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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1946
Page
7
Workmen lift the Kernstown Methodist Church onto jacks and plan to roll it to a new location in its church lot. A basement is dug beneath the new foundation for social and Sunday School rooms, with improvements estimated at $5,000. Rev. Earl C. Day of Stephens City serves the church on the Stephens City Charge.
A crossword with across and down clues including animals, tools, and historical terms. The list covers perches, tricks, communications, geological terms, and chemistry hints, with entries such as parrot tropical bird and pliable strings for cordage.
Mrs. Sowers farm near Stone Bridge hosts a soil conservation demo showing alternate contour corn strips. Heavy rains last year washed topsoil, erosion visible on knolls and slopes, prompting local farmers to observe practicability and the county agent urges adoption of conservation tools.
Funeral services for Walter Thomas Mason who died Thursday at the Butler Packing House will be held Sunday. Friends meet at Omps Funeral Home at 1 45 p m and proceed to Whitacre Church for 2 30 p m services led by Rev S J Goode. Interment follows in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers include Lester Loy Paul Braithwaite Grady Braithwaite Harry M Fout W E Edwards and H R Edwards.
J. W. Olcott county agent announced this morning that planting arrangements and material shortages necessitate rescheduling field demonstrations. New dates include August 26 at 3 p m for a corn hybrid demonstration on Kenneth Shenk Farm near Berryville, September 9 at 3 p m for a corn hybrid demonstration on Charles Asbury Farm near Berryville, and September 16 at 3 p m for a corn hybrid and fertilization demonstration on Arthur Buckley Farm north of White Post.
Middletown Virginia reports guests at the Methodist parsonage including John Adlington Sibold and Anne Lorraine Sibold from Greenville W Va and others from Washington D C and Andover New Jersey. Lena Gray McDonald and H William Kerr Sr of San Francisco California announce their marriage.
On June 22nd 1946 in San Francisco the couple spent their honeymoon in Southern California and expect to reside in California.
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