Local notes from Hogue Creek Va May gathering and notices
News from Hogue Creek Virginia on May 11 covers visitors and family updates. Rev B F Spitcer stayed with Ollie Clowser while Kathryn Hoover underwent surgery. May Day and Mother’s Day church invites appear amid revival attendance. Several families, including Larricks, Whites, Orndoffs, and Pennington relatives, are listed with social visits, hospital updates, and travel. Apple Blossom Festival and Pikeside Inn guests are named. An accident left Irene Price with fractures and local church revival attendance continues.
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Hogue Creek
B. F. Spitcer
Ollie Clowser
Scott White
Herbert Kump
Highview
W. Va
Harry Larrick
Newport News
T. Larrick
Kathryn Hoover
Memorial Hospital
Lloyd Carr
Winchester
Frances Larrick
Nannie Orndoff
Laura Orndoff
Luther Larrick
Silas Palmer
David Foster
Virgie Nelson
John Nelson
Suffolk
Nellie Mae Evans
J. M. Carr
W. B. Brotherton
Methodist Episcopal Church
Berryville
Baptist Church
Roland Wagner
Norflok
LI. A. Parker
Parker
C. B. Locke
M. F. Core
M. G. Core
East Orange
N. J
Ng *. Wesshauppt
Maplewood
Irene Price
Charles Town
John Hardesty
Ruth
Esther Ridgeway
Apple Blossom Festival Guests and Local News at Albin
Albin Virginia May 11. Mr and Mrs M 8 Glaize hosted guests for the Apple Blossom Festival including Mr and Mrs Charles Scott of Easton Pennsylvania Messrs J L Fries and William Love of Collinsville Pennsylvania and Mr and Mrs Bageant and their son from Washington. We note social visits, a parade participant, and travel plans for Rev Seastrunk and family.
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Albin
Glaize
Charles Scott
Easton
J. L. Fries
William Love
Collinsville
Bageant
Washington
Guy Smith
Mr. Bageant
George Seastrunk, Jr
W. A. Orndoff
Columbia
Seastrunk
Rev. Seastrunk
A. O. Hill
S. C
Melvin Renner
Granville Davis
R. A. Buncutters
Baltimore
Susan Howard
John Thwaite
South Carolina
Stephenson Notes in May Visitors and Lamb Holiday Guests
Stephenson Virginia notes May 11 relate visitors at local homes from Kernstown to Hagerstown and Cumberland during the Apple Blossom Festival. Several scenes include Mr. and Mrs. Renner and daughter Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. DeHaven with Fries of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Sellers of New York, and Kenneth Snapp visiting with J. H. Ashwood and E. L. Orndorff near Welltown.
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I. Heinn
Baltimore
A. L. Omps
Geraldine
Frances Triggs
Cumberland
J. H. Ashwood
H. E. Snapp
Kenneth
E. L. Orndorff
Welltown
John Jolliffe
Minnie Wood Chapel Services and Convention Invite
Minnie Wood Chapel Virginia May 10 services at 3 p m led by Rev J M Carr pastor Sunday School at 2 15 p m all welcome Annual state convention of King s Daughters and Sons to be held at the Presbyterian church arranging details and date not specified in fragment.
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Minnie Wood Chapel
J. M. Carr
King’s Daughters and Sons
Presbyterian
Electric Storm Damages Homes In Ridge West Virginia
Miss Remy Gordon of Ridge West Virginia reports an electric storm last week that damaged several properties and burned out telephone lines. A metal chain in J P Rutherford’s bathtub burned through, leaving a large hole, but the family was away from the tub and escaped harm.
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Remy Gordon
Ridge
W. Va
J. P. Rutherford
Legal Liquor Stores Open In West Virginia
In Charleston WV the first two state liquor stores opened marking the end of prohibition era delays. The new state control system began two months earlier and long queues formed outside the shops. Chairman D Homer Stephenson called the turnout a nice crowd as Eleanor Simpson, a former leave attache, made the first legal liquor purchase.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
New
Liquor Board
D. Homer Stephenson
Eleanor Simpson
Gravel Springs Lutheran Pastorate Services In District
Rev C B Seastronk leads Gravel Springs and neighboring charges with Sunday Schools at Bethel Albin Mt Williams St John Mt Williams and St James Zepp. Sunday School times 10 a m at most churches. Divine services and sermons follow, with two p m Sunday School at Gravel Springs Star Tannery. You are welcome to these services.
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C. BE. Seastronk
Bethel
Albin
St. John’s
Mt. Williams
Gravel Springs
Star Tannery
St. James
Zepp
Virginia Map Praised By Governor Peery
Governor George C Peery lauds the new historical map of Virginia as clear readable and artistic in a letter to the American Automobile Association. The map produced with the Virginia Division of History and Archaeology highlights hundreds of historical sites and major battlefields and promotes national travel interest in the Old Dominion.
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The
Star
Washington
Virginia
George C. Peery
American Automobile Association
Peery
Virginia State Commission On Conservation and Development
Peerye
State Commission On Conservation and Development of
Old Dominion
Legend of St Keyne Well and Lafayette Burial Tale
The well of St Keyne in Cornwall is said to grant dominance to the first drinker in a marriage. Saliva, a clear tasteless fluid from salivary and mucous glands, aids starch digestion with the ptyalin enzyme. Lafayette’s burial in France was marked by his grave being filled with American earth and his body wrapped in the Stars and Stripes.
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St. Keyne
Cornwall
England
Lafayette
France
Crowned epoch memories and a curious chain letter scheme
Washington and New York dispatches reflect a mixed silver anniversary for King George V with criticism of coronation pageantry and crowd management. A New York writer mocks a $1 500 chain letter scam while noting a bellwether postal bonanza idea. An official court notice in Frederick details estate litigation for Charles Strange with publication and service orders.
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Washington, D. C
George
Scouting Festival Service Details And Leadership Plans
The report covers Scout activities at the festival with 460 scouts and leaders involved. Troop 1 led by Henry Schneider planned festival stand and bird house sales while Troop 2 tracked contests with Iles Harper tying for best place and prizes of a National Jamboree trip and Camp White Rock. Community service includes jar donations for winter food preservation. A regional officer will visit Shenandoah Area Council May 15 to June 1.
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Henry Schneider
Iles Harper
Camp White Rock
William Boyce
Robert Gibbons
George Guthridge
Henry Pitzer
Paul Hanna
Ball Park
Scouts of Winchester
Fera Garden
Scout Office
Shenandoah Area Council
Lee Calahan
Shenandoah Area
Calahan
George Ritter
Don MacKenzie
Australia
Tate Scouts Exchange Stamps and Magazines Over Six Weeks
Scouts named Tate report a six week period during which stamps and magazines were exchanged among participants. The fragment notes ongoing correspondence and collection activity without specifying participants or locations.
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Tate
Work Progresses On New Church At Wardensville
Work progresses satisfactorily on the new Lutheran Church at Wardensville West Virginia replacing the old structure destroyed about a year ago. The building uses native red limestone and other local materials as it takes shape under local contractors and parish plans.
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Wardensville
W. Va
Construction at Wardensville church proceeds with local aid
Three stone masons and two carpenters work daily with over a dozen assists as congregation members provide much of the labor. The Sears roof is expected to be completed by mid month. Reverend Lawrence B. Williamson serves as pastor of the Wardensville church.
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Lawrence B. Williamson
Wardensville
Where Women Must Be Wed Among Tiwi Tribesmen
A captioned note explains Tiwi traditions in the South seas where women must marry, and multiple women may share one husband, while remaining unmarried is not allowed.
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South Seas
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