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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
6
The Commerce Department reports the 1943 national alcohol outlay rose 17 percent from 1942 and nearly 80 percent above 1939, driven by higher prices and wartime demand. Per capita spending reached 46 dollars, with hard liquor leading gains. Wine demand rose since repeal, while beer accounted for about 40 percent of total alcoholic outlay.
Joseph Klipp, once linked to the Dennis Lenhart assault in the Yellow Springs area, is now serving a year in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Authorities say his sentence ends next December, with details of conviction not disclosed.
Lovettsville and nearby communities share social updates. Rev A F Tobler attended the Maryland Synod meeting in Woodsboro last Monday. Residents relocate and settle, including Mr Franks moving from California to Virginia and taking residence at the former George’s Mill School site. Multiple family visits, illnesses, and weekend gatherings across Weis, Frederick, Baltimore, and Falls Church are listed, with several names and addresses.
Claude Spring hosted a birthday gathering for his daughter Mrs William Washington of Petersville Virginia. Guests included many relatives and friends such as the Springs Washington Payne Kines Rickard Richard, with refreshments and gifts. Nearby visits noted and a 92nd birthday celebrated for John Rust. William Seibert, formerly with B&O Railroad, died in Miami and was remembered by Brunswick friends. Rev R S Poffenberger and F L George visit. J M Leith and W E Tyler visit Rose Lindsey.
Dr William R Barnhart of Hood College will be guest speaker at the fourth library book hour in the Talem periodical room. He will review On Being A Real Person by Fosdick and discuss postwar issues illustrated by The Survival of Western Culture and Between Tears and Laughter, with references to Spengler and Hutchinson. A birthday note follows for Little Miss Mary Sager, whose party featured family friends and refreshments. her birthday is February 25.
Lieut. Paul B. Beckhelm of Hood College, now at the Naval Air Training Center in Norman, composed the Cowboy Suite completed in 1941. The Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Victor Alessandrio, performed it last Sunday afternoon with violinist Zino Francescatti as soloist.
Mrs. Ber ram Brosius and Edward Brosius family guests of C A Brown. Leslie Briggs welcomed twins a boy and a girl. Canada Fletcher bought a home in Gaithersburg planning to move soon. C F Johnson left Sunday to live in Arizona with a sister.
Hood College defeated Wilson College of Chambersburg Pa in a 16 end indoor mail archery contest last Friday with a final score of .875 to .832 Miss Medora Mantz head of physical education directed the Hood tournament and team member Miss Eleanor Gambrill daughter of Mr and Mrs James F B Gambrill 304 Rockwell Terrace participated on the victorious squad.
Frederick women will have six week home nursing classes run by the Red Cross starting March 10. New instructor Mrs Carolyn Crosby Kir acofe RN will teach Mondays and Fridays seven to nine pm at the Red Cross workroom 1786-W. Registration is by calling. A prior course by Mrs Alton Y Bennett concluded in February with some graduates moving into nurse aide training at Frederick City Hospital.
Mount Pleasant residents report visits with Mr. and Mrs. C Edward Hoffman and son Eddie seeing Donald Fogle at Fort Meade on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. David O Johnson visited Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Poole at Poolesville on Sunday. Mrs. August Monath called on Mrs. William Mr. Delawter on Thursday. Mrs. Oda B Filler called on Mr. and Mrs. August Monath.
Sunday afternoon and later visits occurred among local families. Mrs. Filler Mrs. Barker and Miss Fogle visited their aunt Mrs. Laura Graham in Johnsville. Mrs. Bessie Thomas of Baltimore called on Mrs. Delawter. Mrs. Raymond Lindsay also visited Mrs. Delawter. Additional calls were made between Mrs. Barker Miss Fogle and Mrs. Delawter, and Fanninger Gittinger Frederick spent Sunday with sister Mary Stevens and family. Reverend Shober of Frederick and Reverend Harry K.
Zeller of Elgin and Till were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Greenberry Ecker on Wednesday. The two junior classes of the Reformed Sunday School led by Miss Genevieve Ely and Miss Mary C Fogle gave Miss Ely a surprise birthday party Thursday night. Visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Greenberry Ecker on Sunday included Mrs Albert Stitely and son Ira, Mrs William Stitely of near Libertytown, and Herbert Haines of Union Bridge.
In College Park on March 2 Joseph H Blandford chair of Maryland Agriculture Adjustment Agency says the War Food Administration will support farm prices for Maryland canning crops if Congress provides funds to subsidize canneries.
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