Virginia Branch King’s Daughters end convention with new officers
The Fortieth Virginia Branch King’s Daughters and Sons convention in Front Royal concluded with a consecration and installation of officers. Mrs. Henry Eley thanked locals and Lions Club for Skyline Drive tour support.
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Front Royal
Virginia
King’s Daughters and Sons
Co Humn
R. B. Clagett
Methodist Church
Henry 8. Eley
Lions Club
Presidential Rapidan Camp
G Speakes
George King
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Richmond
H. & Saunders
Charles City
County
Norfolk City Union
Deal
Social and Personal News From Front Royal and Warren County
Miss Lillian McPainl and Miss Helen Simons studying in Washington will spend the weekend at home. Judge A C Carson visits Washington on business. Frank Humphrey a George Washington University student returns for the weekend. Irene Holt returns to Washington after summer at Wools ton home in Central City. L Rogers and party attend V P I game at Richmond. Reed, Mees, Bolen and Ambler Reed travel to Llan goollen races. Rudacille couple attend Llan goollen races. Mrs Wagner and Edgar Updike also attend. Rev T W Tayloe returns from Palm ville. William Smith of Markham visits town. Mr and Mrs Ralph Millar return from Washington and Richmond. Col Parker Hitt and daughter Mary Lou and Arthur Hitt attend Llan goollen races. Stoneburner of Shenandoah National Park office in Washington on business.
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Front Royal
Lillian McPainl
Helen Simons
Washington
Irene Holt
Mrs. Edward Woolston
Central City
Parker Hitt
Mary Lou
Arthur Hitt
Llangollen
Randolph-Macon Colds Startling Cancellations Challenge Coach
Cancellations worry Randolph-Macon coach Capt. George W. Riddick as two games fall through leaving the Jackets short of prepared opponents. Swavely cannot place a team for October 13, while Fishburne visits October 20 in a renewed bid to reverse last season’s 33 0 setback. Waynesboro threatens tougher tests ahead.
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Front Royal
George W. Riddick
Randolph-Macon
Fishburne
Jackets
Waynesboro
Riddick
Hilltop Boys
Miss Brill to Be Guest Of Honor At Royal Club Event
Miss Aloise Brill of Winchester will be guest of honor at a buffet luncheon and dance at the Royal Club in Front Royal tonight at 9 o clock Mrs Henry Bell of Valley avenue Winchester will host. The club will be decorated and a leading orchestra secured for the occasion. Guests include Misses Mary S Audrey Lee Cammer and others with hots and prominent men listed.
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Aloise Brill
Winchester
Royal Club
Front Royal
Henry Bell
Valley Avenue
Mary S
Audrey Lee Cammer
Jiggs
Myers Ane Douglas Seal
Gertrude Erbe
Charlotte Nicodemus
Charles McVicar, Jr
Bi Huntsberry
William Shaffer
Paul Fries
Noble
Frank Pierce
Clinton DeWitt
Edward Erbe
Wheat Benefit Money In Hand
R L Leach Jr announces the final payment of 1933 wheat contract funds. Distribution by Emanuel Stickley on October 15 at Resmond, October 16 at Reliance and Buckton, October 17 at Limeton and Browntown with morning and afternoon windows.
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Front Royal
R. L. Leach, Jr
County Eat
Emanuel Stickley
Reliance
Buckton
Limeton
Browntown
Senior Class Dance Tonight At Local Hall
A large crowd of the younger set is expected to attend the senior class dance tonight featuring piano by Alton Morrison trumpet by J. M. Biggs and Vera Biggs on saxophones and T. J. Hite on drums at the campus hall.
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Alton Morrison
J. M
Vera Biggs
T. J. Hite
Baltimore engineer dies by his own hand
E Franklin Mead aged 33 an electrical engineer killed himself with a belt in his home early today. His wife found the body and Coroner Ferdinand C Link returned a verdict of death by own action.
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Baltimore
E. Franklin Mead
Ferdinand C. Link
Randolph-Macon Juniors Beat Far Fellers For 6 6 Tie
Randolph-Macon Juniors kept their season record by tying the Far Fellers 6 to 6 in a hard fought game. Morris connected with G W Brown for the lone score in the first quarter, then the teams traded punts and passes with strong defense. Thompson Ramey led the town boys while Young and G W Brown starred for the Jackets.
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Front Royal
Randolph-Macon
Morris
G. W. Brown
Schreiber
Houghton
Little Jackets
Reg'lar Fellers
Cooper
Clem
R. Brown
Morris and Schrieber
Jackets
Thompson Ramey
Young
Methodists Seek Unity Plan On Unification Day
Leaders of American Methodism urged forgetting dead issues and past bitterness and pledged prayer and pleading for unity of the three branches during the sesquicentennial celebration in Baltimore. Bishops from the North and South branches and the Methodist Church fulfilled the program with strong appeals for reconciliation.
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Baltimore
William F. McDowell
Washington
John Moore
Dallas
Texas
Frederick Leete
Indianapolis
Mrs. Gus King Injured in Skyline Drive Auto Crash
In Front Royal a Skyline Drive tour participant Mrs. Gus King sustained head abrasions and shock from a head on collision with a runaway apple truck near Criglersville. She was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital. others, including John W. Morgan and Mrs. J. W. Morgan, remained at home with minor injuries.
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Pront Royal
Gus King
Front Royal
King’s Daughters
Criglersville
Mr. Mitchell
Peoria Mills
Bristol Referendum On Alcohol Sales Result Corrected
A Bristol Virginia vote on alcohol sales showed 707 against and 352 in favor on permitting sales of beverages other than beer and wine. The Associated Press corrected earlier misreporting noting that wine and beer above 3.2 percent remain unaffected. Reverend Ed J Richardson praised the Bristol outcome as an example when church action mobilizes.
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Richmond
Associated Press
Bristol
Ed. J. Richardson
Anti-Saloon League of
Virgiia
Virginia
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Jersey City Boy Found Dead in Squatter Shack
The body of seven year old John Feeney Jr. was found strangled in an old trunk inside a ramshackle squatter shack near the Morris Canal bed. He had left his Bayonne home after school and was last seen in the canal area. Detectives seek two men described as a red headed man and an Italian youth connected to nearby dumps.
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Jersey City
N. J
John Feeney
Morris Canal
Bayonne
Avenue C
Bayonne - City
Feeney
John
150000 Men Take Communion At Buenos Aires
In Buenos Aires on October 12 more than 150000 men joined the thirty-second International Eucharistic Congress in an open air ceremony at Plaza Mayo. Cardinal Pacelli and five other cardinals participated alongside President Augustin Justo and his cabinet as they marched down Avenida De Mayo to the Plaza Del Congresso before the communion service.
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Buenos Aires
Plaza Mayo
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Vatican
Augustin Justo
Avenida de Mayo
Plaza del Congresso
Mrs Roosevelt Marks Birthday Quietly Writing Article
Washington observers note Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt spent her fiftieth birthday indoors writing an article. She received hundreds of gifts flowers and telegrams but kept to a simple lunch and dinner as part of her longtime habit of ignoring her birthday.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bell Denies Poisoning Wife in Fredericksburg Case
Edward C. Bell a Fredericksburg businessman and church leader denied charges he tried to poison his invalid wife as a preliminary hearing was set for November 8. Authorities based the arrest on information from Mrs Bell’s nurses and physicians. The nurse who spoke said Mrs Bell’s condition was satisfactory. Bell remained free on a $5,000 bond posted by his brother.
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Edward C. Bell
Fredericksburgh
Bell
Retail Sales Rise in Fifth District in September
Richmond October reports show department store sales in the Fifth Federal Reserve district rose 9 percent in September 1934 from September 1933, with nine month totals up 17 percent over the prior year, per the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Statistica
Department of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Presbyterian Synod Adjourns Roanoke Session
The Roanoke meeting adjourned after debating limiting Massanetta Springs speakers to evangelical beliefs and approving a motion to urge avoidance of immoral films. A proposed parent-published list of acceptable pictures failed. Dr. Page and his Massanetta appearance drew criticism as a Socialist and liberal, while a resolution on the Virginia Presbyterian school at Danville was approved.
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Roanoke
Massanetta Springs
Page
Massanetta Seakers
Kirby Page
Duke University
Presbyterian of the South
Richmond
J. E. Cousar, Jr
Covington
Massanetta
P. W. Wilson
Harrisonburg
Board of Trustees
Virginia Presbyterian School
Danville
Pretty Boy Floyd Flees After Iowan Shootout
Des Moines report says outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd and two companions escaped after exchange of shots with Iowa officers near McIntyre. They fled north across the state line in a black sedan. authorities say they had a machine gun, rifles, raincoats, and luggage in the car as a nationwide hunt spreads to Minnesota.
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Des Moines
Kansas City Union Station
Pretty Boy
McIntyre
Iowa
Haight
D. M. Ladd
Federal Department of Justice
St. Paul
Federal Control Holding Companies May Be Requested
Washington reports momentum for federal regulation of power holding companies and possibly gas firms. An administration official says regulation seems inevitable for power holding companies and interstate transmission, while broader reform of investment trusts may await more data and the power statute’s impact.
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Washington
Eteamen
Federa Trade Commission
Frank R. McNinch
Woak
Commission
McNinch
Walmsley Market Dabbler Accused In Senate Probe
Testimony before Huey Long's committee alleges Mayor T Semmes Walmsley dabbled in stock, and District Judge Nat W Bond reportedly speculated in Homestead holdings while police chief George Beyer held stock. Bond allegedly bought Homestead shares below par as Brock and an assistant Woods testified in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
Nat W. Bond
George Beyer
Huey Long
Bond
Walmsley
Brock
Woods
Wars Won On Dirt Says General At Sea Aboard 8S
Major General James G formerly army chief of staff urged opposition to an aircraft heavy pipe dream program and said every war is won in the dirt. He warned decisive warfare remains the same despite development of catapult firearms submarines tanks and aircraft. He insisted war must be won by driving into enemy territory and holding it.
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Queen of Bermuda
Bermuda
James G
Army
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