Senior Day at Harrisonburg State Teachers College
Seniors parade in caps and gowns as Dr. Duke and Dr. Converse award degrees. A senior breakfast, assembly, and banquet mark the day with speakers, officers named for the class, and a staff chosen for the yearbook Schoolma’am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. Duke
H. A. Converse
Harrisonburg State Teachers College
Walter Montgomery
University of Virginis
Harrisonburg State Teachers’ College
Madaline Newvill
Norfolk
Margaret Smith
Aileen Sifford
Lois Bisher
June Taliaferro
Harrisonburg
Ethel Cooper
Winchester
Anna Armentrouth
Richmond
Nita Crizer
Clifton Forge
Nita Gravely
Axter
Virginia Barman
Keezletown
Mildred Foskey
Portsmouth
Ellen Pruden
Suffolk
Miss Frances Pigg
Washington
Social Calendar Highlights Weekly Church and Civic Events
A sequence of weekly club meetings, choirs, and social events listed for Tuesday through Monday. Notable items include a Winchester Lions Charity Ball at the George Washington Hotel, Halloween square dance at Appleway Cabins, Kiwanis luncheon, Elks lodge weekly meeting, Grace Church adult choir, Rotary Club, White Hall chicken supper to benefit White Hall Church, Luttrell debating teams at Mount Williams School House, Eastern Star card party at Farmers and Merchants Bank, American Legion Post luncheon for Milk Fund, Brad dock Street Methodist Church youth choir practice, and a Music Levee at Mrs. Buckley's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Winchester Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Appleway
Kiwanis Club
Young Peoples’ Choir
The
United Brethren Church
Young Peoples
Winchester Lodge
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
White Hall
Mount Williams School
Luttrell
Order of Eastern Star
Farmers, and Merchants Bank
American Legion Post
Civic League
Milk Fund
Melvin Green
Mary Baldwin Alumnae Chapter Pays Tribute To Roselle Montgomery
Mary Baldwin College alumnae chapter held a Martinsburg luncheon at the Hobnob on South Maple Avenue. Mrs Clay B. Carr presided. a memorial program honored Roselle Mercier Montgomery who died September 17 in Greenwich Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay B. Carr
Boyce
Lower Valley
Mary Baldwin College
Bisiey Hume
New York Sun
South
Should Make Reservations For League Luncheon
Civic League members urged to reserve by calling Mrs George G Snarr for a Friday luncheon at 12 45 p m at Mrs Melvin Green South Washington Street. The milk fund of Douglas Colored School benefits. Guests speakers include Mrs Harry K Russell and Mr John H Rosenberger discussing world and councilman perspectives on current events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic League
Melvin Green
South
Washington Street
Douglas Colored School
George G. Snarr
Jennie May Manuel
Harry K. Russell
John H Rosenberger
Young People Choral Club Sets Evening Meeting
Floyd Haines announces a 7 pm meeting of the Young People's Choral Club at the Girls' Athletic Association rooms in the Elks' Club building urging full attendance. In Queens Village Long Island Mrs C W Little had a paralysis stroke last night and Miss Cody McDonald was summoned to her bedside today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Choral Club
Girls’ Athletic Association
Elks’ Club
Floyd Haines
Haines
Green couple welcome daughter in October birth
Mr and Mrs Patrick H Green of the Stephens City area congratulate on the birth of a daughter weighing eight pounds born October 26. Oren D Snapp and C Lucian Brumback of Opequon attended the sixth annual Virginia State Grange session at the Mimslyn Hotel in Luray last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. Green
Patrick H. Green
Stephens City
Messrs
Oren D. Snapp
C. Lucian Brumback
Opequon
Virginia State Grange
Mimslyn
Luray
Mrs. Roach
Mark Roach
Woodlawd Avenue
Birthday Surprise Party For Mrs Ebersole
A surprise birthday party was held at Mrs. David Ebersole’s home near Middletown with only immediate family present. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. David Ebersole and several Ebersoles from Cedarville Winchester Middletown Stephens City and Middletown. Grandchildren Kenneth Edward Evan and Julian Kline Jr. attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Ebersole
Middletown
Lydia Grim
Ribert Grim
Cedarville
Ray Ebersole
Winchester
Melvin Ebersoe
Richard Ebersole
Stephens City
John Ebersole
Nellie Ebersole
Kenneth
Edward Ebersole
Evan Ebersole
Julian Kline, Jr
Woman Killed and Man Wounded in Mystery Affray
Mrs. Bessie C. Darling 45 of Baltimore was shot and killed at the Valley View Manor in Deerfield Maryland while George Schultz a state health department employee was seriously wounded. Schultz’s chest and kidney region bullets raised fears of survivability as investigators audit the early morning incident witnessed by Mazie Willard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Deerfield
Bessie C. Darling
Baltimore
George Schultz
State Health Department
Mazie Willard
Frederick County
Schultz
Frederick Hospital
C. B Ridenhour
City Health Department
Wiggin Reports $5 Million Loss From Pools and Syndicates
Albert H. Wiggin testified before a Senate investigation that his personal corporation lost more than 5 million dollars since 1917 through pools and joint accounts with Chase Securities Corporation. He disclosed loans to Brooklyn Manhattan Transit head Gerard Dahl and described three Canadian companies formed to aid income taxes, though success unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Albert H. Wiggin
Senate
Chase Securities Corporation
Chase National Bank
Wiggins
Gerard M. Dahl
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit
Wiggin
Securities Corporation
Canada
Tydings Defers Pay Restoration Comment
Senator Tydings informs the American Federation of Government Employees he will not state his position on restoring the 15 percent pay cut until he has a government financial condition statement. He hopes to favor restoration once he has that information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Senator Tydings
Maryland
American Federation of Government Employees
Tydings
More Lynching Witnesses Found in Princess Anne Case
Sheriff Luther Daugherty reports ten more witnesses identified in the Princess Anne lynching investigation. They are to be called before the coroner's jury when it reconvenes at the request of Attorney General Lane and States Attorney Robins in Crisfield Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crisfield
Luther Daugherty
William Preston Lane
John B. Robins
Chicago and Baltimore Wheat Prices Reported
Closing quotations from Chicago and Baltimore markets show December wheat at 86, May at 88 and a half, July at 85 in Chicago. Baltimore spot wheat priced at 90 and Winchester spot at 85, with data supplied by Winchester Milling Corporation via Stickel Sales Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Baltimore
Sta
Winchester Milling Corporation
Stickel Sales Corporation
North
Washington Street
Hagerstown
Winchester
Greek Court Denies Second US Extradition Bid for Insull
The appeals court in Athens refused the United States request to extradite Samuel Insull for a second time. U S authorities had earlier failed in the first bid and renewed efforts in August to bring him back to Chicago to face charges linked to the collapse of Insull's utilities empire run with his brother Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Athens
Greece
Appeals Court
United States
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Martin Insuil
Mr. U S Anderson and daughter visit Capon Springs resident
Mr U S Anderson and his daughter Miss Helen Anderson of Capon Springs West Virginia were visitors in town today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Anderson
Helen Anderson
Capon Springs
W. Va
Oil Field Graphs May Aid Byrd In Scientific Work
Specially adopted mid continent seismographs may help Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd map land under the Antarctic ice. A short wave radio station is set up in Tulsa to communicate with Byrd’s party and guide instrument operation. The seismographs, both reflecting and refracting types, measure ice thickness and subsurface structure to reveal rock versus water and sound velocity in strata.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Lyrd
Antarctica
W. J. Green
South Pole
Millionaire finds battered after kidnapping near Battle Creek
Louis E Brooks a Marshall manufacturer was reportedly abducted by two men and a woman. He was found hours later at his farm near Battle Creek with a bruised face. He said the robbers forced him to open a safe, drove him to a side road, hid the ignition key, and fled after looting the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal
Mich
Louis E Brooks
Marshall Manufacturer
Battle Creek
Brooks
Here
Ruble Haines Held For Action Of Grand Jury
Ruble Haines was sent to the grand jury today by Magistrate A J Tavenner on the charge of operating a car while under the influence of liquor. An officer testified Haines was found about 200 yards from the accident scene and was "dead drunk" after a collision near Whitacre ear Sunday night that injured Mrs Gano and left her three sons with minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruble Haines
Grand Jury
A J. Tavenner
R E. Bayliss Haines
Harry Gano
Haines
Infant Bayliss Dead at Berryville in 22nd Month
E S Bayliss of Berryville reports infant son Herbert Bayliss died at 7 45 this morning aged 22 months. Survived by parents and brothers Julian Garland Norman Cecil and Beulah at home. Funeral Thursday at 11 from Mount Olive United Brethren Church near Hayfield. Burial Mount Olive Cemetery. Body prepared by R T Jones and Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert’ Bayliss
Elbert S. Bayliss
Berryville
Julian
Garland
Norman
Cecil
Beulah
Mount Olive
Mount Olive Cemetery
R. T. Jones and Company
Stairway Fall Hastens Death Of Mrs. Lloyd
Mrs Lucy Ella Lloyd 72 died at 11 25 a m at her Martinsburg home No 702 Virginia avenue after a fall from the stairs left her paralyzed from the waist and comatose until death She lived with her foster daughter Miss Mabel Lynn and was active in fraternal groups including the Patriotic Order of Americans and the Daughters of America She is survived by a brother and a sister and Miss Lynn The funeral is planned for Wednesday at the home and then burial local records indicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Ella Lloyd
Virginia Avenue
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lloyd
Mabel Lynn
Greenspring
Frederick County
William and
Elizabeth Summell
Carter Lloyd
Jefferson County
Miss Lynn
Patriotic Order of Americans
The
Daughters of America
Baltimore
Richard Summell
Roberta Hancher
Winchester
Lynn
H. P Kearns
South Church Street
Lived
Kearns
Prized Graf Zeppelin Stamps Owned by Local Clerk
Wilbur RF Johnston, a United States postal clerk, owns rare Graf Zeppelin stamps from all three trips. He values a 1928 first round trip stamp at $15 and a 1919 envelope with a “First Round, World Flight” cachet at $3.58. Other stamps from the recent Chicago via South America flight are highly valued, with Johnston owning three of the triangular flight letters. Nearby residents Mr and Mrs G Hair, plus William Tomkin, visited Workaley Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graf Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Johnston
Graf
Chicago
South America
Winchester
JT Johnston
Memorial Services Held For Local Resident At Trinity Church
Relatives and friends gathered at the Kearns home at 2 PM for services at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial followed in Charles Town with Rev. Harry Wheeler officiating and the church choir leading the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearns
Trinity Methodist Episcopal
South
Arry Wheeler
Charles Town
Also Mentioned on This Page
Menton McMillan
United States Civil Service
Cordell Hull
Constance Curry Carter
Staunton
R. C. Ringgold
Shepherdstown
Clay Carr
Elsie Gray Hume
Leesburg
Elizabeth Crawford
Elsie Rosenberger
Keightley T. Wilson
Audrey B. Higgs
Dorothy
Elizabeth Winters
Mary Stribling
Jane F. White
M. A. Snodgrass
Lions
Hallowe'en
Lions’ Club
Miller's Flower Shop
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Millers Hardware Company
People’s Drug Store
Herrell Sales Corporation
Soddy Haines
Lutheran Church
Miss Richards
Ivee
Virginia Butsler
June Bean
Margaret Gibbons
Ann Oakes
Louise Cain
Allison Cooper
Shirley Williams
Edith Dunn
Jane Jolliffe
Mary M Cooper
Virginia Pearsall
Cook
Margaret Bean
Ann Yost
Gordette Schenk
Helen Grimm
Kern
Mrslliam P. Massey
Margaret Richards
Elizabeth Massie
Margaret Massey
Natalie Brown
Winifred Bailey
Dorothy Ann Robinson
Betty Pierce
Ann Brown
Mildred Swinson
Frances Bickers
Chancey
Allison Burgess
Woman's Auxiliary Convention
Christ Episcopal Church
C. E. Miller
Strasburg
Mary Fletcher
Paul Rhodes
G. G. Crawford
C. D Guthrie
Carlos Keister
Nelle Edmonds
Aubrey Johnson
Howard Ellifr
Bakerson W. Va
Paul Anderson
C. Winchester
Josephine Millner
Mona Stover
Mabel Horan
Frank L. Buckley
South Stewart Street
Mary Baldwin
Roselle Montgomery
SUEDE
Huntsberry
Mrs. Ebersole
West
Phillip
Brooks’ Pharmacy Service
Frederick, Md
George Jenkins
George W. Jenkins
Memorial Hospital
National Avenus
Jenkins
George W. Kurtz Furniture and Undertaking Establishment
Winchester Memorial Hospital
West Piccadilly Street
Round Hill School
Round Hill Public School
Mary A. Buckner
Amherst Street
Vicks VapoRub
VICKS
Lovett Shoe
Loudoun St
Corporations of
Byrd
Millionaire
E. S. Bayliss
Green Spring
Martinsburg, W. Va
Wilbur Johnston
Wilbur RF Johnston, United
G. Hair
Calvin
Ritenour
William Tomkin
Derrick Va
Harry 'Aday
Workaley Springs
the Commercial & Savings Bank
U.S. Postal Savings Depository
R. M. Swimley
Tah Eas
N. Loudoun St
Hillsdale
del Monte
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Margaret L
Hodgson
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