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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1940
Page
3
Virginia gardeners are urged to prevent pests by sanitation. Ex extension entomologist and plant pathologist B Fenne says cleaning up and burning old crop refuse stops disease and insect infection. returning organic matter as manure is cheaper than letting fungi and bacteria persist in soil and diseased debris.
Police traced eight sticks of dynamite found in a hole beneath Police Chief Virgil B. Grow's garage. A clue emerged after Mrs W Goode Robinson reported a missing quarter case of dynamite and caps from a hidden woods stash on Timber Lake property. Kids Frank Richardson Jr. and Billy Payne located the explosive.
Creed Kelly arranged an investigation into a local explosion at Raven Red Ash Coal Company's No. 4 mine near Richlands Virginia. Douglas Griffith, 23, was killed as 80 men entered the mine for the 7:30 a.m. shift. Fourteen nearby miners escaped injury. the mine suffered no serious damage.
White Hall notes list visiting friends at Berkeley Springs W Va Mr Charles Pine of Winchester called on Janney McKee Tuesday. Thurman Darr spent weekend with wife. Mrs Carr to Baltimore for future home. Mrs Edgar Smoke ill with a cold. Mary Carr Anderson and Libby Carr visited Kernstown. Walter Anderson and Janney McKee with Mrs Robert Smith. Newton Harmon family moved to late J H Hansher home. John McNeally and Vernon Hut lore visits Sunday.
Readable fragments describe senior personalities and ambitions at Stephens City High School. Biographies cover Ruth Evelyn Hausenfluck and peers Ruthie Virginia Good Mae Hack Betty Hack Harding Williams Jim Yeakley plus student life notes and playful classroom sketches of the era.
German settlers in Virginia founded Stephensburg later called New Town. The New Town Pippin apple from Peter Stevens Sr. gained fame for its extraordinary flavor. Queen Victoria allowed its import to England, popularizing the term pippin as high quality.
The list presents freshmen such as Ella Rae White and Janice Rickard with exclusions and contrasts. Names like Myrtle Gardner with a big mouth and Lester Bauserman talking appear among scattered notes on interactions and characteristics.
Sophomore notes Betsy and Louise Perry back after illness and reports the School Board will make up a lost instructional day this Saturday due to bad weather. Included are student song dedications and quick blurbs about classmates with humorous or curious parenthetical comments.
Junior News questions a missing class ring from a girl in Ber ryville and hints at mischief in Montgomery Wards. The piece teases about students like Charles Mudd and Miss Elsie, and ponders how Katty Venable and Lillian Snyder would manage errands without them.
The Stephens City F. F. A. reports near full turnout at the Northern Triangle Federation meeting at Handley School. W. R. Legge presented an engaging program including a Washington life talk. D. J. Howard discussed a new F. F. A. camp opening soon.
A detailed report of boxing bouts in weight classes from 100 to 170 with winners including Hugh Campbell Malcolm Brumback Maynard Boyce James Garrett Charles Mudd Frank Jenkins and others. The event featured a 4 8 50 Parker pen prize to James Yeakley and plans for future matches plus Handley F F A refreshments and notes on a federation rifle match and baseball and tennis discussions.
A school essay by Julia Link argues for finishing high school. It stresses education as a path to a better job, lifelong benefits, and personal growth, urging peers to complete their high school course.
The Heene Economic Club will serve refreshments as Pappy and the Boys present a radio show in the auditorium of WFMD Frederick Maryland on Thursday March 7 at 8 p m The organizers hope for a large attendance.
Edna Rosenberger known as Rosie is described with focus on her education and home economics club secretary role and Glee Club member. William Michael called Billy is noted with the cat as a pet, reflecting a light class profile.
The Star promotes apples as Winchester's major commodity and will publish a different recipe each day to boost local interest and consumption.
Butter and sugar creamed then eggs added. Alternate flour and milk with baking powder. Fold in whites and vanilla. Melt butter, layer brown sugar, add apple rings with maraschino centers. Pour batter, bake 350 F for 45 minutes, turn out and serve with cream or ice cream.
The boxing team and the F. F. A. Rifle Team received approval. The rifle team is sponsored solely by the F. F. A. Charles Mudd was elected manager of the baseball team for the coming season at a prior association meeting.
Instructions and charts for filet crochet cloths 36 to 108 inches square. Includes stitches, materials, and illustrations. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept. 259 W 14th St New York NY with name address and pattern number.
Sixth and seventh grade Rhythm Band members list includes Mary Lou Cooper Elzada Michael Dorothy Biggert Hazel Foreman Hazel Johnson Baden Larrick and Harold Pugh. Pupils report good attendance despite bad weather and ponder study habits of students including India Triplett Norman Anderson June Triplett Marie Good Junior Carpenter Dicky Campbell Melvin Johnson Winifred Fox.
Mr Billy C Snarr visited his sister Mrs Dewey Hulver at Mt Falls. Carl McDonald suffers grippe. Elmer Godlove with son in law Alfred Rinker near Stephens City. Strasburg High Glee Club broadcast from Harrisonburg. Florella Fisher visited aunt Mrs Benjamin Strosnider. Jess Bly visited Cecil Bly family. Mildred Mowery of Silver Springs Md visited. June Hockman of Wheatfield spent night with Loretta Campbell. Claude W Orndorff to wed Mary Keckley near Strasburg. Emma Beeler attended Golden Wedding near Strasburg. E D Funkhouser returned from Baltimore. Norval Gore resumes work after tonsil operation. A E Keller to Julius Jasper Keller. W L Whittington visited Julius Keller. Hunter Everett of Baltimore Md visiting mother Betty Everett.
Hammond Miller and family have been ill with grippe. Mr and Mrs Verlus Pugh welcome a daughter born at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Esta McKee is suffering with grippe. Edgar McKee and his young son have been quite ill for several days with grippe.
Transfers include George W. Cross to Charles Cross for Grat cen Grove Factory Building with $5 and other considerations. Farmers and Merchants National Bank to George H. Smith Jr. for 331 North Main Street with $10 and valuable considerations. Shirley Carter Properties to Mary S. Yeakley for a Latane Street lot. George H. Smith Jr and Etta S. Robinson at 331 North Main Street for $3,800. F L Harris to Sam and Mildred Ensogna for a Harris Addition lot with $10 and valuable considerations.
Thomas B. Morton grand patriarch called a meeting of officers and active Grand Encampment members of the Virginia Odd Fellows for 10 a m March 10 at the Hotel John Marshall. The session will plan a three day state meeting of the four branches in Roanoke beginning May 26.
Homer A Rodeneaver is listed as owner of the copyright for the hymn The Old Rugged Cross which was composed by the evangelist George Bennard.
Handley Library announces new arrivals across fiction and non fiction. Notable works include Four Part Setting by Ann Bro, Victorian House by Dorothy Hewlett, Abraham Lincoln The War Years by Carl Sandburg, To the South Seas by Gifford Pinchot, and Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre by Gassner.
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