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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1925
Page
3
Glenwood church baseball team hosts a Thursday benefit at Tiskelwah School auditorium to support the club. Rev J L Edens and quartets from Weekley Memorial United Brethren church perform, with sacred pictures shown, inviting public attendance. Proceeds fund the team.
County clerks stop recording conditional sales agreements in line with a new statute effective last week. The change reduces long standing workload as these semi permanent records, covering auto and furniture installments, are moved to a separate system. County clerk Roscoe M. Moulton had cabinets installed to manage the transition. Major George M. Ford, state superintendent of schools, plans to preside at the state board of education session in Wheeling after returning from a New England vacation.
Preparations for the annual children outing under the Salvation Army are nearly complete. Shady Brook beach will be donated for the day with full facilities and amusements, and Charleston Automobile will provide transport from Virginia Street at 2 o clock Wednesday morning. Tickets have been distributed and more cars may be donated. weather remains the final factor for a perfect day.
Floyd Mace of Charleston was arrested yesterday by National Detective Agency officers Omiewra O. K. Johnson and J. Williams on forgery charges filed by his wife. He allegedly forged two checks for eighty dollars. He posted bond and is to appear before Magistrate J. A. deGkuyter on August 3.
Judge J K Black granted a continuance in Intermediate court yesterday for Arthur St Clair, 38, charged with killing Harness Coffman, a nine year old boy killed on the Sissonville road when struck by a car driven by 81 Clair. The continuance was requested by I Salive and the assistant district attorney Frank C Burdello out of the city.
A garbled report notes a swan near Hallvoir Park was chloroformed and amputated after a fall. It mentions a monthly concert and a forbidden song, with an air force lieutenant doctor Morgan Jit killed in training to become an aviator.
Examinations for mine foremen and firs were started yesterday at Venteal Junior High School by the state superintendent of mines. The class numbers 63 men from Boone, Clay, Kanawha counties and likely surrounding districts.
Mason and R M Laibie preside over a Monday to Tuesday examination by the Morgan town fire department. The next state exam will be Thursday at Rockiey with a 20 pound clam shell exhibit.
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