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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1944
Page
3
The Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company carnival ended a six night run with a sell-out and a record attendance. Officials expect a net profit around 4000 to fund postwar community building plans, with bingo and concessions driving gains. Over 2800 hamburgers and hot dogs sold. ferris wheel lease nets about 700. 25 percent commissions from concession sales boost revenue.
Couples from York Mt Union Annville and Mechanicsburg obtain marriage licenses including William A Boyer and Emma E McCartney Earl L Myers and Pearl V Westhaver and Jacob E Gingrich and Gloria M Nye plus John H Nauman and Alice R Nye. Property deeds show transfers from Earl L Myers to Marvin L Stambaugh and wives for $10 and from Lewis J Kelly et al to J Russell Wantz and wives for $5 and from William H Blessing and wife to Harry O Farver and wife for $10.
Lovettsville residents Mr and Mrs A N Warner hosted relatives from Walkersville and Durham to a gathering with son Robert Warner and his wife. The group traveled to Warrenton to see Jack Warner in Army service. A wedding dinner for Carroll Arnold and his wife followed with many relatives and friends attending.
Sunday visits and family news from Haymarket Virginia and nearby towns include Mr and Mrs Brinton Abenscheinh visiting the W B Williams household. Edith Hickman returning home from Shepherdstown after ten days with L P Hickman family. Wilma Shumaker recovering from a tonsillectomy. Lieut James Myers and Mrs Myers visiting from Dodge City Kansas. Mrs Elia Householder still ill at Schnauffer Hospital. Ida Brown also ill at Schnauffer Hospital. Lee George suffering finger amputation and returning home, later to Frederick City Hospital for leg bone treatment. Ellsworth Hickman relatives in New Jersey hosted by H W Hickman. Rohlfing and friends visiting Baltimore. church children party on church lawn attended by about 70. July 2 dinner guests at the Schutte home including Charles Gross family and Mrs W L Gross of Brunswick. Emma Ludlam visiting Ruth Fletcher in Carlisle. William Harry Fletcher Jr and Charles Vincent Gray visiting from Bainbridge. Eleanor Spring also a guest.
Ada E Schell of Jefferson street is named administrator of Jesse P Schell estate with $150 in personal property. Helen Stauffer Walker and Mildred J Wachter also see first and final accounts. Walker lists $9 92947 assets and $12 88495 expenditures including $12 06052 income tax. Gail Patrick to marry Lt Arnold Dean White in Jacksonville Florida after meeting in New York.
In Point Pleasant New Jersey Dr C Norman Witte reported a boy and a girl born to Mrs Frederick D Smith of East Portchester Connecticut who arrived 11 days apart. The first baby weighed 7% pounds born June 27 the second 4 pounds 12 ounces born July 8. Father Rev Frederick D B Smith pastor of Gospel Tabernacle East Portchester called the births unusual and the babies were said to be doing well.
Montgomery County 4 H clubs plan dressmaking schools this month under county home demonstration agent Miss Edythe M Turner and assistant Miss Jane Bastow. Girls will sew dresses and winners qualify for a State wide contest at College Park. July sessions span Laytonsville Poolesville Clarksburg Colesville and more with additional clubs offering towel pot holder muffin and canning demonstrations.
Jamestown New York July 10 the Rotary Club heard Charles W. Holman secretary of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation say after the war oleomargarine from coal and petroleum waste may accelerate destruction of a large dairy sector. Germans claim this is the world’s best imitation butter and could be cheaper with synthetic vitamins reaching billion pound yearly production.
A guidance note urges home canners to use a pressure cooker for low acid vegetables to destroy botulinus germs, as hot water baths and open kettles do not reach sufficient heat. It warns of the toxin risk and emphasizes correct pressure canning procedures.
Edwin J Dingle, once near death after tropical fevers and hardship, credits a Tibetan mystic with restoring his health and energy. He says a 9 000 word treatise on the Power that Knowledge gives will aid readers and offers free copies from the Institute of Mentalphysics in Los Angeles, urging prompt responses.
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