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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
Fort Valley
DEATH OF OSCAR KILLER.


Oscar Keller died III a hospital
n Philadelphia Sunday after an
Illness of duplication Of dis
eases. His body was brought
home on Tuesday aud funeral
services were conducted at
White Chapel. Cross Roads, by
his pastor the Rev. E. B. ST. yer,
Wednesday afternoon and inter-
ment was made in the White
Chapel Cemetery. Mr.. Keller
was a former resident of the
PoweIls Fort Valley, son OIL
the late Jacob Keller, of Carmel,
and had gone to Philadelphia
two months ago.
Surviving are his little son
Delmar, one sister, Mrs. Essie
Sheetz, of Philadelphia and one
brother, Owen Keller, of Car
mel, Va.
We are having almost summer
weather for the last few days.
Apple hauling is about over and
corn gathering is the order OF
tho dow a fhiS time
Those visiting at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Smith the first
Of the week were Mr., Chester
Slipe, Misses Isabel. Dorothy,
Audry and Agnes Shipe.
Mr.. Samuel Cullers remains
about the same.
Mr.. D. B. Lichliter is very i'll
at this time at Seven Fountains
Quite a crowd of the Fort
people went to Woodstock Sun
day evening and among them
were Mr.. Howard Glenn, and on
their way back they had the
misfortune of running over the
bank near the top of the noun.
tain and upset his car and broke
it badly but glad.to say no one
was hurt.
Miss Pauline Shipe student
of the Woodstock High School
is at her home on the sick list.
r. L. Walters seems to be
slowly improving at this time.
Mr.. z. Taylor and Messrs
Samuel and Will Shipe have EN-
pIoyment in Fairfax County
where they are building a house
and will be gone for some time.
Mr.. Austin Munich and family
of Washington, D. c. were visit
ing relatives and friends in tEi.
section during the past week.
Mr.. Edward Shipe of eros!
Roads has moved to Sever
Fountains.
Mr.. Tobias Ritenour has open
ed a blacksmith shop near Car
mel, we are glad to have hin
back again, you can get you.
work done on short notice.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
TO OUK SUBSCRIBERS

The Post Office is again making de
mands on publishers of newspapers to
revise their mailing lists. Under the
ruling of the Department the publisher
will not be allowed to mail papers as
second class matter to subscribers who
owe for more than one year, unless
the subscriber has given instructions
to continue sending it for a definite
time and bona fide promise to pay.
Because of this law, we are compelled
to communicate with all onr subscrib-
ers and ask them to cooperate with us
that we may put our mailing list in the
shape required.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
PuzzIInn a Candidate

parliamentary candidate In rural
district made the following remark In
the course of his address: There is
no question in the world which cannot
be answered with Just Yes or NO."
An old farm laborer Jumped up and
said: please, master, might I ask e
a question:"
Certainly, my good fellow" said
the candidate.
We'll, then, MASTER" said the old
farmland, whats the timef'-Lon-
don Telegraph.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23

Mrs. Minnie Sager OF New Ok
ford Pa. arrived here last week
to visit her son-in.law and
daughter Mr.. aud Mrs. Luther
B. Kohne, and other relatives.
The Citizens Club utet t the
home of Mr.. aud Mrs. V. 5
|Shaffer Wednesday nigh, ct last
week. The program was ide
consisting of special musica
selections and recitations after
which refreshments were served
by Mrs. Shaffer. 1t was decided
to have a Box Social Saturday
night at 7:30 in the store room of
w. J. Gociienour lately vacated
by VIM. Stark. The public is
cordially invited to come and
spend pleasant evening, The
next meeting will be Wednesday
night December 18th, at the home
of Mrs. B. M. Meredith.
Mrs. Jas Houchins her SON
Willie and Miss Mary Lindsay
who visited Mr.. and Mrs. Duke
L. Shaver returned 10 their home
al Charlottesville last Friday.
Wn. Cusick and Jack Fields
wLo3were visiting Romeo Funk
for several days returned to their
home in Washington Sunday.
Spider" the bull terrier own
ed by DIR. D. L. Shaver aud his
boon companion in his visits in
his car, had to be killed last
week; he had been sick for
week, it is thought he had been
poisoned. Spider, was with the
Dr.. when he met with the acct
dent on the mountain year ago
aud guarded his master while he
was partially unconscious. The
Doctor will miss his friend and
companion.
Samuel Totty. who visited his
sister, Mrs. A. G. Shaver, has re.
turned to his home at Winches.
ter.
w. D. Shaver, who had been
visiting the University of Vir-
ginia at Charlottesville for two
weeks, stopped over with his par
euts. Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Shaver,
from Friday until Sunday. when
he left to visit Columbia Univer-
sity at New York City, where he
will be for two weeks or more.
The Quality Music House have
added the Davenport & Tracy
pianos and player.pianos to tleir
line. This company has been
manufacturing pianos for fifty
years, more than 135, 900 of their
pianos and players are in the
homes of pleased and satisfied
patrons. If YOU ever hope to own
A piano or player-piano, now is
the time to buy. Perhaps never
again will you have a chance to
secure such high grade instru-
ment for so little money-and on
such convenient terms as The
Quality Music House will now
give you Call or drop them
postal and they will be at your
inme and talk the piano and
player over with you. The quail
ty of these pianos or players are
Is impressive as their lou price
they are instruments built 10
grace the finest homes.
Luther M Conner is building
i stable on the lot of his father
u-law, Samuel A Funk.
Mrs D. l.. Shaver left for De-
roit Mich. Thursday, where SHE I
vas called by the illness of her
laughter-in-law MRS. Paul f. ,
u. Shaver, she was accompanied
y her husband DIR. D. L. Shaver !
3 far as Martinsburg. w. Va. t
n their automobile, where she !
aught the B. & o. train for the t
vest. +
The Ladies Missionary Society $
# the Brethren Church will hold
IA Thanksgiving evening Thurs
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1872
AT 2 O'CLOCK. p, NJ.

Al " CLOCh, L. M'B
to sell the real estate of which the late
James w. Sheetz, decd, died seized
and possessed.
Said real estate consists of tract of
Is acres, more or less situated on
Narrow Passage Creek, and the Mid
die Road, about 81 miles South OF
Woodstock, in Shenandoah County, Va.
There are upon this tract of land,
frame dwelling house, also cabinet
makers shop, with good water power
Marrow Passage Creek" good new
dam and ice pond.
TERMS OF SALE:
One third cash on day of sale and
residue in two equal annual payments,
to be evidenced by bonds bearing even
date with day of sale, with interest
from date, payable annually, and title
to be retained until the purchase
money is fully paid.
E. D. NEWMAN, Spec. Comr.
C. E. TAPLEY, Auctioneer.
In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court of Shenandoah County, Wood
stock, Va, Nov. 10, 1923.
Shenandoah National Bank, Complts.
against In Chancery
James w. Sheetz's admr. and
others, DeftS.
!, Otto V. Pence, Clerk. of said
Court, do herebv certify that E. D.
Newman, who was appointed Special
Commissioner of sale in said cause by
a decree rendered therein on the 18th
day Of Nov. 1923, has executed bend,
with personal security, in the penalty
fixed by the Court, and conditioned
and payable as prescribed by law.
Given under my hand this 10Th day
of Nov, A. D., 1923.
OTTO V. PENCE,
Nov. 23-4w. c. c. c. S. c.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
Traspnss Notices

Trespass Notices for sale at this
office. Shenandoah HERALD.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23

TIE conditions Of "Uncle|
Washington NcI turf who $
been III { / III liedle .. mile east
Of town remains bout The same
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
Commissioners Sale
OF
REAL ESTATE J!

Pursuant to decree rendered at the
November Term, 1923 of the Circuit
Court OF Shenandoah County, in the
chy. suit of Shenandoah National Bank
Scc. VS.. James w Sheet admr. &C.
and petition of M, L Walton Jr Gdn
VS.. Maize Sheetz, heard together there
with, the undersigned special com
missioner, in said decree named, will
proceed, in front of the Court House
Door in Woodstock, Va,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
MaurertOWn

Mrs. Minnie Sager OF New Ok
ford Pa. arrived here last week
to visit her son-in-law and
daughter Mr.. aud Mrs. Luther
B. Kohne, and other relatives.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-23
International Golden Rule Day

Secretary of the Commonwealth
Evening star., 1923-08-05

minute accuracies and defects Of
simple or elaborate prisms, rhombs.
quartz planes, lenses and other prog
eny Of intricate glass work. The
delicately corrected lenses Of the
gigantic camera are harnessed for the
testing and Standardization of other
such that beam of light from a
special electric lamp is projected
through q pin point hole into a dark
chamber where it is focused on a mir
ror. This mirror reflects the light
into the camera, whence it passes
through the large lenses. AS the
beam of light leaves its source, it is
divergent, but as soon as il passes
through the corrected camera lenses.
the beam is disrupted into parallel
rays.
Any other lenses or prisms placed
in front of the camera in the direct
line of these parallel rays will i'm
mediately show up defects and weak
nesses when examined through small
telescopes. In this manner, the hid
den secrets of unknown lenses are
brought 10 light. The expert lens
maker, when he locates the defects.
corrects them by manipulation il the
errors are eradicable. All commercial
manufacturers of Photographic lenses
now practice this efficient testing
method
There are also three twelve-inch
"fats"-caref fully standardized CYL
inders of glass twelve inches in di-
ameter and two inches thick-that
are used in determining the defects
of prisms and other glass gauges. 4
monochromatic yellow light from an
incandescent helium lamp is used as
the source of illumination in the
technical searching for mistakes and
irregularities in the glass objects
wave length OF the yellow light is
only one-fifty-thousandth of an inch
in length. and il is used as a stand
ardiZed ruler to measure the distance
between the two fiat surfaces of the
glassware. small ridge or irregu-
larity in the surface of the prism
under test as minute as two-mil-
lionths of an inch can be readily dis
covered by this remarkable sleuthing
system. 1t is almost beyond the
powers of the average layman TO
comprehend the intricacy and accu-
tions, which are of immeasurable i'm
portance to certain branches Of com
merce, the arts and industries.
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greatest benefit. for, after all. the
work that is being done out there has
for its main purpose the giving to
the country Of information that will
be Of benefit to every citizen.
These keen-eyed government farm
ers have means of determining the
effct OF parasites on the rate of
growth and development of pigs, and
the effect of different kinds of foods
on the firmness Of carcasses in soft
pork investigations.
Hero also they investigate the
value of fishery by-products as
sources of protein food; they note
the effects OF close in-breeding in the
matter of production. size and variety
of the little groups OF new pigs, and
the rate of gain under certain con-
ditions.
The abattoir on the farm enables
all experiments conducted to be car
meat products.
THERE are many who like the
i meat of sheep and at the place
called Sheep Acres, a practical forage
crop system for intensified sheep
farming has been developed. Those
in charge of the work are preparing
for the future. when grazing lands
for sheep will be far less extensive
than they are today. The system is
parallel with tho English system,
under crowded pasture conditions,
and those who have eaten the famous
Southdown mutton will agree that
vast reaches Of land are not essen
tial to good mutton. Here is the very
latest word in sheep raising. They
have experimented until they have
been able to raise twenty more lambs
per 100 ewes than they could under
old conditions
One must not think of sheep in
terms Of food only. for from. this gen
tie creature comes that highly i'm
Wortant product with which weuesothe
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the most profitable ration. Two
pounds of velvet beans were found
to be practically equal to one pound
Of cottonseed meal
There are two main lines of poultry
investigation at Beltsville. They are
the breeding and the feeding of poul-
try. About 1900 hens are used. These
have been built up by scientific breed
ing and are fine examples of what
can be accomplished by careful work
and thorough study. The general
plan has been to combine good egg
production and excellence of standard
quality and breed character in each
variety of poultry. The results in
this line have been particularly mark
ed in the single-comb white Ieghorn and
have resulted in interesting both
poultry breeders and the various state
experiment stations and agricultural
colleges in the possibilities of main
tanning fiocks of poultry in which
are combined.
A new breed. called the lamona, has
been established The object in Civ
ing his breed to the country was to
produce a general purpose fowl COM
bining both egg and meat production.
This fowl produces white egg and
has the qualities desired by the
American public-a table fowl with
white plumage, yellow legs and yell
low skin.
A system of cullinG-that is. sepa-
rating the less valuable chicks-has
been carried on for some time, with
the general result that a far higher
standard has been obtained than was
thought possible when the work was
first undertaken. 1t is a decided con-
trast with the methods that formerly
obtained on nearly every farm in the
United States. Poultry can be graded
Evening star., 1923-08-05
BY GEORGE H. DACY.


IF you are loathe to leave on that
motoring expedition or vacation
tour because you are a radio en-
l. thusiast and are so closely
welded to wireless news and music
that it is like pulling teeth for you
to depart from the immediate vicin-
ity Of your receiving SGT even for .
short time, you will be interested to
learn that Brent Daniel. a Washing
ton inventor. has perfected a portable
suit case radio receiving set which Is
compact. easy to handle and service
ably satisfactory in every way.
The pleasure seeker can trek to the
primeval fastneA Of the Catskills
or the Adirondacks. he can guide his
canoe across the solitude Of Maine
lakes, can venture the vicissitudes Of
sky travel. can brave the vastness Of
the seven seas, or can step on the
starter of his motor car and speed
cross ss-country in any direction and
still have the attractive anusements
Of radio entertainment constantly at
his elbow as a result Of the recent
invention.
Yes, there have been many and
various kinds Of portable radio out
fits on the market but all of them
have been unsatisfactory for the use
of the general travelling or vacation
ing public because they necessitated
the use of either overhead antennae
or external coil a1riaIs. Such sup
Elementary equipment demanded that
the so-cslled portable sets be either
stationary or else set up in special
automobiles or other mediums OF
transportation. For tho most part.
these outfits were portable In name
only, IS otherwise they featured the
principal inconveniences Of nom
portable installations.
THE radio receiving set which Mr..
i Daniel has devised fits into a
lightweight suitcase as snugiy as any
six-quart silk hat ever slid into its
leather case. Every part and parcel
Of the portable radio set gees inside
the suit case, which, when packed for
'HaFel lHoikhanA&HfhiSt 6xe ppupda,
Evening star., 1923-08-05

lenses does not preclude the use of
the equipment by commercial photog-
raphers, as there are cameras now in
some of our leading American studios
that cost from $1,000 to S2,10o.
With the recent improvement in
the American glassmaking industry
facilities are now available in this
country for the output of American
made lenses of every type and de-
scription. The only difficulty will be
to train expert astronomical lens
makers in all the secrets of glass
manipulation so that they may eiimi-
nate the errors of confusion and in
accurate focus from these large
lenses.
The Clacey pictures may be re-
duced to any size desired. In their
reduced form these pictures are more
accurate and reliable reproductions of
the scenes or objects photographed
than are similar negatives made with
a small aperture lens that is stopped
down. 1t will be only a matter of
time until commercial photographers
will, of necessity, use the larger
lenses, the offspring Of scientific lens
making principles.
Some authorities contend that our
next great forward step in the art of
picture-taking will be the acceptation
and commercial adaptation of such
perfected facilities as the c1acey
camera to the future needs of the
Photographic industry.
Glass to the most of US means SIM
ply a transparent material that lets
the daylight and artificial light in and
keeps the wind and rain out of our
houses, Offices and automobiles. To
the expert lensmaker glass is a COM
plex substance which teens with sci
entific riddles--a perplexing puzzle
that is ever-changing and becoming
more intricate as its use in the arts,
sciences and industries is extended.
If you doubt about the hundred and
one mysteries of glass you should
visit the laboratory or testing room
of an astronomical lens expert and
observe him for a while as by this or
that apparently simple movement he
changes the workaday character of
prism or lens.
At UNCLE SANS huge testing
"A laboratories out Connecticut
basic standards are maintained
miniature yardsticks, 50 to speak.
that are used in gauging the most
Evening star., 1923-08-05

The outfit is also compact, as the
case is only eight by fourteen by
twenty-four inches in dimension. The
only external evidence that the radio
suit case is anything other than a
commonplace article of baggage Is in
the operating switches and plugs into
which the ear trumpets or loud
speaking devices link. The arrange
ment is such that the portable set
can be used at any time without un-
strapping the cover of the suit case,
under which are stored the batteries,
vacuum tubes, amplifier and coil
aerial.
If you are going on an automobile
trip, all you have to do is to leave
room in your luggage carriers for
Evening star., 1923-08-05

Gated lenses and prisms used in your
Uncle Sans federal laboratories and
research rooms. is different from the
many tourist cameras that daily are
snapped here, there and everywhere
in our big league city of government.
All these cameras are stopped down
to approximately one-fourth-inch n
aperture to give good definition and
to eliminate fogginess when the
negatives are exposed. 1t is i'm
possible to secure the same view in
every minute detail with one of these
small lenses that you perceive with
your two eyes or which the large
size corrected lens will record. A
small lens registers the sights and
scenes in a picture only in the lin
tied angle that it can cover. BY
using a larger lens that is free of
confusion errors you reproduce a
more detailed and complete portrayal
of the scene or object upon the mega
tive.
To obtain satisfactory life-size pic
lures the art of commercial photog-
raphy makes the initial exposures
with stopped down lenses. These
negatives are then retouched and en-
larged to the desired dimensions.
However, they are not as true and
accurate as the direct life-size pic
lures made with the Clacey camera,
because it is beyond the province of
the small perture lens to record ac-
curacy of detail as minutely and
truthful1y as the large errorless lens.
The pictures which Mr.. Clacey takes
with his mammoth comera, using
rapid plates and exposures Of six
to eight seconds. are SO remarkable
photographers. who thought the por2
traits were engagements made by the
best of Washington professionals.
4
THE champion camera, which now
i is one of the outstanding photo
graphic features of our national art
of picture making. is the product of
months of the most exacting and in
tricate labor on the part of its origi-
nator. The inventor even has made
successful pictures by artificial light,
consisting Of three powerful electric
bulbs, each of 500 amperes. The lenses
there really are four nineinch lenses,
two fiints and two crowns in the de-
vice-cost in the neighborhood of
$500 to $4,000 and are made of the
best imported French optical glass.
However this high price for the
Evening star., 1923-08-05
Washington Inventor Perfects a
Portable Radio Suit Case Set

the radio suit case. You can even at
tach it to the running board of the
car, place the ear trumpets on your
head and listen to sweet strains of
distant music or the latest news,
market information. weather reports,
base ball scores and what not in the
daily gossip that is circulated through
the ether from central broadcasting
stations as you bowl along over
winding highways and byways.
When set up for active service in
a non-portable form, the radio re-
ceiving set under discussion has re-
peatedly picked UP transcontinental
signals from the Pacific coast. where
a coil aerial three feet square was
used. Used as a portable outfit, its
Evening star., 1923-08-05

is truly remarkable. more especially
in the last two years.
There are today farms that are de-
voted to the raising OF goats and the
selling of the milk from them. At
the government station is a herd Of
milk goats and this herd has estab-
lished beyond the shadow of a doubt
that the milk from the goat is not
only valuable for infants and invalids,
but also for others. The milk of the
goat is recommended by physicians,
Evening star., 1923-08-05

been a great movement, especially in
the south, to use cottonseed meal as
stock food. One lot Of cattle at
the farm was fed cottonseed meal,
then shelled corn and cottonseed
meal also shelled corn and soaked
velvet beans, while another combina-
ton was that of cottonseed meal
and soaked velvet beans. While the
cottonseedmeal and the velvet-bean
ration was found to produce, the
smallest daily gain, it was, however.
Evening star., 1923-08-05

Persons who have travelled over
certain parts of Europe have often
remarked how sturdy some of the
people were, and almost invariably
they have asked how it was that
these men of the hills were so strong.
Always the same answer was made
that as youngsters they were given
goats milk and later fed on cheese
made from the milk of the nannies.
OF late, this industry in this country
las taken on an added growth that
Evening star., 1923-08-05

EXPERIMENTS at the government
~ farm include those relating to the
For example, they have fed the stock
velvet beans. In this test soaked
beans gave the best results, whole
beans were next. while ground beans
were last. This upset the old idea
that ground beans as cattle food
surpassed all others.
For number of years there has
Evening star., 1923-08-05

reasonably audible range varies from
500 to 500 miles. Unless a person is
going on long sea voyage or into
the distant deserts and mountains.
it is rarely, nowadays, that he gets
farther than 500 miles from a first
class radio broadcasting station.
Hence the portable radio set has
very wide range Of adaptability. The
outfit is always ready for use. All
the operator has to do is to switch
on a certain button. 1t Immediately
lights the filaments within the trav-
cling container. The radio audio
amplifier has three stages of amplif-
cation. The coil aerial Of this stand