Lee, Harrison Family Christens Newborn Son in Baltimore
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Harrison Jr. was christened in Baltimore as Thomas Walter Harrison III, named for his father and grandfather Judge Thomas W. Harrison. Godmother Mrs. John E. Boisseau and godfathers Mr. T Harrison Davies attended. The baby wore the same christening dress used in their family’s prior ceremonies. Mrs. Harrison’s maiden name was Helen Scott Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Harrison, Jr
Baltimore
Thomas Walter Harrison
Thomas W. Harrison
John E. Boisseau
T. Harrison Davies
Richard
Helen
Harrison
Helen Scott Payne
Girls' Athletic tea and social notes headline
Regular monthly tea planned by the Girls' Athletic Association set for Thursday evening October 20 from 5 30 to 7 in the club rooms on West Piccadilly street. Event includes a tea menu and program organized by Miss Edna Lamb with Misses Lucy Dean Virginia Pangle Lucille Jackson. Mrs Ida Lycett will host.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls’ Athletic Association
West Piccadilly Street
Edna Lamb
Lucy Dean
Virginia Pangle
Lucille Jackson
Ida Lycett
Social Calendar Local clubs meet weekly and monthly
Wednesday features Armel and High View 4-H clubs meetings and Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel. Evening choirs meet at United Brethren and Grace Lutheran churches. Stephens City home demonstration group meets at home economics cottage. Thursday hosts White Hall 4-H Club. Rotary meets at 1 pm. Friday includes American Legion luncheon at the George Washington Hotel and Braddock Street church youth choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armel
High View 4-H
Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
White Hall
Rotary Club
The
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington Hotel
Young People’s Choir
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Mrs Byrd Hosts Dinner for Mrs MacDonald at Rosemont
Mrs Harry F Byrd entertained yesterday at her Rosemont home near Berryville in honor of her cousin Mrs Marshall MacDonald for her ninety third birthday. Guests included Miss Rose MacDonald Mrs Thomas McCormick and Mrs Lorenzo Lewis sisters of the honoree and Mr Samuel McCormick and his daughters Miss Emily McCormick and Mrs Frank McCormick of Alexandria. A Martinsburg license issued to Miss Mary Ella DeHaven Ganotown W Va and Mr Jacob Russell DeHaven son of Ollie DeHaven and now employed at Glengary. The bride is the daughter of Cecil and Mrs DeHaven Berkeley County official. Mr and Mrs Frank Armstrong Jr welcomed the birth of a daughter at Winchester Memorial Hospital October 14 named Margaret Twestridge Armstrong. Rev Nelson to address Bryarly Community League meeting at Bryarly schoolhouse. Mrs Walter E Barr and Mrs Garvin Bowles return to Fairmont avenue after Atlantic City visit.
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Genevieve Pierce
Louise Price
Helen Barr
Miss Barr
North Avenue
Alice McKee
Asbury H. Jackson
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Business Girls
Miss McKee
Harry F. Byrd
Rosemont
Berryville
Marshall MacDonald
Byrd
Rose MacDonald
Thomas McCormick
Lorenzo Lewis
Frankford
Clarke County
MacDonald
Samuel McCormick
Emily McCormick
Frank McCormick
Alexandria
Martinsburg
Mary Ella DeHaven
Ganotown
W. Va
Jacob Russell DeHaven
Frederick County
Ollie DeHaven
Glengary
Cecil DeHaven
Berkeley County Board of Review and Equalization
Frank Armstrong, Jr
West Leicester Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Margaret Twestridge Armstrong
Social Notes From Local Families At Home And Visiting
Mrs Chauncey Jerome of Cleveland visiting her parents Dr and Mrs Stuart at Northwestern grade. Ernest Luttrell J K Luttrell and Arthur Luttrell return from weekend visit with Mr and Mrs Adam DeHart near Gettysburg Pa. William J Affleck improving after major operation at Memorial Hospital may be sent home soon. Mrs Joseph Wright hosts weekly bridge at West Boscawen Street Thursday. Mary Louise Gerschank of New York improving after severe cold at Mrs Mae McCarty’s West Boscawen Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey Jerome
Cleveland
Ohio
Me Dr. Stuart
Northwestern
Ernest Luttrell
J. K. Luttrell
Arthur Luttrell
Adam DeHart
Gettysburg
William J. Affleck
Memorial Hospital
South Cameron Street
Joseph Wright
West Boscawen Street
Mary Louise Gerschank
New York
Mae McCarty
Presbyterian Missionary Slain in Manchuria Identified
The American citizen killed by bandits in Hsinpin district was Lloyd Putnam Henderson 38 a Presbyterian missionary formerly of Seattle Washington He was killed by a stray bullet on October 15 as bandits attacked a party traveling to Nantsumu escorted by Japanese soldiers The party included two other Americans and two Koreans and they traveled in horse carts bearing the American flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mukden
Manchuria
Hsinpin
Lloyd Putnam Henderson
Seattle
Wash
Nantsumu
Record Rainfall Hits Virginia with Broad Flooding
Virginia faced record rainfall in a 24 hour span ending 8 p.m. yesterday with Richmond at 2.54 inches and Roanoke 7.15 inches since Sunday. Roads flooded across the state and several routes were closed or detoured as Highways reported impassable sections and high water levels. A thunderstorm followed in Richmond, with agricultural experts predicting benefits to pastures and grains. Rivers in the Deep South and Carolinas rose to flood levels, isolating homes and disrupting traffic, amid nationwide rainfall warnings and a derailment in Charlotte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
United States Weather Bureau
Lynchburg
Wytheville
Norfolk
Newport News
Washington
Buchanan
Columbia
Danville
Roanoke
Departnor
U. S. 15
Culpeper
Brandy
Big Nottoway River
Kenbridge
Blackstone
Cobham
Martinsville
Fieldale
Mechunk Creek
Henry M. Taylor
Atlanta
Alabama
Northport
Walker
Tuscaloosa
Tennessee
Birmingham
Coosa
North Carolina
South Carolina
Carolinas
Richard H. Sullivan
Charlotte
N. C
Land of the Golden Gorse Inspires North Wales Describe
Criccieth in North Wales dubbed the Land of the Golden Gorse. The mild climate supports figs myrtle hydrangeas and fuchsias thriving outdoors despite north and east winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criccieth
North Whales
Golden Gorse
Winchester notes recall Edison and local events
The column recalls a recent visit by passersby to the late Thomas A. Edison monument, mentions Winchester Lions Club hosting visiting clubs from Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and notes Al Capone facing a 17 year term in federal prison. It also lists race entries for a Clarke County farm meet and other past events from five and fifteen years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Thomas A. Edison
Winchester Lions Club
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
al Capone
Chicago
Convic
Federal
Date Farms
Clarke Conn
Virginia
District Nurses Association
Winchester Century Club
America the Beautiful
Allison Hartman
Virginia Os Yeas Institute
Russia
Germany
Petrograd
American Red Cross
Westmoreland Davis
Loudoun County
Helen Keller Wins $5000 Award for Blind Work
New York October 18 Miss Helen Keller blind worker for the blind received the $5000 achievement prize from Pictorial Review. The award honors a woman who has made an unusual contribution to science art or social welfare in the past year. Keller earned the prize for completing the $1000 fund for the American Foundation for the Blind by her own efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen Keller
Pictorial Review
Keller
American Foundation For the Blind
Stock market edges higher with vigor in early trading
The New York market opened with renewed energy after two quiet sessions. Rails traded strong while Sterling cables stood at 3,434 and call money touched 1 percent. Early gains narrowed as the day progressed and traders hesitated to sell.
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Associated Press
New York
Apples Shipments To Manchester From Baltimore
A steamship bound for New York and then Manchester carried 10 000 barrels of apples with 5 000 more to follow after reaching New York. This follows an earlier shipment of 18 000 barrels from Baltimore aboard the Winona County, sent about a week prior.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Manchester
Coelleda
Oriole Line
New York
Man Who Shot Girl Swears His Love For Her
In Hopkinsville Kentucky Louise Green known as a male bride from three years ago lies seriously injured after a shotgun wound while she pleaded for mercy. Ed Green her estranged husband and Henry Gibbs are named in the claim. Suspect William oe 23 surrendered to police after the shooting at her uncle Joe Gibbs home.
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Associated Press
Hopkinsville
Louise Green
Ed. Green
Henry Gibbs
Joe Gibbs
William Oe 23
Study Finds Variation in Hairiness Across Races
Dr. Carl E. Guthe of the University of Michigan noted a gradient of hairiness among different groups with the near white subjects displaying the least and the dark skinned groups the greatest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl E. Guthe
University of Michigan
Lengthy Virginia ballot outlines nine at large Congress votes
Virginia voters face ballots 28 inches long with 99 names for president tickets and 24 candidates for Congress. The ballot lists six presidential tickets and nine at large electors with party designations not printed. Congress nominees include Democrats Republicans Prohibition Jobless Communist and Socialist lines led by notable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Reir
Supreme Court of Appeals
Congress
Democratic
Chicago Grain Closing Prices
Grain closing prices reported by Lose and Company of Baltimore list Chicago Board of Trade quotations. The notice cites the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and provides telephone connections Plaza 1498 and 1746.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lose and Company
Chamber Commerce
Baltimore
Chicago Board of Trade
Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
Plaza
Cago Board of Trade
G O P Liquor Stand a Sham, Says Ritchie
Chicago address by Governor Albert C. Ritchie denounces the Republican prohibition plank as a fraud and a sham. He says at the national convention Hoover endorsed a dry appearance that masks wet aims and attacks GOP fiscal policy, calling the economy stance misleading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ritchie
Associated Press
Chicago
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Hoover
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Lee
Mrs. Harrison
Page
W. Nelson Page
Amherst Street
Atkins
Fort Benning, Ga
South Washington Street
John Downing
Front Royal
Raymond J. Funkhouser
Richard Evelyn Byrd
H. PB. McCormac
Harry K. Russell
Joseph Massie
Kauffman School
Community League of the
Walter P. Anderson
Ruth Ann
Dorothy Anderson
James Anderson
Durham
Charles Anderson
Duke University
W. H. Warden
McCauley
United Brethren Church
George H. Sullivan
New York City
Sullivan
Frank V. Tilford
Richard Brown
Ralph Brown
Children’s Hospital School
G. E. Bennett
Randolph Bowen Moore
Austin White
Covington
Southern Methodist Church
Louis L. Starry
Atlantic City
N. J
Mrs. H. T. Boyce
Rose Hill
Clearbrook
Mrs. Byrd
Mrs. MacDonald
Mary Ellen DeHaven
Berkeley
Mrs. Armstrong
Mr. Nelson
Bryarly’s
Bryarly
Walter E. Barr
Garvin Bowles
Fairmont Avenue
Huntsberry
China
Enue
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Texas
Ashton Dovell
Wilbur C. Hall
Robert O. Norris
Daniel Coleman
Frederick W. Scott
F. C. Bedinger
Maitland Bustard
Robert A. Russell
Frank M. Wray
Charles C. Carlin, Jr
William H. Rouse
Herbert Hoover
California
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Louis A. McMahon
Jacqueline P. Taylor
Carrie R. Power
Henry Bowden
Lewis S. Strauss
Lelia O. N. Scott
B. A. Davis, Jr
E. D. Hilton
W. W. Wharton
Clarence R.halt
J. Powell Royall
Wm. D. Upshaw
Georgia
Frank S. Regan
J. B. Lockhart
R. L. Alter
J. S. Robinson
A. H. Lawless
A. G. Quarles
A. J. McCoy
A. R. Roath
C. E. Graves
J. A. Edgerton
T. B. Johnson
James R. Cox
Victor C. Tisdal
W. P. Walker
Henry C. Rhodes
Joseph Schneesman
C. Willshire
John Wilson
H. F. Leyham
Paul A. Zeigler
Samuel la Dato
Henry Gillespi
V. Costello
William Z. Foster
James W. Ford
Joe Clayman
S. W. Milligan
Martin Butts
H. Alterman
Allen Clark
Cornelius Brock
Emerson Socialist
Norman Thomas
James Hudson Maurer
Elizabeth Lewis Otey
Richard L. Johnson
J. Luther Kibler
John C. Davis
Charles D. Hall
William F. Billings
L. Coleman McDowell
Murrell Edmunds
Winston F. Dawson
Julia Morgan Jones
George Louis Millions
Democrats
S. Otis Bland
Andrew Jackson Montague
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
A. Willis Robertson
Howard W. Smith
John W. Flannagan, Jr
Henry A. Wise
Menalius Lankford
George Cole Scott
Fred W. McWane
J. A. Garber
Roland E. Chase
C. C. Berkeley
W. M. Brown
R. Lindsay Gordon, Jr
Alban James Royal
Herman R. Angell
A. J. Dunning, Jr
David G. George
Angie M. Norris
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Ominal Lovett
N. Main St
Crisfield Oysters
Fish and Poultry
Co. R. Grubb
Prop
E. Piccadilly
RM. Swimley
the Commercial & Savings Bank
the Young Democratic Club
Roosevelt-Garner Club
Democratic Campaign Committee
Rea Public Speaking
City Hall
R. Gray Williams
Sur
Funera D
Nave
Loudoun and
Boscawen St
Margaret L. Hodgson
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