Stephens City High School Final Week Program
Stephens City Va May 29 commencement exercises begin June 1 with a seminar and class play. Sunday the sermon by Rev John T Huddle of Washington at Lutheran Church. Monday elementary department entertainment and seventh grade certificates. Tuesday Miss McCartney class musical. Wednesday senior class night with Miss Virginia Stickley welcome and Walter Williams proms history reading. Juniors receive Knowledge award by Nellie Painter. Thursday June 7 graduation exercises with invocation by Rev Gaither. Salutatorian Lester Carper and valedictorian James Cadwallader. Hon T W Harrison M D to give annual address.
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Stephens .City
Stephens City High School
John “T. Huddle
Washington
McCartney
Virginia Stickley
Lamake
Walter. Williams
Madeline
Mildred Rowland
Allen
Elsie Wingert
Seaver
Mildred Cadwallader
Nellie Painter
Virginia Shryock
Gaither
Lester Carper
James Cadwallader
Diploma Presented To Graduates With Music By Miss McCartney
The diplomas were presented to the graduates including Lessie D. Kline, superintendent of the schools. Miss McCartney and her pupils furnished music for their exercises.
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Lessie D. Kline
Fire Destroys Rickard Barn Near Middletown
A large frame barn on William H. Rickard’s farm three miles from Middletown burned Saturday destroying four tons of hay thirty barrels of corn fifty bundles of fodder and all farming implements. Only a spring wagon plow and Claude Rickard’s Ford survived. Loss is about 5000 with 1800 insured. Claude Rickard plans immediate rebuilding.
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Middletown
William H. Rickard
Boss PannetT In The Running In August Primary
In the county officer slate for the upcoming democratic primary Luther Pannet t is the sheriff candidate seeking to succeed himself. No other candidate has qualified, leaving him with a likely clear field.
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Boss Pannett
Riff
Luther Pannett
Ecaunty
Orndorff Injured After Horse Stamps Leg at May Day Ride
E. S. Orndorff of Star Tannery Virginia was thrown from his horse last Wednesday. The animal stepped on him and the heel of its shoe pierced the left leg above the ankle, creating a very painful wound.
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Star Tannery
E. S. Orndorff
Winding trail of local notices and church events
The report details a man taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital for a wound and mentions parish activities at Gravel Springs Lutheran Church. It lists attendees at a Sunday School convocation at St Johns Lutheran and visits among local residents including the Himelriatts, Stines, Hershmans, and Orndorffs with various social engagements and services described.
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Orndorff
Winchester ‘Memorial Hospital
Cleo Jenkins
Mr. Grosecup Warde
Rees
Pannry M. B
S. R. Hershman
Gravel Springs Lutheran Church
Sarah Himelriatts
St. Johns- Lutheran “Church
S. Grandorft Tay
Allen Stine
A. P. Stine
Arthur Brill
Louise
Edna. Himelaight
V. CC. Hershman
B.S Orndorff
J. HM. A. Cooper
Missida
Keller
W. H. Bowers
Wheatfield
T. C. Himelaight
Secret letter triggers arrest in Maryland case
In Cumberland Maryland May 29 a woman claims she was forced by James Bevans of Prattsville New York to live with him as his wife for two weeks under death threats. Mrs Gladius Pear McAllister 26 wife of Daniel McAllister of Prattsville identifies Bevans as the neighbor she knew for fourteen years. She says he insisted she accompany him after a Washington road station meeting while threatening her life and warned not to disclose her identity to Jenkins Davis of Welsp Hill Freelan acquaintance. She managed to send a letter to her husband in New York state and is mother of two children.
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Cumberland
James Bevans
Prattsville
Shadows with Chaney a Picture of Beauty at Strand
The Strand Theatre opened Shadows yesterday and shows again today. Lon Chaney stars as a Chinese laundryman philosopher with a notable cast including Harrigan Ford Constance Talmadge Marguerite De La Motte John Sampolis Walter Long Priscilla Bonner and Frances Raymond. The film adapts Wilbur Daniel Steele’s Ching Ching Chinaman once praised by Edward J. O Brien and Steele is cited as a successor to O Henry born in Greensboro North Carolina.
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Strand Theatre
Lon Chaney
Arrigan Ford
Norme
Constance Talmadge
Marguerite de la Motte
Douglas Fairbanks
John Sampolis
Senators Laurent
Walter Long
Plumitas
Bandit Chief
Blood and
Buddy Messenger
Priscilla Bonner
Frances Raymond
Wilbur Daniel Steele
Pictorial Review
Edward J. O’brien
Mr. Steele
O. Henry
Greensboro
N. C
Brannon Dies of Tuberculosis at 67 in Middletown
John Robert Brannon a prosperous farmer near Middletown died Sunday at 7 am after years of tuberculosis. He was 67 years 10 months and 22 days old. He leaves widow Bessie Manuel and son William Walton Brannon. brother William Brannon of Weston West Virginia also survives. Funeral held at his home this afternoon at 2 o clock with Rev J R Fringer of the Middletown Methodist Church. Interment in Middletown cemetery.
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John Robert Brannon
Middletown
Severa
Ben
Bessie Manuel
William Walton Brannon
William Brannon
Weston
W. Va
J. R. Fringer
Middletown Methodist Church
Ex convict faces four new charges in moonshining case
John Alger of Cabbage Hollow near the Blue Ridge is named in four new charges related to moonshining and an alleged killing attempt on his father in law William Lucas Wear Stanley, imprisoned in Atlanta on moonshining charges, faces two similar counts. In Alger's second case he received a county jail term and a fine on appeal.
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John Alger
Cabbage Hollow
Blue Ridge
Wear Stanley
Atlanta
William Lucas
Alger
Moonshine, Assault Lead to Warrants and Fines
A dispute near Alger's home escalated as Lucas fled a confrontation while grinding a butcher knife. A warrant followed and Sheriff Lucas and Trooper Aleshire found two gallons of moonshine along a stream. Alger was jailed in Stanley and fined ten dollars for assault and one hundred dollars for liquor with an additional appeal filed.
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Eld
Alger
Lucas
Luray
Aleshire
Stanley
Williams Honored as Virginia Phi Beta Kappa Members
R Gray Williams is honored by the Beta chapter at the University of Virginia. Miss Elizabeth Nelson Thompkins of Richmond and Miss Pearl Vivian Willoughby of Charlottesville are the first women elected to the Beta chapter. Elections for 1922 show 14 college students included.
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Elizabeth— Nelson Thompkins
Richmond, Va
Pearl Vivian Willoughby
Charlottesville
Vac
Phi Beta Kappa
University of Virginia
Alumni Elect Beta Chapter Members at University
Five from the department of law, five from Montana, eight from gradual studies and alumni elect R. Gray Williams a Chester lawyer and bank president class of 1900 to membership. John Williams Avirett Jr of Cumberland Md is a relative of local families. Initiation for elected members of Beta chapter occurs Monday night June 11 during the finals celebration with Rev Beverly Fuakereannetss delivering the public address.
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Départment of Law
R. Gray Williams
Chester
John Williams Avirett, Jr
Cumberland
Mda
Williams
Avirett
Winchester
Beverly D. Fuakereannetss
St.Paulis Pal Church
Richmond
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