Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1930, Page 31

" HONE CLUBS NAP YEAR'S PROCRAN Prince William Organizations Pass Best Period in Their History. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MAN. AS, Va., November 7.—That home demonstration clubs of Prince ‘William County, co-operating with Miss Barah Pitts, county home demonstra- tion agent, have just put behind them the best year of achievement in the history ot this work was revealed today in the reports of the various clubs sub- mitted at a meeting of the Home Dem- onstration Advisory Board, called to consider the reports and develop plans for ihe ensuing year. Major Project. The major project which the board selected to be undertaken by the clubs of the county was “home management,” stressing economies in spending, in work, in time, and in every department of home management where waste may me%eln, ‘The minor projects which will undeftaken and which have pre- viously been major work in most of the clubs will be the care of poultry and landscape gardening. Inspirational talks on many phases of home demonstration work were given by B L. Hummel, rural erganization specialist; Miss R. Belle Burke, district onstration agent. Mrs. C. F. M. Lewis, sented by Mrs. Eva 'm Bethel Home Demostration Club; Mrs, E. E. Blough for the Manassas group, Mrs. Jane Abel, Dumfries; Mrs. Holmes Robertson, c-m-rpm Mrs. W. L. Lloyd, Greenwich; Mrs. M. J. Shepherd, Nomvme while Mrs. M. M. Washing- ton, Greenwich, acted as secretary. Entertainment in Afternoon. Following a group luncheon served by ladies ol the Presbyterian Church, the afternoon program included songs and entertainment by groups from the Greenwich, Nokesville and Bethel Home Demonstration Clubs. Members of the Home Demonurntlon Advisory Council are Mrs. C. F. Lewis, Mrs. May Dogan and Mrs. E. !: Blol:rh Manassas; from the Brentsville district, Mrs. M. J Shepherd, Mrs. M. M. Washington, Mrs. W. L. Lloyd; Mrs. R. L Ellis, Mrs John Ellis and Mrs. John Seymour, Gainesville—Miss Mamie Heinekin, Mrs. O. M. Douglas and Mrs. Holmes Robertson; Coles District—Miss Rena Eilicott, Mrs. R. W. A. Wine; Cline, Mrs. D. J Davis and Mrs Jane Abel, and Occquan District—Mrs. D. C. Glascock, Mrs. Eva Kidwell Garner and Mrs. Egbert Thompson. Sheceiiciin Fairfax Vote Canvassed. FAIRFAX, Va., November 7 (Special). —The canvassers of election, Samuel H. Styles, B. W. Middleton, Herbert O. Blunt, A. J. Kidwell and J. C. Hunter yesterday met in the clerk’s office to officially count the results of Tuesday's election and, certified the returns to Richmond. The tabulation of Fairfax County’s 25 precincts showed 2,754 votes cast, of which 46 were void. Glass re- ceived 1664. Byars 739, Morgan 142, Smith 1,800, Brooks 872, Daniel 14 and THE EVENING SUNDIALS SERVED SURVEYING TASKS: Research Keveals Dual Use of Instruments by Early Engineers. Although few are the virtues com- monly attributed to the sundial of the ays gone by, scientific research reveals the fact that this instrument often served the double purpose of & time- piece and a surveyor’s compass. Accord- | ing to the researches of a mining pro- fessor of Edinburgh University, both the .| German and English present-day instru- . | ment known s the miner's dial had a common ancestor in the portable sun- dial. Although an attempt to prove a con- nection between an instrument for sur- CREERON 614 12th ST. Mother, my hat. mother, pin a quill--on large collection of mewest quill immin; A and ostrich faney trimmings—now the vogue in millinery. 25¢, 50c to 98c STAR, WASHINGTON, The portable sundial was & instrument havflng a gnomon or thrower standing over the middle of a dnsk graduated in hnm Recessed with: n the disk was l circular et )wm- ll'll a small com) e used for setting the am in Lhe meridian. Popular Timekeepers. ‘These little sundials were much fa- vored as a cheap kind of watch or clock in Europe up to the beginning of the | time. nineteenth century and were particu- larly pogullr from the early sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century. Many of them—beautiful examples of fabrication engraving in brass or bronze—are extant. The early surveyor saw that by remov- ing the gnomon from a portable sun: dial and by fitting a pair of sights or & pair of hooks in place of it be obtained DY smwhetwl "Mm l".‘hn circular and could be fitted e gnomon or compass. There are two scales, both being marked in hours. The outer one extends all the way round the circle, and is for survey- ing, whereas the inner, which has a np for the dark hours, is for taking t Apart from the suggestive name “dial” from the Latin “dies,” a day, and the still more evident fact that unlike the mariner’s compass most of the surveying dials of olden times were graduated in hours 12 or 24 to the circle, there are references in the literature which defi- nitely connect the miner's dial with the sundial. One of these in “Mineralogica Cornublensis,” written in 1778 by Wil- Yals FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1930. , gives itive of the relationship zhmmm: the miner’s dial of the period was a com- pass without a gnomon. FIGHT OVER ELECTION Warrant Issued at Martinsburg for Assault at Polling Place. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., November 7—A warrant has been issued here for Joe Smith, living west of here, charging him with assault upon Elmer Edwards and George Butts, living in the same section, just after the vote had been counted at Smith's school house, where they voted. Authorities attributed the :ltuck to disagreement over the elec- jon Butts was taken to a hospital here with a throat slash, and Edwards was also cut about the head, but did not require hospital attention. Named Supper Chairman. » Va., November 7 | * Faitfiix Hun Tomorrow, PAIRPAX, Va, November 7 (Spe- clal).—The opening hunt of the Falrfax f Hunt Club will be held tomorrow, stat- ng from the new club house, on the 10~ | estate of A. Smith ALEXANDRIA, = Va., (Special) . —Samuel M. Manassas, Va., poultry dealer, died at the Alexandria Hnsplm early this morn- ttack of pneumonia. The is at Wheatley's under being prepared for burial. Bowman, st Sunset Hills. 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