Nurses Arrive at Beachhead Hospital in Southern France
First American nurses disembarked from a hospital ship and began tending wounded soldiers within minutes at a southern France beachhead. Captain Mary Jane McCone, formerly Winchester Memorial Hospital superintendent, led nurses from Pennsylvania with Sicily Salerno and Anzio service.
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France
Mary Jane McCone
San Francisco
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Penn
Sicily
Salerno
Anzio
McCone
Italy
Mrs Benham Hosts Little Garden Club Meeting
Mrs Harry Benham hosted the Little Garden Club at her Rostel Road home. The day featured a tomato arrangement exhibit from club distributed plants with greenery. Awards went to Mrs Harry Benham for Red, Mrs Lewis Barton and Mrs Rodney Taylor for Yellow, plus blue ribbons to Mrs Carl McMullan in Large Red and Mrs William Lawrence Jr for Herbs and Vegetables respectively.
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Harry Benham
Little Garden Club
Rostel Road
Lewis Barton
Rodney Taylor
Carl McMullan
William Lawrence
Cpl Rupert Morris Weds Miss Schroder in Martinsburg Ceremony
Cpl Rupert Bryan Morris U S A and Miss Marie Frances Shroder were married Saturday at Calvary Methodist Church Martinsburg W Va The ceremony featured palm and gladioli decor Many relatives attended including best man Morris and ushers Ensign John L Shroder Jr and Ensign Gene Lantry A reception followed at the brides parents home The couple to honeymoon then return to Martinsburg and Camp Croft respectively
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Calvery Methodist Church
Martinsburg
W. Va
Marie Frances Shroder
John L. Shroder
Cpl
Rupert Bryan Morris
Garland Morris
Winchester
Clarence H. Corkran
Hunter J. Maddox
Morris
John L. Shroder, Jr
Gene Lantry
Buhl
Idaho
Donnle E. Clark
Hubert E. Good
Cpl. Is
Camp Croft
Local residents host visitors and return from trips
Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Boyd and daughter Mary Warden return home from Capon River cabin. Miss Boyd with a Washington position leaves Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mackell visit from Manassas, Va., guests of Mrs. Clayton Hall, now a patient in Winchester Memorial Hospital after a fall. The Rev. and Mrs. Luttrell of St. Augustine, Fla. visit Frederick county. Cpl. Lester D. Arnold Jr. returns to Walla Walla base after furlough with parents, awaiting overseas duty. Miss Mary Wood hosts a dinner at Wayside Inn for Mrs. Kennedy of Columbia, S. C., with several local guests.
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Misses Brown
Mary Howe Glascock
Lou Glascock
Upperville
Ann Turner Glascock
Richmond
Dave Miller
Washington, Va
Judy Speake
Helen
Frances Brown
Harold Brown
South
Washington Street
Miss Speake
Luray
Elizabeth Randolph Ford
Virginia
Eleanor Leatherman
Washington, R. C
Dennis A. Weaver
New York
Charles Good
Fla
Aries E. Good
Kendall
Freeerick County
Nellie Summerville
Ada
Paul Fitestephns
Elmer Good
Papermill Road
James 8. Goode
Sarah
Arlington
J. E
West Monmouth Street
P. W. Boyd
Mary Warden
Fairmont Ave
Capon River
Miss Boyd
Washington
Charles Mackell
Manassas
Clayton Hall
Winchester Memorial Hospital
the Plains
Randolph Turner
Hall
W. ©. Luttrell
St. Augustine
R. A. Cooper
Frederick County
Luttrell
Grace Methodist Church
Cpl
Lester Arnold
Lester D. Arnold, Jr
U. S. Army Air Corps
Walla Walla
Arnold
Mary Wood
Berryville Pike
Winchester
Wayside Inn
Kennedy
Columbia
Carrie Hunter
Robert Barton
Walter Talbot
Gertrude McCormac
Christine Roszel
Robert Lozier
Fannie Wright
Ely Bradfield
Ernest Ely
Elizabeth Riley
McReynolds
F. L. Aylor
Berryville
Aylers
Gertrude
Virginia Lewis
Culpeper
Berryville Teen Enlists in Navy After Local Drive
Francis Page Chapman 17, of Academy Street Berryville, joins the Navy after enlisting through the Winchester recruiting office. A Berryville high school basketball player and Virginia State Guard member, he was sworn in July and to boot camp in August, with roots in Clarke County and Charles Town born.
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Francis Page Chapman
George R. Chapman
Academy Street
Berryville
Navy
Chapman
Charles Town
W. Va
Clarke County
Berryville Hosts Notable Visiting Guests and locals
In Berryville Virginia Mrs Horace Smithy hosts a month long stay at Rose Hill with visitors from Washington and Virginia. Guests include Mrs Virginia Patton and a procession of locals and relatives attending meals and assisting with tuberculosis association reorganizations.
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Mrs. Patton
Horace Smithy
Berryville
Washington
Rose Hill
Virginia Patton
Smithy
Gray Beverley
Winchester
Tion
Pred Lindy
Norwood
Eleanor Currin
Virginia State Tuberculosis Association
Clarke
T. B. Association
Crockett
Upperville
Community Notes Highlight Local Family Travel and Visitors
Weekend updates from Berryville recounts of residents leaving for Colonial Beach and Fort Benning. Visitors include Chas McGuire from Washington and Lt. Gilbert McKown from Washington staying with the Lindys. Births, hospital stays, weddings, and horse business trips also appear among local lines.
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Marshall McCormick Reynolds
Berryville
Fred Lindy
Fort Benning
Lindy
Chas. McGuire
Washington, D. C
Gilbert McKown
Norwood
Lindys
Illness Fatal To Roy L. Ritenour
Roy Lester Ritenour 38 farmer and Powells Fort Valley resident died Monday at his home after a two year illness. Survived by wife Dorothy E. Stephens and two children Richard and Russell. Funeral Wednesday at 3:30 from the family home with burial in the family cemetery.
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Roy Lester Ritenour
Powells Fort Valley
Ritenour
Seven Fountains
Milton
Martha Jane Burner Ritenour
Oak Hill
Waterlick
Vollie Ritenour
Miami
Fla
Perry W. Ritenour
McKee’ Rock
Harry Ritenour
Lynchburg
John Dodson
Quicksburg
Soldiers in uniform receive wartime honors and assignments
Several West Virginia and Virginia service members are recognized. Cpl. John E. Jolley receives the Good Conduct Medal at Fort Macon, N C. Capt. Pessy Glynn of Stephens City awaits a U S return after 27 months in the Southwest Pacific. Pvt. Billy Duvall Glasscock reports to Keesler Field for reassignment. Pvt. Ralph S. Bailey arrives at Camp Croft for basic training. Staff Sgt. Marshall Feltner, a POW, earns the Air Medal to be presented later. Pfc. Edwin R. Bersole awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for actions in France. Pfc. Ebersole sent postwar insignia of German Coastal Defense units.
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John E. Jolley
John P. Jolley
Angers Store
W. Va
Fort Macon
N. C
William B. Johnson
Fifth Air Force
Southwest Pacific
Pessy Glynn
ANC
Stephens City
United States
S. Coe
Harry M. Glynn
Delaware Hospital School of Nursing
Keesler Field
Biloxi
Miss
Billy Duvall Glasscock
C. W. Glasscock
White Post
Army Air Forces Training Command
Rice Feltner
Briggs
Clarke County
War Department
Marshall Feltner
Hungary
Sgt
Feltner
J. A. Ulio
Edwin R. Bersole
France
Pfc
Ebersole
Fairchild Aircraft
Hagerstown
Caroline Stretchberry
Ollie Ebersole
Thompson Will Probated Here
Probated in Winchester nation court yesterday was the will of Lt. Paul Thompson Jr U S Marine Corpsman who lost his life in the Marianas The will leaves all property to his mother Mrs Gretchen Thompson of Winchester named executrix Written in Philadelphia on December 11 1941 and witnessed by three Marine Corps buddies
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Winchester Nation Court
Paul Sat Thomson, Jr
U. S. Marine
Mariannas
Wen
Gretchen Thomson
Winchester
Philadelphia
Marine Corps
Cemetery Cleanup Set for Chestnut Grove
Walter Light treasurer of the Graveyard Maintenance Committee announces a cemetery cleanup at Chestnut Grove on Thursday August 24. All relatives and interested parties with family plots are asked to help.
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Chestnut Grove
Walter Light
Crossword Clues for Across and Down
A crossword style clue list with across and down entries including abstains from food, combination, at right angle to ship keel, tuft on bird wing, beast of burden Atlantic American, cloth, permit, stripped of husks, ring in harmony vine, woody perennials, borders, drop, tree, affirmative votes, and help.
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Mary McCone
Srey
Rouss
Jean Heefner
Junior Heefner
Hagerstown, Md
Audrey Shanks
Billy
South Kent Street
Sunda
Mrs. Jenkins
Joseph Jenkins
South Loudoun Street
Darlene Evelyn
Jenkins
Maylene Hausenfluck
Tom Woolfolk
Baltimore
Thomas Woolfolk
John Woolfolk
West Clifford Street
Gaylord
Atlanta
Leslie Gaylord
Rebecca
Frances Beverley
Staten Island
N. Y
Paul Gaylord
Major Riley
City
W. O. Riley
Bush Field
Augusta
G. W. Riley
E. H. Durell
BE. H. Durell
West Cecil Street
Miss Sheehan
Staunton
Betty Sheehan
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Allen
Cape May
Lewis M Alten
South Washington Street
Robert Conrad
Cape Ay
Mrs. Benham
Rupert Morris
Schroder
Messrs
John W. Hoover
Walter H. Clowser
Amiel L. Clowser
J. R. McKeever
Rappahannock River
Bowlers Wharf
Oklahoma
William Price
Roanoke
Margaret Keller
Taft Hotel
New York City
Misses Leatherman
Gypsy Dream
Jeno Moon
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Simplex
Oxford
Huntsberry
Mr. and
Mrs. Mackell
Mrs. Luttrell
County
Presbyterian Church
Gaunt
Gilbert Longerbeam
Richmond, Va
Earl Hill
Newport
Harker’s Island
Burton Lightner
George Shtner
Woodstock
Jack Russell
Camp
A. P. Hill
Fredericksburg
Nora Moore
Milton Valley
Stephen Field
Toddsbury
Gloucester County
Marie I. Crow
Crow's Nest
Rebekah Gold
Thomas E. Gold
Montford Jones
Bristow
Okla
Buena Vista
N. F. Smith
Bertha Shauck
Virgie Buckingham
Baltimore, Md
Harold Scheuer
Elaine Scheuer
Scheuer
Betty Scheuer
Leon Scheuer
Capt
Pete Muflikin
Tom Howell
P. G. Lowe
Ernest Woodworth
South Church Street
Malcolm Johnston
Alexandria
Henry Lickey
Johnston
T. Rice Crown
8. B. Crown
Woodlawn
Decatur, Ga
Anna Moore
Hallie Dorsey
Gainesville
Prince William County
Loring Kackley
George Kackley
Edgar Carter
M. F. Wisecarver
Ralph M. Ware
Margaret McVicar
Peyton St. Winchester, Ve
Colonial Beach
Ware
First National Bank
Tom Fenton
Ann Price
Clifton Price
Soldier’s Rest
Mrs
Irvine Price
Shenandoah River
Brooke Gwathmey Harris
Morton Co. Mumma, Jr
Ann Mumma
Arlington, Va
Helen Clevenger
Herbert Clevenger
Wiliam Clevenger
John Summers
Johnny Summers
Pat Summers
Charleston
Kanawha County
Summer
Mrs. Wood
Bruce Gorham
A. L. Nowlin
Nowlin
Mary Lee Enders
John Enders
Tate
Claude Feltner
Garden State Park
L. I
Garden State
Charles Martin Feltner
Roy L. Ritenour
Ralph
Bailey
Francis William Bailey
Millwood Avenue
S. C
Army
Handley High School
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
J. J. Newberry CO
C. A. Davis
Prep
Baker’s Drug Store
Shenandoah Valley
Loudoun Street
The
Red Cross
Tode Tuttle
Sungurn Lodge
Thompson
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Miller Bros
Cel
Red Cross Blood Donor Service
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Timberlake
Daily Crossword
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