Lesson in English and word usage notes and funeral notice
Lesson on misused words and pronunciation includes examples and a vocabulary tip of the day. Funeral services for Rebecca Catherine Hottel, 74, were held at Shiloh United Brethren Church after burial at Interview Cemetery following rites at Stover Funeral Home in Strasburg.
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Servic
Ervies Hottel
Rebecca Catherine Hottel
Kline
Middletown
Stover
Strasbug Ait
Shiloh United Brethren Church
J. Goode
Inverview
Strasburg
Funeral services for Mrs Alma Horton in Easton
Funeral services for Mrs Alma Brinker Horton wife of Frank R Horton former Scout executive of the Shenandoah Area Council were held this afternoon from the Ashton Funeral Home in Easton Pennsylvania Mrs Horton died September 5 in Easton and is survived by her husband and family
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Horton
Pennsylvania
Alma Brinker Horton
Frank R. Horton
Shenandoah Area Council
Ashton
Easton
Funeral services for Mrs Geer Haven
Funeral services for Mrs Geer Haven 42 of Middletown were held at 3 PM today from Fairview Methodist Church near Stephens City with Rev Warren Corbin and Rev E C Day officiating. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery Stephens City. Pallbearers were Willie Bailey Hollis Hoskins Loring Steele R E Albin Floyd Painter and Thornton Hartley.
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Geer Haven
Middletown
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Fairview Methodist Church
Stephens City
Warren Corbin
E. C. Day
Green Hill Cemetery
Willie Bailey
Hollis Hoskins
Loring Steele
R. E. Albin
Floyd Painter
Thornton Hartley
Maine Voters Carry Forward Republican Trend
Maine voters show continued Republican strength with Gov. Horace Hildreth defeating Democrat F Davis Clark by 100 592 to 57 503 in incomplete returns while 1944 margins were larger. Bowles enters Democratic governor race alongside Snow and Dodd with five Republicans seeking nomination. Elsewhere in brief notes Rhode Island contests Gerry seat with possible Dyer candidacy for Republicans and McGrath versus Quinn for Democrats. Louisiana, Colorado primaries reveal multiple races and unopposed Republican incumbents in Colorado.
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Horace Hildreth
F. Davis
Clark
Hildreth
J. Paul Jul Jien
Bowles
Connecticut
W.gurnee Dyer
U. S
J. Howard McGrath
Superior Court
Robert E. Quinn
Louisiana
Congress
Leonard Allen
George Long
Huey Long
Henry E. Harland
Colorado
House
Bishop Tucker Opens Convention of Episcopalians
In Philadelphia on September 10 192? the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker opened the 55th general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U S A urging a global Christian responsibility. He warned that world events demand unified effort and that moral law requires voluntary obedience by all nations. He spoke on international law developing from a shared will to obey.
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Philadelphia
Henry St. George Tucker
Protestant Episcopal Church
China
Africa
Tucker
Miss America Receives California Film Contract
Marilyn Buford of Los Angeles Miss California won Miss America 194. She secures an eight week film contract at 500 dollars weekly in California and a 8500 scholarship. Dr Guy E Snavely urged her to quit UCLA and use the scholarship for dramatic training. She plans a three month course in a New York drama school.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Marilyn Buford
Los Angeles
California
Guy E. Snavely
Washington, D. C
The
Association of American Colleges
University of California At
Cal
New York Dramatic School
Teacher Shortage Continued in Country Schools
Official said a list of absentee students is being prepared. Parents not complying with the compulsory attendance law will be prosecuted.
Moose Lodges Planned by Loyal Order Organizer
The Order of Moose department in Baltimore has worked in the area for months to organize a lodge. The organizer will stay in Winchester for several weeks more to build the lodge to 300 members before moving on to Lynchburg for a similar effort.
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Loyal Order of Moose
Baltimore
Winchester
Lynchburg
Stephens City Methodists Plan Parsonage Move
The Stephens F parish sold its parsonage and leased the George Sillik property for a year. Rev. EB Day and his family moved into the new location opposite the church. Plans include building a new parsonage next to Dr. M. Steele’s property further north on Main Street. Alfred Shryock bought the old parsonage adjoining Venable Grocery.
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Bordee Ee
Stephens F
George Sillik
Eb, C. Day
2. M. Steele
2. M. Steele, Which Is Another Block Farther North On Main Street
Alfred Shryock
Venable Grocery Store
Middletown Fire Dept Chooses Public Address System
Middletown Fire Department holds its regular meeting with 25 members. Chief Howard Shull oversees a vote to buy a public address system funded from the treasury. The department reports a successful Fun Festival netting 1035 dollars from its first event after three nights, with a washing machine and a radio as prizes. Jessie Grim and Mrs. C. C. Rhodes win the prizes. thanks are given to the Ladies Auxiliary and five neighboring companies.
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Howard Shull
Middletown
Jessie Grim
Winchester
C. C. Rhodes
Stephens City
Auv
Mother of Winchester resident dies in Cumberland
Mrs Harriet Norris 71 of Cumberland Maryland mother of Elmore Norris Winchester died Monday night after illness. Wife of the late George W Norris she is survived by six sons and one daughter including Elmore Norris of Winchester Filmore Norris of Baltimore Raymond Robert Jessie George and Mrs Haro Squires of Cumberland Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 PM at Hillcrest Cemetery Cumberland.
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Harriet Norris
Cumberland
Elmore Norris
Winchester
George W. Norris
Wincesheter
Filmore Norris
Baltimore
Raymond
Robert
Jessie
George
Haro Squires
Hillcrest Cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs Frank Tavenner Today
Funeral services for Mrs Frank Tavenner Sr 85 of Woodstock were held at 3 pm from the home. She died Sunday night at Cora Miller Memorial Hospital Woodstock and was buried in Massanutten Cemetery Woodstock.
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Frank
Tavenner
Woodstock
Cora Miller
Yugoslavia Reparations Talks Reported by Acheson
Undersecretary Dean Acheson said no conclusive agreement has been reached with Marshal Tito's regime on reparations. He noted the State Department has only received Patterson's preliminary presentation of the issue.
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Dean Acheson
Marshal Tito
State Department
Patterson
Horse Doctors Aid War on Disease and Influenza
Army veterinarians contributed to human medicine by linking animal pathogens to human illnesses, isolating a potential new pathogen in swine arthritis, and advancing vaccines. They differentiated equine influenza from human flu types A and B, explored similarities to the 1918 pandemic, and developed vaccines for horses and purified human-use vaccines. Penicillin's effectiveness against anthrax was also demonstrated in military settings.
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Associated Press
Eatve
American Medical Association
Iowa State Cole
Iowa
Army
Navy
Camp Detrick
Blair Team Prevails in Openers But Drops Nightcap
Blair baseball snapped a three game skid with a win in the first game of the doubleheader but lost the nightcap 8 to something as details are incomplete. The report notes Blair claimed victory in the early game and then suffered an 8 run defeat in the second game.
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Blair
Fire Destroys Shed At Cedar Creek Farm
Sunday afternoon a shed and its orchard equipment were burned at Edwin R. farm near Cedar Creek Grade west of the grade about 1.5 miles southwest of Less. A sprayer supply tank tractor and other items were stored in the building. Loss total unknown as Friendship and Lupton fire units saved the adjoining barn.
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Dedharet Stracti Ned
Edwin R
Cedar Creek
Friendship Fire Company
Lupton Fire Truck
Rentch Named New Coach at Shepherdstown
Kenneth Rentch, formerly assistant coach at Martinsburg high school, resigns to become athletic director at Shepherdstown high school. He replaces Kenneth Waldeck who also resigned as Shepherdstown joins the Valley Athletic League which opens its six man football schedule on September 27. Rentch says he will start Cardinal grid drills immediately.
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Kenneth Rentch
Martinsburg High School
Shepherdstown High School
Kenneth Waldeck
Shepherdstown
Valley Athletic League
Rentch
British Denies Soviet Internal Difficulites Report
London officials refused to confirm or deny reports of internal difficulties in the Soviet Union as of Sept 10. The briefing touched on alleged accounts from official Russian representatives following a Chinese air strike on Aug 31. Separately an American, Thomas Haugen of Route 1 Texas, was critically burned by machinegun fire in a vehicle attack and removed to a Norfolk hospital.
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London
Foreign Office
Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
Thomas Haugen
Rt. 1
U. S. Marine Hospital
Virginia water board pledges cooperation with industry
Richmond Virginia September 10 Chairman E B Blackburn Moore of the State Water Control Board said the agency would cooperate with industry and administer Virginia's new anti pollution law fairly as it becomes effective.
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Richmond
EB. Blackburn Moore
State Water Control Board
Virginia
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Eary
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Episcopalians
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Order of Moose
Clarke County
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Molden Electric CO
S. Loudoun St
Middletown Fire Department
Cumberland, MD
Frank Tavenner
Yugoslavia
le Shope
Eee VA
Cedar Creek Farm
Bulletins
Norfolk
Sterling Hutcheson
A. P. Staples
Sidney H. Y
Front Royal
Perfection Manufacturing Company
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E. Piccadilly St
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