The Haunted House tale ends with a Christmas tree quest
In a Santa and the Haunted House excerpt the Storyteller recounts Nog’s alchemy of fear at Burning Tree Road. A trio from Round Hill Road seeks a pine tree but finds a haunted scene with green smoke, eerie lights and circling buzzards before the adventure shifts to a Christmas tree hunt and a warning of danger from Nog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucrece Beale
Nog
Fairyland
Kingdom
Poo
Burning Tree
Round Hill Road
Sissy
Jeremy
Germantown 4-H Banquet plans and local notices
Germantown 4-H Club hosted 27 members with banquet planning for December 7 at the Agricultural Center. Norma Lea Wachter presided. next month new officers take over. Several community tidbits note visits, birthdays, and church youth activities including Brownie Investiture for Troop 1682 at Germantown School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah H. Lens
Germantown
Cheryl Layman
Agricultural Center
Norma Lea Wachter
Albert Clagett
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Henry McGaha
Middletown
John H. Mussetter
Edward Larkin
Fort Meade
Gary Crowell
Western Maryland College
Westminster
William W. Smith
Alvin Corbin
Burtonsville
W. A Smith
Richard Smith
Silver Spring
Edwin Wiley
Willard W. Wiley
Darnestown PTA Heard Talk on Fitness and Service
Darnestown school PTA met December 3 with the Little Orchestra performing five numbers under Mrs. Robert Linnell. Dr. Jack Clark spoke on physical fitness while the attendance banner went to the second-third grade class of Miss Susan Warn. Refreshments were provided by Room Mothers. Barbara Douville returned from Towson College for Thanksgiving. The area families gathered for holiday visits. A joint Thanksgiving service was held by Pleasant View Methodist Church and Emory Grove Methodist Church led by Rev. Barrington. Judye True underwent an appendectomy at Montgomery General Hospital and was recovering well. Camp Fire Girls crafted gift items from plastic bottles for the County Welfare Board’s Christmas Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Darnestown
Darnestown Little Orchestra
Robert Linnell
John W. Kitterman
Jack Clark
Susan Warn
Diane Brown
Katherine Foli
Barbara Douville
Towson College
Arthur Douville
Emory Grove Methodist Church
Thomas G. Barrington
Judye True
William True
Meadowbrook Estates
Montgomery General Hospital
County Welfare Board
Cola Cup winners and Thanksgiving notices from Frederick Maryl
The Darnestown School Cola Cup contest awarded Evelyn Howard $5, Bobby Foster $3 and Jeff Sager $1, prizes funded by the PTA. A service of thanksgiving was held at Neelsville Church led by Rev. Albert W. Lenz on Thanksgiving morning. Mrs. Ethel Walter celebrated her 75th birthday at her daughter’s home with many relatives from Frederick to Washington. Other Thanksgiving entries note travels and family visits, including the Vallance and Murad families, Yale and Duke students, and hunter trips to Gainsboro, Virginia. The Travilah-Darnestown Homemakers Club canceled November–December events due to John F. Kennedy’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheaton Presbyterian Church
Wheaton
Willard W. Wiley
Wiley
Etta Wiley
Taneytown
Norman Wiley
Rocky Ridge
Roger Wiley
Graceham
Lorne W. Burlton
Bluefield
W. Va
Burton
Frank Chudina
Germantown School
Carla Bowle
Robin Bradford
Nancy Dubois
Janice Foxwell
Patricia Hare
Dana Harvey
Janice Hubers
Patricia McMullen
Terri Pitman
Nancy Wayne
William True
Oscar Dubois
William Harvey
William Potocko
Mr. Butts
Gaithersburg
William Childs
Laytonsville
Wilbur D. Watkins, Jr
Germantown
Harriet Walter
Damascus
Watkins
Miss Walter
Walter
Frederick
Washington
John Vallance
Douglas
Meadowbrook Estates
Carmel
N. Y
Mr. Vallance
William Vallance
Ronald V. Muirah
Michael
Stephen
Utica
N.Y
Mr. Murad
Sam Murad
Mary Murad
George Murad
Ted Lenz
Albert W. Lenz
Yale University
Lenz
Anne Walker
St. Petersburg
Fla
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Wilbur D. Watkins
Gainsboro
Adkins
Sebring Ridge
Travilah
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Miss Jo
Burning Tree Road
West Warwick
R.I
Douglas W. Ingraham
Hyattsville
Hunter
Cambridge
Taylors Island
Dorchester County
Robert Millard Rouch
Cambridge-Maryland Hospital
Ning
Ilokoto
Iadin
Somust Paul
Jonaica
Ead
Germantown Area
Neelsville Presbyterian Church
Barbara Young
Danny Moon
Kitty Marshall
Sharon Snyder
Estelle Windsor
Gay Smith
Betty Lou Schaeffer
Andrea Gibbs
Caroline Warfield
Paul R. Fout
Bernard W. Warrenfeltz
Patrick Street
Asi Ewapa Pri
Lane
Cline
E. Patrick MO
the News
Frederick, Maryland
Ratinay
December
Pearre’s
South Market St
Fhileo
Zenith
Motorola
Walters — Dryers
Melvin M. Engle
N. Carroll St
Frederick County National Bank OF
North Market Street
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Newspap
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