Oil Firm Opens Barge Terminal in St Albans
Socony Vacuum Oil Co opened a twelve acre barge terminal on the Kanawha river at St Albans to serve Southern West Virginia with 3,000,000 gallons capacity across four tanks. The facility, linked to Marietta and Brownsville operations, includes car and truck loading racks and vapor‑control systems. Executives from Baltimore and Richmond attended a dinner at the Daniel Boone hotel, with plans for rapid expansion as building materials allow.
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Kanawha Valley
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
St. Albans
West Virginia
Socony- Vacuum
Marietta
Brownsville
Kanaw
Second Vacuum Oil Co
Baltimore
Richmond
Daniel Boone Hotel
George D. McDaniels
H. J. Potts
G. H. Prigg
Folts
T. C. Fuller
St Albans
H. J. Keening
Parkersburg
F. J. Gray
Bluefield
O. J. Waybright
Inecal
Sheriff bans dice and punchboards in Wheeling city
Sheriff Thomas Padden ordered cessation of all city licensed punchboards tip boards and 26 dice games today continuing an anti gambling drive started in November. He warned bingo games may be targeted next. Deputies notified store proprietors during personal visits and some establishments removed equipment after the first order.
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Wheeling
Thomas Padden
Padden
Fugitive Recaptured After 19 Days Free
Fugitive Virginia Armentrout twenty from Charleston and Webster Springs was recaptured and returned to Kanawha county jail after 19 days on the run. She escaped November fifteen from Falvolman A F Mace while being moved from the municipal courtroom to serve a 31 day sentence for vagrancy loitering and drunkenness. Patrolmen Garnet Burdette and William Fisher arrested her Wednesday night on drunkenness and resisting arrest charges.
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Virginia Armentrout
iCharleston
Webster Springs
Kanawha
Freeom
Falvolman
A. F. Mace
Garnet A. Burdette
William W. Fisher
Ambulance Drivers Warned to Obey Traffic Rules
Municipal Judge Har old H. Neff warned ambulance drivers to observe all traffic laws saying no emergency justifies endangering others. The warning followed an ambulance driver’s red light collision after which Skyline Cab Inc faced fines and two drivers were convicted for intoxicated operation.
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Harold H. Neff
Neff
Skyline
Property Transfers A H Brown Adds To Building
A H Brown reports additions to the business building at 1314 Washington Street East and alterations to the Susimens Building at 1318 Washington Street West, with reference to Donat 402 and a payment of 8200 dollars.
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A. H. Brown
Washington 8. E
Susimens
Washington St. We
Bishop Balmer to address Weekley Church meeting in Charleston
Bishop J Balmer Showers of the Evangelical United Brethren church will speak at a two day West Virginia conference to be held at Weekley Memorial United Brethren church in Charleston starting December 17. Forty laymen are expected. E Ray Cole, pastor, announced. Roy Fisher, son of Mr and Mrs Manfred Fisher of Hall Street, will be ordained to the ministry by Bishop Showers, the first in the state from the new conference.
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Weekley
J. Balmer Showers
Harrisburg
New Evangelical United Brethren Church
Charleston
West Virginia
Weekley Memorial
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Siegel
Caffekins
Oxford
Siegel Shoe Co
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Eat H. Mundy
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Piedmont Ray
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