Family honors and college laurels mark August 1934 notice
An APOSSONMR article notes the future welfare of the nation depends on honesty and justice. I W Dick reads poems including The Dicks dedication to forefathers, a reunion announced for August 1935. Pauline Clowser hosts a Hogue Creek weiner roast with guests and ghost stories. The Harrisonburg State Teachers College closes its twenty fifth annual session awarding 59 certificates and 22 bachelor degrees. Commencement speaker was Joseph Saunders of Newport News. President Duke presided with graduates from four states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dress
I. W. Dick
Mr. Dick
Pauline Clowser
Hogue Creek
Mabel Light
Hilda Cather
Nannie Orndorff
Frances Larrick
Hilda Smithey
Elsie Shanholtz
Helen Hoover
Gladys Ramey
Helen Taylor
Mildred Taylor
Wilda Baker
Opal Davis
Boyd Ramey
Junior Poole
Linwood Pools
Courtney Taylor
Denver Springs
Voyan Omps
Ray Cather
Charles Clowser
Haven Wolfe
Raymond Baker
Harrisonburg
Charles H. Grimm
West Germain Street
Rene Mitchell Mathews
Thomas W. Mathews
North Stewart Street
Bessie Myrtle Thornton
South Loudoun Street
Myrtle Dinges Rhodes
Middletown
Ruth ‘Teresa Haines
Elosser E. Haines
West Boscawen Street
This City
Rosanna Kathleen Snapp
Community Club and Church Activities Schedule
A weekly social calendar lists events across Steph ens City area. The Lions Club Kiwanis Wells Singers Elks and Rotary host meetings and luncheons. Choir practices and a Little Theatre performance are planned at local churches and Capitol Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City High School
Benefit Community League
Lions’ Club
First Baptist Church
Kiwanis Club
United Brethren Church
Young Bee
Winchester Lodge of Elks
Grace Lutheran Church
Dick Family Reunion Draws 300 and More in W Va
More than 300 relatives and friends attended the third annual Dick family reunion at the old homestead near Angers Store West Virginia on August 20. The program featured home talent music readings and an opening welcome by P B Dick emphasizing open hospitality.
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Angers Store
W. Va
Miss Virginia DeHaven Weds Ursel DeHaven in Hagerstown
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Virginia DeHaven daughter of Mr and Mrs Berlin DeHaven Inwood West Virginia to Mr Ursel De Haven son of Mr and Mrs W L DeHaven Gainesboro this county took place Wednesday August 23 in Hagerstown Maryland Rev Paul E Holedcraft officiated The bride wore a brown and white ensemble Mr and Mrs DeHaven plan to stay with Virginia's parents at Gainesboro for a few days.
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Virginia DeHaven
Ursel DeHaven
Berlin DeHaven
Inwood
W. Va
W. L. DeHaven
Gainesboro
Hagerstown
Paul E. Holedcraft
United Brethren Church
Mrs. DeHaven
Grainesboro
Mrs Carroll Party Returns to Baltimore From Winchester
Mrs Douglas Gordon Carroll will return today to Baltimore with her son Douglas Gordon Carroll Jr and daughter Nancy Gordon Carroll and Mrs Carrolls sister Mrs William B Bleck of France and her two children Anita Carroll and Charles Carroll. They were guests of Mr and Mrs Frank N Hack and Mr Hack is the brother of Mrs Carroll and Mrs Bleck.
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Carroll
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
Douglas Gordon Carroll
Douglas Gordon Carroll, Jr
Nancy Gordon Carroll
William B. Bleck
France
Anita Carroll
Charles Carroll
Winchester
Frank N. Hack
Hack
Ble
Dance Next Thursday At Jordan Springs
Invitations issued for a subscription dance on Thursday August 31 at 9 30 pm at Hotel Drusilla Jordan White Sulphur Springs near Stephenson Music by Whitey Kaufman and His Victor Recording Orchestra members of the radio stage and screen Fourteen artists join the act following a vaudeville tour Also planned are a second event Friday September 1 at Winchester Golf Club with Red Bailey and His Collegians from 11 pm to 3 am following the Little Theatre play Expressing Willie.
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Rotary Club
Girls’ Athletic Association
West Piccadilly Street
American Legion Post
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Little Theatre Organization
Willie
Capitol Theatre
Hotel Drusilla
Jordan White Sulphur Springs
Stephenson
Charles Shewbridge
Danoe
Whitey Kaufman
Victor Recording Orchestra
Kaufman
Gilda Gray
Winchester Golf Club
Red Bailey
Pastor and Family On Vacation Trip
The Rev. E. A. Lambert pastor of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South and family visit Ballston Virginia and Upper Marlboro Maryland to spend time with relatives and return early next week. Various local residents host and visit relatives with planned trips and gatherings across towns including Roanoke Blacksburg and Chicago World’s Fair attendance then back home.
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E. A. Lambert
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Muntzing Family Holds First Annual Virginia Reunion
Members of the Muntzing family from Virginia and nearby states held their first annual reunion on Kernstown grounds in Frederick County. About 100 attended, with Gus Muntzing as master of ceremonies and Ernest Muntzing, Rhoda King, and D. O. Fout among speakers.
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Muntzing
Virginia
Kernstown
Gus Muntzing
Moorefield
W. Va
Ernest Muntzing
Maysville
Rhoda King
Muntzings
Patterson's Creek
Lume’s Creek
Local Residents Return From Trips as World’s Fair News Spreads
Mr and Mrs Blois return to Grey Stone Terrace after two months at Shadigee Beach Ontario Canada Miss Jane Scully travels to Washington for a day visit Mrs I N Good and George W Good return from Chicago Mr Timberlake and Miss Lois Cross plan a motor trip to New York City for stock purchases for Timberlake Department Store They will stay with Miss Lily Timberlake in Brooklyn Miss Mary Hirth and Mrs Virginia Schuchman return to Pittsburgh from West Monmouth Street Messrs W B Snider Jr and William Collins head to Chicago World’s Fair George Hammann rests at his son’s home on West Pall Mall Street after illness
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I. N. Good
North Braddock Street
George W. Good
New York City
Chicago
Rere
Thomas F. Timberlake
Lois Cross
Timberlake Department Store
New York
Timberlake
Miss Cross
Miss Lily Timberlake
Brooklyn
Mary Hirth
Virginia Schuchman
Pittsburgh
Charles L. Hirth
West Monmouth Street
George Hammann
Boyd Hamman
West Pall Mall Street
Peaches From Tree Planted 36 Years Ago
A basket of Elberta peaches was presented by the Baker family from a tree planted 36 years ago at the Jacob Baker farm on Merriman's lane. The tree, the last of four score planted by Mr Baker, has continued yielding fruit despite minimal care while others were cut down due to disease.
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Stephens City
Star Office
Jacob Baker
Merriman’s Lane
Baker
Star
Handley Library Sees Tenfold Growth in Two Decades
A Winchester library anniversary notes dramatic rise from 21 171 books circulated in year one to about 75 000 in year twenty, while population roughly doubles. Hours remain 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with summer closing at 7 30 p.m. for ten weeks. 1 052 965 books borrowed highlight the library’s impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Handley Library
Miss Brooks Dies At Home In Hampshire County
Miss Anna Brooks of Millbrook Hampshire county West Virginia died this morning after a two week illness at 3 o'clock. She was a daughter of the late Howard and Elizabeth Brooks and is survived by sister Mrs Amanda Pugh of Millbrook brother Samuel Brooks of Dillions Run and many nephews and nieces in Frederick county. Funeral from the Lutheran Church at Millbrook Monday at 2 pm with nearby cemetery interment.
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Anna Brooks
Millbrook
Hampshire County
W Va
Grimes
Miss Brooks
Howard and
Elizabeth Brooks
Amanda Pugh
Samuel Brooks
Dillions Run
W. Va
Frederick County
Funeral Rites of Peasy Ann Cather
The funeral for Peggy Ann Cather nine months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth F Cather, was held yesterday at the parents home 523 South Loudoun Street. Rev Dr S L Flickinger of Centenary Reformed Church officiated. Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Survived by parents and twin sister Nancy Lee Cather. mother formerly Miss Lucille Wingfield of this city.
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Peggy Ann Cather
Kenneth F. Cather
South Loudoun Stret
S. L. Flickinger
Centenary Reformed Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Nancy Lee Cather
Cather
Lucille Winefield
E. E. Wingfield
Amanda Jordan Funeral Monday
The funeral of Amanda V. Jordan, a well known Winchester colored woman, will be held at 2 o clock Monday afternoon at John Mann Methodist Church East Cork street with Rev Dockett officiating. Interment is in Orrick Cemetery. The remains rest at Paynter's funeral parlor until Monday.
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Amanda V. Jordan
Winchester
John Mann
Hawks Breaks Another Record in Quebec Flight
American speed flier Frank Hawks extended his non stop Vancouver to Quebec flight record. He landed in Montreal at 11 50 a m eastern standard time after departing Kingston.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Frank Hawks
Vancouver
Quebec
Kingston
Bates pleads not guilty in first Denver kidnapping hearing
In Denver the reputed gangster Albert L Bates appears before U S Commissioner Lee Crowley in a jail arraignment on a federal kidnapping charge involving Oklahoma oil operator Charles F Urschel. Bond is set at 100000, matching Harvey Bailey. Bates' attorney Ben B Laska stands nearby as the hearing is held inside the county jail to avoid a possible_delivery plot.
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Denver
Albert L. Bates
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma
U. S
Lee Crowley
Center
Bates
Harvey Bailey
Dallas
Tex
Ben B. Laska
Elopement Tangles Family as Outlaw Barrow Brothers Sought
Mrs Cecil Thornbrugh 17 formerly Esther Beatrice McCormick of Fr Scott Kansas was held by her husband’s parents and returned home after eloping with notorious outlaw Thornbrugh. The Barrow brothers Harold and the other are wanted by police in four western states for murder of a policeman and wounding of a sheriff. The elopement cut short a teaching career she planned.
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Cecil Thornbrugh
Esther Beatrice McCormick
Fr. Scott
Thornbrugh
Harold
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