July News Letter To Countians Serving Overseas
The July issue of the Washington County Letter League newsletter went into the mails yesterday for Washington countians serving in the armed forces worldwide. Copies for local service members are available at Lester Brothers, the Hagerstown News Agency and R. M. Hays and Brothers. Letters from service members praise the newsletter for boosting morale and staying connected with hometown news.
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Washington County Letter League
Washington
M. G Beemer
England
Jane I
McCrelland
Jevening
Hagerstown
Nfe
Britain
Pfe
McClelland
British Isles
R. E. Davis
Charles N. Mowen
Pacific Theater
Pangborn
Bors
E. W. Martin
New Orleans
Louisiana
Martin
Mason-Dixon Line
Pennsylvania
Keystoners
League
County War Effort Praised and Duty On Overseas Names
Sergeant voices pride in county unity for wartime effort and urges residents to send names and addresses of locals serving overseas. President Pangborn notes League seeks these names from countians. Also: Mrs Carmen Beach Martin, 29, convicted under the Mann Act and sentenced to one to three years with a $2,500 fine in Washington.
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Pangborn
League
Hagerstown
Washington
Carmen Beach Martin
Victory Gardeners Reaping Results at Summit Avenue Lot
An enterprising Central Garage employee working at the Summit avenue used car lot started a Victory Garden nearby several weeks ago and now its produce benefits families of Dan Myers and Horace Smith who aided the project. The plot covers about half a city lot, with tomatoes potatoes peas beans and cabbage among the crops as weeds yielded to hard work and off hours effort. The effort transformed land unused for about twenty years into a productive garden helping local neighbors.
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Summit Avenue
Dan Myers
Horard Smith
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