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Newspaper
The Pulaski News
Location
Pulaski, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1940
Page
14
Clinton Warner argues advertising serves the consumer and seller by informing choices, reducing pressure, and showcasing best prices and variety. The piece urges readers to note ads as efficient salesmen and value drivers in newspapers.
Mr Grover Adams a Virginia Maid employee known for fire department work and social ties was seen Friday with a glamorous blond. The note mentions a knitters trip to Virginia Beach and teases about a long time in Roanoke.
Local column notes Frank Harkrader has become a new father to a fine baby boy. The newsroom crew celebrates, sharing cigars with male staff and some female employees during the cheerful occasion.
The annual state convention of the Church of God on East Main street began Thursday evening with Rev. W. E. Johnson in charge. General overseer J. S. Walker will be present and the Bible school quartet provides special music. The public is invited to attend.
Mrs J B Collins was taken to Pulaski hospital Wednesday night for an appendicitis operation.
Visitors to Thornhill West Virginia included Miss Mildred King Miss Thelma Ferguson Melvin Warden Cullen Bunion Marvin Stuart and Mr and Mrs Burnett Marshall of Corretta W Va Mrs Marshall is the former Velma Dalton an employee of the Wallner Mill Claire Hinson Nora Lee Johnson and Lamar Keene hosted dinner Saturday Sarah Wheeling and Joe Davis were guests in Roanoke Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Raymon K Kirby and Mrs Kirbys parents visited friends in Marion Sunday Mr and Mrs Julie Deheart and Mrs Gordon Harliss and son spent the weekend in Roanoke Mr and Mrs Buford Woodyard attended Cecil Woodyard funeral services in Pearisburg Sunday Mr and Mrs Stewart Kidd visited Mrs Kidds mother in Max Meadows Sunday A L and J H Hughett families motored to Princeton West Va Sunday Mr and Mrs Lawrence Myers visited Mrs Ayers in Max Meadows Saturday Miss Ina Akers Ruth and Pearl Rogers Helen Haislip and Pauline Mantz attended a dance in Wytheville Friday night Mrs J B Collins mother of Nettie Collins is very ill at her home on Maple Avenue Mr and Mrs Marcus Irons and Callie Gallimore spent the weekend with their parents in Allisonia Miss Virginia Collins and Miss Ina Akers motored to Christiansburg Sunday with a party of friends Mr and Mrs Ferguson have as their guest Mrs Ferguson's
Miss Ozella Williams traveled to Wythe County for the weekend. Funerals were held for Mrs. Agnes Spraker at Calvary Methodist Church on Saturday afternoon. Absences noted for Mrs. Richard Bassett and Mrs. Ralph Bishop. Visiting relatives in Bland over the weekend included Mr. and Mrs. Hurst Owens Jr and daughter Marilyn Kay from Richmond and Mrs. Lillian Varnia. Lamar Keene and several friends visited Ft. Chiswell area residents at the Ft. Chiswell Tourist Home on Saturday night.
Apie Hurd spent Monday with Aubrey Murdock on Robinson Track Road, while sister Miss Betty Hudson of Washington D C is mentioned in the social notes.
The nighthawk is not a true hawk or bat but a migratory bird in the same family as whip-poor-will. It feeds almost entirely on insects caught midflight, with cotton bollweevil and other pests among its important dietary items.
Wild turkeys, valued as big game in New Mexico today, were raised as domesticated fowl by the Pueblo Indians when Spaniards first arrived in the sixteenth century.
A Louisiana game warden outlines essentials of a good sportsman. He urges courteous behavior, displaying licenses when approached, and viewing wardens as aids to lawful fishing and hunting rather than obstacles to enjoyment.
The muskellunge inhabits North America. Labyrinth Bubble Nest Builders construct bubble nests to house 100 to 500 eggs which hatch and are tended by the parents. The dead laurel branches provide a smoky cooking fire.
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