Middletown Grange Booster Night Tonight at 8
Middletown Grange No. 761 will hold its booster night at the Grange Hall tonight starting 8 p m open meeting. A flower show by 7 30 and program led by Master A S Brumback and lecturer Mrs D N Gruver includes speech by G G Dickenson county agent Shenandoah readings music and refreshments with many Grangers and the public invited.
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Middletown Grange No. 761
Grange Hall
A. S. Brumback
G. G. Dickenson
Shenandoah County
Grange
D. N. Gruver
Dickenson
Frederick
Dobbin
Middletown
Stephens City
Bridge Tourney Invitations Extended in Lynchburg
Bridge players in Virginia and nearby states receive invitations to the fourth annual Central Virginia bridge tournament in Lynchburg on October 25 26 and 27 under the American Contract Bridge League. Prizes awarded to winners runners up and sectional top scorers plus one year possession of prizes donated by Lyndhurst newspapers. Events include mixed pair open pair and teams of four.
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Cynchburg
Bridge Players of
Virginia
Central Virginia
American Contract Bridge League
Lyndhrg Newspapers
Hotel Astor chief cites Broadway clean up after dice raid
Robert K. Christenberry, general manager of the Hotel Astor, urged vice purification on Broadway after a police raid on a room at the hotel. He called the timing coincidental as 11 men were involved in a dice game.
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New York
Robert K. Christenberry
Hotel Astor
Vice
Broadway
Ed “Great White Way
Times Square
Al- 11
Long lived parents trend toward more male offspring
Reports by ALTON L. BLAKESLEE state that children of long lived parents show a higher male ratio, with long lived mothers exerting stronger influence than fathers. The study of 2,225 grandparents and 31,535 grandchildren finds about 52 percent of births are male for those past age 70, supporting the view that longevity relates to vitality passed to offspring.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Baltimore
Philip S. Lawrence
Raymond Pear
Lawrence
School of Hygiene and Public Health
John Hopkins University
Pearl
Current Apple Market Quotations Amid Framing Friday Trade
Current quotations from Winchester to Martinsburg show demand fair and market steady for apples. Prices cover barrels and bushels across varieties like Delicious Stayman York Jonathan Grimes and Black Twigs with U. S. No. 1 and 2% inch minimums and car lots priced per min. car.
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Winchester
Martinsburg
W. Va
U. S
Jonathans
Staymans
Yorks
Kenmore Directory Lists Burney and Morgan In Senate Plans
The 1941 Kenmore directory shows Assemblyman Charles O. Burney Jr. as a State Senator and Justice C. Morgan as a State Assemblyman, with Village Clerk Walter Ducker optimistic about Republican candidates in a normally GOP district ahead of the November election.
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Kenmore
N. Y
Charles O. Burney, Jr
New York Senate
Justice C. Morgan
Walter Ducker
Prize Novel At Handley Library
The Atlantic Monthly awards Nina Fedorova the 10 000 fiction prize for The Family her first novel. A White Russian by birth Poltava University of Petrograd exile through Siberia Manchuria to China and finally America in 1938 the family settles in Eugene Oregon.
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Atlantic Monthly
Nina Fedorova
Poltava
Russia
University of Petrograd
Siberia
Manchuria
China
America
Eugene
Oregon
Handley Library
Alliance Ready To Display Power Warned In Radio Address
Premier Konoye warned in a national radio speech that Japan Germany and Italy are ready to display the power of their military alliance if needed. He said the Berlin treaty grows from conflicts between old and new orders and Japan aims to settle the China incident and help create a new era.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Germany
Italy
Berlin
Europe
Asia
China
Foster Parents Aid Refugees Support War Child Care
Four Virginia residents contributed to medical supplies food and clothing for British refugee children part of a 100000 fundraising effort by Foster Parents Plan for War Children. Eric Muggeridge leads London efforts at a 48 acre sanctuary housing 257 refugees with international sponsors including Eleanor Roosevelt and Tallulah Bankhead.
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New York
Virginia
Great Britain
Edna Blue
Foster Parents’ Plan For
West 42Nd Street
Blue
Eric G. Muggeridge
Plan
London
Arlington
Constance Myslop
Arlington Hall School
Petersburg
Louise Barrett
State College
Alexandria
C. Sturges Ball
Theological Seminary
Winchester
Lewis M. Allen
W. Clifford Street
Earl of Listowell
Eleanor Roosevelt
Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood
Helen Hayes
Tallulah Bankhead
Russell Maguire
Stephens City Notes
Stephens City Virginia note on visits from guests in surrounding towns. Mrs Louis Vogt of Lewistown Pa and Mrs Emily Owens plus Mr and Mrs Warton Owens from Sunbury Pa were guests along with Etta Owens of Baltimore Md and others from Martinsburg Winchester Strasburg and Nineveh.
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Stephens City
George Tobin
Louis Vogt
Lewistown
Emily Owens
Warton Owens
Sunbury
Etta Owens
Baltimore
Snow
Prank Atkins
Martinsburg
Thelma Bean
Winchester
Eva Tobin
Nineveh
Elsie Ritenour
Charles Hartley
Eugene Barr
Strasburg
Marshall Venable
Gervis Lemley
Frank Ewing
Staunton
Phyllis Montgomery
Phalmela Lemley
Stewart Montgomery
Falls Church
Miller Apple Harvest King Miller Apple Harvest King
Henry Walton Miller Jr of Morgan county was named king of Martinsburg West Virginia’s Sixth Annual Apple Harvest Festival to be held November 8 to 11. He leads the Consolidated Orchard Company, with 30,000 trees on 800 acres, trading as Mountaineer Brand. Queen selection will follow in two weeks.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Henry Walton Miller, Jr
Morgan County
Miller
Consolidated Orchard Company
Martins
Henry W. Miller
Panhandle
William 8. Miller
King Henry VI
Water Boy
Morgan
Hampshire Counties
West Virginia
Allegheny County
Maryland
Mountaineer
A. B. Eagle
Berkeley, Morgan and
Jefferson
John L. Lightner
Wild Turkey A Battler in Virginia Woodlands
Virginia officials joke that Benjamin Franklin would approve the wild turkey as America's emblem after a dramatic encounter where a wild turkey hen chased an owl away from her brood. Warden W C Rives reported the scene near Cherry Hill in Dinwiddie County with owl feathers scattered and the poults rejoining their mother.
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Richmond
Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Benjamin Franklin
America
Virginia
W. C. Rives
McKenny
Virginia Woodlands
R. H. Boisseau
DeWitt
Cherry Hill
Dinwiddie County
Boisseau
Mr. Boisseau
Attend Cleaners and Dryers Meet in Roanoke
Philip R. Fowle and Charles A. Dorton Jr returned from the Virginia Association of Cleaners and Dyers convention held in Roanoke. Dorton, long experienced in dry cleaning, recently served as manager of Riteway Cleaners here and had prior stints with Riteway over the years.
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Philip R. Fowle
Charles A. Dorton, Jr
Virginia Association of Cleaners and Dyers
Roanoke
Mr. Dorton
Riteway Cleaners
Riteway
Spain to yield Gibraltar bases to axis feared in war today
Dewitt Mackenzie reports that Spain's possible alliance with Germany and Italy threatens Gibraltar as a potential axis base. Britain weighs assault options while Franco seeks to avoid war due to civil war devastation and food shortages.
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John Bull
Spain
Germany
Italy
Gibraltar
Japan
Gibraltar Long
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Africa
Britain
Virginia Gayda
Rome
Axis
London
England
Franco
Ramon Suner
Messrs
Hitler
Mussolini
Rock of Gibraltar
Niagara Falls
Grand Canyon
Great Pyramids
Egypt
Taj Mahal
India
Air Line Plans Scrapped in Maryland Road Project Shift
Maryland's plan to buy the right of way of the old Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway was dropped. The State Roads Commission will take over seven miles of the roadbed near Washington with a new entrance from the defense highway. If a Baltimore Washington highway is built, it would largely use federal property including the Greenbelt tract and Beltsville farm.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway
State Roads Commission
Commission
Ezra B. Whitman
State Law Department
Washington
Capital
Greenbelt
Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Fort Meade
Answers to Today’s Quiz Revealed on Page Four
Answers to today’s quiz published on page four list ten items. The responses cover topics from War babies to a modern submarine, with items such as Chrysanthemum The Yearling Ohio and Milk. The quiz also identifies a British Purchasing Commission head and an American fish.
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Ohio
British Purchasing Commission
Clever German sent to prison for leg stocking substitute
Berlin report describes a German man selling an unlisted device that copied silk stockings by drawing lines on the back of legs with a pencil like applicator. He charged 3.34 marks cash in advance and promised a sheer look. Four year sentence given.
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Berlin
Associated Press
CAA Enrolls New Students in Pilot Training Drive
The Civil Aeronautics Administration reports 15 290 students enrolled in new courses through 708 colleges nationwide for ground and air instruction. The program ends January 15 1941 and aims to train pilots instructors and recertify former pilots to fill gaps as military forces mobilize.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Rts
CAA
Aose
Army
Navy
National Guard
Examinations for U S Civil Service Positions Open
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for City planner Plant pathologist and geneticist roles with salaries from 2000 to 3800 dollars. Applications must reach the Washington office by October 24 for eastern states.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Washington
Colorado
National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Washington, D. C
Herman Lee
Board of
U. S. Civil Service Examiners
Twin birth and two Niece arrivals on same day
Mrs. Jerome O'Donnel of Penfield Illinois became mother of twin sons and aunt to two girls on the same day. The stork visited her sisters with girls for Mrs. Jerome Clancy of East Chicago Indiana and Mrs. Arthur Salmon of Herrick Illinois.
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Penfield
Jerome O'Donnel
Jerome Clancy
East Chicago
Ind
Arthur Salmon
Herrick
Ill
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Middletown Grange
G.G. Dickinson
Woodstuck
Hristenberry
John W. Rosenberger and Co., Inc
S. Braddock St
Apple
O’connell
Braddock ST
Alliance
Stephens
Seaa
Éasil
Hen
Dinwiddie Woods
Xe Cnotern
Jones Funeral Home
Lisbon
Dewitt MacKenzie
Strait of Gibraltar
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry, W. Va
U. S. Civil Service
Stokol
E. Piccadilly St
Goodrich Truck Tires
Easy Terms
Goodrich
Silvertown
Braddock & Boscawen
Fairfax Lane
Thana Fey
United Food Stores
General Electric
E. Boscawen St
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