Welch June Meeting Set for Legion Affair in Gary
The American Legion prepares a big June meeting with at least 150 legionnaires expected. Reports on securing funds for a legion cemetery will be presented by Com W Blakely and Samuel Jets. A July fundraising drive aims to raise about 4500 for the convention expenses with events planned including vaudeville acts and music.
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America
Com W. Blakely
Samuel Jets
Legion
Colonel Jones
M. A. Watkins
L. E. Gowin
Dodge Kyle
Gary No. 6
Bluefield Colored
Community Religious Schedule for Sunday Services
Salvation Army street and hall meetings throughout the day with open air service and Young People's Legion. Presbyterian Sunday School for all ages led by W A Wilson. Dr George West Diehl to preach at 11. St Peters Catholic holds a single mass at 8 due to Father Hanley’s Eucharistic Congress trip. St Luke’s Episcopal hosts Sunday school at 9 45 and morning prayer with Rev Pennell. First Methodist lists multiple Bible classes and services led by Rev Worley, with Epworth League at 7 p m. Sec(ond) Baptist covers morning and evening services with choir pieces. deacons and officers election to follow.
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Salvation Army
Stree
County Jail
Holiness
Hall
Company
Salvation Service
Young People's Legion
Presbyterian
W. A. Wilson
George West Diehl
St. Peter's Catholic
J. J. Hanley
Chicago
St. Luke's Episcopal
E. M. Pennell
Alexandria
First Methodist
E. D. Worley
Epworth League
Secret Baptist
L. B. Padgett
D. Freeman
A. m
Claude Stephenson
Rolfe
Num
Miss Stephenson
Maude Fraaier
Probation Officer Seeks Homes for Two Children
W. T. Farley, county probation officer, in east Welch, seeks temporary homes for a two and a half year old girl and a five year old boy. The girl is healthy with blue eyes and blond hair. both children should be in homes with no other children. Call Farley at his home for letters of recommendation. first caller who seems suitable will be chosen.
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W. T. Farley
East Welch
Faithful Gleaners Host Weiner Roast on Simmons Mountain
Elkhorn West Virginia. Faithful Gleaners Sunday School class of M. B. Church South with teacher Mrs. Marshall held a weiner roast atop Simmons Mountain Thursday night. Attendees included Elizabeth Burton Edith Burton Sarah Slusher Elizabeth Young De Lories Burchett Margaret Ruff Ellen Newman Dorothy Karr Priscilla Karr Beatrice Miller Wythe Hash Estel Roberts Jennings Hannah Earl Campbell Hassie Hensley Mack Herndon Ray Herndon Wendell Thomas Carl Matthews and others.
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M. B. Church, South
Marshall
Top
Simmons Mountain
Elizabeth Burton
Edith Burton
Sarah Slusher
Elizabeth Young
de- Lories Burchett
Margaret Ruff
Ellen Newman
Dorothy Karr
Priscilla Karr
Beatrice Miller
Wythe Hash
Estel Roberts
Jennings
Hannah
Earl Campbell
Hassie Hensley
Mack Herndon
Ray Herndon
Daily Telegraphs Delivered to Welch City Readers
Over 715 Daily Telegraphs and more than 6000 copies were delivered to Mt Dowell county communities this morning. Merchants use our columns to reach progressive readers in NE Diamond area with messages.
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Welch
T Daily Tel H
Mt.Dowell County
NE Ce
Kiwanis Club Reports Montreal Convention Highlights
Welch and West Virginia Kiwanis members share travel notes from the Montreal International Convention. Key moments include the global zero hour, keynote by John H. Moss, and Rabbi Stephen S Wise on brotherly love. Local leaders Warren A Wilson and Rev. Ben Roller attend, with Rob Wheeler leading songs and remarks from Rev. Roller.
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Montreal
L. A. Os
Osborne
Warren A. Wilson
Welch Club
West Virginia
John H. Moss
Kiwanians
Stephen S. Wise
New York
Rabbi Wise
Kiwanis
Rob Wheeler
Ben Ller
Keyser
Welch
Mr. Roller
St. Lukes Church
Thomas H. S. Curd
E. D. Worley
North Carolina
McDowell County
Boy Scouts
BE. W. Pennell
L. ¥. Padgett
Ben Roller
Charlies Farrington
Paul Jones
P. J. Gates
R. L. Eppling
Mullins
Boissevain Baptist Sunday School Sets June 27 Event
The Boissevain Baptist Sunday School invites all to a 9:45 am session with Mr. Ray of Keystone as superintendent. Special music features a large singing chorus drawn from Mudfork Keystone Simmons and Boissevain with potential help from the Potawatomi people.
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Boissevain
West Virginia legislators split on special waterpower session
A telegraphic poll of Charleston Gazette shows about two thirds oppose a special session to consider a waterpower bill. Of 50 replies, 33 vote against, 17 in favor, with some supporting waterpower law but not a special session. Democrats and Republicans alike reflect mixed views. Governors, officials and lawmakers weighed in as telegrams went to all lawmakers.
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Charleston
W. Va
Charleston Gazette
Gore
Wheeling
the Gazette
Gazette
Hugus
Devore
Jackson
Harper
Dean
Yoho
Ashworth
Kee
Suddarth
Read
Schooners Bowdoin and Sachem Depart for Arctic Quest
Christmas Cove Maine June 19 The Bowdoin and Sachem anchored after the first leg of their voyage toward the sub arctic region. Lieutenant leads the expedition with Commander Donald B MacMillan departing from Discassett. A fleet of pleasure craft accompanies them down the Sheepscot River toward their destination. Frederick H Rawson of Chicago funds the Field Museum of Natural History expedition to seek the lost N Colony and collect material.
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Maine
Bowdoin
Sachem
Donald B. MacMillan
Sheepscot River
Frederick H. Rawson
Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Miss Holliday Engaged to Senator Hogg
Announcement from Point Pleasant West Virginia on June 19 states that State Senator Robert L Hogg a local attorney and son of former Congressman E Hogg will marry Miss Mary Louise Holliday daughter of Mrs Edwin Holliday of Wheeling Hogg formerly served as Mason County prosecuting attorney and his father was dean of West Virginia University's law school at one time
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Robert L Hogg
E. Hogg
Mary Louise Holliday
Edwin Holliday
Wheeling
Hogg
Mason County
West Virginia University
Minnesota primary draws national interest in governor race
St Paul June 19 The gubernatorial candidacy of former Senator Magnus Johnson and the prohibition issue give Minnesota's primary next Monday a national angle. Johnson seeks farmer-labor endorsement and faces Minneapolis attorney Tom Davis. Republican contests in the fourth district discuss modification of the Volstead Act with both approval and opposition.
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St. Paul
Minn
Magnus Johnson
Minnesota
Johnson
Tom Davis
Minneapolis
Steamer Fails to Locate Duggan and Assistant
A steamer sent by the governor of French Guinea to search for missing Argentine aviator Bernardo Duggan and his assistant Oliver has found no trace. The Cayenne radio report says the ship returned from Yapook Bay with no sign of Duggan, his canoe, or any clue to their fate.
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Brazil
French Guinea
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Bernardo Duggan
Oliver
Cayenne
Duggan
Yapook Bay
Tri State Grand Army Reunion Planned in Wheeling
Holliday Post No. 7121 G. A. R. begins preparations for a tri state Grand Army reunion and picnic in Wheeling with a meeting set for next Saturday. The event will be at the state fair grounds and invites veterans from eastern Ohio western Pennsylvania and all of West Virginia.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Grand Army of the Republic
Holliday Post
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Whittemore murder appeal set for June 28
Baltimore June 19 The court of appeals will hear arguments on the Whittemore appeal on June 28. Richard Reese Whittemore head of New York's million dollar crime trust was found guilty of fatally injuring a guard during an escape from Maryland penitentiary in 1925. Death sentence is automatically deferred pending decision.
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Richard Reese Whittemore
Court of Appeals
Carroll L. Bond
Whittemore
New York
Vacation humor and local notices from McDowell County
Gossip and light notes from McDowell County talk of vacations, repairs, and small town happenings. References to Reno Howard, Sheriff Hatfield, local editors, and readers’ questions mix with travel, dates, and quirky anecdotes about daily life and long drives.
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Welch Area Personal News Briefs Brought Home and Away
Russell Hufford, son of Mr and Mrs A C Hufford of the Houston addition, is due back today from Morgantown where he studies at West Virginia University. Judge G L Counts Dave Scarberry C Payne and Marty Franklin returned from Bluefield where they spent Saturday on business. Squire A C Hufford and B F Howard of Welch were in Bluefield yesterday on business. Yvon C Murd, who spent time here, left yesterday to make his home in Okamo. A J Christy of Keystone was in the city yesterday on business. D J F Strother transacted business in Bluefield Saturday. Mr and Mrs Marvin J Franklin of Woodlawn Court apartments, who have been with relatives in Cincinnati for weeks, are expected to return home today. Mrs Charles B Houston I, visiting friends and
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A. C. Hufford
Houston Addition
Morgantown
West Virginia University
G. L. Counts
Dave Scarberry
C. Payne
Marty Franklin
Bluefgid
A. Christy
Keystone
D. J. F. Strother
Bluefield
Marvin J. Franklin
Woodlawn Court Apartments
Cincinnati
Charles B. Houston
Welch Briefs Chronicle Local Tour and Meetings
Mr and Mrs Bernard K accompanied on an extensive tour by Mrs Harry Miss Etta Rank and Miss Totz have returned to their home in Kimball Rank attended the international wanis meeting in Montreal and returned via Baltimore Preacher Earl Phipps of Pier has been in McDowell jail ten days on a hooded Ku Klux Klan beating case Charles T Barker was released on bond W S Wray Northfork was accepted as sure for Phipps W E Salt and Claude Harris will head the Kimball Wants Club which meets in the Methodist Church next Tuesday Officials say they have a snappy program with two attendance prizes offered by Dr W Stevens in Man and Mayor Turner and the prize may be won by thirty days to the net but attend the meeting
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W. E. Salt
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Methodist Church
Dr. W. Stevens
Man
Turner
Income tax boost raises prospective surplus above 300 million
Washington reports June collections push the year’s estimated tax surplus to more than 300 million, the highest since 1924. Treasury says June 15 quarter revenue exceeded 1925 by about 2.09 million, with the first months of the fiscal year running 195.48 million ahead, while Treasury officials resisted further tax cuts.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
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