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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1943
Page
7
Present and past rainfall data show none in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. December to date 0.02 inches, year to date 28.86 inches, with 30 year average annual rainfall 36.11 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1941 list specific inches for each month, compiled with courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
Railway Express wins 3 0 over Elliott Perry Const Co and Handley leads with high games 149 by Ressiguiie and 384 in set. Railway Express tops team game 593 and team set 1725 with Perry Const Co 1558 and American Tea 1554 in a busy bowling night.
Virginia’s 1943 honey crop totaled 1,904,000 pounds, under three quarters of 1942’s 2,688,000. The dip stems from fewer colonies and lower yields, with 119,000 colonies at spring’s start and an average yield of 16 pounds per colony. Beekeepers boosted wax stocks to 48,000 pounds, while year-end honey on hand dropped to 181,000 pounds. Average honey price rose to about 22 cents per pound. beeswax averaged 39 cents.
Ajax Anti Freeze priced at $1.40 per gallon and DeLuxe Auto Heaters at $16.95 headline this budget plan offer from Goodrich Silvertown Store located at 36 E Piccadilly St with contact phone 3122 for winter readiness.
Complete car health check offered by George Washington Garage with 24 hour service. Call 3848 for details and appointments.
Virginia families gained about 15 000 pounds of fresh meat from Washington National Forest venison. Forest Supervisor M C Howard of Harrisonburg notes 173 deer reported by big game stations, about 7 1 2 tons dressed weight. Hunters from every Virginia region contributed. conditions favorable with strong deer breeding potential and expansion prospects.
Reynolds Store Virginia reports a sequence of small social visits. E N Luttrell hosts guests while J Place family and H Edwards family from Winchester join at the Shenk home. D C Fearnow daughter visits Luttrell. L Hodgson moved to Memorial Hospital. R Steward remains at home. G B Hovermale family from Omps W Va visit Hovermale home.
Radio schedule notes a 1943 award winner Nelson A Bond tale titled The Gift as the victim in a Mr and Mrs North murder. Programs include WRC at 8 p m with The Gift and WTOP at 9 p m airing Lionel Barrymore’s Dickens reading A Christmas Carol. Dennis Day appears as Eddie Cantor's guest on WTOP at 8 30 p m.
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