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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1927
Page
13
Social and personal notices list residents traveling to Baltimore Hagerstown and beyond for organ purchases family visits and college commencements. Names include Mrs Charles M McCauley Miss Louise Beachley Miss Anna Diehl Miss Mary Shank and many others with movements to Elizabethtown Lynchburg Washington Union Bridge and Troy Ohio plus university graduations and hospital recoveries.
A mother and daughter banquet was held at St James Brethren Church with a joint WMS and WMF meeting. A detailed program featured readings, solos, duets, and a trio by NM M ladies. refreshments followed in the Sunday school room for many guests.
Su preme Forest Woodmen of Hagerstown sent a large delegation to Brunswick on Tuesday night for the installation of a new Grave there. The district manager and state manager announced Potomac Grove No 28 with 26 new members initiated and a banquet held afterward. Attendees from Hagerstown included Mrs Katherine Williams Mrs Berlie Wallace Mrs Eli Moulten Mrs Pauline Lesher Mrs Agnes Lucas Mrs Charles Stewart Uald Airs Catherine Carpenter.
Mrs A W Winters of Smithsburg hosted a birthday gathering for Mr Winters with Prof Harp Raven providing music. Guests included Relieved Church members from Catetown. There are notices of officers to be elected, a birthday social at Mt Vernon Reformed Church, and several marriage licenses and names listed from various towns.
A column by Margaret Stone Jameson challenges the stereotype of the modern college girl as a jazz mad flapper. It argues today’s students are practical, career-minded, and pursuing balanced lives with less promiscuity, more discipline, and a shifted view on maturity, religion, and adaptivity.
The Hebrew School will hold its final session Sunday at 1 o clock. The program titled Ruth and Boar will be presented by the preparatory class with a setting drawn from a popular theme. Students and visitors will be entertained with performances by named pupils and teachers, followed by a light retrenchment.
Mrs Louise Reichard was honored with a surprise birthday party at her daughter’s home by Latics Auxilary Society members. Twenty six guests attended including Rev Wilbur Stover, a returned missionary from India, and Rev A M Dixon pastor of the Church of the Brethren. Supper was served.
Miss Virginia Brumbaugh, daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard C Brumbaugh, will be honored with graduation from P E Hospital Philadelphia this week. A 1924 graduate of Hagerstown High School, she is among the city’s notable young graduates.
Miss Miller of 1% South Cannon Avenue became the bride of Kenneth G Adams, son of Mr and Mrs Stanley Adams, in a ceremony performed by Dr. Derry Plumer. The bride wore white georgette with Spanish lace, carried bridal roses, and both graduates of Washington County High School class of 1973. The couple, now employed with Lie Mecanter Loum Savings Bank and North America Cement Corp, left on an extended wedding trip after the ceremony.
Do You Recall recounts a collage of 1920s era local notes: barbers raising prices to 25 cents, a young girl fall from a cherry tree, Pat Parrish plotting plans around a new ball park, and stockholders of a local company naming directors. It also recalls county-wide seed rotting due to May rains, church meetings electing officials, a Smithaburg election, and Delmonico’s alumnus Costa. The piece blends brief vignettes, town names, and community happenings.
The Kiwanis Club hosted a ladies night with about 140 attendees including members and guests. President Dred Ueery Plummer led the dinner and program featuring music, songs by Anne Wagaman, and a roll call, with prizes donated by club members and a committee including Bruce Lightner and C Walter Baker.
Members of the Angerstown Court of the Catholic Daughters of America will receive Holy Communion in a body at 7 o clock Mass Sunday June 4. A large attendance is requested with a reception for Jarga class at the Knights of Columbus in the afternoon on North Toylond street at 2 40 o clock.
George Miner and Ralph A Minor enlisted in the U S Army and plan a visit to their parents at George Street before reporting to Kelly Field Texas on July 20 with the 81st Observation Squadron. They have been stationed at Bolling Field DC.
Readers weigh in on logs and their variation with playful sarcasm, classifying Bamé Men by forms and noting percentages for Bent twig, pipe stem, saunake, unclassifiable, and normal. The piece ends with a hint the question is closed.
Members of the Helping Hand class at Washington Square M B Sunday School reported success in collecting funds for the church pledge at a regular meeting last Tuesday night. Mrs. Winone Lewis and others contributed as did Mer a David Gosaard who raised one hundred dollars from friends and acquaintances.
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