Miss McIntyre and Groves in Holiday Visit
Miss McIntyre daughter of the Rev and Mrs William Wallace McIntyre of Petersburg Va formerly of this city and Cpl Bernard Groves and wife are spending the holidays in the city with Cpl Groves mother Mrs eypagne. Mrs Massie wife of Joseph Massie with WAVES member Elisabeth Massie stationed in Washington spent Xmas with her mother in Newport News and will visit Winchester to stay with Mrs J Heber Plood on North Washington street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Mrs
Bernard Groves
Cpl. Groves
Eypagne
Elisabeth Massie
The
WAVES
Washington
Joseph Massie
Newport News
Massie
Will
Winchester
R. E. Byrd
T. B. Byrd
Clarke County
Miss Keckley
Elizabeth Keckley
H. B. Keckley
Piccadilly Street
Kerns
Aberdeen
Peyton Kerns
Seaman Robert Green
City
University of Virginia
Robert Green
West Leicester Street
Book Review by Mrs McNeese Postponed Indefinitely
The Book Review by Mrs. McNeese, sponsored by the Guilds of Christ Episcopal Church, set for Wednesday afternoon, has been postponed due to bad weather and influenza concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pafternoon
Miss From Appendectomy in Winchester Hospital
Betty Welsh of Purcell is recovering after an appendectomy at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Harry Frost of Middleburg Va shows morning improvement after a hospital stay begun Friday. Beulah Brown, hospital superintendent, remains unchanged. Robert Underwood leaves hospital greatly improved for home on South Stewart Street. Peyton Marshall hosts Christmas guests from Front Royal and Alexandria. Christian Endeavor entertainment at United Brethren Church postponed to Wednesday night. The Candle in the Window is the play title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss
Betty Welsh
Purcell
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Harry Frost
Middleburg
Miss Browns
Robert Underwood
South Stewart Street
Peyton Marshall
Charles Tyndell
Front Royal
Marshall
Ryland Washington
Alexandria, Va
Washington
Cebstian Endeavor Entertainment
Christian Endeavor
United Brethren Church
Century Club Off Tuesday Due to Death of Harry K Russell
The Century Club will not meet Tuesday afternoon because of the death of Mr. Harry K. Russell. Other local notices list births, travels, illnesses, and holiday visits among Winchester residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Century Club
Harry K. Russell
Community notices and social calendar from Winchester
Readers are asked to deliver finished knitted garments to the Production Rooms on December 28 between 10 30 a m and 1 00 p m. Mrs Elsea and Mr and Mrs Elsea announce the marriage of Gladys Melville to Cpl Constantine J Papanicolas in Rockville Maryland on December 16. The article lists local news about influenza cases births engagements travels and military assignments with many named residents and institutions in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Church House
West Boscawen Street
Elsea
Cpl
Constantine Papanicolas
Marshall Elsea
Clarke County
Gladys Melville
Constantine J. Papanicolas
Washington
Rockville
Henry A. Tyler
Methodist Church
Papanicolas
Berryville High School
War Department
John Papanicolas
Roosevelt High School
University of Maryland
Ft. Custis
New York City
Mrs Skinker Dies at Greenway Court Clarke County
Mrs May Kennerly Skinker 88 widow of James Hampson Skinker died at Greenway Court near White Post Clarke County after living in Roanoke earlier. She survived two daughters two sisters a brother and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 from Greenway Court with burial in Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Kennerly Skinker
James Hampson Skinker
Greenway Court
Thomas Pairfax
White Post
Clarke County
Kennerly
Joseph Kennerly
Josepha Ann Beale Kennerly
New York City
Thomas M. Kennerly
Richmond
J. Churchill Digges, Jr
Hampson S. Digges
Dudley M. Digges
Kennerly Digges
David Hooker
Anne Martha Hooker
James A. Figg
Meade Memorial Episcopal Church
Hampson Sv. Digges
Philip Digges
Arlington
G. R. Green
Edward B. Lee
Anderson Infant BuriedSunday
One day-old infant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anderson, was buried Sunday. Simple kites were conducted at Mt. Hebron Cemetery for the infant who died early Sunday morning at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Haldeman
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Haldeman
Marguarite Goodman
Mt. Hebron
Paul Anderson
Three County Men Serve Country In New Guinea
Frederick county soldiers Corporal Carson Tevault Sergeant Randall Keller and T Sergeant Ronald Dolan arrived in the South Pacific as part of a hospital unit surgical team. All three volunteered in 1940 and later joined the regular army. Other notes include Corporal Charles L. Jenkins Jr spending an 11 day furlough at home before returning to Camp Ellis Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tevault-Keller-Dolan
Thurman Hicks
S. Braddock Street
Carson Tevault
Tevault
Randall Keller
B. H. Keller
Cross Junction
Ronald Dolan
Staige Dolan
Whitacre
Frederick County
South Pacific
Cpl
Charles L. Jenkins, Jr
C. L. Jenkins
Camp Ellis
Ill
Cpl. Jenkins
Engineer Corps
Mrs. Frances Leonard 87 Dies. Rites Held Today
Mrs. Frances M. Leonard died Saturday at her son in law and daughter Elmer Hodges home in Winchester. Funeral services were at Omps Funeral Home at 4 30 this afternoon. Interment in Bay View Cemetery Atlantic Highlands N J depends on daughter arrival from South Dakota. She was widow of William Joseph Leonard lawyer and editor. She had lived in Winchester since 1942. She taught in public schools before marriage. Survived by daughter Gladys Leonard Vermillion S D and another daughter Mrs Hodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omps
Frances M. Leonard
Elmer Hodges
W. Piccadilly Street
L. G. Bridgers
United Brethren Church
Bay View
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
South Dakota
William Joseph Leonard
Leonards
Baptist Church
Hodges
Gladys Leonard
Vermillion
Mrs Janie White Dies In Millwood Fire Christmas Eve
Mrs Janie Carter White of Clarke County died in a Millwood home fire on Christmas Eve. Neighbors found her trapped as flames filled the room. the John H Enders Fire Company subdued the blaze but she suffocated before escaping. The old house burned completely and funeral services were held at Gilfield Baptist Church with interment in Litter Chapel Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilfield
Nathaniel
Elizabeth Carter
Winnie Henderson
Washington, D. C
R. E. Law
Winchester
Lawrence Ford
Front Royal
Cotton Bowl Set To Draw Up To Forty Thousand
Dallas, Dec 27. The Cotton Bowl game between Texas and Randolph Field drew strong ticket sales with expected attendance 35,000 to 40,000. Half the crowd will be armed services members, with 10,500 tickets set aside for enlisted personnel and families. Texas tops Randolph Field on offense. Longhorns averaged 352 yards per game, Randolph 312.4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Randolph Field
Armed Services
Longhorns
Randolph
Chinese Recapture Kungan in Christmas Battle
Chinese high command announced Kungan fell after a Christmas day battle. Chinese forces still drive northward, have recaptured four fifths of the area overrun by Japan since last summer, with mopping up operations southeast of Kungan and north of Tungting Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
China
Kungan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sungtze
Yangtze
Tungting Lake
Scharnhorst Down In Blazing Sea Action
British home fleet units sank the 26 000 ton German battleship Scharnhorst in a blazing Arctic action off Norway yesterday night. The ship went down after a long fight while attempting to attack a convoy to Murmansk. The battle marked a major British victory with heavy aircraft losses on both sides and heavy damage to several German capital ships.
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London
Scharnhorst
Arctic
Norway
Murmansk
Hitler
Barents Sea
North Cape
U. S
Berlin
Bruce Fraser
Admiral Fraser
Glorious
Fraser
Alten Fjord
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
English Channel
North Sea
Brest
France
Gdynia
Luetzow
Graf Zeppelin
Admiralty
Home Fleet
Kcb Kbe
Bear Island
Spitzbergen
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Margaret McIntyre
Walter V. Buttrill, Jr
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Grimms Radio Sales
E. Boscawen St
Just Dial
Cc. B. Smalts & Son
National Ave
Huntsberry
John S. Miller
Fairmont Avenue
Wickes
New Market
R. B. Wickes, Jr
R. B. Wickes
G. B. Lohr
James Thomson
Chapel Hill
N. C
Paul Thomson
Morgan Street
Ensign Holmes R. Grimm, Jr
Norfolk, Va
Holmes R. Grimm
South
Loudoun Street
Macedonia Methodist Church
Macedonia
B. B. Browne
Bowyer Brockenbrough Browne
Thornhill Manor
W. A. Baker
Col
Mrs. Browne
Miss Lupton
Sarah Margaret Lupton
Clifton Forge
Ed Lupton
Stewart Street
Holinys
Nelson Page
Amherst Street
Ladies Aid Society
Timber Ridge Church
Timber Ridge Christian Church
Melvin Seldon
H. R. Kern, Jr
Ben Dutton
U. S. Army
B. B. Dutton
Gaunt
Main and
Valley Ave
Red Cross
Betsy
Freddie Glaize
Fred Glaize
Heine
Kenneth Heine
Richmond Broadcasting
Delmar Robinson
Duke University
Durham N. C
Mrs. Timberlake
Lynchburg
T. F. Timberlake
Lynchburg, Va
Murl Anderson
Seaman Murl Anderson
Seabees
Helen Anderson
C. H. Anderson
Aubrey Madigan
Richards Ave
Anderson
Gray Avenue
Camp Endicott
Davidson, R. I
Charles Boyles
Jean
Boyles
United States Army
Mabel Hausenffuck
Wingfield-Dicks
Margaret C. Dicks
James Dicks
S. Kent Street
Kirkwood W. Wingfield
Roy F. Schmucker
N. Main Street
Schmucker
Mr. Wingfield
David Wingfield
West Gerrard Street
Holloway Kinney
Air- Wac
Elizabeth
Katherine Kern
Foreman
Harold Foreman
Fort Eustis
Robert J. McNally, Jr
Camp Reynolds
Army
Camp Lee
McNally
Handley
Greenville
Miss deGrange
Miss Hawthorne
New York
Eleanor deGrange
Massie Hawthorne
Riley
C. L. Riley
Charles
Naval
Virginia
West Virginia
American College of Surgeons
Food Center
N. Loudoun St
Itein Company
New Guinea
Tuttle
Florida
Janie White
Clarke
Just
Alten
Santa
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Hollywood
Vogue
Moling & Cather
Timberlake
Linep
Steve War Bonds
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