Army Jeep models aid war loan drive in 35 counties
Charlestown Gazette reports miniature army Jeeps will tour 35 counties to boost war bond sales. State War Finance Chairman A C Spurr says schools will receive awards for top county campaigns, while the drive aims to reach a 21 million dollar still unraised goal. Sales through Friday totaled 10.33 million, with individual securities lagging and overall state output near 69 million. An analysis notes lettuce and beet leaves contain about 90 percent water.
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State War Finance Headquarters
A. C. Spurr
Spurr
Stata of Sa
Nitro War Bond Rally Set With Local Talent Cast
Plans for a South War Loan bond rally were announced for tomorrow in Nitro WL at the high school auditorium. The event features the Old Farm Mover cast including Cap, Andy, Mil Montana Sweethearts, Fiddlin Ted and His Tennessee Mountainers, Orville Miller, Bostey and his harmonica, Handley and his electric guitar, the Turley sisters, and the Early Hirds with Ok Farm Hour contributors. Admission is $1 war stamps for adults and 50 cents for children. Nitro retailers pledge a $200 minimum quota for each retail employee.
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WCHS
Nitro
van Netta
Distret
Cap
Andy
Mil
Fiddlin* Ted
Tennessee Mountainseers
Orville Q. Miller
Bostey
Handley
Turley Sisters
Hubert Moore
Ration Stamp Details Circulated In AP Minute
The Associated Press rounds up ration notices listing stamp series from Meats to Fuel and Sugar Book coupons. It notes validity dates extending through February and December, with several stamps still active for designated quantities and periods while future validations are paused.
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Associated Press
Dte
Scouts exceed wartime bond quota for armored car
Charleston Bay Scouts report sales of $10,125 in E war bonds in the past two weeks, announced by Ed Devlin. The group aimed for $8,735 to fund an armored car for the army, and surpassed the goal by nearly the entire amount.
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Roy Strout
Charleston Bay
Ed Devlin
Scout Rally at Lincoln Junior High Tonight
Scout troops from Elk and West Side districts will hold a rally at Lincoln Junior High School tonight at 7 30. The program features bugling flag lighting with drums, rope climbing, knot tying, drilling and other activities presented by five veteran troops with several newly organized units expected to attend.
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Toniy Scout Troops ‘of Elk
West Side
Lincoln Junior High School
Street Maintenance Superintendent Injured in Scaffold Fall
Wilson Fisher, superintendent of street maintenance, fell from a scaffold on Mathews Ave yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Staats Hospital with a possible shoulder fracture and a severe head injury. X ray photographs were taken to assess the injuries. His condition was reported as favorable.
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Wilson Fisher
J. Witton Fisher
Mathews Ave
Staats Hospital
Driver Arn Leland Cogar Injured in Wreck Near Bomant
Arn Leland Cogar of Bomant Clay County suffered a badly mangled right arm after a tire blowout yesterday in a car with a passenger on the right side. The vehicle sideswiped an overhanging rock and he was taken to Staats hospital for treatment.
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Leland Cogar
Bomant
Clay County
Cogar
Staats Hospital
Mrs M F Anderson Dies At Alderson
Myrtla Fenton Anderson GI retired teacher and Alderson lodge member died Saturday at Alderson. Widow of Alexander Lake Anderson born Greenbrier County November 20 1861 daughter of Sally Hagsets Anderson and Samuel Wilson Anderson. Survived by two sons Li at A J Anderson in the navy and Ws of Syracuse a brother R A Anderson of Jackson. Services 2p in Alderson Methodist Church with Rev Green wood Johnson and Holliday officiating. Burial in Alderson cemetery. Lohban Mortuary in charge.
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Myrtla Fenton Anderson
Gsnst
Alderson
Order of the Eastern Star
Alexander Lake Anderson
Binkers Mill
Greenbrier County
Mia
Sally Hagsets Anderson
Samuel Wilson Anderson
Hyeslock
Liat
J, Anderson
Navy
New York
Syracuse
R.A Anderson
Jackson
Dalinson | Methodist Church
L. H. Greenwood
Randolph Johnson
Dupuy Holliday
Buriat
Burglary Suspect Escapes From Deputies in Hilly Chase
Tanwwna deputies have not yet recaptured a district burglary suspect who escaped during a walking patrol on a steep hillside. He reportedly leaped a 50 foot cliff and landed on barbed wire, eluding deputies as they tried to restrain him.
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Tanwwna
Paca
State Delegation To Attend Labor Meeting
West Virginians expected at the 1th National Conference on labor registration in Washington tomorrow include Charles Saffler state labor commissioner Job 2 Easton Volney Andrews secretary West Virginia State Federation of Labor and J M Houching Bluefield with the Easton industrial council involvement.
Bridges Sues Pegler For Libel Damages
San Francisco reports Bridges and union labor groups sued Westbrook Pegler and Hearst Publications Inc. for 600000 dollars claiming the columnist made libelous statements. King Features Syndicate Inc. and others are named defendants over Pegler's column about Bridges fight against deportation and a longshore union member ousting linked to voting for Dewey.
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San Francisco
Bridges
Hin Paday
Westbrook Pegler
Hearst Publications Inc
King Features Syndicate Inc
Pegler
Thomas F. Dewey
Victim of Laboratory Accident at Emory College
Robert Bo Sheet, apprentice at Emory and Henry College, suffered serious chemical laboratory injuries. Small glass particles embedded in the right eye face neck chest and hands. He is now a patient at the naval hospital in Portsmouth Virginia.
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Robert Bo Sheet
Sas Nat
Mro
Alm
Roland
Sheets
OT O'Dell Ay
Emury
Dnd
Henry Collere
Emory
Win
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
New Ration Grading Mules Set for Meat
Washington dispatch reports the Office of Economic Stabilization acting to stamp out a red market in ration coupons for paint-free meat cuts. It orders that slaughterers must stamp carcasses of veal lamb and mutton at least every two inches along all primal cuts.
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Washington
Office of Economic Stabilization
Nazi Coal Ration Cut Said To Aid U S Army
Reports from Civil Administration to U S 6th Army HQ indicate Germans will receive only a quarter of last winter’s coal for prix vote consumption this winter.
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U. S
U.S. 6Th Army
Ameagie Man Loses Pocketbook at Local Hotel
George Williams of Ameagie reported to city police that a pocketbook containing more than 24 dollars was stolen from him in a local hotel yesterday.
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Ameagie
George Willams
Ameagie Ces
YWCA Christmas Party Scheduled Next Sunday
The YWCA will hold its annual Christmas party next Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. announced by Mrs. RR Payne, vice president, at the board meeting led by Mrs. Payne. Mrs. Ben N. Brown was introduced as the new health education in charge. The party will feature special music directed by Annie Laurie Leonard with the ceremonial read by Mrs. Rhuckburn Watts.
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YCA
Fternoon
RR. Payne
Thes
Payne
Ben N. Brown
Ailes Annie Laurie Leonard
Rhuckburn Watts
J Frank Crutchfield Hotel Operator Dies at 40
J Frank Crutchfield 40 owner of Alderson hotel Sir Virginia St died yesterday in Clarksburg He was born July 25 108 in Knawl Craxton County a World War veteran and former police lieutenant He survived by wife Ida two sons Jack Frank and Thomas Allen Crutchfield funeral at Burnsville Methodist Church with Rev T HR Rector officiating Burial in Burnsville cemetery Surviving relatives include father C T Critchfield Burnsville mother two sisters Audra McPherson and Edith Perry and four brothers Charles E Orman Ray Larry Lo and Freddy Crutchfield
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J. Frank Crutchfield
Alderson
Virginia St. E
Clarksburg
Knawl
Bulltown
Craxton County
Leah Aid Se Methodist
Servieca
Burnsville Methodist Church
St. of 1
Burnsville
Barlow S
Ida Crutchfield
Jack Frank
Thomas Allen Crutchfield
Charleston
C. T. Critchfield
Audra McPherson
Edith Perry
Gassaway
Charles E. and
Orman Ray
Burnaville
Larry Lo
Sutton
Freddy Clarksburg
Edward Perry Killed In Ward Slate Fall
Edward Doeery, 32, of Eacle, was killed in a slate fall at Ward mine for the Kelley Creek Colliery Co. Survived by wife Lite Han Perry. children Richard Bay, Harkless, William, Sean, and Tranc Berry. mother Christine Perry. four brothers and two sisters. The Washington & Coleman mortuary at Montgome has the body.
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Edward Doeery
Eacle
Kelleys Creek
Ward Saturda
Lite Han Perry
Richard Bay Harkless
William
Sean
Tranc Berry
Mel
Chrisine Perry
Boothtan
Ale
Washington & Coleman Mortuary
Montgome
Ohio County Airport Granted Extra Federal Funds
Ohio Valley Board of Trade was informed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of approval for an additional $423,000 appropriation to finish improvements at Ohio County airport. Funds will extend runways and install a night lighting system, officials said. Wheeling, Dec. M-th.
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Ohio Valley Board of Trade
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Ohio County
Wheeling
Dec
New Dates Scheduled For Filing Tax Return
Washington tax officials announced a shift in final filing dates for 1944 income tax estimates and installments. Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan Jr. said Congress moved the final date from December 15 1844 to January 15 1845. Farmers using deferment, filers reviewing previous estimates, and those owing the final installment are affected.
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Washington
Treasury
Joseph D. Nunan, Jr
Internal Revenue
Provo
Obit notices for multiple individuals across towns and churches
Numerous obituaries list names, tangential relatives, and funeral details. Services are announced at various churches and homes with burial at local cemeteries. The notices reference Fannie Clendenin, Reed, Lip, Hughes, Irimby, and others with dates, locations, and funeral homes noted.
Prominent Princeton Leader Dies at 77
Frank Wright 77 a former deputy clerk of Mercer County circuit and criminal courts died yesterday of pneumonia. A Republican figure Wright also served as assistant cashier of First National Bank Welch and cashier of the City Bank of War before retiring six years ago. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow.
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Princeton
Der
C. Frank Wright
Mercer County
Wright
First National
Infant Neff Dies in Charleston Hospital
Neff infant daughter of Municipal Judge and Mrs Harn SN Neft died yesterday morning in a Charleston hospital. Services were held at 4 p.m. yesterday with Rev J C Waffmaty officiating. Burial was in Sunset Memorial Park with Barlow Mortuary in charge.
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Neff
Mita Judson Neff
Harn SN. Neft
London
Whitesville Woman Shot, Critically Hurt
Mrs H E Williams of Whitesville was shot in the neck and spine near midnight yesterday and rushed by Valley ambulance to Charleston General Hospital in critical condition. State police from Whitesville are investigating the shooting.
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Herman E., Williams
Whitesville
Charleston General Hospital
W Henretty 2B Dies at Gassaway Longtime Gazette Collector
W F Henretty aged 73 a longtime Gazette collector died yesterday at Gassaway after a long illness Surviving his wife a daughter Miss Florence at Gassaway a son Frank of Warren four brothers J M Oldsport Albert L Green Springs L E Tustin Mich and Grover C Seattle and three sisters Mrs Blance Gordon Fostoria Mrs J MS Mitchell Strasburg Junction Va and Mrs Rose Spurdjong Syracuse N Y The body is at Bartlett mortuary in Gassaway.
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r.W._F. Henretty
the Gazette
Gassaway
Siis
Florence
Frank
Warren
J. M
Oldsport
Albert L
Green Springs
Oy L. E
Tustin, Mich
Grover C
Seattle
Wash
Blance Gordon
Fostoria
Mitchell
Strasburg Junction
Rose Spurjong
Syracuse
Bartlett Mortiuacy
Killed in Bakersfield Car Crash Near Charleston Native
Lester Linn Relp, 22, formerly of Charleston, was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday at Bakersfield California. The body is being shipped to Simpson mortuary. Born in Lewiston Idaho, he was the son of L L Relp and the late Mabel Schrader Relp of Charleston. He attended Charleston schools and reenlisted in the army in 1940.
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Lester Linn Relp
Charleston
Bakersfield
Cal
Simpson Mortuary
Lewiston
Idaho
L. L. Relp
Lnte
Mabel Schrader Relp
Taler Passes Away as Merchant Marine Member
Discharge noted for Taler who died while serving as a merchant marine member. Surviving relatives include two sisters Mrs. Elsie Alukonis and Miss Ethel Marion Relp, both of Charleston.
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Taler
Merchant’ Marine
Elsie Alukonis
Ethel Marion Relp
Charleston
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