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Newspaper

Charleston Gazette

Location

Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 22, 1929

Page

4

Deaf priest ministers to 400 plus with finger language

In San Francisco Father John H. McCummiskey, a college professor and priest, uses sign language to serve more than 400 deaf and mute Catholics weekly. He teaches at St Ignatius and conducts confessions through a glass panel, reading fast finger spells to reply, aiding a large local network of deaf parishioners and families.

San Francisco John H Cummilskey St. Ioartius College Por McCummiskey St. Ignatius College Father McCummiskey Bay Ikeley Oakland Father McCummisskey

St Albans to Broadcast Double Quartet Radio Show

St Albans plans a radio broadcast featuring a double quartet of local vocalists led by Mrs W. 8. Leake and Miss Olive McKeny with other singers. The event and a Christmas pageant titled The Wonderous Story highlight holiday programming at Central School and nearby venues.

Leake Olive McKeny Gopranos Marry Kindt Grady Stutler Homer Hantley H. C. Pittenger Elwood Johnson J. Knapp Wil WOBU Charleston St. Albans Central School Deward Estep Dorothy Blair Elizabeth Carey Ruby Blair Charles Brucker John Evans H.C. Pittenger

Envlty of Sheppard Prohibition Bill Faces Bets

Washington reports rising support and opposition as Senator Morris Sheppard pursues a plan to prosecute bootleggers customers with the bootleggers. Wet factions may gain influence if enforcement tightens, while dry lawmakers push for a stronger enforcement regime amid a divided Congress.

Charles P. Stewart Washington Morris Sheppard Senate House of Representatives Brieny

Fatal Accident Claims Nitro Carpenter

George Wilson a 56 year old carpenter at the Viscose plant in Nitro was killed at 10 30 yesterday morning when a falling timber struck him as he helped move a small building. Survived by widow and four daughters Mabel Katherine and Lenla Wilson and others. He had lived in Nitro nine years and ran a grocery store on First Avenue. No funeral arrangements yet announced.

George Wison Viscose Company Plint Nitro J. Fox Mabel Katherine Wilson Nitra Lenla Wilson Marshall College Huntington Wilson Tie First Avenue

Nitro Defeated by Point Pleasant in Friday Basketball

Nitro high school fell 30 to 6 at Point Pleasant. Martin forward Winters led with 20 points as Nitro offense failed early. Traut scored Nitro's only field goal. Moore, Dorman and Rexroad added foul shots. Nitro 예정 home game January 4 vs Milton. Also notes visit of Verns Meeks Madeline Wanda Morton from West Virginia Wesleyan College for Christmas.

Nitro Pt. Pleasant Point Pleasant Martin Winters Traut Moore Dorman Rexroad Niro Milton High Retirng Cotlege

Night school league to play two matches Thursday

The day night boys' high school league will roll both matches Thursday afternoon. Funeral arrangements for Nicholas Roy Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs E B Johnson of Eighteenth street. He was killed when struck by a New York Central passenger train on Friday. Details incomplete Saturday alver noon.

Holmes BE. Stewart Nancy McMeay Noop Holmes R. Stewart Mary I Fordyce Stewart Chico Calif Sacramento Stewart St. Albans Charleston Nancy McKeny Rubber Service Girls' League Johnson Nicholas Roy Johnson E. B. Johnson Eighteenth Street New York Central

Non-Scientist to Give Address at Convention

DES MOINES December 14 CP A black robe nun Sister Mary Ellen credited with discoveries in spore germination of five species of fvetworts will speak at the eighth-day convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on December 27. Sister Essex native Iowan and head of biology at Rasety college River Forest Illinois will deliver a paper on development of the gimetopiyte marchantin domingensis and its congeners. The nun, graduate of the University of Chicago, has won renown for her work with green signe.

Des Moines Mary Ellen American Association For the Advancement of Science Essex Rasety College River Forest University of Chicago Green Signe

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