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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
6
Miss Reely has returned to the high school faculty after a visit here with her sister and Mr and Mrs Carson Reely. Mr and Mrs Robert Miller and children return to Somerset Pennsylvania after visiting Mrs Miller's parents Mr and Mrs Gordon Keith and Mr and Mrs Woodrow Cornwell. Little Miss Nancy Dwyer.
Tony Jairo of Youngstown makes his middleweight debut against Jacob LaMotta in a ten rounder at Madison Square Garden. Janiro, once a lightweight, has risen to welterweight and now fights at 160 pounds. LaMotta, known as Jawbone Jake, is a formidable Bronx fighter set to weigh 155 for the bout.
June 6 Grimes notes mention Children Day exercises planned for Galilee Sunday school on June 29. Local updates include Mrs. D K Russell’s slow recovery from five months in Memorial Hospital, Mrs. Ruby Barr’s return from a visit, and the death of Mrs. Claude Beckey in Long Island. Elmendorf Field named for Captain Hugh M Elmendorf of the Army Air Corps.
Spanning a week of social visits, Dorothy Felty returns from Washington while Mae Ginn hosts. S. G. Larrick and family travel to Beckley and Clifton Forge to see relatives. Mark Sperry and daughter visit Trone Sperry. W. T. Peyton returns home from Warsaw. Dwyer and Sperry repair church porch. K. W. Spencer visits Nannie Miller. Alberta Martins visits relatives in Boyce Clarke county.
A day is measured from the sun crossing a meridian of longitude to the moment it crosses that same meridian again. No bones are found in an elephant’s trunk, as it is a muscular, cartilage supported appendage.
Present and past rainfall data cover 48 hours ending 7 am with June to date .06 inch. The 34 year period 1913-1946 reports average annual rainfall of 36.30 inches and monthly averages from January to December ranging from 1.97 to 3.86 inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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