Garden Party Delights Winchester Citizens With Fashion Shows
The Garden Party at Mrs. Robert Barton’s lawn drew large crowds for afternoon and evening performances featuring a nursery school choir, a Fashion Fantasies show, an Old fashioned Fashion Show, and a celebrity draw for a War Bond. Local clubs, auctions, and fortune telling augmented the event, while multiple public notices and personal updates filled the rest of the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Barton
Gertrude Barton Nursery School
Wilgus
Barton
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Kuykendall
Clarke Cooper
Melvin Green
Carl Massey
Robert Pizzano
Glenn Seabright
Mildred Jones
W.V. Glass
Ralph Pifer
B. B. Dutton
Elizabeth Kern
Winchester
Coleman Dunn
Allan Richardson
E. C. Stuart, Jr
C. S. Butler
Eugene Cooper
Lawn Party at Mount Pleasant U B Church
A lawn party will be held on the grounds of Mount Pleasant U B Church in Mount Pleasant West Virginia Thursday evening. Home made ice cream cake and chicken sandwiches will be on sale. Local people plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Women’s Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
E. T. Clark
Palestine
Mount Pleasant U. B. Church
Mt. Pleasant
W. Va
Mt, Pleasant Church
Infant Buried in Middletown Cemetery
The infant child of Hernan and Elizabeth Johnson Williams of Stephens City was buried yesterday in Middletown cemetery. Surviving are the parents and siblings Charles, Holland Williams and Marie Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hernan and
Elizabeth Johnson Williams
Stephens City
Middletown
Charles
Holland Williams
Marie Williams
Service Letters Tell Of Jones And Stimmel War News
George Lyle Jones serves overseas and tells his wife Gladys Householder of talks with Winchester doctors. First Lieut Ralph L. Stimmel, son of Leora May Stimmel, earns the Distinguished Flying Cross for 30 bombing missions over Germany and occupied Europe, with Air Medal honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lyle Jones
C. M
Gladys Householder
Miller
Salvin
Winchester
Gore
G. C. Jones
Route 3
England
Ralph L. Stimmel
Leora May Stimmel
Parkway
Oscar Weber Hosiery Corp
Fairchild Aircraft Co
Hagerstown
Germany
Europe
Stimmel
Promotion of John W Smoke to Private First Class in Europe
Major General Hugh J. Knerr announced the promotion of John W Smoke from Private to Private First Class in England. Smoke is the son of Mr and Mrs Paul E Smoke of Mt Williams and a 1937 Mt Williams High School graduate who helped on the family farm before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Smoke
England
Hugh J. Knerr
Air Service Command
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Paul E. Smoke
Mt. Williams
Pfc
Smoke
Mt. Williams High School
Mrs. W. B. Robertson Died Last Night
Mrs. Saida Claiborne Robertson aged about 70 wife of Wyndham B. Robertson of Kearneysville W Va died last night at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a three month illness. Funeral tomorrow at 11 in Richmond burial Hollywood Cemetery. Survived by husband two sons William Boling Robertson Archibald W. Robertson, three brothers, service in Episcopal Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saida Claiborne Robertson
Wyndham B. Robertson
Kearneysville
W. Va
Winchester Memorial Hospital
George and
Ella Palmer Claiborne
Richmond
Hollywood Cemetery
William Boling Robertson
Washington, D. C
Archibald W. Robertson
Thomas D
Baltimore
Mrs. Emma Moreland Dies at 76 in Winchester Hospital
Mrs. Emma Moreland 76 of High View West Virginia died at 9 15 last night in Winchester Memorial Hospital after long illness. Widow of Herbert Moreland she was a daughter of the late Lewis and Emmaline Arnold of near Yellow Springs. Survived by two sisters Verna Arnold and Sallie Brill and a sister in law Mrs Janie Arnold plus many nieces and nephews. Body sent to Griffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge for burial preparations. Funeral details unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Moreland
High View
W. Va
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Herbert Moreland
Lewis and
Emmaline Arnold
Yellow Springs
Verna Arnold
Sallie Brill
Lehew
Janie Arnold
Griffin Funeral Home
Capon Bridge
Weekly price digest for wheat and produce prices update
Digest shows soft winter wheat prices by grade for producers and shippers with transport add-on. Price clerk at War Price and Rationing Board can provide copies and specific grade prices. Also lists updated prices for radio tubes raspberries dewberries blackberries, and cucumbers for producer wholesaler and retailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Price and Rationing Board
Grass Fire Damages Hayfield Near Winchester
A grass fire on Welltown Pike north of Winchester damaged a Bond Brothers hayfield and threatened an orchard owned by C Irvin Cather. The Friendship Fire Company responded and quickly brought the blaze under control, burning some fence posts and hay but sparing the trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welltown Pike
Winchester
Bond Brothers
C. Irvin Cather
Friendship Fire Company
WAVES NEEDED TO SUPPORT WAR EFFORT ENSEMB POLLEY SAYS
Ensign Millicent Polley of the WAVES explains how women replace men in combat support roles at the U S Navy Recruiting Station in Winchester. She cites examples from parachute packing to message transmission and urges eligible women 20 to 36 with two years of high school to inquire about WAVES opportunities at the Post Office Building Recruiting office through July 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br Vittory
Millicent Polley
U. S. Navy
Winchester
Halstead Hopping
Marshal and
Gilbert Islands
Ensign Polley
Rome
France
Pacific
Eourt
Lloyd Mead
Lucille Bo
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Branner
George W. Branner
Whittier Avenue
Seaman Harmon
Allen Harmon
J-c
F. C. Harmon
W. Piccadilly Street
Newport
R. I
Sager
William Sager
Irene Miller
George A. Keiser
J. H. Wilson
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Atlantic
Rhodes-Smith
Frances E. Smith
Arthur Smith
White Hall
Eugene O. Rhodes
Samuel Rhodes
Woodlawn Avenue
R. Schmucker
Anaodes
Camp Bradford
Norfolk
North Africa
Italy
Greece
Russia
American Red Cross
Winchester - Frederick County
Red Cross
Episcopal Church House
West Boscawen Street
Miss Shade
Jeanne Shade
Walter Shade
Handley Blvd
JeanneShazo
Fredericksburg
Mary Washington College
J. H. Bott
Washington
Miss Avey
Louise Avey
Wheeler
Martinsburg
Victor Wheeler
Albert Olen Downey
Maine
James B. Yates
Virginia B. Yates
John W. Hockman
North
Kennebunkport
Mrs. Mason
Jane Johnston
LaMesa
N. M
W. Courtfield Avenue
Johnston
Chi Omega
Paulette
Scottsville
Anne Paulette
Judley C. Lichliter
South Washington Street
Mrs. Peters
Hugh Peters
Ridley Park
Peter
Mary Ann Hood
Mary Elizabeth Stewart
Middletown Fire Company
Mattie Wright
Stines
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Shirley Stines
Baptist Missionary Society
Old Fredericktown Garden Club
Old
Fredericktown
Young Underwood
Robert Underwood
St. James
Rehoboth Beach
Lutheran Bible Class
Lutheran Church of Our Savior
J. A. Hepner
Stephenson
Largent
Walter Clargent
Dorothy Darlene
Kline
E. C. Kline
Montgomery War
Putman, Conn
Alexandria
Montgomery Ward
Putman
Ferrebee-Pearson
Gloria L. Pearson
Sherman Pearson
Boyce
Thornton C. Ferrebee
T. C. Ferrebee
Blatche E Engle
J. T. Lindsey
Anna Cooper
Florida
Anna Jane Cooper
Roanoke College
Miami Beach
Fla
J. W. Cooper
Richard
Mount Williams
Miss Cooper
Dorothy
Virginia Brown
Detroit
Mich
Mrs. Louis Wonder
New York
Ainburn
Port Sy
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Simplex
Huntsberry
Front Royal
Mount Pleasant
Johnson
Gaunt
Main
Valley Ave
Main St
Fred Ritter
Gray Stone Terrace
Virginia Avenue
United States
W. B. Robertson
Tode Tuttle Dry Goods
Evemee Star Daily
Chapman Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
George Washington Garage
OPA Odd Lot
Lovett Brothers
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bell
Bell Clothes Stores
Ompany
Clarke County
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Moling & Cather
Timberlake
Miller Bros
Daily Crossword
River St
Tois
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