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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1940
Page
6
The report lists present and past precipitation amounts for a 24 hour period and year to date. It provides monthly average rainfall based on 1913 1939 data with totals for each month and an average annual rainfall over 27 years of 35.53 inches. Statistics courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
Services were held at St. Thomas Church Garrison Forest for former Judge Allen McLane who died Sunday at Green Spring Valley. Burial followed in the churchyard. The Rev. Philip J. Jensen and Rev. James L. McLane officiated.
Readers invited to order Pattern 6743 featuring a transfer design of seven motifs with illustrations of stitches and materials. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept. 259 W 14th Street New York to obtain the pattern, and include name address and pattern number in clear handwriting.
Members of Troop I Boy Scouts spent a happy week at Camp White Rock enjoying canoeing and swimming. They opened with the pledge to the flag and the Scout path and good turns. Plans for a new patrol contest to begin October 1 were announced.
Truman B. Cash of Westminster, Md, said county organization for the Roosevelt Wallace Rad ae ticket is proceeding rapidly and making headway among farmers and labor circles. He announced three county campaign chairmen: Alton Y. Bennett Frederick with W M Storm as vice chairman, Lacey Shaw Montgomery, and James C. Goodwin Talbot.
Detective George Bevan and his squad arrived on a moonlit Chicago sidewalk after a bomb warning. The ominous package proved to be four frightened kittens meowing in alarm, not a device.
Angelos Paras reported gasoline siphoning from his parked car at police headquarters. While detailing the theft, officers called a garage to deliver fuel, and Paras returned to find someone had stolen the car.
Mrs. Irvin Williams of Washington returned home after time with her mother Mrs. Roberts. Helen Pappas and Martha Richard left for Strayer's College Washington term. Rachel Williams of White Post visited Greenway home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brant. Allen Bailey and Mea Jane Grim remain on the sick list. M E Church banquet planned for Thursday September 19. Hilda Doggett of Martinsburg spent weekend with her parents.
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