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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1927
Page
3
Mrs. Frank Kohlhousen and family arrive from Houston for a short visit after a Pittsburgh sojourn. Raymon Ett and Leora Wey wed in Akron with both taking Akron positions. The community also notes weddings, Lions Club events with Mrs. W. C. White and J. Harry Cunningham as speakers, and local visits by Kern, Plank, and other residents.
Mr Ross Boyd, long time patient at Memorial Hospital, moved to his brother Thomas Boyd's home in South Carlston street. Miss Mary Crismen stayed yesterday in Riverton Virginia with S F Rhodes. Miss Hilda Sakolsky of Baltimore returned home after visiting the Klompus family and Mr Myer Hamberger. Anta Mae Suode, visiting friends and relatives in Ohio and Pennsylvania, plans to return home tomorrow. Lulu and Sadie Lindamood of Stephins City and E P Ambrose of Martinsburg WV guests of friends in New Market yesterday. Mrs M Stevens of Hollowats jo and R J Holl Nase of Nehaptad WV spent last night at the G F House.
Funeral services for Mrs Susan Faulkner Beverley widow of J Gray Beverley were held at 5 pm Saturday from her West Leicester street home. Relatives and out of town friends attended service led by Rev Frank T McFaden and Rev Robt B Nelson with hymns For All the Saints and The Strife Is Oer. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery alongside the Faulkner family plot.
Persistent selling in oils and copper reversed the stock market's early advance after a failed attempt to rally by buying railroad equipment shares. Large volume selling produced declines of 1 to 6 points across many issues. Call money returned to 1 percent as the market closed weak, with about 2,100,000 shares traded.
Daily market notes list wholesale prices for local buyers in Wyoming and nearby areas. Figures cover corn, bran, middlings, cracked corn, flour, feed, butter, and live poultry with varied perchased ranges and tonnage amounts.
Market listings for wheat hay and cattle show corrected close values from the previous day. The page includes scattered numbers and desultory annotations indicating price updates across grains and livestock.
The farm mechanics department at the University of Illinois details how combined harvester threshers, first introduced in 1924 by Garwood brothers, improved soy bean harvesting. Trials show about one third reduction in costs, with rapid adoption and high yields across crops, including wheat and clover, though total loss in soy bean runs averages 10.62 percent with tailored cylinder speed and cutting gear.
Growing forage crops and grazing them with hogs improves run-down land says hog raisers and experiment-station workers. Manure returns most fertilizing elements to soil. trampling on heavy clays when wet is the main risk, avoid with permanent sod. Hogs help weed control and use waste plants by grazing in new fields.
The article advises frequent oiling of wagon wheels to extend their life. It recommends a trough like oil box placed under the wheel and filled with linseed oil, soaking every part of the rim as the wheel turns slowly. A jack speeds the process and painting the trough prevents leaks.
A yard party is planned at First Brethren Church on June 29 and 30 to raise proceeds for Sunday School and the Christian Endeavor program. The event dates and purpose are listed in the public notice.
United States Department of Agriculture reports after eight years of the campaign that 12,139,021 bushes sprouts and seedlings have been destroyed in 13 states. Salt and kerosene treatments eliminated bushes, survey work continues in 18 states, and many rusted grain areas show barberry as the infection source. Stem rust losses have declined in the eastern barberry states, allowing grain cultivation to resume where rust previously halted planting.
Dr. T S Rich led a Michigan campaign examining 181 poultry flocks, culling 1494 birds. Post mortems found 86 infected with tuberculosis. The study showed infection in about 38 percent of flocks, proving young birds can spread tuberculosis to hogs and should be culled with infected flocks.
Ohio experiment station advises frequent pasture rotation and chemical dosing to control stomach worms in flocks. Use either copper sulfate or nicotine sulfate, never both, with dosages scaled to weight. Feed withheld for 18 hours before and six hours after treatment, and move to ungrazed pastures for two months if possible.
Fall is the best time to burn weeds as fire destroys seeds and dead plants. Mow weeds while green and rake into small piles to prevent seed scatter. Set piles afire and rake loose ends into the coals as the center burns to completion.
Chestnut trees that lined Connecticut hillsides once provided income to farmers and supplied native poles for carrying telephone and telegraph wires, but they are now gone.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Radio Corporation of America for the second time against the De Forest Radio Telephone and Telegraph Company. The dispute concerns alleged patent infringement in selling vacuum tubes made by Westinghouse Lamp Company. The De Forest suit had been dismissed by Judge Hugh M. Morris in Delaware.
CURTISS FIELD New York June 27 A junk dealer bought a damaged airplane after Ramiro Sosa a young Mexican who had studied flying 20 hours took a single engine plane for a spin and crashed landing on one wing he was unhurt and the spectator offered 20 dollars for the wrecked Jenny which was accepted
Elkton Va June 27 State's Attorney Henry L Constable said he will decide by Thursday what action to pursue in the case of Rev Richard P Westren the so called marrying parson He will consult with the attorney general's office The status of Westren who has married about 500 couples since June is in question Church officials say he has no authority from the Methodist Episcopal Church while Westren says he is a member of the Iowa Conference.
The summer Bible school in the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Stephens City ended Friday after a highly successful term. Sixty three enrolled, 47 received certificates. Speakers included Rev. Dr. E L Wolff of Roanoke and Rev. Dr. Homer Thompson of Atlanta, plus Miss Etta May Russell and Rev. R K Nevitt of Washington.
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