Social and Personal Guests at Miss Fisher
The Girls' Athletic Association will skip its regular tea this month due to busy preparations for the Apple Blossom Festival and a Thursday evening banquet on April 25 honoring the club's basketball team. Miss Ida Fisher hosts members at her Martinsburg pike cottage, with cars provided and attendance coordinated by Miss Mary Sullivan.
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Girls’ Athletic Club
Miss Fisher
Girls’ Athletic Association
Ida Fisher
Martinsburg Pike
Ridgeway
Navy Captain Neill resigns commission to join Curtiss Aircraft
Captain John Baldwin Neill Jr. of Berryville Clarke County resigns from the U S Marine Corps effective June 1. He will join Curtis Aircraft Company Garden City Long Island after serving in World War I with the Thirteenth Regiment under General Smedley Butler. He is son of Mrs Nellie McDonald Neill and the late John B Neill and has Berryville Winchester connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Marine Corps
John Baldwin Neill, Jr
Berryville
Clarke County
Eastern Marine Base
Quantico
Curtiss Aircraft Company
Garden City
Long Island
Neill
United States Naval Academy
Thirteenth Regiment
Smedley Butler
Captain Neill
Nellie McDonald Neill
John B. Neill
Winchester
Bank of
Petersburg Woman Named Petersburg Apple Blossom Princess
Miss Mary Rutherfoord Bernard, Petersburg and Dinwiddie representative, served as prince ss in the Apple Blossom festival at Winchester while a Farmville State Teachers College student. Anne V. Mann praises her as a stovely young daughter and notes Petersburg pride.
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Petersburg
Petersburg Progress-Index
Las
Anne’ V. Mann
Mary Rutherfoord Bernard
Winchester
Dinwiddie
Farmville State Teachers’ College
Local Couple Returns Home After Visit
Mayor and Mrs. Rhuel Van Horn of Clifton Forge Virginia have returned home after visiting here as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor F. Hahn, his brother and sister-in-law.
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Rhuel van Horn
Clifton Forge
Taylor F. Hahn
Visitors from Many States Attend Apple Blossom Festival
Local notes list guests and visitors at Winchester and area hotels and homes. Names include Mr. and Mrs. E W Barrow of Sandston Virginia, Mr Evans Feltner of Ridgeley West Virginia, Mr Thomas Henderson of Fairmont West Virginia, Mr O E Overstreet of Philadelphia, and others from Pittsburgh Baltimore Harrisburg and Richmond as they joined festival activities and hosted dinners and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Barrow
Sandston
Clarence T. Owen
West Clifford Street
Evans Feltner
Mr. Cramp
George and
Jamey
Ridgeley
W. Va
Jennie Shreck
Garland Spillman
School of Pharmacy
Medical College of Virginia
Carsoi Ls Spillman
National Avenue
Spillman
Madeline Elmore
Richmond
Program for Winchester Presbytery Spring Session Outlined
The devotional committee led by Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden and Fred S. Boyd outlined the Winchester Presbytery spring meeting agenda. It covers Wednesday sessions from 9 a m to 5 p m with prayers, candidate licensure exams, sermons, home and foreign missions reports, and Mexico traveler Z E Lewis, plus Thursday sessions on Evangelism stewardship sermon communion and General Assembly commissioner election. Friday includes Christian Education report and Union Theological Seminary scholarship events with Dr B R Lacy and Dr W C Campbell.
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Winchester Presbytery
Presbyterian Church
South Loudoun Street
F. T. McFaden
Fred S. Boyd
Committee On Home Missions
Committee On Foreign Missions
Z. E. Lewis
Mexico
Committee On Evangelism
S. R. Diehl
General Assembly
Committee On
Christian Education
Union Theological Seminary
B. R. Lacy
W. C. Campbell
Roanoke
Committees of Valley Strikers On Way To Conference
Three plant committees representing strikers from Staunton and Waynesboro head to Staunton to meet owners in an effort to end the walkout. About 300 workers from J L Witz Furniture and Basic Furniture in Staunton joined 75 strikers at Waynesboro in sympathy. The leaders demand firing the new Waynesboro manager, dismissal of nine newly hired women, and restoration of jobs to veteran workers replaced by women or workers who had walked out.
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Associated Press
Staunton
Waynesboro
J. L. Witz Furniture Ompany
Basic Furniture Company
Basic Company
Vessel sinks off Hokkaido with heavy loss of life
Tokyo dispatch reports the Japanese steamship Tokyo Kunitaini sank off Carina in southern Hokkaido just after 11 pm. More than 100 people are believed drowned. Two steamers reached the scene and rescued 97 survivors from a ship that carried 209 aboard when it sailed yesterday.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Carina
Hokkaido
Elinor Smith Aims For New Solo Flight Record
Elinor Smith, 17, attempted a new solo endurance flight in a cabin monoplane at Roosevelt Field New York at 11 40 44 a m seeking to set a record for women aviators.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Elinor Smith
Woman flyer breaks record using male ship in field attempt
Mise Louisé McPhethridge of California held the record at 22 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds. Officials noted it marked the first time a woman flyer used a real man's ship for such an attempt. Weather conditions were described as excellent.
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Mise Louisé McPhethridge
California
Funeral of Infant Bruce Unger Held at Home
Funeral services were held last Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Herrell on Berryville Avenue for Bruce Leslie Unger 13 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Unger of Biglersville Pennsylvania Interment was in Mount Hebron Cemetery Mrs J M H Clasett of Clarke county was shopping here yesterday
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William Herrell
Berryville Avenue
Bruce Leslie Unger
Ernest Unger
Biglersville
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Mount Williams Notes
Mount Williams Virginia April 22 Mr and Mrs A L Brewer entertained last Saturday evening at their home with a party and buffet luncheon. Guests included Misses Ethel Cora Bly Fauver Glenna White Mary Clowser Jessie Orndorff Margaret Russell Maude Belle Brewer Norma Judy Ethel Jeanette Gertie Brewer and Messrs Ralph Glenn Hummer Mariam Cook Zirkle Ralph Williams James Taft Russell Marion.
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Mount Williams
Mrs
A. L. Brewer
Ethel
Cora Bly
Ethel Fauver
Glenna White
Mary Clowser
Jessie Orndorff
Margaret Russell
Maude
Belle Brewer
Norma Judy
Jeanette
Gertie Brewer
Ralph and
Glenn Hummer
Mariam Cook
Zirkle
Ralph Williams
James
Taft Russell
Marion
Local families and visitors host and move in Relief area
Vance Coy and others visit Relif with G W Dyke sister care. Mrs Dyke’s condition steady. Baltimore guests Mrs Harvey Grim and Elmer join Mrs Mary J Ashwood’s family. Claudé Wallace weekends with Perry Sagette. N C Williams and Bav family relocate to Relief. W A Burford Baltimore visits. school closes Saturday. N Wallace and two children visit Walton Wallace Sparrows Point Md. W H Williams moves into N C Williams house. Hurl Himelrigh visits C L Peer Kernstown.
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Vance, Coy
Tom
Cecil Fauver
Maynard Brewer
Lewis Brewer
Bud Allamong
Ernest
Lucien Ashwood
Virgie Burkhart
William Brewer
Elwood White
Annie Orndorff
Zelda Mae Wallace
N. Bondurant
G. W. Dyke
Mary J. Ashwood
Claudé Walllace
Perry
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Lebanon Valley
Jey’s
Hazel Bailey
Lebanon Valley, College
Annville
William A. Bailey
South
Cameron Street
Marion Hoffman
Mary Clymer
Lebanon
Ruth Essick
Dowington
Grant Miller
Tower City
Joseph E. Campbell
Leo and
Joseph Campbell
Elizabeth Kern
Staten Island
Carroll
Smith
Washington
New York
Ek. M. Harris
Memorial Hospital
Harris
Virginia Hardesty
Marine Corps
Freed
C. A. Freed
Grace Lutheran Church
North Cameron Street
Columbia
S. C
Board of American Missions
The
Lutheran Church
Grace Church
B. Mitchell Knight, Jr
University Hospital
Philadelphia
Amherst Street
Knight
Roland
Lawrence Roland
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Mary Baer
Stephens City
India
Trinity Lutheran Church
Baer
Bostonians
Hunisberry’s
Thomas Henderson
Rose Mary Henderson
Fairmont, W. Va
J. H. A. Brown
Keyser
O. E. Overstreet
Overstreet Company
James Dixon
Dean Browning
Pittsburgh
Wade Dixon
George M. Gilbert
Baltimore
George Washington Hotel
Fred Stryker
Mrs. Stryker
R. W. Turner
Harrisburg, Pa
Jack
Ernest C. Sloat
Josephine Ebersole
South Cameron Street
W. D. Hale
Ida Russell
David Grimm
Leslie Grimm
Robert
Walter Shiner
Lillian Wood
Mae Roberts
F. Lebert
J. H. Myers
West Cecil Street
Dorothy Miller
G. W. Hausenfluck
Naomi Butler
Nettie Boyd
Mahlon Jackson
Laura Ballew
Terra Alta
C. L. Spillman
John C. Lee
Stone Bridge
May Carper
Darkesville
George Pine
Carper
T. Walter Carper
Mollie Lindamood
Lebanon Church
H. H. Startzman
G. T. Twyford
Mr. Barton
Mr. Humphries
Potomac Edison Company
Hagerstown
John Dean
Helen Dean
Blanche Saum
Frank Gelhausen
Chillicothe
Ohio
J. P. Haddox
Presbytery
Valley Strikers
J. M. H. Clasett
America
North Main Street
Ian Seahios
Lovett Bros
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Wipston-Salem, N. C
Cigareiies
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