Swanson Dies After Long Public Career in Virginia Politics
Richmond dispatch reports Claude A Swanson former governor senator and secretary of the navy died at a quiet Virginia cabin after decades in public life. He served six terms in the House four as governor twenty three in the Senate and six as Navy secretary. He rose from a boy teaching school to Randolph Macon and UVA law, never losing an election though illness limited him after 1936. Tributes flowed from President Roosevelt and Virginia leaders praising a life of public service and leadership.
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Richmond
Claude Augustus Swanson
Rapidan
Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Price
Swanson
Robertson
Lexington
Congress
U. Va
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Danville
Randolph-Macon
University of Virginia Law School
Andrew Jackson Montague
State Board of Health
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Department of ‘Public’Welfare
William Hodges Mann
Senate
John Warwick Daniel
Naval and Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Navy
Navy Department
Claude Swanson
Old South
Old Dominion
Funeral Today for Miss Hawke
Final rites for Miss Mary Wilden Hawke sister of Mrs. Thomas A. Gibson of this city were held this afternoon at Old St. David's Episcopal Church Wayne Pa. She died Thursday evening after a yearlong illness and had lived with her sister. Many friends from this section attended and interment followed in Old St. David's cemetery.
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Mary Wilden Hawke
Thomas A. Gibson
Old St. David's Episcopal Church
Wayne, Pa
Miss Hawke
Mrs. Gibson
Wayne
Old St. David's
Divorce by Desertion Proceedings in Winchester Virginia
Maria Virginia Yarrell files for divorce a vinculo matrimonii from Thomas Oswell Yarrell on desertion grounds. Court orders publication in The Evening Star for four weeks and posting at Winchester Court House by July 10 1939. Copy mailed to the defendant and a copy-testis issued by the deputy clerk.
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Lilly Collins Denton
Virginia
Winchester Evening Star
Frederick Bishop
Commonwealth of Virginia
Corporation Court
City of
Winchester
Marie Virginia Yarrell
Thomas Oswell Yarrell
State of
Evening Star
Corinne Barnett
Twenty-Fifth Methodists Youth Conference in Session
The twenty-fifth annual conference of the young people of the Methodist Church is in session at Masanetta with over 550 delegates and many instructors. Classes include Our Latin American Neighbors, Friendship and Marriage, and Enriching Spiritual Life. Evening programs feature a musical banquet by Dr. J. J. Rives and talent acts. The event closes Sunday morning with an address by Rev. Horace E. Comer and credits awards for delegates from Winchester.
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Young People of the Methodist Church
Masanetta
R. M. Parker
Lewisburg
W. Va
J. A. Bays
Kingsport
Tenn
Claude H. Thompson
Odenton
J. J. Rives
Richmond
J. Howard Frantz
Horace E. Comer
Washington, D. C
Winchester
Shirley O. Bly
Merlin Bly
Margaret Campbell
Esther Butsler
Helen Gatewood
Lillian Gatewood
Mabel Louise Heckrotte
Margaret Knight
Peggy McIntyre
Velma
Gelan Ritenour
Virginia Shirley
Berryville Social Notes Highlight Luncheon and Visits
The Berryville VA social page lists a bridge luncheon hosted by Ms. Nelson Pae Mrs. Joseph Wright and Mrs. Hunter McGuire at Mrs. McGuire’s home in honor of Mrs. Henry B. Gilpin. Guests include Mrs. J Gray Beverley Miss Rose MacDonald Mrs. Spencer Carter and Miss Page. Other visits note Mrs Josephine Meade Davis of Kansas City with Ralph N Dorsey and family returning from West Point Virginia. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Chappell with children visiting Mr and Mrs H B Harris. Autherine Allman Alberta Elsen return from New York World’s Fair. Reverend George Vest of Alexandria arrives to lead Grace Episcopal Church services, with J Britt Ellington to conduct services at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Alexandria. West, rector of Emmanuel, will oversee the Sunday ceremonies.
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Berryville
J. Gray Beverley
Rose MacDonald
Joseph F. Moore
Spencer Carter
Page
Nelson Pae
Joseph Wright
Hunter McGuire
Henry B. Gilpin
Josephine Meade Davis
Kansas City
Ralph N. Dorsey
Meade and
Joseph Dorsey
West Point
Albert Muller
George §. Vest
Alexandria
Lorenzo Lewis
Vest
Grace Episcopal Church
J. Britt Ellington
Episcopal Seminary
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
West
Washington guests visit Miss Elizabeth Parshall and Mr. Baughman
Mrs. John Lutz and her daughter Miss Mary Catherine Lutz of Washington were weekend guests of Miss Elizabeth Parshall and Mr. H. F. Baughman, brother of Mrs. Lutz.
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John Lutz
Mary Catherine Lutz
Washington
Elizabeth Parshall
8. F. Baughman
Lutz
Luncheon Honors Waterman and Talk on Early American Architecture
Miss Rose MacDonald hosted a Clarke County Historical Society luncheon in Pitts Clarce Theatre honoring Thomas Tileston Waterman of Williamsburg. Waterman spoke on the Library of Congress pictorial archives of early American buildings and teased a forthcoming reveal about a Clarke County house designed by a famous architect. Guests included A Mackey Smith and wife, Capt and Mrs Beardall and Mrs Coutts, Chapin Huntington, Emily MacCormick, and other local and distant visitors.
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Rose MacDonald
Thomas Tileston Waterman
Williamsburg
Library of Congress
Clarke County Historical Society
Pitts- Clarce Theatre
Watermane
Clarke County
Miss MacDonald
Airplane Beacon Towers Planned on Mill Mountain and Green Mountain
A power line is being built by the Northern Virginia Power Company to supply electricity for proposed airplane beacons west of the city. One beacon will be erected on Mill Mountain three miles northeast of Perry Hardy County West Virginia at 3000 feet, serving the Washington Elkins route. Another beacon will be placed a quarter mile south of Signal Knob on Green Mountain in the state at 2100 feet.
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Northern Virginia Power Company
Winchester
Mill Mountain
Perry
Hardy County
W. Va
Signal Knob
Green Mountain
Jury Called in Manslaughter Case of Shinnamon
A Hampshire County Circuit Court jury is summoned for next Wednesday in Romney West Virginia for the trial of Charles W. Shinnamon of Chevy Chase Maryland former executive secretary at Fairmont. The charge is manslaughter in connection with an automobile accident near Romney on April 23 that killed Mrs Harold P Schuck of Harrisonburg Virginia. Shinnamon was in hospital in Cumberland Maryland after the crash and then released on $1000 bond. A grand jury indicted him this week and the warrant accuses him of unlawfully and feloniously causing the death.
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Hampshire County Circuit Court
Romney
W. Va
Charles W. Shinnamon
Chevy Chase
Fairmont
Federal
Bituminous Coal Commission
Shinnamon
Romne
Harold P. Schuck
Harrisonburg
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mr. Shinnamon
Cumberland
Justice of the Peace
Carper Qualifies For Clarke County School Board
J. L. Carper has qualified to join the Clarke County School Board filling the vacancy from the resignation of Mrs. A. Louise Langbein. Kenneth Gilpin, who was first named, declined the appointment. Carper's appointment completes the process.
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Clarke County School Board
J. L. Carper
A. Louise Langbein
Kenneth Gilpin
Carper
Board Members Named in Local Committee Roster
Other members of its board are H. J. Hardesty, A. Buckley, R. M. Ware and J. Carper.
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H. J. Hardesty
A. Buckley
R. M. Ware
J. Carper
Historic Capon Springs Stages a Comeback as Resort
Historic Capon Springs in Hampshire county West Virginia is rebounding as a popular summer resort and healing place due to its mineral waters. The hotel once operated by the late Capt W H Sale of Winchester has been revived and grounds upgraded for golf tennis croquet horseback riding and other games attracting Washington D C embassy and legation attaches and other notable visitors.
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Capon Springs
Hampshire County
W. Va
W. H. Sale
Winchester
Manny Washington
Legation
Capon
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Ora Bailey
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Palace Theatre
Loudoun
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Marlboro
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Schuler
Schuylkill Ave
Reading
Penna
Funerla
Olivia Taylor Bishop
Haldeman
Haldeman’s Creamery
Massanetta
Benjamin Chappell
H. B. Harris
Autherine Allman
Alberta Elsen
New York
R. E. Potts
Mrs. Garland Potts
Wilmington, del
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Silver Spring
Malcolm Johnson
Henry Lickey
Creighton Tabb
Charles Town
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Gen
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Winchester Furniture CO
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