Social Calendar Highlights Local Club Meetings
Thursday events include Ladies Aid Society at Mrs E H Grove and American Legion lunch at George Washington Hotel. Other items cover Boy Scouts Troop 3 anniversary, Otterbein Guild at Miss Mary Virginia Robinson, Music Lovers Club rehearsals, Lions Club at George Washington Hotel, Kiwanis luncheon, and church choir practices across several venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society of Church of Christ
E. H. Grove
Valley Arene
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Young Le’s
Braddock Street
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Boy Scouts
Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren Church
Mary Virginia Robinson
North Loudoun Street
Music Lovers’ Club
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart Street
South Stewart
Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Kiwanis Club
United Brethren Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Virginians to be honored by Southern Society
William E. Carson and Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman join John D. Rockefeller Jr and L. R. Johnson as recipients of parchments of distinction at the New York Southern Society smoker. Carson is cited for historic markers along Virginia highways and support of Shenandoah National Park and Colonial National Monument plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Southern Society
William E. Carson
State Conservation and Development Commission
Douglas Southall Freeman
News Leader
Richmond
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Williamsburg
L. R. Johnson
West Virginia
Virginia
Johnson
Carson
Shenandoah National Park
Colonial National Monument
Jamestown Island
Yorktown
Local Society Notes and Upcoming Events
Little Theatre Players plan a Capitol Theatre skit with plans to be finalized at Miss Mary Greenway Russell's South Stewart home on Saturday. Mount Holyoke student Miss Susan Steck will visit for Christmas with her parents on Fairmont avenue. Lieutenant Julian B. Lindsey and Mrs Lindsey arrive December 19 to stay with Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire on North Braddock street. Miss Mary Darden, recovering from influenza, teaches at John Kerr Elementary. Braddock Street Methodist Choir holds its weekly practice tomorrow at 7 in the church. Meda Dick, injured in an auto crash, shows continued improvement at Memorial Hospital. Mrs Karl Boy-Ed and Mrs William Bell Watkins are in New York City at the Blackstone. Miss Phyliss Palmer visits from Greenville, Va., with Miss Betty Hirth on West Monmouth street. Dabney Harrison and family, with infant, have been with Capt. and Mrs. Philip M. Walker this summer and fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Century Club
Nancy Lee Cobl
West Boscawen Street
Georgia Conrad
Century Club
Jane Scully
Nancy Gray Larrick
Mary Greenway Russell
Anne Brooke Kern
Virginia Tayloe Boyd
Rosalie Nelson
Dabney Harrison
Little Theatre Players
Capitol Theatre
South Stewart Street
Arange
Susan Steck
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke
Mass
John M. Steck
Fairmont Avenue
Julian B. Lindsey
Fort Knox, Ky
Hunter H. McGuire
McGuire
North Braddock Street
Mary Darden
Nancy Lee Cable
Miss Darden
John Kerr Elementary School
Pagebrook to Leave Clarke County for Florida Winter
Pagebrook in Clarke county will depart on the fifteenth for Florida to spend the rest of the winter season. Miss Virginia Tayloe Boyd will return to Fairmont avenue this evening after visiting Radford Virginia for several weeks as guest of Miss Reese Edmundson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pagebrook
Clarke County
Florida
Virginia Tayloe Boyd
Fairmont Avenue
Radford
Reese Edmundson
Pronouncers Struggle With Classic Football Names
The text notes it would take nearly a college education to pronounce names like Melinkovitch Skeetetski Brancheau Banas Koken and Lukats, highlighting nickname and transliteration challenges for American football figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melinkovitch
Skeetetski
Brancheau, Banas, Koken
Lukats
Marchers Take On Gasoline At Kitzmiller Md
Police escorted 50 automobiles of demonstrators through Kitzmiller Maryland about six miles from Oakland last night en route to western points after their Washington demonstration. The cars stopped briefly to get gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitzmiller, Md
Oakland
Kitzmiller
Washington
Soviet Refusal of British Apology Over Izvestia Claim
London reported that the Soviet government refused to apologize for an Izvestia article accusing British intelligence of guiding agents in Riga to obtain documents linking the Soviet regime to the Third International. The piece tied this to hunger marches in London and anti British actions in India, with the Soviet ambassador downplaying substance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Izvestia
Riga
Latvia
Third Internationale
India
Hunger marchers provoke reflections on rights and duty
John G. Bowman of Winchester Virginia argues the hunger marchers, though extreme and melodramatic, have legal rights and deserve public sympathy. He pleads for Christian aid rather than scorn, urging local communities to share scarce resources and work together to ease the plight of the hungry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Star
Patrick Henrys
John Browns
Louis XIV
Nicholas II
Congress
Winchester
Virginia
America
John G. Bowman
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Junior A
Memorial Hospital
Gold Room
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Christ Church
Christ Episcopal Church
Helen Wright
Mary Miller
Evendale School
Mildred Hamman
Elsie Miller
Evelyn Whitacre
Pearl Campbell
Mildred Lind
Snyder
Church Council
Federated Council of Church Women
Handley Library
Hubert Cather
Tokus’ Inn
Opequon
Hubert Meredith Cather
Jenny Lind Hockman
Cather
Babe” Shackelford
Bill Grove
James Anderson
Bentley Cather
Thornton Bryarly
Robert Kerlin
Paul Anderson
Wilbur Cather
Mr. Keller
Kenneth Grim
Maynard Wisecarver
Jack Lindsay
Waid Shockey
Joe Cather
Jack Harrell
Rotary Club
Southern Society
Daniel Green
Aniel
Huntsberry
Young People's Choir of
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Meda Dick
John Dick
Clearbrook
Karl Boy-Ed
William Bell Watkins
New York City
Blackstone Hotel
Phyliss Palmer
Greenville, Va
Betty Hirth
West Monmouth Street
Prac
Cacrewice
The
S. Main St
Show Room
Maytag Racing
Veal
Star Swift
S Premio
Hallowell
Pt Wesson Oil
Santa Clara Prunes
Baker’s Moist
Braddock and
Boscawen Streets
Soviet
Russia
Britain
Mr. Bowman
Lovett Brothers
N. Loudoun St
Santa Claus
the Commercial & Savings Bank
the Bell Clothes Shop
Loudoun and
Boscawen
Margaret L. Hodgson
Christmas Club
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Iwinchester
Earth
Antarctic
Lovett Shoe
N. Main St
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