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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1938
Page
14
Miss Lenore Blount to be honored at a 6:25 PM bridge supper at Hershberger's Tea Room in Frederick with seven tables planned. Attendees include Miss Blount's fiancé Dr Gordon A Lewis of Hagerstown and local social figures returning from trips.
AP science writer recounts Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir describing how windrows of seaweed on a liner’s wake reveal vertical water movement. He notes downward flow 2-3 cm/s under lanes and rising between lanes, confirmed by Lake George tests with oil and glow cords.
Rope Of Steel travels from New York where she attended the Flower Show this week. Mrs Emma S Quinn West Second street will stay in New York with daughter Miss Sarah Quinn who studies at Lexington School for the Deaf and Columbia University. Dr E C Kefauver County Health Officer receives birthday congratulations today. Mr and Mrs Glenn T Swisher Lindbergh avenue host Mrs C C Bell of Fairmont West Virginia this week. Dr Bell planned to join them today and stay with the Swishers. Several parties were given this week in Mrs Bell’s honor.
C. S. Forester quickly solidifies his status as a premier sea-story author with Ship of the Line, following Beat to Quarters. The Napoleonic era captain’s adventures gain momentum and depth, offering brisk action and sharper contrasts to typical sea tales.
A restrained hero leads a seafaring adventure with sea fights and brutal conditions. The author portrays a nonromantic, middle aged captain whose courage does not rely on romance. The realistic, unsentimental view of wooden ships and discipline challenges the old code while delivering vivid, convincing action. Reads as a strong introductory entry in a planned trilogy.
Miss Margaret Mary Condron daughter of Mr and Mrs T C Condron 523 West Sunbury Minersville Pa was unanimously elected editor in chief of the Blue and Grey Hood College weekly. She has three years on the staff as reporter and associate editor in her freshman year and two years as associate editor.
Dr Morris Fishbeln describes serum and immune globulin methods to prevent measles. Immediate post exposure injections of convalescent serum may protect children, while maternal immune material offers another protective avenue. Distinguishes measles from German measles and notes variability in disease severity and potential fatal hemorrhagic cases.
Among County Women’s Clubs reports a Pleasant Club meeting at Mrs Raymond Lindsay’s home with twelve members and two visitors. President Mrs Alice McDevitt presided. opening songs included There’s Music In The Air and America The Beautiful. Homemaker prayers were read. officers elected: President Mrs Alice McDevitt, vice president Mrs Earlston Rothenhoefer, secretary Miss Rebecca Hollard, assistant secretary Mrs Earl Kelly, treasurer Mrs.
Auction listings detail a public sale at 21 Rosemont Avenue with furniture and domestic items cash terms, plus a Maryland real estate auction in Walkersville of a 73 foot frontage lot with a frame dwelling and outbuildings sold by Leo Weinberg. Additional Carroll County public sale lists farm horses cattle machinery and dairy fixtures with extensive farm equipment and tools described for buyers.
William Delawter assistant treasurer Mrs William Biser director Mrs Rothenhoefer parliamentarian Mrs Gertrude Cramer Mrs Rebecca Holland directed several stunts during recreation hour and announced the next meeting would be held.
Foreclosure sale published for Lot A in Brunswick within Frederick County Maryland. The property, a two story stone dwelling with outbuildings, is scheduled for public auction at the Court House door on Monday April 4 1938 at 10 00 AM. Terms cash with a $30000 deposit, taxes and public charges adjusted to sale date. David C Winebrunner assigned to the sale with John W Null as auctioneer.
Public auction in Frederick Maryland of a Knoxville parcel tied to a 1934 mortgage. The property, improved by a two story frame house with ten rooms, is described by old deed lines and lies on the Knoxville Brunswick road. Sale set for Monday April 4 1938 at 11:95 A M with a $400 deposit. cash at ratification by the Court.
Public sale notices appear with dates and names across Libertytown Lewistown Urbana Walkersville and Frederick area. Advertisers include Mrs Milton Q Smith Steiner Ramsburg Glenn Crum Mrs J M Lester William H Main Elizabeth S Hardman and many others with locations like Unionville Sabillasville and Monrovia.
March 28 at 1 30 p m at the home of Mrs Elizabeth Barrier Japan leads major countries in go heating with a per capita consumption of 54 pounds per year The United States per capita consumption is 13 pounds per year
The undersigned offers Middletown Macyland property on Est Main Street for public sale Saturday March 39 1938 at 7 pm in front of The Office. The 10 room frame modern home includes a garage and heat 33ET. Possession April det 1938. Terms 250.00 cash day of sale with balance in 20 days. All 1938 taxes and costs of conveyance to be paid by purchaser. Also advertised is a separate sale by Peoples Liquidating Corporation at Montgomery Grove Station Frederick Md with butchering tools household furniture and farm equipment to be sold Thursday March 31 1938 at 9 am. A large dairy cattle herd and farm machinery including tractors and implements to be sold Saturday March 19 1938 at 10 am with terms of six months on select items. Included are 29 head dairy cattle and 21 year Holstein bull, 29 draft animals, implements, wagons, and farm fixtures. Auctioneers Glenn Trout and R L Kelly. Huckstering rights reserved.
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