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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1923
Page
7
A social page item describes a Women’s page event with a Weddings Club, band and Clarence Young and Charles Neikirk riding white males. The pageant drew attention and merriment along the route. Jean Garberson leads the camp and the queen will be crowned amid other performances. Everyone is invited.
A large birthday gathering for Mr. Walter Tressler at his Fountaindale home featured games and sap served at 10:30 PM. Plans for a big pageant to be staged by rural girls clubs at the YZ ramp in Big Pool were announced, with seventy girls at the camp and 14 rehearsals under director Miss Eva Treasler.
Social and personal notes list multiple residents and visitors with ties to Williamsport and nearby towns including Keefer, Stouffer, Lemen, Murray, Ripple, Wachter, Blackwell, Downs, Hoffman, Bell, Morin, Mitten, Stallknecht, Soud era, Snyder, Gnyder, Perry, Hansett, Carson, Mumma, Sterling, Hell, and Wooden. Also mentions a benefit screening of The Men Without a Country at the Academy Theatre for the American Legion Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Hagerstown Shrine Club held a meeting in the Masonic Temple and approved an annual outing at Braddock Heights. A committee will pick a date, with chartered cars to assist those lacking transport, marking a well attended event with ready accommodations. The Catholic Daughters plan a Welsh roast July 24 at Poffenberger's Woods, with reservations via Agnes Davies, and a 6 35 PM Knights of Columbus Hall departure.
Today marked the closing of Mo Dally Vacation Bible School held at the Y M C A for a month. Miss Estella Cochran e and Hise Hannah Frick directed with several teachers. The program focused on Bible stories psalms and devotion to the flag and American creed. An entertainment at the Y tonight will display the students work and invite all, with parents especially urged to attend.
Hagerstown business men may invest in the new Women's Club building on South Prospect Street. Miss Mary L. Titscomb chairs the bond committee. bonds are 20 years at 6 percent, secured by a mortgage with Hagerstown Bank. Denominations are 50 and 1000 dollars, with annual redemption beginning 1925. Subscriptions to Mrs. Frank G. Matthews.
A birthday party was hosted July 10 at the Whittington home in honor of Mr. Whittington’s forty ninth birthday. Guests included numerous relatives and friends such as C. M. Whittington, Shank, Higging, Anthony, Burgan, Boward, Martin, Everhart, Zellers, Cushin, Huasong, Grimsley, Sword, Sprecker, Whit tington, Lestier man, Bussard, Swartz, Birley, and Keller of New York City visiting Miss Keller with relatives on South Potomac Street.
The Men’s Class and Brotherhood at St Johns Lutheran Church held a basement festival in the new Sunday School auditorium with patrons throughout the evening. A parade through the streets preceded the event, about fifty men in farmers’ costumes and several women in farmer attire forming the procession. The festival will continue this evening.
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