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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1947
Page
6
The Winchester White Sox visit Martinsburg to face the Red Men at 3 p m Sunday. Martinsburg beat the West Virginians 9 2 earlier in the season for the Sox only victory this year.
Social notes record Miss Betty as guest of honor on Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Kerns hosted visitors Mrs. A H Lamp Gladys Glenn and Hel. E A Gray visited Mr A W Daily as did the Whitacres and Blythe Mauzy with Chattie.
Mrs R E Albin and daughter Miss Alice Albin of Baltimore have left Canterbury to visit son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs B W Vickey in St Anne Ill. They will see other relatives on the trip. Mildred Painter of Baltimore is visiting her parents in Canterbury. The Fairview Ladies Aid plans a yard party on Saturday July. Carls Cavern bats eat several tons of insects nightly.
A 4 H club committee led by John T. Wolfe and Miss Agnes Shirley places a Farm Safety exhibit in a Northern Virginia Power Co store window. Placards show national farm deaths by cause and vehicle type, total deaths 16 000 and injuries 1 500 000, property damage 90 million, and tools or weapons like nails forks scythes axes rifles and bayonets pictured.
Present and past rainfall figures cover 24 hours to 7 a.m. and year to date. July to date rainfall is 4.84 inches with 1947 totals at 22.41 and the 34 year average at 36.30. Monthly values from 1913 to 1946 show 2.45 inches in January? 1.97 February, 2.56 March, 3.07 April, 3.64 May, 3.86 June, 3.79 July, 3.77 August, 2.61 September, 3.36 October, 2.40 November, 2.43 December.
The HDC met at Mrs Delilah Bells home on Tuesday for a salads and cheese making demonstration. 4 H club began plans for a yard party on August 23 at Mt Williams community hall. A chicken supper and a carnival are planned for August by local groups.
July 25 marked the close of Mt Williams community Bible school with 36 enrolled and 25 students perfect in attendance. Younger group led by Mrs Grant Wilkens and Mrs Ralph Williams studied Events in the Life of Jesus. older group under Mr Russell Feeley and Mrs Lucien Ashwood studied I Chooses His Diciples. Rev Paul Dick spoke to the children. The second annual community picnic will be at the ball diamond on Labor Day with Mt Williams North Mountain teams scheduled to play. The Red Sox beat Timber Ridge. a return game is set for Sunday at the home diamond. Friends extend sympathy to the Heishman family and to Mr and Mrs Otto.
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