Rotary Club Weekly Meeting and Social Calendar
Rotary Club meets at George at 1:00. W C T U holds semi monthly business session at Handley Library at 2:00 PM. Annual President’s Birthday Ball at the Washington Hotel to support infantile paralysis fund. Clarke County Auxiliary Winchester Memorial Hospital meets at Hawthorne Library at 8:45 PM. Brad dock Street M E Church hosts Comrade Bible Class assembly room. R Y Conrad American Legion opens year at Walter Shade residence Handley Boulevard.
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Rotary Club
George
Handley Library
Ree- Washington
Clarke County
Winfchester Memorial Hospital
Hawthorne Library
Comrade Bible
Young Christian Class
Braddock Street
M. E
Garden Club Tour to Southern Gardens Planned in March
Garden Club of Virginia members look forward to a March tour by special train leaving Alexandria on March 13. The itinerary includes Atlanta Mobile New Orleans Natchez and Lookout Mountain with garden and estate visits at each stop.
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Garden Club of Virginia
Alexandria
Atlanta
Mobile
Bellingarth Gardens
New Orleans
Natchez
Washington Hotels To Be Packed For Birthday Ball Night
Seven hotels in the capital will host birthday balls with many Virginians in attendance as guests and celebrities from stage screen and radio are expected. Mrs. Roosevelt plans to visit each hotel. Winchester residents plan to attend end events in the city.
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Washington
Round Hill 4-H Bingo Postponed Due to Illness
Miss Mah Virginia Bebb dk, president of the Round Hill 4 H Club, announced today that the Bingo Party scheduled for tomorrow evening is postponed to Friday evening February 4 because of Miss Bonnie Larrick’s illness. Mrs Reardon to Leave Hospital With Roberta Cartmell for Clarke County White Post. The Junior Christian Endeavor of the First Brethren Church invites a Friday night social at 7 30 with a prayer service and refreshments after. Four Handley Students Earn Dean's List Honors at University of Virginia. Garland R Quarles reports four former Handley students made an average of 90 in all subjects this past quarter, including Jack Haines Gordon Thomas DeKalb Russell William Schenck.
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Mah U Virginiat Bebb
Round Hill 4-H Club
Bonnie Larrick
Handley Students Inc
Garland R. Quarles
Handley Public
University of Virginia
Handley
Jack Haines
DeKalb Russell
Frederick County
Gordon Thomas
William Schenck
Clarence Schenck
Modern Etiquette Q and A Clarifies Gift and Visit Etiquette
A Q and A on proper gifts for a young man to his fiancé or others, timing for post dinner visits to the hostess, and whether a man may wear a business suit to informal luncheons and teas.
Social notes mention residents traveling and recovering
Ida Caine returns to Arlington after visiting her daughters Mrs Lemuel Anderson and Mrs Purcell Fincham. William Perry suffers grippe confinement while Richard Brown recovers and resumes duties. Several social engagements and visits are listed including bridge clubs, trips to Roanoke Reading and New York, and hospital stays for D F Dyke and a Himelright family member.
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Ida Caine
Lemuel Anderson
Purcell Fincham
Arlington, Va
Glover Illness Update and Mrs H N Earns Wash
Mrs H N reports eight washings and one spend severash in Washington next week. Mr John D Glover remains ill at his South Stewart street home in about the same condition today.
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Mary M. Henkel
West Boscawen Street
Pittsburgh, Pa
Henkel
Harry Ebert, Jr
Randolph Macon College
Ashland
H. W. Eberts
South Stewart Street
John D. Glover
Ex Kaiser Wilhelm Celebrates 79th Birthday in Exile
In Doorn Netherlands ex Kaiser Wilhelm turns ninety nine on his birthday and expresses belief that the German ruling house and the British Windsor family have healed old hostilities. A telegram from King George VI Queen Mother Mary and Queen Elizabeth bears the signatures Bertie May and Elizabeth and signals improving relations after World War I.
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Doorn
Netherlands
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
House of Windsor
Bertie
May
Elizabeth
George VI
Mary
For Sale 120 Acres Farm in Opequon Adjoining Pasture
Auction style notice lists 120 acres for sale at 3500 dollars. Mentions good improvements suitable for dairy or poultry with an artesian well and pasture adjoining. Contact Harry He Willis. dated January 27, 1941.
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Harry He Willis
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Bereavement
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during our bereavement and for use of cars and floral tributes.
Seas Search For Captain Of Nordvard Overboard
Five coast guard boats patrolled the Atlantic today seeking a man lost overboard from the Norwegian freighter Nordvard. The vessel, 2356 tons, sailed from Baltimore to New York. An official from charterers Simpson Spence and Young identified the missing man as the ship's captain.
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New York
Coast Guard
Nordvard
Baltimore
Simpson, Spence and Young
League Members Seeking Liberty Peace Talk Opens
Geneva January 27 the League of Nations council debates sanctions as a solution to unit splits. British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Yvon Delbos renew pledges of faith in the league covenant at the council's public session marking its 100th meeting.
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Geneva
League
League Nations Council
Anthony Eden
Yvon Delbos
Atlas Powder Reports Income for 1937
Atlas Powder Company reports net income for 1937 of 1,433,871 dollars after preferred dividends of 4.40 dollars per share on 248,145 shares of no par value common stock. This compares with 1936 net income of 1,430,080 dollars or 4.21 dollars per share on 248,666 shares.
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Wilmington
Del
Atlas Powder Company
Sharp heads Fauquier Field Trials group
Fred W Sharp Jr of The Plains was elected president of the Fauquier Field Trials Association at a called meeting in Warrenton. The group announced the annual spring trials for April 1 with Jock McCarty of Marshall as vice president Hugh Gold Thorpe as secretary treasurer Irving Kane of Bealeton as field marshal and Sam S Hall Jr of Warrenton as sergeant at arms.
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Warrenton
Fred. W. Sharp, Jr
the Plains
Fauquier
Jock McCarty
Marshall
Hugh Gold Thorpe
Irving Kane
Bealeton
Sam S. Hall, Jr
Sentencing of Youth Deferred in Paxton Slaying
Staunton Virginia January 27 Frank M Paxton aged 22 awaits sentencing after conviction by a Corporation Court jury of first degree murder in the slaying of his father Erskine S Paxton. The jury recommended a 40 year penitentiary sentence. Judge Floridus S Crosby postponed sentencing at the request of defense counsel Curry Carter to allow further action to be considered. Paxton is returned to jail.
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Staunton
Frank M. Paxton
Corporation Court
Erskine S. Paxton
Floridus S. Crosby
Curry Carter
Paxton
Colgate Palmolive Peet Defers Quarterly Dividend
Directors of Colgate Palmolive Peet Co defer action on the quarterly dividend of 12 1/4 cents per share on common stock as announced today in New York.
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NEW _ YORK
Colgate-Palmolive- Peet Co
Radio Highlights On The Air Tonight
Radio listings detail 6:38 PM to 11:45 PM programming across WEAF WOR WJZ and WABC. Entries include Amos ’n’ Andy, Varieties, Sinatra Orchestra, Major Bowes Amateurs, Bing Crosby, and News and Dance Music segments with host and guest names.
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Weaf
Joan Edwards
WJZ
the Serenaders
Radie Harris
Commonwee Lowel Thomas
Wabc—De Casino
Amos
N’ Andy
WOR
Stan Lomax
Easy Aces
WABC
Jack Fulton
Franklyn MacCormick
James P. Pope
Idaho
Williston Academy Alumni Association
Mr. Keen
Hollywood
George Mea
Reisman
Martin
We, the People
Gabriel Hatter
Warnew Orch
Follies
Kate Smith
Miriam Hopkins
Olsen
Wade Raehtater
America
Mediterranean
Bruce Barton
New York
Young Republicans Club
National Republican Club
Elsa Schallert
Gladys Swarthot
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Garden Club
Sunshine Club
Maxwell
James H. Price
Virginia
Edith Maxwell
Comrade Bible Class
Ladies Auxiliary of Postal Clerks
National Federation of Post Office Clerks
John H. Kern
Sarah Zane
Ladies Auxiliary of
Winchester
J. Elwood Snyder
Taylor Simpson
Kern
Erie
Andrew Bell
George Washington
Frederick
United States
National Foundation
Warm Springs
Riggteer
Bob Riley
C. R. Anderson
E. R. Branch
Paralysis Victims’ Fund
Round Hill
Margaret L. Hodgson
Roberta Lee
William Perry
South Cameron Street
Grippe
Richard Brown
North Loudoun Street
James G. Nevitt
Amherst Street
Sallie Boyd
Ellen Boyd
Virginia Tayloe Boyd
Edward Barr
Roanoke
John Boyd
Horace Davis, Jr
New York City
Mrs
Horace Davis
Gray Gables Inn
George Smith, Jr
Baltimore, Md
Fred L. Glaize, Jr
Reading
Frederick Fisher
Wyomissing Heights
Anne Brooke Kern
Fred S. Hunt
Lee Street
Richmond, Va
D. F. Dyke
Winchester Memorial Hospital
A. H. Jackson
Bridge
West Germain Street
C. Himelright
Shawnee Avenue
C.himelright
A. H. Morgan
South Washington Street
Michael F. Dedvin
Ardmore, Pa
W. B. Snider & Son
San Francisco
California
Jeanne Marjorie Walters
Great Falls
Mont
Fairmont
Loudoun
Stewart St
Loudoun St
Cork
John W. Rosenberger & Company
Valley Pike
Che
Sandlin & Davidson
Snapp
Loudoun Sts
Clara Fultz Bentz
Wilbur R. Johnston
Berryville Ave
W. A. Orndorff
Albin
M. H
Clara Loy
N. Fairmont Ave
Sunnycroft
John. M. Cox
Raymond
Calif
Rawleigh
Rawleigh’s
Dept
Fahnestock
Wilmer F. Shayock Insurance Service
N. Loudoun St
Nichols Triangle
Nichols Copper CO
Wall St
U.S.A
Phelps Dodge Corporation
League Members
Seeking Liberty
Atlas Powder Reports Income
Fred. Sharp Heads
York
Soddy Haines & His
Virginians
Fresh Daily
Goosen
Underwood
Sport Oxfords
RED Cross
Rhythm Steps
Rice O’neills
Huntsberry
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp'n
Consumers Coal CO
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Pifer Printing Co
Sunshine Cleaners
E. Piccadilly St
Colonial Beauty Shoppe Cor
Piccadilly
Cameron St
Nina V. Wolford
SUV
Gpoig
Greyhound Terminal
N. Braddock St
Jacksonville
Tres
Miami
Tampa
St. Pet
Rsburg
W. Pa Lm Beach
St. Augustine
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