Camp White Rock Scouting Camp Highlights Community Participation
Middletown and Stephens City Troops joined for Camp White Rock activities from July 25. About 90 including visitors attended a Sunday School and a Scout dinner. Contests featured 50 yard swim won by Clarke Kline and large boy class won by William Kline. Scoutmasters Wall and Everly battled in a canoe race with Wall’s team victorious. The camp ends August 4 with a watermelon supper and thanks to Lemley of Stephens City and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
White Rock
Stephens City
J. A. Everly
C. A. Rinker
Ee Wall
City
Arthur Everly
Clarke Kline
William Kline
Everly
Wall
Lemley
Washington
Community Notes Highlight Stephens City Residents and Guests
Stephens City reports guests visiting area families including Mrs. H. D. Lockhart from Martinsburg and Mrs. Lulu McCarty of Washington. Several local households hosted visitors from Winchester Middletown and Harrisonburg. Patricia Morton the Winchester England namesake and Memorial Hospital patient Mable Hampton are noted entries. Local church delegate Lomax Parker attends Epworth convention with tariff talk closing remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Long
Joseph Strode
Middletown
A. G. Hardesty
Washington, D. C
W. R. Hardesty
Frank Feller
Tacoma Park
Little Mable Hampton
Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Lomax Parker
M. E. Church
Epworth
White Post Farmer Charles Carper Dies From Heat Stroke
Charles Albert Carper a 62 year old farmer from White Post died after sun stroke suffered while working in fields with his brother Frank. He leaves a widow and four sons and five brothers and four sisters. Funeral at White Post Methodist Church South Friday at 10 30 a m with Rev W W Stevens officiating. Interment in Mt Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Albert Carper
White Post
Frank Carper
Carper
Stewart M. Carper
Irene Carper
Hagerstown
Harry
Mercon
Walter Carper
Reading
Joseph Shenk
Wadesville
Charles Shenk
Berryville
Charles Gore
Clearbrook
Robert McIntosh
Front Royal
Warren
Boyce
Baltimore
Stewart
Frank
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
W. W. Stevens
Mt. Hebron
The Original Dry Camel Survives Long Droughts
Reminders of 1902 disaster on Martinique show relics from St. Pierre’s volcanic destruction. Carbonized foods, melted bottles, coins and other objects reveal how long the catastrophe endures in memory.
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Martinique
St. Pierre
Reynolds Store Notes Ool Picnic At Wesley Chapel
A Sunday school picnic and yard party is set for Wesley Chapel on Saturday August 26 starting at 2 30 in the afternoon. The program will feature several speakers and music. Attending are Mrs C T Adams and daughter Mrs Ruth Smith, and Mrs Sylvester Bageant with daughter Ethel of Martinsburg visiting Mr and Mrs Harry Gano. Mr and Mrs Purcell Dick were guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Moore on Sunday.
Local residents and visitors gather in small town social rounds
A long list of neighbors and relatives visit and travel across towns including Gore Winchester Gainesboro Berkeley Springs Summit Point and Great Cacapon. People mentioned include Miss Thelma Carpenter Miss Retta Peace Miss Mary Catherine Omps Earl Farmer Mrs Lott Peacemaker the Shenk family and Mr and Mrs Clint Carpenter among others. Social visits occur at homes and over weekend trips with several motorists noted.
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R. P. Anderson
Near
Gore
Thelma Carpenter
Retta Peace
Winchester
Earl Farmer
George Whitacre
Mary Catherine Omps
M. W. Carpenter
Tom Brannon
Oscar Luttrell Sunny
Austin Leth
Beatrice
Murvil Dick
Ernest Adams
Gainesboro
S Belva Shenk
Eupert Edwards
E. D. Shenk
Eldridge DeHaven
Big Pool
Lott Peacemaker
Lawrence Daily
Hazel Brannon
Magic Sargent
Roy Crouse
Berkeley Springs
George Clark
Wilbert Strother
Robert McIlwee
Edgar and
Letcher Bageant
Washington
Clint Carpenter
Foster Largent
Maude Brann
Linda Brown
Summit Point
E. P. Brown
Clay Rogers
Frank Lee Flowers
Janey Batt
Great Cacapon
Market Street Sunday School Basket Picnic
The Market Street Methodist Episcopal Sunday School will hold its annual basket picnic at Golightly's Meadow on Thursday August 3. All cars and the truces will meet at the school at 1 o'clock and transportation will be furnished for all who meet at that time. Pack your basket and come along for recreation swimming and eats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Street
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Golightly’s Meadow
Decline in Local Marriage Permits Through July
Marriage licenses issued by the Corporation Clerk's office show a notable drop from last year. Ending July 31 this year, 63 licenses were issued versus 79 a year ago, with seven issued in July and nine in the prior July.
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Corporation Clerk’s Office
Gore Demonstration Group Meets. desserts planned for August
Gore Virginia August 2 The larger monthly meeting of the Demonstration Group met Friday July 21 with 28 members and several visitors. The group discussed canning vegetables fall gardening and jelly making with a Kerr Glass Company representative demonstrating canning techniques.
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Farrar
Homer Stotler
Arthur Stotler
Scranton
New York City
Fairmont
W. Va
Bernard
Kurfiss
Indiana
Inlaw
Marion Gore Kurfiss
Jack
San Antonio
Texas
Valley Home
Marion Gore
Margaret Brown
Franklin, Pa
Elwood Kern
George Fisher
Moorefield
Arthur Purtlebaugh
Mexico's Revolutions Report Surges Past Decades
Mexico has had 60 revolutions in 75 years an average close to one per year marking a rapid pace. The discussion notes other republics may try to beat this record while urging people to master thoughts rather than letting them master them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Uncle Ab
Bat child gains better mind and body in Washington
The 14 year old known as the bat child, cared for by her maternal grandmother Edith Riley, appears well and happy as her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Riley, jailed for two years for maltreating her by locking her in a closet, are released. She will not be returned to her parents, with Mrs. Riley listed as a foster mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Riley
Washington, D. C
Harry Riley
Mrs. Riley
Congressman Shoemaker Proud of Presidential Pardon
Francis H. Shoemaker of Minnesota, a former convict and the only ex convict in Congress, received a presidential pardon in Washington from Roosevelt. He had served at Leavenworth from December 1930 to October 1931 for mailing libelous endorsements on envelopes in an attack on a judge.
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Francis H. Shoemaker
Minnesota
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Shoemaker
Leavenworth
Chaco Peace Talks Fray Amid Radio Interference
Negotiations between Bolivia and Paraguay stall as delegates struggle to define peace goals. A London conference is described like a radio expert’s explanation, with executive broadcasts over delegates creating interference and a resulting static condition.
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Boliva
Paraguay
Chaco
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Hull
Chas. A. Carper
Berkshire
Scott
R. J. Scott
Giants
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NRA
Sirius
Central Prove Association, Inc
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Wass
Donnie
Central Press Association, Inc
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Silvertown
Cammer
IRE
Bradflock and
Boscawéo Sts
Isburgh
MAC
Glaize & Bro
Cameron St
Telephone
U. S
Herrell Sales Corp
Loudoun St
Twin City Oil & Gas Corporation
Shell Station
Martinsburg Pike
Amherst & Boscawen St
Valley Ave
Braddock St
Winchester Furniture Co
South Main Street
Winchester, Va
C. I. Brumback
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