Town and County News Roundup Highlights
Sgt Kinney and kinney kin fire a return to Bergstrom Texas after visits with kin on Amherst Street. Pvt Singhass returns to Truax Madison on furlough. Knitters urged to bring attic es to Mrs Griffith. Red Cross dressings room shifts to Wednesday Friday. Stephens City first aid grads include Ewing Pleury Hartman Molony. Mrs Russell improving after eye operation. Nemeth wedding to Mr William Coates Nemeth at Grace Methodist Church in Stephens City with reception at Broadview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabth
Katherine Kern
Amherst Street
Sgt. Kinney
Cpl
Holloway Kinney
Bergstrom Field
Texas
Pvt
Lester P. Singhass
Truax Field
Madison Wisconsin
L. A. Singhass
Valley Pike
Red Cross
Richard Griffith
West Clifford Street
Robert H. Lee
North Camp Hood
H. M. Lee
Woodland Avenue
Stephens City
Stephens City High School
Eastern Area
Alexandria
James Earl Ewing
George Pleury
Harold Hartman
Joseph Molony
Charles Ritenour
Charles Sandy
Charles Sheetz
John Smoot
Richard Stine
Elsie L. Havermale
Sailor’s Salt Water Gargle On USO Stopway
A sailor visiting a USO center in St Louis says he is fine with a sore throat. When asked about gargling with salt water the reply notes he has faced torpedo attacks three times, highlighting wartime perils in a light exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
USO
Rites Yesterday For Mrs Athey
Funeral services for Mrs Margaret E Athey widow of Charles J Athey were held at 2 pm at the home of her son Harry E Athey 429 Gray Avenue. The Rev Ronald B Wilson and Rev J S Duckwall officiated with Highland Avenue Church choir singing Abide With Me It Pays to Serve Jesus Every Day and Till We Meet Again under William C Miller. Pallbearers listed and numerous floral tributes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Athey
Charles J. Athey
Harry E. Athey
Gray Avenue
Ronald
Wilson
Duckwall
Jesus
Highland Avenue Church
Wiliam C. Miller
Allen B. Gray
H. M. Linkous
B. A. Grayson
William L. Hyatt
Grover C. Cooper
Melville K. Shirkey
Enumerators Sought for 1945 Farm Census in County
An urgent appeal from Walter M. Harris seeks additional enumerators to complete the 1945 Census of Agriculture in Warren Clarke and Frederick counties by March end. Training and pay offered, with a January 29 1945 meeting at the County Agent's office in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Clarke
Frederick
Walter M. Harris
Bureau of Census
Department of Commerce
Harris
Washington
Census Bureau
J. C. Capt
War Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
United States
Inchester
Assets of State Banks Rise 23 Percent in 1944
Virginia state banks report total assets of 663.234 million at year end 1944, up 23 percent from 539.1 million in 1943. Loans and discounts rise eight percent and cash on hand increases 10 percent, per the State Corporation Commission Bureau of Banking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Bureau of Banking of the State Corporation Commission
City Soldier Dodson Reported Missing Now Prisoner of Germany
Lewis F. Dodson, 18, long missing, is identified as a prisoner of the German government. The claim came via a telegram to his mother through the Red Cross. Dodson served as a tail gunner and photographer on a B 17 and had been overseas seven weeks before capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Set
Lewis F. Dodson
Lucy E. Dodson
West Cork Street
International Red Cross
Sgt. Dodson
Peter Lawford Recalled As Hollywood Wolf by Reporter
A writer recalls Peter Lawford in Hollywood circles noting high profile entanglements with Lana Turner Judy Garland and others while recounting his rise to a leading role opposite a canine star in Son of Lassie. Born in London to Sir Sidney Lawford he is described as down to earth despite gossip and public curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Peter Lawford
Lana Turner
Judy Garland
Lucille Ball
Ava Gardner
Helen Forrest
MGM
Margaret O'Brien
Dame May Whitty
Peter
Irene Dunne
White Cliff
Dover
London
England
Sir Sidney
Lady Lawford
Salvation Army Aids Transients in Winchester Last Year
Capt Clyde Koon leads local Salvation Army HQ as records show the unit supplied 279 persons with a night’s lodging and $74 worth of meals over the past year. The article details efforts to aid troubled soldiers, homeless individuals, and other wanderers, urging community support for the Feb 5–9 fund drive to curb the transit problem and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Koon
Salvation Army
Winchester
Police Department of
Koon
Nation Army
Srheinss
Rev Duckwall To Teach Bible Class At Loudoun Church
The Men's Open Door Bible Class of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church meets at 9:45 Sunday morning with vice-president J C McCormick in charge. The Rev J B Duckwall will teach the lesson and members are urged to attend with a friend. Visitors are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
J. C. McCormick
Duckwall
Ills and updates in Green Spring community notes
Green Spring Va January notes report Harry Saville ill with a cold at home and unable to attend school. Mrs Bradford Shreck improving. Elsie and Irene Catlett dinner guests of sister and brother in law Delmar Saville and family. Jas Owens reported dead in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Delmar Saville and son Walter visited George Hesley near White Hall. visits by Milburn and Milburn families to Glengary West Virginia and back. Rhine of nearby area has a job at National Fruit Products in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Delmar Saville
Walter
George Hesley
White Hall
Carter Milburn
Carl
Lloyd Milburn
Granville Rhine
Near Here
National Fruit Products Co
Winchester
Trone Milburn
Glengary
W. Va
Road To Berlin Distances From Front Lines
Eastern Front reports place Mosina Poland 136 miles away and Branden burg border 91 miles from a Russian account. Western Front notes 310 miles from the Linnich Jülich Duren area. Italian Front cites 544 miles from the Reno River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mosina
Poland
Brandenburg
Linnich-Julich-Duren
Reno River
Belgian Spinster Leads Burial Squad to Frozen Bodies of Americans
A Belgian widow who witnessed German soldiers murder eight captured U S tank crews led a U S burial party to their frozen bodies in a roadside snowbank near Lignéville. She described Dec 17 killings as German troops forced the prisoners to dig graves then shot them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ligneuville
Belgium
U. S
Marie
New York State
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New Guinea
Wisconsin
Friendly Grove H. D. C
Feeley
Friendly Grove Home Demonstration Club
Russell Feeley
Ruth McNeil
Kenneth Bell
Bond
Nancy Bond
Marjorie Webster Junior College
Washington, D. C
Allan Bond
Miss Bond
Charlotte Walker
Grosse Point
Mich
Cole
Dennis Cole
The
Presbyterian Church
Russell
Memorial Hospital
B. E. Russell
South Cameron Street
J. T. Yates
John Yates
Hagerstown
Ity
Manassas
Hurst
Dana
T. R. Hurst
Sian
Grace Me
William Coates Nemeth
John Newlin
Washington, D.C
M. F. Draper
Earl Hurstope
Robert Coates
Lohengrin
Cleveland Fisher
Broadview
Nemeth
George Washington
Veterans Administration
Miller School
Roy B. Carper
Alfred L. Clark
Denny T. Cole
John L. Fletcher
Wilbur F. Malone
Thomas F. McDonald
Ray J. Morris
Robert B. Powell
Chas W. Warner
Hazel J. Barham
Virginia V. Godlove
Mary Elizabeth Hermansen
Sara J. Hockman
Phyllis Mae Dick
Bessie T. Renner
Ruth T. Haines
Charlena Grim
Annabelle Snapp
Loudoun Street
Eileen Kiposeh
Chicago, Ill
Warner's Brothers Corporation
Valentine
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Nutsberry Fashion Footw
Winchester—Front Royal
Mrs. Athey
Gaunt’s
Main and
Valley Ave
Sgt
Lewis Dodson
Berryville
Boyce & Clarke County
Styl-Eez
SELBY
Lovett Brothers
Hiawatha
Rev. Duckwall
Berlin
Daly
Baker’s Drug Store
Court House
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Miller Bros
CBS
Nelson Eddy
Northern Virginia Power Co
Vogue
Catcher and Moling
America
U.S.A
Timberlake
Age Thrift
Haldeman
Phosphorus
Haldeman’s Creamery
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