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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1932
Page
2
Kanawha County reports four month fire losses totaling about 490 300 with insured property at 695 775 and total fire damage around 1 008 000. Several fires damaged buildings and other property with unknown causes including electric wires stoves and nearby structures.
The Union Mission Camp is set to open this Sunday afternoon across the river from the state capital. The camp includes a swimming playground tabernacle lunch rooms and children’s buildings funded as a gift from Mrs. John Herdy and Mrs. Belle Abney. Children from the Miemen nursery will attend the camp tomorrow.
bus line cases will be heard on June 22 involving an application and scope of service. F C Wegters, supervisor of transportation, will oversee proceedings at Morgan location referenced in the docket.
Joretta Dowling, daughter of a western merchant, is courted by Norman Williams, son of a shipbuilder. At a yacht party aboard Allan Dowling’s Montemuma, an engineer appears and the couple announce their engagement after family banter and congratulatory toasts. Joretta feels a strange mix of thrill and unease as the evening ends with plans for a formal announcement.
On a yacht the engagement of Dowling’s daughter to young Williams creates a commotion among guests and prompts the white uniformed engineer to ponder. Jim Norton slips away to the engine room and fixes on the ship’s gleaming machinery as nonchalant banter and plans unfold about power, speed, and a double ship launch. Dowling, in the salon, announces the engagement amid the celebration and the startling spectacle of two ships launched that night.
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