Hogs in Virginia Orchards Tested as Mice Deterrent
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station studies in Giles and Patrick counties test hogs as a help to apple growers. Hogs forage to disrupt orchard mice while shredding windfalls and wormy fruit, with fencing and husbandry details noted and preliminary results pending final reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Moore
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Virginia
Giles County
Patrick County
R. Ayers
Patim County
Obser
J. C
Utah Experiment Station
Moore
Ham And Bacon Rations Increased In Britain
London readers learned the food ministry doubled weekly ham or bacon rations to four ounces per person starting January 29 due to improved stocks. Seamen will receive eight ounces weekly. further adjustments may follow depending on supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Food Ministry
German Plane Attacks French Trucks in War Novelty
A German plane attacked a column of French trucks with machine gun fire today for the first time in the war. Three British planes tried to engage the raider but it escaped into the clouds. Intermittent fire reported west of the Moselle and east of the Vosges and along the Rhine. The allied communique stated nothing to report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Moselle
Vosges Mountains
Rhine
Weekend lull at Southern Furniture Market in High Point
Sub freezing weather kept attendance low as the Southern Furniture and Rug Market neared its close. Exhibitors said business yesterday topped expectations and predicted a pickup Monday when new buyers are expected to arrive, with many weather‑impacted shoppers likely to attend next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
N. C
Boyce Brevities from Virginia FFA, marriages, and travels
In Boyce Virginia on January twenty seven attendees from the Boyce FFA joined a Culpeper fair with instructor Mr Davis. Local students recover from exams and jitters while several residents travel or visit relatives in Boston Richmond and Langley Field.
Winter Clings to Rock Enon Area With Snow and Cold
Rock Enon Virginia reports ten inches of snow and continued cold as winter lingers. Local residents travel south for the season, including Mr and Mrs Turner Lockhart and Mr M H Rosenberger and Mr and Mrs Ernest Michael. The infant of Mr and Mrs R L Carrier died shortly after birth. Mrs Carrier was once Miss Armitha Haines of Capon Bride. Muriel Anderson of Winchester visited relatives in town recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Enon
Turner Lockhart
M. H. Rosenberger
Ernest Michael
Florida
R. L. Carrier
Muriel Anderson
Winchester
Retired Episcopal Missionary Lund Dies at 75
The Rev. Franz Edward Lund 75 a retired Episcopal missionary died of a heart attack at his Lexington Virginia home yesterday. Funeral services set for Sunday at 3 p m at Lee Memorial Episcopal Church Survived by his widow and two sons F Edward Lund Jr of Superior Wisconsin and Douglas Lund a medical student at the University of Virginia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Franz Edward Lund
Lee Memorial Episcopal Church
F. Edward Lund, Jr
Superior
Wis
Douglas Lund
University of Virginia
Grimes Gleanings: Deaths and Local News in Grimes Virginia
Miss Bell Guess dies in Winchester Memorial Hospital after staying with her sister Miss Ethel Guess. Twin daughters born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Morrison near Galilee. Infant Victor Lee Barr recovering after operation in Winchester Hospital. Local social notes include Ladies of the White Hall Mite Society meeting and neighbors visiting Mrs. Kerns. Severe cold and heavy snow remain, delaying travel and keeping plows busy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Hall
Victor Lee Barr
Harry Barr
Winchester Hospital
Mary Orndorff
Dessie Hensell
Isaac Kerns
Kerns
Ethel Guess
Clyde Sibert
Winchester
Charles Hensel
A. &. Orndorff
Mary
Alice Newcomb
James Grimes
Cartoonist Charles Werner Wins Pulitzer Prize
Charles George Werner of The Daily Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, earned a Pulitzer for his cartoon Nomination for 1938. The image shows a grave with a headstone reading Czechoslovakia 1919 1938. The scene depicts a grave marker tied to Nobel Peace ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Charles George Werner
Daily
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Czechoslovakia
State Employment Service Aids Jobless Across Sectors
Virginia's State Employment Service handles job placements in private firms public employment and work relief projects. It emphasizes personal hearings and qualification matching while offering no direct financial aid. Veterans disabled and agricultural workers receive specialized placement support. Continuous benefit eligibility requires active job registration and regular reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Theempent Service
Winter Weather In Mt Williams Brings Open Roads
Mt Williams Va Jan 27 We enjoy fine winter weather despite drifting snow as two road crews keep roads open day and night. George Carver ill with grippe Edward Smoke improving after influenza and double pneumonia He was born Jan 1st. Myrtle Crowser ill at home. Visitors Irene Orndorff Irene Fauver Eoethyl Pitcock June Wolverton Juanita Wolverton Edna Bowen Madge Fauver ill. Walter Bowen called to Winchester Memorial Hospital for his father who died that night Little Jimmy Bowen eight months old with whooping cough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Williams
George Carver
Grippe
Edward Smoke
Paul Smoke
Myrtle Crowser
Irene Orndorff
Irene Fauver
Eoethyl Pitcock
June
Juanita Wolverton
Edna Bowen
Madge Fauver
Tooter Trouble Found At Home
Evanston residents endured a sleepless night as James Bruce reported a repeatedly blowing car horn. Police investigated at his address and found the offending vehicle parked nearby with horn persistent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
James Bruce
Answers to Today's Quiz
Answers to test questions printed on page 4 list items including San Salvador Thirteen Boils and Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Herbert Hoover and Dim e ter not di me ter are noted. Crustacea Monnens and Stanford Brazil are included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Herbert Hoover
Monnens
Stanford
Brazil
Kipling's Tales Brought To Date By Prize Winner
Major Robert Henriques, winner of a 15 000 all nations novel prize, presents a novel take on British Army life from 1928 to 1930. The author, born 1905 in London, served in Royal Artillery across England Egypt and the Sudan. He recently housed 24 refugees from several nations at his Cotswolds home. The book may be borrowed at Handley Library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Henriques
Henriques
Kipling
Major Henriques
London
Rugby
Oxford
Royal Artillery
England
Egypt
Sudan
Cotswolds
Handley Library
Colleges Disagree On Kiss Effect On Germs
At Western Reserve University Cleveland Dr Lee Ferguson contradicted a California physician who claimed kissing destroys germs. Ferguson said colds in acute stages are easily transmitted by kissing and warned students to avoid close contact. No formal ban on kissing exists though WRU urged caution during colds while UC Berkeley banned kissing for 60 days after influenza cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Western Reserve University
California
Lee Ferguson
Ferguson
Western Reserve
University of California
S. L. Katzoff
San Francisco Institute of Human Relations
Treasury Status in Washington on January 25
Receipts amount to 9,296,266.09 while expenditures reach 24,007,880.58. Net balance stands at 2,309,545,321.86 with gross debt at 42,095,045,789.71. The increase over the previous day is 17,633,749.39.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Treasury
Community News from Mt Pleasant Va Highlights Ills and Visits
Mr and Mrs Curly Tillett and child Kitty Dodson of Charleston W Va visited Mr and Mrs Carl Fox and family. Mrs John Perry is ill and Miss Dorothy Brewer suffers a bad cold with tonsillitis. Sunday School 2 pm and Christian Endeavor 7 30 pm at the U B Church, led by Dorothy Brewer. The bus driver A D Davis and several locals are noted as ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Pleasant
Curly Tillett
Little Kitty Dodson
Charleston
W. Va
Carl Fox
John Perry
Hilda Milhorn
L. C. Messick
Dorothy Brewer
U. B
Christian Endeavor
Odetta Boyce
Hassell Brewer
Woodrow
Lucille Perry
Venner
Linden Ritter
Mildred Ritter
Winifred Brewer
Margaret Fox
Earl Fauver
William Fox
Perry Marple
Viclirod
Flora
A. D. Davis
Gaynell McClure
Eva Perry
Wheeler to Address Virginia Editors at Banquet
Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana will be the principal speaker at the Virginia Press Association banquet closing a three day meeting in Richmond. Senator Harry F Byrd will introduce him as editors discuss daily and weekly paper problems and makeup. Da phine Dailey of the Caroline Progress will receive the 1939 Lee editorial award for distinguished editorial writing and community service. Major Raymond B Bottom urged telling Virginia progress with data from the Census and state sources showing growth in wealth employment and manufacturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dailey
Lee
Richmond
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Virginia Press Association
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Daphine Dailey
Caroline Progress
Bowling Green
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Major Bottom
Old Dominion
State Chamber of Commerce
Federal Census Bureau
Grand Rapids Furniture Trade Faces Mild December Decline
Seidman and Seidman report the U S furniture industry showed slight chills in December 1939 compared with a milder wartime period. Unfilled orders dropped 38 percent from November, shipments fell 14 percent, payrolls off two percent, and receivables nine percent, while the backlog remained 21 percent higher than December 1938. Early January markets suggested good but not exceptional activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids
Mich
Seidman and
Seidman
How Virginians Voted In Congress
Virginia's House delegation voted unanimously to continue the Dies committee investigations into un American activities. Rep Drewry was absent but paired in favor. all present supported the president's veto on a bill to pay Ohio old age pension funds for October 1938. In the Senate Byrd and Glass joined the majority to strike a $200,000 Puerto Rico cantonment site provision from the military and naval appropriation bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Virginia
House
Dies
Drewry
Ohio
Senate
Byrd
Glass
Puerto Rico
Virginian Rail System Gains Net Income in 1939
The Virginian Railway reports a 21 percent rise in net income to $6,756,597.22 for 1939 with a 7 percent coal business increase and a surge in general merchandise revenue. December net income reached $760,610.38, vs $710,288.24 a year earlier, as coal movement to Hampton Roads grew amid wartime demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Virginian Railway
Hampton Roads
Red Invasion Of Finland Signals Broad War Threat
European fear rises as Soviet attacks on Finland press toward Karelian isthmus and Lake Ladoga. Churchill calls neutrals to aid Finns, flagging a wider Allied plan to confront Russia with Germany if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Associated Press
Europe
Arctic
Karelian Isthmus
Lake
Ladoga
Russia
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Churchill
America
Chamberlain
Britain
France
Germany
Scandinavia
Bridgeport
Conn
Alfred Duff Cooper
England
Scandinavian Peninsula
Duff
Real Estate Sales Rise In Virginia Areas Reported
Realty sales this week to the Virginia Real Estate Association totalled 880 545 across 244 deeds in five centers. Otto Hollowell noted fewer deeds but higher total consideration than the prior week. Arlington 56 deeds 299 750. Richmond 68 deeds 294 300. Norfolk 61 deeds 103 800. Roanoke 37 deeds 88 000.
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Norfolk
Virginia Real Estate Association
Otto Hollowell
Arlington
Richmond
Alexandria
Roanoke
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R.C. Moore
Virgin Tech
Tell of Experiments
Florsheim
N. Loudoun
Anne
Zero
HN Aekaa Nas
North Kent ST
Boyce
Boyce F. F. A
Culpeper
Davis
Lily Garver
Charles Mininichi
Carl Peyton
John Cooper
Russell Carper
Knight
Washington, D. C
Mary Louise Williams
Marvin
Cooper, Jr
Cooper
Tover Cooper
Randolph Frazier
Langley Field
Medical Department
Randolph Field
Texas
Boyce School
Grimes
Kotexi
SILCO
Inu
Mr. Pleasant Notes
United Food Stores
Sen. Wheeler
Congress
Dewitt MacKenzie
Thriftivator
Hotpoint
Merves W. Adams
E. Piccadilly St
Aniers
N. Loudoun St
A. F. Rees, Inc
Leesburg, VA
Berryville, VA
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
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