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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule for Cumberland Valley shows arrivals in Winchester from multiple stations daily except Sunday with times around 1845 and 727 PM. Superintendent Harris? General P A.
Partial OCR text lists train numbers and times for Bristol and intermediate stations with connections to Westcue’s Memphis line and Shenandoah Junction, including northbound routes to Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York with connections. Details are fragmented but indicate passenger services with parlor dining renamings and station connections.
Director C. B. Thorne of the Ohio experiment station argues that less labor with more seed and greater use of manure and fertilizer can let farmers store more wheat on fewer acres, a conclusion drawn after decades of soil study. He notes half a million corn acres saved last year could have added wealth if wheat prices were favorable, blaming poor soil handling for missed profits.
Entomologist George A. Dean of Kansas State Agricultural College says the best time to destroy grasshoppers is just after wheat harvest or after the second alfalfa cutting. He promotes poisoned bran mash with bran Paris green or alternatives, prepared with citrus juice and syrup, to cover four to five acres per batch and applied in the morning.
Frederick County Sunday School Association announces a county wide campaign with fifteen center meetings on August 24 and 25. Teams of three speakers visit two centers each, evening sessions at each, with numerous Methodist and Brethren churches listed. Prominent speakers include Rev. H. G. Spencer and W. T. Walters. The campaign precedes the Frederick County Sunday School Convention at Stephens City on August 29 and 30.
A vintage carriage wheel and axle are used in a pasture stake design. When the tethered animal moves around the stake, the wheel revolves on the axle, making rope tangling nearly impossible, per Popular Mechanics.
Under a trust deed from October 1902 Lucy A Hicks and others the Hicks farm of about 200 acres in Frederick county Virginia will be sold by public auction at midday in front of the Winchester County Courthouse on August 26 1916 The property lies on the Winchester to Front Royal road and includes four dwellings with limestone land suited for grazing One third cash with two bonds for two thirds due in one and two years at six percent interest and insured by deed of trust and fire policy R Gray Williams trustee.
Charles G. McLain of the Pennsylvania department of agriculture says a water supply system on a farm is affordable if springs are elevated above buildings. A cleaned spring boxed in and piped can feed tanks and power a gas engine for pumps, lighting, and farm machinery.
Mr and Mrs John Bush hosted a Friday evening reception at Valley Mills on the Berryville pike near Winchester for their son Frederick Bush and his bride Florence Spitler. Nearly a hundred guests from Philadelphia Maurertown Martinsburg Charlestown Lovettsville Berryville Rippon and other cities attended. The couple received many beautiful presents while the event featured yellow and green decor and Japanese lanterns. Mrs Bush and Mrs Johns mother accompanied the groom’s mother to Philadelphia the next day.
Silage makes a good base feed for dairy stock but should be combined with leguminous feeds such as clover cowpeas or alfalfa due to insufficient productive quality.
An old advertisement touts Dean's Kidney Pills with a catchy slogan A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. It urges timely use and claims quick relief, naming Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as the producer and a price of 60 cents at dealers.
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