Social club notes and local visits across Maryland
Waldo Pratt Strahan of Portland Maine visits Mr and Mrs R M Schoen and families on Potomac Avenue with friends from New York City and Norwich. Local students and residents attend weddings and visits as Cape May and Baltimore trips are planned. Hospital dischargees include Mrs Frey Mrs Davis Robert Dobie and Mrs Corderman in the Cumberland Washington County area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo Pratt Strahan
USCE
Portland
R. M. Schoen
Potomac Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Harry L. Frey
Smithsburg
Leonard Davis
Oak Street
Robert Dobie
Sumimit Avenue
Howard L. Corderman
West Franklin Street
Church Class Lawn Party Marks Monthly Meeting
The Vir ginia Baptist church Adult Bible class held a dawn lawn party and covered dish supper at the home of the Misses Mary Emma and Nora Eakle in Halfway for their June gathering. Attendees included Rev. and Mrs. Cornelius Rand, many couples and families, and numerous listed residents and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Baptist Church
Mary
Emma
Nora Eakle
Cornelius Rand
Norman Stoneham
Esther
James
Robinson
Crosswhite
Lowell
Grace
Grimes
Saddlewhit
Russell Colbert
Robert Johnson
Heidwohl
Robert
Godlove
Nancy
Anita Dampier
Jane Haynes
Helm Poe
R. W. Clowsen
Junior Girls Will Hold Card Party
The SUOC card party sponsored by the Junior Girls of the Auxiliary will be held at the American Legion Home on Wednesday June 20 at 7:15 p.m. Refreshments will be served and a full house is anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SUOC
American Legion
Auxiliary
Greencastle Pair Are Married June 12
Greencastle residents Miss Dorothy Witmer and Mr. Ralph Palmer wed June 12 at the bride’s parents’ home with Bishop F. Derstine of Kitchner Ontario presiding. A reception followed as the couple departed for a Virginia honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Derstine
Kitchner
Ontario
Dorothy Witmer
Ralph Palmer
Greencastle
Aubrey McCoy
Retha Witmer
Amanda Grove
Mildred Witmer
Nathan
Alien Herr
Nathan Witmer
Robert Martin
Harold Martin
Elwood Martin
Virginia
Local Couple Wed in Hancock Church Thursday Evening
Russ Rose Huber of this city became the bride of Philip W. Shockey son of Mr and Mrs P R Shockey of Hagerstown on Thursday evening June 14 at the Hancock Methodist parsonage. The ceremony was by Rev De Witt Dickey with the bridegroom's mother and Mr and Mrs Lee Mason of Berkeley Springs WV present. The bride wore a white street length dress with red rose bud corsage. Shockey attended Hagerstown High School and works at WEI radio. The couple will reside in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russ Rose Huber
Philip W. Shockey
P. R. Shockey
Hagerstown
Methodist Church
Hancock
de Witt Dickey
Lee Mason
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Shockey
Hagerstown High School
WEI
Miss Sleasman Weds Navy Man in Smithsburg Ceremony
Miss Stella Trene Sleasman wed Ensign Charles H. Bradley Jr. at her parents home in Smithsburg with immediate family present. The Rev Francis Bell officiated, Pauline Stevenson played, and the couple left for a wedding trip after a reception. Mrs Bradley, a Panghorn Corp secretary, serves in the Navy, while Mr Bradley worked in Panghorn’s engineering dept before enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Trene Sleasman
Charles H. Bradley, Jr
Walter B. Sleasman
Smithsburg
Francis Bell
Pauline Stevenson
Veneta Lambros
Hagerstown
Natey Ellen Harding
Thomas Zarger
Norrie
Tenn
Bradley
Panghorn Corporation
United States Navy
Panzhorn Corporation
WAC Recruiter Attends Mental Test Course in Baltimore
Mary Jane Guernsey of the local WAC recruiting office spent Friday and Saturday in Baltimore attending a course in mental test instruction conducted by Captain Lowr of the Third Service Command. Accompanying Sgt. Guernsey was Diane Roberts of the WAC station in Cumberland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Guernsey
WAC
Baltimore
Lowr
Third Service Command
Sgt
Guernsey
Diane Roberts
Cumberland
Girl Scout Camp Opens Tomorrow in Washington County
The first camping period for Washington County Girl Scouts starts tomorrow at Camp Frame. Katherine McCulloch directs with unit leaders Sarah Thomas and Mrs. Smith Pine, plus assistants Hawkins and Dingler. Staff specialists include McCutcheon, Rambo, Dye, and Foreman. a nurse will be on duty. Reports list many local Girl Scouts set to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Camp Frame
Girl Scout Council
Katherine McCulloch
Sarah Thomas
Smith Pine
Martinsburg
W. Va
Ethel Daubert
Hagerstown
Betty Lou Hawkins
Leona Dingler
Jersey Shore
Joan Bridgeman
Salem
N. J
Barbara McCutcheon
Braddock Heights
Helen McCutcheon
Helen Rambo
Betty Dye
Parkersburg
W- Ya
Ohio University
Martha Foreman
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Sue Ann Ramaciotta
Yvvunne Beachley
Jo Ann Beachley
Peggy Ann Warner
Ella Jane Zimmerman
Nancy Wagaman
Betty Ivey
Mary Jo Murray
Sarah Kanaga
Evelyn Schlotterbeck
Phyllis Wishard
Susan Hartsock
Mary Louise Hose
Mina Marie Lyon
Charlotte Leichel
Laura ©. Fockler
Peggy Fletcher
Nancy Fletcher
Shirley McFadden
Marilyn Moore
Nancy Kriz
Sarah Newcomer
Jessie Kieffer
Mary D. Myers
Nancy Jones
Beverly K. Shoff
Mary McHlwain
Patsy Beck
Mary Ann Beck
Joan Barthelomaccus
Janice Pompeil
Patricia Dunham
Connie Lou Sisk
Picnic at Pangborn Park by Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterian church and its Sunday school plan a Wednesday picnic at Pangborn Park from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Activities include tennis softball bowling on the green badminton volleyball and horseshoe pitching. Attendees should bring picnic lunches and coffee and ice cream will be served. rain may postpone with a later date announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pangborn Park
Presbyterian Church
Pastor's Aid to entertain St Mark's Ten on anniversary date
The Pastor's Aid Society of St Mark's Lutheran Church will host a June birthday party for St Mark's Ten in the church social room on Wednesday June 20 at 6 o'clock. Mrs Cameron Elgin and committee prepared an entertaining program with table decorations themed to the months of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pastor's Aid
Society of
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
St. Mark's
Cameron Elgin
Auxiliary to Meet of Reno Post at Odd Fellows Temple
The Reno Post Auxiliary of the Union Veterans will meet on Wednesday June 20 at p.m. at the Odd Fellows Temple. All members are urged to be present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno Post
Coxes Invite For Betty Jean Cox and William Fernihough Wedding
Invitations issued by Mr and Mrs Arthur W Cox of Fountain Head Heights announce the marriage of their daughter Betty Jean Cox to William Richard Fernihough son of Mr and Mrs Reginald Fernihough of Cumberland. The ceremony will be at the bride’s home on July 1 at 4 pm. Betty Jean Cox attended Lafayette High School Buffalo and Hiram College and is employed at Fairchild Aircraft. The groom attended Cumberland high school and works at Fairchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur W. Cox
Fountain Head Heights
Betty Jean Cox
William Richard Fernihough
Reginald Fernihough
Cumberland
Red Cross Posts Are Offered Here
Miss Hisse L Green of the Red Cross Area Headquarters in Arlington VA will visit Hagerstown to discuss the local chapter quota. About 3000 Red Cross Hospital Service workers are needed plus 600 recreation workers. Salaries range from 150 to 350 monthly. Applicants require strong social work or recreation leadership backgrounds and college or substantial college hours. Information and interviews available at Red Cross headquarters 219 West Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hisse L. Green
Red Cross
Arlington
Hagerstown
Chonty
School of Social Work
Basil O'Connor
American Red Cross
Pacific
West Waerington Street
Security Talk At Local USO Meeting
The Girls Service Organization of the USO held a meeting featuring Capt. Didier Toups from a nearby Army camp who warned the girls about not revealing military information to visiting servicemen. Lt. William Dintoul then showed a sound film on reconditioning wounded soldiers, illustrating the recovery process from injury to discharge or return to Army life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls Service Organization
USO
Didier Toups
Teups
GSO
William Dintoul
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Dintoul
Toups
Returned Chaplains to be Honored at Smithsburg Reception
Chaplains Donald Stonesifer and Max Huddle, former Smithsburg pastors, will be honored Thursday June 21 at 8 p m in Trinity Lutheran Church social room. Smithsburg servicemen on furlough will also be recognized. Huddle served in the Pacific. Stonesifer was recently liberated from a German prison camp. Trinity Mt Moriah and St Pauls churches unite for the event and invite members and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Stonesifer
Max Huddle
Smithsburg
Trinity Lutheran Church
Huddle
Pacific
Stonesifer
Trinity
Mt. Moriah
St. Paul's
Zonta Club Plans July Picnic and Dinner Meeting
Members of the Zonta Club voted to hold a single July meeting as a picnic supper on July 2 at the Coffman cottage along the Conococheague. The regular dinner meeting occurred at Hotel Hamilton with Mrs. Andrew Coffman presiding and Miss Electa Ziegler leading the group in song.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zonta Club
Andrew Coffman
Hotel Hamilton
Zontlans
Braddock Heights
Frederck Zonta Club
Vindosiona
R. G. Steinmeyer
University of Maryland
Andrew K. Cocman
Katherine Schmidt
Evelyn Luke
Electa Ziegler
S. D. Young
Marie Eldridge
Dear Mary Haworth style column on a girl and the boy next door
A reader asks if the nearby boy, just before enlisting, should be her boyfriend. Mary Haworth dismisses him as crude and urges ending the association to preserve the reader’s self respect. The advice pins blame on the boy’s libertine attitude and questions the girl’s role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Haworth
Tom
C.J
Copyrightington Post
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Jacqueline Stouffer
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James Frizzell
Mreersburg Academy
Patsy Jean Long
James G. Long
Mary Aaron
Dorothy V. Sell
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Roy Reeder
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Blue Ridge Riding Club
Potomac River
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S. B. Whitmore
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Evelyn A. Sullivan
Mrs. C. W. Sullivan
Salem Avenue
Dorothy J. Poffenberger
Drexel Institute
Philadelphia
R. Poffenberger
Lexington Avenue
Helen Obringer
Pittsburgh
Record Shop
East Washington Stree
Glick’s
Kreider & Ephrata
Glick’s Shoe Store
W. Washington
Women’s Hats
L. & B. Hat Shop Northeast Cor. Public Square
Pope’s School
N. Locust St
Ridenour
Fleisher
Renlie
E. Wash. St
Eaves Aces
Pio
Gare
Selby
Bentz and Dunn
House OF Shoes
North
Potomac
Hancock Church
Miss Sleasman
Bride
By Hill and
Cate
Pirkle
Snessnes Hag
Girl Scout
GALE
Xoure
Croquignole
Iain
Cold Wave
U.S
Hollywood
Lovelion
Max Factor Hollywood
Fay Foster
Tan NO
Ipy Padtir
Leiter Brothers
Fox-Fernihough
Leo Usc
Zontians
Lou L. F. Beecher
Best Haven Chapel
Pope’s Beauty Shop
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