Evening star., 1943-07-04
County Treasurer
OF Fauquier Given
Commission in Navy
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ScEVcU IL cSf0s
G. K. Moffett, for IA years Mayor
of The Plains, has resigned TO cam
paign for sheriff of Fauquier County.
Town Council of The Plains has ap-
pointed r. C. Turner to fill the un-
expired term. Mr.. Turner has been
a member of the council IL years.
Val H. Stieglitz was appointed to
fill Mr.. Turner's place on the coun-
Gil. The council also appointed
B. M. Frazier to succeed Council
man Shirley Curtis, recently in
Quoted into the armed forces.
Carnival Postponed.
The annual Community League
carnival at The Plains, which was
for Friday and Saturday,
has been indefinitely postponed due
to gasoline rationing restrictions.
Campaign Goal $2,400.
Religious Education Council cam
paign for funds with which to carry
on its work in the schools will start
tomorrow. Last year So classes were
held in the county schools by two
teachers.
The campaign has for its goal
81, 400. which will be used for salaries
and other necessary expenses for
the coming year.
New Service Class Called.
Fauquier will send two selective
service quotas Of white men, totaling
"a, next week as part of the July call
which Col. Mills S. Neal of State
headquarters said would be smaller
than the record June quota. In
which Ill men left the county
June 20.
The first group OF five men will
60 July S, and the second group July
8.
With the armed forces taking an
increasingly large number Of men
from the ranks Of the Warrentor
Rifles, the company now stands at
approximately half its authorized
strength Of "a men, and needs en-
listments. They will be accepted
at the armory on Thursday nights
or men interested are asked to see
Capt. L. R. Bartenstein or Its. L. L
Hutchison and James F. Austin.
Officials Installed.
New officers of the Warrenton
Rotary and Lion Clubs have been
recently installed at the clubs meet
ings at the Coffee Shoppe.
Rotary officers installed were
Charles o. Pratt, president; R. A.
Fffeld, vice president; L. l.. Hutchi-
son. secretary: w. G. Bartenstein
treasurer; j. o. Hodgkin. sergeant at
arms: D. P. Wood. song leader: and
T. D. Jones. George Sloane
Val Stieglitz, r. N. Mof1ett and
w. N. Hodgkin.
Lions Club: Wallace N. Tiffany
president; Howard H. Hulnsh. jr.,
first vice president; Harry M. Pear
son, second vice president: James F.
Austin. third vice president; Charles
Parr, lion tanner; Winfree Hughes,
tail twister; R. H. Marriott, secre-
tary-treasurer. and directors, D
william Moffett and Upton H
Baptists Plan Revival.
Revival services will be held at the
Calverton Baptist Church for the
week beginning tomorrow. The Rev
Stanley Williams, Fredericksburg
will assist the pastor, Rev C. j. Ash
ley, in the services. which will be
held nightly at 8 pm.
Accepts Bank Post.
Charles Adams. Paris, has ac-
cepted a position with the Marshall
National Bank and Trust Co. The
board of directors of the bank on
June % declared a semi-annual
dividend of 2 per cent for the
half year ending June 30, 1943. The
dividend is payable June 30 to stock.
holders of record June %.
Quiet Fourth Planned.
Fauquier's banks and post Offices
and a number of stores will bt
closed Monday in observance of In.
dependence Day. The American
Legion will place flags on Main anc
Culpeper streets. Warrenton.
No formal observance is planned
by town organizations. and ever
the traditional fireworks will be alb.
sent this year. The Boy Scouts viii
celebrate with a week end camping
trip on the Rappahannock River
leaving Saturday and returning
home Monday.
Soldier Is Buried.
Funeral services for Pvt. Ishan
Keith, who died June 26 of injurie!
received in highway accident neal
Camp Livington, La. where he wa.
stationed, were held Thursday from
st. James Episcopal Church. War
renton. with interment in the War
renton cemetery.
Pvt. Keith. who was "a. was driv,
ing in a staff car to a camp shov
rehearsal, when the car and a ci
william truck collided.
He was the son of the late Ishan
Keith, Warrenton, and the formel
Jessie Hall of Lebanon, Pa. Ht
was born in Clarksburg, West Va
but came to Warrenton when HI
was 4 years old. He attended
stuyvesant School, Warrenton, th'
Virginia Episcopal School. Lynch
burg, and the University of Virginia
He was a member of Delta Phi Fra
ternity and while at the universit!
active in college dramatics. ane
wrote for the monthly magazin.
published by the students. Aftel
he left college he went on the stage
appearing with the Willard Roo
players in Washington, was a veal
with Mrs. Fiske in Chicago, and wa!
with numerous productions in New
York, where he and his mother mad,
their home the last several years.
At Camp Livingston, Pvt. Keith
was instrumental in forming ant
broadcasting the camp show and, i
is stated, the success of the produc.
ton was due largely to his many
talents.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs
Isham Keith of Warrenton ane
New York.
v. J. Richter Elected