Professor Floyd Flickinger Named Colonial Historian
Floyd Flickinger of Winchester Virginia was appointed assistant historian for the Colonial National Monument in Virginia. He has taught history at William and Mary for three years and will help mark the Yorktown Battlefield with the Virginia Conservation and Development Commission for the Yorktown Sesquicentennial celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Flickinger
Associated Press
Washington
The
Star
Winchester
Colonial National Monument
Virginia
Flickinger
William and Mary
Yorktown
Virginia Conservation and Development Commission
National Park Service
Social Calendar and Club Meetings In Winchester
Wednesday Evening Yard party by combined fire departments of Winchester on East Cork. Thursday 1:00 P.M. Regular meeting and luncheon of Rotary Club at George Washington Hotel. Friday 12:30 P.M. Regular meeting and luncheon of American Legion Post at George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls Athletic Asso
Girls Athletic Association
Helen Crisman
Ella Bauserman
Emily Lanford
Mildred Elsen
George Washington Hotel
Dr Collyer Guest Speaker To Fidac Session On Czecho Slovakia
American Legion Auxiliary met at Mrs. Carl Massey home for a Fidac study night focusing on Czecho-Slovakia with Dr. Collyer of Edinburg sharing historical and statistical notes from Prague. Performances included Dvorak songs by Mrs. Nelson Page and Miss Mary Louise Sartelle Humoresque and Goin Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collyer
American Legion Auxiliary
Carl Massey
The
Legion Auxiliary
Fidac
International Legion
Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Nelson Page
Dvorak
Mary Louise Sartelle
Methodist Church
Russia
Bolshevists
Dry @ollyer
Local News Roundup Of Personal Travel And Visits
Mills Lucille Jackson returns from Reading Pennsylvania with sister LaVerne Clauser arriving to spend time here. Ruth Lewis goes back to Portsmouth Virginia after weeks with L Kenneth Rice. EB W J Hearty Inc president B W J Hearty of New York spent the weekend on business. J T Yates Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone manager leaves for Richmond on business. Eva Huyett returns to Richmond after a visit with Mrs Earl Parsons and accompanies Mrs Parsons and Huyett Parsons Jr. Billy Brown moves to his parents home after tonsillectomy at Memorial Hospital. Jessie Markwood visits Washington and Montgomery County then returns to South Braddock Street. Helen Ritter Evelyn Wright plan a day trip to Baltimore. Mr and Mrs H J Mowery visit Conrad Anderson at Yellow Springs West Virginia. United Brethren Young Peoples Choir meets at the church this evening at 6.45. members urged to attend.
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Star
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Tyson
Kenneth Gilpin
John H. Farrar
Mary Carter Randolph
Fairfax Randolph
Cary Harrison
Gwynne Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Agnes Mitchell
Henry Post Mitchell
Roland G. Mitchell
Hugh M. Nelson “ Jr
Longwood
H. B. Buery
Charleston
W. Va
Robert Buery
Nelson
Buery
Rosaling Huidekoper
Prescott Huidekoper
Ruxton
Nancy Nelson Huidekoper
Long Branch
American Inoculator Company
New Fredom
Penna
Prescot Huldekoper
Thomas N. Carter
Richmond
Powhatan
George H. Burwell
Baltimore
Bennehan Cameron
Union Memorial Hospital
Isabella M. Cameron
Traxy- Oceanic Steamship Lines
West Dies
North Cape
South Africa
Mediterranean
Kennedy Edsall
Miss Kennedy
Washington
Celestine Page
Bevan
G. Craighill
Goshen Pass
Lexington
Betty Craighill
Nat B. Page, Jr
H. Farrar
John
N. Page
Chevy Chase
William Farrar
Pittsburgh
Charles Consolvo
Maryland
Louise Bell
W. C. Turpin
Maconee
Linden
Frie
Rev
Sumner Walters
Church of the Redeemer, St
Walters, Jr
Mary Ters
Page »Turpin
Carr
New York
Ee Dren
Virginia Byrd Evelyn Nelson Carr
Courtney B. Jones
Edward Burewell
Upperville
Local Social Notes from Light Items Virginia
Emma DeHaven visits Martinsburg while Isaac DeHaven recovers from appendicitis at Memorial Hospital. A yard party for the Ladies Aid Society is planned at Chestnut Grove on August 1. Local residents Mrs Strother and Misses DeHaven, Burton, Clark, Helfin, and Gray family are noted visiting or staying with friends and relatives in Martinsburg Collinsville and nearby areas.
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Bertha DeHaven
Lola
Sadie
Eva DeHaven
Mildred DeHaven
Rheba Clark
Martinsburg
Mary Helfin
Ralph Gray
Collinsville
W. H. Cochran
Threemen fined in police court action
John Armstead drew a 50 fine and costs before Judge Donald L. Weems after conviction in a police court of possession of alleged ardent spirits. He received a 30 day jail sentence suspended on payment of the fine. Carl Patton and Mary Martin were each fined 25.25 on a statutory charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Armstead
Donald L. Weems
Carl Patton
Mary Martin
Tablet in memory of Turner Ashby placed in church
A bronze tablet in Grace Episcopal Church Berryville dedicated during a centennial service. It recalls that Turner Ashby lay in state in 1866 before burial in Stonewall Cemetery Winchester and notes his wartime sacrifice for the Confederacy. The article recounts Ashby’s 1862 engagement with Col Wyndham’s Federal cavalry and his death leading his men.
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Berryville
Grace Episcopal Church
Turner Ashby
Louis Tucker
Stonewall Cemetery
Winchester
Ashby
E. H. McDonald
Wyndham
First New Jersey
Holmes Conrad
Vic
Ashby Tory
58Th Virginia
Fauquer
Richard Ashby
Stonewall
Women Seek Culture and Fashion Says Anna Steese Richard
Quotation from Anna Steese Richard notes women desire good clothes cigarettes and culture highlighting social aspirations in modern life.
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Anna Steese
Richard
Open Hearing On Proposed Rail Rate Increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings on a proposed 15 percent freight rate increase and an independent management inquiry into railroad practices. Commissioners and examiners will oversee sessions likely lasting a week to ten days, with carriers presenting evidence and subject areas including coal handling and car spotting.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tidewater
Commission
Lewis, Lee and Meyer
Disque
Hosmer and Mattingly
Eastman
Lee
McManamy
Millwood Society Hosts Trendy Summer Visiting Group
Visitors from Richmond Winchester Saratoga and New York travel in to Millwood for summer at Mosher’s Lodge with extended social rounds. Local families host, entertain, and plan trips to Baltimore Ruxton and Halifax as high society circles gather in Clarke County Virginia.
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Rich Evening Star
Mili
A. M. Fraser
Staunton
Mary Baldwin College
First Presbyterian Church
Fraser
O. B. Lupton
D. C. Lichliter
Capona River
Messrs
I. W. Gordon
C. R. Landy
Niagara
Wood
Mary-Martha
Centenary Reformed Church
Sallie
Affleck
North Cameron Street
Rest Church Society
Misionary Society of Rest Church
H. B. Fell
Miss Stevens
Morgantown
Bernetta Ritter
Virginia Lee Stevens
West Va
Miss Ritter
Sargent School of Physical Education
Cambridge Mass
Virginia Glass Cove
Cavelands
Here
Lucy Vorous
Willow Dale
Leetown
Mrs. Wagley
Lucy
Susan
Buddy
Osborne Vorous
Virginia Dove
D. A. Carpenter
Opequon
E. L. Kent
Millwood
Vineyard
Clarke County
Gertrude Caldwell
Elizabeth Goodheart
East
Cork
Rotary
George Washington
Legion, Post
George Wash
Ington Hotel
Lieut. Hall
James G. Hall
Frank M. Hawks
Gelliday
Hall
R. H. Hall
Jacob Stanford Goodwin Golliday
Tennessee
Robert E. Lee
Golliday
Charles Hodgson
Memorial Hospital
North Loudoun Street
Sport Oxfords
Huntsberry
N. Main Street
Mills Lucille Jackson
Reading
LaVerne Clauser
Ruth Lewis
Portsmouth
L. Kenneth Rice
B. W. J. Hearty
New York City
EB. W. J. Hearty, Inc
J. T. Yates
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Eva Huyett
Earl Parsons
West Cork
Parsons
Huyett Parsons
Billy Brown
Valley Pike
Jessie Markwood
Washington, D. C
Montgomery County
South Braddock Street
Helen Ritter
Evelyn Wright
United Brethren Young Peoples Choir
Canopeoples Barcain Store
J. Jos. Sullivan
Low Buncutter Tire CO
S. Braddock St
C. C
Management Practices
Millwood Society
Arch Preserver Shoe
Shenandoah Valley
Lovett Bros
Harrisonburg
X-Ray
Gesax von Wolfgang
D. L. Affleck
Valley View Kennels
Grimes, VA
Bell Clothes Shop
Voss Washers
RM. Swimley
Margaret L. Hodgson
John S. Miller & CO. Hardware and Household Supplies
Coats
Kaufman
Auemang
eTpparel
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