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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1947
Page
6
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Dinner guests and family celebrations surround Mt Williams Virginia with multiple households hosting relatives and friends for birthdays and weekends. Local gatherings include a Ball club dinner on October 11 at the Mt Williams community hall and residents visiting neighbors and relatives in Opequon Hayfield and Washington.
A well known citizen recalls five years of gas swelling and misery and credits INNER AID with clearing gas and easing meals. The ad claims INNER AID, a 12 juice formula from Nature's Plants, cleanses bowels and liver and removes old bile when taken before meals. It urges readers to buy from all drug stores.
Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jasha Place included Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Place and their daughter, with Earl Place and family. Other visitors came to see Mrs. Clint Carpenter before her hospital stay in Charlottesville, and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Shade with Miss Rae Fearnow visited H. B. Dick. Walter Moore hosted friends from Chambersburg, Pa., and E. Shenk spent Sunday with Mrs. L. Clark near Winchester.
Visitors to the L. H. Ruble home include Ernest Adams Tom Davis of Winchester V ern on De Haven family in Winchester and July De Haven and Ber kley Springs attendees at the Martinsburg game. Several residents plan trips abroad to Puerto Rico and Westminster Maryland as noted in local social items.
Visitors from Baltimore Clearbrook Martinsburg and Wadesville spent a weekend with local residents including Mr. and Mrs. Julian Larrick and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Campbell.
The report lists 24 hour ending rainfall of trace and 1947 total to date 26.24 inches. It gives 24 year average annual rainfall 36.30 inches and monthly averages for 1913 1946 with January 2.45 February 1.97 March 2.95 April 3.07 May 3.64 June 3.86 July 3.79 August 3.77 September 2.61 October 3.36 November 2.40 December 2.43. Data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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