Prizes And Scholarships For D U C Students In 1939
Mrs. William Cabell Flournoy announces Virginia Division U D C prizes for chapters and essays on Confederate history. Awards total 150 dollars for Life of Thomas S Bocock sketch and more for Virginia county history and Jefferson, Maury, New Market topics. Scholarships listed target descendants of Confederate soldiers with multiple schools offering funds up to 300 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cabell Flournoy
Lexington
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Virginia Military Institute
New Market
James B. Morgan
Roanoke
Committee On Education
Virginia
Augusta Military Academy
Averett College
Blackstone College
Danville Military Institute
Elon College
Fairfax Hall
Fishburne Military Academy
Fork Union Military Academy
King’s College
Memoscript Secretarial College
Randolph-Macon College
Shenandoah College
Southern Seminary and Junior College
Virginia Intermont College
Washington and Lee University
Mary Custis Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Wright
Newberry
5. C
General Committee On Education
Chatham Hall
Randolph - Macon Academy
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Sullins College
Washington Ee Lee
Guilt Denied By Alleged Schemers
The surviving Musica brothers and five co defendants pleaded innocent to mail fraud securities law and conspiracy charges. Judge Leibell set bail totaling 37500 for eight of nine indicted. arraignment for the ninth defendant deferred. Bail for George Arthur and Robert Musica is 5000 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
F. Donald Coster-Musica
McKesson and Robbins Drug Company
Vincent L. Leibell
Musica Brothers
George
Arthur
Robert
Doan's Pills End Back Pain Claims
An old plea for relief from backache attributes pain to tired kidneys. It promotes Doan's Pills as a remedy to cleanse kidneys and ease discomfort, claiming long use and wide trust. The text urges readers to consult a druggist for purchase and use.
Latin Teacher Dies of Injuries
CARLISLE Pa April 6 Prof Franklin A Kuller head of the Latin department of Friends School Baltimore died in Carlisle Hospital today of injuries from an automobile accident at Greenpark in Perry county Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Franklin A. Kuller
Friends School
Baltimore
Carlisle Hospital
Greenpark
Perry County
Game Board To Consider Changes
A meeting of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries will be held on April 7 at 10 a.m. in the state office building, Richmond, to consider changes in the game laws. The meeting is open to the public and the commission seeks public input and views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
State Office
Richmond
Railroads seek 10 percent surcharge on coal shipments
Southern West Virginia’s four main railroads urge the Public Service Commission to grant a 10 percent surcharge on coal shipments to offset reduced revenues. Line names Virginia, Chesapeake and Ohio, New York Central, and Norfolk and Western advocate the increase. a previous order excluded them last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. VA
Southern
West Virginia
Publc Service Commission
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio
New York Central
Norfolk and Western
Gore High School to Present The B 5 Play Tonight
Students of Gore high school will stage a play at Mt. View school this evening. The production titled The B 5 features student actors and comes as a local arts event inviting attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gore High School
Mt. View
Two University Classmates Named Bishops in Episcopal Church
Edmund Pendleton Dandridge and John James Gravatt Jr. of Virginia were chosen as bishops in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dandridge becomes bishop coadjutor of Tennessee and Gravatt is elected bishop of Upper South Carolina with consecration in Trinity Church Columbia on May 5. Both are 1903 graduates who served as WWI chaplains and share early life and education links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Virginia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Edmund Pendleton Dandridge
D. D
Tennessee
John James Gravatt, Jr
Upper South Carolina
Gravatt
Trinity Church
Columbia
S. C
Dandridge
University Tech
Dr. Gravatt
Lambda Pi
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
Dandridge Received His Degree In Theology In 1906, But Dr. Gravatt
McGuire's
Richmond
Bishop Dandridge
Flushing, N. Y
the Bower
Jefferson County
W. Va
Woodberry Forest
Hampton
Careless Smokers Blamed for Most Forest Fires on National Forest
Forest Supervisor Howard cites the 1938 fire record showing twenty of forty one fires on George Washington National Forest caused by careless smokers. The fires destroyed 185 acres of timberland, cost $6,061, and averaged $147.83 per fire. Howard urges the public to never smoke while walking in the woods and to use streams or mineral soil to extinguish and bury embers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington National Forests
Forest Supervis
Howard
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United Daughters of Confederacy
Pia
Doan
Marvin Weaver
C. Ridgley White
Weaver
Rouss Fire Company
Shenandoah
SwWhite
Junior Board of Trade
Frank M. Boucher
Gloversville
N. Y
Richard Griffith
F. L. Largent
Philip Glaize
Game Board
Chockow
Southern Dairies
Baker’s
Court House
Malgreen Agency Drug Store
Carters
Baume Bengue
Barbasol
Iooine
Woodbury
Pinkhams
Dolph
Massace
Jergers
Conti Castile
Hinds H. Arm
NBC
Red Network
Dairies
Mead
DE Luxe
Kolynos
Shorelawn
Whitman
Hollingsworth
iSc
Havana
Streamline
Eee Wildroot
Sanitary
Dr. West
Eee
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
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