Mrs. Bessie Ridenour Dies at Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Bessie May Ridenour, 39, died at Memorial hospital from complications after admission late last night. A Warren county native who lived in Refuge since marriage, she leaves husband Floyd H. Ridenour and ten children at home, plus parents, two sisters, and a brother. Funeral plans not set, likely Friday.
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Bessie May Ridenour
Memorial Hospital
Helen
Hilda
Beatrice
Letty
Morrison
Samaryindo
Pearl Sauwlirs
Baltimore
Cedarville
Nazi Air Forces Attack British Isles in Daylight
London reports that German air forces renewed daylight raids on the British Isles, striking the south coast and several points. One raid killed 12 and wounded 123, marking the largest casualty list from German raids on British soil to date, as anti-aircraft defenses and pursuit aircraft responded.
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London
British Isles
Attac
Air Ministry-Home
Ity Ministry
Wales
Home Security Ministry
Prayer Service Not To Be Held At Presbyterian Church
Ronald S. Wilson pastor announces no prayer service at the Presbyterian Church this evening. Instead, services preparatory to communion will be held Friday night at 8 oclock and Holy Communion rites will be administered Sunday.
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Ronald S. Wilson
The
Presbyterian Church
Second Concert of Municipal Band Features Patriotic Music
The second summer concert at City Hall 8 to 9 pm opens with America and includes March Militaire Overture Morning Noon and Night in Vienna Wedding of the Winds Humoresque God Bless America Triumphal March and ends with the Star Spangled Banner.
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America
F. Schubert
Vienna
F. V. Suppe
Hall
Ashton Dvorak
Herbert Clarke
T. B. Boyce
Montague Avenue Picnic Planned Tomorrow
The Rev. H. G. Balthis said Montague Avenue Methodist Church members will depart tomorrow morning at 10 for Golightly's Bottoms for a picnic. If weather is bad the event moves to the church at noon.
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H. G. Balthis
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
Golightly’s
Pastor Addresses Local Kiwanians at July Luncheon
The Rev. Carl Honeycutt of Grace Lutheran Church spoke at a Kiwanis luncheon on a Fourth of July observance. Ralph Pifer won the attendance prize donated by Garland Canter. Sumner Walters of Alameda, Cal., attended as a guest. The club voted to send four underprivileged children to the Salvation Army camp.
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Carl Honeycutt
Grace Lutheran Church
Kiwanis
Garland Canter
Ralph Pifer
Sumner Walters
Alameda
Cal
Salvation Army
Mrs C W Enos Dies In Denver
Mrs W Enos of Denver Colorado died at her residence Monday morning. She was the mother of Mrs Warren Rice of this city and visited here often. Mrs Rice traveled to Denver to attend the rites held there today. Survived by two sons Herbert Enos of Los Angeles and C R Enos of Denver. She was the widow of Dr C W Enos of Denver.
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W. Enos
Denver
Colo
Enos
Warren Rice
Rice
Herbert Enos
Los Angeles
C. R. Enos
Britain Escalates Bombing Amid Romanian Fronti ers Tensions
Britain pounds Ruhr cities with nightly air raids and reports align with warnings of renewed border clashes in Dobruja and Transylvania. Germany tallies deaths and injuries from the surge, while British sources claim damage to Scharnhorst.
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Germany
Ruhr
British Air Ministry
Scharnhorst
Knox nomination debated as coalition government questioned
Senators debated the Knox nomination with party lines: Democrats from Florida to Maine and Republicans from New Jersey supported him while others from South Carolina Maryland Washington West Virginia California opposed. Walsh defended Knox saying he could speed naval program progress and Holt pressed Knox on coalition government fears. Knox denied urging fear of war and said he would serve under any administration.
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Drews
Florida
Ellender
Louisiana
Lucas
Illinois
Hale
Maine
Barbour
New Jersey
Smith
South Carolina
Tydings
Maryland
Bone
Washington
Halt
West Virginia
Johnson
California
Walsh Walsh
Knox
Stimson
Holt
D-Wva
Republican Party
United States
Pershing Urges Broad Compulsory Military Training
General John J. Pershing called for immediate congressional enactment of a universal training system to keep the United States out of war. He spoke during Senate hearings on the Burke bill which would register all male citizens and resident aliens 18 to 65, train 21 to 45 for armed service, and assign others to home defense units.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Congress
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Sheppard
D.-Tex
Burke
D.-Neb
Armed Services
Doctor Known Here Favors U. S. Blood Serum For Allies
Mrs. Harvey G. Mudd of St. Louis visiting at Miss Minnie Baker's. mother of Dr. Stuart Mudd of the University of Pennsylvania who promotes American blood serum for Allied wounded. Mudd plans to stay through Friday and spoke at the American Human Serum Association in New York about colorless serum as a shock treatment and a substitute for fresh blood transfusions.
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Harvey G. Mudd
St. Louis
Stuart Mudd
University of Pennsylvania
Minnie Baker
Mudd
Dougherty Replaces Levi as Clarke County Guard Captain
Clarke County in Berryville Virginia announces Captain Graham F Dougherty will replace retirement bound Rice W Levi as head of Headquarters Company 91st Infantry Brigade National Guard. Levi resigns after long service starting April 7 1922 and remains with George B Thomas. Dougherty returns from prior Pennsylvania guard service to assume duties.
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Dougherty
Levi
Clarke County Guard
Berryville
Graham F. Dougherty
Rice W. Levi
91St Infantry Brigade
National Guard
Adjutant General's Office
Richmond
Nation Guard
George B. Thomas
Pennsylvania Guard
Philadelphia
Bookkeeping System To Be Discouraged Continued
City council debates adopting a new bookkeeping system to allow daily posting and detailed fiscal records. Officials compare costs with Front Royal and Harrisonburg, noting time savings and lower future supply costs. armory expansion also moves forward despite opposition.
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Barney
Forsee Savings
Front Royal
Harrisonburg
Commissioner of Revenue
Herman Hable
O. L. Jamison
Allen Hawthorne
May Buy Stamps At Sub Station July Fourth
The post office will be closed tomorrow for the Fourth of July but stamps will be sold all day at the sub station in the Alexander Drug Store for patrons needing them.
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Alexander Drug Store
Stock Prices Drift With Fractional Changes In New York
In New York on July 3 stock prices advanced slowly with only fractional changes. Closing quotations show Alcoa 148, American Can 94, American Radiator 64, American Smelting 35 1/2, AT & T 160, Anaconda 20, B&O 3, Bethlehem 62, Kennecott 25, M. Ward 38, Penn Wyoming 78 1/2, Penn R.R. 19, Republic Steel 11 1/2, Sears Roebuck 11 1/2, S. N. J. 32.
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New York
al. Chem
Am. Can
Am. Rad
Am. Smel
Anaconda
Betlehem
Eee
Kennecott
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Refuge
C. B. Smalts & Son
Sunshine Cleaners
East Piccadilly
Montague Ave
C. W. Enos
Britain
Rumania
Carol
Dobruja
Bulgaria
Transylvania
Ruhr Valley
Pershing
Old
Vnretice
U. S
esFrve
Macys Mia
Man Hable
Hagerstown
Winchester
C. R. Anderson
R. Frank Barr
W. W. Dellinger
Percy Miller
Miller Streit
H. H. Hable
W. P. Anderson
Ollis
Cameron St
Stock Market Report
Parlett Funeral Home
Gainesboro Road
United States of America
Shenandoah Motor CO
Chevrolet
C. Herbert Schutte
Fred M. Ritter
Harry A. Schmidt
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