Programs For Three District Sunday School Conventions
Gainesboro district to convene June 11 with morning and afternoon sessions. Backreek district meets June 13 at Silver Springs Lutheran Church and Stonewall district on June 14 at Galilee Church of Christ. Worship, addresses, reports, and officer elections are listed, with details on program segments and speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesboro
Back Creek
Stonewall
Frederickty Council of
Backreek
Vel Springs Lutheran Church
Stone-wall
Galilee Church of Christ
Devotional and Sunday School Meeting Schedule Highlights
A detailed itinerary lists sessions from 10:10 to 3:45 with devotions, readings, recitations, special music by the Hershman quartet, reports on state and county work, and discussions on youth engagement. The document ends noting the average canary life of 12 to 15 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Russell
Orndorff
N. C. Williams
Allnutes
Hershman Quartett
L. C. Messick
David Allamong
St. Johns
Mount Pleasant
Coc
Tillie Triplett
Mt. W.M. BE
Minor C. Miller
Bethel Sunday School
Buddy Ramey
Mt. Olive
Poe
Gladys Fawcett
Lamp
S. S
C. H. Anderson
Lester Kilham
Dorothy
Nancy Harbaugh
Wm. B. Obaugh
Freda May Million
Mt. P. U
Bethel School
Rev
F. L. Roof
Ruth Himelright
G. Springs
Charles H. Punk
Cooperative Christianity
Meee
R. Bowen
Rosabelle Dorsey
Clarence Robinson
Blanche Stipe
R. O. Fitch
Ashwood
C. E. McVey
Martin Glaize
Grace E. Clevenger
Harvey Fishpaw
Virginia Riley
Chester Burl Smith
R. Bowen Moore
William Miller
Frederick County
W. B. Obaugh
Stonewall
Robert A. Whitten
Canary
Answers to Today’s Quiz
Answers to real questions printed on page 4 list ten items covering numbers places people and dates. The answers include Roosevelt Wycliffe Dare and Lincoln Highway with locations such as Philadelphia Lansing and the Danish West Indies and a date of April 6 1917. The quiz notes the fingernail fact and the count of offices filled by election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water
Theodore Roosevelt
John Wycliffe
Danish West Indies
Lansing
Virginia Dare
Lincoln Highway
Philadelphia
Public sale of county realty in Stephens City Virginia
Special Receiver under a 1939 decree offers for sale at public auction on June 29 1940 at 1 PM at the B and O station Stephens City all Gardner properties west of the railroad tracks including Gardner Warehouse Depot Property and Gardner Lumber Yard with 14 foot rights of way. Parcels may be sold separately or together with terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by bonds deed of trust and insurance and bonds filed. Attys and auctioneer listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elizabeth Gardner
James L. Gardner, Inc
Als
Circuit Court
Frederick Conty
Stephens City
Depot
Marlboro Road
J. C. Gardner
Trade in England Continues Despite War Says Covent Garden Letter
A May 1 correspondence from Broome and Green Limited Covent Garden Markets London reports trade in England remains steady despite nine months of war with Germany. Goods move with little delay, government interference is light, and fruit supplies and prices stay relatively normal with ample domestic and imported fruit from South Africa Australia New Zealand. The note stresses Allied victory as the only end worth a sacrifice filled war will endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broome and Green, Limited
Covent Garden
London
Germany
Atlantic
Convent Gardens
United Kingdom
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Palestine
Spain
U. S
Florida
California
Convent Garden Market
Clarke Train Case Trial Set After Elsen Convicted
In Berryville Virginia Lloyd Elsen was convicted of larceny and sentenced to one year. Two Black youths William Johnson and Charles Pollard were scheduled for trial for alleged derailment of a Norfolk and Western express after placing rails on the track. The case follows Elsen’s conviction for stealing belts from a White Post resident’s straw boiler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Lloyd Elsen
Clarke Circuit
Yee
William Johnson
Charles Pollard
J. Edward Thoma
Pollard
Wheth Johnson
Elsen
Garland Williams
Commonwealth
Edward Williams
Ay Kelly
W. A. Wynkoop
William R Thompson
White Post
Frank Wray
Federal prisons in the United States expand
The Department of Justice reports 24 Federal prisons in operation including the National Industrial School and six more under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Justice
National Industrial Schoo
Machinist Opens Free Defense Training in Martinsville
William P. Smith, a machinist, has organized a patriotic program in Martinsville to train machinists and mechanics for the national defense. The free course runs two nights weekly in his shop and includes 36 boys and men aged 16 to 65. Applicants must be patriotic American citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville
N. J
William P. Smith
National Defense
Smith
Somerset County
Dorothy Lunch seeks beer license approval in Boyce Virginia
Dorothy Fleet requests a June 16 appearance before the A B C Board to obtain a license to retail beer and ale at the Dorothy Lunch on Route 50 Boyce Virginia. Beer may be consumed on and off the premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. C. Board
Route 50
Boyce
Dorothy Fleet
Dorothy
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. H. Cochran
Roert Philpott
Larrick
Julian Larrick
Cherson
J. R. Collis
Frederty
Kingdom of Ugh
Lovely Gruber
Audult
M. J. Miller
Richard B. Smith
Foreman
A. C. Kelley
W. B. Harris
J. Robert Hughes
W. T. Chamblin
John
Anders Snowden Strother
C. R. Brown
C. E. Wisecarver
A. M. Nicodemus
John Milleson
Russell Kaplan
Monte-sur-Soux
France
Helen Purviance
Salvation Army
NEW
Dupont
Dd Pont
du Pont
John W. Rosenberger
Dunkerque
C. P. Radiophoto
Britain
Mittee
Wilene Cooper
White Mountain
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
Herbert S. Larrick
C. I. Brumback
J. W. Baker
Allis-Chalmers
England
Clarke
Stettinius
Irving S. Olds
U. S. Steel
Steel Corporation
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
National Defense Commission
May
Irving
Olds
George W. Kurtz
Wm.rogers & Son
Rogers
Thomas Credit Jewelers
North Loudoun St
St Victor
Bluebird
Victor Records
Bluebird Records
Glenn Miler
April
Na Baker
N. Braddock St
RCA Victor
Anderson
Éaas
Glaize & Bro
Pittsburish
Sue
Winchester
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