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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1925

Page

3

Windjammer Muriel Ends Career In Battered Wreck

Newport Beach Cal Aug 13 The three masted schooner Muriel ends its storied career as a barge after a decades long voyage from Alameda. Once famed for copra runs in the South Seas and later a movie ship, the famed windjammer lay wrecked on the harbor entrance sands as a doomed relic of Pacific commerce.

Newport Beach Cal Muriel Alameda Seven Seas South Sea Islands Pacific Renance

Chelyan Baptist church notes and local updates

Mr and Mrs H A Fulkes hosted the Ladies Bible class at First Baptist with guests including W M Russell Blanch Porter Lillian Londeree and several others. Dedicatory service postponed to the first Sunday in September. Also reports on funerals school returns travel and local visits plus a note that Charles Jacobi retires after 34 years tutoring royal golfers.

Chelyan News H. A. Fulkes First Baptist Church W. M. Russell Blanch Porter Lillian Londeree A F_ Adking William Massey Acy Warns Andy Stack Edward Smith Ida Jeffries John Smith E. H. King Haden Aikins W. R. Neel Betty Lee Margaret Irene Joe Spea George W. Hastings, Jr The Baptist Church Margaret Johnson Logan Iva Adams Elizabeth Smith Erma Patterson Columbus Ohio Grant Ferrell Churchman Hospital Sissongville T. M

First woman president named for national fraternal group

Special to The Gazette from Duluth Aug 13 Misa Binn M West of Port Huron Michigan was unanimously elected first woman President of the National Fraternal Congress of America at the Duluth convention. The body, founded in 1881, reports over 3.0 billion dollars in life insurance in force and more than 74 million dollars in benefits paid last year. West, founder and supreme commander of the Woman’s Bonet association, brings 183 years of leadership experience and says fraternalism binds communities beyond commercial aims, while she has overseen over 50 million dollars in member investments.

Duluth National Fraternal Congress of America Misa Binn M. West Port Huron Michigan Fraternal Congress of America North America Misa West Woman's Bonet Association Fort Huron Minda

Oil Man Dies in Huntington Hotel Room

Huntington August 12 Darla Thomas Evans a leading oil man and president of Tri- State Refining Kenoya and Mid-South Oil Huntington died in a hotel room from heart trouble after returning from a day in apparently good health. He was born in Wales and moved to the United States at 16. He had lived in Huntington seven years and is survived by his widow a cousin in Charleston and other distant relatives in Wales.

Huntington Darla Thomas Evans Evans Tri- State Refining Company Kenoya Mid-South Olt Company Wales West Virginia Bot.anes Charleston

Merchants Club To Meet On Broad Street Tonight

The Kanawha Virginia Merchants club will hold a meeting this evening at the parish house on Broad Street. All graduating merchants are asked to be present.

Merchants Club Kanawha Virginia Merchants Club Uhis Broad Street

Richard Dix Capitol Star Review of How Baxter Butted In

The Capitol shown film How Baxter Butted In with Richard Dix praised by veteran newspaper men including c QO Davis of the Los Angeles Examiner who guides a director through scenes. The Warner production lacks sexual content and offers a clean love interest, a brisk comedy drama that pleases audiences with its rapid humor. Gamphor hails from Japan, China and West Africa.

Baxter Capitol Josh Owen Davis

Richard Dix in Virginian Play at the Virginian

Richard Dix stars in a fast moving automobile comedy drama titled The Lucky Devi at the Virginian this week. Dix plays a young cleric who drives a charity bedour machine a ride to a vacation, meeting a stenographer and setting off a rapid series of mistaken identities and剧情 twists.

Richard Dix Paramount Eise Lucky Devi The Virginian West Virginia

Mines official completes summer foreman examinations

R M Lambie chief of the state department of mines returned from Wheeling after conducting the final mine foreman and fire boss examinations of the summer. Officials are now grading the papers and preparing results for release.

Wheeling TR. M. Lambie State Department of Mines

Washington notes on debt talks and trade balance

The Belgian debt negotiations paused briefly while American production per acre fell last year. A favorable U S trade balance is shown by Commerce Department figures. Dan B Casement of Kansas will review forest appraisal aimed at ranges amid rapid progress in netting war claims. Government profits recorded from Migete sipmt Warrior Transportation operations.

United States Commerce Department Dan B. Casement Kansas Mixed Claims Commission Migetesipmt Warrior Transportation Company

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