Social and Personal Notes Featuring Weddings and Births
Weekly W. O. W. meeting and Girl Scout dance announced. Hamrick sent to Singapore from Australia per air letter dated November 24. Mr. and Mrs. Thames Norvell welcomed daughter Pamela. Louise Whittemore engaged to Ensign Herbert Shenk of Scarsdale NY. Kildee on Dulaney Farm ready for occupancy. Various local visits, hospitalizations, and travel noted. Engagements, weddings, and Christmas program details at New Clearbrook School and Chanters gathering.
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Oes
Walter Hemrick
Singapore
Ecr
Socony Vacuum Oil Company
Australia
Hamrick
Morgan Street
Japan
United States
Louise Whittemore
Ensign Shenk
Wyman Whittemore
Clarkes County
Boston
Louise
Ensign Herbert Branson Shonk
Herbert Branson Shonk
Scarsdale
N. Y
Miss Bertha Williams Addresses D A R Meeting
Miss Bertha Williams spoke at a December afternoon D A R gathering at the home of Mrs. D E Leatherman. She traced Christmas origins from early church condemnation to fourth century festivity and noted King Arthur in 521 as part of the lore.
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Bertha Williams
Daughters of the American Revolution
D. E. Leatherman
C. Vernon Eddy
Grover Cooper
M. K. Shirkey
J. H. Moling, Jr
S. Bertha Williams
Mary E. Robinson
Fort Loudoun
Fort Loudoun Seminary
Miss Williams
Arthur
Milk Fund Report Highlights Berryville Club Work
Mrs Loring Kackley reports that since 1930 the Berryville milk fund distributed to undernourished pupils has grown sharply with about 4000 bottles consumed last year and more this year. Some milk is paid for, some free, with crackers provided. Teachers note health and grade improvements. The meeting also urged a new high school lunchroom and a civic department for town improvements. The next meeting is Jan 15 with Miss Rose MacDonald presiding. Rock salt is used each winter to clear streets and roads.
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Berryville
Loring Kackley
Woman’s Club of
Clarke County
Hawthorne
Thomas W. Jones
Berryville High School
A. F. Robertson
Rose MacDonald
First National Bank
Jannuary
William Sparrow
Diet Best Help for Over-Plump Women in War War Era
The article urges debt or battle imagery to urge weight loss through a strict diet. It prescribes 2500 calories for a typical active woman, but promotes a reduced intake of fats starches and sweets to lose about two pounds weekly. It advocates lean meats cottage cheese buttermilk vegetables and one daily egg plus unbuttered rye bread and clear tea or coffee with brisk daily walking. Facial massage with heavy cream is advised to prevent lines.
Clarke County social events and meetings in Berryville
Clarke County volunteers gather for Red Cross chapter planning with Mrs Graham Dougherty and other chairmen in Winchester. The Junior Woman's Club holds a Christmas party at Hawthorne Library. Several Berryville residents attend meetings, visits, and weddings in nearby towns, with notes on deceased Gordon Winston Kennerly and ill Tom Dix.
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Berryville
Graham Dougherty
Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Woodley
Clarke County
The
Red Cross
Victor Arthur
Winchester
Amory Perkins
Middleburg
Dougherty
Hawthorne Library
Army orders reinforcement for five armored divisions
Washington December 12 The army ordered reinforcement of its five armored divisions with a large proportion of medium tanks and with self propelled assault artillery and armored cars.
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Washington
Etiquette Q A Guide From Roberta Lee
Questions and answers on hosting manners during entertaining ask whether the husband should answer the door in absence of a servant and if the tea should be held while pouring. It also addresses whether bridal showers belong in the afternoon and suggests evenings are preferable for such events.
Gloria Vanderbilt to Wed Son of Italian Farmer in California
New York report says Gloria Vanderbilt announced engagement of her daughter Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt to Pasquale Di Cicco son of an Italian immigrant who rose to fame as a broccoli king with a truck farm. The Christmas Day wedding is planned in Beverly Hills.
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New York
Long Island
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt
Pasquale di Cicco
Hollywood
California
Beverley Hills
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Pasquale di Cicco, Sr
Italy
di Cicco
Thelma Todd
Gloria
Harry Payne Whitney
Apple Pie Ridge Community News This Week
Events include Berlin Webber’s 16 pound wild turkey kill in Green Spring. Deaths include Mrs. Annie Boyd at Winchester Memorial Hospital and Mrs. A G Clark. Frances Jackson ill with Scarlet Fever. Families move to Bloomery and Frederick. local social visits noted among residents.
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Apple Pie Ridge
Berlin Webber
Greenspring
Annie Boyd
Garland Clem
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Frances Jackson
J. E. Bean
Bloomery
W. Va
Joe Cave
Frederick
Jacob Hausenfluck
Walter Jackson
Melvin Brown
June
Inez
A. W. Adams
A. G. Clark
Costa Rica to Declare War on Germany Italy
Costa Rica announced it will declare war on Germany and Italy within hours. War has already been declared against Japan. Multiple officials confirmed the move as part of regional alignments in World War II.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Germany
Italy
Japan
Hay Wanted On Farm Board Highest Prices Paid
Classified notice seeks alfalfa and timothy hay buyers offering top prices. Contact Bill Sakol at the Royal Inn Main Street Front Royal Virginia for details.
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Alfalfa
Timothy Hay
Bill Sakol
Royal Inn
Main ST
Front Royal
State Fruit Men Close Meeting
The Virginia Horticultural Society closed its annual convention at Hotel Roanoke with technical papers and a patriotic program. Miss Mary Craig McGeachy of the British Embassy urged acceptance of the Hawaii attack as a victory for spirit, while Dr. J. R. Hutcheson of Virginia Polytechnic Institute outlined farm programs for war conditions and urged debt repayment, soil conservation, repairs, and active farm organization.
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Roanoke
Virginia Horticultural Society
Mary Craig McGeachy
Washington
America
Hawaii
Spirit
Dunkerque
J. R. Hutcheson
V. P. I. Extension Division
Virginia
Treasury December 10 receipts and debt figures released
The Treasury reports December 10 receipts of 32,479,404.53 dollars and expenditures of 76,692,772.44 dollars. Gross debt stands at 55,310,292,171.74 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
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