Local Holiday Dances and Music Poll Notes
Rumors and opinions color holiday music scenes from Berryville to Front Royal. Local listings cite bands led by Dave Hagan and Cliff Strickland performing December 30 and 31, with New Year events at Terrace and Recreation Park. Outside notes mention Rosa Lind Stewart linked to Babs role and Skinnay Ennis on Bob Hope show.
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G. W
Tommy Owens
Club del Rio
John Marshall
Cliff Strickland
Eddie Branner
Otie
Kibler
Recreation Park
Bob Riley
Shaw
Harry James
Meyer Davis
Biagini
Casa Loma
Front Royal
New York
Philadelphia
Songbird
Rosalind Stewart
Skinnay Ennis
Bob Hope
Music Box
Late News
Old Mill
Three Aces
Riley
Old Geneva City Jail Reopens as Safekeeping Site
A savings and loan association has purchased the Geneva jail and will use the historic building as a safekeeping facility.
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Geneva
Old City
A Savings and Loan Association
Christmas Wish List From Handley Students
In a benediction note from Handley, dated December 19, 1939, students ask Santa for simple gifts. Names include Mr Browning with a mustache cup, Jackie Womack for rum and maple tobacco, Miss Beckwith for a history book, Bill MacIntyre for a watch, Study Hall for a pencil sharpener, Mrs Barr for two red whistles, and Miss Laughton for a chalk chest with lock and key.
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Santa
Handley
Mr. Browning
Jackie Womack
Miss Beckwith
United States
Bill MacIntyre
Mrs. Barr
Miss Laughton
Handley Junior Dance Dazzles With Christmas Theme Event
The Handley school gym hosted a Christmas themed Junior Dance described as the season’s top event. Santa visited from the North Pole, with decorations, intermission acts by Jean Whitham and Mary Green, and gifts for teachers including quirky items.
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Handley
Santa
North Pole
Christmas gossip from a busy holiday issue
We pass along light holiday chatter about leap years, dates, and social plans. Rumors swirl around Max, Kitty Baker, and a redhead, with hints of college boy correspondences and O A O invitations, all in a casual cheerful tone.
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Kitty Baker
Max
Eleanor
Mr. Bridgers
Clearbrook
Gang
Santa Claus
Christmas Season Marks 332nd U S Celebration At School
The notice notes this Christmas is the 332nd in the U S and highlights school events. It mentions 360 minutes left in school this year, returning January 3, and 100 stockings sent to Perry Point veterans made by Miss Smith's sewing class. It also mentions student gifts and cards, a change to the Girls Monogram Club, and about 70 students on the monitor commission this term.
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United States of America
Perry Point
Monitor Commission
What They Will
A Christmas message encourages students to give parents intangible gifts like love good grades obedience admiration and consideration rather than worldly presents. It stresses that non material gifts bring true happiness and urges making the season merry for loved ones.
Christmas Pleasures and Quiet Wishes Across Town
In a museum of holiday sayings residents share bright hopes and small requests. Marion Hurst seeks warding against conflict during holidays while Betty Pifer imagines a merry Christmas morn. Dot Hawthorne craves rest and no homework. Jane Myers and Anna M. Baker describe Santa visits and chimney sights. Virginia Hockensmith offers flexible wishes and Jean Hamman remarks that it isn’t Santa.
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Marion Hurst
Betty Pifer
Dot Hawthorne
Oo Landacre
Christmas Stockings Sent To Disabled Soldiers
A box of one hundred stockings will be sent to the soldiers' hospital at Perry Point Maryland. The stockings include puzzles candy cigarettes key rings tobacco pouches games cards nuts fruit and more. The project is run by the Red Cross with stockings made of tarleton and decorated with Christmas Seals and ribbons by students.
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Soldiers’ Hospital
Perry Point
Red Cross
Handlian Staff Clears One Step Toward Outstanding Yearbook
On Wednesday Handlian staff breathed relief as seniors finished portraits sent to the publishing firm. A Friday staff meeting discussed changes to the book’s makeup and urged readers to buy the 1940 Handiian to see the results.
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Handlian
A Glimpse of the Dance at the Holiday Party
The write up describes a lively dance scene with multiple pairs on the floor. Notable figures include Casanova Green dubbed Santa Claus and Mary Jean with Bill Groff. Other couples like Charles Cook with Jack and Bobby Green with Frances light up the floor amid shy glances and festive chatter.
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Wasiel
Santa Claus
Casanova Green
Mr. Ochs
Jonnie
Charles Cook
Bobby Green
Frances
Ann Robinson
Dick Rhodes Gentline
Bob Riley
John Kerr students stage tuberculosis awareness play
First graders in Miss Mary Bell Bear's class performed a school assembly in Handley auditorium to illustrate TB prevention. Cast included Jimmie Clowser, Mary Marshall Steck, Braxton McKee, and other pupils as carolers. A sick boy learns health helps him recover and plan to carol next year. Report by Massey Hawthorne.
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Mary Bell Bear
Handley Auditorium
Jimmie Clowser
Mary Marshall Steck
Braxton McKee
Massey Hawthorne
Sophomore class elects officers and sponsors
The Sophomore class held a Friday advisory meeting and elected Gail Robinson president Wayne Whitham vice president Betty Jane Gearing secretary treasurer with Miss Beckwith and Mr Maddox as sponsors We expect big things from this newly organized class and perhaps the Freshmen have organized as well.
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Gail Robinson
Wayne Whitham
Betty Jane Gearing
Miss Beckwith
Mr. Maddox
Terrifying Statements Made In Assembly
Mr. Quarles told the student body in assembly that the school keeps permanent records of class and conduct grades since entry, with employers possibly consulting them before hiring. He said records are examinable anytime and can influence job outcomes. He cited Browning's Angels having the highest honor roll percentage.
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Quarles
Elementary Honor Roll by Class and Student Names
The list names students on the Elementary Honor Roll across classes DEHART McCARTNEY McNALLY POTTER UNLAP and SNIDER. Among 4th graders are Jimmy Miller James Waters Lou Anne Cather Rebecca Dougherty Joan Sperow Nancy Ritter Sara Lee Sencindiver. Fifth graders include Nancy Adams Wade Guard. Sixth graders include Betty Anne Grim Ibba Danley Teddy Staples Bobby Edwards Bryan Minnigerode James Taylor Marty Arnold Nancy Butler Ellen Largent Georgiana Whitlock Barbara Jones.
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Jimmy Miller
James Waters
Lou Anne Cather
Rebecca Dougherty
Joan Sperow
Nancy Ritter
Sara Lee Sencindiver
McCartney
Nancy Adams
Wade Guard
McNally
Betty Cather
Barbara Haugh
Betty June Hurst
Potter
Betty Anne Grim
Ibba Danley
Teddy Staples
Bobby Edwards
Bryan Minnigerode
James Taylor
Marty Adnold
Nancy Butler
Ellen Largent
Georgiana Whitlock
Thomas E. Marshall Dies in Cleveland at 60
Friends in Winchester report the sudden death of Thomas E. Marshall at his Cleveland home from a heart attack. He is survived by nine children fifteen grandchildren and one sister Mrs. Albert Coe of New York. Funeral services were held in Baltimore with burial in Fork Md. cemetery.
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Winchester
Thomas E. Marshall
Beverley Marshall
Cleveland
Marshall
Carroll Marshall
Baltimore
Greene County
Winchesoa
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Soa
Addie Green
Albert Coe
New York
Fork, Md
Winter Setting Oskaloosa Hens See Spring Promise
Mrs Guy Phelps believes spring is near after three hens fled the coop returning with a dozen chicks apiece, signaling renewal in a rural Oskaloosa setting.
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Oskaloosa
Guy Phillips
Tam O' Shanter Comes To Life In Burns Program
Mr. Browning's Senior English class staged a Burns program with Helen Schlack reading A Red Red Rose and Dorothy Moore performing Tam O' Shanter in Scotch costume. Jackie Womack also read a Burns poem while Allison Burgess and Ann Klimes led Auld Lang Syne.
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Mr. Browning
Robert Burns
Helen Schlack
Burns
Dorothy Moore
Jackie Womack
Allison Burgess
Ann Klimes
Browning
East West Charity Football Game Nets Over Half a Million
Chicago reports that the East-West all star game has raised more than 500000 for crippled children over 14 years. The post season game, originated by the Shriners, supports their hospital in San Francisco and is played on New Year’s Day. Bill Patterson spurred the West last year. Andy Kerr directs the Eastern squad for the 13th year, with Bill Kerr the sole All-American on this year’s roster.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Shriners
Pacific Coast
Bill Patterson
Andy Kerr
Colgate
Northwestern University
Kerr
Bill Kerr
Notre Dame
Christmas Concert Commended by Open Forum Reader
Open Forum praises Miss Haynes the Glee Club and elementary grades for a splendid Christmas concert held Sunday. The writer notes the effort of Miss Haynes students and teachers and says the program was enjoyed by all, signed Prances Bickers.
Anna Lee Poem Parody by Marshall Farmer
A playful verse titled Anna Lee lampoons poets and a girl named Anna Lee who drains a narrator’s pockets with every wage. The speaker closes noting poems are made by fools, as are fools by Anna Lee.
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Joyce Kilmer
Anna Lee
Marshall Farmer
Prosperity for Southern chemical industry urged in wartime
Charlottesville December 19 Sidney D Kirkpatrick editor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering told a University audience that war freight rate changes will boost the South’s chemical industry by enabling cheaper northern shipments. He argued the war will indirectly stimulate U S chemical production by reducing German exports and that the American chemical industry will not revert to old methods unless necessary.
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Charlottesville
South
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
On & Reed
University of
Germany
American Chemical Industry
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