Rotary and Kiwanis Schedule at George Washington Hotel
Calendar lists a Thursday 3 00 p m Rotary Club meeting at the George Washington Hotel and a 7 30 p m Frances Asbury Union of Methodist Church monthly gathering in Berryville M E Church. Friday features Kiwanis Club at the George Washington Hotel at 7 30 p m.
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Rotary Club
George Washington Hotel
Frances Asbury Union of Methodist Church
Berryville
M. E. Church
Kiwanis Club
Frances Asbury Union
Clarke
Berryville Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Winchester
Esther Butsler
Massanetta
Miss Nellie Murrell Named Language Instructor in Richmond
Miss Nellie Murrell a Handley High School 1932 graduate and Randolph Macon alumna has been appointed language instructor at the Pan American School in Richmond Va Her father is R W W Murrell of Staunton and she has many Winchester friends The two Murrell sisters are summer camp counselors nearby
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Nellie Murrell
Handley High School
Richmond
Winchester
Murrell
Handley
Randolph Macon Woman’s College
Lynchburg
R. W. W. Murrell
Staunton
Gardiner Family Picnic Reunion At Fort Valley
About forty descendants of John and Margaret Gardiner traveled to Elizabeth Furnace in Fort Valley for a reunion. Attendees include Mary Bowman, Virginia May Clark, and numerous Bowmans Headleys Cornwalls Rouzees and Kil ters. Also noted are Margaret Athey’s return from Bradley Beach and Kendall Fahnestock hospitalized at Johns Hopkins for treatment after influenza.
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John
Margaret Gardiner
Elizabeth Furnace
Fort Valley
Leo L. Bowman
Nineveh
J. W. Headley
Winchester
Kate Cornwell
Manassas
Minnie Rouzee
Mary E. Bowman
Virginia May Clark
Mr. Keller
John Bowman
Iva
Lincoln Bowman
Stephenson
Philip C. Bowman
Jimmie and
Beverley Bowman
Stephens City
Clara Keller
Mary and
Ellen Keller
Lebanon Church
Irene Clark
Russell Miller
Allen and
Preston Miller
Oranda
Aged Confederate Veteran Sees Relatives En Route to Gettysburg
George Washington Slonaker, 96, a Confederate veteran from Dillons Run West Virginia, stopped in Winchester on his way to Gettysburg for the 75th anniversary of the Civil War battle. He fought at Gettysburg under General Longstreet and is grandfather to Kermit Slonaker and William Slonaker. He traveled with his daughter Mrs. Margaret Carlisle who has visited before.
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George Washington Slonaker
Dillons Run
W. Va
Hampshire County
Winchester
Gettysburg
Slonaker
James Longstreet
Army of Virginia
Kermit Slonaker
William Slonaker
Remembered By Friends On Her Birthday
Miss Edmonia Haddox daughter of the late Capt. and Mrs J P Haddox has been homebound on North Braddock street due to illness since last fall. Friends visited on her birthday including members of the junior department of the Daily Vacation Bible School of the First Baptist Church who brought a basket of fruits. Mrs John S Brown and her son Donald of West Pittston Pa are visiting Mr and Mrs Walter Fravel in Woodstock Va where Brown is directing the playgrounds program this summer.
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Bobby Conrad
Baltimore
Richmond
Chester
Winchester Golf Ub
Miss Conrad
Robert Young Conrad
Conrad
S. Holmes Conrad
Winches
William Alexander Wylie
Bal
Helen Wylie
V and Vicinity
St. 'S School
the Mawr Preparatory School
Baltimore Richmond
Hester
Winchester Golf Club
Alexandria
Bell Haven Club
Winchester
Anne Kerr Russell
E. R. Coffey
John Minnigerode
Frances Page
Philip Williams
John Hedrick
Caroline Carson
Betty Gray
Washington, D. C
Queen Morgan II
Morgan County
W. Va
Berkeley Springs
Mary Gray
United States
General Accounting Department
Washington, D.C
Capitol City
Walter Winchell
Washington
Edmonia Haddox
J. P. Haddox
North Braddock Street
Daily Vacation Bible School
First Baptist Church
John S. Brown
Donald
West Pittston
Walter Fravel
Woodstock, Va
Mr. Brown
Frank Allen Visits Here First Time In 33 Years
Mr Frank Allen born in Winchester 36 years ago returns with his wife to visit the community for the first time since leaving as a child. They stay with Mrs Clarence Hardy on South Braddock street in Roanoke Virginia. Other localsocials note Miss Maggie Haines of Kansas City visits her nieces.
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Frank Allen
Winchester
Mrs. Allen
Roanoke
Clarence Hardy
South Braddock Street
Maggie Haines
Kansas City, Mo
Mattie and
Susie Haines
South Loudoun Street
Modern Etiquette Q&A on wedding hours and names
The column answers etiquette questions about suitable ceremony hours noting that high noon or late afternoon are common. It clarifies name etiquette with Jr being part of the name on cards, and explains that the open-face sandwich should be eaten with knife and fork.
Jefferson Will Placed On Record
The will of Ollie Payne Jefferson of Frederick County is admitted to record. Debts are to be paid after sale of a Brucetown house and lot. One half residue goes to Mrs. Osie Moser of Winchester and the other half to cousin Nannie McKay. Personal effects divided among relatives and friends. Executor M. M. Lynch with bond set at 1500. Appraisers named Adams Whitacre Swimley Boden and Smith.
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Ollie Payne Jefferson
Frederick County
Brucetown
Osie Moser
Winchester
Nannie McKay
M. M. Lynch
M. D. Adams
Andy Whitacre
F. H. Swimley, Sr
C. W. Boden
L. O. Smith
Larger Markets For Wheat Seen
Foreign trade exports of the Agriculture Department say unsettled European politics may open new and larger markets for surplus American wheat in the next year. Britain and the Netherlands decided to stockpile grain in case of war. Other European powers are reportedly considering similar action.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Europe
Great Britain
Netherlands
Strange Harvest Nets 200 Pounds of Fish in Corn Rows
Farmers in Tal ly Ho township near Oxford harvested fish trapped by a receding flooded river. In a single afternoon they gathered more than 200 pounds of assorted fish from their corn fields.
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Oxford
N. C
Tally
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Mount Jackson, Va
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