School enrollment tops eighty five at Ion Methodist Church
The Ion Methodist Church School enrollment reached 85 with an average weekly attendance of 173. Director was Mr Beavers and Mrs Bertha A led the work. Several teachers named including Mrs Bessie Golightly and Miss Irene Hiett. Community members visited relatives in Ridgeway and Martinsburg as hospital improvement was noted.
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Irene Hiett
M Fether Keller
Winchester
Heister
S. E. Omos
Maude Prince
Kitty Prince
M Kenneth Smallwood
Frids
Ridgeway
Russell Anderson
Carol Sue
Hacerstown
Kenneth Campbe
Kearneysvile
W Va
M Campbell
Dick Golightly
Bessie Robinson
Nellie Morrison
Harrisonburg
Madison College
Tro
John Carper
Date Douglas
Frends
Richard Crooks Birthday Improves Trenton Native Tenor
Richard Crooks born June 26 1900 in Trenton New Jersey became a famed American tenor. He sang as a boy soloist at Trinity Episcopal church and later performed with Mme Schumann Heink at a music festival. After World War I service he was discovered by conductor Fitz Hugh Haensel.
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Richard Crooks
Trenton
N. J
Alexander Richard Crooks
América
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mme
Schumann- Heink
Fitzhugh Haensel
Birth of a son greets Middletown family circle
Mr and Mrs Robert Sinker welcome a son on June 14 at Memorial Hospital. The piece lists visitors and relatives from Limestone Tennessee Chuckey and Stephens City who called or dined with the Anders on home, and notes Mrs Homer Hurt homebound.
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Middletown
Route 1
Robert Sinker
Memorial Hospital
Beck Estepp
Limestone Tenn
Estepp
Jesse Brown
Paul Brown
Billy Brown
Clarente Collette
B. Monk
Herbert and
Roy
Chuckey. Tenn
Monk
Jesse L. Monk
Darrell Anderson
B . Monk
Herbert
Clarence Collette
Louise
Conley
Hayes Monk
Stephens City
Anderson
Homer Hurt
Geysers in Yellowstone Asked About Heights
In Yellowstone National Park a geyser question arises whether any spouts exceed Old Faithful. The answer notes largest geysers throw water up to 200 feet but erupt irregularly. Old Faithful reaches 100 to 170 feet and remains the best known though not the tallest.
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Yellowstone National Park
Park
Postmasters in Frederick County after the War Between States
A postal magazine notes postmaster appointments in seceded states faced oath requirements about arms. Frederick County saw Louis V. Shearer remain postmaster at 1853 to 1872, while other offices changed by 1866. The piece details long-serving postmasters, disrupted offices, and the low pay and mail schedules shaping early rural postal life.
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Union
U. S
Frederick County
Vernon Tannery
Louis V
Pembroke Springs
John Keffer
John Allemony
Stephens City
John W. Parish
Parishville
Gore
Jacob Danner
Middletown
Winchester
Largest U S oil gushers cited by Geological Survey
The U S Geological Survey identifies Lucas No 1 near Beavers in the Farétop field as one of the largest gushers in the United States producing an estimated tens of thousands of barrels per day while Sunset field Taft well also reported very large daily output under control.
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United States
U. S. Geological Survey
Taft
Maditmsd Ag
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Inchon
Douglas MacArthur
Qun
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36Th Parallel
South Korea
Pyongyang
Josef Stalin
Kim I Sung
Celephenson
Martinsburg
W. Va
Edgar Payne
Johnston-Willis Hospital
Richmond
Anne Adams
Care
Winchester Evening Star
Dept
West
York
Newsfeatures
Michard Crodes
By Josie L. Monk
Lil N. Loudoun St. Winchester VA
Mr. Shipe
W. F. Shipe
Sydney B Gore
Danner
Post Office Department
Baltimore and Ohio
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Lotdoun
Seewards
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