Birthday party in honor of Mr. aad Miller
The event featured a charming birthday su ride party with refreshments including sandwiches salads ice cream and cake. Guests from this city included Mildred Rhodes Irene Headley Dodd Leonard Miller Albert Clark and Russell Miller with Mr and Mrs Russell Miller and their son Russell Allen Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aad Miller
Mildred Rhodes
Irene Headley
Dodd
Leonard Miller
Albert Clark
Russell Miller
Russell Allen Miller
Social Calendar Highlights Community Choirs and Dances
Friday events include young people choir practice at Braddock Street Methodist Church and Centenary Reform Church adult choir prelude. Evening benefit dance hosted by Hirst Milhellen at Blue Ridge Night Club in Bluemont Virginia. Regular Winchester Choral Club meeting at Mrs Frank Buckley’s home. Congregational Church and United Brethren activities follow with guild and mission society gatherings. Monday features American Legion smokER giveaway at Rouss Hall and subscription dance at Jordan Hotel. Lions and Kiwanis luncheons noted at George Washington Hotel. Rotary Club meets at George Washington Hotel. Grace Lutheran and other weekly choir practices listed.
Newly Installed Officers Lead McKinley Chapter Meeting
McKinley Chapter No 19 Order of Eastern Star held its first meeting of the year in Farmers and Merchants National Bank building. Mrs Marie B Shade presided as worthy matron with new officers installed. A memorial for Mrs Florence H Clift, late worthy grand matron of Virginia, was observed. The gathering marked the chapter’s third anniversary with a birthday party and entertainments by the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Order of Eastern Star
Farmers and Merchants’ National Bank
Marie B. Shade
Florence H. Clift
Grand
Virginia
McKinley Chapter
Farmville Orchestra To Broadcast From WRVA
The Farmville State Teachers College girls orchestra will broadcast a program from Richmond’s WRVA on Friday evening April 22 from 8 15 to 9 o clock. Former students and others may listen and send criticisms to the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmville Orchestra
Farmville State Teachers’ College
WRVA
Richmond
Winchester
Farmville Institution
Colege
Rummage sale planned after Apple Blossom Festival
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will hold a rummage sale after the Apple Blossom Festival. Mrs. Robert M. Ward, secretary of the local ASPCA branch, asks for donations at home No. 211 South Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Robert M. Ward
Sermon Set at Little Mountain Methodist Church
Reverend M A Keesecker preaches at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon service inviting worshippers to join in at the Little Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Keesecker
Little Mountain Methodist Episcopal Church
Front Royal Plans Attractive Float in Trail of Pink Petals
Front Royal officials led by General Beverley F. Browne and J. Grover Hillidge discussed with Director General Nelson F. Richards the town entry in Winchester for the Trail of the Pink Petals parade. They expect a large float depicting Front Royal as the Northern gateway to Shenandoah National Park amid strong civic enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverley F. Browne
Front Royal
E C Holland Dead In County From Paralysis
Edward C. Holland aged 61 of Gainesboro Frederick County died at his Gainesboro home after a paralysis illness. He was born April 21, 1871, unmarried, son of William and Mary Bayliss Holland, with two sisters and two brothers surviving. Funeral at 2:30 Sunday at Gainesboro Methodist Church with interment in Gainesboro cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward C. Holland
Gainesboro
Frederick County
Mr. Holland
William and Mary Bayliss Holland
Baptist Church
Holland
Charles Wagner
Methodist Church
A. R. Rinker
Edward Roberts
James Pelter
Asbury Farmer
Jamney Davis
Clask
Brown
Better Tone Develops In Wall Street Stocks Rise
The securities markets showed a distinctly better tone in New York on April 15 as stocks and bonds extended the recovery from the prior sessions. The Midwestern Utilities receivership cleared the atmosphere and the weekly Federal Reserve report signaled vigorous credit expansion. Call money rose to 2 1/2 percent and Sterling cables opened at 3.77 dollars, down three quarters of a cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Federal Reserve
Freckles Arrives in Winchester for Palace Theater Visit
Nine year old film star Freckles Preckles Spear arrives with his mother Mrs. Harry Spear and C B Ludwig in Winchester for a two day visit. He plans sight seeing and stage appearances at the Palace Theatre this afternoon and tomorrow. He recalls his California menagerie and praises Buck Jones as his favorite actor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hi “Preckler” Spear, Jr
Preckles
Harry Spear
C. B. Ludwig
M .King
Our Gang
California
Sukey
Tom Mix
Billy
Buck Jones
Buck
Palace
State Office Building Blast Suspected Bomb Disaster
In Columbus Ohio officials launched an investigation into the blast that damaged the new state office building and killed seven people with more injured. The theft of 300 pounds of dynamite near London Ohio was being probed for possible use in the explosion. Deaths rose to seven with William Stevenson of Columbus dying from a skull fracture. Architect Harry Hake estimated damage above 1 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
London
William Stevenson
Harry Hake
Cincinnati
Gideons to Hold Annual Meeting at George Washington Hotel
State Gideons gather at the George Washington Hotel for their annual meeting. The event starts Sunday at 2 pm in the dining room facing Piccadilly Street, with short addresses planned by Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden, Rev. Dr. S. L. Flickinger, and Rev. A. Lambert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
Piccadilly Street
F. T. McFaden
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
S. L. Flickinger
Centenary Reformed Church
A. Lambert
Braddock Street
Frederick County Budget for 1932 Public Hearing Notice
The Frederick County budget proposes total expenses of 154,703.00 with line items for county receipts, school salaries, transportation, maintenance, and debt payments. A public hearing is set for April 20, 1932, at the Court House at 10:00 A.M. for complaints and show cause to change the budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nats County Schools ’ County School Board
Dhepedteeraen Es Transportation
Boo Et Estes Ens Puel, Light & Janitors
Treas
Court House
Frederick County
Gideons to Present Bibles in Winchester Churches and Hotels
The Gideons plan to distribute Bibles in Winchester hotels and at Winchester Memorial Hospital as the first city where all Protestant churches cooperate with the organization. Mr Masters says a Gideons speaker will address local churches, with volunteers sought and business leaders urged to sponsor the effort. He will be at Hotel Jack for most of the day and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Kernstown Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Pauline Smaltz
Masters
Winchester
Gideons
Sunny
Hotel
Jack
The
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James I. Russell
New York City
Russell
James B. Russell
G. H. Smith
George H. Smith
Glaize
West Cork Street
Henkel
West Germain Street
Washington and
Stewart
Dr. Smith
Memorial Hospital
W. T. Birmingham, Jr
William T. Birmingham, Jr
Helen Lorraine Symes
Lucille Symes
Mr. Symes
Chevy Chase
Annapolis
Birmingham
W. T. Birmingham
West Boscawen Street
Washington
Young Peoples’ Choir
Mr. Hirst Milhellen
Blue Ridge Night Club
Bluemont
Winchester Choral Club
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart Street
Meeting
Ready Missionar Society of Congregational Chretian Church
O. L. Hoover
Morningside Drive
Otterbein Guild
United Brethren Church
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
Rouss Hall
Charles Shewbridge
Jordan White Sulphur Springs Hotel
Lions’ Club
Kiwanis Club
Young People's Choir
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
Mr. Miller
Bertha Kibler
Oranda
Anderson
Robert L. Anderson
Hagerstown
Iris Fahrney
D. I. Fahrney
Martha Lee Stine
William Stine
Berryville Avenue
Huntsberry
Katherine Rhodes
William H. Donner
Camp Woods
Villanova
Katherine Norwood Rodgers
C. Paul Denckla
Hermann A. Denckla
Philadelphia
Foxcroft School For Girls
Middleburg
Mile. Moose
Paris
Acorn Club
Miss Barnes
Georgia Barnes
Winston-Salem
N. C
Billy Barnes
Anna Mae Newton
Mary Chalmers
William W. Glass, Jr
Mrs
W. W. Glass
Washington Street
Mr. Glass
United States Bureau of the Census
Robert W. Johnson, Jr
Baltimore
Hunt Club
Ewart Johnston
Clarke County
Mary Greenway Russell
Ivan Jackson
C. C. Jackson
Burr Powell Harrison
Thomas Brinton Harrison
West Leicester Street
Thomas W. Harrison
South Washington Street
Evelyn Wisecarver
BE. Douglas Davis
West Clifford Street
J. D. Cammer
Cammer Tire Company
L. B. Resseguie
West Cecil Street
Grippe
County Methodist Episcopal
395
Goodyear Speedway
Buncutter
Goodyear
N.B.C
E. C. Holland
Wall Street
STATE
Central County
Som
C. C. Brannon
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Grace Priehs
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Arthur Geiger
of Alliance, C
Feiger
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Rey
Walter L. Main Circus
Pure Food Store
Braddock and
Boscawen Sts
People’s Bargain Store
North Main Street
Margaret L. Hodgson
York
Mountain View Nursery CO
Williamsport
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