The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-08

It's nnal meeting OIL the present school
term tonight Thursday, at which
time the newly elected officers will
be installed. 1t is understood that
the committee in charge of pur-
chasing a visual aid machine, has
not yet determined which make Of
machine will be purchased
The annual May Day celebration
will be held in the hollow back of
the school, on Thursday afternoon,
May %, at which time May Queen
will be crowned as part of the out
door program, which will include
May Pole Dance.
A number of farmers and men
from this community went to the
farm of Robert Ridenour on Thurs
day and helped clean up the wreck
age caused when his barn was de-
stroyed by the wind storm earlier
in the week. The escape of Mr..
Ridenour and his son, who were in
the barn when it collapsed, was
nothing short of miraculous.
The Leitersburg Lutheran Wom-
ans Missionary Society met on Fri
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Holm D. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rexford Hartle re-
Gently received two letters from
their daughter, Mrs Lucille Bar
Der, who flew to Germany last Au-
tumn to join her husband, Lieuten-
ant Barber, who is with the Army
of Occupation. In her letters, Mrs.
Barber told of a fourteen hundred
mile tour of France she and her
husband had made, during 14-day
furlough.
Lieutenant Barber, who was re-
called to duty after being placed on
the inactive list, and sent to Ger
many on a special mission, expects
to again be discharged in few
months and return to the States.
The small daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Griffin, who spent three
weeks in the Washington County
Hospital, receiving treatment for an
Assessed ear, has returned home.
Garland Lung, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clegget Lung, Leltersburg-Ha-
gerstown Highway, has received his
honorable discharge from the Ser
vice and has returned home,
Mrs. Martha Dill McSherry's hus-
band, who has been in the Army for
the past year, expects to receive his
discharge this week.
A group of forty-fve children,
under the care of Miss Virginia
Howard and the following mothers,
Mrs. Joseph Bowman, Mrs. Robert
iBledsoe, Mrs. Franklin Bell and Mrs
Harlan Rinehart, attended the Clara
Tree production of Snow White" in
Hagerstown last Wednesday.
Mrs. Margaret Stouffer chaperoned
thirty-two seventh and eighth grade
pupils on a visit to the Washington
County Library on Friday afternoon,
making the trip in the Howell school
bus.
Eight members of the Leitersburg
School Patrol went with the Wash
ington County delegation which took
part in the annual School Patrol
parade at Washington, D. c., on Sat-
Iurday. Patrols from all states east
of the Mississippi took part in the
parade.
Mrs. Leo Wagner, Hagerstown,
spent Thursday at the home of her
4 grandmother, Mrs. Clara Hartle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rexford Hartle, re-
Gently spent the week end with Mr..
Hartles sister and her husband, Mr..
and Mrs. John Wright, at their home
in Falling Springs, near Washing
ton, D. C. Their son, Jack, who
is a student at George Washington
University, was also guest at the
Wright home.
The family of Edward Berger,
who have resided in one of the
Campian houses for the past two
years, moved on Saturday to their
newly completed home near Para
mount. The children will finish out
the term at the Leitersburg School,
registering at the Paramount School
for the next term.