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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1935
Page
2
Mrs. Alice Kinman lay unconscious after a barn door fell on her during a gusty night. She woke to find hogs attacking as she crawled for help, fighting them off with a small stick until a neighbor found her next morning. Doctors fear pneumonia and shock may prove fatal.
Infant Elsie Emogene Marple, two months old, died of convulsions. Parents Henry and May Sheets Marple and one sister survive. Major James Mars of the Salvation Army led funeral services this afternoon with interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Augusta County Virginia 4-H clubs led southern entries in the 1934 national progress contest earning a 1000 dollar cash prize. A five member committee judged submissions with honorable mentions for Monroe Alabama Pulton Georgia and Hinds Mississippi counties. The eight counties averaged 748 participants enrolled and 74 percent completed projects. The grand prize of 10000 for a community club house was won by St Louis County.
Augusta county selected by state club leaders from 11 counties to represent Minnesota in a national 4-H contest. The 527 members completed 95 percent of projects, with 880 participating in contests or exhibits. The livestock judging team won first in the state and high in national contests, boosting farm practice and community life.
The article notes that the name Panama derives from an Indian term describing abundance of fish, explaining the linguistic origin and geographical significance. No dates or additional figures are provided.
The Deep Run Hunt Club race committee plans extensive work on the Curle's Neck and Middlebury courses for the April 6 meet. D. C. Sands and Jack Skinner reviewed the timber courses and suggested relocations and fence improvements. Cottrell leads alterations to specifications by Sands and Skinner, with four entries expected from Skinner and about ten to twelve others from the Middleburg area.
The Middletown Community League will debate the resolution that married women should be employed by school boards in schools. The discussion will occur at the regular monthly meeting on Thursday with members and guests in attendance.
The meeting on night March 21 will start at 7 45. G W Moe of 5 tive and R E Ayler principals at Stephens City and Kernstown with J Wilbur Tidler principal at Kernstown will defend the negative. Several business items will be discussed before the debate.
A brief note tracing heuristic to a Greek origin meaning ingenious. The method encourages pupils to discover knowledge themselves by using their own initiative.
Silent crowd of twenty thousand gathered outside St Edmund's Episcopal Church in Chicago to pay last respects to Richard Berry Harrison “De Land” of Green Pastures. Bishop George Craig Stewart delivered the final blessing after burial rites read by Rev Samuel J Martin. Harrison, son of former slaves, later worked as porter and dining car waiter. A fire estimated at fifteen thousand passed Harrison’s coffin as the body lay in state.
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