Holdcraft to Retire After 43 Years in Ministry
Rev Paul E Holdcraft of 684 Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church Baltimore has announced retirement from active ministry effective October 8 after 43 years in the pastorate. He holds a Doctor of Sacred Theology and a Doctor of Divinity, and has served as editor, historian, and interdenominational leader. He and wife Lola McDonald have three married daughters.
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Paul E. Holdcraft
Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church
Baltimore
Frederick
Holdcraft
Westminster Theological Seminary
Lebanon Valley College
Annville
Pennsylvania
United Brethren Church
Maryland
Delaware Council of Churches
Interdenominational Ministerial Association of
John H
Eliz Mehmiing Holdcraft
Frederick News
Western Union Telegraph Co
Lola McDonald
J. W
Clara Routzahn McDonald
Dr. Holdcraft
the News
Here
Gets 12 Years For Setting Woman Afire
A man named Thompson was sentenced to 12 years for setting a woman afire tied to a pregnancy claim. He faced additional time for forgery and an escape from the House of Correction, with the judge noting peculiar circumstances and the role of perjury. The court ordered the perjury term to start today, running concurrently with other sentences.
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Thompson
House of Correction
105 Year-Old Mother And Son Celebrate Milestones In Elizabeth
In Elizabeth on September 29 Angeline Ratisco aged 105 celebrated with her 72-year-old son marking his wedding anniversary. The family hosted a party with guests Rose Rauseo and Thomas Russo. Mrs. Rauseo, a longtime market picker, remains active, drinks coffee, and enjoys time with two great-grandchildren. She came to the United States with her second husband Joseph Rauseo who died in 1990, and she had nine children, only two now living.
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Elizabeth
Angeline Ratisco
Raugco
Thomas Russy
Rose
Rauseo
Deaths in Purcellville area reflect varied obituaries
Purcellville resident Miss Dorothy Russell Smith 54 dies at home after long illness. Norvell L. Norwood 61, Mt. Airy, WWI veteran, died after months of illness. survived by wife Elizabeth and nine children. Miss Sarah E. Allnutt Laytonsville aged nearly 95, former Goshen Methodist member, funeral set in Laytonsville with interment in Goshen cemetery. Mrs Caecelia Hendrickson Norton of Baltimore, widow of Dr Rupert Norton, funeral Mass at St Ignatius Baltimore. Charles Howard Myers Union Bridge 80, Church of the Brethren member, funeral at Union Bridge. Raymond K Wright mortuary director listed for arrangements.
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Dorothy R. Smith
Purcellville
Dorothy Russell Smith
Mary Wood Smith
John Russell Smith
Harold W. Smith
Riverton
Norvell L. Norwood
Carroll Avenue
Mt. Airy
Eunice Brandenburg Norwood
Willie Brandenburg
Louisdale
Mt. Airy Calvary
Elizabeth Norwood
Paul B. Clay
Julian G
Mobile Ala
Joyce A
Wayne
Beverly Lee
Carolyn Yvonne
Darryl E
Sharon L
Sue Dawn Norwood
Mabel Darby
Frank Stewart
Fay A. Webster
Baltimore
Damascus
Damascus Methodist Church
Olin L. Molesworth
Sarah E. Allnutt
Sarah Elizabeth Allnutt
Laytonsville
Montgomery County General Hospital
John and
Elizabeth Allnutt
Goshen Methodist Church
Caecelia H. Norton
Caecelia Hendrickson Norton
Rupert Norton
Urbana
Ephraim
Caecelia Anderson Hendrickson
George Otis Hendrickson
Edgar A. Hendrickson
Louisville
St. Ignatius Church
St. Alban’s
Cambridge
Mass
Charles H. Myers
Charles Howard Myers
Union Bridge
Glover Nursing Home
Westminster
Charles
Martha Hoffman Myers
Church of ‘the Brethren
C. Reynold Simmons
Clarence Buffington
Charles Fr
More Than Half Of Goal Reached By Concert Group
A Community Concert Association drive reports over half of its 1000 member goal sold by midweek. Campaign runs through Saturday noon with Harold Welch directing from New York. Headquarters at Better Homes Equipment on East Patrick Street.
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Community Concert Association
Harold Welch
New York
Better Homes Equipment Company
East Patrick Street
Monument
Song
Rochester Symphony
Long List of Obsequies Across Maryland Community
Funeral services were held for Hoffmaster of Brownsville and numerous others across Walkersville, Middletown, and Frederick counties. Services, pallbearers, and interments followed at Episcopal, Mt. Hope, Lewistown M P, United Brethren, Oak Grove, Lutheran, and Pleasant Hill cemeteries with ministers Rev. Newton Poling, Rev. Charles A. Price, and Rev. William Osteen officiating. Interments included Brownsville, Woodsboro, Damascus, Middletown, Glenwood, Walkersville, and Yellow Springs.
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Hoffmaster
Brownsville
Frank Hoffmaster
Church of the Brethren
Newton Poling
C.E
C. V
W. M. Shewbridge
C. L. Hoffmaster
Harmony Grove Club fall meeting covers and elections
The Harmony Grove Club held a covered-dish luncheon in the chapel with 17 members and one guest. Mrs Elmer Thomas presided. officers elected included President Mrs Bruce Crum and Secretary Mrs Leslie Burger. Speakers on The Art of Staying Young featured Mrs Clarence Eaves and Mrs Cleveland Trout. Adjournment set for October 23.
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Harmony Grove Club
Elmer Thomas
Edward H. Mantz
Bruce Crum
Nevin Dutrow
Leslie Burger
Merr) Boyer
Clyde Koons
Clarence Eaves
Cleveland Trout
Ethel Thomas
William Powell
Council
William Haugh
Walkersville Club
Walkersville Homemakers Club
Beatrice Fehr
Paul Dieterman
Brahm
George Cleveland
Helena Stauffer
Annabelle Granthan
John White More
Pleasant Grove Club
Pleasant Grove Homemakers Club
New Market Club
Grange Hall
Miss Mar
Fuerite Burgee
Jerome Offutt
The
Obituary Notice for Houck Cramer Kintz and Barton
Elmer Houck Harvey Houck Frank Cramer and Charles Kintz are listed with interment at Utica Cemetery near Lewistown. G. C. Barton is named in connection with the funeral arrangements and directing the services.
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Man
Elmer and
Harvey Houck
Frank Cramer
Charles Kintz
Utica
Lewistown
G. C. Barton
Directes
Weddings Shake Up Frederick County Lineages Amid Dated Double Ring Ceremonies
A sequence of September weddings unfolds in Frederick area bylined by local family roots. Margie Frye and Charles Warner wed at a Odenton home, with attendants including Miss Hilda Blank and Thomas Morningstar. Betty Gibbons and James Neuman marry in Frederick with Elisha Burras’s daughter as matron of honor, and Ardel Stewart ties the knot with Airman 3c Charles W. Coblentz Jr. in Alexandria. The notices note residences, education, and post ceremony plans across Frederick, Mt. Airy, Libertytown, and Greenville.
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Thomas Morningstart Washington
Roger Clary
Frederick
Hilda Blank
Pearl St
Thomas Morning
Star
Adamstown
Willard
Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
Libertytown
Chestnut Farms
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
East Patrick Street
Coblentz—Stewart
Ardel Stewart
Chandler Stewart
Alexander
Charles W. Coblentz
Coblentz
Alexandria
Mt. Pocono
Greenville
S. C
Donaldson Air Force Base
Charles Coblentz, Jr
C. Herman Coblentz
Middletown
Electrician Survives 2300-Volt Line Grasp in Alabama Yard
In Chattanooga, Sept 29, a Birmingham electrician Roddy E. Thomas, 22, grabbed a live 2,300-volt line while a railroad crew worked. Charles R. Cooper, 31, saved him with a kick and began artificial respiration as Pete Cooper lowered him. Thomas, married with a 3 month old son, was hospitalized for observation and second degree burns. He described the shock and waking moment after regaining consciousness.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Birmingham
Roddy E. Thomas
Southern Railway
Charles R. Cooper
Thomas
Cooper
Pete Cooper
Irondale
Ala
Plassnig Beadenkopf Wedding in Baltimore Church
Miss LeVerne Beadenkopf daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Beadenkopf of Baltimore married Edwin Plassnig at Christ Lutheran Church Baltimore in a two oclock ceremony. Attendants wore blue pink and orchid gowns with matching accessories as music by organ and vocalists accompanied the service. After a reception in the church hall the couple will live at 2204 Pelham Avenue Baltimore. Both are local graduates and professionals.
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LeVerne Headenkopf
Thomas M. Beadenkopf
Baltimore
Edwin Plassnig
Dr. Plassnig
Christ Lutheran Church
John
L. Denton
Carolyn Burton
Joan Schramm
Marlene Schmidt
Ann Ruukles
Urbana
Patricia Jeanne Beadenkopf
George Louis Plassing
Messers
Vance Goode
Paul Meyer
Robert Lemeyer
Mary Meyer
Wagner
Mendelssohn
Betty Kirshe
Cadman
D’hardelot
Franklin B. Mix
G. O. Hendrickson
Friendship Hall
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Washington
G. Q. Hendrickson
O. Wilson “Runkles
Pelham Avenue
Plassing
Polytechnic Institute
University of
Dr. M. A. Hitchcock Dies in Taneytown at 80
Dr. M A Hitchcock longtime Taneytown veterinarian died at his home at 8 50 am aged 80 He was a Penn veterinary graduate active in local politics on the Democratic committee and a director of Taneytown Mutual Fire Insurance He survived by his second wife and several children grandchildren and great grandchildren Funeral services will be held Saturday at two from the Taneytown funeral home with interment in the Reformed church cemetery Taneytown
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Robert R. S. Jamieson
East Second Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Funeral Home
East Church Street
Maurice D. Ashbury
All Saints Episcopal Church
Bowyer B. Fout, Jr
Bradley Gerwig
John R. Swomley
Russell Z. Horman
Calvin Swomley
Mount Olivet Cemetery
M. R. Etchison and Son
Frank Lewis Crabbs
Yellow Springs
Herbert L. D. Doggett
Brook Hill Methodist Church
Leroy S. Crabbs
Raymond V. Crabbs
Glenn H. Summers
Paul E. Wiles
Lewis L. Martz
Casper C. Moore
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
M. A. Hitchcock
Taneytown
Luther and
Elizabeth Clarke Hitchcock
Maryland
Hitchcock
Democratic Committee
Lyman A. Hitchcock
Roanoke
L. N. Hitchcock
Westminster
Martin R. Hitchcock
Union Bridge
RF. D
George E. Rue
A. S. Thomas
New London
N. H
Fern A. Bachman
Sterling Shaffer
Manchester
iRev
Morgan R. Andreas
Reformed Church
C. O. Fuss and
iSon
Thieves Break Into Gas Station Find Empty Larder
Thieves entered the Esso service station at Routes 40 and 40 A through a rear window early Sunday. A cash register was taken but operator Roscoe Ports said there was no money in the machine. State Police Sgt. Charles D. Mades said the investigation continues.
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Esso
Roscoe Ports
Walkersville
Charles D. Mades
State Police
Mades
P E Directors In Meeting Here
Potomac Edison Company directors met at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with President R Paul Smith outlining nine months of operations The firm noted completion of the Ridgeley Merl ow e 132 kV triangle and the Mar lowe substation placed in service The company serves 142131 customers with revenue goals nearly met and reports stronger industrial demand including Camp Detrick The meeting listed officers and directors present and highlighted line and substation projects and a rural buildout of about 150 miles of new lines
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Williamsport-Frederick
R. Paul Smith
Marlowe
Ridgeley
Earle S. Thompson
Donovan R. Beachley
William B. Bennett
G. Hunter Bowers
Harold F. Butler
Raymond E. Creager
Robert B. Crothers
David K. Cushna. Jr
R. E. Delaplaine
Mervyn C. Fuss
J. H. Gambrill
Harry George. Jr
L. Vinton Hershey
Owen E. Hitchins
George S. Humphrey
Harry J. Leichert
Harry W. le Gore
Frank S. Leiter
A. F. MacDonald
W. Clinton McSherry
Paul
S. Michael
Guy K. Molier
Charles A. Piper
J. Lee Rice
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Hubert H. Schindel
D. E. Stultz
R. L. Smith
G. Frank Thomas
Asa H. Watkins
Howard M. Smith
S. S. Bradford
Too Much Business Behind Closed Doors
Rockville Maryland September 29 Montgomery County Councilman Lathrop E Smith criticized colleagues for excessive closed sessions. He defended himself amid reports he disclosed confidential school budget voting results linked to council members J Louis Monarch Grover K Walker Louis A Gravelle and a PTA letter by James Q Reber.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Lathrop
Smith
PTA
James Q. Reber
County Council of
Pta’s
J. Louis Monarch
Grover K. Walker
Louis A. Gravelle
County School Rolls Increase 524 Over Last Year
Total attendance at city and county public schools reached 11, 493 in the first ten days of the new term, up 524 from last year. Supervisor Misa Gertrude Smith reported, with white attendance 10,419 and colored 1,084, listing by school across multiple communities and grade levels.
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Misa Gertrude Smith
Philip's Delight
Buckeystown
Point of Rocks
Adamstown
Parkway
Catoctin Furnace
Lewistown
Burkittsville
Brunswick
Walkersville
Elm Street
Liberty
Middletown
Emmitsburg
Thurmont
Frederick
Ebenezer
Horsey’s
Doubs
Lincoln Elementary
Hopeland
New Market
Lincoln High School
Open Meeting Of County PTA Council Set Friday
Frederick County Council of Parent-Teacher Association will hold a special training session in Frederick High School auditorium Friday at 7:30 PM. Council President Leona P Pollack announced questions will be discussed with guidance from Maryland PTA officers Mrs Fred L Bull and Mrs Stanley G Cook. The program includes the film Teachers in Print and an impromptu skit.
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Frederick County
ABC
P.-T.a
P.T.A
P.I.A
Board of Education
Kiwanis Day Feeds 4000 Children With Free Food
Kids enjoyed a citywide Kiwanis organized Saturday with a parade field day games and baseball. About 4 000 free sandwiches and as many cakes were served along with 1 520 half pint cartons of milk from Excelsior Sanitary Dairy.
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Kiwanis Club
Guy Kelly
Charles Taylor
Excelsior Sanitary Dairy
Adoption Petition Seeks Saundra Bohrer Custody Change
The Circuit Court for Frederick County Maryland orders publication to inform father James M Hite of a petition to adopt Saundra Jean Hite and change her name to Saundra Jean Bohrer. The minor born January 26 1847 in Cumberland Maryland, resides with Atley Roan Bohrer and Phyllis Regina Bohrer. Proceedings set for appearance by November 1953.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Atley Hoan Bohrer
Parris Regina Bohrer
Saundra Jean Hite
Atley Roan Bohrer
Phyllis Regia Bohrer
Saundra Jean Bohrer
Minor
Cumberland
John M. Hite
Phyllis D. Gite
U. S. District Court
S. Penitentiary
Leavenworth
RFD
Thurmont
Camp Detrick
petRion
Saundra
Jean Bohrer_ TY
Circuit Court
Court of Equity
James M. Hite
Patrick M Schnaufyer
Sherman P. Bowers
Sohertor
Frederick
Ellis C
Wachter
Menica ST
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North Carolina
Susie E. Myers
Charles A. Price
Eternal Life
G. Fred Myers
Edgar Roderick
Clayborne Zimmerman
Philip Beard
Elmer
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Woodsboro
Zoa C. Layman
Colonel Layman
Jesse ‘Clark
Thurmont Funeral Home
Lewistown M. P
William Osteen
Old Rugged Cross
William Clark, Sr
George Thompson, Jr
Norman Clark
Lincoln Gosnell
James Hahn
George Eyler
M. L. Creager and Son
Thaddeus Hschroyer
Edward Wilson
E. Stephen Raby
James P. Grossnickle
George R. Leatherman
Phillip Lutz
Maynard Kline
Galen Co. Smith
Bruce M. Brandenburg
Nicholas R. Henderson
Lisbon
Winfield
Charles A. Michael
Brice
Kenneth
James Henderson
James
Nicholas Holland
Oak Grove Cemetery
Glenwood
Jc. M. Waltz
Nina Rebecca Ropp
George Oscar Ropp
Grant Place
Howard McCarney
Meredith
Eugene
Ralph
Earl Rapp
Glenn
John Main
Mayme M. Wachier
E. Koontz Helwig
Rock of Ages
Jesus
Paul Dinterman
Jecegh Engle
Claysorce Zimmer
Lovettsville
Lovettsville Home Demonstration Club
Cecil Rabinette
George Wire
Hamilton
Roger Hough
Wire
Waterford Foundation
Ro Dinette
Hough
Browningsville
Leanah Day
Browningsville Club
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Clarence Taylor
Frances Hager
Edythe M
Edythe M. ‘Turner
Massachusetts
Ethel Leishear
Miss Turner
Louise Duvall
Folie Barron
Trene Arnold
Margaret Hardy
Plastic Company
Dolores Neuman
Frederick High School
Miss
Clus Russell Young
Young
Ernest Lillard
Plassnig
Beadenkopf
Friedland
Germany
Soviet Union
West Germany
P. E
County
PTA Council
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