Historic eastern Virginia event opens surgeons convention
A convention of about 400 leading surgeons and physicians and their families will travel to Norfolk via special train from Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Maryland for the annual gathering. The Bywaters host farewell party in Winchester honors May Bywaters heading to Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington for training. The Winchester Garden Club plans an expedition to the Cathedral Garden in Washington with potential rain cancellation.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
North Carolina
Maryland
Norfolk
Garden Club
Cathedral Gardens
Winchester and Clarke Garden Club
Washington Cathedral
St. Albans Towers
Cathedral School
Washington
Little Garden Club
Shawnee Garden Club
Social Calendar for the Week in Town
Tuesday events include Women’s Missionary Society at 1319 Valley Avenue and Modern Woodmen of America Camp 15 hall. Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel 135 North. United Brethren Young People choir practice 645 p m and Winchester Lodge B P O E 867 at Ellis Home Piccadilly Braddock. Grace Lutheran adult choir practice 815 p m. Thursday Rotary Club luncheon at George Washington Hotel 1:00 p m. Friday Robert Y Conrad Post American Legion luncheon at George Washington Hotel 12:30 p m.
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Women’s Missionary Society
J. W. Headley
Valley Avenue
Modern Woodmen of America
North
Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
United Brethren Young People’s Choir
Winchester Lodge
Ellis
Piccadilly and
Braddock
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
Robert Y. Conrad Post
American Legion
Chanters Elect Officers and Plan Enrollment Expansion
A representative group of young people gathered for the Chanters opening meeting last Thursday evening. They submitted several names for membership and plan to expand enrollment and stage musical programs. The president, director, and assistant director were unanimously reelected for another term. New officers include President Robert McNally and director Floyd Haines, with Miss Philomena Laren as assistant director and a slate of vocal and support officers. Rehearsals shift to the first and third Fridays at 7 15 in the Presbyterian Church Annex, with an elaborate program planned through Christmas.
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Chanters
Te-M
Robert McNally
Floyd Haines
Philomena Laren
Orville Hoover
Lucy Ritenour
John Kater
Melvin Miller
Margaret Palumbo
Elsie Mathews
Ruth Jones
Helen Woore
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Circles And Girls Club Dinner Plans
Members of the Girls' Athletic Association will hold a buffet supper Thursday September 19 at 5 30 pm in the club rooms at Ida cot instead of the regular tea A club room shower follows with a program prepared by Elsie Mae Gaunt and items to donate. Circles of Braddock Street Methodist Church South meet this week at various homes with leaders named for Circle 3 6 11 8 and 9.
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Kernstown
Girls’ Athletic Association
Cot Ida
Ida Lycett
Klena Houshour
Opal Robinson
Elizabeth Sager
Salome Crisman
Elsie Mathews
Elsie Mae Gaunt
Braddockstreet Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Clarence Hardy
South Braddock Street
I. N. Good
Charles Burgess
Shirley Street
J. W. Crider
William H. Reed
Major Robertson To Visit Philippine Islands
Major A Willis Robertson of Lexington, a district congressman, will join a senatorial and representative delegation sailing October 12 from Seattle for the Philippine Islands and Japan. Accompanying him is Mrs Robertson. The group, led by Vice President Garner, will cruise on a chartered steamer and return December 12. Robertson has served two years on the House committee on insular affairs and has shown strong Philippine interest. The trip is courtesy of the Philippine government.
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Major A. Willis Robertson
Lexington
Congress
Seattle
Wash
Philippine Islands
Japan
Robertson
John N. Garner
Major Robertson
Philippines
Mrs Shields To Address Auxiliary Meeting At Church
The Woman's Auxiliary of Lou doun Street Presbyterian Church meets at 8 pm with Mrs George G Snarr presiding and Mrs John S Scully in charge of the program. Mrs Randolph T Shields will speak on her China experiences as part of the yearly loyalty service followed by refreshments.
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Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
George G. Snarr
Johns. Scully
Scully
Randolph T. Shields
China
Judge Worsley Visits Winchester Friends Day
Judge Worsley once magistrate of the police court, a former Winchester resident now in Maurertown Va, visited the town today and was warmly greeted. England native and former secretary to Richard E Byrd of the Winchester bar, he impressed friends with his healthy appearance. Also present, James P Reardon, recently recovering from Georgetown Hospital surgery, who stopped by his South Stewart Street home and his Rouss Avenue law office, then spent time at City Hall as Commonwealth attorney. Today marked the first day of September term of Corporation Court.
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Judge Worsley
Robert Worsley
Winchester
Maurertown
Worsley
England
Richard E. Byrd
James P. Reardon
Georgetown University Hospital
South Stewart Street
Rouss Avenue
City Hall
Commonwealth Attorney
Corporation Court
Twin daughters born to Lineburgs on Middle Road
Mr and Mrs Strother M Lineburg of the Middle Road west of Kernstown welcomed twin daughters born at their home on Tuesday September 10 They already have two sons and two daughters The former Gertrude Loy becomes Mrs Lineburg after marriage County records show a marriage license secured by Miss Martha A DeHaven and Mr Harry D Kerns over the weekend Rev W O Talbert of this city preaches in Ryan Methodist Church Loudoun county Sherman district officers address missionary meeting in Salem Methodist Church in Loudoun county Mrs W H Ballengee and Miss Edith Miller spoke for the Baltimore Conference Missionary Society
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Ralph Grimm
Ralph C. Grimm
Union Memorial Hospital
Baltimore
Raymond Edwards
Pleasant Valley Sunday School
Louise Himelright
Frank Barrett
Kernstown Presbyterian Manse
Kernstown
Cumberland, Md
Allen Jones
Dora B. Getz
J. Getz
Thomas E. Donnelly
Thomas A. Donnelly
Strother M. Lineburg
P. E. Lineburg
Middle Road
Martha A. DeHaven
Arthur DeHaven
DeHaven
Harry D. Kerns
Harrison Kerns
Siler
Talbert
Loudoun
W. O. Talbert
Ryan Methodist Church
Sterling
Loudoun County
R. A. Berkdoll
Mr. Talbert
Salem Methodist Church
W. H. Ballengee
Baltimore Conference Missionary Society
Edith Miller
Winchester District
Margaret Collins Denny Class Elects Leaders Next Wednesday
Margaret Collins Denny Class of Braddock Street Methodist church will elect officers and teachers for the ensuing year after the regular prayer service next Wednesday evening. The item notes social visits by Pittsburgh guests, trips to Washington and Berwyn residents, and local excursions to Gettysburg.
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Margaret Collins Denny
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Virginian Gets Ten Years In a Kidnaping Case
George O. Hewitt of Roslyn Virginia was sentenced by Federal Judge W Calvin Chesnut to 10 years in a federal penitentiary for kidnaping the first case under Maryland s Lindbergh Law Accomplice Warner W Woods pleaded guilty and received 18 months Hewitt already faced a prior three year sentence for defrauding Benjamin H King an Arlington National Cemetery laborer whom Hewitt and Woods allegedly abducted to Marlboro Maryland to extort 8000 from his savings Police intervened before withdrawal of funds and King was spared The sentencing reflected view that the act resembled a bad defrauding scheme more than a true kidnaping
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Baltimore
George O. Hewitt
Roslyn
W. Calvin Chesnut
Maryland
Warner W. Woods
Hewitt
Benjamin H. King
Arlington National Cemetery
Chesnut
Wood
Virginia
Marlboro
King
Wheat checks ready for distribution to contract holders
County Agent I. Fred Stine reports 477 checks totaling 12 220 16 are at his office for the last 1934 payment and the first 1935 payment. Remaining 1934 dues total 3 417 56 and first 1935 dues 9 202 60. Thirty two contracts are delayed due to contract technicalities and mistakes.
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I. Fred Stine
Jefferson street sewer connects Handley campus relief
City Manager Arthur M. Field announced completion of Jefferson street sewer from Valley Avenue to Handley School with a 2500 foot pipe installation and a new school cafeteria connection. Plans include grading and paving the street toward Valley Avenue to relieve Handley Boulevard congestion during school terms. Also notes university student Aaron Sprinkle returning to UNC Chapel Hill and Charleston guest Mrs. A Lloyd Agnew visiting Fairfax Lane residents.
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Arthur M. Field
Jefferson Street
Valley Avenue
Handley School
Handley Boulevard
Handley
Aaron Sprinkle
Capt
D. M. Sprinkle
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Wheat program for the county begins at once
Frederick county starts a four year wheat adjustment program covering 1936 through 1939. Eligible farmers who produced wheat in 1928 29 30 31 or 32 may sign. The plan replaces multiple meetings with a single county mass meeting on September 21 at 2 pm to explain the contract and rulings. A later community sign up day will allow individual applications.
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Frederick County
R. L. Omps
William S. Huyett
John W. Larrick, Jr
Joseph H. Funkhouser
Randolph Macon To Open Tuesday
FRONT ROYAL Virginia September 16 The Randolph Macon Academy opens tomorrow morning for its forty third session with what is believed to be the largest enrollment in several years New faculty members Albert Vermont and H Russell have arrived The student body represents 22 states and includes counties Norway Haiti and Bombay India among those represented.
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Front Royal
Randolph-Macon Academy
Messrs
Albert Vermont
H. Russell
Norway
Haiti
Bombay
India
County Teachers Meet Here Today
An all day Frederick County teachers meeting is under way in the county courthouse classroom with about 90 teachers present. Frederick County schools open formally tomorrow except Gainesboro consolidated school, which will stay closed for weeks more due to unfinished building. Rev. R. B. Nelson opened with prayer and spoke on cooperative education. Leslie D. Kine and Miss Annie Preston outlined year plans while R. E. Ayler, Stephens City principal and president of the Frederick County Teachers Association, contributed to discussions.
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Frederick County
County Court House
Gainesboro
R. B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal Church
Leslie D. Kine
Annie Preston
R. E. Ayler
Stephens City
Frederick County ‘Tteachers’ Association
Cross Nile On Ox Skin Remains Primitive Crossing
On the upper Nile, local people still cross the river the primitive way using an ox skin as a raft. A bundle of brush-wood is piled atop the skin to provide flotation as it drifts across.
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Cross
Nile
Upper
Always Something Left by Uncle Eben on Forgiveness
Uncle Eben remarks that forgiveness toward enemies cannot quell fear as he admits his unease toward those who oppose him. The line reflects internal conflict between mercy and self-protection.
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Eben
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Ethel Cooper
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Hester Trimble
White Hall
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David Headley
Pete Himelright
Ricard Largent
Clark Loy
Gordon McInturff
Joe Ritter
Henry Schneider
Donald Smith
Marshall Snapp
Ralph Summer
Buck Thrift
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Herbert Russell
Brucetown
Allan Coverstone
James and
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Harvey Lee Brumback
Ralph Marker
Maybelle
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John Graham
Newville
Shelby
Dennis
Fla
W. A. Baker
Graham
Baker
Lady Thornton
Sir John Thornton
Canada
Col. Kennedy
Young Democrats
Young Democrats Club
Richmond
H. F. Byrd, Jr
H. R. Kern
Thomas Scully
Charles Trenary
Clarke County
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Harry K. Benham
Henry Post Mitchell
Augusta Institution
J. B. Redmond
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Augusta Military Academy
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Norfolk and Western Railway Surgeons' Association
Chamberlin Hotel
Old Point Comfort
P. W. Boyd
Archibald P. Osborne
Berryville
Gus W. Dyer
Vanderbilt University
Red Cross
And
Guaranter Rine Quauty
Huntsberry
Girls’ Club
Methodist
Mrs. Shields
R. B. Campbell
Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church
Bethy Shannon
Washington, Pa
Junius R. Page, Jr
Greensboro
N. C
Page
Junius Page
James H. Shannon
Mrs. McGuire
Hunter H. McGuire
South America
West Indies
Florida Keys
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Mr. Reardon
Mrs. Strother Lineburg
Ford Marston
Pittsburgh
Roscoe Snypes
United Press Bureau
Frank Marston
R. EB. Byrd
Margaret Byrd
Washington, D. C
Alice M. Carlisle
South Washington Street
W. H. Huber
Meadow Brook Farm
Clark Maxwell
Elizabeth Maxwell
Betty Ellen Fleet
Berwyn
Maxwell
P. C. Petrie
Bartonville
W. B. Haun
Spartansburg, D. C
R. S. Smith
Leslie Hershman
Naomi Largent
Gettysburg
John Rummel
Blaine Hartman
Lovett’s
N. Loudoun St
Virginian
George Hewitt
Jefferson
A. Lloyd Agnew
Charleston,s. C
Robert Schultz
Rebecca Bell
Fairfax Lane
Court House
Harrisonburg
William H. Byrne
William I. Thomas
Wv. P. I
Randolph Macon
the Commercial & Savings Bank
BIG Joe
B.& C. Rolls
Oes
Underwood
ASCO
Victor
Acme
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Harvard
Lovett Brothers
Loudoun St
Land O’ Lakes
R. M. Swimley
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