Garden Club Dogwood Campaign Aims to Plant 3 Million Trees
The Garden Club of Virginia announced a drive to plant 3,000,000 dogwood trees in public places to beautify state highways by 1936. Miss Elizabeth Rawlinson said the effort, open from March 1 to May 1, involves DAR, United Daughters of the Confederacy, business and professional women's groups, and 14,000 home makers members.
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Garden Club of Virginia
Elizabeth Rawlinson
Lawrence S. Davis
Roanoke
Herbert Smith
Staunton
Virginia
Garden Club
Daughters of the American Revolution
United Daughters.Of the Confederacy
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Federated Women’s Clubs
Virginia Department of
Social Calendar Highlights Church and Community Events
Activities include quilting at Ridings Chapel by Ladies Aid Society at Mrs. Marvin Hammock home, Young Christians class at Braddock Street Church, American Legion luncheon at Geo. Washington Hotel, and multiple choir practices. Also listed are Lions Club lunch, Kiwanis, Little Theatre meeting, Girls Athletic Association basketball, Rotary luncheon, and Grace Lutheran Music Lovers Club event.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Ridings Chapel Church
Marvin Hammock
Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
First Baptist Church
Girls’ Athletic Association
Handley High School
Kiwanis Club
Uniszed Brethren Church
Little Theatre Organization
Handley Library
Grace Lutheran Church
Mary Baldwin Hosts Virginia D A R Leaders at Tea
Mary Baldwin College welcomed delegates and members of the hostess chapters for the thirty seventh annual Virginia State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution with a reception and tea. Hostesses at the west front door and in college parlors greeted guests including Miss Mary Julia Baldwin charter member Beverley Manor chapter and numerous civic ladies from Winchester and area. The event highlighted new furnishings enhancing the historic rooms along with orderly gallery receptions by faculty and student groups.
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Elizabeth Pfohl
Mary Baldwin College
Carter
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
Trinity Parish House
Unit No. 1
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Church
National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mary Julia Baldwin
Beverley Manor
Stauin
Thomas H. Russell
Martha Stackhouse
Charles Keesee
Hampton Fleming
A. M. Pritchard
Herbert McK. Smith
Benjamin L. Purcell
Stanley Reed
Arthur Rowbotham
Samuel S. Walker
E. Scott Sandy
F. B. Kegley
G. Lloyd Bell
Lewis L. Chapman
Harry Raynor Greene
Winchester
Eleanor Washington Howard
J. F. F. Cassell
Alethea Serpell
James Reese Schick
Nathaniel Beaman
Happy Hours Party By Endeavorers
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Congregational Christian Church hosted a "happy hours" party at Mrs. E. W. Cather's West Boscawen Street home. About thirty five members attended as groups named Music Hour Work Hour and others enjoyed refreshments of ice cream lollypops and peanuts after each hour. The gathering closed with hymns and "Bless Be the Tie" ending the evening.
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Christian Endeavor Society
Congregational Christian Church
E. W. Cather
West Boscawen Street
Christian Endeavor
Young Christians Class Meeting Tonight at Braddock Street Church
Members of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South Young Christians Class are reminded to meet this evening at 7 30 in the social rooms next to the Sunday School house. The monthly business will be held and losers from a recent contest will serve supper to the winners. All members asked to attend.
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Braddock St
Methodist
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South
Mary-Martha
Centenary Reformed Church
James N. W. Funk
South
Cameron Street
Young People's Choir
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Crucifixion Oratorio Rehearsal Shifts to Good Friday
Music Lovers Club recalls a Grace Lutheran Church rehearsal at 8:15 PM tomorrow for The Crucifixion. With only three rehearsals left, every participant must attend. The performance moves to Good Friday evening at Grace Lutheran Church to allow other churches to attend.
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Music Lover’s Club
Grace Lutheran Church
Miss Hilda LeFevre Weds John D Chiles in 1932 Ceremony
Marriage notice reports Miss Hilda LeFevre of Bunker Hill West Virginia and John D Chiles of Kernstown Maryland were married December 28 1932. Rev Henry K Pasma officiated. The couple will reside in Washington where Chiles works for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.
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Hilda LeFevre
Bunker Hill
W. Va
John D. Chiles
Kernstown
Henry K Pasma
Presbyterian Church
Rockville
H. W. D. LeFevre
Samuel M. Chiles
Paderewski Concert Attendees in Washington Listed
Attendees at the Paderewski concert in Washington yesterday afternoon included Miss Kathleen McCartney Miss Margaret Lowry and Miss Norma June Richards. Reported ill today at his East Gerrard street home was Mr W Smith Taylor. Mr F R Crane back from St Petersburg Fla resumes duties at his jewelry store.
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Washington
Paderewski
Kathleen McCartney
Margaret Lowry
Norma June Richards
W. Smith Taylor
East Gerrard Street
F. R. Crane
St. Petersburg
Fla
E. D. Calvert
Woodland Avenue
Ventilation Advice on Monoxide in Closed Cars
Veteran drivers are urged to keep at least one window open for ventilation. Chemists say closed cars can contain a slight trace of carbon monoxide when all windows are shut.
John Bull and the Nations in Arbuthnot’s 1712 Satire
Dr John Arbuthnot’s political satire personified nations with English John Bull France as Lewis Baboon Holland as Nicholas Frog. The piece notes Titian hair's red shade and mentions how English caricature endured while others faded.
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John Bull
John Arbuthnot
England
France
Lewis Baboon
Holland
Nicholas Frog
Ex-Banker Mitchell Arrested on Tax Charge
Charles E. Mitchell, former National City Bank chairman, is arrested on a federal warrant for willful attempt to defeat and evade income tax law. Attorney George Z. Medalie presents the case to the grand jury as Dewey and Schwartz confer on the proceedings.
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Mitchell
Washington
George Z. Medalie
New York
Charles E. Mitchell
Inset
National City Bank
Medalie
Thomas E. Dewey
U.S
Arthur F. Schwartz
U. S
Modern chemistry can reproduce lumber from cork to steel
A 19th century science claim notes that modern chemistry can reproduce all known lumber from cork to steel. It cites seven quarries within six miles of Milbank supplying mahogany granite and other materials to the United States, with an annual business around $500,000.
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Milbank
United States
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Bankclerk Doe
IEA
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Young People’s Choir
Music Lovers’ Club
Rotary Club
Huntsberry
Hilda LaFevre
John Chiles
H. S. Pope
New Oxford
J. W. Carlisle
Greenwood
Mrs. Funk
J. D. Glover
South Stewart Street
Carl Lindbergh
Baltimore
Charles J. Athey
William B. Sinnott
Capt
H. D. Burch
Henry Daugherty
Memorial Hospital
North Braddock Street
Daugherty
Rena Myers
Anniversa
S. Camere
Far
Lovett
Lovett Shoe
Loudoun St
Ven Pny
Capitol
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
IGG Funeral Directors
Brooks
Coty
Curcus
Eskimmoi
President Roosevelt
the Commercial & Savings Bank
THE
Thriet
Hershey’s
Washburn
Rockcroft
Lux
Braddock and
Boscawen Streets
Margaret L. Hodgson
Atlantic
Japan
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