Volunteers Aid Refugees to 90 Mothers and 2,001 Treated
The Volunteers of America annual report shows 90 expectant mothers aided in the year ending December 25. Of these, 57 delivered at the Kanawha street maternity ward and 43 in local homes. Medical treatment reached 2,001 people, with 25 free operations. The facility maintains 11 beds, a modern operating room, and staff including a nurse and physician. A dental clinic in South Charleston served 200. A daily soup line aided about 40 families, and shelter was provided to 4,529 homeless men with 28,587 meals served. Destitute families received 10,326 garments, plus two truckloads of shoes and 1,408 pairs of rubbers donated by Nat. Shoe Co. Sunday school enrollment rose to 197, with 180 indoor services and 14,045 total attendees, plus 21,898 at open air meetings. Advisory board includes Dr. Curtis L. Lyon, Don Ray, William M. Thomas, Braxden Spencer, and Miss Loraine yon.
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Volunteers of America
Fred Jackson
Kanawha Street
Volnteers
South Charleston
Jackson
Kanawha Hotel
Charleston
Montgomery
Nat. Shoe Co
E. W. Mayse
Curtis L. Lyon
Don Ray
William M. Thomas
Braxden Spencer
Loraine Yon
West Virginia Briefs from Associated Press roundup
West Virginia items report Alonzo Burns 21 charged with felonious assault after allegedly knocking down Mrs. Benmetto while fleeing a shop with silk hose. A. T. Terry arrested John Mann for drunkenness in Williamson. Miner Jim Wilson killed in a fall at Pony Creek mine. Ben Smith injured. Moundsville council plans repairs for fire truck clearance. Katherine Jefferson of Moundsville dies from a broken neck after a fall. Vernie Rollins arrested. Miss Mary Alice Edgell breaks arm after ice fall. Albert S. Kemp er becomes chairman of Mercer County Democratic committee. Huntington reports a severe snow storm. bids withheld until weather improves. Parkersburg mayor orders departments to cut expenses. Parkersburg man reports burglar prints after hearing noises. no intruder seen.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
Alonzo Burns
S. W. Benmett
Williamson
A. T. Terry
John Mann
Huntington
B. Smooth
Parkersburg
Harry Blurm
Appalachian Operators To Attend Conference
D Holmes Morton president of the Winifrede Collieries in Charleston and Irvin Davies president of the Hatfield Campbell’s Creek Coal company in Cincinnati will represent the Appalachian field’s co relations board at a Washington conference today. The meeting announced that if the board cannot agree on prices the commission will fix them.
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D. Holmes Morton
Winifrede Collieries Company
Charleston
Irvin Davies
Cinccinnati
Hatfield- Campbell’s Creek Coal Company
Appalachian Field
Washington
Commission
McCullough’s Stocking Lacked An Automobile
State WPA administrator F Witcher McCullough received travel accessories for Christmas yesterday including a traveling bag and an overcoat but no automobile. Officials denied reports that a car was gifted and noted the gifts were limited to those items.
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WPA
F. Witcher McCullough
James Lawson Arrested for Wounding in Charleston
James Lawson of Charleston was arrested by Constable Vernon Mack of Union district yesterday on a charge of shooting Oliver Garrett of Slip Hill in the foot Sunday night. Garrett was taken to Staats hospital in stable condition. Lawson awaits hearing before Justice W. D. Reedy on the Sissonville road. motive not yet determined.
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James Lawson
Charleston
Vernon Mack
Union District
Oliver Garrett
Slip Hill
Kana
Garrett
Staats Hospital
Mack
Lawson
W. D. Reedy
Sissonville Road
Paderewski to Receive Watch in War Saw Themed Gift
Paderewski the renowned pianist will be presented a completed watch made in Warsaw. The piece features a piano keyboard for minutes, an hour hand as a pen, a conductor’s button as the minute hand, and a second dial named after the district of his birth with notes from Paderewski compositions circling the dial. It reportedly keeps perfect time. The piece is notable in a period noting rising American motor vehicles in Belgium.
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Paderewski
Warsaw
J. Paderewski
Death Follows Punishment in French Local Foregone Fate
Death follows punishment as five days of inattention lead to fatal outcomes in Sou islac, France. Sixteen lads were placed under the charge of an assistant mas.
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Souislac
France
Mas
Fragmentary local item on quarry accident and other events
A partial report describes an afternoon spent near a quarry behind a school in London with horses in gravel and a sudden collapse that killed five and injured others. A lantern on a buoy off Scotland was extinguished and a ban was noted in connection with the事件.
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London
Au Sr
Scotland
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West Virginia
Jim Wilson
Pony Creek
Leckie Colleries
Ben Smith
Wilson
Moundsville
Wheeling
Wirs
Katherine Jefferson
Vernie Rollins
Smilefield
Mary Alice Edgell
Albert 5. Kemper, Jr
Mercex County
Landon T. Reynolds
BH. RK. NeBussey
McCullough
Belgium
Galperin
Baldwin
House of Baldwin
Baldwin Studio Uprights
Capitol
Goodyear
Thorogood
Shoe Dept
A. W. Cox Dept
Schenley’s
Schenley
Kentucky
Old Kentucky
Schealey Distributors, Inc
New York, N.Y
Cox
Mink
Fox Persia Second
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COX Department Store
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