Century Club hears papers on Grant by Massey and Colston
At the Century Club meeting on March 29 Miss Sophie Baker heard Mrs. C. F. Massey present a paper titled Meet General Grant. It traces Grant from a log cabin birth in Ohio in 1822 through poverty, early schooling, West Point, Civil War leadership, and his later, mixed career as president and author of his memoirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Century Club
C. F. Massey
Susan Colston
Sophie Baker
General Grant
Grant
Ohio
West Point
Julia Dent
Lee
Weaver
W. E. Carson
Alexandria
Robert Y. Conrad
Baltimore
Baker
Garden Club of Virginia
Roanoke
W. P. Massey
Lucy Kurtz
George Washington Hotel
Glaize
Ovid
Building of the Railroads and Garden Club Meeting Summary
The article recalls the rise of American railroads from early English tramways to the Baltimore and Ohio line, noting 19th century experiments and a fatal relic of steam. It then covers the Winchester Clarke Garden Club gathering at Scaleby, with evergreen studies, tours, officer reports, and narcissus lectures.
Social Calendar Finds Weekly Club Gatherings and Lessons
A weekly schedule lists cooking lessons by the Northern Virginia Power Company in home service hall Monday 2 30 p m and regular meetings of the American Legion Auxiliary Lions Club Century Club Little Theatre Kiwanis Club Rotary Club and various choirs and dance classes at local venues including George Washington Hotel Handley Library United Brotherhood Grace Lutheran and George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Service Department of Northern Virginia Power Company
Home Service Hall
American Legion Auxiliary
Frances Page
West Cork Street
Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Century Club
Katherine Glass Greene
Little Theatre
Handley Library
Home Service Department
Northern Virginia Power Company
Kiwanis Club
Young Peoples
United Brothern Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
Stafford Pemberton
American Legion Post
Charity Bridge Event and Local Club Meetings Highlight Winchester
A charity bridge evening at Mrs. Steck’s home featured World Bridge Olympic with entries from numerous local social figures. Proceeds fund Winchester Memorial Hospital curtains and Culbertson’s fund. Branson Busy Bee Four-H Club held a March meeting with recitations and garden talks. The Virginia West Virginia Baptist women opened a three day Woman’s Missionary Union session in Lynchburg with YW A S anniversary observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Steck
P. W. Boyd
Bryan Conrad
Virginia Boyd
John M. Steck, Jr
R. C. Green
B. F. Arthur
T. W. Harrison
W. Nelson Page
Nannie Bell
R. J. Funkhouser
Hunter H. McGuire
B. B. Dutton
Edward H. Durrell
J. P. Reardon
Paul Gaylord
Lewis M
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ely Culbertson
Culbertson
Virginia
West Virginia
Lynchburg
First Baptist Church
Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia
A. S. Downes
Cape Cape Charles
Woman's Missionary Union
Elen Douglas Oliver
Richmond
Ida Dawson
C. T. Owen
J. C. Oakes
Blanche Shoop
Miss Audrey Fritts to Wed Mr Funkhouser
Mrs Valley Fritts of White Post announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Audrey Fritts to Charles Chamblin Funkhouser son of Mr and Mrs Joseph H Funkhouser of Double Tollgate Clarke county. Audrey is a Boyce High School graduate and former Boyce teacher now on the Boyce High School faculty. Funkhouser is a Boyce Agricultural High School and Virginia Tech graduate pursuing farming with his father on a large Double Tollgate area farm. No wedding date set, planned for late spring.
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Valley Fritts
White Post
Audrey Fritts
Charles Chamblin Funkhouser
Joseph H. Funkhouser
Double Tollgate
Clarke County
Fritts
Charles W. Fritts
Boyce
Marion College
Marion
Harrisonburg State Teachers’ College
Boyvee High School
Funkhouser
Boyce Agricultural High School
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Gainesboro Four-H Club March Meeting Report
Gainesboro Four-H Club met with president Miss Caroline Fout presiding. After pledge and roll call by secretary Frances Foreman, Mrs. Walter Adams led demonstrations of fruit cut baked apples and candy from orange peels. Members Beulah Foreman Caroline Fout Frances Foreman Jane Fout Lorraine Bayliss Helen Lamp Madelina Davis Holmes Pool Nathaniel DeHaven attended. they sang The More We Get Together and adjourned until April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesboro
4-H Club
Caroline Fout
Ted
Frances Reman
Walter Adams
Beulah Foreman
Frances Foreman
Jane Fout
Lorraine Bayliss
Helen Lamp
Madelina Davis
Holmes Pool
Nathaniel DeHaven
Thelma Byrd Weds Frederick Palmer In Kernstown Ceremony
Announcement reports the marriage of Miss Thelma Virginia Byrd of Kernstown to Mr. Frederick St Palmer of Hayfield. They wed March 26 at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South with Rev. E A Lambert officiating. Only immediate families present, followed by a reception. couple to reside in Kernstown.
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Thelma Virginia Byrd
Kernstown
Frederick St Palmer
Hayfield
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Washington Street
E. A. Lambert
Thomas E. Byrd
Palmer
William Palmer
Mrs. Palmer
Thankful For Picture Publicity By 8S P C A
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thanks Herman Hable and Palace Theatre staff for presenting the "Historic and Modern Gardens of Virginia" at the Palace Theatre on Friday afternoon. The Star is thanked for publicity.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Herman Hable
Palace Theatre
Virginia
Star
Loyal Temperance Legion Meets for Lecture at Church
Members urged to assemble at 7 45 oclock next Wednesday in Market Street Methodist Church lecture room for a body march into the main auditorium to hear Rev Dr Rowland speak. The Woman's Auxiliary of Memorial Hospital holds its regular monthly meeting at 4 oclock Monday afternoon at the nurses home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loyal Temperance Legion
Market
Street Methodist Church
Rowland
Cupboard Child Happy Again After Illness
Edith's father and step mother each serve two year prison terms for asserted cruelty as her health improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuster
Edith
Railway shares slump grips New York market session
The Associated Press reports a short New York stock market session where railroad shares fell to new lows for the third straight day. Losses ranged from one to four points but some were trimmed by late short covering. Volume approached a million shares as Sterling cables opened at 3.76 dollars, down two cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
N York
Sterling
Seventeen Prisoners Escape Cabell County Jail
Seventeen inmates escaped Cabell county jail by sawing bars and overpowering two guards and a turnkey. Leaders held an iron bar over guards as others were freed in Huntington West Virginia.
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Associated Press
Huntington
W . Va
Cabell County
Justice Sutherland Eligible for Retirement This Year
Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland of Utah becomes eligible to retire on October 2 after ten years on the high bench. He would be past 70 and may retire after ten years of service. Sutherland, a conservative leader, turned seventy on March 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
George Sutherland
Utah
Sutherland
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Oal
England
George Stephenson
America
Relay
Baltimore and Ohio
Garden Club
Scaleby
Gilpin
Winchester
Garden Beautiful
Fred Glaize
W. A. Baker
Narcissus
Echo
Aphrodite
River Styx
Parkinson
Royal Horticultural Society
Floyd Harris
Narcissus Committee
Nova Scotia
Barr
Leeds
Melbourne
Australia
Scilly Island
Butler
Branson 4-H Club
Branson
Busy Bee Four-H
Nettie Frances Robinson
Dorothy Anderson
Jane Dick
Virginia Lee Dick
Messrs
Guy Gore
James Lupton
Kenneth Smallwood
Howard Kenney
Edward Lupton
Kenneth Lamp
Old Adam
Howard Kenny
Elizabeth Farrar
Ellenne
Mr. Funkhouser
Thelma Byrd
F. L. Palmer
Eloise Glover
John Pugitt
East Cork Street
Irene Walters
A. T. Mussen
Carroll Smith
West Clifford Street
Staunton
L. G. Carlisle
Anne Woolfolk
John C. Woolfolk
Miss Woolfolk
Allen Jones
Stephens City
Grippe
Beverley Rice
Washington
L. E. Rice, Sr
Lee Street
Emma Hollis
South Loudoun Street
Elizabeth Williams
Kathleen Sutton
Sue Schlack
Ethel Snyder
Trevor Downer
Fort Hoyle
Philadelphia
Margaret Hansbrough
Garland Hansbrough
North Braddock Street
Catherine McVicar
Randolph Macon
Woman's College
Charles P. McVicar
Handley Avenue
Mabel Crenshaw
D. D. Crenshaw
South Stewart Street
Charlotte Robinson
Mason
Fred Carter
Fauquier County
Clyde Sibert
South Cameron Street
Charles B. Whitacre
Woman's Auxiliary
Memor
Ial Hospital
Nurses
Edith Riley
Washington, D. C
Banks
Collier's Weekly
New Jersey
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Paira
Goodyear Speedway
Buncutt Tire CO
Braddock St
OIPTY
Florsheim
Lovett Brothers “X-Ray Shoe Fitters
N. Main St
Senerlion
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Margaret L. Hodgson
R. M. Swimley
People's Bargain Store
North Main Street
Weasel
The
Geological Survey
Capitol
Washington Star
American Automobile Association
Mason and Dixon Lines
LCC
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