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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
10
The Winchester Park baseball team will hold a practice tomorrow evening at 5 30 in preparation for their game Sunday against the Westphal Hose Company nine at Martinsburg.
Central West Virginia May 15 report lists the Ladies Aid meeting at the Shingleton home. Nearby visits include Ervin Poland to Cumberland and various families visiting in Delray Charles Town Romney Capon Springs and Romney. Center shows Central 4 H Club meeting with I B Boggs D I Law and Maxine Ripley attending.
Plans are complete for the annual Class A sanctioned dog match presented by the S and Dixon Kennel Club on Sunday May 18 at Mt Tamany Farm Route 11 three miles south of Hagerstown. Exhibitors from tri states and eastern shore expected. Miss Elizabeth Miller’s Irish setter and Pat O’Flynn among local entries. Registration 11:30 a m to 1:00 p m EDT. judging starts 1:30 p m.
The Reverend Raymond L. Booze left Stephens City Tuesday night to conduct the funeral of the late Mr. Crabtree in Bland County. The local parish now lacks a pastor, and Booze, a former community pastor, responded gladly. Mrs. Charles Mason and her son from Washington, D. C., visited Mrs. H. P. Lovett Tuesday. Mrs. M. K. Dean and daughter Lucy Dean, after months in Washington and Wilmington, Delaware, plan to arrive Sunday to open their home for summer, joined by Mr. and Mrs. Homewood of Delaware and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Proctor of Washington. Mrs. Ada Trussell, in Washington for several months, has returned.
Mrs. Nelson Nichols hosted the Ladies Aid Society of the Quberan Church for the monthly meeting. Mrs. W. C. Adams presided and Mrs. Joe Clevenger led the devotional. Plans were made to serve lunches on May 17 at the sale of Mr. Joseph Funk near Bartonsville, and to hold a fancy work and apron gate to benefit church groups.
The report records a church meeting ending with a prayer led by Mrs Booze and mentions a June gathering with Mrs W C Adams. It lists attendees including several couples and families, plus relatives visiting from Altoona and Culpeper. It also notes hospital and home illnesses and various Sunday visits to Luray.
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