Red Cross chairman warns skaters on ice dangers
Washington County Red Cross chairman Vinton L. Heshey urges communities to provide safe skating info and warns about thin ice. Harold Enlows notes ice safety standards from military manuals. warnings cover early winter thaws, ice rescue prep, self-rescue, and fire department response. Florida tomato growers drill artesian wells for irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton L. Heshey
Washington County Red Cross
Red Cross Life Saving Service
Harold F. Enlows
American Red Cross
Mr. Enlows
Red Cross
Petitions To Be Sent On Sunday Movies Issue
Nearly 7,000 signatures collected in Hagerstown and county petitions oppose Sunday movies. About 4,000 signatures from county petitions were handed in at a Ministerial Association meeting at the YMCA. Twenty four of forty five county churches have sent petitions. total may reach about 10,000 and will be sent to the Maryland Legislature if a Sunday movies bill is introduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Charles Morrison
Ministerial Association
Maryland
Western Slope by Jonas Lie joins museum's permanent collection
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts adds Jonas Lie’s oil painting Western Slope to its permanent collection. Purchased from the artist last summer by Mrs. Anna Brugh Singer, it was presented to the Hagerstown museum. The work, painted in 1923, is a striking winter landscape in a modified Impressionist style, reflecting Lie’s blend of American themes with European influences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Western Slope
Jonas Lie
Anna Brugh Singer
Hagerstown Museum
Lie
National Academy
City of New York
Hagerstown
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr
Charles Rufus Morey
William J. Henderson
Yale University Press
Adirondacks
Cezanne
Norway
Paris
New York
National Academy of Desian
Art Students League
Claude Monet
Country
Mr. Lie
Andover
Baltimore
Boston
Brooklyn
Buffalo
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Newark
Pittsburgh
Providence
Rochester
Syracuse
Washington
Judge Doub to Retire From Allegany Bench in April
Associate Judge Albert A. Doub gave the grand jury charge at Allegany County Court yesterday in his final session before retirement in April. Born April 11, 1865 at Beaver Creek, he was elected to the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 1921 and reaches the 70-year age limit on April 11. Governor Nice must appoint a successor to serve the unexpired term until the 1938 statewide election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert A. Doub
Allegany County Court
Judge Doub
Beaver Creek
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Doub
Harry W. Nice
Famed Singer Reinald Werrenrath to Give Recital Here
Acclaimed baritone Reinald Werrenrath will perform at Trinity Lutheran Auditorium on Thursday evening January 24 with Miss Louise Bernhardt, contralto. Werrenrath, famed for operatic, oratorio and radio work, is praised as a premier artist whose voice and technique captivate audiences. The concert is sponsored by St Pauls United Brethren Church choirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reinald Werrenrath
Trinity
Reinald Warrenrath
Trinity Lutheran Auditorium
Louise Bernhardt
Werrenrath
Redl Ag
Bilger
Herman de Vries
Chicago
Chicago American
Metropolitan
National Broadcasting Company
St Paul’s United Brethren Church
Brethren Church directs with Prof. Hollinger leading
The Church of the Brethren operates under the leadership of Prof. Raymond K. Hollinger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Church of the Brethren
Prof
Raymond K. Hollinger
Evangelist J E Barbour Preaches At Church Service
The Church of God hosted Evangelist J E Barbour from Martinsville MI who spoke on The Major's Wife and Grasshopper Religion. Tonight he plans House Cleaning as his subject. An intermediate choir of 35 led last night’s music and cottage prayer meetings continue in the city afternoons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God
J. E. Barbour
Martinsville
Barbour
Van Arnam Minstrel Band Directs Two Free Concerts
The Van Arnam Minstrel Band under Rudy Hoff will perform two free concerts at the Academy Theatre this Friday and Saturday. The famous street parade begins at noon, and the program will feature new tunes alongside old standards, marches, and trombone blues in classic minstrel style.
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van Arnam
Rudy Hoff
Academy Theatre
Mapleville social guests share Sunday dinner and visits
In Mapleville on January 4 Mr and Mrs Elmer Reeder hosted a dinner with C A Shoop and families. Numerous visitors from Hagerstown Martinsburg and nearby areas joined relatives for Sunday calls and meals including the Keadle Martz and Dick families, and others from Winchester and Beaver Creek.
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Mapleville
Elmer Reeder
C. A. Shoop
Mary Strause
Roy Lumm
Raymond Smith
Mamie
Katie Fahrney
Samuel Kaylor
Edward Startzman
Mary Lou
Winchester
Willard Braithwaite
Vaughn
Reno Eldridge
Louise
Myersville
Paul Lighter
Donald
Hagerstown
C. Ned Keadle
Mildred
Marie Smith
Alice
Gift
Lena
John Martz
Frank Bowers
Arthur’ Swope
Beaver Creek
Misa Ruth’ Byrem
Edgar Martz
Jacob Dick
Henry Dick
Katheryn
George Kennedy
Genevieve Smith
E.S. Kennedy
Clarence Foltz
Fred
Martinsburg
Merrill Himes
Boonsboro
Oscar Houpt
Barney Martz
Minnie Wagner
P. A. Cost
Reid Letter from Jan 4 social visits and gatherings
A collection of social notices records visitors and gatherings in Maryland towns. Names include Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beachley and families, Ethel Lehman, Robert Deibert, Lois Beachley, Richard Stouffer, Eber Eshleman, Lela Eshleman, George Eshleman, Edith Burkholder, Bertha Burkholder, and others. Attendees visited Middletown, Maugansville, Funkstown, Half Way, Thurmont, State Line, Hagerstown, and nearby. The notices note a birthday reception for Daniel Sprecher at Huyetts and a Sisterhood meeting in Hagerstown.
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Ghters
Edith
Bertha
Eber
George Eshleman
Lela
Maugansville
William Beachley
Daniel Sprecher
Huyetts
Alvey Cook
Lester Conner
Virginia
Geraldine
Margaret
Funkstown
Harry Thomas
Murray
Harold Lee
Halfway
Steward Martin
Charles
Esther
Thurmont
Ralph Cook
Walter Swisher
Elaine
State Line
Pauline Troupe
Hagerstown
Mary Hollyday
H. M. Troupe
First Brethren Church
Ethel Lehman
President Roosevelt Lent Birthday Ball to Fight Infantile Paralysis
National drive to aid polio victims with 69 AMA recognized orthopedic hospitals aiding 200000 handicapped Americans. Seventieth of funds stay local while thirty cents support the President's Birthday Ball Commission for Infantile Paralysis. Col Henry L Doherty chairs research with a New York Miami base, Jeremich Milbank as vice chair, Paul de Kruif as secretary, Edward S Harkness as treasurer, and leaders Warburg Couzens Burke Ford Rosenwald Brady Fosdick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
United States
American Medical Association
Henry L. Doherty
Tower Center
New York
Miami
Ihhile
Jeremichh
Slayer Hanged In Moundsville Pen
Greely Blankenship a 30 year old Kentucky mountaineer was hanged at West Virginia State Penitentiary for the murder of John Christofone in Matewan. The execution at 12 02 pm was the prison’s 65th in ten years witnessed by about 50 people. Blankenship spoke God bless you all and thanked guards before the noose. His body was taken to Edgarton for burial. his widow and two children reside there.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Greely Blankenslip
Kentucky
West Virginia State Penitentiary
John Christofone
Blankenship
Christofone
Matewan
C. F. McClintic
Edgarton
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