Convention at Clearspring Draws Many Sunday School Attendees
The annual Sunday school convention of District No. 5 comprising Clear Spring Wilson election districts and part of Conococheague district convened at St John s Reformed Church Clearspring. Delegates and workers from numerous churches attended three sessions with devotions, lectures on family altar stewardship and youth engagement. Officers were elected for the coming year and delegates enjoyed meals in the church Sunday school room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clear Spring
Wilson
Conococheague
St. John’s Reformed Church
Clearspring
Charles Sowers
Norman Snigely
Hagerstown
Glyfog
J. 5
Simon
Jos. Seibert
C. W. Fink
Charles BR. Seymour
Hev. G. ©. Carpenter
FR. Plummer
Walter Mills
J. B. Webster
Hancock
China
Vernon N. Ridgely
Ro Fastleight
Elmer Snyder
Walter Milla Sarcatore
New Inventory Ordered By Court in Orphans Court
The Orphans Court ruled that Mrs. Inex Gerling must file an additional inventory of her mother Anna M. Van Valkenburg estate listing all liquors not in the first inventory. The court granted a rehearing for Mrs. Gerling as brother William Dixon Van Valkenburg seeks inventory of allegedly lost curtain liquors. Richard H. Swerney and J. A. Mason with J. Cleveland Grice appeared for the parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans’ Court
Inex Gerling
Anna M. van Valkenburg
Geriing
Willam Dixon van Valkenburg
Richard H. Swerney
van Valkenburg
J. A. Mason
J. Cleveland Grice
Jewish Home tour aims to raise interest in tubercular patients
Louis Hindes, field secretary for the Ex-Patients Tubercular Home, visits Hagerstown on a statewide tour to rally Jewish civic support in Philadelphia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. The home shelters discharged consumptives who are too weak to work and some incurables for life, with programs in education, visiting, evangelism, and temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Hindes
Jéx-Fatienta
den ‘Yer, Colo
Philadelphia
Maryland
North
South Carolina
Hagerstown
Hindes
The Dragon Stroke Lesson IV for learning the treadgeon
A classic swimming guide explains the treadgeon stroke as a balanced mix of speed and learnability. It emphasizes flat body, underwater face, proper breathing, and relaxed movement, urging beginners to master form before speed.
Summer School Blues in a Forced Read of The Short Story
A fragmented verse narrative recalls a student lamenting summer study and punishment. The speaker drifts between memories of sunlit creek days and classroom fatigue, while peers tease and the text recounts awkward classroom moments and a failing recall of dates.
Grencastle News Briefs from June 14 1922
Grencastle residents receive travel, birth and visit updates. Postmaster Patton and Mrs Patton head to Lafayette College commencement. Mrs Nannie Snively visits from Dayton. Frances Stouffer confined at Franklin Apartments. Hagerman family, Driver family and Jenny Keefer visit Barkel area. Mr and Mrs Allen Brown and Katherine Brown visit from Hagerstown. G A Sewall back from Philadelphia trip. Ellie Izez announces birth of a daughter June 4. Onwaka hosts church class gathering at Shady Grove. Grosastasia High School Alumni banquet set for June 23 at Hotel McLoughlin. 263 alumni listed nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
J, Patton
Patton
Maston
Lafayette College
Nannie Snively
Dayton
Ohio
Samuel Petria
Frances Stouffer
Wranklin
Shinham
Bridgeport Letter Highlights Local Social and Church Events
A Bridgeport letter describes a Sunday evening service at Shush, a fine program, and neighborhood entertainments. It lists numerous local residents visiting friends and relatives in Hagerstown, Chenayville, and Smithshore, describes a newborn, and notes many social calls, family visits, and church services across the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shush
Andrew H. Dunn
Mise Ganell H. Dunn
Ward Dunn
Richard Martin
Hagerstown
Willian Harbaugh
H. ©. Keller
Mise Alice Plummer
John McNarin
Chenayville
John Munday
Dinner Flory
Heavy Plummer
W. G. Frice
Aaron Grim
Marion
John Lewis
Jonah Ithayer
Bon Gerald
William Leiter
Miauis Hvelyn
Anna Mae
Donald Stoyer
Smithshore
W. W. Steck
Mise
Agnes Hines
H.C. Marshall
Statton Garlock
Herbert Downer
W. W. Harbaugi
Emory McKeo
Paramount
W. H. Price
8. B. Plummer
W G. Price
M. Hines
Woodrow
J. H. Hines
Shiloh
United Brethren
Alonic
Annie Bckatine
Woody
H.C. Marshal
W. Pelee
Darlas
Juliogra
Frances Gaylor
Donald
Gapland
Anna Slank
Mens
Saithsburg
Isaac M. Dayly
Ken Wilmer
Dowsavills
Mied
Edna Anger
Charles Nove
Jesua Holmes
Misvay Midna, Sager
Katharine Robert
Susloh Sanday
Fairplay notices and social events in local town
Fairplay notes detail Mrs J M Howland traveling to Winona Lake for the Church of the Brethren conference. Mrs Chira Snyder and Miss Mary Miller head to Southakola for a niece’s wedding. A surprise party honors a 21st birthday. Various visits and gatherings across town are mentioned, plus a health ad for Foley Kidney Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Howland
Winona Lake
Ind
Church of the Brethren
Chira Snyder
San Mar
Misa Mary Miller
Mer
Southakola
Harry Buuwert
Vappang
Haffer'a
Choico
Gucgia
Lage
Mra
Myers
Kenxo Kretzer
Lite Emmert
Thesapienberg
Antietam
Doctor Worment Attends Maryland Health Conference
Dr. R. B. Normest, director of the Washington County Health Demonstration, attended the annual conference of Maryland boards of health at Osler Hall in Baltimore. Dr. W. H. Frost, epidemiology professor from Johns Hopkins, presented on rural typhoid fever. Frost has visited the Health Demonstration Unit previously. The meeting ran from 10 a.m. all day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worment
Comfenerce de. R. B Normest
Diesetor
Washington County
Boards of Health of Maryland
Osler Hall
Baltimore
Nortount
W. H. Frost
Hyelon
Jakes Hopkins
Frost
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Mino
Arine
Dez
A S FE
Walter G. Zimmerman
Olive Rhodes
Clarke Grove
Sugerin- Paul
George B. Young
Albert
New York
Louize Ford
Stight
Daily Mail
iSaue
Caecar
Rome
Walt
Reneher
Bridgeport
Fairplay
Sharpaburg
Davis
Theater Wyand
Keedysville
John Whittington
Washington
Walter $. Coffman
Morgantown
W. Va
State University
Harvey McFerrin
Funtatown
Emory Krotzer
Wilbur
Jennings and Family
Brownaville
Coffman
Familly
Clarles
Otho
Hagerm
Gore Slifor
Joseph Wolf
Madelina Marshal
Harry Davis
Willy
A.leckner
Main Ave
Ciifton
Foley Sitney Ville
Dellar
Danzer’s
Drip
Danzer Metal Works
West Lee Street
Harry B. Kohler
Washington Street
Westinghouse
Ford
Oakland
Union Battery Co
Wabco
Marytavid
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