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Newspaper
Middletown Weekly
Location
Middletown, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1912
Page
3
The verse surveys English plural forms with examples like oxen geese mice and cows kine and discusses gender terms and pronouns. It notes irregularities in spelling and pronunciation and ends with a playful assertion of the language’s wonder.
A piece on hosting teaches empathy and sociability. It recounts two women, one serene and content, the other fretful, and explains the secret of happiness as keeping a Pleasure Book. It records small joys like a letter from mother and a blooming flower that brighten ordinary days.
Star Tannery community gossip covers visits by Mr. and Mrs. G W Pifesi and others, church preaching at Gravel Springs, a November Oyster Supper fundraiser, and a pleasant gathering at Roy Heishman home with many neighbors and family names listed.
Mrs J B Singhass and Miss Maggie visit the daughter Mrs Frank Lindamood. Mrs W L Snarr and son Elmer spent Sat and Sun at Mt Olive. Families with Miss Naomi Pry Annie Myrtle Lindamood Grace Rudolph Judith Mowery. Sadie Lindamood returns home from time with uncle Israel Lindamood. Grover Rudolph dislocates his shoulder. Tuesday visitors to J B Feeley include Dr J A Funkhouser Martha Shambaugh Sallie Funkhouser Catherine Rudolph. Mrs Russell Bowman visits mother Mrs Whetzel who is very ill.
Willie Jenkins shows improvement after illness. Mr and Mrs Hugh Showalter of Alliance visited Mrs D M Pingley. Ernie Whittington and family plan move from Hagerstown to Keller Brothers’ house. Miss Annie Godlove visits Woodstock. Shiloh church holds communion service Sunday at 3 PM.
M R Crabill’s condition improving. B M Hodson moves into Meadow Mills house vacated by Price Lee. Hog killing underway. Road movement stalls due to busy farming season. Mrs Clara Frye and Miss Elsie Keller installing a phone at J R Keller’s home. O O Stickley operates a saw mill for J C Cadwallader at Mr Kerns’ farm.
On a garden lane, Ethel and Fred Craig clash over marriage as she fears lifelong flaws and lost romance. He returns with a plan to prove they are meant to be together, revealing they may truly need each other to be happy.
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