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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1942
Page
5
Obituary notices detail the deaths of Mrs. Annie J. Fewbie Fowble of Union Bridge age 33 with nine weeks bed illness. Also memorializes Frederick residents Mrs. Jessie Yakey Miss Mary Delauter and others, noting church ties and family survivors, and funeral arrangements across Mount View Cemetery Rest Haven and Mt Olivet. The US Department of Agriculture employment figure is briefly noted.
Mrs Ethel Roulzaha and William T Bler wed in Libertytown with Rev Collins officiating. The couple reside near Mt Pleasant. Long-Six Pic Guy L Long and Miss Mildred Ida Six married in MC A Parlors with attendants Paul N Six and Eleanor FE Dutrow. The groom served since 1941, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, then Fort McCoy Wisconsin for winter training, heading to Camp Stokesay Listembor.
Beulah Taylor Leizear wife of Elijah Leizear died of diphtheria at her Gaithersburg home after five days illness. Services were at Grace Methodist church with Rev William Ell icott officiating and burial in Forest Oak Cemetery. A native of Loudoun County Virginia she lived in Montgomery County 30 years, 15 in Gaithersburg. She leaves husband two sons Reginald and Norman Leizear Great Falls Virginia a daughter Mrs Stephen Edwards and a sister Mrs Charles Barnes.
Among the sick Mrs. Isabelle Kunkel Daniels remains about the same at her Francis Scott Key hotel apartment. Mr. John T. Best of North Market street shows improvement at Frederick City Hospital where he is a patient. Mrs. Walter W. Saunders of North Market street is improving at the hospital. Mrs. Harvey E. Hann of 264 Dill avenue has been confined at home for nine weeks and is improving.
Five additional air raid warden posts in Frederick have met requirements and received signs marking district headquarters for wardens. New posts E-3 E-2 D-2 G-4 B-2 list wardens Charles I W Stup Carroll Hendrickson Henry Falk Harvey Butler E L Stockman. District wardens updated: District 6 now led by Upton J Quinn with assistant Thomas E Williams and Charles Byerly named to replace Boost.
A military puzzle asks which rank carries a single gold bar nicknamed shavetail for Army officers of late rank. It recalls bravest leaders from the last war and seeks exact rank identification.
Russell L. Snodgrass, former assistant general counsel of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, has become vice president in charge of finance at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A Canadian by birth, he served in WWI, became American in 1931, and joined the New York bar in 1932. He is 44.
War era reports indicate ground observers or spotters can travel on needed gasoline with one coupon. OPA bans nonemergency use of A B C books in 17 Eastern States and DC, allowing one coupon transfer for essential travel. Local boards define emergency as essential trips failing to reach destination without extra fuel. Many stations still selling, while others voluntarily restrict amid high demand.
In memory of Georg Douglas who passed away four years ago. December 14. I wander in thoughts to a grave nearby where they laid my dear one. I have lost my soul’s companion and day by day I miss him more as I walk through life alone.
Local beauty shop advertises permanent waves available every night through Christmas at Warner Beauty Studio located at 1 N Market St. Prices start as low as 3 dollars with convenient hours and a contact phone number 868. Headquarters for permanents.
Washington DC Deco WW F Leith, after 33 years as an agent, was elected president of Peoples Life Insurance Co. of Washington. He succeeds founder W. Wallace Chiswell, who retires to become chair of the board. Mrs Harvey Chiswell Byers retired as secretary treasurer and becomes secretary of the board. Samuel W Hauser was elected to the vacated office. Chiswell and Byers are formerly of Buckeye town Frederick County.
A collage of holiday offers including Philco radios at 49.93 and Kemp's department store deals on toys, clocks, and electric appliances. Also a lengthy Christmas remembrance note from Frederick Memorial Park and a Braddock 2011 sale for a Hammond Solovex with free installation.
Brief notices express thanks for kindness during illness and death of Charles C. Cecil. Also small ads for furnaces, chiropodist, optometrist, penny bingo, church service, and automobile insurance rates from The Aetna. Potts and Griffin publish these local items.
A fragment lists a Harvey Tucker ensemble performing tonight at a club on West Patrick Street with a 15 cent cover, plus notices for a public livestock and farming equipment sale at the Monocacy Inn one mile west of Johnsville on Friday March 12, 1943. Also advertised are flower specials at Grove's Flower Shop and a line of used cars with prices and models.
A cluttered page highlights free fruit cakes for Christmas from Glade Valley Garber and various local businesses including Seeger & Co at 45 Market St and Steinway pianos in mahogany. It lists services from cider and dairy to lumber, gifts, and personal ads, with orders and deliveries noted, plus a brief civic donation appeal and a regional business directory.
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