Social calendar of V F W events and community meetings
Monday schedule lists a 5:00 p m motorcade by Andrew Bell to historic city sections, 6:00 p m post commanders dinner at George Washington Hotel, 9:00 p m V F W business session, 12:30 p m Lions Club luncheon and meeting, 2:30 p m parade start with bands and drill teams at Handley Stadium, 3:00 p m Brad dock Street M B Church meeting, 7:00 p m annual V F W department banquet with trophies, 10:30 p m military pall at Winchester Country Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Bell
George Washington Hotel
Lions Club
Handley Stadium
Braddock Street
M. B
Golden Rule
Winchester Country Club
Dance Of Season At Winchester Country Club Well Attended
The first Saturday dance at Winchester Country Club drew many attendees with Haines providing music. Out-of-town guests included Miss Hebbie Waters and Miss Helen Corbell among others. The Winchester Guide reported busy weekends for tourists seeking Winchester’s historic sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Country Club
Haines
Hebbie Waters
Helen Corbell
Barbara Hig
Marian Martin
Helen Elliot
Anne Meade
Bud Brown
Sam Alexander
John Alexander
Sterling Harrison
Randolph Charington
Hugh Carr
Boysie Lyon
Jack Shanklin
Mac Tabb
Giles Downing
Roland Mitchell
Neville Major
Winchester Clarke County Garden Club Plans July Card Party
The Winchester Clarke county Garden Club votes at a recent meeting to host a July 9 card party at Scaleby the Gilpin home near Millwood Clarke county to support roadside beautification led by Women’s clubs garden groups and civic bodies. Proceeds aid billboard removal and roadside advertising efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester-Clarke County Garden Club
Scaleby
Winchester-Clarke County
Frank Wray
Clarke County
At Our Fountain The Coolest Place in Town
Vintage ad copy touts ice cream treats with low prices including jumbo milk shakes and double dip cones. It highlights old fashioned ice cream plates and sherbets with priced items in a compact storefront tone.
Modern Etiquette Q A Row from 1950s Column
A reader asks about letter closings selecting Sincerely yours over Lovingly yours or Yours very truly. The advice notes these are too intimate or formal and suggests Sincerely yours as better. Another question asks if a woman may give an engagement gift and says yes but avoid overburdening a poorer fiancé. A final query on toasts at banquets explains the person should not rise after two toasts for four people.
Miss Mildred Parlett Weds Wilson Keiter in Grace Lutheran Ceremony
Miss Mildred Parlett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parlett, married Mr. Wilson Keiter at Grace Lutheran Church in a blue Wallis dress with gardenia corsage. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Millard Eyler. The couple, graduates of Handley High, planned a motor trip visiting Canton and the Great Lakes Exposition before settling on East Cork Street extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Parlett
Wilson Keiter
Thomas Parlett
Woodlawn Avenue
J. William Keiter
Stephenson
Frederick County
Grace Lutheran Church
South Stewart Street
C. Worthington Lowe
Weekend Visitors Gather at Homes Across Town
Col and Mrs Sparks hosted by Col and Mrs Cullen on Courtfield Avenue. Garland Baptist visited Purcellville with Miss Yvonne Paxton. Ridgeley White from Baltimore stayed with Frank Hack on South Washington. Fansler returns to Knoxville after weeks with the Hillyards on Fairmont Avenue. J Boyd Haines traveled from Montreal after visiting the Hillyards. Richard Griffith Jr hosted at Winchester Country Club for Miss Mary Lyman of New York. Gertrude Grove returns from Strasburg to her city. Charles Hirth leaves for Rehoboth Beach to visit Mrs Schuchman in Pittsburgh. Charles Grimm and his wife tour Washington and Baltimore to see uncles Grimes. Rittenhouse and Meade of Leesburg guests of Byrd at Rosemont in Clarke County. James Kenneth Robinson returns from New York visit with Col Ernest Robinson. Virginia Tayloe Boyd visits Roanoke with John Boyd and attends Assembly Ball with Kitty Boyd. Caroline Richardson of Newport News visits Nelia Beverley at West Clifford Street. they were W&M classmates. Alan O Smedley of West Chester and Mrs Will Bailey host on South Cameron Street. Smedley and Hazel Bailey once taught in Berkeley Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Conrad
New York City
Georgia Conrad
Mary Hyde
Ralph Richardson
Nelson Page
Amherst Street
Miss Hyde
Lois Mitchell Cross
T. F. Timberlake
Lynchburg
Ernest Campbell
Rivermont Baptist Church
Thomas F. Timberlake
Timberlake
William Do. Cross
Pedlar Mills
Pleasant
Jace
R. M. Coleman
Madison Heights
Logan O. Timberlake
New York
W. C. Cross
Virginia Mitchell
Beverley, Jr
Harry Cox
Peggy
Logan R. Timberlake
Virginia Beach
Lawrence Fansler
Knoxville
Tenn
Gardner B. Hillyard
Fairmont Avenue
Tennessee
J. Boyd Haines
Hillyards
Montreal
Canada
Richard Griffth, Jr
Winchester Country Club
Mary Lyman
Homer c. Lyman
James Kenneth Robinson
South Washington Street
New York State
Syracuse
Col
Ernest Robinson
Col. Robinson
Ray Robinson
Caroline Richardson
New Port News
Nelia Beverley
J. B. Beverley, Jr
West Clifford Street
Miss Richardson
Miss Beverley
William and Mary College
Williamsburg
Alan O. Smedley
West Chester
Will Bailey
South Cameron Street
Helen Bailey
Wallace Lutz
Berkeley Sorrings
Smedley
Hazel Bailey
New Postoffice Dedication Slated at Fredericksburg
Postmaster W Nelson Page expects to attend the dedication and opening of Fredericksburg Virginia's new postoffice building. Horace F Crismond will conduct ceremonies as master of rites. The principal address will be by Postmaster General James A Farley, introduced by State Senator Co OConor Godrick. Other speakers include S W Perdum and Representative S Otis Bland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Nelson Page
Fredericksburg
Postoffice
Horace F. Crismond
James A. Farley
Co. O’conor Godrick
S. W. Perdum
S. Otis Bland
Virginia
Front Royal People Share Weekend Visits and Moves
Front Royal residents span a busy weekend with relatives in Washington and Charlottesville. Miss Selma Scheuer returns from Baltimore. Miss Janet Updike travels to Washington. Dick Owens accepts a Washington post. many others visit family, attend games, or note small incidents including a fall in Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
Selma Scheuer
Baltimore
Funeral services for George Chapman farm leader dated
Funeral services were held for George Chapman 68 a Nineveh area farmer who died Saturday. Rev H W Shannon led the rites from his home with burial at Prospect Hill Cemetery. He was born near Howellsville and survived by his wife and four daughters Claudie Mulligan Glaoys Hillary Mollie Grim Goldie Chapman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
George Chapman
Nineveh
H. W. Shannon
Front Royal Presbyterian Church
Chapman
Howellsville
Claudie Mulligan
Boyce
Glaoys Hillary
Cabin John
Mollie Grim
Goldie Chapman
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Postal Clerks Group Chooses Winchester for 1938 Convention
At the seventeenth annual Virginia Federation of Post Office Clerks meeting in Harrisonburg the group voted to hold its next convention in Winchester in June 1938. Representative A. Willis Robertson praised postal workers and urged efficiency while noting organized labor's role and AFL affiliation. Gilbert E. Hyatt said clerks now do two and a half times more work than 20 years ago and urged continued service improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Public Building Committee
A. Willis Robertson
Virginia Federation of Post Office Clerks
Kavanaugh Hotel
Winchester
Postal Federation
American Federation of Labor
Gilbert E. Hyatt
The
Hyatt
Association
National officers elected for life with pay raises proposed
National officers were elected for life with a retirement age of sixty and a revised longevity pay plan. The proposed salaries would rise by 100 dollars after ten years and again after twenty years. Elected officers include L. W. Hicks of Lynchburg as president and R. H. Bible of Roanoke as first vice president, with several other vice presidents named in Virginia.
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Federation
L. W. Hicks
Lynchburg
R. H. Bible Roanoke
Henry C. White
Ashland
J. W. Nixon
Norfolk
John W. Simpson
Fredericksburg
J. R. Denny
Danville
Herman Lee
Winchester
J. B. Bryant
Richmond
C. J
Turris Norfolk State Rep and James E. Teale
Norfolk State representative Turris and James E. Teale are named in this brief notice. Details remain unreadable in the OCR fragment. Further readable context would clarify roles, dates, and affiliations.
Melvin Patton Struck by Auto. Minor Injuries Reported
State Officer R. B. Baylass investigated the accident. Melvin Patton, 13, was riding a bicycle when hit by a car. He received treatment for minor cuts and bruises at his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Patton
R. B. Baylass
Paul Whiteman Orchestra Plans Summer Radio Series
The Paul Whiteman Orchestra resumes regular broadcasts after a year away from Kilocycles. The modern music advocate will appear twice weekly from June 5 at the Fort Worth auditorium, Texas, with half hour programs on Wednesdays at 10 30 p m over WJZ NBC and Saturdays at 9 30 p m over WEAF NBC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul Whiteman
Fort Worth
Tex
Frontier
Wjz-Nbc
Weaf-Nbc
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Winchester Guide and Travel Service
Ohio
Washington, D. C
Kernstown
Kernstown Methodist Episcopal Church
South
P.H. Wakeman
P. BH. Wakeman
Mountain View
Middletown
P. H. Wakeman
R. B. Snapp
Garland
E. L. Hampston
Alice Weatherholtz
Ella N. Didawick
Glenn Wilkins
Boyd Stickley
Omer Wakeman
Lygia Leake
Paul Cadwallader
Melvin Green
Grace Fales
Philadelphia
Anne Kerr
Billie Southam
Elsie Mae Loutham
Mda
E. H. Fitch
Elizabeth
New Orleans
Alfred Kerfoot
Rev
Mrs. Campbell
Campbell
5. W. Allen
Anna Allen
Florence Allen
Courtfield Avenue
Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
Episcopal Church
Mathews
Ladies’ Aid
Ladies’ Aid Society of the United Brethren Church
Anna Racey
Ensign Fuller
West C
George “Bubbles” Fuller
Hawaii
Hoover Airport
Washington
California
Seckford
George W. Ritter
Cameron Street
Sara J. Seekford
Page County
Seekford
C. W. Ritter
Harvey Ritter
Shenandoah Valley
Kerlin
Royal Arcanum
Raymond H. Kerlin
Virginia Royal Arcanum
Murphy Hotel
Virginia Council
Anne Brooke Kern
J. M. Steck, Jr
H.R. Kern, Jr
James Cordon
H. K. Benham
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Roberta Lee
David H. Patterson
San Francisco
Calif
Fred A. Crisman
Richards Avenue
Patterson
Nannie Zirkle
Crisman
Dave Allen
Dan Dick Morrison
Lorenzo Lewis
Berryville
Fairbanks Morse
O’connell
Braddock St
Leonard C. Sparks
E. J. Cullen
Col. Sparks
Mr. Garland Baptist
Yvonne Paxton
Purcellville
Mr. Ridgeley White
Mrs
Frank Hack
Gertrude Grove
John Graham Grove
Strasburg
Charles Hirth
Rehoboth Beach
Del
B. F. Schuchman
Pittsburgh, Pa
Charles W. Grimm
No. 414
C. T. Grimes
R. F. Grimes
Frank Rittenhouse
Granville Meade
Leesburg
Senator
H. F. Byrd
Rosemont
Virginia Tayloe Boyd
Roanoke
John Boyd
Kitty Boyd
Underwood
N. Loudoun St
Front Royal and
Warren County News
Telephone Front Royal 149-R
Front Royal News
Janet Updike
Browntown
Dick Owens
William Jordan
Mr. Jordan
Katie Owens
Robert Weir
Annapolis, Md
Town
Jack Atwater
Hot Springs
George Johnson
Bim” Cook
Giles B Cook
Lexington
C. Ernest Smith
Elizabeth Berry
Luray
Benny Huffman
Aubrey G. Weaver
Huffman
Rolfe Pochon
George Miller
Richard Collins
Mrs. Charles Burner
Randolph Burner
A. W. Berryman
Cook
Richard Berryman
Linden
Charlottesville
University Hospital
Mrs. J. Borden and Son
Grassland
Julia Ward
Claude Stokes
James B. Gibb
Culpeper
Virginia Kingree
Columbia Furnace
Mrs. Carroll Burruss
Mary Burruss
Charlie Johnston
J. J. Corder
Leo Murray
Murray
Johnson
Lou Moser
Cadillac Bicycles
Earl C. Fries
N. Cameron Ct
NBC
Chicago
Braddock-Louis
Clem McCarthy
Edwin C. Hill
Wormbs
Arthur Hale
WJZ
Radio Forum
H. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
WEAF
Burns and Allen
West
Margaret Speaks
Fibber McGee and
Molly
Phil Spitalny
Frank Black
Charlie Barnet
WABC
CBS
Pat Heidt
Leslie Howard
Elissa Landi
Monsiero Beaucaire
Wayne King
Carl Carmer
Your Neck of the Woods
Shriners’ Chanters Chorus
Hughie Barrett
Good Times Society
New Time
Goldsman
John Barrymore
Hamist
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Sunshine Cleaners
Piccadilly Street
Pifer Printing CO
Loudoun St
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