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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
16
The week ending May 31 brought generally favorable conditions for state crops. Rain fell four days but sun prevailed, boosting corn, wheat, and pastures. Potatoes in the northeast Panhandle and southern counties ran good to excellent, with truck crops facing cutworms and overall late but improving progress. small fruit was fair to poor except cherries.
The Sunshine Girls meet at the Methodist church Friday evening. The Rose Garden club will tour rose gardens Monday at 2 PM with Mrs W M Servais on West Virginia Avenue. Locals visit relatives in Kanawha City Richwood and Chicago. Rev George T Herring returns from Milwaukee. Mr and Mrs Fred Hern plan a move to Whiting Indiana for a new assignment.
The American Red Cross appeals for one million dollars to aid homeless women and children in China harmed by the Sino-Japanese conflict. Charleston quota is one thousand dollars, with contributions sent to the Charleston Red Cross chapter at 1802 East Washington Street or to P. A. Herscher, treasurer, Kana Wha Banking and Trust Company. The fund is framed as humanitarian aid, not a side in the war.
Washington Memorial Park Inc of Red House in Putnam county received a secretary of state charter. Capitalized at 10000 dollars, the firm will establish a cemetery at Red House. Incorporators are D F Lille F M Rairden both of Red House and C F Nicklas of St Albans. Speeding motorists penalized in London last year numbered 15584.
Port Pa to visit Mr. H adjust mother then travel to Whiting Ind where Mr. Huling has been transferred by Carbide and Carbon. Miss Madeleine McCarty visits Miss Gail-Lynn of Charleston while Mrs. C N O'Dell of Crescent road visits daughter Mrs Fred Richardson Jr. Rebecca Frances Blizzard returns from Huntington where she studies at Marshall College.
Building Inspector George B. Hendricks authorized permits totaling 6800 for new construction alterations and additions. Scott Camp will build a 4000 dwelling at 857 Fairview drive W C Edens gets a home on Arlington avenue lot 1 block B for about 2500. Other permits: J A Phillips garage at 2914 Venable avenue 300 Robert Smith alteration at 1501 First avenue 400 John Caldorph moving and repairs at 207 Thirty-fifth street 400.
Bank debits in Charleston for the week ending June 1 totaled 9,185,577 with check transactions down 34 percent from the same week in 1937. Secretary L C Oney of the Charleston Clearing House says year to date checks amount to 234,721,250, a 14.59 percent drop from the prior year.
Mountain Mission officials yesterday secured a small apartment on Fourth Avenue for a seven member family who had been living in a cave at Snow Hill for about two weeks. Rev Hobson Fisher, superintendent, said the family members except the father were in good health.
Henry White of Seattle Washington, brother of Mrs. William S. O'Brien, visited Charleston yesterday to see relatives and classmates at West Virginia University. He played football with Hurry-up Yost and C. E. Nethken, a state public service commissioner. White, a member of the federal trade commission's legal staff in Seattle, plans to go to Washington DC later this week.
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