State Grange Opens Seventy-Seventh Annual Session
The Maryland State Grange opens its seventy seventh annual session at 10 am in the Francis Scott Key Hotel with Mayor Rice welcoming Grange Masters. Edward Holter will deliver the morning address followed by reports and a cookie contest. A B Hamilton will lead the one act play finals in the evening. Barbara Riggs will share England judging trip highlights. Dr Gordon Cairns will discuss the Agricultural Outlook. State Road Commission discussions and officer elections are on the agenda.
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Maryland State Grange Wil
Francis Scott Key
Donald B. Rice
Frederick
Edward F. Holter
Hershel Newson
Columbus
Ind
National Grange
Parkway School
A. B. Hamilton
Barbara Riggs
Olney
England
Gordon Cairns
University of Maryland
State Road Commission
Russell H. McCain
State Grange
Frederick County
Pomona Grange
Helter
Calvary Methodist Church
Henry R. Shoemaker
Theodore R. McKeldin
Grange
Putnam Named As Stabilizer
KEY WEST Florida November 26 Roger Lowell Putnam former Mayor of Springfield Massachusetts was chosen by President Truman as the new administrator of the Economic Stabilization Agency succeeding Eric Johnston. Putnam 57 president of the Package Machinery Company will take the post December 1 after Johnston resigns November 15. He is a Navy veteran of both world wars and the father of six.
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Key West
Fla
Roger Lowell Putnam
Springfield
Mass
Truman
Omar
Putnam
Package Machinery Company
Joseph Short
Eric Johnston
Economic Stabilization Agency
Johnston
Motion Picture Association
Naval Station
White House
Senate
Michael V. DiSalle
Anniversaries and historical milestones share Today in History notes
Notable births include Robert R. Livingston 1746 Frances A Kemble 1808 Horace Wyman 1827 Henry Vignaud 1820 Henry A Rowland 1848 and Charles A Beard 1874. Today in history recalls Jedidiah Smith 1826 the San Gabriel Mission, 1842 Notre Dame site prep, 1868 Custer era victory, 1879 Edison lighting, 1901 Army War College founding, 1911 cardinals created.
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Robert R. Livingston
New York
Fulton
Frances A. Kemble
England
Horace Wymen
Worchester
Mass
Woburn
Henry Vignaud
Jedidiah Smith
San Gabriel Mission
California
Edward F. Sarin
Trench
Weston
Notre Dame University
Custer
Washita Rive
Edison
The
Army War College
Washington, D. C
Used Postwar Cars Offer Cheaper Daily Motoring
Daily driving an old car risks safety as worn parts fail. Buyers can trade in a prewar vehicle for a safer postwar used car at a reasonable cost. Keeping an aging car may cost more than upgrading, with the old car's value serving as a down payment and monthly payments fitting a budget.
Fires and War News Across Decades and Birthdays
A mosaic from 1940s to 1950s: a catastrophic Cocoxnaut Grove blaze in Boston with hundreds dying, U.S. bombings over Tokyo, labor clashes prodded by Judge Goldsborough calling Lewis actions anarchic, and UN lines bending in Korea. Birthday mentions span Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball to President Weizmann. Horoscope urges resilience. Local PTA, tea price rise, Grange events, and community notices fill pages with civic life and social updates.
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Cocoxnaut Grove
Boston
U. S
Tokyo
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Goldsborough
Lewis
U. N
Korea
Lindsley F. Kimball
New York
USO
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alphonse M. Schwitella
St. Louis Univ. Rchiodh
Germany
Morris Sayre
Corn Refinings Co
Montrose
Edward B
Ted) Husing
Thomas I. Parkinson
Equitable Life Assurance Soc
Philadelphia
Ako
Kauffman FT. Keller
Chrysler
Mt. Joy
Mildred Thompson
Vassar
Atlanta
Chaim Weizmann
Israel
National Grange meeting highlights and future program
Members described highlights of the National Grange meeting. The health committee will oversee the next program on December 14 featuring films presented by H. George Baker on ideal terracing, jewel farming, sloping fields, and building farm ponds.
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H. George Baker
National Grange
Health Committee
Adamstown Homemakers Club Hears Thanksgiving Hymn and Plans
The Adamstown Homemakers Club opened with A Hymn of Thanksgiving on 1Nov at Mrs. Walter Page’s home. Mrs. Harry Thomas led a Thanksgiving prayer before Mrs. Page, as vice president, presided and named Mrs. Elmer Michael Civil Defense chair. Michael gave the director’s report and announced the Chestmobile visit on Dec. 13. The club set a Christmas party for Dec. 19 at the Community Hall and arranged an English Christmas table for Open House in Frederick. A Painting-on-Tin class report noted meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays with Mrs. Arthur Fouche, postponed until after Christmas. The group adjourned to socialize with refreshments and will meet Dec. 5 with Mrs. William Gaver.
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Mstown Homemakers Club
Adamstown Homemakers’ Club
Walter Page
Harry Thomas
Elmer Michael
Michael
Adamstown
Frederick
DeRose
Arthur Fouche
William Gaver
Legion Auxiliary Plans Christmas Party
The Francis Scott Key Unit No. 11 American Legion Auxiliary met last Tuesday at the Legion home for a covered dish supper and monthly gathering. Announcements covered a December 18 Christmas party, a Western Maryland District meeting at 1 pm next Sunday, a December 9 Department conference in Baltimore, and donations for Christmas distributions to Sabilia sville and Montevue. An invitation invited Junior Auxiliary officers installation on November 30 at 7 20 p m and a card party on November 29 at 8 p m.
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Francis Scott Key Unit No. 11
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Maryland
Stafford Hotel
Baltimore
Miriam Ramsburg
Sabillasville
Montevue
At & P
Club Reports Dues, Meeting Set for November 28
Mrs Catherine VanFossen the child welfare chairman reported membership chairman Mrs Made Une Gilbert announced 240 members have paid dues to date and that a membership meeting will be held November 28. After the business games were played in charge of Mrs Delue Crawford and the ways and means committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine VanFossen
Made- Une Gilbert
Delue Crawford
Ways and Means
Baker Loses Dough as Safe In Basement Burglary
In Baltimore on November 26 a North Baltimore bakery owner reported a basement dough mixing area burglary. Upstairs thieves stole cash totaling 3320 dollars, with Louis Rabat, owner, reporting the loot and aiding police in the investigation.
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Baltimore
North Baltimore
Louis Rabat
Robbers Break In Second Floor Safe for Gold Lighter
A theft report notes a break in on the second floor where a dough mixing machine noise masked the entry. Suspects opened a safe and stole a solid gold $420 cigarette lighter.
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Rabat
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James
Robert
Francis Wagner
Jody Burdette
Donald Wagner
Patricia Ann
Irvin Wagner
Mt. Airy
Myrtle Siedting
Washington
Arthur Kolb
Peggy Marie
Betty Tinney
Ellwood Bratt
Warren H. Wagner
Maron
Monocacy Motors
Market Street
Jefferson Street
Hospital Aid
Know
America
REY Chev. Sales, Inc
O. K
O. K. Trucks
Reo
Ford
Dodge
Chevrolet Sales, Inc
E. Patrick St
Lawson Motor Sales
OFS
Market St
Patrick St
P.T. A
Lewistown
Charles Clem
Charles Putman
Ira Rippeon
Hagerstown
Werner Braun
E. W. Pruitt
London
Grange News
Middletown Valley
Middletown Valley Grange
Middletown Fire Company
Cecil K Holter, Jr
Mary Louise Young
D. Vernon Holter
Larry Brown
Cecil K. Holter
J. Homer Remsberg
Cecil . Holter, Sr
Richard Holter
Herbert F. Davis
Peru
Cyrus McBride
Merhie Ifert
Ballenger Grange
Russell Dudrow
Harry Himes
John Renn
Monroe Stup
Tobias Zimmerman
Helen Huffer
Janet Huffer
Urban Moore
Irene Rollins
Ceres
Kathleen Moore
Pomona
Elizabeth Baker
Flora
Margaret Foole
Howard Smith
Austin Renn
Harry Howard
Charles King
Margaret Poole
Home Ec
Robert Dudrow
Wilbur Culler, Jr
David Derr
Thomas Culler
Richard Zimmerman
J. William, Howard, Sr
Maytas
Euny Forma
ES Equip. CO
Patrick
Legion Auxiliary
E. Harp. Gilbert
Coplentz Painting & Decorating Co
W. St. St
Western Maryland Wholesale CO
Frederick, MD
Singer
Singer Sewing Center
North Market St
Parker
Sheaffer
Eversharp
Esterbrook
Eastman
Kodaks
Kodak
Storm& Shipley
Asters
Glade Valley
Wila
Penaerve Investment Fund
H. M. Byllesby & Co., Inc
Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange Telephone
Mulberry
Upper
George M. Chapline
Ruhland C. Boyer
Chapline
W. Patrick
Real Estate Board of Frederick, Inc. National Association of Real Estate Boards
C. R. Biele
Optometrist
Damascus Bank Building
Damascus, Maryland
Dar. Chest
Cedae
ApverTisen
Sweetheart
Cline’s Furniture Store
Opera House
Hood Club
Nrpwen
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