Sixty Children Share In S S Convention In Gainesboro
The Gainesboro Sunday Schools held their twentieth annual session at the Methodist Episcopal Church with large attendance. Rev C G Russell presided, and Mrs Julian Larrick led as convention pianist. Highlights included performances by Emma and Thelma Dick, choruses featuring over sixty children, and talks by ministers on topics from general conditions to finances. Officers elected: president D S Miller, vice president J D White, secretary Mrs L B Whitacre, treasurer S D Rodgers, divisional superintendents.
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Gainesboro
Methodist Episcopal Church
Julian Larrick
Elwood Kerns
Emma Dick
Thelma Dick
C. H. Anderson
Franklin G. Senger
C. D. Maphis
S. J. Goode
Snyder Alleman
B. F. Spitzer
C. G. Russell
A. H. Rinker
D. F. Kern
Denver
Colo
W. H. Cochran
Chestnut Grove M. E
D. 8. Miller
J. D White
L. B. Whitacre
S. D. Rodgers
Birth Control Advocate Sees Another Revolt
DETROIT June 6 Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg 90 year old dean of club women of Philadelphia predicts a resolution at the General Federation of Women's Clubs triennial convention endorsing scientifically controlled birth control information. She spoke at Hot Springs last year where a study resolution was adopted for about 2 000 000 club women. She will speak again and warns of another Roman ruin if feeble minded births go unchecked.
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Detroit
Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg
Philadelphia
General Federation of Women’s Club
Spring Glow operetta to be repeated for home group
The Otis M. Carrington operetta Spring Glow by Mrs. Julian D. Steele’s music pupils in Stephens City drew 700 attendees. The tale follows Blue Bird and Sunshine Fairies as Spring arrives, with Alma Graves as Spring, Earl Samsell as Bluebird, and Charles Lemley as Jack Frost. The group plans an afternoon repeat for the Home Demonstration Group.
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Otis M. Carrington
Julian D. Steele
Stephens City
Spring
Alma Graves
Stephens City School
Bluebird
Earl Samsell
Jack Frost
Charles Lemley
Austin Sloat
Helen Grim
Anna Stokes
Helen Bailey
Nettie Carbaugh
Blue Bird
Sprinz
Sunshine Fairies
Brownies
Northland
Copper Sold as Silver in Refinery Deception
A historical note explains that silver refined to .99999 purity may have copper added back before marketing. The copper is sold as silver under certain circumstances, highlighting the deception in metal refiners.
Winners of Sanitation Essay Contest Across Districts
Five home demonstration groups sponsored a county wide essay contest with 110 entrants. First prize in each district earned $1 in cash. others received honorable mention. Judges in finals were Charles Staples Rev Snyder Alleman and Henry Mears. Preliminary judging involved a homemaker a professional woman and a businesswoman. Winners include Gore Helen Hoover Frances Sirbaugh Linden Baker North Frederick Geraldine Carpenter Elsie Patterson Kitty Stotler Middletown Ellen Brumback Nellie Romack Mary Catherine Cooley Stephens City Edna Virginia White Dorothy Herrell Catherine Perry Stonewall Harold Adams Elizabeth Loy Virginia Lee Dick Miss Elizabeth Farrar. County home demonstrator Miss Farrar said the sanitation campaign sparked county wide rural home improvements.
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Charles Staples
Stephens City
Rev
Snyder Alleman
Henry Mears
Gore
Helen Hoover
Frances Sirbaugh
Linden Baker
North Frederick
Geraldine Carpenter
Elsie Patterson
Kitty Stotler
Middletown
Ellen Brumback
Nellie Romack
Mary Catherine Cooley
Edna Virginia White
Dorothy Herrell
Catherine Perry
Stonewall
Harold Adams
Elizabeth Loy
Virginia Lee Dick
Elizabeth Farrar
Farrar
Wilbur Chapman Injured Hoisting Flag at City Hall
Wilbur Chapman, city hall caretaker, sustained a head wound this morning during Decoration Day exercises while hoisting a flag. A two inch cut opened when he struck a steel girder, causing painful injuries.
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Wilbur Chapman
Uncle Eben Reflects on Being Paid Attention to
A quip attributed to Uncle Eben dismisses the idea that those boasting “I told you so” mattered enough to demand attention, suggesting that true importance is measured by the pull to be heard. The remark captures a folksy, humorous attitude toward self-importance.
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Uncle Eben
Railway Agents Outnumbered At Bates Hearing
On Tuesday June 4 at Washington DC, prominent apple growers from the Cumberland Shenandoah Potomac District outnumbered railroad men at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on S and S Docket 4098. The case seeks a 25 per cent reduction for apples from the Pacific Northwest east of the Mississippi, with Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia and Virginia horticultural societies represented by H E Ketner. Witnesses split on the impact of western reductions, noting potential market exclusion for four states. H W Miller and John Y McDonald among others scheduled to testify June 5. The mistral is described as a strong cold northwest wind blowing across the northwest coast of the Mediterranean.
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Washington, D. C
Cumberland- Shenandoah+ Potomac
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi River
Pacific Northwest
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
H. E. Ketner
Virginia State Corporation Commission
W. S. Campfield
Virginia Horticultural Society
Robert Bly
West Virginia Horticultural Society
H. W. Miller
Paw Paw
W. Va
P. H. Gold
John Y. McDonald
Army Officer Indicted For Accepting Fees
Col. Joseph I. McMullen chief of the patents section of the army judge advocate general s office was indicted by a DC grand jury on taking fees from a firm lobbying against a tax bill. He allegedly received a 1500 retainer on July 6 1932 and 250 on January 3 1933 as monthly compensation from the Cuban American Manganese Corporation.
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Washington
Joseph I. McMullen
Army Judge Advocate General's Office
District of Columbia
Secretary of War
Manganese Corporation
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