Bowling Party Highlights Club Gatherings And Awards
The Democratic Women Club met Monday night at the Gries Building to plan a spring event in its clubroom. Tuesday night the Bowling League held its annual banquet at Hotel Patterson for forty three attendees with prizes for perfect attendance and high averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Women Club
Gries Building
Hotel Patterson
Brewer L. Stouffer
The
Celui
Violet Sneckenberger
Virginia Martin
Winger
Freda Grimes
Frances Sneckenberger
Pauline McBeth
Eileen Barnes
Dorothy Hahn
Grace Davis
Rote Shetler
Mary Smith
Connie Nave
Sylvia Peacher
Helen Hann
Charlotte Steverson
Olive Jones
Ethel Martin
Thelma Eichelberger
Club Cives Records To Recreation Center
The Junior Music Club closes its activities this month with an outing in spring. Members assisted Civic Music concerts, made hospital scrapbooks, and ran a city market cake sale whose proceeds funded records for the local army camp recreation center. Alumni performances included Aida selections, Debussy, Tschaikowsky, and Don Cossack chorus records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Concert at St Marys high school Glee Club tomorrow
The Glee Club of St Marys High School presents its annual concert tomorrow evening in the South Potomac Junior High auditorium. Featuring folk music inspired by American Indian, Negro, early colonists, westward pioneers, Civil War songs, and pieces reflecting South American neighbors. Directed by Charles H. Roderick. Parents and friends invited. tickets from students or at the auditorium.
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Glee Club
St. Mary's High School
South Potomac Junior High School
Charles H. Roderick
St. Mary's
Engagement and birth notices from Hagerstown area
Engagement announcements for Miss Alice Lynch and Miss Charlotte Jane Fisher highlight military service and local families. Births reported include Calleen Sharon Ford, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Dolan Ford, and multiple other newborns at Washington County Hospital along with various local marriages and license issuances.
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Alice Heilman
Washington County Hospital
Harry E. Baver
Florida Avenue
Austin W. Albott
Keedysville
G. Maxine Shook
Funketown
Howard Swain
Sharpshure
G. Kenneth Smith
West Franklin Street
Abs
Mildred JD. Mahone
George Street
Woodrow Gift
Pen Mar
Olive L. Everall
Smithsbur
Ernest T. Rice
Hagerstown
John Cobrentz
Virginia Avenue
John R. Fisher
Fountain Head Heights
Charlotte Jane Fisher
Avie Ijon
Irvin Leslie Happel
William M. Happel
Highfield
Happel
Pensacola, Fla
Alex Prysoda
Benderwirt Avenue
Rockford
Dolan Ford
Pope Avenuuo
Calleen Sharon
Harry R. Traver
Williamsport
John T. Haine
Smithsburg
Lester G. Querry
Fairview Road
Charles R. Martin
West Antietam Street
Robert Getts
Local society notes from Jackson and nearby towns
Mrs E Leister Mobley Jr has returned to join her husband stationed at Jackson Mississippi after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Merrill Hays on Oak Hill avenue Miss Bessie Petlingall of the Patsy Hat Shop North Potomac street has returned from a trip to New York City Arthur J Allen Jr of the U S Navy Boston Mass spent the weekend with his parents on Broadway
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwood Burkholder
Lucile Burkholder
Annie L. Fleagle
West
Washington Street
Pvt
Burkholder
E. M Burkholder
Thomas Sheahan
Man Brother
Cornelius J. Sheahan
Batavia
Billy Ramsey
William Ramsey
Beechwood Drive
Children’s Hospital
Baltimore
Fred Sauders
Washington County Hospital
North Avenue
T. Frank Lynch
Maryland Avenue
Alice
Yeoman
U. S. Naval Reserve
Don D. Allen
Portland
Ore
Allen
Miss Lynch
Oklahoma A
Stillwater
Okla
Hagerstown High School
Columbia Business School
E. Leister Mobley, Jr
Jackson, Miss
Merrill Hays
Oak Hill Avenue
Bessie Petlingall
Patsy Hat Shop
North Potomac Street
New York City
Arthur J. Allen, Jr
U. S. Navy
Boston
Mass
Broadway
The Old Academy of Music in Hagerstown Remembers
In Hagerstown the Academy of Music drew major actors during the early era when trains carried touring companies through town. Locals preferred minstrel shows and church entertainments over Broadway fare, with Fast Mail remaining a memorable melodrama. As the Academy marks anniversaries, residents recall past managers, the Baldwin House link, and historic stage drops painted by Alfonzo Helferstay.
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Hagerstown
Academy of Music
Episcopal
Academy
Baldwin House
Charles Footer
Venice
Charles W. Borer
Alfonzo Helferstay
Burnside Bridge
Hood College Dean Speaks At Local Dinner
Mrs Elizabeth Eckhardt May dean of Hood College spoke at a Hood College Club dinner at Hotel Alexander last evening on Careers For Today and Tomorrow She described curriculum changes postwar to create job paths and new vocations and thanked local alumna Miss Jean Jieffmeijer for presenting her.
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Hood College
Elizabeth Eckhardt May
Frederick
Hotel Mexanderean
May
Hood
Jean Jieffmeijer
Elub
Mesdames
Frank N. Hoffmeier
Harold Hoffman
R. Paul Smith
Omer T. Kaylor
James Cannon
Jack H. Neachey
Aenah le Gruber
D. Lewis
William Noel
Aldine Lakin
Ifelen
Collins
Caleethe Wagner
Sara Dorn
Ethel Grove
Circle to Dine Dinner Meeting at Zion Baptist Church
The Missionary Circle of Zion Baptist church will host a dinner meeting on Thursday April 27 at 4 p.m. at the church. Hattie Milton serves as treasurer and is the arrangements chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missionary Circle of Zion Baptist Church
Hattie Milton
Memorial service for Miss Agnes Ronney announced
A memorial service for Miss Agnes Ronney will be held at the regular meeting of the Women's Missionary Union at the First Baptist Church on Thursday evening April 27 at 7:28 PM
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Ronney
Women’s Missionary Union
First Baptist Church
Auxiliary Meeting at Woodmen of the World hall
The Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at the Woodmen of the World hall and all members are asked to be present. A second notice invites Maugansville residents to a Sunday afternoon meeting at Maugansville Union church on April 30 at 2 30 to discuss opening the Sunday school with all invited.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Woodmen of the World Hall
Maugansville
Maugansville Union Church
Commun
Sophomores Sponsor Open House at Hagerstown High
Sophomores will sponsor an open house at Hagerstown High School on Monday night May 1 in the school auditorium. Parents of sophomore students will be guests of honor as the school orchestra directed by Victor Marietta performs. Principal John D Zentmyer will deliver the talk. Also noted, only about five per cent of US cork is used for bottle stoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown High School
Victor Marietta
John D. Zentmyer
United States
Trees Planted At Leitersburg School Honor Local Heroes
4H Clubs at Leitersburg school planted an oak and a willow under Vernon D. Holter supervision to mark Bird and Arbor Day. Miss Ardath E. Martin attended as club advisor while June Huff read and students performed poems and songs. Bird houses were set, trees named for Colin Kelly and Ernest Franklin Hoover, the latter a former Leitersburg principal now teaching at Smithsburg High.
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Leitersburg
Vernon D. Holter
Ardath E. Martin
June Huff
Colin Kelly
Pearl Harbor
Ernest Franklin Hoover
Hoover
Smithsburg High School
Parties Given For Corporal On Furlough
Cpl Vinson Keefauver, Morris Field instructor, just finished a furlough at his North Mulberry street home and resumed duty at Gulffort Army Airfield Mississippi. While home he attended a surprise party for his twenty fifth birthday with family and friends. A second party at Middleburg hosted by Mr and Mrs Guy Johnston featured cards and dancing for guests including Afr and Mrs Kermitt ont, Mr and Mrs Jack Shrader, Mr and Mrs Clarence Judd and Mrs Virginia Johnston.
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Cpl
Vinson Keefauver
Morris Field
Charlotte
N. C
North Mulberry Street
Gulffort
Miss
Georgia Kecefauver
Jack Shrafer
Clarence Judd
Pearl Shrader
Emily de Haven
Cpl. Keefauver
Guy Johnston
Middleburg
Afr
Kermitt Ont
Jackshrader
Virginia Johnston
Training Course Opens Tonight for Scout Leaders
The course begins at 7 39 p m in the YMCA auditorium with Miss Martha Schnebly and Miss Katherine McCullough guiding volunteer training. They will teach program skills like folk dancing and music so leaders can train children later. Sea moss is noted as a base for hand lotion.
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Y.M.C.A
Martha Schnebly
Katherine McCullough
Philosophy And Religion May Help Save War Marriages
Dr. Raymond P. Hawes a philosophy professor says about 50 percent of wartime marriages fail and that training in philosophy and religion can bolster success. He notes Army Britain programs aid preparation, while marriage breaks down at physical romantic and idealistic levels, with the third level offering strongest hope through devotion. An ad for costume jewelry follows, urging readers to visit Alice Weagley Corset Shop next to the Colonial Theater.
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Baltimore
Coucher College
Raymond P. Hawes
Dr. Hawes
Hawes
Alice Weagley
Colonial Theater
Ady
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Veericd & Seat Permanent Ways
M. V. McGraw
WAC
Fort Hamilton
Jerry McGraw
Buckiey Field
Denver
Colo
Ann Jarques
Marker
S. M. Jacques
Randolph Avenue
Mr. DL Plonmer
Till Avenue
Www
Harris
Waverly
Elwood Goodrich
Wakefield
Mr. Goodrich
Henry Holzapfel
South Prospect Street
Charles E. Durkee
West Washington Street
Jeanette Garrish
Elizabeth Garrish
Madeline McKelvey
Detroit, Mich
Harry Beaver, Sr
Mrs. Beaver
Avenue
George Bohman, Sr
Camp McClellan, Alg
Potomac Avenue
William T. Hassett, Jr
Hamilton Boulevard
Kiddie Klothes Shop
Orth Potomac Street
Galiss
W. Washington St
St. Mary’s Glee Club
Alice Lynch
Edwin Shoop
Pearl Sprankle
Daniel W. Kendall
Roy L. Sloop
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Harry Victor Bingaman
Rachel Mary Davis
P. B. Watlington
Women’s Hats L. & B. Hat Shop
Northeast Car
Public Square
Fleisher’s
Lond Run
Dadith Evelyn Above
Leiter
Leiter Brothers
Gabardine
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