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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia lists press details now consolidating with multiple local papers and presents subscription rates for various periods. It notes Associated Press rights and exclusive republication for dispatched and local news.
Dr Mary Evelyn Brydon of the Virginia State Board of Health outlined the Five Point Child at a Washington talk. The program aims for children with normal or corrected vision and hearing, clean teeth, healthy tonsils, and weight within 10 percent under or 20 percent over. Schools with the highest Five Point percentage receive banners, and certificates are signed by the state education and health chiefs. Virginia reports strong progress and leadership in child health nationwide.
A California prize of 50 dollars honors the best essay on prunes for the table and calls for redeeming apple sauce from its low estate. The editor notes apple pie remains America’s favorite, urging experts to tackle the cooking craft and growers to improve the product.
Relief clothing from the Florida hurricane last fall included a fourteen swallowtail full dress coat. Canal Point officials could not assign it, so they gave the coats to the Canal Point baseball team who adopted the name The Spike Tails as their official uniform. The story suggests sharing the idea with clubs and groups facing such wardrobe burdens.
A fragment from Wytheville Enterprise notes the fishing season approach and contrasts real fishermen with others, hinting at stories and the lure of the river, though the text is fragmented and unclear.
A writer notes Wytheville residents view themselves as successful actors not matching reality. A banker and an engineer are described as imaginative dreamers who misread gains, boasting of feats unfulfilled. One narrator recalls returning from the tropics with film showing no alligators, illustrating the gulf between dream and fact.
A group of five ice water swimmers aged 21 to 60 completed 1000 hours in the water over a year. They swam daily in Hast river through four degree air and twenty four degree water, ranging from 150 yards in cold days to two miles on pleasant days. They say they avoided colds and gained 10 to 20 pounds while improving health and energy. Local townspeople praise their steady routine over dramatic feats.
An analysis of road building notes the shift from seasonal rural travel to year round coast to coast driving. It highlights plans to pave, widen, and straighten thousands of miles of roads and invest about one billion dollars annually in highways and bridges to improve national transportation and communication.
Irving T. Bush urged treating fire losses as an epidemic and applying preventive medicine. He cited fire prevention engineers sent to over eighty cities, noting Huntington West Virginia cut losses about 80 percent. A $500000 fund aims to expand the service, with property losses in the United States around $500000000 annually.
A carload of early spring lambs shipped May 5 from Dublin by the Co operative Shipping Association brought twenty center pounds at Jersey City. The lambs averaged 85 pounds and the shipment was among the earliest from the region. The association markets thousands of southwestern Virginia lambs and is the largest of its kind in the state.
A New Trier High School delegation visiting Winchester on April 9 1927 received extensive hospitality. The group voted a resolution praising Winchester for courtesies and kindness and offered reciprocal hospitality to Winchester residents in Chicago.
National Bank and Dr. Robert W. Stone were cited in noting the plant’s history in Winchester. Since N. H. Carpenter bought it, the mill has installed new machinery and grown into a major pfaf terboard operation employing about 50 men, with potential impact on over 100 livelihoods if disrupted. Carpenter plans further development and runs a Coshocton paperboard mill as well.
Sheriff says two Negroes identified Robert Jenkins of Charlotte and George Jones of Wilson as accomplices in the Gore filling station raid. They confessed with three other suspects, while two men arrested at Romney, West Virginia were released. Identification of Raymond Roe sought to finish the case.
Severe frosts in central Japan damage the mulberry crop to an estimated value of five million dollars. The Associated Press reports the loss impacting sericulture and related industries across the region.
Schedule in effect November 81 1926 lists trains from Berryville at 2 45 a m to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Williamson Norton with connections to Waynesboro and beyond. Includes Pullman sleepers to Williamson and Bristol Dining car. 9 15 a m service to Roanoke Bristol Cincinnati and Columbus with broiler coach to Roanoke. 12 26 p m to Roanoke. 6 53 p m local Shenandoah Va and 8 84 a m to Hagerstown and intermediate stations with Shenandoah Junction connection to Washington and Baltimore. 1 37 p m Hagerstown Washington Baltimore Philadelphia. 6 32 p m parlor car to Hagerstown with Pullman sleeper to Philadelphia. 11 29 p m to Hagerstown with sleepers to Philadelphia and New York. For fares schedules Pullman reservations and information contact H Burks Jno L Bladon Berryville Va Roagan Va.
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