 40 lb muriate of potash per acre, stir in, plant 16 in apart with 3 ft rows, cover lightly. Cultivate level, keep soil dust blanket to retain moisture, avoid over-drying. The note ends with a Shakespeare quote and a subscription pitch.
The piece argues moving pictures are a lasting scientific achievement shaping youth. It warns of moral risk when pictures promote vice, urges leveraging film for health education and religion, and notes collaborations with the Young Men's Christian Association to inspire virtue and self improvement.
The Baltimore Annual Conference will convene in Edinburg from July 29 to August 1 with 25 charges and 9,600 members. Delegates include 40 clergy and 100 lay representatives from Frederick Clarke Warren counties Va Jefferson West Virginia Loudoun Fauquier Shenandoah and Brunswick. Sessions review church work and plan new programs with daily preaching by prominent clergymen including Rev. W. H. Marsh.
Senator E A Copeland introduced a Georgia bill to bar marriages of anyone addicted to intoxicants or with transmissible diseases. The measure would create a commission to examine applicants and empower punishment of ministers performing ceremonies outside its provisions.
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