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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1921
Page
5
Clara Kimball Young stars in The Road Through the Dark a wartime drama set in America and Bu with stylish gowns by Lucille. Absorbing and thrilling the film plays tonight with a world events news reel. Admission 10 15 20 cents.
A fast brisk comedy arrives Wednesday night at the Auditorio Theater featuring Eileen Percy in a new farce about a matrimonial mix up. Percy, a leading screen comedienne, stars in a lively production with a husband’s masquerade invite triggering slapstick confusion and witty misunderstandings.
The funeral for T Monroe Snapp, who died after a brief illness, was held at his sisters No 333 North Main Street residence attended by lifelong friends and a Sarah Zane Fire Company delegation. He was a former choir member at Tenary Reformed Church and is interred in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers included Robert LGray A R Shapp J H Moling Sr Yllis Maloy Brooke Hodzsen and SA Affleck. His son Fred T Shepp resides in Kansas City Southern.
F A Shick Bethlehem Steel general auditor testified before the Welsh committee that a $260 000 October 1918 voucher for Charles M Schwab expenses was charged to profits and losses of Bethlehem and not to ship construction nor picked up by the Emergency Fleet Corporation with proper details. He contradicted Col B H Abadie who said the item was Schwab personal expenses.
A probate suit over the will of the late David F. Hott is argued before Judge Whiting in Frederick County Circuit Court. Hott died years ago leaving about $75 000. The will reportedly aims to give all children equal shares, but it is claimed Mrs John Kiser receives a life interest only to her share.
The funeral of William Waters, 62, who died in Memorial Hospital after an appendicitis operation, was held last Tuesday at Presbyterial Church in Bile Clarke county. Interment followed at Green Hill Cemetery. He leaves his widow formerly Miss Annie Carpenter, a son Norval Waters, a daughter Edith Marks of Berryville, and brothers Albert Waters of Baltimore and Frank Waters of Cumberland.
Fruit men highlighted key practices for improving apple quality in West Virginia. The talk emphasized sprayers, spray houses, timely scab control, soil moisture, pruning and thinning, sizing through feeding, and community packing houses to reduce costs and improve storage. Prof Anthony cited New York packing houses as a model for separating packing from growing.
J R Dushane reports a Winchester meeting where a "wapray" expert urged careful pruning and early plowing to boost growth. He recommended Nitrate of Soda and dried blood fertilizers, with nitrogen as first priority, plus lime-sulphur sprays for scab and timely thinning to boost yields. The session featured Prof G S Ralston and Prof Auchter detailing balanced orchard care and cost-effective thinning.
In Washington on January 26 the Senate Postoffice Committee recommended continuance of the trans continental airplane mail service in its report on the annual Post Office appropriation bill. The committee urged continuation of the service.
Walter Whately longtime secretary of the Virginia State Horticultural Society died in St Vincent’s Hospital New York City after pneumonia followed a three month Ireland visit. He helped found the Virginia Horticultural Society and served as its secretary for years. He organized the Bank of Crozet and led the Albemarle Patriotic League Overseas. He is survived by daughters Mrs R B Holberton and Mrs A L Holmes.
An article urges kindness to cows, noting their docile nature and readiness to befriend their keeper. It warns that intelligent and sensitive animals may resent unjust treatment and respond poorly.
The article notes calf meal as a common substitute for milk, with success tied to feeder skill calf vigor and calf meal preparation. It also recounts legends of bells warding off spirits and curing lunacy in Scotland.
The excerpt notes English bullfighting practices with dogs and pepper to rile bulls, mentions a bull tied to a stake with bullb dogs trained to seize it, and references the alaunt breed. It also describes a kiln known as King’s Tobacco Pipe and a Lynndon warehouse where contraband tobacco cigars and tea were burned, with unsold goods later sold or donated, while damaged items are burned.
Grace Lutheran Church reports more than $500 raised for Chinese famine relief to be sent through the proper agency. The Queen Esther Bible Class contributed 29 dollars, and the church group gave 50 dollars to the Salem Orphans Home and 10 dollars to the local King’s Daughters for Winchester’s poor.
The Men's Bible Class of Grace Lutheran Church will hold its second annual banquet at 8 pm in the adjacent Bible class building. Rev A A Kelly acts as toastmaster with responses from Rev G M Diffenderfer Dr B M Rozel Mayor W W Glass. An evening of music and remarks expected with 150 to 200 attendees.
The farm of the late David Leight near Grimes County was sold by public auction. John Leight of Berkeley County purchased the 201 acre tract at 75 dollars per acre.
Mrs Mary Jane Orndoff sustained a fractured hip in an unspecified local incident. She is reported to be hospitalized, with details and exact circumstances unclear from the fragmented text.
A First National attraction features Mildred Harris Chaplin in The Inferior. An orchestra from coast to coast presents a thirty piece program beginning at 8:45 and show at 9:15.
A partial sentence notes an afternoon incident requiring removal to hospital after a fracture. The legible fragment mentions toe fault and unspecified hospital steps.
A local council of the Commercial Travellers plans a February event in Winchester with over 150 members. Visitors from Baltimore and other cities expected to attend. about 26 new initiates to join. Events include initiation, banquet at Hotel Pyans, and an evening with speakers and music.
Martinsburg WV papers report John Pappas a well known Winchester restaurateur escaped death when his car lost control near Winchester. The touring car veered into a ditch injuring no one, with another driver Mr Duncan from Martinsburg opposing him. Car damaged but Pappas unhurt.
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