Stephens City Firemen Move Toward New Company Home
Independent Hose Company approves buying a double lot east of Main Street in Stephens City, with P. E. Lineburg leading the purchase and plans to hire an architect. Site cost capped at 500 dollars, construction hoped to begin in spring, and local carnivals to be hosted for revenue.
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Stephens City
Independent Hose Company
Manent
P. E. Lineburg
Bob Lemley
Main Street
Lineburg
John Hartley
County survey aids livestock improvement program
Extension workers report surveys in over a dozen counties to prepare a county livestock improvement program. Frederick County officials hope to replicate the effort with farmer participation, stressing confidentiality and usefulness for the plan. The piece also explains that in newspaper slang cheesecake refers to sensational pictures.
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Villa
Frederick
Answers to Today’s Quiz Footnote Jumble
Answers printed on page 4 reveal quiz keys including Bald eagle and American eagle. The questions reference names places and facts such as John Jones West Indies Dinos State Legislatures and Eli. A line notes the international U S Canada boundary as the most traveled.
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John Jones
West Indies
Lees
Dinos
Eli
Lincoln police classify drunkenness on new forms
Lincoln police deter suspects for driving while drunk use department forms with classifications such as dry and decent delighter and devilish dizzy and delirious dazed and dejected dead drunk to rate level of intoxication.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Berryville Restaurant seeks on Premises Beer License
Estella Potter owner of E N P Restaurant on Academy Street Berryville Virginia plans to obtain a license to retail beer exceeding 3.2 percent alcohol content for consumption on the premises. Application will be heard by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on January 25 1941.
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Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Academy St
Berryville
Estella Potter
Prop
Item St
Attack Fatal To Mrs. Farmer
A heart attack proved fatal yesterday afternoon about 3 30 to Mrs Bertie Farmer 56 at her residence 703 Berryville Avenue She was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Giffin of Capon Bridge W Va and a member of the First Brethren Church Survived by her husband six children a sister Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 30 from the residence Rev Emerson J Richart and Rev Emerson J Hobart officiating Interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery Pallbearers named Howard Patton Dora Fletcher Frank Foreman Herbert S Larrick William Hardy Marvel Adams.
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Bertie Farmer
C. F. Farmer
Berryville Avenue
Farmer
Francis Giffin
Capon Bridge
W. Va
First Brethren Church
Sherman
Austin
Orlando
Marshall
Marguerite Farmer
James Katzenberger
Catonsville
Rotarians Plan Woodstock Meeting January 29
Wilbur Riley announces a Northern Virginia Rotary clubs gathering at Woodstock on January 29 with Dr. Leon Dostert of Washington as principal speaker. Dostert, former French Embassy staff, will discuss international conditions. George Mathews of Washington accompanies him. District Governor Dowell J. Howard says Rotary International President Armando de Arruda Per ria will visit February 6 with Senora Perr ia.
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Woodstock
Wilbur Riley
Northern Virginia
Leon Dostert
Washington
France
Dostert
George Mathews
Rtary International
Mount Jackson
Front Royal
Strasburg
Winchester
Dowell J. Howard
Rotary International
Armando de Arruda Perria
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Roanoke
M. Smythe
Arthur R. Hines
Roanoke Club
Howard
Winchester Club
Rohart Accepts Call to Wilkes-Barre Congregation
The Rev. Emerson Rohart, former pastor at First Brethren Church, has accepted a call to lead the Congregational Christian Church in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. He will assume duties January 6 and has preached there intermittently since leaving his Middletown area charge. He and his wife Hazel Northammer, with five children, plan to move to Wilkes-Barre soon.
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Emerson Rohart
First Brethren Church
Congregational Christian Church
Wilkes-Barre
Rohart
Wilkes- Barre
Brunswick Considers Selling Electric Current Directly
Brunswick Maryland officials study a plan to sell electric current directly to residents to offer better rates and create a new municipal revenue. The city would buy from a utility via a master meter and distribute to citizens, possibly with Potomac Edison Company.
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Brunswick
Alfred Harris
Potomac Edison Company
Safety Film On Two Wheels Shown To Winchester Pupils
The Junior Board of Trade safety committee will show the film On Two Wheels to Winchester school pupils on January 21. The picture depicts bicycle safety and traffic court scenes where violators are judged by peers. Phil Hunter leads the effort with projector support from Northern Virginia Power Company in Hagerstown.
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Junior Board of Trade
Winchester
Phil Hunter
Northern Virginia Power Company
Hagerstown
Police Department
Winchester Ac
Speeders Fined In Corporation Court Session
Trial Justice Donald Weems imposed fines on two speeding drivers on Millwood avenue. J A Schroth paid 10 dollars plus costs for 40 mph and a light violation. John H Miller was fined 10 dollars plus costs for 50 mph. Ardell Nicholson pleaded guilty to drunken and disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, then appealed after a six month sentence. Nicholson had recent arrest history in Alexandria Louisiana for grand larceny and a home spree led to a struggle with officers before jail.
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Donald Weems
J. A. Schroth
South Washington Street
Millwood Avenue
John H. Miller
National Avenue
Ardell Nicholson
Highland Avenue
State Farm
Corporation Court
Nicholson
Alexandria
Giving Crooner Hubby A Chance To Talk It Over
Barbara Bennett sister of Joan and Constance Bennett will sue Mor ton Downey to end their 12 year marriage but says she will wait for talks after Downey said he would come to Los Angeles to try to fix things. They have five children aged 10 to 21.
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Hollywood
Barbara Bennett
Joan
Constance
Morton Downey
Miss Bennett
Downey
New Orleans
Downeys
King’s Kin to Wed In London Rumors
Lady Iris Mountbatten aged 21 cousin of King George and daughter of the Marquess of Carisbroke will wed Captain Hamilton J. K. O’Malley Keys formerly of the Irish Guards. The couple met while she served as a volunteer nurse.
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London
Iris Mountbatten
King George
Marquess of Carisbroke
Hamilton J. K. O’malley-Keys
The
Irish Guards
Retiring County Clerk’s Oath Delays Lions Club Luncheon
In Sedgwick Kansas on January 15 the retiring county clerk T E Hess took the oath of office late for the Lions Club luncheon because of his duties. The Lions Club fines tardy members. The piece also notes the quote millions for defense but not one cent for tribute attributed to Charles Pinckney during a 1796 French gift request.
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Sedan
Kas
T. E. Hess
Lions Club
Charles Pinckney
France
Plan Survey Of Livestock Plan Survey Of Livestock
A Frederick County Board of Agriculture meeting approved a livestock and poultry survey on breed and registration. About $75 and two enumerators were funded from the Works Progress Administration to collect data, guiding future breeding and marketing improvements.
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Frederick County
County Board of Agriculture
G. Wilson Whitmore
Clearbrook
Virgil F. Wenger
Stephens City
Works Ae Administration
Board of Agriculture
Informa
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