Meteorological record book

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Box OV 1

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Entries of interest are listed below:

Date	Event
1937	West Penn built the power line, and the convicts arrived to hard surface Route 5.
1939	Prison labor finished the surface on Route 33 and moved away.
1944	John Puffenbarger's baby in the well turned out to be a rabbit after Franklin fire truck pumped the water out.
1946	October 19, 1946 - Death of Elmer Keister.
1947	Took Mama [Mary Hoover Keister] to Dr. in Harrisonburg on Jan. 2nd where she remained till Jan. 11th.
1948	Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company extend telephone service to the Brandywine area.
1949	In June we went through the most devastating flood that ever struck this section. Sugar Grove section was hardest hit in Pendleton. Thousands of dollars of damage. Most all crops were destroyed. Fences, [dam], and road way, wire bridge all washed away. New Methodist Church at Deer Run officially opened on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24. Farm Women's Club established the 'South Fork Community Dump.'
1954	Entered the year with much uncertainty. Mama still is no better. No farm help worth a cuss any more. I decided to sell the farm and sold it to Walter Simpson...Crowd was estimated at 1,000 people - probably the largest to ever attend a public sale in Pendleton County.
1957	Jury Service for women was first put into practice during Nov. term of Circuit Court when the Grand Jury made history for itself when it included the first woman to serve on a jury in Pendleton County. Mrs. Charles (Eunice) Matheny of Upper Tract was one of the 15 persons making up the jury.

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