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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1938
Page
7
Local notes report church service changes in Galilee and October schedules. residents travel to Washington Chambersburg Winchester Capon Bridge and Martinsburg for visits and business. A child recovers from tonsil surgery. farmers sow wheat and barley amid good weather. fruit growers report healthy apple crop.
Mrs Beulah Bowman shows improvement after illness. Miss Lola Pingley visited Baltimore relatives. Earle Everett returned home to Baltimore after visiting his mother. Mr and Mrs McDonald host visitors at Oranda. Exterior painting at Keller home. Thelma McDonald visited Top Notch with grandfather L M Estep. Curtis Uimelright returns from Washington. Irene Hamman visited her mother. Ida Keller ill at home. Oscar Pingley of Baltimore visits Wheatfield family. Tourists avoid a guinea on John Marshall Highway and roll into ditch near Wheatfield. Statton Bowers visit Ray Windle.
Wickliffe Virginia October 7 Rev. and Mrs. R C Cowling and son Philip of Annapolis made a motor trip to Chicago and returned with Mrs Jaquelin Smith. Miss Ann Smith has returned to Garfield Hospital Washington DC after a vacation at Silver Spring. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and others from Harry Place and Miss Elizard of Tazewell. Mrs Jean Byrne visited then returned to New York with daughter Marie who will attend school there. Mrs Douglas and Miss Parke, workers at the Preventorium near Toucan, spent the night. Miss Elizabethth visited Bernard Smith in Prince William. Visitors at Mr C W Johnston’s included Mr and Mrs Alvin Symons and children from Hagerstown along with Mr Clarence Fincham from near Leesburg and Mrs von Carter of Berryville. Mrs Townreid and others visited at Mrs Jack Ellis in Falls Church Sunday. Mr C E Myers and son visited relatives near Wadesville recently.
Brush Creek Virginia notes report social visits illness and gatherings. Families such as Whitacre Shade Lamp Kerns Dailey Heironimus and Stotler are mentioned with trips along Skyline Drive to Covington Romney and White Post. Local health concerns include Ralph Lamp ill with a cold pneumonia borderline.
Rest Brevities notes Rev L H Smallwood at a Southern Methodist Church conference in Harrisonburg Virginia. Visitors include Frank Brady Mary Sanderson of Baltimore and Emma Ridgeway attending the Harrisonburg conference as a Ridgeway charge delegate.
Attendees gathered at the U B Church for a 2 PM service but the new pastor failed to arrive. Nearby residents and visitors from Gore Chambersville Winchester and Winchester areas joined in Sunday activities and Sunday School.
Present and past rainfall data show 0.02 inches for today and year to date 19.85 inches. The table lists average monthly rainfall for 1913 to 1937 with values for January 2.53, February 2.80, March 2.95, April 3.25, May 3.60, June 3.63, July 3.37, August 3.77, September 2.36, October 3.21, November 2.30, December 2.33 inches. The average annual rainfall over the 25 year period is 35.36 inches.
A wedding notice lists invitations announced by Star Job Print. Details about the couple and ceremony not provided in the fragment.
Denver laundry worker Robert Salvato heard a hiss and saw a cat leap from a wash bag. The cat named Fluff had been missing for three days, reported by 10 year old Jo Anna Hoffman after a driver picked up the Hoffmans laundry.
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