Beacom Proposes Fair Trade Act at WV Pharmacists Meet
West Virginia State Senator Beacom told about 400 pharmacists at the state convention in Parkersburg that a fair trade act would be introduced next session. The bill would let manufacturers set trade terms for selling prices on certain branded goods, conflicting with open competition norms. The convention included remarks by officers of the West Virginia Pharmacists Association and featured a women’s tea, a men’s golf tourney, and a banquet with officer elections planned.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
West Virinia State Pharmaceutical Association
Patrick Beacom
D-Cabell
MarUnton
J. Lester Hayman
Morgantown
Robert L. Swain
Baltimore
Sec
Maryland Board of Rhermacy
Stata
G. C. Young
More Testimony On Richwood Rates Delayed Hearing Set
Public service commission heard technical testimony on Richwood Water and Light rates yesterday as part of an ongoing investigation. Badgatt and H. S. Smith testified about timber removal on Richwood's main roadster site, with a future seven year plan. L. Space, president of the company, will testify on depreciation allowances. The commission indicated closure after the president's testimony and cross examination.
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Public Service Commission
It and Water
Badgatt
H. S. Smith
Richewood
L. Space
Sion
All of
Richwood
John Henry to Sing in New Folk Opera in New Orleans
New Orleans June 17. John Henry the cotton roller giant of Negro legend will inspire a folk opera being created by Maark Bradford and Jacques Wolfe. Bradford has supplied the text with two acts and nine scenes and Wolfe will compose music after eight months’ work here and a New York trip this week. The legend, likened to Paul Bunyan for lumberjacks, portrays John Henry as an honest man who loved a woman wronged him, and his feats with cotton and rail work are celebrated in the folk ballad.
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New Orleans
John Henry
Southland
Maark Bradford
Adam
Wis
Chilfon
Cave
Green Pastures
Jacques Wolfe
New York
Lawrence Tibbett
Glory
John Ienry
Wolfe
Bradford
Taul Bunyan
Mississippi
John Enry
Cradford
Farm Group to Visit Capitol for WVU Extension Tour
Members of a farm tour sponsored by West Virginia University extension department plan a visit to Charleston today. Commissioner J. B. McLaughlin and other agriculture officials will receive the group, then tour the State Capitol, the Hed House, and the university experiment station in Lakin.
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West Virginia University Extension Department
J. B. McLaughlin
Agriculture Department
Charleston
Hed House
University Experiment Station
Lakin
Extradition Hearing Granted for Claude Carpenter
A hearing on extradition to Gallia county for hijacking a carload of Nquer was granted yesterday for Claude Carpenter of Huntington. A. W. Garnett, secretary to the governor and acting for Pardon Attorney Frank Hill, will report findings to Governor Kump after returning from Elkins.
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Gallia County
Claude Carpenter
Huntington
A. W. Garnett
Frank Hill
Kump
Elkins
Heiress Seeks Court Over Fraudulent Marriage Licenses
Mary Ann Hughes Freeman 19, daughter of a Huntington oilman, asks Greenup County Court to annul her four day marriage to James Dent Stack 22 of Huntington. She alleges the license was fraudulently obtained and she was improperly urged to wed. Freeman, previously tied to an alleged kidnapping case, cites prior extortion arrests but no indictment was returned.
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Huntington
Mary Ann Hughes Freeman
Greenup
James Dent Stack
C. H. Freeman
Cincinnati
Three Cases Deferred In Alexander's Court
Three cases set for the opening day of the June term of Common Pleas court were continued or left on the open docket yesterday. Judge A. S. Alexander excused the jurymen until this morning after the cases had been called. Cases listed included Oscar L. Hambrick versus T. J. Spaulding. Charles P. Coney versus John Hancock Fire Insurance Company. and Jenkins versus Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. Textiles, once the most depressers of Belgian industry before the currency change, are now the most favored.
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Judea A. 5
Alexander
Oscar L. Hambrick
T. J. Spaulding
Charles P. Coney
John Hancock Rile Inesurance Company
Jenkins
Facile Mutual Life Insurance Company
Newspaper Boys Leave For Camp Mission June tenth
The Gazette’s more than 100 newspaper boys began a week at Camp Gazztt near Princeton as a reward for long term service and sales success. Clifford Neale heads the camp with a routine of swimming hikes games and salesmanship. Groups include many named boys from Charleston Beckley Rainelle and other towns in southern West Virginia with a schedule of groups traveling in weeks to come.
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Gazette
Camp Gazett
Princeton
West Virginia
Clifford Neale
Rainelle
Athlet
Kentucky
Victor Aurady
Xylv King
Ardith Cites
Charleston
Carl Adkins
Helen
William Amburgey
John Cash
Jack Cury
Logan
John Boyce
Cranberry
Junior Cooke
Ilemer Daniels
Beckley
Clinton Modges
Ercles
Junior Craddock
Long Branch
Manuel Capado
Carlisle
Eldridge Burford
Harold Benton
George Fatria
Thornton Gladwell
Els Ba HI
Stoward Jackson
County Celebrates 100th Anniversary in Marshall County
Marshall County marks its 100th birthday with centennial programs planned in McMechen Cameron and Moundsville. Notables including former Governor John J. Cornwell Claude L. Smith and Charles E. Carrigan will speak. The anniversary runs until September 22 with a hoped address by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. A special train will shuttle luminaries from Cameron and other towns to Moundsville for tomorrow night events.
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Moundsville
Marshal County
McMechhen
Cameron
John J. Cornwell
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Claude L. Smith
Charles E. Carrigan
Republican State Committee
Marshall County
John Marshall
Supreme Court
W. E. Pierce
Charlce Evans Hughes
Youth Assembly Opens at Morristown Barboursville
The annual young people's assembly of western Virginia conference, M E Church South, opened yesterday at Morris Harvey College Barboursville and runs through June 22. Local attendees include Laura Woodard, Essie Kuhn, Ethel Mae Graham, Hebekah Gilbert, Aileen Cunningham, Lilelian Coulter, Margaret Zinn, Marie Osborne, Kathleen Houchins, Margaret Samms, Katherine Lynch, and Robert Gilbert. The local group plans a performance of The Waiting Guest directed by Laura Woodard and Frances Lynch with Ruth Gilbert, Margaret Woodard, Milas Comalee Hines, Willard Williams, and James Jackson in the cast. Additional cast members include Ethel Mae Graham, Kathleen Houching, and Hubert Gilbert. The First Presbyterian class hosted a Thursday hike and picnic. Mr and Mrs R H Maltens of Widen visit H E Taylor on Park Street. Mr and Mrs William Woodard announce the birth of a son on June 13 at Kanawha Valley Hospital in Charleston. Reverend M Sturm and Miss Kathryn Lynch were in Bur.
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Kanawha Valley Hospital
Charleston
M. Sturm
Kathryn Lynch
Bur
Local Social Notices and Notices of Death Involving Area Residents
Last week in Boursville several residents attended the Pastors School at Morris Harvey college. Miss Lynch was in attendance and J. J. Brown returned Monday to Charlottesville? Va after visiting Mrs. Pearl E Sutler on Fifth Avenue. Mrs. M. G. Campbell received word of Miss Jennie Evans's death Friday at her Ashland Kentucky home. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon. Miss Evans was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Evans who formerly lived in St. Albans. Mrs. Vera Krebs and Miss Nelle Campbell visiting in Chicago with plans for next week. Mrs. Krebs to return here and Miss Campbell to Wickery Hill camp in Edgerton Wisconsin as camp counselor. The Methodist Episcopal Church South women's missionary society to meet Thursday at two. Mr. and Mrs. Brad Parr and Mrs. Carl Grimlithe attended Miss Evans's funeral in Ashland Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mann and two children of Louisville were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. BG Mann Jr. Mrs. Mann and children, with Charles Mann, left Monday for Richmond to visit relatives.
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Mra
Vera Krebs
Nelle Campbell
Chicana
Krebs
Miss Campbell
Wickery Hill
Edgerton
Wis
Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Lutheran Conferences Open at Jackson's Mill
Lutherans from West Virginia and nearby Maryland gather at Jackson's Mill for the West Virginia synod United Lutheran Church and related societies conferences. The event runs through Thursday with an ordination sermon by Rev. A. K. Jones of Red House Maryland and speakers including F. Lee Fresh of the Lutheran Brotherhood.
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A. K.jones
Red House
Maryland
F. Lee Fresh
Lutheran Brotherhoods of
West Virginia
Synodual Brotherhood
Special Judge Named as Sub for Absent Hudson
Special Judge Sam Silverstein served yesterday in the absence of Judge Arthur P. Hudson. Circuit Clark M Hix urged the bar to select a substitute judge as Hudson notified he could not appear.
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Sam Silverstein
Charleston
Ottorney
Arthur P. Hudson
Clark M.H. Hix
Udga
Hudson
McMillion to Screen Free Films Tonight in Lee Street
Four educational and entertaining talking pictures will be shown free to the public tonight at eight o clock in the McMillion Motor Company sales rooms on Lee Street. The films have been presented at civic clubs in the city and elsewhere. They are sponsored by the McMillion Company and the Chevrolet Motor Company.
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McMillion Motor Company
Lee Street
McMilion
Opening Day at Hoyan Field Draws 100 Boys to New Playground
More than 100 boys ages six to 17 gathered for Hoyan Field opening on Kanawha and Clendenin streets. Rain delayed work but attendees enjoyed baseball and games. Early morning crowds at the gate numbered over 25 with around 30 present at noon. The project was funded by Kanawha county court and about 20 Charleston businessmen. swings slides and showers remain to be installed.
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Kanawha
Clendenin
Edward W. Lampton
Ampton
T Boys
Charleston
Suspended Four Months Jail Term For Miller in Juvenile Court
Judge A. Ise aler sentences Miller to four months in jail suspended on probation in a juvenile court proceeding. The case details remain limited but the ruling follows a juvenile justice process with the judge presiding.
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A.isealer
Suspended After Delinquency Charge Involving Girl
An official suspended action after it emerged that the person charged with contributing to a girl's delinquency was linked to the case. The details clarify who the girl is and the circumstances prompting the suspension.
Chemical Society Picnic Planned for Kanawha Valley Section
The Kanawha Valley Section of the American Chemical Society will hold a picnic this Saturday at 2:00 PM at Peytona. W. J. Putnam, who organized arrangements, said the event would go on this week rain or shine. The picnic was originally planned for last Saturday.
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Kanawha Valley
American Chemical Society
Peytona
W. J. Putnam
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