Victory Exchange Opens and Club Gatherings Listed
Socials and personals calendar shows Victory Exchange open 11:00 to 17:00 daily. Meetings include Grace Lutheran Women’s Auxiliary at Miss Jennie Green residence, Rachel Hodges Class at Miss Maud Holler’s home, G A A council and regular meetings in Ellis Building, Queen Esther class at Mrs Henkle Carpenter’s home, Quota Club at Golden Glow Coffee Shop, Weekly aems tay W at Odd Fellows Hall, and repeated Victory Exchange hours.
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Victory Exchange
Grace Lutheran Church
Jennie Green
South Loudoun &T
Rachel Hodges
Maud Holler
National Avenue
Ellis Building
Queen Esther
Henkle Carpenter
Pacey
Quota Club
Golden Glow
Odd Fellows Hall
Tea event hosts and art show at Winchester society pages
Mrs. Lozier and J A Speer host a Friday tea at the Lozier home with guests from Purcellville, Berryville and Richmond. Miss Olivia Dellinger debuts four oil paintings at Handley Gallery May 8–9, with others from Alonzo Ritter and Caroline Quantz contributing works.
Miss Griffiths wedding plans announced for Grace Church Berryville
Miss Eleanor Dodge Griffith will wed James Wood Green Jr at Grace Episcopal Church Berryville at four. Rev Henry H Lane to perform. Bridal party includes bridesmaids Dorothy Dunkle Florence Hackett Ann James Smith ushers from Washington. best man Carl Russell. Reception at Llewellyn home after ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Dodge Griffith
James Wood Green, Jr
Grace Episcopal Church
Berryville
Henry H. Lane
Mary Louise Sartelle
Lucille Smith
Bishop Sheves
Dorothy Dunkle
Frostburg
Florence Hackett
Tucson
Arizona
Ann James Smith
Rosedale
Carl Russell
Washington
William Barr
Jack Calljohn
Howard Gordon
Fred
Berryville Bride-To-Be Weds Naval Laboratory Physicist
The bride, daughter of Mrs. Alfred M. Kerfoot and the late William T. Griffith Jr., has worked at Friendship Settlement house in Washington. She will marry a physicist at U S Naval Laboratory in Washington, son of Mrs. James Wood Green Sr. of Colorado Springs. Guests include the bridegroom’s mother and the best man arriving Saturday, bridesmaids hosted at the Hobson McGhee residence, and other relatives from New Orleans Biloxi and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadames
Robert T. Lozier
Alfred M. J. Kerfoot
Berryville
R. H. Bobb
Biloxy
E. H. Fitch
New Orleans
R. P. Whiting
Ben Randolph
G. Peyton Craighill
Millwood
L. M. Walker, Jr
Richmond
Alfred M. Kerfoot
William T. Griffith,d.jr
Friendship Settlement House
Washington
Green
James Wood Green
Colorado Springs
Col
U. S. Naval Laboratory
Russell
H. B. Harris
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Foster at White Post Virginia
Recent visitors included Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Foster from nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lohr of Newark New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Carper and son Garvin, Miss Barbara Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John Foster of Winchester, and Miss Martha Ritter of White Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Foster
White Post
L. C. Foster
Wilson Lohr
Newark
N. J
M. P. Carper
Garvin
Barbara Jones
John Foster
Winchester
Martha Ritter
Captain and Mrs McVay visit family in Clearbrook Virginia
Capt. and Mrs. Cecil G. McVay are guests at the home of Capt. McVay's parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. McVay in Clearbrook Virginia. He has spent a year in the far north with his regiment that helped build the Al can Highway and will report for duty at Camp Claybourne Louisiana on May 21.
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Cecil G. McVay
Rosenberger couple honored at North Mountain
Mr and Mrs William Rosen berger are noted at North Mountain in a brief society item. The notice highlights their presence at a community gathering and mentions local location details.
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William Rosenberger
North Mountain
Ruth Glass Weds Corp William Klutz in Columbia
Ruth Carl ton Glass daughter of Mr and Mrs Shelby Carl Glass of South Hill married Corp William Beverly Klutz US Army son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Walkup Klutz of Chester South Carolina. The ceremony occurred Saturday evening in Columbia.
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Shelby Carl Glass
South Hill
Ruth Carlton
Corp
William Beverly Klutz
Samuel Walkup Klutz
Chester
S. C
Columbia
Death Comes To William Carver In Davis West Virginia
William Walter Carver 75 a Frederick county native and long time Davis resident died at his home after an illness. He worked in coal mines and retired. The body will lie in state for burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery with services at the cemetery chapel. He is survived by his daughter Lena Pendergast and several siblings. The note adds the caribou doe as the only antlered female deer in North America.
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William Walter Carver
Frederick County
Davis
W. Va
Carver
Joseph A
Frances Siford Carver
Frederick
Mount Hebron
Emma Grandstaff
Lena Pendergast
Akron
Ohio
John
Charles Carver
Isaac Carver
This City
R. L. Boyd
J. A. Foreman
Winchester
Rainfall totals and monthly averages from 1913 to 1941
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hours ending at 8 am with none. Year to date 11.77 inches, May to date 0.06 inches. The document lists average annual rainfall over three years at 36.11 inches and monthly figures for 1913 41 through 1941 inclusive, ending with December 2.47 inches. Statistics credited to Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
With Our Men In The Service
Son of Mrs Lofton of Sunnyside Tech Sergeant Lofton is stationed at Camp Chaffee Arkansas as an instructor in chemical warfare. He has served about 14 months and was home about a month ago. After Handley High School he worked for Postal Telegraph before enlisting. Charles F Anderson Quartermaster Third Class moved from Norfolk Naval Base to ship duty at sea. He enlisted last October and trained at Norfolk for Quartermasters and Signalmen. He is the son of Mrs Carrie Neville Anderson. His address can be obtained from her. Mrs Helen Farrell of 127 East German street reports her husband Junior Farrell enlisted in the Navy and is at Bainbridge Maryland. Ralph M Pete Hann, former Winchester resident, is now a first class petty officer in the U S Coast Guard Reserve attached to the Coast Guard Potomac river repair base in Washington D C since last June. He was an electrician for Baker and Anderson in town for several years.
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Olivia Dellinger
North Braddock Street
Handley Gallery
Miss Dellinger
Frances Mayers
Hunter McGuire
Alonzo Ritter
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Winchester
Handley School
Ritter
Fred Ritter
Caroline Quantz
South
Loudoun Street
Quantz
Charles Landon School of Art
Cleveland
Ohio
Jewell Lofton
Sunnyside
Tech
Sgt. Lofton
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Handley High School
Postal Telegraph
Charles F. Anderson
Naval Operating Base
Norfolk
Navy
Carrie Neville Anderson
Helen Farrell
East German Street
Junior B. Farrell
U. S. Naval Training Station
Bainbridge
Ralph M
Pete’) Hann
U. S. Coast Guard Reserve
Coast Guard
Potomac River Patrol
Washington, D. C
Baker and Anderson
Plan Now Post War Work
CHICAGO May 6 Maj. Gen. Philip B Fleming Federal Works Agency Administrator urged immediate planning for a nationwide postwar public works program to spur employment. He warned against wasteful holes and merely make-work and called for design of highways flood control sewers irrigation airports housing and flight strips to build a better world.
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Chicago
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works Agency
Fleming
American Road Builders’ Association
PWA
Eighteen Coal Miners Survive Blasting Terror at Etna Mine
Eighteen miners holed up behind a canvas barrier 2000 feet underground survived an explosion at Etna Coal and Coke Mine in LaFollette Tennessee. They endured over eight hours fighting black damp fumes before rescue. Two men died from carbon monoxide while others escaped.
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Lafollette
Tenn
Etna Coal and Coke Company
Dana
East Tennessee
Tipple
Ree
Earl Turner
James Raines
Herman Gilbreath
Albert Kitts
Oscar Ayres
Tennessee
Mike
R. B. Parrott
War end boosts jobs and site acquisition progress
The article notes immediate job availability after the war for new site acquisitions and advance engineering positions. It also mentions the American pronghorn antelope reaching speeds around sixty miles per hour.
Liberator Bombers and Lightning Fighters Hit Attu Island
Allied air units attacked Japanese installations on Attu Island in the western Aleutians on May 4. Consolidated B-24 Liberators were supported by P-38 Lightnings, with bomb hits at Holtz Bay and strafing of Chicago harbor. No new action reported at Kiska. the base had been attacked 30 times in the first three days of May.
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Liberator
Attu Island
Aleutians
North Pacific
Holtz Bay
Kiska Island
Attu
Kiska
Jacksonville Transit Strike Shuts City Buses
Public transit in the Jacksonville metro area serving 295000 people was disrupted as 175 buses of the Motor Transit Company halted operations due to a machinists strike involving 60 workers. The navy used its own vehicles to move workers to the air station and the army air base took parallel steps, delaying several thousand shipyard workers getting to their jobs.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Motor Transit Company
Navy
Army Air Base
Timberlake Rites Set for Clarksburg Man
Funeral services for Dr. A. R. Timberlake, 76, of Clarksburg West Virginia, will be held Friday at 3 30 p m from Mount Hebron Cemetery. He was son of Mr and Mrs P W Timberlake and brother of E B Timberlake of Winchester. He died Tuesday in Clarksburg of angina.
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A. R. Puneral Services
Timberlake
Clarksburg
W. Va
Mount Hebron
Cemens
Rhhiberlake
Peeeetee
P. W. Theberlake
D. W. Timberlake
Rich Hill Farm
White Hall
E. B. Timberlake
Winches
Angina
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Frank Whiting
Frank B. Whiting
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Harry Stimpson
City
R. E. Byrd
Amherst Street
Clowser
Lewis C. Clowser
East Germain Street
Mary Elfen
Holmes Dusing
A. M
Tierney
Laurence Tierney, Jr
Bluefield
W. A. Baker
Thornhill Manor
South Washington Street
Martin-Haigwood
Edna Haigwood
Inverness
Warren B. Martin
R R. Martin
Stoke
Martin
Army
Woman's Auxiliary
Woman's’ Auxiliary
Christ Episcopal Church
Clark Cooper
Virginia
Helping Hand Mission
Miss Griffith
Hilton
Llewellyn
Norris
Mother
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Huntsberrys
Huntsberry
Bologna
Spring Farm
the Food Center
N. Main ST
Dial
Meal ‘Vn
Valencias
George Washington
Ruth Glass
Miss Glass
Douglas DuShane
Albert Strader
Vincent Wilson
Woodstock
Charles Markley
William Fadely
John W. Rosenberger
M. H. Rosenberger
Jacob H. Rosenberger
C. M. Rosenberger
Petersburg
Mary E. Good
C. E. Richardson
Pulaski, Va
Wilkie Hunt
Stonewall Avenue
William Carver
Davis, W. Va
North America
Haldeman
Pifer’s
Sgt
Eugene Lofton
Lovett Brothers
Cammer Tire CO
Nippons
Dr. Timberlake
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Sherwin-Williams
Miller’s Hardware
Goldette
Moling & Cather
PTA
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