Couple from Stephenson Weds in Private Ceremony
Miss V Carper of Virginia Carper and Mr. Russell of Stephenson Va surprised friends by marrying on a date in October. Rev R B Moore officiated at Pee Brucetown Methodist church. They will reside with the bride’s parents near Stephenson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V Carper
Virginia
Swimley
Aguia Episcopal Church
Stafford
Lydia Tucker Taylor
Samuel McCormick Taylor
Richmond
Mr. Taylor
Berryville
Frank Huyett Pitman
Roanoke
Alexandria Wise Pitman
Mr. Downman
All Saints Church
Mountain Avenue
Pitman
Norfolk and Western R. R
Samuel Jefferson Swimley
Brucetown
Calendar of local club meetings and social visits
Winchester Fellows Haling Rebekahs meet Tuesday 8:00 PM at Odd. Kiwanis Club luncheon Wednesday 12:30 PM at the hotel. Junior Century Club at 3:30 PM with Miss Caroline Carson in Riverton. Weekended visits include Mr Marshall Snapp from the University of Virginia. Several residents attended the World’s Fair in Baltimore and New York or planned trips to Charlottesville Dansville and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Haling Rebekahs
Odd
Kiwanis Club
Junior Century Club
Caroline Carson
Riverton
Marshall Snapp
University of Virginia
Clarke Women to Stage 1900 Dance Party in Berryville
Clarke County Woman's Club plans a 1900 era dance program at the American Legion building in Berryville on Friday night November 15. The event recreates late 19th and early 20th century dances with a German, two steps to Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Whistling Rufus, cake walk, waltz to The Blue Danube and The Merry Widow, plus Polka, Lancers and Schottische. The program includes square and modern dancing and audience participation in the Turkey Trot and Bunny Hug, with Charleston and Big Apple included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Berryville
Woman's Club
Clarke County
Lillian Russell
Bill Bailey
Rufus
Georgia
Pays For Stork Visit By Weight
James Ott, proud father in Reading Pennsylvania, paid a hospital bill with an 11 pound bag of nickels at the cashier. He joked that he had another bag for the doctor, noting he had saved a thousand coins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stork
Reading
James Ott
Ott
Clarke Historical Society Tours Historic Clarke County Homes
Clarke County Historical Association under A Mackay Smith led a neighborhood tour visiting the 1800 Pidgeon place near Wadesville the Annefield home built in the 18th century and now owned by Mr and Mrs William B Watkins and Soldiers Rest the Gen Daniel Morgan place now home to Mr and Mrs Clifton Price A keynote business meeting followed with tea and a rare 1810 Heiskle topographical sketch gifted by R S Bryarly Plans for next meeting include a talk by R Gray Williams on The Two Judge Parkers who presided over the John Brown trial while the Clarke association also lists numerous attendees from local families and clubs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Clarke County Historical Association
A. Mackay Smith
Pidgeon Place
Wadesville
Daniel Morgan
Clifton Price
Price
R. 8. Bryarly
Frederick
Berkeley
Jefferson
Heiskle
Winchester
R. Gray Williams
Parkers
John Brown
Charles Town
Clarke County
Ralph Dorsey
Loring Rackley
Kate Powers
Edward Jenkins
Edward Williams
R. S. Bryarly
Clay Carr
Thomas Blackwell
Eva Massey
Mary Page
G. H. Burwell
McIntyre
E. C. Luke
W. S. Powers
Emily Powers
Alexis Sommaripa
R. E. Davis
Louise Huyett
Jessie Carpenter
John B. Neill
Bayard Stevens
Edwin Palmer
No Place for the Lobby Sal in a Cuckoo World of Beauty
An essay extols laughter as a beauty enhancer for women endorsing humor, vitality, and poise. It urges walking with confidence and maintaining a toned figure, claiming wrinkles fade and social appeal grows with joyful demeanor and lively carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally
Revival at Greenwood Methodist Church Starts Tomorrow
Revival at Greenwood Methodist Church opens tomorrow night at 7 20 and runs for 10 days. Rev H G Balthis will lead, with Rev W O Talbert preaching. Music by Scott Atkinson. a children's choir will be formed. Montague Avenue church members will attend. two services are set for Sunday at 11 and 7 30. Public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood Methodist Church
H. G. Balthis
W. O. Talbert
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Brucetown
Scott Atkinson
Winchester
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
Lincoln Douglas Debate and 1860 Campaign Overview
The piece recounts the Lincoln Douglas Freeport debate impact, Douglas popular sovereignty stance, and the 1860 election path. It notes Democratic splits at Charleston and Baltimore, Republican rise led by Lincoln, and the ensuing mobbed campaign style with Wide-Awakes and Breckinridge forces, ending in Lincoln's victory and looming Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Freeport
Ill
Douglas
Lincoln
Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Congress
Illinois
Republican
Union Party
Charleston
Baltimore
John C. Breckinridge
Chicago
William H. Seward
Horace Greeley
Abe Lincoln
Seward
Breckenridge
North
South
Charleston Mercury
Modern Etiquette Q A Guide from a Daily Column
This excerpt discusses social introductions optional when pedestrians meet an acquaintance. It lists spoonable dishes like soft boiled eggs custards hot puddings and grapefruit. It also addresses who should pay the church sexton during a wedding, suggesting parents of the couple.
Slugged Airline Hostess Plans Wedding to Pilot
Miss Rosemary Olive Griffith, an airline hostess found unconscious in a slugging mystery aboard a big transport plane over Tennessee, plans to marry pilot William C. Jakeman next month in San Jose California. Her family said she resigned from her job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Rosemary Olive Griffith
Tennessee
William C. Jakeman
Boston
San Jose
Costaca
Thieves Loot Large Supply Depot of Construction Firm
El Centro California reports thieves hit a construction firm's supply depot along the All American Canal. Items stolen include a 10 ton locomotive four gasoline engines three miles of steel rails four railroad cars railroad ties a pickup body tractor parts and more worth about 25000 dollars. Also noted Regulating migratory birds limits in Harrisonburg Virginia with a twenty day possession after hunting season ending November 1 1940 per Pan H Nolting chairman of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Centro
Calif
all-American Canal
Harrisonburg
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Pan H. Nolting
Proposal to fix deer season in Frederick County
A 1940 Virginia commission notes a meeting in Harrisonburg on October 18 and schedules a Richmond session on November 7 to consider a proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick CO
Harrisonburg
Richmond
Frederick County
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Carl H. Nolting
Regulation Amends Gun and Dog Rule in Virginia
At a Harrisonburg meeting on October 18 1940 the commission ordered amending the daytime rule prohibiting both gun or rifle and dog in fields forests lands or waters to ban such pairs between December 31 and November 15 each year. Effective November 15 1940. Rae H Nolting chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Ridge Mountains
Harrisonburg
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Rae H. Nolting
Germans Prepare 75 Trains to Move Berlin Children
German Railways plan 75 special trains from Berlin through October to relocate children to other Reich regions, with eastern provinces prioritized. Families in receiving areas urged to volunteer to take one or two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Reich
Need Blood To Save A Monkey In Miami Beach
Veterinarians seek a quarter pint of the correct blood type to save Willie the coal black African woolly monkey. Willie belongs to Mrs. A. E. Reineking and is at risk within 48 hours unless a suitable blood type is found. Dr. W. E. Lord says the transfusion is vital to keep Willie alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla
Willie
A. E. Reineking
W. E. Lord
Pattern. 15c Pattern Book and 5c Pattern Bundle Offer
Advertisement for a pattern collection. A 15 cent pattern book paired with a 5 cent single pattern priced together at 25 cents. Orders directed to the box address in the advertisement.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas Tinsman
Ness
Shepherdstown
Jefferson County
Funkhouser
Harold Short
McClure Moler
Edward Johnson
Rowland Ringgold
Carper
Elwood H. Carper
Highland Avenue
Sandra Lou Elizabeth
Louisa McLeod
la Grange Farm
Stephens City
Rockingham County
Margaret Clarke
King Smith School
Washton
Justin Funkhouser
Fairmont Avenue
J. Gray Beverley
West York Street
Margaret Jane Athey
Garfield Hospital
Washington, D. C
Eleanor Leatherman
Madison College
D. E. Leatherman
Cara Nome Beauty Week
Brooks’ Pharmacy
The
C.& P. Tel. Cos
Frances Grove
Charlottesville
Margaret Conner
Catherine Conner
New York City
J. P. Essex
West Piccadilly Street
Norfolk, Va
Jonedith
Dorothy Henry
New York
J. H. Henry
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Lydia Barton
Gravel Springs
Frank Payne
Howard F. Perry
Memorial Hospital
Virginia Glass Dove
Middleburg
Dansville
N. Y
Thelma Courtney
Farmville Teachers College
J. L. Courtney
William Byrd
Messrs
Harry Strader
Garland Moore
W. Va
Courtney
Strader
Moore
Hampden-Sydney College
Clarke
Clarke Historical Society
Helen Follett
Greenwood
Eugene F. Gleason
Central Press
RED Cross
Oxford
Huntsberry
Olga Stoker Coal
W. B. Snider & Son
N. Cameron St
Underwood
N. Loudoun St
Gotham
Lovett Brothers
Sunshine Cleaners
East Piccadilly
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Pifer Company
Ine
Colonial Beauty Shoppe
E. Piccadilly St
Barbara Bell
Winchester Evening Star
New York, N. Y
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!