Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club meeting notes
At Berryville Mrs C Tayck hosted the Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club where Miss Bessie Conrad announced delegates to the Virginia Garden Clubs meeting in Charlottesville May 16 18 and alternates Mrs Conrad and Mrs McCormac. The group urged attendence at a Teesburg Warrenton regional show May 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Clarke County
Kenneth Gilpin
Garden Clubs ‘of America
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Teesburg
Warrenton
Fauquier
Loudoun
the Plains
Hawthorne
A. C. Stuart
Apple Blossom Festival Floats Highlight Martinsburg Link
Mrs Roland C Ringold of Shepherdstown writes for the West Virginia Review describing the Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester. Martinsburg Journal reports she secured photographs of the Eastern Panhandle floats for the magazine feature, to accompany her story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland C. Ringold
Shepherdstown
West Virginia Review
Winchester
Martinsburg Journal
Panhandle
West Virginia
Marriage announcements and social club notes from Clarke County
Mrs. Ann Turnbull Gary announces the marriage of her daughter to Byrd Alston Page at Pagebrook Clarke County Virginia St Pauls Episcopal Church conducted by Dr Beverly Tucker Jr The article also notes Mr Dave Miller plans to marry Dorothy Pool in Baltimore and details their future home at Fort Loudoun Apartments plus a Whachester Lions Club meeting with spring chicken dinner and 35 attendees at Battlefield Inn with gold and purple décor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Shirkey
J. B. Bittinger
Alexandria
Mary Gertrude Shirkey
Henry A.shirkey
Charleston
W. Va
John B. Bittinger
Id Stone Presbyterian Church
Gerardstown
Berkeley County
Ann Turnbull Gary
Edward Eggleston
Byrd Alston Page
Herbert H. Page
Lula Claiborne Page
Pagebrook
Clarke County
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Beverley D. Tucker, Jr
Richmond News-leader
Dave Miller
Golden Rule
Baltimore
Dorothy Pool
Fort Loudoun
North Loudoun Street
Whachester Lions Club
Battlefield Inn
Valley Pike
Lions
Goucher Sophomores Stage Boat Ride For Seniors
Miss Nancy Gray Larrick plays Sir Meadsman in a Goucher College sophomore class play. Seniors enjoy a Chesapeake Bay boat ride to Fairview Beach with a picnic supper, continuing a long standing sister-class tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Gray Larrick
Herbert S. Larrick
Sir Meadsman
Goucher College
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Fairview Beach
Goucher
Local Residents Return and Hospital Updates
Miss Annie C. Carter returns to Philadelphia after visiting relatives in Hack wood. Raymond Hicks, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hicks, shows marked improvement after an appendicitis operation at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. T. T. Holland Bruce Holland and Willard R. Holland return home from Gainesboro Washington area. Mary Yeakley slowly improves after thyroid surgery at Memorial Hospital. Charles L. Bowly heads to Nashville for rubber supply dealers convention. H. M. Jacobs of Baltimore visits at George Washington Hotel. Elizabeth Whisson arrives to visit Miss Mignon Peery. R. N. Miller of Baltimore also guests at George Washington Hotel. Elsie Carpenter continues to improve after Memorial Hospital operation. Dorothy Perrine departs for New York City. T. N. Hough and family return from Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester then visit George Hough in Hamilton Virginia.
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Girl’s Athletic Association
Margaret Kelchner
Dorothy McCann
Mildred .Milleson
Automobile Campaign
Dot
Mildred
William Ramsey
Beverley Wright
Wright
Hilward Goss
Janet Rinker
Dorothy Kremer
W. B. Brown
A. Carekaden
Herbert Schutte
Raymond Hicks
E. M. Hicks
Memorial Hospital
T. T. Holland
Bruce Holland
Luke, Md
Willard R. Holland
Washington, D.C
EB. P. Holland
Gainesboro
Elsie Carpenter
East Piccadilly Street
T. N. Hough
Winchester
George Hough
Hamilton
Loudoun County
Norfolk .Ledger-Dispatch
Dairy Work at Woodward Oklahoma Report Published
The USDA briefs dairy work near Woodward from 1921 to 1926, detailing feeding, records, and breeding studies. Highlights include a Woodward herd average milk 14650 pounds and butterfat 0.7 pounds per cow yearly at age about three years five months, and a bull sire test showing daughters with 50 percent higher butterfat. A bulletin copy is available from USDA Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Woodward
Oklahoma
Congress
Woodward Field Station
Oklo
Sudan
Lambs Clean Up Corn Field and Weeds, Says Editor
The article notes lambs perform efficient corn picking, leaving clean ears and also eating husks and leaves. They consume weeds that have gone to seed, improving field cleanliness and reducing waste.
Cleaning Seed Grain by Use of Fanning Mill
Wise farmers improve germination and yields by cleaning seed grain with a fanning mill. The device removes weed seeds and foreign material and grades grain to remove low vitality chaff. Dockage reduces market value. a few hours cleaning seeds pays substantial profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Machine Shed Pays Big Interest to Any Farmer
Wisconsin Circular No. 110% explains the financial case for well housed farm machinery. It states $400 binary investment, 22 percent annual interest on $1 000 machinery value when housed, and depreciation differences from well to poorly housed conditions. Poor housing halves machine life, increasing depreciation from $89 to $180 annually. well housed 3 to 12 percent yearly depending on machine type. a weather tight shed adds value and safety.
Notable Visitor at Hackwood Park Guests
Mrs Henry L Patterson of Philadelphia visits her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Logan R Fay at Hackwood Park near town. The Crow Indians are among the tallest people with men averaging nearly six feet. The first temperance society formed by 200 farmers in Litchfield County Connecticut in 1780. Jud Tunkins notes a friend in need is a friend willing to take a chance on endorsing a note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie C. Carter
Logan R. Fay
Hackwood
Philadelphia
Henry L.patterson
Hackwood Park
Town
Jin Licuefield County
Connecticut
Jud Tunkins
Sindorsing
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Girls’ Athletic Association
Ber
Martinsburg High School
Social Club
Youngee of
Market Street
M. E
Metrhodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
Magruder
Martineburg
Frederick
Robert Dale
Mary Katherine Kern
Margaret Graber
Harold Rowe
Carrie Wright
Louisé Harry
Andrew Babb
Red Cross
Huntsberry
Rei Crass Soe
Mrs. Eggleston
Mr. Byrd A. Page
Lions’ Club
County
Richmond
Shenandoah Valley
Mrs. Albin
Harry D. Albin
West Cecil Street
Pacific Coast
Old Mexico
G. C. Rose
Bruns Wick, Md
Virginia Rose
Miss Stickle
Mrs. Messler
Robert Grim
Ep Cunningham
Cincinnati, Ohio
Jack
Eleanor Chiles
Mr. J. M. Mullen
Hotel
Evelyn Childs
Berryville
Genevieve Pierce
Mr. Louis Wonder
Pimlico
S. W. Williamson
Roanoke, Va
D. C. Funkhousar
Mary Yeakley
Charles L. Bowly
Nashville, Tenn
Southern
H. M. Jacobs
George Washington Hotel
Elizabeth Whisson
Washington
Mignon Peery
R. N. Miller
Dorothy Perrine
New York City
Okla
Washington, D. C
Hawk OF the Hills
Florsheim
Sample Shoe Store
Florida
Georgia
Jack Coffee
Potage A
Potomac
Lunde
Northern
Strasburg
Fashion Park
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Frank Gearing
E. Piccadilly Street
Ellegs
Hollingsworth
Norris
Virginia Dare
N. Main Street
Kent Ed
North Main
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