Local nuptials and engagements unfold in Kernstown and Clarke
Mrs Richard Venable and Miss Snyder host a miscell aneous shower for bride elect Miss Helen Grove at 1412 Valley Ave. Grove, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hester Stayton, wed Mr Shanholtz of Kernstown on Jan 8. They plan to live with his parents. Groom works at Hick s Service. Also, Mr Thomas Seldon Polhamus, son of Mr and Mrs Clinton M Polhamus, will wed in Sacred Heart on Jan 22. Mrs E P Bean spends winter in Sarasota Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Venable
Miss Snyder
Valley Ave
Miss Helen Grove
Miss Grove
Hester Stayton
Kernstown
Handley High School
Hick
Claude Marshall Grove
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Thomas Seldon Polhamus
Clinton M. Polhamus
Clarke County
Mrs Conrad and Daughter Leave Monday for Nassau
Mrs Conrad and her daughter Miss Bobbie Conrad of 8 Washington St will depart Monday for two months in Nassau. Mrs Stella Van Camp is expected to return home today from Winchester hospital after a major operation and is recuperating satisfactorily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Y. Conrad
Bobbie Conrad
Washington St
Nassau
Stella van Camp
Winchester Hospital
Home Agent's Weekly Schedule
Local agents schedule weekly community meetings across multiple towns. Events include HD clubs at North Frederick and Hayfield, 4-H gatherings at Round Hill and White Hall, and a Wednesday Stephens City session with Mrs Lovetts. Morning clinics and Thursday Hamper Hall program noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Frederick
Eee Hall
Rug
Round Hill
Nancy Larricks
Tuesda
Hayfield
Paratrooper Tells How He Prodded Men to Jump
Sgt. Robert Lee Hodgkiss of Mt. Pleasant Ohio described guiding 36 trainees out of a stricken Flying boxcar before it crashed near Fayetteville. He said he yelled standup hook up jump and the paratroopers fled the plane in seven seconds before the craft plummeted into sandhills and scorched. Hodgkiss, 24, survived while three crewmen were killed. The unit was based at Pope Field North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
N. C
Robert Lee Hodgkiss
Mt. Pleasant
Ohio
Hodgkiss
82Nd Air
Pope Field
Here
Cather Rites Funeral Services For Arthur D Cather
Funeral services for Arthur D. Cather will be held Monday with friends meeting at his son's Gainesboro Road home at 2 p m and proceeding to Fairview Church for rites at 2 30 p m conducted by Revs Donald Austin and L Ed Messick. Interment will be Mt Hebron cemetery. Pallbearers include Willey Fries Royal Nesmith Oscar Kline Lee Bennett Clifton Lewis and Russell Ramey. The remains will be taken from Omps funeral home to the late residence at 10 a m tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur D. Cather
Arthur R. Cather
Gainesboro Rd
Fairview Church
Donald Austin
L. Ed. Messick
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Willey Fries
Royal Nesmith
Oscar Kline
Lee Bennett
Clifton Lewis
Russell Ramey
Omps Funeral Home
Largest public libraries in the United States
There are more than 6,880 free public libraries in the United States with over 100,000,000 books in total. The New York Public Library is the largest, with more than 100 branches distributing over 4,500,000 items annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Calendar of Events for December Weekend and Week
Calendar notes a skating party at First Baptist Church on Saturday December 15 at 7 30 p m. Sunday activities are not listed. Monday December 17 includes women s auxiliary at Christ Episcopal Tilford room and Chanters at Market Street Methodist Church followed by Madison lodge at IOOF hall. Tuesday December 18 features Lions Club at Sarah Zane at 12 15 p m and Century club at 4 p m at Edward Barr s home with Moose and Rebekah lodges also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Women’s Auxiliary
Christ Episcopal Church
Tilford
Parish Hall
Market St. Methodist Church
Madison Lodge
Ioof Hall
Lions Club
Sarah Zane
Century Club
Oo Edward Barr
Feather Bedane
Moose
Sarat m. Rebekah Lodge
Ioof
Country Has Seen Too Many or Too Few Presidents
Analysis by Arthur Edson notes the United States has experienced varying inauguration dates and even brief presidential vacancies. It recounts Monroe in 1821 delaying until March 5, Hayes and Grant sharing top billing for a day, Wilson’s Sunday oath, and Roosevelt establishing January 20 as the date for successive terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Edson Washington
Truman
U. S
Georgraphic
Toda
James Monroe
Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
George Washington
Virginia
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Jefferson
Clement
Harrison
National Geographic
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin
William Howard Taft
Harding
Clarke VFW Charter Night in Berryville Auditorium
Clarke County Memorial post VFW plans charter night ceremonies in the Berryville school auditorium at 8 p m Tuesday. Col George E Ijams of Washington will speak as a national authority on veterans rights and benefits, former director of the Veterans Bureau and assistant administrator of the Veterans Administration. Also featured is Mrs Alice Chadwick of Alexandria past national president of the VFW ladies auxiliary. A short color motion picture The Red Wagon will be shown. Charter members of Berryville VFW post will be presented with ceremonies. Post commander Homer Knight leads the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke County
Iams
VFW
Alice Chadwick
Alexandria
VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Berryville
Homer Knight
Brunet Redhead Boil and a Laughing Bar Bear Test
New York report tests if blondes brunettes or redheads are warmer using a sentiment meter on six women a housewife a secretary a college student and three showgirls. A trained Russian bear Laura served beer as a bar-side novelty and the piece riffs on publicity stunts and Valentine cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hosuewife
Brunet
J. Harry Lange
Humorus Valentine
Judy Sinclair
Philadelphia
Lange
Laura
Rita Colton
Joe Stalin
Stalin
October 13 Seen As Columbus Discovery Date
New booklet by Camillus E Branchi argues Columbus discovered America on October 13. He cites letters from 1493 and sailing times claiming a discovery date of October 13, accounting for time differences and diary sources from Las Casas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
New York
America
Camilus E. Branchi
St. Mary’s College
Calif
Branchi
Judas Iscariot
Bartholomew de Las Casas
Chiapas
Antonio de Las Casas
Indes
Point of Discovery
Cuba
Cays
Palos
Discovery
Antipodes
Atlantic
Napoleon's Body Brought to Paris After 19 Years
Napoleon died at St Helena on May 5, 1821 and was interred near a spring beneath two willows. His body remained in isolation until 1840 when it was moved to Paris and placed in the Hotel des Invalides, the hospital for veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napolon
France
J. O'H. A. Napoleon
St. Helena
Paris
Hotel Des Invalides
Widow 90 Marries Chauffeur to Secure Estate
A 90 year old heiress Mrs Adriana Nicholson wed her 28 year old Negro chauffeur Allen Woods in a strictly business ceremony after judges and a minister refused to unite them. The bride, in a wheelchair, said the match is a contract to pass her property to him when she dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Adriana Nicholson
Allen Woods
Woods
Nicholson
Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon
Daily vocabulary note teaches correct usage and pronunciation. It highlights common misuses like omitting completely from phrases and clarifies spellings such as kaleidoscope. A quote illustrates truculence and urges readers to master one new word each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphry Ward
Average home furnace efficiency range stated
The text asserts that the efficiency of the average home furnace is between 50 and 60 percent.
New Spring Pattern 4918 Ad For Women’s Button-Up Dress
Fashion notice from the Winchester Star promotes Pattern 4918 in cotton with ruffles, sizes 12 through 42, with yardage details for size 16. Includes complete illustrated instructions and a call to order by mail with twenty five cents. Also advertises a Spring Pattern Book by Anne Adams with a free four-store pattern and a fifteen cent copy price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Star
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Anne Adams
Births at Rockingham Memorial Hospital Fall in 1948
Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg reported 1166 births in 1948, down 65 from 1947. Among the births were nine sets of twins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
Harrisonburg
Shelter belt trees cut wind and fuel use at farms
Measurements show a belt of trees around a farmhouse can cut wind speeds by half and lower fuel consumption by as much as 30 percent, protecting homes from wind effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W
Etiquette Q&A on introductions and table manners
A column by Roberta Lee discusses social conduct. It notes there is no obligation to introduce a companion when meeting an acquaintance on the street, and that fidgeting at table stems from nerves rather than ill breeding. It adds that willpower can help, and that a widower remarrying need not host a bachelor dinner.
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Acta
Helen Grove
Leo Shanholtz
Arlington
Jack Corbin
Betty Shumaker
Maggie Teele
W. Cork St
E. P. Bean
Florida
Stewart St
Sebring
Fla
Home Agent's
Brooks’ Pharmacy
A. D. Cather
Huntsberrys
Gold Cross Casuals
Paradise Suedes
Loudoun St
Winchester
Haldeman 'S
Haldeman’s Creamery
Congress
Radio Naeviensth
Gaunt
Clarke Vfw
Charter Night
Alice M. Chadwxct
George E. Ijams
Hal Boyle
Valentine
Norma Thornton
Iowa
Marriety
Colonial Beauty Shoppe
Lilly St
W. L. Gordon
Ohtans
Roberta Lee
Memoriam
Dr. E. M. Steele
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Jumbo Lake
Silas G. Cather
Cather
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
Fed
Bates
Timberlake
N. Leudeun St
General Electric
U. G. Pat
Patani
W! Music
West Boscawen
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