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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
6
The report shows 24 hour rainfall of 1.50 inches ending 8 am and July to date 5.07 inches with year to date 23.54 inches. It lists average monthly rainfall from 1913 to 1939 and an average annual rainfall of 39.53 inches. Courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
A Reynolds Store note lists a surprise Sunday birthday party for Louise Place with many local guests. It mentions upcoming yard party at Wesley Chapel Sunday School on August 10 at Fairview Schoolhouse to raise funds for an unspecified benefit.
Pattern 6440 provides charts and directions for a 3 1/2 by 5 inch alphabet and crochet insets. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY with your name address and pattern number.
Marion Keller is named as confined relative. Delegates from Stephenson Church attended camp at Powell's Fort Valley with Kath erine Travers and Charles De Haven. Young People's Department members included Rosa bell and Gloria Dorsey Anna Marie DeHaven and Louise Travers. Numerous local residents visited Great Falls Park Winchester and New York World's Fair.
Dannenborg Nebraska Aug 1 a bolt of lightning struck a farmer's chimney and roof tearing away three walls. The bed in which he slept bounced four feet. Pete Sondergard emerged unharmed in a dramatic but non fatal incident.
In New London Wisconsin on August 1 Ben Thorn, city ball park caretaker, received a new lawn mower two inches narrower than the old one. He used to walk 12 miles to cut the park lawn and now estimates walking 16 miles to cover the same area.
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