Engagement of Frances Selina Ney to Capt Nath an Schupper
Mrs Sylvan B Ney of LETTE Virginia announces the engagement of her daughter Frances Selina Ney to Captain Nathan Schupper U S A Medical Corps son of Mr and Mrs Myer Schupper of Newark New Jersey Miss Ney a Madison College graduate and John Handley School faculty member Captain Schupper is stationed at Camp Pickett Also notes marriages and society items from the period including Mathers Grimm nuptials in Baltimore and Beta Sigma Phi officer election at the George Washington Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvan B. Ney
Lette
Frances Selina
Nathan Schupper
U.S. A. Medical Corps
Myer Schupper
Newark
N. J
Miss Ney
Madison College
John Handley School
Capt. Schupper
Camp Pickett
Beta Sigma Phi
Internationa Sorority
George Washington Hotel
Ruth Solenberger
Charles Lyles
George Snider
Italy
Jean Forney
George Weldon
Richard Lineburg
Sue Jolly
Rice W. Levi
Fredericksburg
Miss Gay Levi
Mary Washington College
Mrs Kern Jr Heads to Washington for Visit
Mrs Harry R Kern Jr left today for Washington DC where she will spend several days visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern, Jr
Washington
Harry R. Kern, Jr
Washington, D. C
Milleresque Dinner Honors Wardensville Couple
Electricians Mate Leonard L. Miller and his wife formerly Miss Gwendolyn Gay of Wardensville W Va were guests of honor at a Golden Glow Restaurant party hosted by H H Dudley. Attendees included several Wardensville residents and military families. Mr and Mrs Winston McKay of this city welcomed a son born Wednesday March 15 at Winchester Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Othaniel Richard
James D. Miller
John Snyder
I. A. Harter
Clarence Showmaker
Wardensville
W. Va
McKay
Winston McKay
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Congressman Robertson Weekend Visit in Winchester
Congressman A Willis Robertson spent the weekend in Winchester as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W Nelson Page on Amherst Street staying at their home and visiting local residents and sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Robertson
City
A. Willis Robertson
Winchester
W. Nelson Page
Amherst Street
Stimpson Wife Heads to Washington for Visit
Mrs. Harry Stimpson departed today for Washington D C to spend several days visiting friends.
Mrs Whittaker Improving After Monday Operation
Mrs. Pearl Whittaker of Glaize avenue is reported to be improving after an operation Monday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Nearby, Mrs. Otis Burke and children Bobby Ann Bernard and Shirley of Woodville Virginia visited the Vaughan home near Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Burke
Bobby, Ann Bernard and
Shirley
Woodville
Mrs. Vaughan
Middletown
Mrs Cline Returns Home After Visit Delayed by Bus Strike
Mrs Lonnie Cline returns to her East Cork street home from Lewis town Pa after visiting her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs FE M Staff due to the illness of Miss Maxine Butler and Miss Nancye Ann Staff. Her trip home was delayed by a Greyhound bus drivers strike in Pittsburgh that tied up buses. the strike has since been called off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonnie Cline
East Cork Street
FE. M
Lewistown
Maxine Butler
Nancye Ann
Comrade Bible Class Hosts Annual Covered Dish Supper
The Comrade Bible Class of Braddock Street Methodist Church will hold its annual covered dish supper Friday at seven in the church assembly room. Groups 6 and 7 led by Mrs. Leslie Carper and Mrs. William Wheatley will be hostesses. It is the final Pollyanna Sisters Contest meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Leslie Carper
William Wheatley
Mrs Roof In Hospital in Winchester Memorial
Mrs F L Roof wife of Rev Roof of Stephens City entered Winchester Memorial Hospital last night and is reported quite ill. Capt John F Pennypacker once ill with double pneumonia at Tonopah Nev is now able to be out. Miss Jean Whitham visiting Madison College Harrisonburg spends days in Winchester with her mother Mrs James Kuykendall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennypacker
John F. Pennypacker
Tonopah
Nev
Jean Whitham
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Winchester
James Kuykendall
Mrs Blackburn Visits Husband At Fort Benjamin Harrison
Mrs. Georgia S Blackburn left last Saturday for Indianapolis to visit her husband Pvt. Jack Blackburn stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison. She expects to return home the first of next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia S Blackburn
Indianapolis
Ind
Pvt
Jack Blackburn
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Blackburn
Chairmen of W V C To Meet Friday At 10
A meeting of the daily Chair men of the Womens Volunteer Corps of Winchester Memorial Hospital will be held at 10 a m Friday morning at the home of Mrs Hyman Fine 211 West Leicester Street. Mrs Samuel Burall of North Kent Street is improving after tonsillectomy and adenoid removal. Miss Jane Bickers left today for Philadelphia and New York on a week long visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womens Volunteer Corps
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Hyman Fine
West
Leicester Street
Samuel Burall
North Kent Street
Jane Bickers
Philadelphia
New York
Berryville Social Roundup Tells of Visits and Travels
Berryville social notes list residents and guests visiting from Washington Fredericksburg Annapolis Philadelphia and Shenandoah with furloughs visits and weekends spent with family. military moves include Sgt Feltner returning from Brazil and awaiting Officers Training School at Fort Monmouth. Local PTA meeting canceled due to snow and sleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Peltner
Brazil
Berryville
James Feltner
Feltner
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Parent Teachers Association
Berryville Public School
Ware Family Weekend in Washington DC Brother Ensign On Leave
Mr and Mrs Ralph M Ware spent the weekend in Washington DC with their son Ensign Marion Ware on a short leave Their son Captain Wilbur M Gaunt Jr has arrived and sent word to his parents Mr and Mrs Wilbur Martin Gaunt
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph M. Ware
Washington, D. C
Ensign Marion Ware
Wilbur Martin Gaunt
Captain Wilbur M. Gaunt, Jr
Canteen Corps Plans Special Courses in Winchester
Red Cross Canteen Corps offers a twenty hour course starting March 30 in the Northern Virginia Power Company building. Miss Margaret Flickening directs the program with two hour lectures twice weekly for five weeks on nutritional education and emergency feeding related to fires epidemics and war. The unit has supported Winchester blood donor clinics by preparing and serving lunches and clinic staff meals, with more clinics likely as the war continues. Enroll at Red Cross headquarters now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Margaret Flickinger
Northern Virginia Power Company
North Loudoun Street
Winchester
Largest Cooperative In The World
Southern States Cooperative reports 154,831 members across Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Delaware as of December 31 1943 making it the world’s largest farm cooperative. Managers note over 175 000 facility users with some double counting among members. The cooperative spans rural farmers across varied farming sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
W. G. Wysom
Richmond
Southern States
Post War World Reflections At Grace Episcopal
Local notes report military families abroad including Lieut Clifton Pierce Gaunt in Ireland and Seaman Carl H. Pope returning to Boston from Berryville visits. Visiting relatives in Front Royal and Chicago are listed for several residents. Mrs Wedel of Washington spoke on We Who Are Americans urging church groups to aid a just peace and plan for postwar world stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. O. Wedel
Washington, D. C
Grace Episcopal Church
Herbert Whiting
Wedel
Hodson in Marine Corps Sends Cheerful Note From Dunedin
Pvt. Charles Herbert Hodson son of Mr and Mrs Henry Hodson of White Post Virginia is stationed at Dunedin Florida after basic training at Paris Island South Carolina He would be glad to hear from friends and relatives at home or abroad in these times of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Herbert Hodson
Henry Hodson
White Post
Marine Corps
Dunedin
Fla
Paris Island
S. C
Hodson
Brothers In Service From Kent Street Family
Wilbur Malone husband of Mrs. Margaret Marple Malone of 214 S Kent Street has been overseas since February 4 and is now stationed in England. Pfc. Charles Malone Wilbur's brother is in India and has been there about a year. Friends may secure their addresses from Mrs Malone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaunts
Lieut
ChIifton Pierce Gaunt
Ireland
Charles Malone
Wilbur
India
Hess Rites Friday At Martinsburg
Funeral services for Leonard Edgar Hess will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at Brown Funeral Home in Martinsburg. Hess, 42, died of a sudden heart attack Tuesday and had lived in Martinsburg five years, working at the Fairchild Aviation plant in Hagerstown. A native of New Market Virginia, he is survived by his widow Louella Brick, three children, his parents Charles H. and Rebecca Wine Hess, and a brother Ralph Hess of Berryville. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown Funeral Home
Martinsburg
Leonard Edgar Hess
Winchester
Berryville
Hess
Fairchild Aviation
Hagerstown
New Market
Charles H
Rebecca Wine Hess
Washington
First Baptist Church
Louella Brick
Ralph Hess
Methodist Paper Supports Bombing of German Areas
A Virginia Methodist Advocate editorial endorses bombings of German cities as essential to disarming the enemy. It cites Bishop Oxnam’s view that current bombings are a revolting necessity and argues civilians deaths, while horrible, are part of war with the aim to maximize contribution to victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Methodist Advocate
United States
England
G. Bromley Oxnam
Boston
Neglectful Parents Facing Prison
Frank Jara and his wife Julia were found guilty of endangering two children left alone in a leaky wind swept flat for 12 hours. They face up to three years in prison each while infants Francis and Frank were found frostbitten and weakened. the couple to be sentenced March 29 after Bellevue Hospital observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Jara
Julia
Alvah W. Burlinggame
Francis
Frank
Jacob Szwedowski
Jaras
Bellevue Hospital
Vesuvius Eruption Continues With Ash and Damage
Mt Vesuvius kept spewing ash and cinders over the Pompei area as rains eased slightly yet crop damage rose. Authorities predicted the eruption’s climax within days, noting the current phase began Saturday and many residents fled on foot with children wrapped in blankets and tubs held overhead for protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pompei
Mt. Vesuvius
Vesuvius
Truck Victim Rites In Maryland
The body of James Robert McKinnon 55 killed when his big trailer rolled into a ditch along Route 552 a mile north of Winchester will lie at Omps Funeral Home until Saturday morning then be moved by motor hearse to Westernport Maryland. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 2 pm with interment in Westernport. Sisters arrived in Winchester to arrange return to his home. McKinnon born September 5 1888 in Lonaconing Maryland survived by six sisters and one brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Robert McKinnon
Winchester
Omps Funeral Home
Westernport
McKinnon
Thomas B
Mary Connelley
Scotland
Lonaconing
William Fisher
J. C. Lewis
Stow
Ohio
O. F. McCracken
James Martin
Akron
Elizabeth Wood Patterson
N. J
Earl Higginbottom
Morristown
Henry McKinnon
Anniston
Ala
Frank Minor To Teach Class
The Frank T. McFaden Bible Class will have Frank E. Minor as teacher this Sunday in Loudoun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Minor
Frank T. McFaden
Frank E. Minor
Loudoun
Street Presbyterian Church Sunday Service Promotes New Members
The Street Presbyterian Church holds a 0:45 a.m. service with special music by Mrs. Harry Ridgeway and Miss Virginia and a piano opening by Mrs. Joe Hotinger. The class notes several new members and invites others to attend and join. visitors are welcome.
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Women's
Schupper
Thomas Glascock, Jr
Thomas Bedford Glascock, Jr
Juddy
Thomas B. Glascock
Upperville
Lord Baltimore and Cascade
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Gold Cross
Huntsberry
Comrade Bible Class
Hola
M. B. Bickers
Wilkes- Barre
Lewis Messall
Brooklyn
C. Ridgely White
Young Son
Zenith Shipe
Mrs
Melvin Shipe
Hayfield
Bobby Bly
Ramey Bly
Bobby
Gaunt’s
William Shenk
Charley Shenk
Annie Moore
R. E. Davis
Mary Ann
Nancy Davis
Katherine Jackson
Ben Crampton
Annapolis, Md
Mary Lewis
Draper Lewis
Clarke
Louise Frye
Eastern Area
Will
Clarke County
American Red Cross
John D. Winter
Kentucky
Mississippi
Texas
Frank E. Tappan
Alice Cummins Tappan
Tappan
Anthony Browne
New Zealand
Tappans
Luray
Charley Peterson
T.M. Hooker
Baltimore
Bill Henson
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
W. E. Henson
Audrey Jones
Washingtons
D.C. S
Ville
Lloyd Dofflemeyer
John Huyette
Lilian Anderson
Herndon, Va
Frances
Charlotte
Hazel Foltz
Mrs. Foltz
Shenandoah, Va
Ray Foltz
Samuel Crim
Shenandoah
Blue and Gray
W. Boscawen St
Mary Sherman
Betty Miller Smith
A. P. Osborne
Francis Osborne
Washington, DA
Betty Clark
Bee Huff
Peggy Puller
Dorothy Fuller
Front Royal
Patsy Mallory
H. W. Mallory
Mrs. Allen Mallory
Walley Ann Mallory
Front Royal, Va
J. J. White
Chicago
Ill
John Stoffregen
Pfc
Julius White
Iley Kater
J. L. Shenk
Seaman Carl H. Pope
Mass
Fred Pope
Anadel
Dixon Adel
Pencil Company
Charles Hodson
Wilbur Malone
Lovett Brothers “X-ray
Methodist
Axel Twigg
Tate
the Commercial & Savings Bank
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ieee
Timberlake
Shady
Music BY
Woody Carlisle
Sonny Frye
Eagles Meat Market
Eagle’s Meat Market
Robert Jasper
DIAL
the Food Center
N. Main Street
Swiftscold
Prunes
Duz
Ivory
P&g
Crisco
Colonial Crackers
Tbs
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