Hancock Homecoming Mardi Gras Opens In Mountain Town
Hundreds of Hancock residents and friends arrive for a three day homecoming celebration with a street pageant showing local industries and Hancock orchards. Brass bands preview the music as visitors settle in for parries and a Miss Hancock contest finale supervised by burgess John P. Mason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock
Maryland
Hancock Industries
Wonder Orchards
Miss HM Hancock
John P. Mason
Burgess
Smithsburg Homecoming Opens Tonight Carnival Starts Week
Hundreds of Smithsburg residents prepare for Homecoming Week with booths decorations and a chicken supper at Community House. A nine hour ox roast follows on Friday, then a late night minstrel show. Saturday features a 2:30 parade and 3:30 Baby Show with judges doctors and cash prizes for best floats and decorated vehicles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kretsinger
Smithsburg
Hanker
Carnival Schedule Promises Four Days of Festivities
The event list outlines a Saturday final day with a noon dinner, a 2 30 parade, 3 p m tricks, crowning of carnival royalty, a 3 30 band concert, a 3 30 baby show and children games, a 6 accordion band, and an evening program featuring another band concert, a pony exhibition and an old country Virginia Bee.
S S Workers to Meet Here New Faculty Members Named
Mrs Charles Rowe Vickery of Syracuse N Y joins the Interdenominational School of Missions faculty to be held at St Pauls Church September 22 23 with an enrollment of hundreds of Sunday school workers from nearby towns Mrs Vickery is associated with deans faculties of summer schools and women’s society conferences Mrs Walter Knipp of Baltimore continues on the faculty for a third year and Mrs L B Mather of Baltimore will assist in directing the Little School of Demonstration for Junior and Intermediate Leaders under the Interdenominational Missionary Unit of Baltimore Mrs J Grason Steffey will conduct
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rowe Vickery
Syracuse
N. Y
Baltimore
L. B. Mather
Little School of
Interdenominational Missionary Unit of
J. Grason Steffey
Local Storytelling Course Plans Choir and Registration
The note outlines a storytelling teaching plan with Mrs. D A Watking as chorister and Mrs. John Zent myer as planner. It states fifty people will enroll in the course, not counting study books, with Mrs. Albert Baker at 532 Brown Avenue for registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clagues
D. A. Watking
John Zentmyer
Albert Baker
Brown Avenue
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Horlick
Keishing
Hagerstown
C. A. Brown
Southwest Corner Public Square
Mudd ‘Center Folks
MR Slupe
Zeq. Perkins
Grandma Hopkins
Zebs
Zep
Imec
Robert Barkow
C. J. Wolfinger
M.D. Kefauver
Ferdinand Hesse
Walter Wishard
Leitersburg
K. B. Brown
Waynesboro
M. Zimmerman
Williamsport
Frederick Young
Clearspring Girls’ Glee Club
Lorraine Rinehart
Buffalo
Fleigh Motor & Tire CO
Union Street
Cumberland
Oak Hill Avenue
Scarelly
Exorhane Gore
Bansonin
Voorbecs
Philauc
Star and Durant
Penn. Ave
Chick
Stickell
Hagerstown Paint and Glass Company
W. Franklin &T
D. C. Aughinbauch & Son
Men’s Snappy Clothes College Clothes Shop
Potomac St
S.S
Bourjois A. Bdoumjois & CO
Lave
Guarantegil
Frederick Road
Awning Co
Wash
Fletcher
Physicians
McCardell Bros
Chanics Loan & Savings Bank
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