Keedysville WCTU elects officers at fifty ninth annual meeting
Mrs Ezra Baker was reelected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the fifty ninth annual convention held Wednesday at St Pauls U B church in Keedysville. New officers include vice president Mrs Howard Burtn er corresponding secretary Miss Ruth Reichard recording secretary Miss Laura Shifler and treasurer Mrs Frank Rohrer. Music by Mrs Clinton Hoffmaster Miss Jane Pullen and Estelle Young.avor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra Baker
Keedysville
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
St. Paul's U. B.! Church
Howard Burtner
Ruth Reichard
Fairplay
Laura Shifler
Boonsboro
Treas
Frank Rohrer
Blanche Lengle
May Clopper
Bonebrake
Laura Shirer
Clinton Hoffmaster
Jane Pullen
Estelle Young
WCTU
Bertha Tyson
D. C. White
St. James
Barbara Sue Muliendore
Marie Louise Neikirk
Verna Hayes
Laura Shiffer
Urer
Rose Festival Planned by St Marys Sodality June 2
The St Marys Sodality will stage a Rose Festival on Saturday June 2 from 5 to 8 pm on the lawn of Mr and Mrs John C Pangborn Terrace. Mrs Pangborn chairs the event with a buffet supper and various entertainments. Tickets available from Sodality members. reservations due by May 29.
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Hamilton Mansion
St Mary's Parish House
Ladies of
St. Mary’s Sodality
Airs
John C. Pangborn
Sodality
Smithsburg High Prom Features Senior Royalty Crowning
Smithsburg High School seniors will crown a king and queen at the junior class prom tonight in the school gym. The event runs from 8 to 12 with the gym decorated as a spring power garden of red roses. Committees include Dorothy Kuhn, Luella Gardenhour, Dick Huff, and John Stouffer, with Marjorie Manning supervising and the Swing Club of Chambersburg providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsburg High School
Dorothy Kuhn
Luella Gardenhour
Dick Huff
John Stouffer
Marjorie Manning
Swing Club
Chambersburg, Pa
Puppet Shows To Be Held Saturday At Museum
Puppet shows Rumpelstiltskin and Pageant of America will be staged Saturday morning May 19 at 10 30 in the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts auditorium for children and again Sunday May 20 at 3 39 pm for the public The Funkstown School presents the shows in connection with a Washington County Public School Art exhibit on view through June 2 Participants from Funkstown School include Barbara Duffey Joan Beecher Arlene Rhodes Eddie Scott Bob Spickler Jimmy Gossard Larry Artz Susanah Schlosser Connie Lowman Blaine Weaver Don Nalley Sandra Lou Sullivan Allen Stover Eddie Summers The productions are directed by Miss Lillian Forsythe and Reginald Bailey The exhibit has drawn crowds to the museum for several years the school earning a framed reproduction for the best Saturday Story Hour participant school this season The winning school will be announced at the Saturday morning puppet show Also noted Mrs W V Harner won a nine hole putting contest during Ladies Day at Fountain Head Country Club other participants listed There are 3 756 Red Cross chapters in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County, Museum of Fine Arts
Funkstown
Washington County Public
Frrnkstown School
Rumpelstiltskin
Barbara Duffey
Joan Beecher
Arlene Rhodes
Eddie Scott
Bob Spickler
Jimmy Gossard
Larry Artz
Susanah Schlosser
Connie Lowman
Blaine Weaver
Don Nalley
Sandra Lou Sullivan
Allen Stover
Eddie Summers
Lillian Forsythe
Regigald Bailey
Surrey
Howard Street
Washington
Miss Shank Weds Pfc. Leatherman
At St Marks Lutheran Wolfsville Sunday May 13 Miss Rebecca Shank daughter of the late Mr and Mrs G Edgar Shank Middletown married Pfc Carroll Leatherman son of Mr and Mrs Charles Leatherman Wolfsville in a ceremony at 430 pm assisted by Rev J Wilson Horner and Rev Ralph H Miller. A reception followed at the bridegroom's home with numerous family members from Middletown Brunswick Myersville and Wolfsville in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Wolfsville
Rebecca Shank
G. Edgar Shank
Middletown
Pfc
Carroll Leatherman
Charles L. Leatherman
J. Wilson Horner
Ralph H. Miller
Brunswick
Leah Leatherman
Naomi
Martha Leatherman
Jaspar Morgan
Charles Leatherman
William H. Brandenburg
Joyce
Isabelle Brandenburg
Raymond L. Smith
Ralph W. Smith
Edward
Amanda Leatherman
Marshal H. Leatherman
Francis Harshman
Myersville
Gienn
Palmer
Ethel and
Bernard
Mae Shank
Esta C. Shank
Virginia Palmer
R. Leon Palmer
Dorotha
Leonard
Ethel Travinger
Muriel
Aldine Palmer
This City
Harry Leatherman
Ida Morgan
Leslie Morgan
Ross Grossnickle
Sandra
Howard F. Buhrmen
Charles
Virginia Kuhn
Eva Morgan
Paul Leatherman
Kenneth Frushour
Albert Baer
Max Cohen Elected B N ai B Rith Head
Max Cohen chosen president of the Hagerstown B N ai B Rith lodge at a joint lodge and ladies auxiliary meeting. Other officers named include Jack Shapiro as vice president and Ben Pruzan as secretary with a full slate of trustees and wardens. Dr Irvin Goldsmith and Frank Peagley spoke on postwar planning for returning veterans. Mrs Jess Bierns led the refreshments committee. Plans set for officers installation at a dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
B'Nai Brith Lodge
Lodge
Max Cohen
Jack Shapiro
Ben Pruzan
Boris Mansh
Harry Friedman
Morris Kline
Ben Kimmel
Guardian
Max Greenwald
Harry Kerstein
A. Jacobson
William Falk
Monitor
Irvin Goldsmith
Frank Peagley
Washington
B'Nai Brith
Jess Bierms
Officers Elected By Ex-HiV Members
Mrs Frederick L Lillard hosted the ExHi Club final meeting at her Wesley Drive home where officers for the year were elected. Incoming officers include President S Jackson Donley and Hazel Fridinger as vice president. The year ends with a June 6 Pangborn Park picnic chaired by Mrs John Minnich and rummage sale proceeds fund welfare projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L. Lillard
ExHi - Club
Wesley Drive
S. Jackson Donley
Hazel Fridinger
William Wachter
Arlene Zeigler
Frederick Lillard
Thomas L. Gibson
Lucille Miller
Edna Lehman
Mesdames S. J. Donley
Austin J. Keen
Richard Farrow
Joe James
M. Z. Rammacciotti
Samuel Gordon, Jr
Ralph Long
Charles A. Kirk
Romney
W. Va
High School Student Wins Scholarship for Franklin and Marshall
George Richard Funkhouser, 17, son of George W. Funkhouser of 149 Summit Ave, wins the J Spangler Kieffer Memorial Scholarship to Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster PA. The $10,000 gift funds four years of study, with $400 yearly interest. Funkhouser is a pigeon fancier and leader of the Hagerstown High School Orchestra, aims for Jefferson Medical School. He plans to practice medicine in his hometown after training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Richard Funkhouser
George W. Funkhouser
Summit Avenue
J. Spangler Kieffer
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Paul Kieffer
New York City
D.D
Kieffer
Zion Reformed Church of
Hagerstown
Franklin and Marshall
Hagerstown High School
George
A& Pigeon
H. L. Mills
Super Market
Young Funkhouser
South Potomac Junior High
Jefferson Medical School
Meeting at Hotel Alexander on June 3
Washington office to install officers at the Alexander Hotel event on June 3. Guest speakers from Richmond are expected to attend the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Alexander
Washington
Hichmond
Revival Meeting At Grace Brethren Church In Progress
The Old-Fashioned Revival Meeting at Grace Brethren Church First and Spruce streets continues through May 27 with nightly 7 30 services except Saturdays. Rev Bob Munro a Scottish evangelist from Montreal Canada leads with trumpet in song service. Tonight’s subject is If Christ Came to Hagerstown What Would Happen Sunday sermons are 11 am The Mayor's Mistake and 7 30 pm The Man Who Disappointed God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Brethren Church
First
Spruce Streets
Bob Munro
Montreal
Canada
Hagerstown
Youth Day and Pentecost Observed at Zion Church
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church plans Youth Day with a 9 45 morning Youth Service in the Church School directed by Miss Catherine Middlekauff, an 11 chapel service on Youth and the Future World, and an evening Union Pentecost service at St Pauls Methodist. Choir soloists and an offering for Summer Leadership Training Camps are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Scott R. Wagner
Church School
Catherine Middlekauff
G. Brewer Middlekauff, Jr
Choi
Chas. H. Roderick
God
Foster
Burr Beard
H. M. Garrison
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Franklin Carrier Brought Back From Grave's Edge
The carrier Franklin, part of a fast task force in a strike on Japan’s inland sea, was heavily damaged by a first attack. Fire, explosions, and smoke swept the flight deck as crews fought fires, evacuated wounded, and jettisoned munitions. Lt. Comdr. Joseph O’Callahan, the chaplain, was praised for aiding the injured and leading damage control. The ship was towed by the Pittsburgh, regained power, and proceeded home with survivors.
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Japan
Nippon
Navy
Joseph O'Callahan
Boston
James L. Fuelling
Indianapolis
Sible
Donald A. Gary
Mitlesbaer Ave
Oakland
Cal
Santa Fe
Franklin
Pittsburgh
New Port News
Formosa
Leyte Gulf
Puget
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Norwich
Roney’s
Potomac St
Rogers Jewelry Co
the House of
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Smithsburg
Funkstown School
W. V. Harner
Fountain Head Country Club
Vola Norment
Mesdames
Riley Daniels
Wiliam Thomas
WeHes Little
Leonard Mathias
Richard Owen
Robert Frank
Robert Treisier
Janet Fielding
Joseph Ward
Roy Mowen
Charles Somerfeld
Red Cross
United States
Cloverdale Merodimer
Cloverdale
Newville Fa
Rarer Distributing Co
Rath
Miss Shank
Weds
Leatherman
Wolfsville Church
B’nai B’rith
Europe
Leiter Brothers
The
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Grave's Edge
Navy Yard
Helping the
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Buddy Poppy
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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the House of Shoes
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Bemberg
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