Children Attend Christmas Party at Empty Stocking Club
About 150 Freder ick children gathered for a Christmas party at the Empty Stocking Club in Winchester. Rev W V Gar to heres led prayers and songs, Mona Lana Guitar Club performed, Santa Claus handed out treats, and club officers Mrs Roy L Leatherman, Mrs Harry D Radeif, Miss Firanor Houck, and Miss Emma Freon served in leadership roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Winchester
W. Vv. Garto
Mona Lana
Giso Santa Claus
Alice
Rose Burger Fisher
Charlie
Burgersberg
Inauguration Invitations Spark GOP Debate Over Governors
Roosevelt seeks broad governor attendance for his fourth inauguration on January 20 at the Executive Mansion. Dewey and 47 others face invitation questions as committees weigh travel limits and whether eastern governors will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Dewey
Dewey
Pennsylvania Ave
Roosevelt
Executive
Star
Christmas Party At Home For The Aged Features Local Talent
Christmas party at the Home for the Aged on Record Street featured music by John Harrold and others from Camp Detrick, a Yule message by Rev W Merval Weaver, and a large Christmas tree in the sun room. Guests enjoyed sing-alongs, homemade treats, and arrangements by Mrs Samuel E Bruin Jr. Several service members and students were home for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Harrold
New York
Aa Rect
Hk Baitihade
Merry Widow Company
Robert L. Carl
Crass
Aisin J. Moses
Camp Detrick
W. Merval Weaver
Presbyterian Church
Record Street
Ery
Ant
Samuel E. Bruisn, Jr
Entertainment Miner
Evangelical Reformed Church
Maud Waters Dithmar
South Market Street
Pitt
Dittmar
J. Leonard Nothagle
George T. Schroeder
William Michael
Thaddeus M. Biser
Arthur Forney
Henry Wilson
Leon Wiris
William M. Brish
Raymond BR. Zimmerman
Harry Zimmerman
Ralph Culler
Helen Culler
Aphrodite Iling
Evelyn Kefauver
Albert F. Culler
Roy C. Culler
Harold A. Culler
Franklin XN. Shipley
J. Welty Fahrney
George C. Slagle
A. RK
Frederick
Eee Baetegen
Germany
Hayang
Erehberg
Ellis Ishwid
A. R
Ammermans
E’ivaueth Bower
Brandfield
Charles W. Lough
Ubames le Mullen
Eleanor Houck
Nan Houck
Edward D Shiner
Engagements and local milestones in Greencastle area
Greencastle residents announce the engagement of Frances Be Shinham to John H. Kerchner of the U S Navy. Frances is a Greencastle High and Monogerstown Business College graduate employed at Letterkenny Depot. Kerchner is a Frederick High School graduate and Navy serviceman. Also noted are military promotions, births, travel to Greensboro for a wedding, and local Christmas plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. £. Shinham
Greencastle
Frances BE
Johnh. Kerchner
U. S. Navy
Charles H. Kerchner
Walkersville
Shinham
Greencastle High School
Mongerstown Business College
Letterkenny Depot
Chambersburg
Kervh
Frederick High School
Navy
Local health notes and staff movements at Frederick City Hospital
Among the sick in Frederick County reports list Mr James Coale Sappington Washington patient at Frederick City Hospital and Mrs Joseph T Pyles improving at home 38 East Second Street. Other updates include Mrs Henri L G Kieffer home from observation, and Mr Cyrus D Weddle Johnsville improving after appendectomy. Also noted are Mr Silas Murray Adamstown injured at work and hospitalized, Mrs Minnie Barker Brunswick improving, Mr Elmer Compher assaulted near Adamstown and hospitalized, and discharge of Mr Rufus Kline Keymar after injury. The piece also mentions the cruiser Chicago being commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard with Capt. Richard Renwick Hartung in command and thirteen survivors assigned to the crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Coale Sappington
Washington
Frederick City Hospital
Joseph T. Pyles
East Second Street
Robert §. Tyson
East Church
Depent
Silas EL Murray
Adamstown
Brunswick
Schnautfer Hospital
Murray
Baltimore and Ohio
Henri L. G. Kieffer
West Church Street
Cyrus D. Weddle
Johnsville
Rufus Kline
Keymar Ifarmer
Roy Rightwell
East Patrick Street
Harmon Kefauver
East 14Th Street
Minnie Barker
Elmer Compher
Monroe Thomas
C. E. Cline
Sort
Philadelphia
Chicago
Guadalcanal
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Fowith Naval District
Richard Renwick Hartung
USN
Bryr Man, Pa
Des Moine
Army Air Forces Training Command at Chanute Field
Wallace E Norris spends holiday time with Miss Anna T Harding of Washington DC. Moss Ruth Gale plans to visit Pleasantville Wisconsin for holidays, staying with Clarke Place residents. Mrs Robert Day of Baltimore visits the Sheltons in Brunswick. Aviation Cadet George Wenner Jr stationed in Arizona takes a 15 day furlough home to Brunswick. Corporal John E Hovermale of Brunswick, after a 16 day furlough, heads to Tampa to serve as a radio operator on a B 17.
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Aidtatie — Abagees
Fourth Air Force
Hamlton Field
Walef
Sam W. Maples
Upper College Terrace
James R Migates
Gettysburg College
Greensboro
N. C
Cpl
Stansfield
Laurel
George R. Stansfield
Bona Pecksham
Willimantic
Conn
Chr
Stansheld
Army Air Forces Overseas Replacement Depot
Chanute Field
Army Air Forces Training Command
Anna T. Harding
National Cathedral School
Washington
West Second Street
Moss Ruth Gale
Pleasantyile
Clarke Place
Robert Day
Baltimore
Sgt. Day
Italy
Edgar Shelton Brunswick
George Wenner, Jr
Arizona
Brunswick
George W. Wenner
John E Hovermale
Sor
Charles W. Havermale
Tampa
Fla
Col McCormick and Mrs Hooper Married in Private Chicago Ceremony
Col Robert R McCormick editor of the Chicago Tribune and Mrs Maryland Mathiason Hooper wed in a quiet ceremony in Chicago attended by relatives and close friends. Rev Robert B Stewart officiated at the Wheaton church linked vows in Chauncey McCormick’s apartment with Capt Joseph M Patterson best man. Hooper, mother of two, had recently divorced Henry Hooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Maryland Mathiason Hooper
Robert B. Stewart
Wheaton (I
First Presbyterian Church
Chauncey McCormick
Joseph M. Patterson
New York Daily News
Col. McCormick
Hooper
Henry Hooper
Lake Shore Fuel Company
Amy Irwin Adams McCormick
New Year’s Eve Wedding Planned for Miss Jean Gould McCedista
December 31 wedding set for Miss Jean Gould McCedista and Dr. James Edward Hamill at 10 30 AM in Santa Rosa Hospital chapel San Antonio Texas. Attendants include Miss Anne Harley McCollister maid of honor and Cpl. Gerald F. Hamill best man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Gould McCedista
Daughtu
Ann
Jay G. McCollister
Frederick County
James Edward Hamill
United States Army Officers’ Reserve Corps
George K. Hamill
Bethesda
Santa Rosa Hospital
San Antonio
Tex
McCollister
Texas
Mary Josephine
Anne Harley McCollister
Dr. Hamill
Cpl
Gerald F. Hamill
Dayton
Frederick Academy of the Visitation
Hood College
Maryland Institute
Baltimore
Hamill
Te University of Maryland
University of Maryland Medical School
Navy Chorus To Broadcast From Oklahoma Station
Lieut. Paul B. Beckhelm leads a Navy chorus of about sixty sailors at a naval station in Oklahoma for a Red Network broadcast Saturday at 430 PM. The group, formed last winter to support religious services, recently toured Oklahoma, with high personnel turnover due to Navy transfer policy. Beckhelm will spend twelve days with his wife and two daughters in Frederick after arrival next Thursday. Mrs. Beckhelm heads house at Hood College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Finck
Magnolia Avenue
Peter
Finck
Warren F. Hubley
South Orange
N. J
Hood College
New York City
Paul B. Beckhelm
Department of
Navy
Naval Station
Okla
Red
Beckhelm
Oklahoma
Frederick
Barbara
Gretchen
Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibit Entry Date Reminder
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts issues a reminder that entry cards for the 13th Cumberland Valley Artists exhibition must arrive in Hagestown by January 1. The call also extends to military artists stationed nearby in Harrisburg Frederick Winchester Cumberland and Cumberland Md.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Valley
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Hagerstown
Harrisburg
Frederick
Winchester
Cumberland
Annual Christmas Party At Union Manufacturing
About 400 employees and families attended the Union Manufacturing Company annual Christmas party in the plant assembly room. Ralph Cline led the event with readings, prayers, carols, and a program including military tribute and bonus checks distributed to all employees. The Christmas address was by Rev. Francis Reinberger, with oranges and candy for children and notes on upcoming association meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain City Temple No
Pythian
Susiy Ramsburg
Ada Derr
Daisy Rice
Poole
Thelma Culler
Beth Suiprey
Florence Hline
Mattie Harris
Audrey Wachter
Mary Clem
Mol Jie Zimmermann
Fannie King
May Keyser
Susie Ramsburg
Margaret Bowers
Esther Miller
Della Putman
Ferne Etaler
Grand Temple
Naomi Wachter
Mae Baker
Maryland Pythian Sisters
Maryland
Florence Kine
Jane
Union Manufacturing
Ralph Cline
UMC, Relief and Benefit Association
Edna Easton
Harry Starr
Corinne Wastier
Cline
Starr
William Stultz
Association
Francis Reinberger
Walkersville
Louis L. Wilson
Bronze Star Awarded to Creager in Italy Service Unit
Corporal William J. Creager of the Fifteenth Air Force Service Command Headquarters Squadron in Italy received the Bronze Star medal for meritorious conduct from August 1 to October 15, 1944. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John H Creager of Frederick Maryland. He entered the Army at Camp Lee Virginia in July 1942 and arrived overseas to Africa in August 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifteenth Air Force Service Command Service Group
Italy
William J. Creager
Fifteenth Air Force Service Command
John H. Creager
Frederick
Camp Lee
Africa
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Misty
Nam
Ain
Joseph Staley
Mer
Irving F. States
Dill Avenue
Iron Gettsburg College
Dave
A. B. Collmus
College Park
A S Collimus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jean Collmus
Augusta County Welfare Board
Staunton
Pfe
John A. Putman, Jr
J. A. Putman
Bal- Strane
Putman
England
Ste
Eugene Bitter
South Pacific
Marine Corps
Murray Bitler
West Fifth Street
Taylor
Pauline Ross Myers
Georgetown Visitation Academy
Arthur Vo Myers
West College Terrace
Charles FL Smnth
Ezra Houck
August J. Rags
Ned Clarke
Janett Boyne
Oscar ‘T. Mulican
North Market Street
Harald Burgess
Charles T Burgess
Bef Chrysimae
Franklin Maas
South Pacule
Courland
Ala
Farlougn Tay
Ma Warernn Lana
Ceter
Waiter E. Lincay
Fart Mack
James D. D. Sappington
George R. Dennis
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Grace Thomas
Elmira College
Elmira, N
College Avenue
Louise Thomas
William and Mary College
Williamsburg
Rockwell Terrace
Casper
Hood
Mira XN
Grace Helfenstein
Chae
Grange B .Delaplatae
I U
Nedie
Charlotte, Sau
von Firghes
Ralph W. Statler
Katherine E. Dutrow
Hood Club Citymedor
CM. Donaldson
Los Angeles, Cal
Nne
4D Rock
Michael Stuart Gordon
Youngson
Patrick-Couri
Cutt Street
Livut Gordon
Fredertex
Camp Rucks
Gaiden
Missie Haller
Fred
Mies
Chinimas
Clayton GO
Reedy
West Hard Street
Emma
Catherine Thompson
Eagls
Petrott
Doris Petrott
Johan Miller
Atiick M. Scra
Mt Pleasant
Muss Berrett
Bres Stadii Adelphial
Newport New
Pea WO. Howard
City
Gerald R. Stansfield
Mildred Eichelberger
Louis K Eichelberger
Robert Salter Rothenhoefer
Army of the United States
Infantry
Fort Benning
Rothenhoefer
George L. Rothenhoefer
Camp Croft
5. C
Elwood J. Green
Myersville
Mary Ellen
John E. Green
Lime Kiln
Arthur McCanner
Ido
Rosalie
Mir
Emory L. Coblentz
West Third Street
Grosse le
Mich
Arthur Fox
Coblentz
Eleanor Elzabeth Fout
John David Spurrier
Due
Bois
Tutheran Church
O and Wes
Daniel S. Fout
East Church Street
Donald Shewbridge
Gon
H. O' Shewbridge
Selinsgrove
Dee
Betty L. Smith
Elmer C. Smith
Woodisboro
Omega Delta Sigme Sorority
Susquehanna University
R. E. Provard
Einor
D. H. Bonner
Cacenhator
Hess
Camp Lee-Stephensum
Quaddy Vibaec
Kenneth A. Arnold
Ruth Kf, Arnold
Miss Frances BE. Shinham
Wallace E. Norris
Spend Family
Mrs. Hooper
Jean Gould McCollister
Lieut. Beckhelm
New York State
Robel
Taw York
North Market ST
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