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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1929
Page
20
Edith Moore travels to Lewiurg for Greenbrier Military school commencement where her son John Parker Moore is in the graduating class. Numerous garden club activities, prizes awarded, and readers visiting relatives in Pittsburgh, Morgantown, Wheeling, and Washington before related graduation events.
Five days of events mark Washington and Lee university finals week in Lexington Virginia with fraternities sponsoring activities from the opening night through the final ball Tuesday night. Students and guests arrive as baccalaureate sermons and degree ceremonies approach, and a long list of committees coordinates events including feuds between boat crews and alumni luncheons.
The seventeenth annual state convention of West Virginia Gideons will meet at the Daniel Boone hotel on Saturday and Sunday. The program includes registration, devotions by Chaplain Burkham, an address of welcome by Rev. Pat Withrow, a response by President Harry Bond, and committee appointments. Evening Union Mission tent meeting and a Gideon broadcast over WORU. Sunday features devotions at the YMCA and Bible classes, with sessions to dedicate 28 Bibles for placement in hotel rooms.
The secretary of state grants a charter to Erin Smokeless Coal Company of Otareoa Wyurnliye County to conduct canal mining business. Principal offices listed at RAO. 100 and City Interparatacs, with stockholders Sullivan of Mardelni Albeen Toler L Phillips Macy Jane Pures and Victoria Toler of MoNene named as organizers.
Leo M. Faveot, agent of the Rocketeer foundation in New York City, visited West Virginia state college at Tuntituce Moiday afternoon with John W. Davis, the institution’s president, to discuss improving college teaching. He conducted short interviews with Dean David A. Lane Jr. Professor George D. Brock and L. L. McKenzie. F000 Strikers Refurny i RRUSSI report notes six thousand striking fire makers have returned to work.
Mrs. Ted Childress of Garden Street announces the birth of Jackson Jr. born May 18. Mrs. Childress formerly Miss Mande Drier. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dabney of Huntington announce the birth of a son yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Dabney formerly Miss Alese yrall, granddaughter of Mrs. Nancy Jarrett. Mr. and Mrs. Harry We Miller of Beckley announce the birth of a daughter Elgaben Ann born May 27. Mrs. Miller former Ernestine Harris of Canellios. Mr. R. K. Eskew, visiting his parents on Lee Street, has gone to Ninista Falls to visit his sister Mrs. A. L. Pitman.
State road bids advertised for multiple projects to complete route 17 and widen roads along the Kanawha river. Plans include gravel and concrete work from Henderson to St Albans, improvements on route 65 between Harper and Ewing, and grading and drainage on several Logan and Roane County routes. Additional paving and surface treatments are scheduled on routes 1018 and 36 as well as bridge work near Charles Town and Jefferson County.
A compiled list details multiple road and bridge work across several counties. Projects include grading and draining segments in Brooke and Pleasants counties, culvert extensions on Chicken Neck hill and Jaya Run, a concrete arch bridge at Russell, and paving with cement concrete on Shinnston Main Street. Additional tasks cover gravel surfacing on New Martinsville to Wileyville, Astor road paving, concrete deck girders, and reconstruction of the Caddell bridge and Piedmont-Keyser-New Creek roads.
Beckley based Diamond Taxicab company secured a state charter to run a general transportation business. Capital stock is $5,000 with incorporators E in Morton W C Green William Blakeley James Green of Beckley and J L Shepherd of Lanark. Secretary George W Sharp issued the certificate. notary public commission was issued to Curtin Williams of Huntington.
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