Eastern Star Grand Matron Visits Valley Chapter
Spurmont Chapter No 64 Eastern Star hosts grand matron Mrs Mabel of Alexandria for a Tuesday evening ceremony. Guests come from McKee Winchester Front Royal Woodstock Harrisonburg and others. Confederate Inn hosts premeeting reception for Mrs Higgs. Dahlia Society show linked to State Fair in Richmond Sept 27 promises largest exhibit south of New York, with 75 Virginia growers in attendance.
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Spurmont
Order of Eastern Star
Strasburg
Mabel
Alexandria
Mcey
Winchester
Front Royal
Woodstock
Shenandoah Valley
Harrisonburg
Bernard
Dodge City
Kansas
Walter
Davis
W. Va
Cumberland
Virginia Dahlia Society
Richmond
Fair Association
Dahlia Society
V. P. I. Exhi
New York
Virginia Society
Scottish Rite Reunion Sessions Start in Alexandria Tonight
Scottish Rite degree classes from the fourth to the thirty second inclusive begin a fall reunion in Alexandria this evening continuing to December 23. The William Lewis Allen memorial marks the memorial focus for the sessions and officers for the new year will be elected by the Golden Rule Bible Class at Braddock Street Methodist Church with a 9 45 am meeting time and a nominating and election around 10 o'clock. Visitors are welcome. Miss Mary Frances Dix leaves for Farmville College. The Berryville High School graduate travels to Farmville to enroll as a student at the State Teachers College. The First Baptist Church junior choir will rehearse tonight at 7 pm with full attendance requested.
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Winchester
Alexandria
William Lewis Allen
William L. Allen
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Dix
Farmville College
Mary
Frances Dix
Thomas Dix
Berryville
Berryville High School
Richmond
Farmville
State Teachers’ College
Junior Baptist
First Baptist Church
Winchester nurses thank public for yard party success
Mrs H D Fuller president of the District Nurse Association in Winchester expresses gratitude for wide support of a yard party raising funds for the tuberculosis program. She credits Andrew Bell secretary of the Chamber of Commerce four local volunteer fire companies the Lions Club and others for assistance. A $112 donation from the Winchester Judge of Elks charity fund will aid four local patients in sanatoriums for one month. Dr A T Baker to return for a Bible study on the Book of Revelations at BradDock Street Church.
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H. D. Fuller
District Nurse Association
Winchester
Tuberculosis Fund
Winchester Judge of Elks
Dinner Parties Honor Local Families and Community Leaders
Social notices detail a wedding dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Kinzel Grubbs Jr and guests including Mr. Jess Himelright and others. Additional items report Miss Eloise Strader to Mary Washington College, Dr. A. B. Groves attending a dahlia show, and upcoming church classes and bake sales in Braddock Street area.
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Kurtz Butler
Welltown
Kinzel Grubbs
Jess Himelright
Leslie Reed
John Reed
Bryan Stotler
Ruth and
Jennings
W. B. Hicks
Virginia
Ruth
June
Leonard Butler
Esten Taylor
Robert Newlin
Dallas Himelright
George Reed
Etiquette guidance for meeting in a city and introductions
A young woman should telephone ahead or arrange with her host rather than seek strangers for help. When greeted by a visitor at a restaurant, she need not rise unless the visitor is elderly and she is very young. The universal polite form remains “How do you do.”
Radio Highlights and Saturday Football Broadcasts
Radio networks report near normal operations after the hurricane hit New England. Listings show Minnesota vs Washington at 2 45 p m on WABC CBS and WJZ NBC, Alabama vs Southern California at 6 p m on WEAF NBC, with other stations carrying Pitt West Virginia and Virginia VMI games.
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Minn
Washington
WABC
CBS
WJZ
NBC
Alabama
Southern California
WEAF
Pitt
West Virginia
WOR
WTBO
Virginia
VMI
WRVA
WSVA
WCHV
WBIT
WLVA
WDBJ
Maryland
Richmond
WCAO
WJEJ
WSAL
WRNL
New York
New England
Wjznbc
Farley
St. Paul
Business Administration
Postal Service
John Hamilton
Chicago
Lucille Manners
Wayne King
Blue Barron
Jack Berch
Cal Tinney
Barney Rapp
Frank E
Train Show To Feature Expanded Model Railway System
Hagerstown Massachusetts September edition notes the Hagerstown Model Engineering Society adopting C R Burger's design for a complete layout occupying half the club room. The plan includes double tracked main lines, terminals, scenery, round houses, and a turntable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Hagerstown Model Engineering Society
C. R. Burger
Carpers Valley Notes Health and School News
Edgar White dined with Robert Russell on Sunday in Carpers Valley. Billy White visited Harry Stoehrs. Mrs Hinkle Carper ill for days. Madeline and Florence White suffer bad colds. School has opened with a large turnout.
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Carpers Valley
Edgar White
Robert Russell
Billy White
Harry Stoehrs
Hinkle Carper
Madeline
Florence White
Local families host guests across Shenandoah area
The report lists multiple social visits in a single week. Lillian and Madalene White with Frank, and Lorin White of Takoma Park join gatherings at the White and Carper homes. Other visitors include Robert and Edgar White, Henry Dick family, Wayne McCarty, Patricia Kremer, and Mrs. Earl Carper with Naomi.
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Lillian
Red
Ben Russell
Robert Russell
Edgar White
Madalene White
Frank
Hinkle Carper
A. C. White
Lorin White
Takoma Park
Lonzora
Barham
Earl Carper
Naomi
Madelene White
Cleatus Dick
Green Springs
Homer Davis
Herbert Davis
Gainesboro
Ralph McKilwee
Grimes, Va
Everly Carper
Walter Purtlebaugh
Waterloo
Artrip Place
Carper’s Valley School
Harry Stoehrs
Wayne McCarty
Patricia
Inwood
W. Va
Frank Kremer
Robert Barham
Rey
A C. White
Catherine White
Earl Bailey
Norman Swartz
Herbert Braithwaite
Winchester
Marshall Braithwaite
Douglas Russell
Gladys Barrett
Hagerstown
Tourism up at Virginia Chamber reception in spring
A Virginia State Chamber of Commerce report from Robert F. Nelson shows March to June tourist arrivals at the reception bureau surged versus the prior year with April to June up 25 percent and the four months up 50 percent over the previous four months. July inquiries remained slightly higher than last year as beaches and hotels see strong demand.
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Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Robert F. Nelson
Mr. Nelson
Army Engineers Do Tasks Well
Fort Meade Maryland September 23 The infantry and cavalry have dried their feet after a week of maneuvers but the engineers keep on working. While 5000 soldiers prepared to leave the Third Corps Area maneuvers the engineer corps returned to finish a rain broken bridge. A platoon of seven ton tanks rolled over the bridge without trouble.
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Fort Meade, Md
Third Corps
Engineer Corps
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Eastern Star
Valley
Golden Rulers
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Rexall tSore
Pikeside Tea Room
Valley Ave
Haldeman
Acd
A. T. Baker
Margaret Collins Denny
Braddock Street
Mrs. Grubbs
Richard E. Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd
William Lipscomb
Miss Strader
Mary Washington
Eloise Strader
Virgil R. Strader
Fredericksburg
Mary Washington College
Handley High School
Lohr Capper
Mayo Clinic
M. Lohr’ Capper
Rochester
North Londo Street
John F. Rodman
Cumberland, Md
Capper
Landacre
J. W. Landacre
Gore
Clinton Landacre
Ronmne
Young People’s League
Ernest Hall
Washington and
Macedonia Methodist Church
Krise
Elmira College
Harriet Krise
Wilbur
West Clifford Street
Elmira, N. Y
A. B. Groves
Lawrence Jolliffe
Ruby
Joan Landacre
Elizabeth Ryan
Grover Kidwell
Nancy Adams
Bean Miller
Gladys
Edith Brill
Circle Number
Solenberger
Circle Number 2
Market Street Methodist Church
Robert Snapp
George Fries
North
Loudoun Street
8. J. Goode
West Monmouth Street
John Newcome
Arme
Memorial Hospital
Friends Today
Martha Stone Lupton
Daniel W. Lupton
North Washington Street
George
Philadelphia
Harold C. March
Stephens City
South Loudoun Street
Virginia Lupton
Clarksboro, N. J
Walter P. Anderson
Elkton
The
United Brethren Church
O. D. Braithwaite
Dayton
Fairmont Avenue
Pearl Masincup
Roanoke, Va
A. Hunter Davidson
West Germain Street
Radio Hihlights
Wabc-Cbs
Tmi
Alecia Beauty Salon
Wilmer F. Shyrock, Agt
W. B. Snider
L. M. Nederman
Europe
Jack
Rice- O'Neill
Huntsberry’s ‘Shoe
Lucy Tillet
B. D. Tillet
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Hendersonville, Va
Fassifern School
R. T. Barton
Woman’s Auxiliary
Episcopal Diocese of
Elinor Griffith
Wellesley College
Marjorie Kerfoot
Alfred Kerfoot
Cameron & Picgadilly
Westhampton, L. I
Westhampton
Long Island
North Atlantic Seaboard
Hartford
Connecticut
Providence
R. I
Westminster Street
PIFER
Pifer Printing CO
N. Loudoun St
Army Engineers
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
All United Food Stores
Underwood’s Bakery
Knox Versio
Paris
Smart New York
EKNOX
Margaret L. Hodgson
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