Leesburg Garden Club Flower Show Set for June 9
The eighth annual Leesburg Garden Club flower show will be held in the Leesburg high school auditorium on Friday June 9. Eleanor Chamberlin of Waterford is general chairman. Entries open to amateurs with no entry fee and prizes awarded in each class. exhibits must be in by 12 30 and stay until close. A children's play The Wild Flowers Plea will be performed at 4 and 8 o clock. Plants, garden items, candy and ice cream will be sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leesburg Club
Leesburg Garden Club
Leesburg
Bassa Eee See
County Hospital
Eleanor Chamberlin
Waterford
John William Clemens
Conference Missionary Society Meets At Inwood
The Virginia Conference Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church began its meeting this afternoon at Inwood at 2 o'clock and will continue until Friday noon. Officers include Mrs. J. R. Rhodes president, Mrs. Ada Hicks secretary, and Mrs. W. A. Wilt treasurer. Delegates named from the local society are Mrs. Pope, Mrs. Ora Bailey, Mrs. Iva Mae Bowles, Miss Dorothy Cather, Miss Gladys Patton, and Miss Margaret Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Conference Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church
Inwood
J. R. Rhodes
Dayton
Ada Hicks
W. A. Wilt
Martinsburg
Weber
Ohio
Leach
Social calendar of Winchester area clubs and churches this week
The calendar lists a packed slate of meetings and events from Wednesday to afternoon activities on Friday and next Monday. Highlights include the Junior Auxiliary benefit at Christ Church Parish House, Grace Lutheran memorial service, church choir practices at First Baptist and United Brethren, Elks lodge meeting, Shenandoah Valley Academy events, Rotary luncheon at the Washington Hotel, and various Lions Kiwanis and Garden Club gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ Episcopal Church
Grace Lutheran Church
First Baptist Church
Young Peoples
United Brethren Church
Winchester Lodge Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Rotary Club
George Washington Hotel
Sadets of
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Winchester Golf Club
American Legion Post
George Washington
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Handley Library
Kiwanis Club
Winchester-Clarke County
Dahlgren Family Ordered to Sea Aboard U S Augusta
Lieut Joseph Dahlgren and wife and children, long in Annapolis, are entertaining before departure for sea duty aboard the U S Augusta. Mrs Dahlgren will summer at Kenmore Manor and may travel to China in the autumn. Guests include Mr and Mrs Sylvanus Stokes Jr and Mrs Morton A Colton Jr. Also reported: Mrs Dorothy Miller, formerly of this city, now in Washington, hospitalized for blood poisoning risking possible amputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dahlgren
Annapolis
U.S. S
Augusta
Dahleren
Kenmore Manor
Virginia
Alexander Gordon
China
Dahlgren
Sylvanus Stokes, Jr
Morton A. Colton, Jr
Dorothy Miller
Washington
Miller
R. M. Burks
Boyce
Woman's Civic League Meeting Postponed in Winchester
The regular June meeting of the Woman's Civic League of Winchester is postponed from Friday June 2 to Friday June 9. Plans call for an out of town luncheon and a large member turnout is hoped. Further announcement will be issued in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic League
Woman's Civic League of
Winchester
Rexall One Cent Sale at Brooks Pharmacy
Brooks Pharmacy announces a Rexall one cent sale running Thursday Friday and Saturday June 1 2 3. The event highlights large savings on selected items for local shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexall
Recital Participants and Social Notes Highlight Handley High Event
Music class pupils of Miss Kath leen ee als Beasish took part in a recent recital at the Handley High School Auditorium to an appreciative audience featuring numerous Misses and Messrs. with names such as Mary Maxwell Bond June Cline Marion Hurst and Randolph Grimm. The Girl Scout Community Committee announced a meeting at Miss Elizabeth Kern's home. Guests and relatives of local residents were noted with visits to Langley Field and Washington and plans to attend conventions in Chicago and at the World’s Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ience
Kathleen Ee Als
Beasish
Handley High Sch
Mary Maxwell Bond
June Cline
Marion Hurst
Reba Snarr
Marjorie Mae Lowry
Margaret Omos
Freda Loy
Margaret Clowe
Caroline Stretchberry
Arbella Richards
Elizabeth Pierce
Georgia Bywaters
May Bywaters
Ann Douglass Seal
Helen Avis Grimm
Mildred Jones
Mabel Massie
Messrs
Randolph Grimm
Bennie Davis
Milfilin Clowe
Marshall Snapp
Girl Ae
Girl Scout Community
Elizabeth Kern
Amherst Street
Belcher Receives Eight-Year Sentence After New Trial
In Rocky Mount Virginia on May 30 1932 William Belcher of Roanoke was found guilty with a recommendation for eight years in the penitentiary in the Christmas night 1931 killing of recluse J L Patterson. Barbour and two others received twenty years. Belcher’s five year sentence was appealed and a new trial ordered. Bail was set at five thousand dollars and sentence execution suspended pending higher court appeal. Belcher related to Barbour and Sid Belcher funded a still operation tied to liquor making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mount
William Belcher
Roanoke
Belcher
Noell Barbour
Lewis
Henry Beckner
J. L. Patterson
Barbour
T L. Keister
Salem
Supreme Court
Roanoke Industrias
Sid Belcher
Germany Told by League to Keep Hands Off Jurisdiction
Geneva May 30 Germany rejected a League of Nations report on its Upper Silesia Jewish policy and told the League to keep hands off. The council sent parts of the issue to jurists for full airing while noting German measures violated the German Polish convention. Franz Bernheim a German Jew urged protection for minorities and called for equal treatment of Jews in the Reich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Germany
League of Nations
Upper Silesia
League
League Council
Franz Bernheim
Friedrich von Keller
Seasicr
Reich
Many Handsome Entertainments At Blue Ridge Hunt Show
Social weekend centered on Millwood Virginia s Blue Ridge Hunt Show at Carter Hall grove. Notable guests from Middleburg Leesburg Winchester and Philadelphia attended luncheons dinners and a large Saturday night dance at the Blue Ridge Country Club with about 150 young attendees and a judging pair from Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millwood
Blue Ridge
Carter Hall
Grove
George H. Burwell
Mt. Airy
Blue Ridge Hunt
William Mitchell
Henry W. Frost
H. W. Frost Jr
Middleburg
Mary Rumsey
C. C. Rumsey
Catrina McCormick
New York
Gerald Baldwin
J. Makensie Tabb
Tabb
Archibald Cary Randolph
The
Piedmont Hunt
R. H. Dulaney
Upperville
Frank Littleton
Metzger
W. H. Lipscomb
Leesburg
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Winchester
Margaret Byrd
Richard Byrd
H. F. Byrd
Basil Hall
E. Barrington Hall
Henry Fairfax
Spencer Carter
William Beverley
John Bocock
Richmond
John Butler
Rectortown
Samuel Marshall
Arthur White
Tom Atkinson
John Woolfolk
Kinsey
Christ Church
Welbourne
Lewis M. Allen
W. A. Baker
Frank Wray
John Neill
Berryville
Percy C. Randolph
Mary O'Fallon
Edward B. Jacobs
William Bell Watkins
Edward M Cheston
Joseph Lewis
Philadelphia
Cheston
Lewis
Walter Williams
Susan Carter
Henry Lewis
Norman Jenkens
Baltimore
Blue Ridge Country Club
F. Allerton Read
Cary Harrison
Virginia Jacobs
Nat Burwell
William B. Watkins
Courtney B. Jones
Washington
Visit to Charles Town by Kennedy Sisters
Miss Agnes Esten Kennedy plans a short visit with her sister Mrs Fésuli arriving in a few days. They will see Miss Nancy Selden in Charles Town before returning to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Esten Kennedy
Fésuli
Nancy Selden
Charles Town
Washeington
Clarke County to Raise Funds for Children Campaign
Clarke County opens a county wide drive for the Children’s Home Society of Virginia with a 3 45 pm meeting at Emmanuel Chapel Boyce. District chairmen and church representatives from Berryville Boyce White Post Millwood pledge to raise 75000 to help homeless children with food shelter clothing education and religious training. The non sectarian society with church board members has operated for 32 years to place children in proper homes under state welfare oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millwood
Clarke County
Children's Home Society of Virginia
Emmanuel
Episcopal
Boyce
W H. Racey
Methodist
J. &. Strode
R. H Gardner
White Post
Thomas Blackwell
Eva Massey
Methodist Millwood
Harry Hansucker
Virginia Hummer
Agnes R. Page
Children’s Home Society of
Virginia
Department of Welfare
State of
State Plans Better Care of Ill Prisoners
Governor Pollard announced the State Prison Board will modernize the prison farm, misdemeanant farm, and women's industrial farm. Focus areas include humane treatment and improved hospital facilities for sick prisoners, with the Health Department asked to advise on tuberculosis care within the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Pollard
State Prison Board
Prison Board
State Health Department
Pershing Denies Immediate Hope for Disarmament
General John J. Pershing warned in a Memorial Day address that world wars persist despite peace treaties and a US lead in disarmament would not prompt other nations to follow. He called such faith unfounded and urged continued American vigilance amid Geneva talks and Roosevelt’s push for arms reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John J. Pershing
America
Pershing
Roosevelt
Geneva
United States
Norman H. Davis
Auto Stolen In Albemarle Recovered Here
An auto stolen in Charlottesville Albemarle county was recovered in this city late yesterday by Officer Francis Funk and Chief C W Hollis. A Ford coupe with Virginia plate 313-223 was spotted at a filling station. A 27 year old Charlottesville man James Haggard was arrested and jailed pending transfer. Charlottes ville authorities notified and expected to extradite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Albemarle County
Francis Funk
C. W. Hollis
James Haggard
Haggard
Hollis
C. H. Yowell
Hi Ho sage of Chinatown on blizzards and truth
Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown argues that knowledge from experience is not always best. He claims a blizzard is best appreciated from a warm room looking through a window, valuing indirect observation over direct exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hi Ho
Chinatown
Also Mentioned on This Page
Conference Missionary Society
Miss Calvert
Virginia Anne Huntsberry
Southern Inn
West Piccadilly Street
Selene Calvert
E. D., Calvert
Woodland Avenue
William Rea Perrine
Miss Calver
Braddock Street
Methodist Church
Lena Lichliter
Valley Avenue
Miss Lichliter
Zara Dove
Annie Ritter
Lee Clevenger
Mary Hollar
Thelma Barr
Dudley Lichliter
Green
Luther League
Luther League of Grace Lutheran Church
New Market
Homer E. Guyer
Camden
N. J
Music Lovers’ Club
Lions’ Club
Lieut
Bally-Hoo
Huntsberry
Brooks’ Pharmacy
John Snyder, Jr
Albin
A. N. Yates
Boston
W. B. Farr and Son
Fred A. Crisman
Frederick
Lillie Bamberger
Pittsburgh
A. B. Marple
East Boscawen Street
Langley Field
Julian Keith
Duer
Warrenton
Woman’s Organization For National Prohibition Reform
W. Nelson Page
Melvin Green
South Washington Street
Chicago
Garden Club of America
Thomas Crowder
Congreve Jackson
Westburry
L. I
Gustav Struver
Pinkney Wetherell
Edward Cheston
T. Alexander Scott
Archibald Cary
Randolph
Charles Consolvo
Louise Bell
Fairfax H. Gouverneur
Capt
Ewart Johnson
California
Victor Arthur
Robert T. Barton, Jr
Harrison Taylor
Isabelle M. Cameron
Europe
Quebec
Charles A. Jones
Katherine Jones
Catskill
N. Y
Roy Williams
John W. Beatty
Helen
Katherine Beatty
Richard Everard Edsall
Dawmont
Kennedy Edsall
Albemarle
Hagerstown, Md
Staunton, Va
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Commercial & Savings Bank
U.S. Postal Savings Depository
Margaret L. Hodgson
Reardon’s
Pure Food Store
Braddock and
Boscawen Streets
R. M. Swimley
N. Loudoun St
Loudoun St
RAMBO
Lovett Brothers
N. Main Street
Lovett Shoe
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!