Ellen Pifer Weds John Mossberg in Presbyterian Ceremony
Miss Ellen Pifer of Strasburg marries Mr John Mossberg of Manston in a Presbyterian ring ceremony conducted by Rev Jonathan Edwards. Attendants include Miss Dorothy Buglass and Mr Waldman. The couple will reside in Washington DC after Northward travels. The Bradleyville United Brethren Church choir will sing at services. American Legion Auxiliary meets December 3 to plan Christmas food baskets for families of veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Pifer
Strasburg
An Mossberg
Manston
Jonathan Edwards
Dorothy Buglass
On Waldman
W C
Telaebicon
Irene Pifer
J. Edwin Pifer
H. S. Pifer
Martha Pifer
Mrs. Mossberg
Washington, D. C
Young People’s Choir
The
United Brethren Church
Evelyn Barbour
New York
Garnet Hamrick
Social calendar highlights for Winchester area clubs
Monday features a degree conferral at Madison Lodge 6 by Tuscarora Lodge Martinsburg. Tuesday noon Lions Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel followed by Modern Woodmen Camp 15 meeting and Kiwanis luncheon. Regular Winchester Lodge meeting and Grace Lutheran Adult Choir practice listed. Wednesday and Friday club lunches and meetings at George Washington Hotel and local venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Lodge No
C. F
Winchester
Tuscarora Lodge
Martinsburg
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Modern Woodmen of America
Lodge Hall
North Loudoun Street
Kiwanis Club
Winchester Lodge, Benevolent Order
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
Oscar Wilde Comedy To Be Presented By College Club
The Stratford Dramatic club of the Harrisonburg State Teachers College will present Oscar Wilde's three act comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in Wilson Hall on Friday evening December 1. Ruth Hudson directs with cast members including Billye Milnes as John Worthington and Bertha Jenkins as Gwendoline Fairfax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford Dramatic Club
Harrisonburg State Teachers College
Oscar Wilde
Wilson Hall
Ruth Hudson
Department of Speech
Billye Milnes
Rippon
W. Va
John Worthington
J. P
Bertha Jenkins
Waynesboro
Gwendoline Fairfax
Gene Averett
Lynchburg
Cecily Cardew
Alyce
Geiger
Los Angeles
Calif
Virginia Bean
Cumberland
Glen Harshman
Hagerstown
Virginia Cox
Woodlawn
Grace Buie
Lake City
Fla
Nancy Turner
Norfolk
Afternoon programs at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
The Rainbow Class leads opening exercises at 9 30 Sunday morning with music and church aims. Junior Choir directed by William Barnes to sing at evening services. about 30 members have shown progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Sunday School
Floyd Haines
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
William Barnes
Barnes
See Our Window-Contest Now Starting At Local Store
The listing invites families to enter a window contest with entries for every penny spent in the shop. Parents are urged to include their children on the entry list and participate in the promotion.
Local Social News Highlights Weekend Visits
Mrs Beulah Hardy travels to Macon Georgia to visit Mrs Mary Wells for two weeks. Lawrence Roland of Alexandria and Mrs Kenneth Rice host a weekend gathering as he assists with local telephone office changes. R B Teets and Lois Kidwell of Washington join Thanksgiving with Mrs E W Clark in South Braddock. others plan a Washington D C weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Roland
Alexandria
Kenneth Rice
Roland
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
R. B. Teets
Lois Kidwell
Washington, D. C
Mr. Teet
E. W. Clark
South Braddock
French Decline To Renounce Treaty Stance Noted In Washington Talks
A French official stated France would not renounce the Washington naval treaty. The French envoy Fernand Pila said Paris opposed abrogation and that the French government sentiment on naval ratios was well known despite Japan inviting broader action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kok Hirota
Japan
Fernand Pila
Hold Last Rites For John O. Boyd
The funeral for John O. Boyd was held Friday afternoon at his daughter’s home on West Germain Street. He died Tuesday at 12 30 p m of a heart attack. Rev. Dr. Hubert Sydenstricker officiated as Braddock Street Methodist Church members sang hymns. Pallbearers included R B Smith and Dr H S Pifer among others with many floral tributes. Attendees from distant places listed include Washington Clipp Mollie Boyd of Martinsburg West Virginia and Allen T Boyd of Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O. Boyd
West Germain Street
Boyd
Hubert Sydenstricker
Braddock Street
James Dick
Maynard Polhamus
Earl Cuthbert
Fred Whitacre
John W
Catherine C. Boyd
Washington Clipp
Mollie Boyd
Martinsburg
W. Va
J. S. Thompson
Mary and
Cathleen
Boyce
Holmes McCormick
Light Brigade Rally Slated at St Pauls Strasburg
A Light Brigade rally of the Winchester Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church will be held at Strasburg Sunday afternoon at 2 30 in St Pauls Lutheran Church. The program features hymns readings prayers songs an address by Miss Caroline Eisenberg and a gleanings from the biennial convention by Mrs F B Lingle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Light Brigade
Winchester Conference of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Strasburg
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Light Brigades
L. A. Thomas
Strasburg Light Brigade
Karl Thomas
Winchester Light Brigade
Woodstock Light Brigade
Caroline Eisenberg
Staunton
The
Wardensville Light Brigade
New Market Light Brigade
F. B. Lingle
Women’s Missionary
Winchester
Dr L M Allen Wins Farnley Hunter Trials
Dr L M Allen topped the Farnley Hunter Trials in blameless footing with fences including post and rails stone walls chicken coops barways and a brook to jump. Entered horses included Margar et Byrd Alexander McKay Smith Edward Jenkins John Young Benjamin Randolph George Burwell Walter Roesler and others. Mr and Mrs McKay Smith hosted a luncheon after the morning class for contestants and judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Allen
Margaret Byrd
Alexander McKay-Smith
Edward Jenkins
John Young
Benjamin Randolph
George Burwell
Walter Roesler
Ewart Johnston
John Payne
Graham Dougherty
Ted Jones
Robert Windmill
Ellen Wheeler
Clarence Glascock
Edward Jacobs
McKay-Smith
Floyd Gibbons' Father Dies in Washington
Edward Thomas Gibbons, father of writer Floyd Gibbons, died last night at Sibley Hospital in Washington. The obituary notes his son’s prominence and records the date of death as December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edward Thomas Gibbons
Floyd Gibbons
Sibley Hospital
Three Sisters Interred In Blue Ridge Hills Mystery
Carlisle Pennsylvania reports a funeral for the five victims known as the babes in the woods. The service followed a week of public viewing and a brief ceremony at a Carlisle cemetery. A family feud surfaced as a possible motive behind the deaths of Elmo J Noakes, his niece, and the three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Cumberland Valley
Pennsylvania
Blue Ridge Mountains
Family Feud
Elmo J. Noakes
R. A. Noakes
Elmo
Live Stock Exposition Opens Amid Drought and Fire Threats
Chicago hosts the thirty-fifth annual exposition as drought and fire threaten the livestock and grain displays. About 12 000 animal entries and 5 000 grain exhibits across 80 classes confront the challenges, with no immediate impact on the event's scale or prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eewt
Oil Monopoly Protest Renewed Against Japan
The United States and Great Britain formally object to Japan's Manchoukuo oil monopoly in diplomatic notes. Sir Robert Clive delivered a note to Koki Hirota on November 24, and Ambassador Joseph Grew is reported to have given a note to the foreign minister's residence this weekend. The exchange marks a more tense phase in the Anglo American oil controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
United States
Great Britain
Manchoukuo
Robert Clive
Koki Hirota
Foreign Office
Joseph G. Grew
United Stats
Japan
U S Chamber Seeks Budget Reform After Referendum
The U S Chamber of Commerce plans sweeping changes to the federal budget system. After a member referendum approving 13 proposals, the group urges more active centralized administrative control of expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Sheep Kills by Dogs Reported at Vaucluse Farms
Miss Grace G. Kline reports two flocks of Hampshire sheep attacked by dogs on farms at Vaucluse Wednesday and Thursday nights. Ten to twelve sheep killed or crippled with ongoing depredations noted this season. Early in the season Robert C. Ridings killed two dogs while eating prey. local roving dogs unlocated. A band near Stephens City has caused hundreds of dollars in losses, urging roundup and removal of the dogs to protect livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampshire
Grace G. Kline
Vaucluse
Miss Kline
Robert C. Ridings
Stephens City
Illness Fatal To Mrs Mort of White Post
Mrs Maggie Mort 81 last of her immediate family died shortly after noon at her niece Miss Joy Crissman's home in White Post. She had long been in ill health, once lived in Kernstown, and was daughter of the late William Keyser of New Market and Mary Woodburn. Funeral Monday 10:30 from Crissman home. Pallbearers named. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Mort
Joy Crissman
White Post
Mary Woodburn
Ohio
Floods and Winter Storms Wreak Havoc Across U S
The winter storm drifts reach from New York to California with record snows in Missouri Ozarks and flooding in North Carolina. Tugs Lakeside Si and Henry W Cort遭 wrecked near Muskegon while arctic cold and high winds freeze regions from the Great Lakes to the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Los Angeles
Great Lakes
Lakeside
Lake Erie
Henry W. Cort
Muskegon
Michigan
Pacific
Ozarks
Missouri Ozarks
Lake of the Ozarks
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Oklahoma Panhandle
Atlantic
North Carolina
Cardenas Calls Mexican Cabinet Session on Inaugural Plans
Mexico City December 1 President Lazaro Cardenas summoned his cabinet for its first session today to discuss plans for implementing social and economic policies outlined in his inaugural speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
D. F
Lazaro Cardenas
Death summons Mrs Iola Ritter near Gainesboro
Mrs Iola L Ritter 67 wife of Walter Ritter died at her home near Gainesboro after a long illness. She leaves a large family including two sons and four daughters, plus several brothers and sisters. Funeral was held at Gainesboro Methodist Church with interment in Gainesboro cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iola L. Ritter
Walter Ritter
Gainesboro
Ritter
Frederick County
G. H
Nancy McKilwee Davis
Nathaniel
David Ritter
Bessie Price
Delphia DeHaven
Rose Baker
Mary Ramey
Janney
Charles
William
Granville
Holmes Davis
Emma Pelter
Garnang
Emlenton
Gainesboro Methodist Episcopal Church
C. G. Russell
Post-Season Uncertainty Stays In C W A L Football
League officials plan a Monday meeting in Hagerstown Maryland to decide the championship status after postponements. Waynesboro and Hagerstown may determine if a two way or single tie crowns the champion as Cumberland and Allegany prep coaches await the ruling. Chester Huggins 22 of Mathews County was indicted for first degree murder in his father slaying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Cumberland
John Parsons
Handley
Waynesboro-Hagerstown
Newport News
Chester Huggins
Mathews County
John M. Hudgins
Officers surround house in multi county operation
A score of officers from three counties surrounded the house and ordered all occupants out. They wounded two men who attempted to resist, while others remained inside. The incident prompted a full standoff with negotiators en route.
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Mossberg
Legion Auxiliary
American Legion Auxiliary
Harry C. Lupton
West Piccadilly Street
Netley
American Legion Post
Hospital
Woman’s Auxiliary of
Memorial Hospital
Nurses’ Home
Edward Butler
Northern Virginia Power Company
E. R. Hook
Brother
E. Russell Hook
Gore
Cecil R. Orndorff
Geraldine Lamp
A. R. Mayhew
Mount Pleasant
R.".mayhew
Mount Williams
Lee M. Lamp
Mr. Mayhew
Mrs. Mayhew
Lewis Pearson
Pearson
RED Cross
Huntsberry
Rainbow Class
William Byrd
Clarke County
Byrd
Sara Margaret Lupton
E. L. Lupton
Bly
J. F. Bly
Herman Bly
Curtis Bly
Grove
Gertrude Grove
North Cameron Street
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
University of Virginia
Bra W Beverley Byrd
Episcopal High School
Senator
Harry F. Byrd
Rosemont
Harriett Pearson
National Avenue
Chase City
John T. Roddey
Rock Hill
S. C
Marshall Willis
South Washington Street
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Rexall Store
Mrs
Jeeen Ae
Farnley
Three Sisters
Blue Ridge Hills
Noakes
Clue
U. S
Kernstown
Mount Hebron
Cardenas
I. L. Ritter
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Underwood
WJZ
Joe Penner
N. Loudoun
Turkeys
Hamburger
C of Thanka
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Ladies’ Arch Preserver
Lovett Brothers
N. Main St
R. M. Swimley
East Geo. Washington Hotel
Beatrice
Neb
Nebraska-Kansas Line
Francis Harper
Penistry
van Raalte
Margaret L. Hodgson
RGA
Selby
Loudoun St
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