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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1943
Page
7
Christmas announcements detail travels and visits by local families. Mr and Mrs Sydney Larrick plan to spend the holiday with relatives in Beckley West Virginia Clifton Forge and return home. Christmas carols and services are listed for Grace Church with a program titled The Lost Christmas.
In Stephens City Virginia on December 24 local residents share updates. Marshall Lovett arrives on furlough to visit his mother Mrs H P Lovett. Pvt Charles Robert Lemley expected for ten day leave after Christmas. Cadet Billy Lemley visits his mother Elma Lemley. Sgt Henry Shryock and Pvt Ralph Grim plan holiday returns. Several others are home or visiting relatives as Christmas approaches.
Grimes Virginia December 24 The White Hall Church will hold a Christmas program Sunday night December 26 at 8 o clock. Everyone is cordially invited. William Dokes of near Grimes a well known colored man who was accidentally hit by a car near Clearbrook remains a patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Friends hope for his quick recovery. Many from here attended the funeral last Thursday of Mr Frank Unger near Rest. Mr Unger was well known locally and visited friends and relatives often. Mrs Ida Shepard has returned home from Charlottesville where she received treatment. Several from here attended the Christmas program at Westtown.
Classified notices list several help wanted items including a responsible woman for light housekeeping with dairy chores and driving a car in Whitacre Virginia. Additional entries seek two waitresses for a Metropolitan Restaurant, a 1¼ ton truck, a janitor, pair of truck scales, a used station wagon, and a substantial eight room house for sale with bath hot water heat and garage in Gore Virginia.
The article notes a church on the last Sunday night and a quietly approaching Christmas season. It mentions many boys in the service, suggesting a change from previous years and a simpler observance.
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