Concert to aid Christ Church organ fund in Winchester
An August 30 benefit concert at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester features Mrs Noel and her mother Mrs Co Stouffer with Mrs Stuart and Mrs Feller. The event promotes the organ fund for Christ Episcopal Church. admission is 50 cents and tickets are at Baker's Drug Store. The program opens at 8 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Organ Fund
Christ Episcopal Church
Noel
Harry Co. Stouffer
Stuart
Feller
Virginia
Winchester
Baker’s Drug Store
George Washington Hotel
Social Calendar of Braddock Street area events
Evening activities include the Young Christians class tea at Mrs Rosenberger 210 West German Street 50 day events at Berryville Horse Show dance Jordan Springs and 11th Field Artillery dance at Jordan Springs. Lions Club Rotary Kiwanis and American Legion meetings at George Washington Hotel Handley High School band concert at 111th Field Artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock Street
M. E. Church
J. W. Rosenberger
West Germain Street
Berryville
Jordan Springs
Field Artillery
Tuly
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Kiwanis Club
United Brethren
Winchester Lodge No
Ellis
Piccadilly and
Braddock
Grace of
Soo Church
Rotary Club
Winchester
Country Club
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
111Th Field Artillery
Handiey High School
Toscanini Plans Reformation Symphony Broadcast Sunday
Arturo Toscanini selects Mendelssohn Reformation for the Vienna Philharmonic from Salzburg for NBC Sunday 10 to 11 am. The program also includes Wagner Siegfried Idy and Rossini Silken Staircase with Mozarteum as venue. The concert supports the Ocean Fund with a candlelight tea to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toscanini
Richard E. Griffith
Winchester Music Lovers’ Club
Arturo Toscanini
Vienna Philharmonic Symphony
Mendelssohn
NBC Blue
Salzburg
Nazi Germany
Siegfried
Wagner
Rossini
Mozarteum
Old White Dahlia Show At Greenbrier Hotel
Garden clubs of Virginia and West Virginia are invited to attend the first annual old white dahlia show at the Greenbrier Hotel White Sulphur Springs. The event runs September 12 to 15 with many dahlia varieties and expert talks and moving pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
West Virginia
Cameo
Greenbrier Hotel
White Sulphur Springs
Greenbrier County
Mrs. Champ Clark Visits Washington and Summit Point
Mrs. Champ Clark widow of the former House speaker arrives in Washington with her son in law James M. Thomson and daughter, guest of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. She travels to Summit Point West Virginia to stay with the Thomsons. Thomson is son of Mrs. Thomson and the late Dr. Thomson and publisher of the New Orleans Item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champ Clark
Summit Point
House of Representatives
Washington
James M. Thomson
New Orleans
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Clark
W. Va
Thomson
Mr. Thomson
A. P. ,Thomson
The
Radio Stars to Attend Capon Bridge Party
Uncle Bob and Cowboy Ray from WTBO Cumberland Md will appear in person to entertain attendees at the Methodist Church Epworth League lawn festival in Capon Bridge West Virginia tomorrow evening, announced the organizing committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capon Bridge
Uncle Bob
Cowboy Ray
WTBO
Cumberland
Wil
W. Va
Epworth League Plans Meeting at Star Fort
The Epworth League of Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a Sunday evening service at the Star Fort Civil War fortification northwest of the city at 5 o'clock. Mr and Mrs Harold Rowe will lead the program. Attendees should meet at the church at 5 pm Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Old War Fort
Market Street
Methodist Episcopal Church
Star Fort
Harold Rowe
Mr. Asbury Kern Returns To The Northwest
Ellensburg Washington resident Mr. Asbury Kern returns home after a visit to relatives in the east. He travels by motor, accompanied by his sister in law Mrs. John A. Kern and her son Bentley. Mrs. Kern plans to visit her husband in the Ellensburg apple business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Kern
F. Asbury Kern
Ellensburg
Wash
John A. Kern
Bentley
Rev Allen Jones Family Returns From Wakefield Visit
The Rev. Allen Jones pastor of the Opequon group of Presbyterian churches with Mrs. Jones and four children Allen Jr Billy Clara and Betty returned this morning from Wakefield Virginia where they spent 10 days visiting Mrs. Jones parents Mr and Mrs J P Robertson Another son Dudley will remain for some time Rev Mr Jones will fill his regular appointments Sunday Shawnee Home Demonstration Group To Meet The Shawnee home demonstration group will meet at the home of Mrs Edwin Marker Tuesday afternoon August 27 at 2 o'clock Demonstration of jelly making sandwiches and iced drinks will be given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Jones
Opequon
Presbyterian
Edwin Marker
Beaver family records emergency operation at Memorial Hospital
Miss Hilda and Mr Charles Beaver arrived from Washington to be with their brother Beverley M Beaver who underwent an emerg ency operation at Memorial Hospital. Maurice Beaver, son of Mr and Mrs G F Beaver, was also taken to the hospital for an emergency operation on acute appendicitis and was reported resting satisfactorily today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverley M. Beaver
Hilda
Charles Beaver
Washington, D. C
Beverley M Beaver
Memorial Hospital
Beverley
Maurice Beaver
G. F. Beaver
Mrs Byrd Hosts Amherst Street Dinner Honor Guests
Mrs. R. E. Byrd will entertain at dinner tonight at her Amherst Street home honoring Mrs. R. T. Barton of Baltimore Md Mrs. Lynn see of Hagerstown Md and Mary Stearnes Feller of Nortel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Byrd
Amherst Street
R. T. Barton
Baltimore, Md
Lynn
Hagerstown
Mary. Stearnes Feller
Nortel
Local Citizens Pay Tribute To Rogers And Post
Winchester residents joined Valley Airways in honor of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Funeral services were held in California and Oklahoma. Local pilots delivered flowers by air at 5 pm, dropping them over Mount Hebron Cemetery Admiral Byrd Airport and the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Valley Airways
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
California
Oklahoma
The
Star
Mount Hebron
Admiral Byrd Airport
Other Tar and Feather Parties Being Planned
In Santa Rosa California authorities prepared to halt further vigilante activity after 400 night riders tarred and feathered two radicals. Jack Green and Solomon Nitzburg hid after Nitzburg left his Petaluma ranch home amid tear gas. Warnings to leave the county were issued to three other radicals manhandled by the crowd as night riders threaten more raids unless agitators leave Sonora County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rosa
Calif
Jack Green
Solomon Nitzburg
Nitzburg
Petaluma
Sonora County
Orndorff to Lead Mission Services at Indian Hollow
Hampden Sydney student Ellsworth Orndorff will preach at the Helping Hand Mission Church Indian Hollow at 3 p.m. Sunday August 25 with class meetings on the first and third Sundays. Mrs. McVicar sponsors the mission and hopes attendance grows for the old time meetings.
Berryville Social Roundup At Horse Show and Visits
Berryville Virginia residents host and visit guests during the week. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Graham Dougherty receiving visitors at Woodley and Mrs. John Chew entertaining James M. Thomson of New Orleans at Ellwood. Judges for hunt classes in the Berryville Horse Show include Mr. Boyd of Southern Pines Hunt Cub and Paul Gable of Harrisburg. Additional social notes mention visitors from Cumberland Maryland to Summit Point, a Virginia Beach house guest, and other summer gatherings at estates such as Ryton in Clarke County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Graham Dougherty
William A. Metzger
Leesburg
John Chew
J. M. Robeson
Mount Verde
Fla
Peggie Moore Stalnaker
Willam B. Stalnaker
Cumberland
A. Moore, Jr
W. Chapin Huntington
L. M. Allen
John S. Goldsmith
Llewellyn Bull
Mae Burch
F. L. Ayler
Kansler
Hagerstown
Henry Reynolds
Washington
William Perry
Fairmont
W. Va
Charles Town
Thorton Perry
J. M. H. Clagett
William H. Wilmer
Freight wreck derails ten cars blocking tracks near Kirkwood
Ten cars of a 56 car freight train derailed near Kirkwood on the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Both tracks were blocked for several hours requiring passenger transfers. No injuries reported. the cause was not definitely established. The train was bound south from Wilmington.
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Wilmington
Del
Kirkwood
Delaware
Pennsylvania Railroad
Flight search widens for Dawson bound plane
FAIRBANKS Alaska Aug 23 Additional pilots joined the aerial hunt for the missing plane that left Dawson on Monday with four aboard. Airmen combed mountain sides and dark valleys again but failed to locate any trace of the missing craft.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Dawson
U. S
Final Tribute Paid Memory of Clark Maxwell
Frederick county relatives traveled to Berwyn Maryland for the funeral of Clark Maxwell a former Winchester resident who died this week at age seventy He had lived in Berwyn for twenty years and the service was led by Rev B Andrew Matzen At St Johns Episcopal Cemetery in Beltsville Maxwell a Liverpool England native once owned a Fairmont Avenue home and bred horses He was active in the Presbyterian Church serving as Sunday school superintendent and deacon Surviving family includes his widow Elizabeth Petrie two daughters Mrs Wilson Thompson and Mrs Richard Fleet and two sisters in Liverpool May he be remembered for his generosity and hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Berwyn
Clark Maxwell
Winchester
Maryland
B. Andrew Matzen
Presbyterian Church
St. John's Episcopal PS i
Beltsville
Maxwell
England
Elizabeth Petrie
Bartonville
County
Wilson
Thompson
Richard Fleet
Liverpool
Middies Return From Sea Outing
ANNAPOLIS Md Aug 23 The battleships Wyoming and Arkansas with 735 midshipmen aboard anchored off Piney Point at the mouth of the Potomac River for the weekend. They are returning from a European cruise that began June 7 and left the Virginia capes Wednesday after diet ee bat tle practice was curtailed by weather conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Wyoming
Arkansas
Piney Point
Potomac River
Virginia “Capes
Electrocuted For Old Man's Death
Huntsville Texas August 23 Bernard Secume a 22 year old Galveston painter was electrocuted at the state penitentiary for the murder of 81 year old Charley E Cansler Angelina county businessman during a February 1934 robbery The execution marked the end of a case involving a nonagenarian victim and a youth condemned for an armed crime in Texas.
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Huntsville
Tex
Bernard Secume
Galveston
State Penitentiary
Charley E. Cansler
Angelina County
Kiwanians Attend Inter Club Meet in Shepherdstown West Virginia
Winchester Kiwanis members joined about 150 Kiwanians from Shepherdstown Berkeley Springs Martinsburg Hagerstown and Washington for an inter city meet on the lawn of Goldborough estate. International trustee D Ed Hill and Washington club secretary George W Winslow spoke on West Virginia club achievements over the past five years. Lunches were provided by the Woman's Civic Club and Mrs. Goldborough's Kansas guest sang selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Berkeley Springs
Martinsburg
Hagerstown Town
Washington. D
Ed Hill
Washington Club
Hill
Capitol District
George W. Winslow
West Virginia
Winslow
Goldborough
Woman's Civic Club
One Case Heard In Police Court
Joseph Herring faced a police court hearing for selling wheat with a levy on it. The court ordered payment of the claim and costs totaling 29 dollars and 22 cents and imposed a six months suspended jail term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Herring
Notable Pope Family Members Remain At Home In Ohio and Virginia
Ralph Norris and Olin E. Pope of Dayton Ohio Clarence R Pope of Washington DC Mrs R V Martin of Front Royal and Eugene Pope at home also two sisters Mrs C B Manuel Winchester and Mrs Bettie Venable Front Royal five grandchildren are listed in the final family notice
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Norris
Olin E. Pope
Dayton
Ohio
Clarence R. Pope
Washington, D. C
R. V. Martin
Front Royal
Eugene Pope
C. B. Manuel
Winchester
Bettie Venable
Coastal Winds Forecast From Chesapeake Bay To Hatteras
Winds along the coast and bay forecast for 24 hours include fresh northerly winds possibly strong at times. Northerly winds prevail from Sandy Hook to Cape Hatteras with stronger gusts over the north, and partly overcast conditions tonight and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac River
Sandy Hook
Cape Hatteras
Charles E Pope Dies After Long Illness
Charles Edward Pope born March 28 1877 and lifelong resident dies after a long illness. He served on school league committees and was active in civic affairs. He leaves a widow and six children. three sons and three daughters survive, including J Car son Reely and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Edward Pope
B. F. Pope
Daisy Edmondson
J. Carson Reely
Funeral services for longtime member at Grace M. E. Church
Funeral services planned Sunday afternoon at 2 or 2:30 from Grace M. E. Church South with Rev. W. P. Saunders presiding. Interment will follow in the Mount Carmel Cemetery family lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace M. EB. Church
South
W. P. Saunders
Mount Carmel Cemetery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nein
Ersoral
Ocean Fund
Susan Reid Stuart
Mary Stearns Feller
Evva Stouffer Noel
Huntsberry
Bostonians
Nettletons
Red Cross
Slaters
Mrs. Allen Jones
Trip
Rogers
Post
Mr. Orndorff
County Mission
James Madden
Lynwood Everly
Miss Ruby Everly
James Ritter
Atlantic City
C. M. Galliday
Stephens City
F. M. Yeakle
This City
Hagenlocker
Pittsburgh
Neville
Strasburg
Jacob Beutell
Ocean Grove, N. J
J. A. R. Snapp
J. R. Fletcher
Virginia Fletcher
Charles E. Brown
East Cork Street
Warren Brown
Altoona, Pa
C. E. Brown
No. 22
Joseph Wright
Virginia Beach
Charles H. Consolvo
Baltimore and
Clarke County
Eventide
Fred Read
Mrs. Holmes Allen
Richmond
Mrs. Allen
Mr. Allen
City
Mrs. Chew
Mrs. Thomson
S. Main St
Brooks’ Pharmacy
S. Loudoun ST
Devonde Hair Dresser
S. Loudoun Street
Selby
Maida
Berwyn, Md
Middies
Charles E. Pope
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Geo. W. Kurtz
Victor
Acme
Underwood
N. Loudoun St
Lovett’s
Loudoun, St
Isanitary
London St
Nas
R. M. Swimley
Geo. Washington Hotel
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