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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1917
Page
4
A consolidated wrap merges content from Morning News Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror. The combined edition compiles local notices editorials market reports and society briefs for readers seeking a single-source digest.
A blurred poem-like piece praises historic naval figures and calls for renewed action at sea. It invokes Jones, Lawrence, and Dewey, lauds bravery, and condemns a wild butcher, urging heroic resolve and the names of the brave to be written in history.
The Navy League branch appeals for a 3 dollar annual membership with Sea Power kept monthly for supporters. Those unable to join financially may donate or knit to fund yarn purchases. Notable locals, including Captain Louis M. Nulton and Lt. R. E. Byrd Jr., are named among sailors serving. Mrs Herbert S. Larrick is appointed secretary of the Winchester branch.
List of unclaimed letters at Winchester post office for the week ending May 412. Recipients must pay one cent per letter. Names include Ambrosia Choc Company Banks Octavia Curtis Elsie Glowser Hollis Everett Kentos Grace and others with unreadable fragments.
Prominent fruit growers from across the county attended a Saturday session where a USDA biologist explained pine and meadow mouse damage to apples. He advised poisoning methods using sweet potato bait with strychnine and baking soda, plus field sanitation, habitat management, and natural predators to protect trees and maintain sap flow in girdled or injured trunks.
The afternoon program featured Kennear Cromer at the piano and Aulick on violin with Ave Maria. Dr Roszel spoke on the world crisis linking the Boy Scout movement. Prayer and benediction followed. FEagie and Wheat raised the flag. Sanford and Sheetz were buglers. Two scouts received silver scout work contest medals, Richard H Gray and Frank J Silver, after earning twelve points in faithfulness oath and law, thought of others, advancement, signaling, first aid, cooking, nature study, bank deposit, athletics swimming, handicraft and tenderfoot training.
An advertisement touts a blood cleansing product claiming to purge poisons from the system and cure diseases from rheumatism to malaria. It urges readers to consult a druggist and request Swift Specific Company’s product, offering medical advice via a mail contact in Atlanta.
Mice and rabbits damage young trees by girdling bark. Wrap trunks with wire netting or tarred paper, or cover with a six inch earth mound around the base. Trample down snow around trees to impede rodent access as they tend to work under the surface.
Cooperative experiments by Missouri College of Agriculture in 40 orchards over three years show neglected orchards lose money while well pruned and sprayed blocks earned 176 dollars per acre gross and 143 dollars net. Untreated areas yielded 18 dollars per acre with no net profit. Renovation proves advantageous.
Martinsburg reporters note Miss Louise Thwaite, operated on recently, will be brought home by Mr and Mrs Fred Schlack and Mrs John Thwaite along with Miss Susan Howard of Albin Virginia. They will escort the patient to the home of Mr and Mrs Thwaite. The item also recalls the death toll at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 with Capt George D Wallace and Lieut Ernest A Gartlington among those killed.
Colorado Agricultural College expert George M List explains how codling moth larvae hide in bark and crotches after winter. As days warm and blossoms fall, the larva forms a cocoon and remains inactive through winter before the new generation emerges.
An article explains the codling moth life cycle with wormy apples and describes how female moths lay 40 to 50 eggs. It urges winter bark scraping around crotches to destroy larvae, noting birds aid exposure and urging growers to favor scraping alongside spraying for worm-free fruit.
University of Nebraska findings show canker as a widespread major apple enemy despite control of scab and blotch by spraying. Continuous attention is needed to manage canker, and infected orchard owners should contact their state experiment stations for guidance on control methods.
A. M. Munsucer of Bogue Chitto Mississippi states rheumatism kidney and bladder trouble and dizziness. He reports complete relief from Foley Kidney Pills. The notice warns of disordered meat causing pain in the side sore muscles and swollen tired feeling. Pills sold locally.
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