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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1940
Page
6
Pattern 6869 offers two 2 x 24 inch alphabet transfers with stitch illustrations. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept. 259 W. 14th Street New York NY with your name address and pattern number.
Raymon Carper and wife transfer to Holmes Wisecarver and wife for a lot on Mon e avenue with $10 and other considerations. Rae and others transfer to C A Nelson and wife for a Dunlap avenue lot with $10 and other considerations. Heirs to Minnie M Jackson transfer to Mary Virginia Jackson for a house and lot at 408 North Kent street with $10 and other considerations. W E Bridgeforth and wife transfer to Mrs Sallie Affleck Green for a Liberty Street house and lot with $10 and other considerations. Shirley Carter Prep Inc to George H Smith and wife for a lot on west side of Latane Street with $1 000. Heirs of W H Turner transfer to Dorothy T Hawthorne for a half interest in office building at 110 N Brad dock street. Mrs Hawthorne owns the other half. F L Harris and wife transfer to Lynn Whitacre and wife for lot 26 block A on Orchard Avenue with $10 and other considerations.
M C Baker of Washington DC spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs J N Whitacre. Cesar Whitacre and family joined the Whitacres for Saturday and Sunday. John Whitacre and children Julian and Betty visited Sunday evening with Jess Whitacre. Charles Whitacre and son Harold visited. Evelyn Anderson visited with Turner Andersons. Less McCalley and two children called at the Anderson home. Cecil Whitacre hosted visitors Mrs Buster Flannigan and Ina Whitacre.
Brucetown residents will attend a Christmas drama The Guiding Star presented by Brucetown church members on Wednesday night December 25. Committee members include Mrs S J Swimley Mrs Roy Campbell and Mrs Gordon. The Young Peoples League held a business meeting Friday at the home of Mr James Yeakley. Local pupil Rhodelle Whitacre returned home briefly from Stephens City High School with a cold. Visitors included Harry Sherman of Winchester and Mrs Ward Purcell with Patricia of Ridgeway West Virginia. All are part of Brucetown community life during a festive week.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precipitation none and December to date .63 inches. Year to date totals 32.87 inches. The 27 year period 1913 to 1939 yields monthly averages from January 2.56 inches to December 2.39 inches. Average annual rainfall over the period is 35.53 inches, with data courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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