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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1927
Page
3
Social and personal notices list residents and visitors moving through Hagerstown and nearby towns. Families like Downs Rowe Martins Mannings and Staubs, Harsh, Meyers and Burhans are cited with travel, visits, and hospital recoveries. Several surgeries, sailings to Boston and Europe, and vacations across Pennsylvania Maryland and West Virginia are noted alongside civic guests and local residents’ health and travel updates.
Mrs Leslie C Beard and her husband Leslie Beard plan to leave Wareham Apartments in mid September for Brooklyn New York to establish their new home. Mr Beard long served as editor of the Evening Globe and as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun Philadelphia and Washington papers. He has written astronomical articles for the Daily Mail and poems published in poetry magazines and various papers. He will live retired.
The fifth Shank reunion gathered at the Gehr farm grove bringing Lancelot Shank Sr. and many relatives from Big Pool Hagerstown Clear Spring and surrounding townships. Attendees included Rev C B Shank, Blanche Dowler Jane Dowler Kalota and numerous Shanks and Gehhrs plus visiting kin from Medford Mowen and Williamsport. Plans were made to hold the next reunion on the third Wednesday of August 1938.
Mr George B Young will preside at a mass meeting at St John s Reformed Church Clearspring Sunday afternoon at 9 00 The subject is Law Enforcement and Constitutional Government Hon Oliver W Stewart of Chicago will be principal speaker He is president of the lying Squadron Foundation and editor of the National Inquirer Stewart spoke at a previous Clearspring meeting Two years ago The gathering is part of county wide series in the interest of prohibition Stewart will speak at Washington Square Church in the county
Vashti Myers daughter of Mr and Mrs Grant Myers hosted a junior class gathering at her Cearfoss home Tuesday night. The beautifully decorated room featured purple and gold and Japanese lanterns. A list of guests included Jacob Hostetter Dorothy Burkholder John Laughlin Helen Smith Raymond Miller Kathryn Ingram Henry Laughlin Hazel Brubaker Ralph Barnes Mary Gluck Clark Elliot Thelma Miller Lester Miller Nellie Fitz Louise Bentz Jessia Myers Gladys Weglie Vera Myers Martha Brumbaugh Gertrude Myers Junior Myers Louis Myers Mr and Mrs Jamesy Myers and Mrs Mollie Myers.
Miss Eliza Newcomer daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry K Newcomer Beaver Creek entertained at bridge yesterday afternoon with classmates from Miss MacClintocks and High School. Several girls head to school this fall for a class farewell. Prizes went to Miss Dorothy Needy Miss Paula Kieffer and Miss Margaret Conrad. Guests listed include Dana and Alice Miller Paula Kieffer Edith Fylde Dorothy Neady Louise Porter Helen Middlekauff Lillian Mary Elliott Mary Stewart Dorothy Margaret Conrad Rachel Miller.
Lieut J Robert Sheetz U S Army visits parents in Summit Avenue before returning to Princeton New Jersey where he has been appointed to a professorship in will science at Princeton University He is a Hagerstown High School and St Johns College Annapolis graduate and formerly taught at Fort Sill Oklahoma After World War I service he traveled by motor with his mother and sister to Baltimore and Washington
Elston V. Miller son of Atr and Mrs Ernest W. Miller of Hagerstown wed Miss Elinor Case daughter of Senator William J Case of Michigan. The ceremony was at the bride’s home in Benzonia Michigan. Miller, UM Maryland graduate now Michigan PhD, plans to return to Hagerstown with his bride in September.
The second annual Ludy family reunion took place at City Park on Thursday August 25. Master of ceremonies Chas E Koogle led games races and talks. Attendees included Gyrus Lady Mae and James Lady Josias Schildknecht Charles Koogle Warrenfeltz and families plus many others from Ohio Georgia and Maryland.
Mrs P R Phillips of Yarrowsburg celebrated her 60th birthday with an evening dinner. A six piece Washington orchestra provided music as a large group of guests attended from across Maryland and Virginia including many with the Phillips and Younkins surnames and friends from Roanoke Tome Brook Hagerstown and nearby towns.
Charles Cassel and the Convert Chants under his direction will broadcast a three quarter hour program from station WRC Washington on Wednesday near 8:15 p.m. This marks the fourth broadcast for Mr Cassel who has previously appeared on Hagerstown radio. He will also appear with the Frederick Orchestra Club in a concert on Monday night August 29 in Frederick. Dorothy Wilan hosted a dinner party at 38 South Mulberry Street in honor of Mrs G E Ross visiting Miss Mary Wartle Mast Avenue with a red and yellow color scheme for both menu and table decor.
Do You Recall marks events from years ago including Board of Trade efforts led by V M Cushwa for a City Park with O D McCardell urging bonds. It notes residents' entertainment, a kitchen shower for Mary Bohn, re-election of South Carolina's governor, a vest worn by Vice Chief Spangler, and a 1913- era W I A convention amid community gatherings and licenses issued to couples.
The final organ recital of Roy A. McMichael's summer series at Mercerseurs will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 30. The program includes March Pontificale Leffen Benediction Nuptial Offertory Loret Liebestraum Liszt Andante in G. Batiste Meditalion Sturgis.
The fifth Bowman family reunion convened at Conomac Park on Thursday with a short business session followed by music from Bhim Ridge orchestra. Rev. Mr. Bender spoke at the gathering, with numerous Bowmans and relatives listed among attendees and kin from Washington D C. Other attendees included Mrs J Houpt and many named Bowman family members, plus related surnames such as Dayhoff Kretsinger Martz and Myers.
Rev Jw Be Klingaman of Dover Pa former pastor of St Pauls Clearspring will preach at 7:50 PM Sunday at the Reformed church Florence Cutty of Baltimore will sing Two automobile toads of members join for Queen Esther Chalapler Order of Eastern Star Hagerstown left for the Masonic Home near Baltimore to serve as hostesses for the day Auxiliary to meet The American Legion will meet Thursday evening September Late welock at Legion Hall
A Hagerstown police officer, eager and persistent, drove to Chambersburg after pursuing a man, hoping to confront him while emphasizing his dedication to duty. The night air favored a ride, and the officer aimed to handle the situation decisively before leaving town.
Miss Ruth Branin hosted a bridge party yesterday afternoon at her North Patoral avenue home. Virginia Carmichael won first prize. Camilla Roulette and Ila Trammell tied for second. Guests included numerous Hagerstown residents and out-of-town visitors, with Dor othy Ream from Pittsburgh as hostess guest. R. Taylor, “Sharpy,” Hotel Charles proprietor, birthday celebration planned at Four Locks today. nine years as hotelier noted. Mrs. C. M. Branin visiting. Mrs. Guy C. Dove in Washington.
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