Tobanquet of Ikes March 12
The annual Isaak Walton banquet set for Thursday March 12 is expected to surpass past events with many out of town guests. Attendees include Congressman E C Ellis Missouri and State Game Commissioner Y E Johnson West Virginia among others. program includes annual work review and rare motion pictures on upland game and black bass catching.
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Isaak Walton
E. C. Ellis
Missouri
Fred N. Zillman
Y. E. Johnson
West Virginia
David C. Winebrenner
Swepson Berle
E. Lee LeCompte
US. Bureau of Fisheries
Washington
Guy N. Steele
H. H. Hobby
Westminster
D. Arcy McGee
Henry P. Bridges
Woodmont Rod and Gun Ciub
Col
Seymour Bullock
Izack Welton League
Chicago
David K. Cashwa
Williamsport
Izaak Walton
Ywagae
Local Girl on Roll of Honor at Catawba College
Miss Helen Louise Middlekauf daughter of Mr and Mrs B M Middlekauf Irvin Avenue made the honor roll at Catawaba College Salisbury North Carolina for the first semester. She excelled in mathematics served as assistant to the math professor and belonged to the glee club literary society and Blue Masque drama club. She was an honor graduate of Hagerstown High School class of 1929 and won a state prize in the American Chemical Society essay contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Louise Middlekauf
B. Mic
Mekauff
Irvin Avenue
Catawaba College
Salisbury
N. C
Middlekauff
Catawaba
Hagerstown
American Chemical Society
Rockefeller's Model City To Start Shortly
Rockefeller plans a vast new complex with a 43 story central office block flanked by two 43 story towers. The ground floors will house a RKO vaudeville theater and a KR motion picture theater. An oval fourteen story building will appear between them. An opera house space is reserved but awaiting final Met withdrawal. R Fulton Cutting must return to decide.
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R. K. O. Vaudeville Theater
Metropolitan Opera Company
R. Fulton Cutting
Film Actress Silent On Divorce Rumors in Beverly Hills
Pauline Starke, stage and screen actress, declined to confirm or deny reports that she and husband Jack White, film director and producer, were nearing separation. She returned home from a sanitarium where she had been resting, noting they wed in 1927.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Pauline Starke
Jack White
Fim
White
Rupture Expert to Visit Hagerstown for Consultations
Noted rupture specialist W. B. Seeley will be at the Hotel Dagmer in Hagerstown on Friday March 13 from 18:00 to 18:00 offering free consultations. He promotes patented appliances and cautions against specific belts and trusses, claiming safer, quicker relief from hernias without surgery.
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W. B. Seeley
Dagmer
Hagerstown
Seeley
Superior
News Oddities From Across The Nation
Reports from San Francisco Lincoln Nebraska Wheeling West Virginia Bacharach Germany and New York describe unusual events. A Watson heir receives 21500 for a streetcar crash leg loss a baby’s heart counts for half an estate a monkish toad road find and an 80 year old poet Miss Lizette Woodworth Reese wins the Shelley Memorial Fund prize for poetry.
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New York
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Baltimore
Shelley Memorial Fund
Marr P. Sears
Jamison Named to Street Board and Other Civic Appointments
J W Jamison, a Democrat and former Blue Ridge League president, is appointed to the Street Board amid praise for his civic service. Col Joan Carmichael and Dr Perry F Prather, both party affiliates, join him. Harry Troupe Brewer selected for City Board of Health, Lloyd K Hoffman reappointed to Water Commission, other Health Board officers listed.
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Jamison
Blue Ridge League
Joan Carmichael
Perry F. Prather
Harry Troupe Brewer
Board of Health
Reuben Musey
Harper Ballentine
Lloyd K. Hoffman
Board of Water Commissioners
Brewer
Health Board
Meyer Reuben Musey
William D. Campbell
Birth of son for Mr and Mrs Wm White on Lanvale Street
Mr and Mrs William White rejoice at the birth of their son Harry William on March 4 at their home 817 Lanvale Street. Both mother and child are reported to be doing nicely.
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Wm. White
Harry Wm
Lanvale Street
Deaths and funeral notices from Washington County
Washington B Prather Sr born in Hagerstown July 4 died February 16 at his Athens Illinois home. His family moved to Illinois as a child near Buckhart. He enlisted in the 114th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1862 and fought at Jackson Vicksburg and Mobile. Julia Edna Hese's funeral is Saturday at her home at 2 and 1:30 services at Blair Valley Apostolic Church with Rev Samuel Rohrer and Rev Lloyd Hastings, burial Church of God Cemetery.
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Washington B. Prather, Sr
Hagerstown
Athens
Ill
Illinois
Buckhart
114Th
Ilinois Volunteer Infantry
Jackson
Vicksburg
Mobile
Washbington County
Julia Edna Hese
Apostolic Church
Blair's Valley
Samuel Rohrer
Lloyd Hastings
Church of God
In Memoriam Wesley C Boward Death Anniversary Note
In memory of my dear brother and father Wesley C Boward who died March 6 1930 one year ago. God called him home it was his will but in our hearts we love him still. His memory is dear today as when he passed away. By his sister Mrs George A Semier and his children George Charles Mildred and Mearl Adar
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Lincoln
Neb. Marck
Pauline Stuertz
Wesley C. Boward
George
Semier
George Charles
Mildred
Mearl
Adar
San
Houston
Smith
Robinson
Brunswick Moves Toward Buying Yourtee Springs Today
Negotiations for Brunswick to acquire the Yourtee springs in Brownsville for a water supply are expected to close today. The mayor and council awarded the pipe contract for the new water line and plan a meeting with Leon Yourtee regarding a possible sale or lease. A $10 000 price was cited, with transfer terms under discussion and the town seeking full title to about one acre including the springs.
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Yourtee
Brownsville
Brenswick
Brunswick
Leon Yourtee
Yourtes
General Assembly
Two Frederick youths sentenced for car theft and gun theft
Raymond Ford and Wesley Mansfield, both 21, began 18 month terms in the House of Correction for stealing a car owned by Charles A. Grumbine of Westminster. Ford also drew an extra year for stealing two pistols from Grumbine.
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Frederick
Frederick County
House of Correction
Raymond Ford
Wesley Mansfield
Charles A. Grumbing
Westminster
Arthur D. Willard
Ford
Grumdine
Flareup Ends As Cox Urges Unity On Prohibition
In a tense Houston meeting, Senator and fellow delegates sparred over repeal and Raskob principles. James M. Cox urged a united front for north and south on prohibition, while a $6 million fundraising drive was approved to support party operations and the 1922 presidential campaign. Reskabb’s liquor plan proposed state control within borders and broader policy reforms including a five day week and a life tenure tariff commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raskob
James M. Cox
Reskab
Jury Hears Murder Case In Kansas City
In Kansas City on March 6 jury deliberates in the case of Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett charged with murdering her husband after a bridge game argument. Separately, Philadelphia city officials demand explanations from Safety Director Schofield about a liquor raid on St. Peter's Protestant church.
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Kansas City
Myrtle A. Bennett
Ater
Philadelphia
City Council
Schofield
St. Peter's
Local plane factory may boom again
The Kreider Reisner Aircraft Co. in Wilmington will likely resume large scale aircraft production for Fairchild Aviation Corp with plants in Wilmington and Montreal after selling the Farmingdale plant to cut annual fixed charges. The change follows a stockholder agreement to separate from the Aviation Corporation and exchange excess assets for common shares, boosting net tangible value per share to 5.02 while reducing total tangible assets to 1,113,394.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co
New York Daily Investment News
Wilmington
Del
Fairchild Aviation Corp
Montreal
Farmingdale
Fairchild Aviation Corporation
Aviation Corporation
Wimington
Fairchild Aviation
Fairchild
Edgemont Hens Capture Honors in Maryland Contest
The Barred Plymouth Rock pen from K D Leather and Sons of Edgemont Maryland won the Maryland State egg laying contest sponsored by the University of Maryland. The ten birds laid 59 eggs for the week among 94 entries. The county pen has totaled 579 eggs to date. Mt Hope Farm Williams town Mass leads all entries. L L Power Hyattsville Md pen ranked second with 58 eggs. Gandhi aims for complete independence in India despite viceroy agreement. An oversubscribed government debt issue totals 1 406 000 000 in bonds and certificates.
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Plymouth Rock
K. D. Leather and Sons
Edgemont
Maryland
University of Maryland
Mt Hope Farm
Williamstown
Mass
L. L. Power
Hyattsville
Silk Hose Much In Demand There
In Moscow flappers flaunt long tight dresses at Grand Hotel dances while wearing rubber boots and flirting with imitation silk stockings. As spring arrives they shed stockings for tanned legs, returning to stockingless whimsy when snow returns. An American engineer notes such silk stock pursuits are nobody's business.
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Moscow
March
Russia
Paris
New York
Grand Hotel
Betty Compton Quits Husband
Betty Compton and Eddie Dowling reportedly separated after their Havana honeymoon. Compton stayed with friends in Westchester while Dowling went to his mother's apartment. Neither party would discuss the reason, and Compton may head to California while Dowling seeks work as a scenario writer. The pair wed secretly on February 16.
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New York
New York Daily News
Betty Compton
Eddie Dowling
Havana
Dowling
Paramount Studios
Pharmacist Fatally confronts robbers in Phoenix shootout
In Phoenix on March 5 to 6 J Reilly a local pharmacist shot at two men attempting a drug store robbery. Reilly and one robber Joseph Egan of San Diego were killed the second robber was arrested and identified as H J Bailey continuing the case in Phoenix police custody
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Phoenix
Aziz
J. Reilly
Reilly
Joseph Egan
San Diego
Cal
H. J. Bailey
Utilities Up Oth ers Down In Early Wall Street Trading
New York stock market opened with utilities advancing while key industrials fell. American Water Works United Aircraft Radio Allied Chemical and Pillsbury Flour gained 1 to 2 points, others like U S Steel General Electric Bethlehem Steel slipped or held. United Corp. traded heavily but failed to advance.
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New York
Bulls
Selec
Bears
Telephone
Electric Power and Light
United Aircraft
Radio
Allied Chemical
Republic Steel
Stewart Warner
Pillsbury Flour
Atburn
U. S. Steel
General Electric
Bethlehem Steel
American Con
Westinghouse
Case
United Corp
Today’s Stock Quotations
Stock quotations finished by Hemphill Noyes Co Grand Building W Washington Street displayed a market close summary with issuer names and values.
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Hemphill, Noyes & Co
Grand Bidg, W
Washington
Train Hits Car Driver Arrested in Baltimore County
Virgil Gill of Shawan Maryland was arrested after a car carrying two companions was struck by a work train at a Texas Railroad crossing in Baltimore County. Gill escaped injury. Gus Anderson suffered cuts to the chin and throat. Gill faces charges of operating a vehicle while under the influence.
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Baltimore
Virgil Gill
Shawan
Baltimore County
Gill
Gus Anderson
Baltimore ‘County
Havor
Dressmakers Of Future Engineers
CHICAGO March 6 Engineers instead of dressmakers may dictate the working clothes of women in the distant future. Mrs Ruth J Stone of Western Electric predicts safety engineers will design garments for safety. She says current fashion, changed yearly by dressmakers, will yield to a conservative standard of low-heel shoes short skirts and short hair.
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Chicago
Misa Ruth J. Stone
Western Electric Company
Truck Crash Damages Bridge Project Near Potomac
A truck loss on the B and O bridge project over the Potomac caused a rollover and crushed workers. Fire crews from Charles Town Brunswick and Harpers Ferry fought a blaze that scorched crossties soaked in creosote and threatened the steel structure. Damaged concrete piers and heat may delay the April 15 bridge opening after a multi million dollar investment.
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Charles Town
Brunswick
Harpers Ferry
Harpers’ Ferry
Potomac
Railway wage board orders 2.5 percent cut for fall classes
London reports the national wage board orders a 2.5 percent wage reduction for fall classes of railway employees. In Cleveland a divorce is granted to Manor C Lyons No 9 after a contested background. Lyons is missing and a Lyons club was joked about by a predecessor.
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London
Railway National Wage Board
Cleveland
Mers
Manor
C. Lyons
Neaight
Lyons Club
Lyons
Big Minstrel Under Way Tonight in Williamsport
The Knights of Pythias hosts a large Minstrel show in Williamsport sponsored by the Great Athletic Club. The cast rehearses nightly for seven weeks and promises extensive wit, songs, dances, and elaborate costumes with out of town artists and an Williamsport orchestra.
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Knights of Pythias Hell
Williamsport
Great Athletic Club
Wil Hamsport
Josephine Wolfe
Melvin Kaplan
Chars F
Frank Ripple
Clyde Lock
Victor Reiinson
Iheing
John Wise
Iyin Traver
Charles Hose
Wiliam Turner
Hubert Fowler
Frank Kinger
Bennie Garrish
Nathan Bulor
Bob Reidel
Wiliam Stinger
George Lizer
Globe Publishing Co. Receivers Sought in Bankruptcy Filing
The International News Service through attorney I H McCaul ey filed a petition to appoint receivers to settle Globe Publishing Company affairs. An order requires cause to be shown by March 20. Plaintiff claims $626.25 for services plus about $25,000 in other claims. Outstanding stock totals 505 shares of 50 50 par. The Globe suspended operations last October.
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International News Service
iInc
I. H. McCauley
Father Exonerated in Death of Son Shot by Father
Baltimore on March 6 a coroner's inquest exonerated Dushane George after his 13 year old son died from shotgun wounds caused by a discharge the father was displaying at the family home. The investigation had been pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Dushane George
Dushane George, Jr
Mosley Sponsor Lady Cynthia Forms New Party
London report notes Lady Cynthia Mosley announces a new political party with support from her ill husband Sir Donald Mosley. The move signals a reorganization of opposition efforts as the Mosleys direct the effort from their home.
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London
Cynthia Mosley
Donald Mosley
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