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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1940
Page
6
Present and past rainfall data show none for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. and none for December to date. Year to date rainfall stands at 32.24 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1939 list January 2.56 inches through December 2.39 inches. The 27 year average annual rainfall is 35.53 inches, with statistics courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
In Essex Market Court Sam Cohen was arraigned for selling without a license on Magistrate Edmund L Pamieri's first day. The judge suspended sentence after praise for the new bench and the case reflects a probationary start.
A Wichita fourth grade class was given a simple object riddle by their teacher. Students named items such as a state key, screen door hook, key ring, sewing machine part, puzzle piece, band uniform piece, and milk top opener. Pew correctly identified the object as a button hook.
Pattern 6733 includes six motifs averaging 5.34 by 0.9 inches with transfer, stitches and color schemes. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY with name and address and pattern number.
The following names were listed as new Red Cross memberships by Roll Call headquarters today: Sylvia Affleck Garvin Bowles Allison Burks Edward Blow Mrs E E Bayliss Mrs E C Charnock Mrs G M Leeb B J Downey W E Doby E T Erickson Marshall Fietdler Robert Freeman Mr Farmer Leonard Green Mr Claude Grim Mr and Mrs Phil Gold Lucy R Hardesty George T Hyde Elsie Haines Joseph C Hughes Mrs Boyd Headley W L Harris Paul James R D Jenning Madeline Keckley Jas Kniceley J E Kalsach Mrs F L Largent Rev C B Larrick Cornelis Meyer Ashton Marten Mrs W F Marston J W Mac Callum Mrs J W Norton Harry Rippeon Robert N Randolph Houston Rhodex A S Rickey Clarence Scott Allen Staples Sidney Seabright Miss Simples Mrs N L Smith Houston Taylor Floyd Taper Montgomery J Triplett W E Touchstone Miss Marie Turnipseed John J Vole
Isaac s Creek notes list weekend visits and social calls among residents including Mr. Julian Roolman Mrs Lula Baker and Mrs Alice Whitacre. Visitors include Mr Joe Kerns of Windex Md Mr M C Baker Washington and Miss Eva Whitacre who travels to Washington DC. Also mentions Miss Alice Marpole Winchester and families Oates Whitacre and Polands with trips to York Pa and a quiz question about the Golden Gate origin credited to Sir Francis Drake.
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