Garden show transforms armory with fountain centerpiece
Mrs Leon Slavin and committee have redesigned the armory for the annual garden show. A fountain centerpiece, potted plants, and a center aisle set the stage for hundreds of exhibits. Nurserymen from Purcellville Waynesboro and Winchester will fill three corners, while spectators enter from the fourth. Proceeds aid underprivileged children. entry fee is a can of food. Show judges will dine at the Chanticleer Inn and show schedules are at Pennypacker's Water St Rhodes and Gaunt drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Strader
Chanticleer Inn
Pennypacker’s
Water St
Rhodes’s
Gaunt’s
Assorted Chocolates Popular Favorites at Low Price
Brook's Pharmacy advertises Homemaid Candy assorted chocolates valued at $1.50 and 1 lb boxes offered for 59 cents, with a contact number listed as 6461. The ad emphasizes an extra special deal on popular favorites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homemaid
Brook’s Pharmacy
Brownies and Troop 17 Join Girl Scouts in Ceremony
In a candlelight rite at the Episcopal parish hall about 17 Brownies of Troop 17 became Girl Scouts. Parents and friends attended as wings and pins were awarded by Brownie leaders Mrs. Getzendanner and Mrs. Moore. New leaders Mrs. McIlivers and Mrs. Dunlap spoke, and the girls aged around 10 received scout pins and Brownie wings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Parish
Girl Scout Troop 17
Patty Bailey
Susan Melinda Dotson
Sheila Fries
Joan Davis
Sharon Glaize
Sherry Roth Gorham
Gail Larson
Ann McKee
Peggy McMullan
Mary Lee Morden
Mary Bruce Rhodes
Nancy Sjostrom
Mary Garland Spillman
Janet Stanley
Helen Sullivan
Kitty Swisher
C. A. Getzendanner
Paul Moore
James MclIvers
Lohr Dunlap
Local visits and travels around The Plains and area
Mrs. Eugene Cooper and Mrs. Irvan OConnell visited in The Plains. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Yount returned from Newton North Carolina after attending the funeral of J A Yount. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hyde Jr spent Memorial Day weekend at Virginia Beach for a State Society of Public Accountants convention. Mr. Fred Sturm returned from New York City on business. The Women's Civic League meets tonight at 7 30 in First Baptist Church to hear Dr EF Clark on Sermon on the Mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Hyde Jr
Beach
Louis Hyde Jr
N. Washington St
Virginia Beach
Hyde
State Society of Public Accountants
Fred Sturm
New York
Greystone Terrace
New York City
Civic Bible Group
Women’s Civic League
First Baptist Church
EF. T. Clark
Dr and Mrs Miller and others return from trips
Dr and Mrs J A Miller return from Boloxi Miss where he attended a medical convention. They visited Mrs Miller's brother in Clarksdale. Mrs Carr is the former Mary Greenway Russell of Winchester. The Carrs hosted a party for the Millers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Miller
Boloxi
W. Piccadilly St
Miss
Macedonia WSCS Meeting and Picnic Night
Families and friends are invited to a picnic style supper at 6 30 p m on church grounds before the Macedonia WSCS monthly business meeting at 7 45 p m inside the church. The Rev Benjamin Coe will install new officers and Mrs John R Hollar will lead devotionals. Also notes on the Arnolds golf tournament and Mrs Mary Ellen Updike’s discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macedonia Wscs
Benjamin Coe
John R. Hollar
Calendar of Local Events May 31 to June 4
Town notices list Bible study at First Baptist church Gore HD club and WMCS and prayer services. Blood donor registrations for June 6 Bloodmobile, bake sale and church suppers, 4-H club meetings, and GAA and Beta Sigma Phi gatherings. Includes Jubilee Aid, EUB classes, and Timber Ridge Christian church women activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Civic League
First Baptist Church
Gore
Leslie Lucas
Macedonia Church
WSCS
Lamps Methodist Church
Bernice
Kernstown
Hayfield
Alice White
Richard Cooper
Harold Cooper
Middle Road
Golden Link S. S
Elks Club
Beta Sigma Phi
Legion Post Home
Red Cross
N. Loudoun St
Ladies of Timber Ridge Christian Church
Ladies of the Second
Opequon
North Frederick
Winchester Community Hall
Miss Nancy Larrick Heads to Puerto Rico for Week at Governor’s Palace
Miss Nancy Larrick of Winchester and New York will travel by plane Friday to Puerto Rico to visit Governor’s Palace in San Juan with Senora Inez Mendoza de Minos. After two weeks she will return to visit her parents at 403 West Clifford Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Larrick
Puerto Rico
Winchester
New York
Senora
Inez Mendoza _ de Minos
Governor's Palace
la Fortaleza
San Juan
Larrick
Herbert S. Larrick
W. Clifford St
Washington Fans Attend Double header This Week
Local baseball fans in Washington attended a Sunday double header featuring Dr W P McGuire Mr Edward Walker and Mr W Nelson Page. Visitors included Mrs Harry Murphy a hospital patient and Mrs Irvan O Connell who came to visit friends from Texas and Minnesota. Norman Roe Lockhart of Baltimore is recovered after a Johns Hopkins surgical stay and visiting northwestern home. Jane Jakimier from Washington spent the weekend with friends and relatives. William Pully of Salisbury Md traveled to visit his brother and sister-in-law at Greystone Terrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Sartelle
Baltimore
E. R. Willoughby
Leicester St
Lucille Deighton
The
Viscose Corp
Front Royal
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Winchester Hospital
Middletown
Washington
W. P. McGuire
Edward Walker
W. Nelson Page
Lockhart
Norman Roe Lockhart
John Hopkins Hospital
Northwestern
William Pully
Salisbury, Md
G. E. Pully
Greystone Terrace
Birth Announcements for Hughes Jenkins and Taliaferro Families
Dirths May 30 announce a girl to Mr and Mrs William R Hughes Jr of 932 Woodland Ave Thelma Orndorff is the former wife Mrs Arnold Jenkins of Fery has a new boy Anna Louise Russell is the former wife Mr and Mrs Harry T Taliaferro Jr of Long Island welcome a son Harry III born at a White Plains hospital The Taliaferro brother of Mrs John M Steck Jr is cited in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Hughes Jr
Woodland Ave
Hughes
Thelma Orndorff
Arnold Jenkins
Jenkins
Anna Louise Russell
Harry T. Taliaferro Jr
Long Island
Harry 3d
White Plains
N. Y
Taliaferro
John M. Steck Jr
J Hammond Boyles Dies in Michigan
J Hammond Boyles age 66, a Frederick county native, died suddenly at his Plymouth Michigan home where he had lived 30 years. He leaves a widow Bessie Hodgson of Winchester a daughter Mrs Walter Sargent of Detroit two sisters Mary and Lottie and three brothers Harry Charles and Curtis Boyles. Funeral services and interment will be held tomorrow in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond Boyles
Frederick County
Plymouth
Mich
Hannah W. Boyles
Winchester
Charles G. Boyles
Plymouth Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
Bessie Hodgson
Walter Sargent
Detroit
Mary
Lottie
Harry Boyles Sr
Martinsburg
Curtis Boyles
Tampa
Grimes Updates and Local Church Board Changes
May 31 update from Grimes notes Mr and Mrs Joseph Cave returning home for the summer after illness with their son and daughter in law Haywood Cave of Frederick Md visiting. Galilee church trustees fill vacancy with Grantham Gardner Rest. D K Russell chairs and William Good Kernstown secretary treasurer. Owen Kiser family moves to Gordon farm near here. Supplied rain boosts grass wheat hay strawberries peaches and gardens locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grantham Gardner
Rest
Ernest Clevenger
Owen Kiser
Opequon
Gordon Farm
Anderson
the Galilee Church
Welltown
D. K. Russell
Russell
William Good
Kernstown
Vacation School at Winchester Presbyterian Church
Vacation school will be held June 13 to 24 for children ages 4 to 14. Classes run 9 to 11 30 a m. Department heads include Miss Sara Tanquary beginner Mrs I Fred Thne primary and Mrs Pearl Stickley junior. At Highland Ave a similar school is set for June 6 to 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Presbyterian Church
Sara Tanquary
I. Fred Thne
Pearl Stickley
Highland Ave
Etiquette Tips From Modern Etiquette by Roberto Lee
Bridal guests should be coordinated with the groom before invitations go out. Do not push your plate away after eating. place knife and fork on the plate side by side. A man should rise when a woman enters and remain standing until she sits.
Lesson In English by W. L. Gordon
A compact English study note by W. L. Gordon on correct word usage and pronunciation. It outlines misuse examples such as aggravate versus provoke and mispronunciations like tune, with guidance on spelling prosecute versus persecute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Gordon
Daily word lesson VERBOSITY from Shakespeare quote
A brief note defines VERBOSITY as an abundance of words and presents a Shakespearean example. It invites readers to expand vocabulary by mastering one word daily.
Summer pattern 4639 by Anne Adams for many sizes
Ad promotes pattern 4639 with scalloped neckline pleats and band sleeves in multiple sizes from 14 to 42. Includes ease sewing, illustrated instructions, and a request to send twenty five cents to Anne Adams at Winchester Star for the pattern with name address zone size and style number. Also mentionsAnne Adams Summer Pattern Book with a free shampoo and make up smock pattern and fifteen cents for the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winchester Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Virginia Davis
Sebring
Sebring, Fla
J. A. Richard
Katharine Hodgson
Cumberland
Stewart St
Mesdames Cooper
O'Connell
Plains
Eugene Cooper
Irvan O’connell
S. Loudoun St
Ralph Younts
Newton
Ralph Yount
Stonewall Ave
N. C
J. A. Yount
J. V. Arthur Jr
Philadelphia
J. Victor Arthur Jr
W. Fairfax Lane
School of the North America Insurance Co
Stecks
Orange
Mary Marshall Steck
Fairmont Ave
Evelyn Marshall
Solton Arms
Betsy
Arthur
Betsy Arthur
Oakland, N. J
Edward Parry Sykes
Lester Arnolds
Lester D. Arnold
Stewart Sr
Richmond
PFA
Hermitage Country Club
Allen T. Hawthorne
Philip Glaize
L. G. Sjostrom
Mary Ellen Updike
Strasburg
le Lanne
Mademoiselle
Herrys Fashion Footulear
Red Cross Office
Abney Paynes
Larchmont
Abney Payne
Robert Conrad
S. Washington St
Cartie Hunter
Alvin Pennypacker
Merriman’s Lane
S. D. Preston
Cuba
Sam D. Preston
Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Sara Jennings
Joseph A. Massie Jr
Amherst St
Harry R. Kern
Sebring Fla
H. K. Benham
Rostel Road
Gaunt
Harry Murphy
National Ave
Texas
Minnesota
Jane Jakimier
J. Hammond Boyles
Michigan
Grimes
Roberto Lee
Shakespeare
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Haldeman’s Milk
Heatwole Motor CO
N. Braddock St
Joseph Murray
Berryville
Pigeon Hill
Norwood Coffee
the Food Center
N. Main St
Hill’s
Loudoun
Mervel W. Adams Plumbing
N. Cameron
Cather’s Gift
Timberlake's
Hodgson & Brown
W. Boscawen ST
Winchester Plate Glass CO
Gotham
Lovett Bros
Ulus Water Saver
Dfat Westinghouse
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