Social Calendar Highlights Weekend Gatherings
Sunday reunion of the Peer family on Mr. Obie Peer’s lawn in Kerns town invites all relatives. Monday features Winchester Post meeting, McKinley Chapter Eastern Star, and a Jordan Springs Hotel dance with Ike Dixon’s Orchestra. Tuesday brings Lions Club luncheon, a moonlight boat trip down the Po bee river, and Kiwanis luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. Thursday hosts Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peer
Obie Peer
Kernstown
Winchester Post
McKinley Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Jordan Springs Hotel
Charles Shewbridge
Ike Dixon
Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Society of Vireure
Coumbia
Pobee River
Rotary Club
Baron Dobihoff Visits Tubyries With Bull Family
Austian painter Baron Robert Dobihoff, living at the Shoreham, will tour summer hosts including Col and Mrs E Llewellyn Bull at Tubeyries Farm near Boyce Virginia. The visit follows stays with Princess Lyda of Thurn and Taxis in Uniontown and Grandma Belmonts Newport estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Dobihoff
Bull
Tubyries
Washington Post
Shoreham
Perry Belmont
Newport
Princess Lyda of Thurnand Taxis
Uniontown
E. Llewellyn Bull
Tubeyries Farm
Boyce
Paris
Baron Doblhoff
Albert Lincoln Washburn
Austria
Southampton
William Rosenwald
Elkins Park
Russell S. Codman
Manchester
Mass
Francis Markoe
Notable Local Social Roundup and Travels
Local residents attend dinners and dances in Charles Town and nearby towns. Rev. and Mrs. Carver depart for New York en route to Shanghai where he will teach English and she will join a college department. Mrs. Read’s sister Sally Smith visits from New York. Paul F. Rosenberger sails on the President Hoover for the Orient, while Dr. B. Mitchell Knight Jr. undergoes appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital and recovers. Mrs. Byrd returns from Tremont Maine with granddaughter Margaret. Dr. James I. Russell heads to Scotland for hunting season. Miss Garnet Hamrick visits Harrisonburg and Mathews with friends before stops in Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Harris
National Avenue
Jeyey
Louisville
Carver
First Baptist Church
E. T. Clark
New York City
China
The
Baptist College
Shanghai
University of Louisville
Yale University
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fla. Reac
Donald Weems
Bluemont
Blue Ridge
Paul Rosenberger
Paul F. Rosenberger
John W. Rosenberger
Newport News
Dollar Line
President Hoover, Ich
Orient
California
Panama Canal
Japan
Philippines
Rosenberger
Augusta Military Academy
Hampden Sidney College
Knight, Jr
B. Mitchell Knight, Jr
Winchester
Memorial Hospital
Knight
Mrs. Byrd
Maine
Richard E. Byrd
Miss Margaret Byrd
Admiral
Tremont
Admiral Byrd
Dr. Russell
Harry K. Russell
James I. Russell
James B. Russell
Russell
New York
Scotland
Miss Hamrick
Garnet Hamrick
Harrisonburg
State Teachers’ College
Mathews
Georgia Hudgins
Hudgins
Richmond
Gilbert Gray Rosenberger
Homemaker Delegates Travel to Blacksburg Meetings
Miss Elizabeth Farrar home demonstration agent and Mrs Alfred Wright county advisory board delegate will leave Monday for Blacksburg. They will attend the State Homemaker's Society meeting and the Institute of Rural Affairs in session there during the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blacksburg
Elizabeth Farrar
Alfred Wright
County Home Demonstration Advisory Board
State Homemaker's Society
Institute of Rural Affairs
Birthday party for Master Dinamore Potts
Mr and Mrs Grier Potts hosted a four to six birthday fete for their son Dinamore with about 18 children and many guests. Separately a county license issued for Woodrow Legge and Gertrude Boyce of Middletown. Several local residents noted traveling, visits, and social events in Martinsburg and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grier Potts
Dinamore Potts
Master Potts
Woodrow Legge
Gertrude Boyce
Middletown
County
John E. Legge
Carl Boyce
Garland F. Potts
Wilmington
Del
Potts
The
Delaware Trust Company
Adjective Is Unnecessary Quote From Richmond News Leader
A quotation marks an opinion contrasting intelligence and education and notes a revised saying about work and play attributed to Ohio State Journal. The source presents a witty, period style remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond News Leader
Jack
Ohio State Journal
Death of Woman Tied to Apache Secret Rites
Columbia student Henrietta Schmerler, 23, found dead near Fort Apache, Arizona, amid an inquiry into Apache customs. Claude Gilbert, 25, held for investigation after accompanying her from her cabin to a dance. Coroner's report pending. authorities suspect strangling or suffocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White River Indian Reservation
Ariz
Henrietta Schmerler
Columbia University
Fort Apache
Cral
Miss Schmerler
Miss Schmerlen
Another Truck Loaded With Rum Caught In State
A heavy truck carrying 5000 quarts of alleged bottled in bond liquor valued at about 50000 dollars was seized by state motorcycle police on Highway 15 miles north of Lawrenceville Brunswick county. Two men named John Smith and Charles Lynch of New York were arrested. A second truck with 5000 quarts was seized near Tappahannock yesterday and a third truck is believed hidden as highways were searched for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
Lawrenceville
Brunswick County
Tappahannock
John Smith
Charles Lynch
New York
Al G Barnes Circus Owner Dies in California
Al G Barnes aged 69 died after a long illness in Indio California. The famed circus man whose real name was Alpheus George Barnes Stone perished with widow Margaret Goldsborough Barnes at his side. He had previously owned one of the world’s largest circuses and had been married three times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Indio
Calif
al G. Barnes
Alpheus George Barnes
Siamese Twins Operated On Die After Surgery
One of Siamese twins, operated upon on July 7, died today at Mercy Hospital. The surviving girl remains fragile but stable, while physicians abandon hopes for a second operation to complete each child's intestinal tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Foster
Mercy Hospital
Kyle W. Golley
Children’s Day at Gore Baptist Church Tomorrow
Rev E T Clark announced that the Children’s Day services moved from First Baptist Church will be held at Gore Baptist Church tomorrow July 26 at 8 p m. A pageant Darkness and Light will follow the services. First Baptist Church will not hold its usual Sunday evening service to allow all to attend the special Church of the Brethren Choir concert at Louden Street Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Clark
Star
First Baptist
Gore Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Mr. Clark
Church of the Brethren Choir
Hagerstown
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Local Showers Indicated Part Of Coming Week
Weather outlook for the week ahead calls for local showers in the North and Middle Atlantic States on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and again Saturday. Temperatures will rise slowly Monday and Tuesday, cool somewhat Thursday, and finish the week slightly warmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
Washington
North
Middle Atlantic
Markets Drag Through A Dull Half Day In New York
Financial markets in New York opened a sleepy session with losses in stocks mostly under a point. Bonds stayed steady except in the foreign division. Trading volume hovered near a five year low with about 400000 shares exchanged in two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Free Bridge Over Red River Opens Amid Controversy
The free bridge between Denison Texas and Durant Oklahoma opened after a federal injunction dissolving. Texas Rangers removed a barricade on the Texas approach as traffic started crossing. Judge Heblett issued an injunction restraining Oklahoma from barricading the Denison toll bridge while Oklahoma National Guardsmen were deployed yesterday under a martial law proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Durant
Okla
Red River
Denison
Texas
Oklahoma
Houston
Texas Rangers
Colin Heblett
Muskogee
Red River Toll Bridge Company
State of Oklahoma
Oklahom
Murray
Pangborn and Herndon Plan Second Flight Attempt
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon announced a second attempt to start their projected flight around the world at 5 am tomorrow. They narrowly escaped death earlier this week at Roosevelt Field and will depart from Floyd Bennett Field where a nearly mile long concrete runway awaits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon
the Weld
Roosevelt Field
Floyd Bennett Field
England Can Produce Comedy Talkies Yet Hollywood Accent Wins
The piece notes England can create its own comedy talkies but the unique Hollywood British accent remains the funniest and most appealing element, underscoring cinematic charm and cross Atlantic humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Chicago Grain Closing Prices
Grain prices fell through a short Chicago Board of Trade session as Liverpool weakness and favorable U S growing conditions weighed on values. Final quotes: Wheat July 51 4 September 51 54 December 56. Corn July 57 ½ September 49% December 44%. Oats July 24% September 25 December 27 44. Rye July 34 September 35 44 December 39.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Liverpool
United States
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago
Youth and Girl Found Dead in Houston Auto
Miss Hazel Oliver and Dan Powell Stratton, Rice Institute freshmen and junior, both 19, were found critically ill in a parked car on a Southside Place boulevard. Officials suspect poisoning with no marks of violence. The pair had spent earlier hours at a roof garden and died at hospital and two hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Houston
Tex
Hazel Oliver
Dan Powell Stratton
Rice Institute
Southside Place
Five Die in Ford Works Caisson Accident
Five men died at Ford Motor Car Works construction near Dagenham England when a caisson trapped air as tide rose. Officials say suffocation rather than drowning caused the fatalities.
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Associated Press
Dagenham
Essex
Eng
Ford Motor Car Works
A Toastmaster Bores With Tedious Talk
A witty quip defines a toastmaster as a man who bores you so thoroughly that anything that follows feels like relief. The remark playfully contrasts dialogue fatigue with the welcome relief of surrounding chatter.
Yorktown News Reach Sparks British Reaction
The Lynchburg News notes that the State Department appears to believe news of the Yorktown battle and its outcomes has not yet reached England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.state Department
Yorktown
England
Lynchburg
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Evening Star
Kiwanis
Saint George Washington
Otel
Billy Heaton
Louis Grammer
Leesburg
Meyer Davis
Miss Grubbs
Elizabeth Grubbs
Washington County Hospital
L. D. Grubbs
Ralph Grubbs
Huntsberry
Rev
Mrs. Carver
Sally Smith
Mrs. McCormac
H. B. McCormac
Mr. and
Daysie Elliott
Charles Poole
Edward Good
Harry Snyder
Ella Gaffin
Mrs
Charlese
Sylvia Good
Harrisburg
Elizabethtown
Lewis M., Allen
Cape May
Edwin Ritter
Mrs. Ritter
Emmert
Mr. Ritter
Charles B. Snider
Henrietta Puller
Martinsburg
Mr. L. Adolph Richards
Helen Hahn
G. W. Crowser
Front Royal
W H. Henson
Mary Sullivan
Lucy Deane
Mary Thomas
Strasburg
John M. Steck
Fairmont Avenue
John W. Griffith
Harry M. Seabright
Cork Street
Clarke Summit
Griffith
Hilda Seabright
John C. Woolfolk
W. C. Turpin
Anne Page Turpin
Macon
Sumner Walters
St. Louis
I. W. Carr
Gladys Yates
Evelyn Yates
Suffolk
Kathryn Barnett
Battletown Inn
Berryville
Thomas W. Harrison, Jr
T. W. Harrison
Washington Street
Emily Marshall
Clearwater, Fla
Milton Bauserman
Col
Mrs. B. M. Roszel
Hot Springs
Clarence T. Owen
Delaware
Laura Griffith
Baltimore
B. H. Carpenter
Arizona
Barnes
West
Miss. Freedom
U. S. Capitol
Arrow
Miss Freedom
Pangborn
Herndon
W. B. Hibbs & Company
Hibbs Building
Washington, D. C
Telephone National
Ford
Florsheim
Lovett Bros
Staunton
Bell Clothes Shop
Children’s
Marcavet Hedeeon
Certified Public Accountants
TAX Counsellors
E. Boscawen Street
Richmond, VA
Central Nat
Benk
Westinghouse
Stinghouse
R. M. Swimley
People’s Bargain Store
North Main Street
J. Jos. Sullivan
Kaufman’s
Coats
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