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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1947
Page
3
A long list of local residents is shown gathering for weddings, travel, and family events. Miss Alice Rohrback of the Library of Congress in Washington is praised for her work aiding the blind, while numerous notices cover weddings, births, and travels involving figures such as Dr. Lebherz, Mrs. Lebherz, Miss Whitmore, Mr. Jones, and other Baltimore area families.
Mr and Mrs W Osborne Schade of West College Terrace announce the engagement of their daughter Evelyn Rebeccas to Fred Walton Sheip Jr son of Mr and Mrs F Walton Sheip of Fairview Avenue. The wedding will take place in the fall.
The Braddock Heights Community Center voted Thursday to extend an appeal for relocating the Naval Observatory near the Heights. The center plans to endorse the proposal to the Chamber of Commerce, noting acreage needs would place the observatory north or south of the Heights. Local business and civic topics included telephone service and upcoming events.
Egypt lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Security Council accusing Britain of keeping troops on Egyptian soil. Mahmoud Hassan Pasha presented the note via Iran Kerno, Assistant Secretary General, citing UN Charter articles 33 and 37. The text was not immediately released to the public.
The couple were married May 31 at St John’s Catholic Church in this city. The bride, Must Allee Bowers, is daughter of Sherman and Sherman Philip Bowers of 1400 North Market Street. The groom, G Benjamin Tresselt, is son of Mr and Mrs G. Benjamin Tresselt of Waynesboro Pa. They reside in Westminster where he will graduate from Western Maryland College next January and where she was a member of the graduating class.
A long list of visitors and residents appears from Emmitsburg and nearby areas. Names include Miss Baker, Lorraine Rodge, Sigismond Saffer, C Wilson Frank, Miss Caroline Mullen, Clifford Jordan, James ODonoghue, Anna Rockenbach, Peggy Mahoney, Anna Roddy, Gilbert Glass, and many others. Attendees travel from Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Yonkers, and beyond to visit homes on DePaul street and surrounding districts.
A long fragment from a local society page lists visitors from Baltimore and Gettysburg, hospital updates in Martinsburg and Warner, and upcoming committee appointments for June events. It mentions Mrs Edith Warthenston Baker, Mr. William Boyle and Alice, and others, plus plans for Lions suppers and St Joseph’s church picnic. It closes with honors for attorney Wm. E Lady of Los Angeles.
London readers answer if Princess Elizabeth’s wedding should be a gala event. The Daily Express asks whether a public procession, parade, and celebratory scenes should accompany the nuptials despite austerity, with readers invited to vote by postcard.
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