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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1926
Page
2
Chester firemen urge the public to report fires by calling 1o and giving the extent, nature, and precise location. This guidance aims to prevent unnecessary department responses for minor blazes.
G W Cavanaugh of Cornell University argues that methods used to dry milk into powder retaining its nutrients could be applied to other foods and crops. He says concentrating perishables could save losses, extend availability beyond harvest, and provide economic benefits to farmers.
Bloom Brevities reports St Johns Sunday school in Bloom Virginia schedules a children's day service for July 11 at 8. The event highlights youth activities and community participation. Local families are invited to attend and support the church program.
Miss Mae Crabill spent the weekend with her Winchester hosts the Crabills. Mrs Frank Schaffenaker and son William Lyle visited Capon Bridge residents Mr and Mrs Thomas S Cooper. Mrs Cooper attended Lebanon Church memorial service with daughter Anna Jane. The Friendly Grove Community League plans a July 3 yard party at the schoolhouse grove to benefit the school with an 8 30 pm meeting to elect officers. Thomas S Cooper runs a heading factory on the Handley timber tract and plans to manufacture for years. Mrs Martha E Clowser has returned home for the summer. Miss Arthelia Richard has the measles.
A small Italian colony in the Sonora river delta near Nogales has converted 5000 acres of dry, barren land into a productive farming area in seven years. They built twenty miles of canals and drains and now raise two crops yearly including beans and corn in winter and wheat in May. They are starting a project to plant grape vineyards.
Troop C of the 114th Cavalry from Haskell University Kansas will participate in Chicago Birth spectacle at Soldier Field on July 17. Indian schoolboys will first appear in war paint and feathers then in army uniforms. Hundreds more Indians from Wisconsin reservations join in the founding of Chicago and pioneer westward push against resistance. The show marks a mini sesqui centennial tied to the Loyal Order of Moose convention.
Florence Arizona June 23 government engineers ready to start the Coolidge dam on the Gila River fifty miles east of Florence. The dome type structure will irrigate about 80000 acres with 150000 acres potential, benefiting Pima Indians and enabling crops like oranges cotton figs and alfalfa with multiple harvests yearly.
June 23 in Rome reports Fascist Italy aims to restore Rome's heritage culturally and politically. Virgil will be honored with a Mantua monument, a complete edition of classical authors is prepared, and artists Carra Soffici and Oppo are directing efforts to align painting and sculpture with antiquity.
In Count Geza Zichy memoirs a temperamental opera singer attacked a carpet with her teeth. He declined a salary raise, noting the opera could go bankrupt if paid by merit. The singer laughed and left, mollified after being told she could share the joke with fellow artists.
A physician endorsed Purification claims Calotabs cleanse the system and restore vitality. The ad urges taking Calotabs weekly for several weeks and offers a full directions packet for 35 cents at drugstores.
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