Social calendar highlights and local notices in Winchester
Community events fill the week with rehearsals, concerts, meetings and dances at George Washington Hotel, Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church, Braddock Street Methodist Church, United Brethren Church, Grace Lutheran, and Stein venues. Notable items include a surprise party for Henry Renner, birthday celebrations, Lions and Rotary gatherings, Elks and American Legion activities, and a marriage license for Nora Whitlock and Erwin Poland.
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Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Kauffman’s
Stephenson
Young People’s Department
Braddock Street Methodist Church
South
John H. Rosenberger
Boscawen Street
Ones Lovers Club
Eorge Washington
Christine
Guhlangson
Mary
Baldwin College
Bonga Fishburn
Kiwanis Club
George Washington
United Brethren Church
Winchester Lodge
Benevolent Order of Elks
Grace Lutheran Church
George Washington Hotel
Rotary Club
West Virginia
Romhey
W. Va
Nora G. Whitlock
Anniversary Celebration Honors Conner Couple Fifty Years
Mr and Mrs John Conner mark half a century of marriage with family and friends from Maurertown and surrounding towns gathering Monday. A large 18 pound anniversary cake with 50 candles, seven of eight children in attendance, and evening music and dancing followed a noonday meal and table of eats.
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Mrs. Connery
Maurertown
Deah
Stella Conner
Washington, D. C
Harry Conner
Wheatfield
Fred Conner
Mt. Solon
Carl Conner
Paul Conner
Freeport, Ill
Washington
Elmer Sager
George Wolverton
John Wolverton
Joanna Hottle
Saumsville
Kate Randal
Canton
Ohio
Ben Fravel
Elda
Ada, Sager
William Borden
Johnny Hollar
Earl Plauger
Robert Dean
Everett Hershman
Golda Wilkin
Jacob Beidler
Louisiana under martial law as Long faces revolt
Huey P. Long returns to Baton Rouge amid tense opposition and possible armed revolt. National guardsmen patrol the capital with 600 to 700 militiamen, surrounding oil plants and questioning drivers. Long’s bodyguard clashed with Associated Press photographer Leon Trice as tension flared.
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Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Square Deal Association
Long
East Baton Rouge
Washington
Oscar K. Allen
Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Parish
Standard Oil Company
Louisian
Leon Trice
Associated Press
Joe Messina
Trice
Joe
Messina
Roosevelt Extends Auto Code as Labor Leaders Threaten Break
William Green of the American Federation of Labor warned the auto code would not be accepted or recognized until June 16. He said new changes fail to spread work and favor the labor board over the national labor relations board. Roosevelt announced two advances to improve employment while extending the code to June 16, including broader overtime pay and earlier model introductions. In Michigan, Fisher Body Lansing workers voted to strike over conditions as the extension took effect.
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Washington
William Green
American Federaton of Labor
Organized Labor
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Detroit
Michigan
Fisher Body Corporation
Lansing
California Named by Cortez as Island and Region
The text notes that Cortez named California after a romance island, believing the bay and country were an island. It mentions the old belief tied to a romance geography and that the name California persisted for the region and island.
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Cortez
California
Senator Abducted as Bodyguards Attack Cameraman
A senator was assaulted by bodyguards who knocked him down and seized him. The cameraperson was struck and the crew’s equipment damaged as they tried to document the incident. The assailants fled with the senator after destroying a camera.
WV Man Fears Girls Kidnapped Near Kingwood
John Purinton told authorities his 14 year old daughter Peggy Purinton and her friend Mary Laird may have been kidnapped as he cited mysterious letters from various cities offering work as a clerk. The girls have been missing since January 14 with no trace found and police had been asked to watch for two Kingwood girls hitchhiking toward Tennessee.
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Kingwood
W. Va
John Purinton
Purinton
Melvin Snyder
Peggy Evelyn Purinton
Mary Marguerite Laird
W A Secrist Dies At Gore Service Sunday
William A. Secrist, 80, died at 9 p m at the Gore home of his daughter in law Mrs Odessa Secrist after weeks of illness. He leaves a daughter in law four grandsons and a brother Luther of Yellow Springs W Va Funeral services will be held at Capon Springs with Rev C H Anderson officiating and interment on Capon river in the family lot.
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Little Garden Club
Fred L. Glaize, Jr
Stonewall Avenue
Clarke Cooper
B. M. Knight, Jr
Women’s Auxiliary
Women's Auxiliary
Nurses
Elizabeth Fincham
Berryville
Henry Renner
Cedar Creek
William A. Secrist
Odessa Secrist
Gore
Secrist
Frederick
Elizabeth Secrist
Capon Springs
W. Va
Fannie Farmer
Leota
Sidney
Forrest
Melvin
William
Sidney Secrist
Luther
Yellow Springs
C. H. Anderson
Hea
Capon River
First Alloy Steel Commercially Manufactured
The first alloy steel was produced commercially less than fifty years ago by adding manganese to ordinary steel. The Greenland or white whale is protected worldwide under law.
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Greenland
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Lions’ Club
Robert_ Ys Conrad Post
American Legion
Stephens City
Renner
Cedar Grade
Fineha Ee Ta Ana Oaram
E Wrenge
Gladys Fincham
Albert Renner
Clarence Pope
Master Hunter Gaunt
Master Hunter Gaunt, Jr
Hunter Gaunt
Morningside Drive
American Legion Auxiliary
Robert Beverley
South Stewart Street
Shiu
Gilbert F. Rosenberger
Atlanta, Ga
J. A. Bean
Norfolk
Mr. Rosenberger
John Conner
Just
Huntsberry
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Federation of Labor
Herodotus
Scotland
Tennessee
Snow Queen
Eleanor Buell
Petoskey
President Roosevelt
Mrs
Sarah Delano Roosevelt
New York
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Lovett
N. Loudoun St
Winchester
W. A. Secrist
Henry Ford
Thos. Edison
Commercial & Savings Bank
the Bakers
Navy
Lovett Brothers
Loudoun St
Chuck Roast
Sampson
R. M. Swimley
Hamman’s Dollar Store
R.G. A
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