Religious Schedule for Winchester Circuits and Local Churches
Weekly church activities listed for Winchester area including Pleasant Valley Mt. Pleasant Red Bud and Red Bud. Services Sunday School sermons and Senior Endeavor meetings with officers and special music and mission round tables planned. Local meetings include annual reports and officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Senger
Pleasant Valley
C. H. Roberts
Senior Christian Endeavor
Ray Fries
Christian Endeavor
Blanche Cooper
Aldus Cooper
Ant species interbreeding limits noted in Wonders of Animal Life
The text states there are more than five thousand distinct ant species that cannot interbreed, similar to how tigers and rabbits cannot crossbreed, as described in Wonders of Animal Life.
Levee Collapses as Flood Waters Surge Across Missouri
The St Francis levee on the Missouri side fails under flood pressure at Kennett. Rescue teams evacuate 600 families and pull seven people to safety while 18 more are stranded. Engineers plan dynamiting debris to save remaining dyke sections as floods push refugees into Missouri Illinois and Arkansas. Red Cross estimates 13000 homeless in southeast Missouri and Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennett
St. Francis
Missouri
National Guards
Here
Mississippi
Illinois
Arkansas
Great River
Red Cross
Silver Beaver To Be Awarded Dr Porterfield
Dr M H Porterfield M D will receive the Silver Beaver Award tonight from the Shenandoah Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America at the Court of Honor in Martinsburg. He has served as council president and helped launch the area council in 1928, directing campaigns and citizen support for the Martinsburg office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Porterfield
Porterfield
Shenandoah Area
Boy Scouts of America
Martinsburg
J. Nevin Kilmer
Dr. Porterfield
E. B. Cooper
Winchester
C. Vernon Eddy
Area Council
Martinsburg- Berkeley
Uty
Shenandoah Valley motorcade boosts northbound travel
A Shenandoah Valley promotional motorcade in late February traveled 3200 miles visiting 39 cities from Florida to the valley. It distributed 350000 folders and featured six radio broadcasts promoting Virginia attractions. Local sites report a spike in Florida bound tourists, with Luray Caverns Endless Caverns and Natural Bridge seeing suddenly increased traffic. Senator F Percy Loth led the effort as Shenandoah Valley Inc. secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. 11
U.S. 21
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
Luray Caverns
Endless Caverns
Natural Bridge
Royal Welcomes
F. Percy Loth
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Loth
Wit and Wisdom The New Deal
A reflective poem criticizes New Deal spending and future tax burdens as generations pay for reconstruction. It notes Uncle Sam’s efforts to revive trade and industry but foresees long term costs borne by descendants. A painter in New Britain interrupts two girls knitting with a pun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Britain
Farm Auction Notices Listing Livestock and Equipment
Sales Director announces multiple auctions with dates and locations. MAR 20 noon near Stephens City Geo C Wright sells pure bred Guernseys and other livestock and machinery. MAR 26 Robert Bell on Dr Bell Farm stock and implements. MAR 19 farm implements household furniture hay fodder 1 pm Senseney Road Mrs G H Gardner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. C. Wright
Stephens City
Robert Bell
Senseney Road
G. H. Gardner
Power Company Starts Legal Proceedings
Washington reports the Power Commission has initiated legal steps to compel a license for Appalachian Electric Power Company’s New River plant at Radford Virginia. Chairman MecNinch said Attorney General Cummings will sue on behalf of the government to enforce federal water power act orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Power Commission
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Frank R. MecNinch
Radford
McNineh
Cummings
Commission
Electro-Metals Company
Hawks Nest, W.va
Lso
McNitch
Flashes of Life and Oddities from Coast to Coast
The page reports varied items: Warburg fills percussion duties on a liner after a drummer falls ill, defending bankers amid Coughlin speech rumors. John Calvey faces a DUI trial citing sleep deprivation and work in a distillery. A Dallas clerk misreads alimony, San Francisco nose injury leads to jail, and Albany ice crew chase prank alarm arsonists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Conte de Savoia
Felix M.M. Warburgh
mid-Atlantic
Warburgh
Warburg
Charles E. Coughlin
Uniontown
John Calvey
Calvey
Potato Shaped Like Mickey Mouse Heads West
A four inch potato grown near Smithburg Maryland stunned locals by its Mickey Mouse silhouette. Found by Mrs Parker of Hagerstown it was sent to the Harold Mail editor who recommended sending it to Walt Disney. This is the first such oddly shaped spud reported in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Mickey Mouse
Hollywood
Mickey
Smithburg
Parker
Harold Mail
Walt Disney
Potatoes for Hungry Mouths Help State Relief Effort
Burg Pennsylvania will buy ten million pounds of surplus potatoes to aid needy families under ERRA and the federal surplus relief program. Purchases will be pro rated by county and distributed to direct relief households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burg
Pennsylvania
State Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Coal Operators Split Over District Jurisdiction
In Washington on March 15, bituminous coal operators threatened a strike set for April 1 and clashed over which district Fairmont West Virginia should join in wage and hour talks with the United Mine Workers of America. The dispute split operators into north and south camps, threatening the joint wage conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Fairmont
W. Va
Anti-Saloon League Plans Summer Campaign in Virginia
Richmond reports the state Anti-Saloon League will launch a summer campaign against Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control legislation. Rev. E. J. Richardson, superintendent, says a pre campaign of information will inform voters and let sentiment shape the legislative program. He notes expected new voter expression on the wet or dry issue and disappointment with repeal among officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
State Anti-Saloon League
E. J
Richardson
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Capitol
LA Follette
Ted Healy
Lee Carrillo
Elie
Stuart Erwin
Billie Burke
Harvey Stephens
Katharine Alexander
Mem Golddeyyn Meyer Rerum
A. B
North
Red Bud
Esther McDonald
Beaver
H. F. Byrd
Uncle Sam
Oes
Hubby
Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Co
Member
Federal Reserve System
Power Company
Dallas
Tex
Raymond Goforth
Amania
Goforth
San Francisco
William Beasley
Albany
N. Y
Albany Icemen
David Smurf
Certified Public Accountants
TAX Counsellors
Richmond, VA
E. Boscawen Street
State Planters Bank
Velatis
Rhodes Drug Company
J. W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Ave
General Electric Rose Laboratories
General Electric
Shenandoah Electric Appliance Co
S. Loudoun Street
John Wayne
Mickey. Mouse
Barnes
Gaynor Baxter
Robert Nathan
FOX
Walter King
Jane Darwell
Roger Imhof
Grant Mitchell
Rosemary Ames
John Qualen
Nick Foran
Stepin Fetchit
Bond Brothers
Lupton Orchard Service
By Gray & Sheetz
Schloss Bros. & CO
Gray & Sheetz
Hansbrough & Carter
M. B. Clowe
Bergundy
Wm. Rogers & Sons
N. Loudoun St
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