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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
6
Fragmentary notice records a second class entry at a Virginia post office with unclear context and scrambled wording. No full names or dates present to expand the item.
A fragmented item notes RHIOr 197 ways of preparing apples before World War II. The readable text hints at culinary variety and wartime pantry practices without full details.
A proposed Virginia measure outlines an adequate system for game protection with licensing, state officers, and enforcement. It envisions live hunts and landowner rights while setting seasons for ducks and several game birds, with penalties and gubernatorial oversight.
Pete Smith of Turkey Hollow Va spent yesterday shooting quail partridges and rabbits. Neighbors joined as guests of Mr. Smith and family for a feast styled in Virginia fashion.
A playful verse by Walt Mason argues people endure germs by focusing on living fully. The piece suggests unseen dangers rarely deter daily joy, comparing microbes to a bulldog with teeth to underscore fear’s limits.
Camiberland Maryland visitors George McFarland and Stanley McFarland visited relatives near Welltown. The Round Hill Southern Methodist Sunday school plans a Christmas entertainment on Friday December 26 at 7 30 p m. Miss Hicks Hawkins and Wawkins visited Goughs. Cooper family guests and Opequon visitors stopped by.
An attorney cross examined a witness asking about a trip from Boston on the 16th and return on the 28th. The witness replied in indignation that he never was in such a place, raising questions about the interim activities.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt lampoons social trends detailing the man with a plush fedora and the watchful patron on the dance floor. The piece playfully judges style fads and the overly genteel, hinting that someday someone may react to such pretensions.
Local notes report social visits and illnesses in Relief Va on a December week. Mrs John Racey visited Mrs G L Pifer. Mr Jacob Deavers ill at home. Miss Mary Pifer returned from Capon Road. many neighbors visited each other including Mr Martin Barbour at E E Carpenter home and outings at Ridings Chapel.
Two young boys in Westchester, cousins, played soldier with toy guns near Ler Gay. They claimed meeting General Wood at a military camp last summer and mimicked officers, with Billy McGuire naming himself as commander. Mr. George F. Sheets of Detroit visits his mother Dr Kate Sheets on South Stewart Street.
A. T. Moore, proprietor of the Virginia Hotel in Staunton, was unanimously reelected president of the Southern Hotel Men's Association at the annual meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina last week.
Guidance from poultry specialists on best practices for successful farming. Emphasizes free range benefits for fertility and egg production, use of barn chaff as litter, grain losses from livestock, milk as a top egg feed, and age tracking by toe-punching chicks to manage molting and hen productivity.
The article warns that young apple trees must be protected, or the owner will lose valuable investment as rabbits use them for winter feed.
Extension notes detail when to cut corn and sorghum for silage, stressing green material, proper moisture, and water addition through a blower to ensure solid packing. Sweet sorghum should mature fully before silage, and weather frost can force timely siloing to avoid loss of nutrients.
A brief clipping from the Lotisville Courier Journal notes an assertion that only 2,500 common English words exist. The item reflects linguistic debate and a claim about vocabulary limits.
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