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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1930
Page
6
The Star invites readers to follow daily local and state sports scores and updates in a compact column. It previews upcoming games and highlights key matchups for community teams and athletes.
The St. Louis Browns defeated the Washington Senators 7 to 4 to take the three game series in St. Louis. Walter Stewart earned his eighteenth win as O Rourke started the rally in the sixth with a walk. Gullic, West, and Blue added key hits to push across four runs.
The Farm Editor reports the drought worsened crop yields across regions with corn dropping about 10.4 percent in August. Projections show corn may be the smallest since 1901, down 24.2 percent from 1929 and 26.6 percent below the 5 year average. Other crops fall, pasturage and milk decline, while some grains regain modestly.
Five people are dead and several dozen injured after a quake and eruption of Stromboli volcano near Messina Italy. The lava stream destroyed Stromboli town and villages Gimostra and San Bartolo with homes fields vineyards set ablaze. Ships from Messina carried food tents medicine and firefighters to aid the stricken region.
Prof C W Holdaway of Virginia Polytechnic Institute endorses using apple peelings and cores for silage. He notes the feed value is about 75 to 80 percent of good corn silage and should supplement roughage, not replace it. A ration of 15 to 20 pounds of silage with 8 to 10 pounds of hay per cow daily is suggested.
Emma Jane Cooke 18 pleaded to spare her mother but was unable to prevent the shooting on the Cooke porch in Atlanta. William J. Cooke 40 was jailed on murder charges after confessing he intended to kill himself but fired at his wife and daughter intervened. Eyewitnesses report no threat attributed to Emma Jane prior to the fatal shot.
The Girls' Athletic Association held its regular monthly tea in the club rooms with arrangements by Mrs Thelma Brown and Mrs W A Carskaden. Mrs Edward G Butler of the Frederick and Clarke Garden Club won honors with her roses at the Leesburg regional flower show. Virginia Masons are gathering at Berryville to dedicate a monument to Edmund Randolph at Old Chapel Cemetery tomorrow.
Five years ago in 1925 a drought caused serious damage across many eastern sections. Local water remains strained as Abram's Creek dam failed to raise Rouss Springs. Stuart Wolcott Post No 10 of Washington visited this week. A law enforcement conference is planned for September 29-30 at Market Street Methodist Church.
Principal N. D. Cool announces about eight hundred pupils will attend Winchester Public Schools in the coming year. The United States government holds submarine chiefs responsible for sinking neutral ships on the high seas. Massey Brothers, local fruit growers, captured every silver cup.
August tonnage sales reached 389,113 tons, up from 335,628 tons in August 1929. The increase amounts to 53,485 tons, a rise of 15.94 percent driven by higher retail food demand and sales.
There will be a crying in the White Hall Methodist Episcopal Church South at 7 45 p m Sunday A welcome is extended for all to attend this service
Norfolk on September 11 Police Justice R B Spindle Jr fined Russell Carroll 250 dollars and Cecil Carroll with James Beecham 100 dollars each for assaulting the Rev B B pastor of the Free Will church Sunday night August 31. They offered no testimony and appealed to the another court from the judgment and were freed on bond pending appeal.
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