Winchester News Highlights Social Arrivals and Visits
Numerous social notes in Winchester detail arrivals, weddings, and summer visits. Gladys Haldeman returns from California by way of the Panama Canal. Miss Dorothy Hiett and Mr Walter Racey wed in a quiet ceremony with relatives present in Winchester. Mary Willis Roddey from Rock Hill S C arrives to spend the summer with her grandmother. families from Virginia and Maryland visit or travel through, including Debater Albert Shirkey and various Handley faculty members.
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Haldeman
Gladys’ Haldeman
Calfornia
Anna
NeWcYork
Cali
Panama Canal
Philadelphia
Winchester
Jennarr
Albert P. Shirkey
Randolph Macon College
Ashland
William Ramsey
Shirkey
Oxford College of Oxford
Eng
Church of the Disciples of Christ
Cameron Street
W. L. Dudley
Dorothy Pauline Hiett
Walter Wright Racey
Hampshire County
W. Va
Taylor B. Hiett
Pleasant Dale
Miss Omeriett
Meet
South Carolina
Mary Willis Roddey
John T. Roddey
Rock Hill
S. C
Marshall Willis
South Washington Street
Roddey
Eliza Willis
Trapper Hears Plane Near Stormy Mountain Front
A Quebec trapper reported hearing an unseen airplane after a storm along the St Marguerite river on May 9 the day Nungesser and Coli were due in New York. The report offers hope for the missing French aviators as relief efforts continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicoutimi
Quebec
Nungesser
Coli
St. Marguerite
New York
World Soil Experts Gather at Winchester Conference
Delegates from states, Virginia Tech, and numerous nations including England, Sweden, Romania, Russia, Chile, Germany, Japan, and India attended a major soil science gathering in Winchester. Most visitors spoke English or understood English addresses, with many fluent in four to six languages.
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Virginia’ Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
England
Denmark
Sweden
Roumania
Canadian
Russia
Spain
Chile
Austria
Norway
Ukraine
Germany
Palestine
Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Porto
Rio
Italy
Japan
Poland
East Africa
Switzerland
Hawaii
Hungary
India
Australia
Scotland
Egypt
Dutch East Indies
Four Southern Aviators Enter 6000 Mile Honolulu Race
Four Southern aviators plan a 6000 mile flight from San Francisco to Honolulu with stops to Guam or Tokyo and Manila. Lieutenants Jess Windham and Ben Stern of Memphis pilot an Eagle Rock, aiming July 3 departure financed by Memphis capital. Paul Redfern of Savannah and Lieutenant Douglas Davis of Atlanta join, each with solo plans and extensive flight experience.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Pacific
San Francisco
Honolulu
Jess Windham
Ben Stern
Memphis
Windham
Stern
Guam
Tokyo
Manila
P. L
Paul Redfern
Savannah
Redfern
United States Customs Office
Colenbergh
Atla
Douglas Davis
Davis
Army Air Corps
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
Arcadia
Fla
Ike
Tokio
Missionary Society Meets Tonight at First Christian Church
The Ever Ready Missionary Society of the First Christian Church will convene at 8 o clock tonight at 1002 Amherst Street with President Anna Amelia Seabright expecting strong turnout. Also notes barber trade training offered by Tri City Barber Schools with 150 openings in Baltimore Maryland. The Sahara oases vary from small patches to vast areas and denote watered fertile spots within deserts.
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Ever Ready Missionary Society
First Christian Church
R. C. Hook
Amherst ‘Street
Anna Amelia Seabright
Sahara Desert
Africa
Oasis
Maryland Shenandoah real estate sale under court decree Mt Pleasant farm
Commissioner’s sale of 67 acre Shenandoah County tract known as Mt Pleasant on Cedar Creek near the Shenandoah River. The property includes a colonial brick mansion built about 1812, a modern barn, and is located northeast of Strasburg off the Valley Pike. Sale July 2, 1927 at 2 p.m. with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by vendor’s lien or deed of trust. Special commissioners Philip Williams A C Stickley F S Tavener Jr F H Brumback invite private bids. public sale may be canceled if a private bid is approved.
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Circuit Court
Shenandoah County
Raleigh B. Davidson
H. J. Pullum
Strasburg
Valley Pike
Isaac Bowman
Cedar Creek
Shenandoah River
Valley Turnpike
Philip Williams
A. C. Stickley
F. H. Brumback
Finals of Douglas Junior High School This Evening
The Douglas High School commencement will be at 8:30 PM in the school auditorium on East Piccadilly Street. Prof. D. S. Goodloe of Baltimore delivers the address. Certificates go to Virginia Elizabeth Shelton Katherine Dora Shelton James Albert Walden Clifford Shorts Sarah Francis Fletcher Elizabeth Meade Nickens.
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Douglas High School
East Piccadilly Street
Goodloe
Baltimores
Virginia Elizabeth Shelton
Katherine Dora Shelton
James Albert Walden
Clifford Shorts
Sarah Francis Fletcher
Elizabeth Meade Nickens
Sarah F. Pletcher
Katherine D. Shelton
Shenandoah
James A. Walden
Virginia Shelton
Elizabeth M. Nickens
Clifford
Brooks
H. S. Duffey
Baltimore
Van Lear Black Leaves Budapest for Constantinople Flight
Van Lear Black of Baltimore departed Budapest in a chartered plane at 8 10 AM aiming for a nonstop flight to Constantinople and a planned arrival tonight. The Associated Press reports the journey began Thursday and continues toward the distant city.
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Budapest
van Lear Black
Baltimore
Constantinople
War Department Has Not Approved Long Army Flights
Washington June 17 Maj Gen Mason M Patrick chief of the air corps said the War Department has not approved any long distance flights by army aviators. He described the unannounced test flight of Lieutenants Maitland and Hegemberg from Wright Field as a test for the tri motor plane and could not say where the planes would land on the west coast or whether they might go to Hawaii.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Mason M. Patrick
Air Corps
Lieutenans Maitland and Hegenberger
Wright Field
Hawaii
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Darei
Winchester Memorial Hospital
People’s Drug Company
Broffer
Eleanor Chiles
John Chiles
Plainfield
Samuel M. Chiles
Kernstowe
Chiles
Johns Hopkins University
Peabody Conservatory of Music
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Hopkins
Katherine Dudley
Roanoke
Scarsdale
N. Y
Harry Neville
Harry, Jr
Woodside
Upperville
Handley High School
Régina Bates
Viola Dick
Kernstown
Harrisonburg
State Teachers’ College
C. S. Hartman
Motors
Atlantic City
N. J
Reading
Simer
Stump
Stephens City
Pittsburgh,Pa
G. F. House
Via
Gb.chadran
Richmond, Va
George Washington Hotel
James. W. Berry and Son
Richard ‘Wright
Edna Petrescu
Handley
Fredericksburg
Blackstone, Va
Col
R. M. Calvin
Harrisonburg, Va
Elsie Proffitt
Alexandria
Paul S. Ehl
Annapolis, Md
Leon Harris
Norfolk, Va
C. P. Kremer
Kate Mace
Luray
Charles’ Town
F. C. Kline
Upperville, Va
William H.wn
Baltimor
Robert L. McCarty
Messrs
Ernest Meade
Thompson Sowers
G. R. Greene
White Post
Louis Li. Baker
Virginia Beach
Pharmaceutical Society
Virginia
Lillian Smith
Eee Tay
Audrey Spauling
G. W. Haddox
Edward H. Koons
Miss Purcell
Sulivan
Mary Borthwick
Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society
E. C. Shull
Nancy Hancock
Marytown
T. W. English
George W. Stover
Dayton, Va
Bible Conference
Christian Endeavor Convention
Gertrude Ellen Meyer
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton
Miss Franklin
William T. Barr
Samuel Gershanek
Marie Louisa Gershanek
New York City
McKenzie
White
Déduville
Huntsberry
Trapper
Siberia
Missionary Society
MEETS
Tri-City
Baltimore St
Baltimore, Md
Catia
Consumers Utilities Company
Winchester Gas Company
Hagerstown
Douglas Junior High School
The
Florsheim
Sample Shoe
Dita Arte
John S. Solenberger & CO
Main Street
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