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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
4
A fragmented notice shows a price of 3.00 and 1.50 with a ge entry in Winchester Virginia indicating a 2nd event or batch. The readable text contains monetary values and an implied location tied to the Evening Star publication.
A reflective monologue blends humor and mortality as the speaker contemplates life work and death. The text references desire to depart this world, the old gray kirk, and a surreal image of Kaiser Bill in a taxidermist’s hands along the journey beyond life.
Prices quoted by multiple Winchester area merchants for fur items set for Dollar Day. Stores listed include music stores, Brothers department store, and various jewelers, grocers, hardware shops, and banks in the Winchester and Shenandoah Valley region.
Rev Guy P Bready will give a late evening lecture at 8 o clock this week in the Reformed Church at the corner of Cork streets. The talk focuses on education and marks the hundredth anniversary of the Reformation with historical content. Admission is free to the public.
County Supervisors spend most of Monday on road issues including re establishing tolls on Apple Pie Ridge road to fund repairs. No bids were received for a bridge over Hogue Creek on the Pugh town pike, prompting state highway consultant contact and further steps. A proposed new road in southern county from Chester road past Cadwallader and Ridings lands seeks open as a public highway with landowner summons planned.
In Oranda Aug 8, crops look promising with corn nearly a certainty and wheat threshing showing a good yield. Garden crops also prosper. The primary election passed quietly with a high turnout. Various local visits and relocations noted among residents, plus a four hour heavy rain Monday night. Hazel Miller ill with typhoid fever. Virginia Smallwood departed for a week or ten days in Hagerstown visiting relatives.
For sale 28 1 2 acres of land six miles from Winchester and a quarter mile from new railroad. Improvements include an almost new four room house and one fourteenth acre bearing orchard with Yorks Bens Grimes Golden peaches and pears. Price 2200 dollars. Terms to suit purchaser. Apply Star Office.
By decree of the Frederick County Virginia Circuit Court the special commissioner offers three tracts totaling about sixty acres on Cedar Creek near Meadow Mills for sale at public auction in Winchester on August 18, 1917. The property will sell as a whole with terms of one third cash and balance in two equal annual installments secured by bonds, deed of trust, and insurance policy.
Leo Matthews promotes a seed inoculation table that eases mixing and reduces waste. The rocking feature allows tilting to drain water and funnel seed into a sack box, aiding seed corn and fruit sorting when not in use.
Garden tip explains pruning tomato vines by nearly severing upper parts to stop blossom drop and trigger a heavy, quality tomato crop. It notes excess vigor forces the plant to focus energy on fruit instead of growth.
Horseradish is best grown as a secondary crop after cabbage or beets. The crop is dug in fall, roots cut into four to six inch sets with square top and slanted bottom, tied in bundles and stored in sand over winter. In spring a row is planted between cabbage rows and set with holes 2 to 3 inches deep to emerge around July first.
Grapes, raspberries and currants are often neglected reducing profits. Proper care on a half acre can yield about $200 worth of table supplies. Culture, pruning and fertilizing are essential to the best results and are not an insurmountable barrier to success.
The article explains that poisons must contact plant lice and scale insects directly. It recommends strong lime sulfur as effective spray and a strong tobacco solution for tender insects with soft bodies.
Sorghum will furnish a considerable amount of forage for hogs during hot dry summer when other crops fail. If sown in late May or early June it should be ready for pasturing in six to eight weeks.
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