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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1923
Page
6
A long column of social items from Winchester covers visitors from Baltimore Ohio and New York. naturalization of Warren County residents. engagements weddings and anniversaries. church council and Episcopal events. golf equipment purchases. hospital births and a birthday dinner for Dr Pflaster. Also notes on heirs, travel to Europe, a Washington sale and funeral attendance.
Mrs. Herman Lee and son Robert travel to Timberville Virginia to visit Mr and Mrs James W Lee and Mrs Emma Leidnig departs for Washington. Mrs R T Barton visits Rochester New York with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Arthur M Field. Harvey Bryant family drive to Harrison Virginia for weekend with relatives. William Kerr Lemley ill in Stephens City prompts local call. Dr John Randolph Graham and Mrs Graham visit South Washington Street home. Miss M S Turner returns from a trip to Baltimore. Nat Hawkins involved in a large home on East Street, last noted in context of household matters.
The column lists visitors and travelers including J Philip Diffenderfer and sons from Baltimore visiting McKim Diffenderfer on South Market Street, William A Anderson and Misses Judith and Ellen Anderson from Lexington on a motor trip, and others from Washington and Huntingdon on short visits or trips in Harrisonburg with local hosts and family connections.
The article urges careful planning and deliberate planting to ensure a steady supply of vegetables from spring to fall. It notes many gardeners miss succession, leading to waits between crops, and stresses maintaining clean soil to avoid extra future labor.
Gardens should avoid planting sweet potatoes, pumpkins or squashes where two crops are expected in one season. These crops need 120 to 150 days to mature. Bush squash matures in 60 to 80 days while vine squash uses the full season.
Radishes and spinach are old standby crops for early planting on ground to be cropped twice in one season. They are hardy and mature early enough to clear space for a second crop.
Maude Adams, famed actress who retired in 1918 due to illness, will return to the stage in a revival of Peter Pan and perform in three Barrie plays, including a new work by Sir James Barrie currently in progress, per the Evening Mail report.
Weather outlook indicates mostly cloudy conditions with occasional showers across the Atlantic states next week. Mild temperatures expected with scattered rain chances beginning Monday and continuing through the period.
Plants kept growing at a ram pant pace in hotbeds until transplant time become sappy and spindling. Gradually expose them to fresh air as transplant time nears and avoid sudden temperature shifts to reduce losses and start growth thriftily.
The article warns that many dangerous plant diseases arrive in gardens on imported plants. It recommends inspecting plants before planting and describes yellows in cabbage as indicated by yellow leaves and dwarfed, twisted growth with dark brown streaks in sap tubes.
A fragment notes concern over dodder weed affecting clover seed growers with new infestations each year and warnings to monitor fields for unobtrusive spread while stressing the difficulty of eradicating the weed.
Charcoal Eph laments poverty as he notes the high road leads to corn beef cabbage and coal, reflecting on money scarcity and hardship in a Richmond Times Dispatch excerpt.
Virginia eyes transforming the Shenandoah Cumberland valley from Gettysburg to Roanoke into a vast apple orchard. State and federal programs push extension work, packing plants, and storage facilities to boost bearing trees and exports.
The USDA notes a 26 percent drop in plow land value over three years. Iowa leads with a $66 loss per acre, followed by Illinois $44 and Indiana $37. Prices ranged from $113 in California to $22 in Montana as of March 1 1923, with gains only in some northern truck and cotton states.
The U S Department of Agriculture prepared a set of 40 lantern slides depicting the International Live Stock exposition exhibit from last December. The slides cover breeding and feeding, industry data, farm equipment, experimental results, market grades, meat selection, and more with a brief topic outline. Requests should go through state extension directors to the Office of Cooperative Extension Work in Washington.
In Cleveland Ohio the community buried 12 victims of a house fire during commencement exercises. A large grave held 11 of the dead with others burned beyond recognition. Governor McLeod attended the open air burial as 3000 mourners gathered at sunset. A list of the injured was not complete with ten seriously hurt and one in critical condition. An inquest was deemed unnecessary.
Prime Minister Bonar Law arrived from Paris looking tired and ill. He did not go to Downing Street but was taken to a private house for treatment under a noted specialist in London.
The guide advises using cow manure not horse manure to avoid crop burn in dry weather. Disk deeply, break the patch, sow fertilizer with the wheat, plant one potato piece per hill with one eye, spaced about twelve inches. Harrow after emergence, then plow weekly while vines stay green. When vines die, chill up but not too high.
A USDA study of 55 000 breeding stock shows purebreds are worth about forty cents above par. Fewer purebreds yield the same income, requiring less feed, less housing, and lower overhead, while producing higher selling value and less offal at dressing.
In Frederick Maryland on May 19 a man named George Kramer of Baltimore was fined 109 including costs after an auto crash on the Baltimore Frederick road near New Market. About 100 gallons of moonshine liquor were confiscated and a straw hat with initials H G found near the wreck. A police officer initially detained a suspect without a hat who later paid the fine.
German marks fell to a new low in New York on May 19 with a quote of 0.0019875 cents per mark, valuing about 50,000 marks per dollar. The prior low was 0.002025 cents earlier this year.
Mr. H. Richard Frye, a Lebanon Church resident, found a roll of petrified leather hidden in laurel bushes after a 1863 raid by Union troops near Mountain Falls and Horse Shoe Bend. The leather relic, tied to a cart from Stump's tannery, recalls battles with Southern sharpshooters during 1861-65 and is on display at Frye's home.
Isaiah Patterson a colored former resident died suddenly. His body was brought here last night and the funeral held at 3 this afternoon from Funk's undertaking establishment. Burial was in Orrick Cemetery. He was an ordained Baptist minister and recently preached at a local colored church during a visit. He was about 52 and leaves a widow.
John C. Brydon of Somerset Pennsylvania and Alfred M. Ogle of Terre Haute Indiana lead efforts to present a united front for the bituminous coal industry. They argue industry harms and public drawbacks stem from disorganization and a labor monopoly funded by the United Mine Workers’ check off system.
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