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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1924
Page
4
Misa Catherine Webster of Thurmont visits and many names listed attend gatherings across Hagerstown, Hancock, Williamsport, and nearby towns. The note recounts relatives and friends visiting, hosting, and traveling between Greencastle, New York, Bethlehem, and surrounding communities, with several weekend stays and motor trips noted.
An OCR fragment touts Diamond Dyes, claiming easy tinting by boiling or immersion. It markets a 15 cent package with directions and warns against using on wool or silk, cotton blends, or fabrics with special finishes. The ad mentions no animal products and targets dresses, coats, draperies, and hangings.
A garbled message references a heatache or distress within two minutes and a line about drugs or powders labeled 6 DR Powders and a doctor figure. The text is unclear but implies a health or drug related warning with incomplete guidance and names.
Arrangements are made for Ruth Malcalmeon crowned Miss America to visit Hagerstown for the fair on Wednesday. She will receive her new Dagmar car chosen from over 400 models. The car will be driven around the race track at 2 34 p m with Miss America aboard. A Philadelphia party of twenty, including police officials, will accompany her. they will be met at Chambersburg and escorted to the city for dinner before the fair. A banquet at Hotel Dagmar by M T Molter closes the day at 8 p m.
Merlin Emery Ellinger and Miss Edna Mildred McClane wed at First Baptist Biloxi on Wednesday October 8 at 8 pm. The bride given away by Dr George Walton Wallace. Noted guests included Prof Walter Westphal. couple planning Canada and northern US trip, return to Hagerstown about November 1. Also announces Eleanor Beard and Stanley Snyder Florida wedding, and birth of ten pound boy to Mr and Mrs John Gerberick Virginia Avenue.
A surprise birthday gathering honored Mr E Hull at a country home near Funkstown hosted by friends and relatives. Guests included Mrs Henry Hull, Mrs P M Siler, Mrs Eama Brown, Charles E Hammond, C F Schleigh, and many others from Smithsburg Hagerstown Hancock Cumberland and New York City.
Members of the Hagerstown Women’s Club may enjoy all privileges of the Woman’s City Club of Washington after the two clubs establish reciprocal relations. Announcement was made by Mrs Fromet W. Gane at the October board meeting. Fourteen new members were voted in including Grace Brane Francey Miller Mrs Walter Prior Katherine Healey and several others. Dances will be held nightly this week at Maryland Gardens with the new AfroSant Garden Orchestra providing music. Milton Lyon leads the local orchestra and is noted as a tutor with ties to Baltimore’s scene.
A surprise party honored C H Rohrer at his Central avenue home for his thirty first birthday. Music from Booth Mountain orchestra accompanied a line of Boonsboro and Greencastle residents including Mr and Mrs Rohrer St J Rohrer Andrew Zittle Edgar Moser Lou Zittle J H Cosy Maeda Dixon Charles and Earl Coney Robert Stewart Bam Shafer and families Alma Wooley May Wooley and Ernest Rohrer.
Shiloh U B Church held a cradle roll program Sunday October 12 at 10 30 Invitations were sent to mothers with babies on the cradle roll A program included Welcome hymn recitations readings responsive service and prayers The Cradle Roll Superintendent Mrs Chas Batts spoke on child raising The congregation re elected Mrs Bettawan as superintendent There are 35 babies on the cradle roll
Parents of nine children report rickets, and a new method of cod liver oil tablets claims easier administration. The ad promises improved health if taken for 30 days, with a money back guarantee at local drug stores.
A lively crowd filled Nixon's Academy in Hagerstown to open a weeklong run by the Myrkle-Harder Company featuring Avery Hopwood farces. The opening show Why Men Leave Home drew steady laughter as William Pawley and Blanch Wilcox led a capable cast in a risqué yet amusing performance.
The text notes that arranging long visits for guests requires careful etiquette and formal entertainments, especially when hosting important personages or high officials. It highlights that such visits dictate stricter standards and ceremonial practices in society.
Matinees will be given one day beginning today, completing the weekly schedule. The brief program ends with afternoon shows and a final evening performance. The venue is set to host the remaining offerings and accommodate theatergoers tonight and tomorrow.
Tey. L. W. Lutz, a well known local pastor, has been returned to lead the First United Brethren Church in Waynestown for another year by the church conference.
Norman Phillipe and Gladye Gair of Willamanort Edward E Edison of Martineburg and Bertha Hall of McKeesport Charles Bayder of Three Springs and Mahtea L Roles of Saltilta are named in a social register note likely detailing acquaintances or attendees from several Pennsylvania towns.
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