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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 31, 1941

Page

5

Lebanon Church Brevities Mixed with Local Notices

Mrs. Fannie Brill of Martinsburg W V and guests from Baltimore Nineveh Winchester and Indiana appear in local social notes. Deaths include Mrs Annie Smith and Leo Roosevelt McDonald with services at Lebanon Church Cemetery. Community gatherings, visits, illnesses and a yard party at Fairview School are listed along with numerous family updates.

Lebanon Church USA Fannie Brill Martinsburg W. Va Guy Gore Baltimore Bentonville Dauhter Statton Bowers Norman Windle Frank Bowman Clara Keller Indiana Patrick Bucher Alexandria Annie Smith Harry M. Crim William Harvey Smith George Henry Smith Strasburg Wisecarver Frederick County Leo Roosevelt McDonald Lebanon Church Cemetery Middletown Charles McDonald May McDonald Stanley Harold Hockman Judson June Amos Hockman Oak Grove Jane Carter Berryville

Swimley Reception Honoring William T Swimley

Mr and Mrs L J Swimley hosted a reception in Brucetown Virginia on Wednesday night for their son William T Swimley and his wife. Guests brought many presents as ice cream cake and fruit punch were served. Mrs Swimley is the former Douglas Duvall of Winchester. Rhodelle Whitacre recovers from appendicitis at Winchester Memorial Hospital and plans to return home soon.

Ed. Mauzy Ray Bohrer Cecil Shanholtz Brown Collins Randle Ernest Batt Ralph Brown Waynesboro E. P. Brown Fairview School Reynolds Store Harry Miller Cumberland Maggie Murphy E. D. Shenk L. A. Clark Ada Strother Winchester John Stine Robert Luttrell Reva Lucille Lonie Shenk Martha Whitacre Amos Morner Cora Bonders Walter Whitacre Arnold Daily Ernest Gray Lester Shenk Buddy Harrell Ardell Moore Sam Nickey Herbert Yost Brucetown L. J. Swimley William T. Swimley Swimley Douglas Duvall Rhodelle Whitacre Winchester Memorial Hospital

Two steps to amazing new pep vitality better looks

Health ad touts a liquid tonic claimed to restore stomach juices and digestion, boost blood richness, and renew vitality for those run down by illness or worries. It promises stronger resistance to disease, improved appetite, and renewed energy, noting mineral content and liquid form for quicker effects.

Winder & Strain

Community Notes From Middletown Virginia

Local brief notes report visitors and travels in Middletown and nearby, including Coville family weekend in Richmond, Home Demonstration work trips to Blacksburg, a birth in the Kline family, and various social visits, moves, and engagements around Main Street and surrounding towns.

Rains Boost Growth as Local Garden News Reported

Opequon Va July 31 The rainy spell improves vegetation and gardens plus farmers busy with haying and threshing. Ruth Bucher and Clara Long visited Minnie Headley, Floyd Newlin started work in Winchester, Minnie Sager enlarging her kitchen, and many youths swam at the river. Marshall Hayden and wife visited his parents in Alexandria.

Opequon Ruth Bucher Clara Long Minnie Headley Floyd Newlin Winchester Minnie Sager Marshall Hayden Hayden Alexandria

Virginia Announces September Selective Service Quotas

Virginia set September quotas for 60 white and 233 Negro inductees under a new War Department apportionment method. Calls will come through national headquarters rather than the Third Corps area, with reporting dates to be announced soon.

Richmond Virginia Lewis B. Hershey Selective Service Mills F. Neal Neal Secretary of War National Third Corps Baltimore Norfolk

The Blind Ploughman Lyricist Debated

The words to The Blind Ploughman are attributed to Radclyffe Hall, though authorship has been questioned. The note cites W. Ww. A. as another possible writer, but Radclyffe Hall is linked to the piece in the record.

Radclyffe Hall

Stenographer Joins Fatal Jump From Hospital Window

Mrs Julia Elam Selden a 32 year old stenographer leapt from a seventeenth floor window of the Medical College of Virginia Hospital yesterday after riding an elevator to an unfinished sun room. Police identified her and found her body in the courtyard on the Twelfth Street side as night supervisor J M Cofer reported a purse seen near the window.

Richmond Julia Elam Selden Medical Couase Virginia Hospital Yesteray J. M. Cofer

Rainfall Totals and Averages for the Year

Rainfall in the 24 hours ending 8 a m July 26 shows 6.08 inches. Year to date 17.75 inches with monthly totals listed from January to August. Average annual rainfall over 28 years is 35.80 inches and monthly averages based on 1913-39 period are given, courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.

Four-teeth baby born to McDonalds at Clarence McDonald home

Head Start Council Bluffs reports a son born to the McDonalds with four sharp teeth already in the lower jaw making a notable early dental arrival at the Clarence McDonald residence.

Council Bluffs Clarence McDonald McDonalds

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Lebanon Chapman Motor CO Farm Bur SSS oWeWe E. V. Coville Annie Henretty Main Street Herbert Jones Miss Spronse Blacksburg Julian Kline Ruth Lee Mae Ginn Culpeper J. S. Larrick Helen Conn Mary Bird Conn Washington C. L. Wright Lawrence Haskett Bob Springfield Mass Clayton Howard West Warren Vaucluse George Clark Triplett Mountain Falls C. H. Barr Church Street Howard Hollar Hamp Robinson Oranda Pine Motor CO Braddock & Cecil Sts DODGE Winchester Research Laboratory B. F. Goodrich Silvert i B. Piccadilly St Baker’s Mrs. Price Bai Save In Wards America Ivering SALE S. Loudoun ST Montgomery Ward Rayon Velvet
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