Notables Attend Lee Week at White Sulphur Springs
Miss Emma Ginn Baker and Mr. Robert B. Nelson Jr. join guests at White Sulphur Springs for Lee Week. A concert of southern airs and university songs precedes a children's costume ball featuring a secret spring and a clock for the Fairy Queen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Ginn Baker
Robert B. Nelson, Jr
Washington and Lee University
Virginia Military Institute
Roy W. Petticord
Fountain of Youth
General Lee
Lewisburg
W. Va
Jennie Price
Price
West Virginia
Louise Cary Feamster
Social Calendar of Local Clubs and Church Groups
A listing of weekly meetings and events across churches and organizations from Tuesday to Friday. Includes Girls Missionary Guild at Centenary Reformed, Kiwanis Club luncheon, Uni ted Brethren youth choir practice, Grace Lutheran adult choir, Sunday School picnic at Galilee, Rotary Club at George Washington Hotel, church benefits at Opequon Union Chapel, summer dances at Hotel Drusilla, American Legion Post luncheon, Braddock Street Methodist youth choir, and Lions Club gatherings at George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
Young People’s Choir
United Brethren Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Church of the Disciples of Christ, of Galilee
Jordan White Sulphur Springs
Rotary Club
Opequon Union Chapel
the Church
Drusilla
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Young Peoples Choir
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
District Nurse Association to Sponsor Card Party
The District Nurse Association plans a Friday evening charity card party starting at 8 o’clock to raise funds for the tuberculosis fund. Committees handle hotel arrangements prizes refreshments and reservations with proceeds aiding patients and sanatorium care. Tickets are 50 cents with card games including contract bridge set back auction bridge and five hundred. reservations to Mrs. Harry K. Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Nurse Association
H. D. Fuller
Tuberculosis Fund
Fred L. Glaize
Bryan Conrad
D. W. Ritenour
C. B. Organ
Clarence Hardy
Harry K. Russell
B. Mitchell Knight, Jr
Claude Grim
Grover C. Rose
S. Carroll Smith
T. Russell Cather
Harry Schmidt
Michael Collins
George Keller
Frances Page
S. Carroll
Evergreen Weller Pottery
Inez McKinster
George Washington Gift Shop
Samuel R. Hurst
Rainbow Ridge Gardens
Palace
Capitol Theatres
Marriage of Miss Catherine Grubb and Mr. Carl De Haven
Announcement of the marriage of Catherine Virginia Grubb and Carl De Haven of near White Post. They wed Saturday August 20 at the United Brethren Circuit parsonage with Rev. C J Racey officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Grubb and the groom son of Mr and Mrs Ross DeHaven. They will reside near White Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Virginia Grubb
Carl DeHaven
White Post
United Brethren Circuit
C. J. Racey
Harry Grubb
Ross DeHaven
Bertha Sine
L. N. Bucher
Bertha Ellen Sine
Lester Nelson Bucher
Middletown
Southern Methodist Church
W. P. Saunders
J. B. Line
Bucher
Wade Bucher
Miss Mathews Hosts Dinner for Council Members
Miss Elsie Mathews head of the Girls Athletic Association council hosted a dinner at the Frederck Tea House on West Boscawen for outgoing and incoming council members. Ten guests included Philomena Laren Marion Ewing Irene Headley Salome Crisman Mary Sullivan and Mrs Virginia Harrell. Mr and Mrs Charles Keyte hosted a separate dinner at Torus Inn near Opequon for Miss Constance Buckley and Mr Thomas Wray with nine guests including Mrs Frank L Buckley Helen Buckley Foster Fuller and Mrs Charles W Trenary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mathews
Elsie Mathews
Girls’ Athletic Association
Frederck Tea House
West Boscawen Street
Philomena Laren
Marion Ewing
Irene Headley
Salome Crisman
Mary Sullivan
Virginia Harrell
Mildred Elsen
Ida Lycette
Charles Keyt
Torus’ Inn
Opequon
Constance Buckley
Thomas &. Wray
Lynchburg
Frank L. Buckley
Helen Buckley
Foster Fuller
Fairport
N. Y
Charles W. Trenary
Stratford garden club advances restoration plans in Winchester area
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club outlined steps for a Stratford restoration after research into period loams and garden layouts in Maryland and Virginia. Funds near $50,000 with $10,000 spent on preliminary work come from two historic garden tours, plus earlier Kenmore restoration efforts totaling $20,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Clarke County
Kenmore
Fairfax Harrison
Stratford
Local residents return from travels and visits in Shenandoah Valley area
Dr and Mrs Ralph B Snapp and son Ralph Jr return from a two week trip on the Rappahannock River at Sharps VA. Many relatives and friends are noted visiting and hosting in Kernstown Winchester Harrrisonburg and nearby towns with multiple family connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph B. Snapp
Ralph, Jr
Rappahannock River
Sharps
Doolittle Troubled In Flight Unable To Land
Jimmy Doolittle, holder of the west east transcontinental speed record, could not land his newly rebuilt Laird bi plane as the retractable landing gear stuck. An hour aloft he circled the Wichita airport while mechanics tried to devise a fix. An ambulance stood by, and a bail out by parachute was deemed impossible due to cramped controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Wichita
Kan
Jimmy Doolittle
Laird
Doolittle
Woman Leaps From Airplane Off Maryland Coast
An unidentified woman, paying $25 for a Hoover Airport flight from Washington, leaped from a plane at about 1 800 feet three miles from Annapolis. She landed in a ditch. authorities searched the area while pilots and police tracked the missing passenger. The pocketbook left in the craft contained $34 and a card reading H. C. McConnaughty of Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Annapolis
Hoover
Washington
Rogers Scott
Scott
State’s Attorney's Office
R. Glenn Prout
H. C. McConnaughty
Forty-eighth Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
Dick Wright Heads Shenandoah Young Democrats
Dick Wright of Strasburg was elected president of the Shenandoah County Young Democrats Club at a Democratic mass meeting in Woodstock. Frank Dinges Jr and Mrs. John Miller were named first and second vice presidents with Carroll Coverstone as secretary treasurer. John Gallagher and Louise Falligant spoke. the Roosevelt-Garner club was formed and Virginia club development goals were outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodstock
Wright
Strasburg
Young Democrats Club
Shenandoah County
Court House
Frank Dinges
Edinburg
John Miller
New Market
Carroll Coverstone
John Gallagher
Leesburg
Young Democrats Club of
Virginia
Old Dominion
Roosevelt-Garner Club
Glass Attacks State Department Over Foreign Securities
Senator Carter Glass accuses the State Department of disgraceful subterfuge in responding to Roosevelt’s charges about foreign loans. He pledges to present facts on the floatation of millions of dollars of worthless foreign securities choking bank portfolios. The Senate previously warned against the department’s usurpation of authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onies Gack
United
Carter Glass
State Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Columbus
Ohio
Glass
United States Senate
Senate
Farmers' War Spreads Across the Midwest
The farmers holiday movement gains momentum across the Central and Western states. In Iowa mass meetings parades and attacks on trucks disrupt markets, while Minnesota Governor Olson signals readiness to join a regional plan perhaps including martial law to halt farm marketing until prices rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Ill
Middle West
Iowa
National Farm Holiday Association
Minnesota
Olson
Shenandoah Pageant casts 25 for episode four
Harrisonburg Va August casting advances for the Shenandoah Pageant 200th anniversary milestone. Twenty five characters receive parts in episode four including dancers fiddlers preachers and drivers from Hose Company No 4 and its auxiliary. The scene titled The Roadway to the West depicts early Virginians with a wedding climax leading to Shenandoah Daughter of the stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Hose Company No. 4
Charlie Maitland
Thomie Foley
Emory Stroop
Ralph Snyder
Wm. Braithwaite
Stocks bulge up again in a rapid movement
Stocks rose to a brisk pace with a million shares traded hourly as rails and utilities failed to push further. Industrials faced selling near the highs of the recovery, trimming gains of one to five points, though activity rebounded in afternoon trading. Sterling cables opened unchanged at 3 46 1/2 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
Marrnee
Lst
Sterling
Flying Boudoir Lands After Being Up 196 Hours
Valley Stream New York August 22 two 24 year old housewives Mrs Louise Thaden and Mrs Frances Marsalis set a new women refueling flight endurance record of 196 hours five minutes four fifths seconds. Thaden collapsed after landing and was taken to a nearby home with condition later described as not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Stream
N. Y
Louise Thaden
Frances Marsalis
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Country
Charles W. Galloway
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Galloway
Baltimore and Ohio Locomotive Engineers
William Galloway
Mount Clare Station
Baltimore
Ellicott City
William E. Cooper
Church Society
Missionary Society
The
Congregational Christian Church
Anna A. Hoover
Russell Cather
O. L. Hoover
Thelma L. Hauptman
Margaret Richards
Emma Cain
Girls’ Missionary Guild of
Centenary Reformed Church
Lions’ Club
Huntsberry
Catherine Grubb
Mr. DeHaven
Fray M. Wray
Blackburn Smith
Fund For
W. S. Powell
A. C. Schollar
Joseph S. Moore
James Riddle
E. L. Passier
S. L. Ayler
Charles Court
E. T. Berlin
Peter Williams
Lewis M. Allen
H. F. Byrd
Thos. M. Reynolds
John E. Richardson
J. M. H. Clagett
Berryville Chamber of Commerce
Edwin Ritter
Richard E. Mudd
North Cameron Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mr. Mudd
Northern Ene Power Company
Lavenia Homes
Mrs. W. A. Withers
Berryville
Roy Cather
West Clifford Street
Capon Spring
Katie Mace
Blanche Shoop
Capon Lake Inn
Louise Benner
Winchester Printers and Stationers
Mary Louise
Margaret Rush
Mrs. L. A. Thomas
South Stewart Street
Grace Brown Thomas
L. A. Thomas
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Mary E. Bird
Elkins
C. E. Babb
Shenandoah Avenue
Summit Point Baptist Church
Eleanor Walters
Master Donald Walters
East Piccadilly Street
Stewart Street
John Mills
Master John Mills, Jr
Kate Mills
Mr. Myer Hamburger
New York
Lillian Boyd
Rosemont
R. L. Boyd
Daisy Carper
Maynard Boyd
Donald
Helen
This City
Henkel Boyd
Kernsown
Robert Carper
Elaine Carper
Elizabeth Lee
Kernstown
Cecelia Anderson
Jack Anderson
G. R. Anderson
Frank Wartenbee
Charles Town
Alice Clinger
Posterneck
Philadelphia
Lyda Chapman
Clifford Street
Mrs. Elmer Bennett
Bethel
J. F. Morgan
Charlotte and
Nelson Morgan
Norfolk
R. L. Williamson
Morgan
Harry Huff
Philippi, W. Va
M. B. Clowe
Sally Forney
Washington Street
Nancy Fuller
Hagerstown
Charles Fuller
George Jenesson
Hartsdale, N. Y
Mrs
E. E. Rush
Dick Wright
Young Democrats
Kansas City
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
State Dept
America
N. Main St
Valley Pageant
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Deep Es
Thuringer
Lebanon
Swift
Braddock and
Boscawen Streete
R.M. Swimley
Lovett
Nave
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Loudoun and
Boscawen St
Sahara
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