Social and Personal News of Stephens City and Area
Weekly American Legion luncheon at the hotel. Miss Elizabeth Bowen wed Mr. Frank Batnan in Gallipolis Ohio on May 4. Mrs. Lewis Moser travels to Greenwood Massachusetts for the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting. Social events include hayride and dinners. births announced at Memorial Hospital. first aid class certifies twenty members. Girl’s Athletic Association plans a guest tea at the Elks Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Bowen
Frank Batnan
Newton Bowen
South Braddock Street
Elizabeth Bowen
Boyd Batnan
Richmond
Gallipolis
Ohio
Earl Moore
Charleston
W. Va
Batnan
Handley High School
Mr. Batnan
The
University of Richmond
Moser
Lewis Moser
East Clifford Street
Greenwood
Mass
Boston
George H.perry
Perry
Greenwood Woman's Club
Massachusetts State Federation For Women’s Clubs
Swampscott
Saltonstall
Irina Skariatina
Russia
Woman’s Club
Stephens City
Roy Wisecarver
Francis Jones
Mary Broaddus
Elizabeth Furnace
Edwin Jones
Jas. Gordon
Dan Brumback
Julian Gregory
Martha
Alice Punk
Betty Carbaugh
Victor Carbaugh
Raymond Rucker
Howard Massie
City
George Reading
Red Cross
Susie Ambrose
Eugene Barley
Gladys Barley
Charles E. Bass
Charles E. Baas
Jean Campbell
Anita Combs
W. L. Dalton
Garland Grim
Lula B. Haymaker
Dorothy Herrell
Paul Koenig
Paul Smoags
G. W. Lemley
Edwin H. Jones
E. Massie
David Petrie
Walter Smith
Carolyn Seal
Roland Dalton
Cross
Girls Athletic Association
Elks Club
Gladys Haines
Elmer Eeckin
Ida Lycett
Native Wildflowers Topic At Winchester Club Meeting
Winchester and Clarke Garden Club heard Miss Eloise Luquer on native wildflowers with her water color studies and a Garden Club of America achievement medal. The event, chaired by vice president Mrs. Carl Massey, featured Luquer’s art and scientific notes tracing flower forms from seaweed to composites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester and Clarke
Garden Club of America
Luquer
Winchester
Kernstown Methodist Church Youth Meet Tonight at 8
The Kernstown Methodist Church youth group will hold its monthly meeting tonight at 8 oclock at the home of Miss Charlotte Rudolph. All members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kernstown Church
Kernstown
Fierce Battles In Russia Continue
Soviet forces press counter drives on multiple fronts with heavy toll on attackers. Kerch fighting persists as Red Star notes temporary German gains in one sector while position remains favorable for the Soviets. Leningrad front sees tank and air supported advances breaking first lines amid spring activity. Berlin reports Donets front resisting strong Russian attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerch
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Star
Kharkov
Red Army
Caucasus
Peninusla
Crimean Peninusla
Leningrad
Moscow
Berlin
British Submarine Raid Falters in Mediterranean
Rome dispatch reports Italian high command stating British submarines tried to waylay an Axis convoy in the Mediterranean but failed to reach their objective. Libyan front operations yielded minor air activity with three British planes destroyed. two shot down by German fighters and one lost during a raid on Bengali. Malta suffered two more British aircraft losses in Axis attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
High Command
Mediterranean
Daily War Bulletin
Malta
War era hair rules urge short styles for efficiency
An article discusses wartime grooming dictates for women in beauty shops. It urges keeping hair to five inches or less, recommending practical updos and tight curls to align with service looks and avoid appearing unfashionable.
Cheese Pie and Party Avocado Salad Recipe Tips
A reader seeks two recipes. First a cheese pie crust using Zwieback crumbs and a creamy filling with eggs cream cottage cheese vanilla sugar and flour. Second a party salad with avocados, cottage cheese pecans or walnuts olives salt, chilled and served on lettuce with French dressing.
Fined for Possessing Illegal Gasoline in Wilmington
Judge P War Ren Green fined Charles Jones ten dollars after Fire Marshal Eugene Barcus arrested him siphoning gasoline from a 50 gallon drum into his car. It was the first case of its kind in Wilmington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
P. Warren Green
Charles Jones
Eugene H. Barcus
Jones
Mrs Roosevelt Granted 21 Gallon Gas Card
Washington May 14 Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt received an A 21 gallon gasoline ration card for her car The President's wife signed up as she began a press conference The White House reports no fuel shortages and sugar supplies are steady at the mansion she plans to keep using her bicycle at Hyde Park and will not wear slacks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
White House
Mrs Glass Heads Garden Clubs President of Virginia
Mrs Powell Glass of Lynchburg was elected president of the Garden Club of Virginia for a two year term at the annual meeting in Charlottesville. Officers include Mrs Walton Brown Danville first vice president and Mrs John S Pinner Suffolk second vice president. The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club Fredericksburg won a silver cup for best yearbook among 31 clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Powell Glass
Lynchburg
Garden Club of Virginia
Walton Brown
Danville
John S. Pinner
Suffolk
Wayt Gibbs
Staunton
Harry Clemons
Warner Snider
Leesburg
Henry Fairfax
Aldie
John G. Hayes
Richmond
Rappahannock Valley
Consul and Wife Die in Ecuador Earthquake
Washington reports the death of John M. Slaughter American vice consul at Guayaquil and his wife in an Ecuadorian earthquake. Two other Americans Gerard Edward Temby manager of the South American Development Company and his wife were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John M. Slaughter
Guayaquil
Slaughter
State Department
Gerard Edward Temby
South American Development Company
U S Bombers Hit Japanese Airdrome in Burma Campaign
U S Army bombers raided Myitkyina in northern Burma in their ninth Burma theater attack, destroying grounded planes and setting fires. Royal Air Force also reported a paddle steamer and barges hit on the Chindwin. Flying Tigers reportedly struck Hanoi Indo China, with 15 Japanese planes burned and many damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
Zanese
Burma
Yunnan
Indo-China
India
United States Army
Myitkyina
Chindwin
Akyab
Chungking
Flying Tigers
Hanoi
Forced Savings Plan Lingers as War Bond Sales Loom
Washington May 14 House Speaker Rayburn said the compulsory savings plan proposed by Rep Gore should lie around for a while to gauge the Treasury voluntary savings plan. The Gore bill combines employer salary withdrawals with enforced savings invested in war bonds at under one percent interest. Morgenthau reported war bond sales ahead of this month’s quota and again opposed compulsory purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rayburn
D-Tex
Rep
Gore
D-Tenn
Treasury
Morgenthau
Eight Corporations Accused In Global Dyestuff Conspiracy
The Justice Department announced a federal grand jury in Trenton New Jersey indicted eight corporations and 20 officials for a world wide cartel to monopolize dye stuffs. Top defendant is E I DuPont De Nemours and Company with co conspirators across Germany France Great Britain Switzerland Japan and satellite firms in the Americas and Canada. Thurman Arnold said the cartel has raised prices and hindered chemical industry development critical to the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Trenton
N. J
E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company
Germany
France
Great Britain
Switzerland
Japan
South America
Canada
Thurman Arnold
Anti-Trust
Efort
State Birth Rate Shows Increase in Virginia
Virginia's birth rate rose seven percent for January to March 1942 over the same period in 1941, the Bureau of Vital Statistics reports. There were 13,356 births versus 12,527 a year earlier, an increase of 829, suggesting about 3,000 more births in 1942 than in 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Salvage Campaign Suspended as Dealers Overstock Paper
The Junior Board of Trade in Winchester suspends the scrap paper drive due to nationwide overstock of old papers. President Ben Belchie notes paper mills and junk dealers have ample supply. households should save paper for later demand. Local dealers report overflowing warehouses and the campaign will pause until notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Winchester
Ben Belchie
Winchester Junk Company
Zuckerman’s
Belchie
Mrs Pence Dies at Woodstock
Mrs Bessie Quisenberry Pence widow of Gilbert Pence former Shenandoah county commonwealths attorney died suddenly at her Woodstock home. She was a longtime musician and organist at the Woodstock Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held at Dellinger Funeral Home Woodstock at 11 a m with Rev W K Cunningham officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Quisenberry Pence
Gilbert Pence
Commonwealth
Shenandoah County
Methodist
Woodstock
Dellinger Funeral Home
W. K. Cunningham
Standard Oil Employees Banquet At George Washington
About 150 dealers and employees of the Standard Oil Company will attend a banquet Tuesday May 19 at 7 30 p m at the George Washington. W W Ottley local manager announced R Goodykoontz of Richmond will be guest speaker and discuss Synthetic Rubber the event aims to bring employees together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
George Washington
School Transportation Drivers Eligible for Supplementary Rations
Office of Price Administration issues gasoline rationing rules allowing supplementary rations for individuals who use their cars to transport children to and from school when children are too young to walk or use alternative transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office Price Administration
Also Mentioned on This Page
American Legion Post
Dorothy Warren
Harry Warren
Anna Mary Thompson
Frances Houndshell
Shirley
Mary Smith
Nina Strosnider
Frances
Juanita Scrivener
Jean Garet
Patsy Carper
Nancy Parker
Jane Manuel
Betty Jean Snapp
Catty Malone
Lee Fawcett
Giles Manuel
Edward Rowles
Betty Brumback
Mrs. Harrison
H. K. Russell
South Stewart Street
Mrs
Burr Powell Harrison
Kenneth Gilpin
Memorial Hospital
Scaleby
Clarke County
Anderson
Walter O. Anderson
Anderson Avenue
Mr. Anderson
Juanita Anderson
James Anderson
Douglas
Leonard Mason
Phyllis
Garland Anderson
Garland, Jr
John
Luray
Mr. and
Mrs. Keiter
Edwin Keiter
South Cameron Street
Keiter
Lottie Mowrey
Mrs. Snapp
Leroy Snapp
East Piccadilly Street
Robert Hockmans
Robert Hockman
Bartonsville
Hockman
Kitty Bonnett
W. F. Bonnett
Valley Avenue
Sylvan E. Ashworth
Senseny Road
O. D. Bush
Kentucky
C A. Patterson
West Monmouth Street
Hot Springs
William Bennett
W. F. Bennett
Mary McCone
Frances Page
Joe Ritter
Clifton Forge
P. E. East
Ritter
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Mansfield
Huntsberry
Daugherty
Graham Daugherty
National Director of
Volunteer Special Services
Handley Library
Davis Cleaners
Bear
N. Braddock St
Benrus
Bia
Helen Follett
OCD
Dorothy Lovett
Underwood
Underwood’s Bakery
N. Loudoun St
Mrs. Glass Heads
U.S
U. S
Smart Moderns
Dra
Lovett Brothers
Company
the Commercial and Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
United States
Moling & Cather
Wes St
Ibs
SWIFT
Oleo
Maryland
Tokely’s Baby Food
the Food Center
Bologna
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!