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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1934
Page
7
Rain benefits local farmers and gardeners as fall crops prepare. Social visits unfold across Frederick County with relatives and friends from Washington Waynesboro Front Royal Stephens City Winchester and Strasburg. Upcoming Walnut Springs Church homecoming and weekend visits from local families highlight a busy community scene.
Opequon Virginia reports that school opened October 1 with pupils hauled to Round Hill four miles away. the local building will house the colored school. Apples bring good prices as many out-of-town pickers arrive. E E Headley bought a player piano. Fauver visited his daughter Hinkle Pitcock. Mrs Clint Miller sold a cow. Miss Virginia White studies violin with Prof DeMasters.
In Rock Enon Virginia on Saturday a heavy rain fell as Mr. F. L. Good and locals attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Jane Lockhart who lived in the town forty years and had many friends. James Larrick is making cane sorghum molasses with orders backing up for up to 100 gallons.
Refuge Virginia residents attended a laymen service at Fairview Church Sunday night. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Headley and family from Winchester, Mrs. Maud Allamong and kin near Winchester, and Roy Rickard and family from Stephens City. Mr. Bowman's seventieth birthday capped the day.
Highview, Oct 5. Announcement: Miss Anna Broy wed Mr Earl Buff on Sept 29 at Berryville. The couple are well regarded by local friends who extend best wishes. Also notes local moves and visits including Lovell Stickley moving to McCartney house near Nineveh and visits among community members.
In Siler Virginia on October 5 readers list visits from Martinsburg and Glengarry residents to Dailey Shade and DeHaven households. The Howard Chapel school opened with Harvey Mauzy as teacher. Weather noted rain damaged local roads. Several DeHaven relatives and neighbors, including Ernest Whitacre and Bertha DeHaven, are mentioned along with new truck purchase by H E Shirley.
The Bloom community opened a new consolidated school at Mountain View with three teachers and a new bus driven by Belmont Fout. Superintendent Leslie D. Kline and the school board are praised. plans include a community league, singalongs, and possibly moving the Friendly Grove piano to Mountain View.
In Hogue Creek Virginia on October 5 Mr and Mrs Scott White and children visited Mr and Mrs Herbert Kump of High View West Virginia. The community welcomed a new son born September 29 to Mr and Mrs Carlton Ramey and both mother and child are doing well. Hayfield School opened for the term with a large enrollment led by Principal George Whitacre and assistant Miss Barton.
Mr. and Mrs. Laban Hodgson hosted a birthday gathering in Mountain Falls on September 29 for their daughter Mary Velma who turned eleven. Attendees included Mary Velma Hodgson and many relatives and neighbors. Refreshments featured cake and ice cream at five o clock as guests extended best wishes for future birthdays.
Mrs Annie Orndorff and granddaughter June Wolverton visited relatives near Mt Pleasant from Friday to Sunday. Edna Fauver ill with appendicitis. Miriam Sizer arrives to teach local school. Numerous visits and daily life details at area homes and farms. Burial of Alice Hook at St Johns noted. School opens with 25 pupils under Sizer.
Gainesboro Virginia October 5. Mr and Mrs Branson Reynolds and children and Mr Merlyn Farmer of Rawleigh Springs visited Mr E E Bayliss and family. Rev C G Russell, ill with grippe, is slowly improving. Frank Pownall and Catherine Clark of Martinsburg visited Charles Sewell and family. Paul Painter and Dr Wayne Haywood of Washington were weekend visitors at Mack DeHaven home. Kems returned to Gore after summer with grandparents Eddie and Mrs. Roberts. Miss Mary E Darlington returned from Baltimore. Mrs Marcus Adams ill but improving. W E Adams and family visited James DeHaven. Lottie Coffey and Joseph Taylor of Siler called on Mae Painter. School opened Tuesday with Nell Marcus and Jeannette McKeever as teachers.
The Black Mollie is a melanistic phase of Mollienisia latipinna found along Florida. Normal Mollienisia latipinna show olive green with tiny red and blue markings. Jet black specimens occur natively but many in aquaria come from selective breeding.
Miss Elizabeth Farrar and the extension agent urge farmers to store surplus garden produce for winter. They describe cellar and pit storage methods, vegetables suitable for each method, and practical steps to protect crops through the cold season.
The Palace Theatre shows Pursued with Rosemary Ames and Russell Hardie as star-crossed lovers under a plot of revenge in Borneo. Victor Jory plays a scheming foe, with John Arensma cited for authenticity. The program also includes The Wrong Bottle and The Lost Jungles plus a Tom McCoy feature and short subjects.
Warner Bros. CAPITOL double feature screens Kiss And Make Up with Cary Grant and Genevieve Tobin and Blind Date with Ann Sothern and Neil Hamilton. Kiss And Make Up follows a handsome beauty doctor loved for more than his medicine amid songs and lavish sets.
Tomorrow's Colonial program includes Guns For Hire with Lane Chandler, Buck Jones in The Red Rider chapter two, and Elmer And Elsie with George Bancroft. Also shows Guns For Hire's feud tale and a western thriller serial plus a light comedy of everyday life.
Special music at the Open Door Bible Class Loudoun Street Church begins 9 45 Sunday morning with the junior choir led by Billy Barnes. Singers include Miss Margaret Athey Walter Bailey and Hubert Kerr Jr first appearance before the class. Rally Day invites all members and friends. Strangers and visitors welcome.
A Washington column uses an evolutionary metaphor to view the NRA as a caterpillar becoming a butterfly and questions its significance. A New York bureau piece discusses urban life, travel, and the allure of being a New Yorker amid suburban drift and theater trips.
The piece notes that porpoises and whales are born with wooly coats that are shed soon after birth. It also states human infants often have more hair at birth than a week or two later, a natural shedding process after birth.
The passage lists four venomous species in this country: rattlesnake, copperhead, coral, and moccasin. It notes some classifications recognize up to 27 poisonous species, but the list here includes 15 classes of rattlesnakes varying by markings and localities.
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