Missionary Society Yule Program Highlights Faith and Mission
The Women's Missionary Society of Virginia Avenue Baptist Church presented a Lottie Moon Christmas program on Wednesday evening. Directed by Mrs. Jesse R. Hite, the event featured the annual world missions offering handled by four Junior R. A. boys Lee Sterling Jr John Sterling Russell Miller and James Stoneham. Participants included Mrs. Jesse R. Hite Norman Stoneham Stanley Grubbs Lillian Souders several Star members and youths such as Patsy Cianelli Darlene Hessong Elizabeth Sterling Mary Ellen Shank James Stoneham Bobby Miller and Grace M. Lowell among others.
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Women’s Missionary Society
Virginia Avenue Baptist Church
Lottie Moon
Jesse R. Hite
World Missions
R. A
Lee Sterling, Jr
John Sterling
Russell Miller
James Stoneham
Mesdames
Norman Stoneham
Stanley Grubbs
Lee Sterling
G. L. Lowell
Lillian Souders
Mary ‘Eakle
Patsy Cianelli
Darlene Hessong
Elizabeth Sterling
Mary Ellen Shank
Bobby Miller
Grace M. Lowell
Charles Huff
Old Clothes Party Set by Hagerstown Elks No. 378
The Hagerstown Lodge B.P.O. Elks No. 378 schedules an old clothes party on Friday December 12 at the Elks Home South Potomac Street. Cards begin 8 15 p m with admission by a bundle of clean clothes or 1 60 to buy shoes for the needy.
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Hagerstown Lodge
B.P.O. Elks No
Elks Home
South Potomac Street
James McGuffin
Mary Donegan Howe
Elks Club
Harry Fisher
Jack Frost
Howard Gale
Christmas Tea Set by Garden Club Members
At the Board of Directors annual Christmas tea on Tuesday December 9 from 3 to 5 pm the tea chairman Mrs Robert H McCaul ey will receive with Mrs Kenneth Spence president of the club. The holiday tea will be held in the club auditorium decorated by Garden Section members. Tea poured by Mrs Elmer N Funkhouser and Mrs S B Riley and service by Mrs James C Elliott and Mrs A H Warne. Chairmen of club sections assist in serving. Work of Home and Philanthropy section headed by Mrs R Q Whitelegg and Arts and Crafts displays will be in the back dining room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Directors
Robert H. McCauley
Kenneth Spence
Elmer N. Funkhouser
S. B. Riley
James C. Elliott
A. H. Warne
New Bent Aluminum Skillet Liner For Frying and Baking
A new nonabsor bent aluminum liner is used to bake or fry in. The liner can be removed after cooking, folded and discarded with grease and food particles to protect hands sinks and drain pipes.
Auxiliary Formed To Fire Company
Mrs Juanita Hendley spoke at a meeting for a newly organized auxiliary to the Community Volunteer Fire Company of District 12. The group aims to raise funds and support firefighters. Officers elected were President C A Brown Senior VP Edgar Henson Junior VP John Hammond Secretary Edwin Eakle Treasurer Roy May Guard Raymond Baker and chaplains Lorraine May and Boyd Snelling. Visitors praised auxiliary work statewide.
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Juanita Hendley
Community Volunteer Fire Company
District 12
Maryland Association
Hendley
C. A. Brown
Edgar Henson
John Hammond
Edwin Eakle
Roy May
Raymond Baker
Lorraine-May
Boyd Snelling
David Baker
William Ecton
Post Will Attend Service on Sunday
Members of the William D. Byron Post 1936 Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies Auxiliary will attend church services on Sunday morning December 7 in a body at St. Paul’s E.U.B. Church. The Rev Dr F Berry Plummer will preach the sermon. The service will also honor the sixth anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the men who died in the last war.
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William D. Byron
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies Auxiliary
the Post
St. Paul's E.U.B. Church
F. Berry Plummer
Pearl Harbor
Thursday night stork shower honors Mrs Donald Kretzer
A 58 Winter Street event celebrated the forthcoming birth with blue and pink decor and a stork cake. Guests included Mrs John Rummel, Mrs Denver Kretzer, Mrs Mary Blenard, Mrs Donald Kalb Flesh, and many others. Gifts came from Lester Brothers second floor employees plus Miss Betty Lum and Mrs Hazel Lowry.
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Winter Street
Donald Kretzer
Herman Negley
Betty Renner
Richard Kretzer
Grace Selby
R. M. Rummel
Irene Spizzo
Betty Kretzer
Betty Hamby
Rosalie Wolf
June Renner
Delores Hamby
Debbie Jeanne Kretzer
Mary Athey
Mary Baker
Beverley Renner
Jimmie Renner
Earle Renner
Elmer Selby
Lester Brothers
Betty Lum
Hazel Lowry
Personal Workers class gathers for Thanksgiving program
The Personal Workers class of the Church of the Brethren was entertained at the home of Mrs. Marty Wolfkill on Jefferson Street. The program, in a Thanksgiving spirit, featured Viola Kauffman, Grace Mullendore, Mary Niner, Blanche Wolfkill, and Lottie Cromer.
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Church of the Brethren
Marty Wolfkill
Jefferson Street
Viola Kauffman
Grace Mullendore
Mary Niner
Blanche Wolfkill
Lottie Cromer
Consumer Spending Growth From 1939 to 1947
Consumer spending in the United States rose from about 67.5 million dollars in 1939 to a rate of about 165 million dollars annually in 1947, indicating a strong postwar expansion in household purchases.
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United States
Encouragement for a Forties Pregnancy
A reader in her forties seeks reassuring words about a third pregnancy. The response notes that age sparks social discomfort, but urges pride in family growth, explains guilt feelings as projection, and encourages joy in the husband’s happiness and the upcoming birth.
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Billy
Sue
Today's Menu By Charlotte Adams Curried Lamb Recipe
A Welcome Curried Dish features Cream of Pea Soup Curried Lamb in Brown Rice Border Buttered Cauliflower Mixed Green Salad Apple Pie Recipes Serve Four. The curried lamb uses onions tomatoes curry paste water milk and brown rice with bananas for serving.
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Border
Belinda Springs Remembered as a Famed Maryland Resort
The Belinda Springs resort near Antietam Creek once drew visitors from across the region. Owner Jacob Gardenhour and later families built a thriving hotel with baths, ballrooms, and boat trips, hosting judges and lawmakers. By 1833 the spring dwindled, the building fell into ruin, and the site became a farm, later renamed Griffiths Place.
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Waters
John
Jacob Gardenhour
Elizabeth Banks
Antietam
John P. Smith
Belinda Springs
Antietam Creek
Elizabeth
John Gardenhour
Maryland
Washington County
Jacob Gartenhouse
Belinda
Potomac
Harper's Ferry
America
William B. Rochester
New York
Nathaniel Rochester
Elias
Millard Fillmore Lumm
Belinda Springe
Jacob Snavely
Lumm
Sharpsburg
Snavely
John Baker
W. S. Griffith
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Kentucky
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Leiterd Brothers
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