Youthful Caldwell Pilot Crashes Plane in Load of Flames
Frederick K. Mead an 18 year old Caldwell resident took a Gypsy Moth from Curtiss Wright field Caldwell without permission. The plane crashed and burst into flames as witnesses tried to help. Lena De Tike suffered burns and others were burned as the gas tank exploded. Officials report Mead was unfamiliar with the aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Frederick K. Mead
Caldwell
Ames
Jersey Meadows
Lena de Tike
George Fletcher
James Nesbitt
Fletcher
Curtiss Wright Field & Caldwell
Early airmail race pilots and Ruth Nichols vow comeback
An Oklahoma aviation captain, F C Hall heir, backs a bold attempt by Gatty and Post to cross the Atlantic in a Lockheed Vega with a Wasp engine. Ruth Nichols, recovering from two broken vertebrae, vows to resume her bid to fly solo across the Atlantic once mothballed mono plane is repaired and weather cooperates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Hall
Chickasha Okla
Hall
Dlight
Post
Atlantic
Los Angeles
Chicago
Grand Plain
Texas
William
May Post
Maysville
Oklo
Miss
May Lane
Sweetwater
Gutty
Royal Australian Naval College
Harold Bromley
Japan
America
Gatty
Australia
Vera McCulloch
Sydney
Tasmania
Gatty-Post
Berlin
Saint John
N. B
Ruth Nichols
Society Svatrix
New York
Hardman to Address Charleston Bar Association Luncheon
Dean Porter Hardman of West Virginia University College of Law will be the principal speaker at the Charleston Bar Association luncheon at 12:30 p m Thursday at the Hotel Kanawha. It will be the final luncheon of the season with the next meeting planned for September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter Hardman
College of Law
West Virginia, University
Charleston
Kanawha
Association
Real Estate Transfers Deeds Filed with County Clerk
Real estate transfers show deeds filed with the county clerk. Century Land to Frank Fisher parcels in Roxbury near Spring Hill. Octavia Walking to E L Powell in Butinét. Marjorie Javins to Wellie Cummings. multiple flips include Kanawha Savings loan, Chesapeake Realty, and Chesapeake Land entities. Nettie Perkins and husband to Elia Sprouse on Fry Street. Gillsple and others to Horace A Pierce. W R Lawrence to M Lawrence. Dawson and partners to Realty Securities and Discount in Malden. Lawrence Spencer to Dewey Hunt in Kanawha City. A J God Lite Moore to Irvin Woodrum. W A Lavison and wife to Opal Ramsey Cannell. Marlborough Band to Gertury Lard in Roxbury subdivision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Century Land Company
Frank
Fisher
Roxbury
Spring Hall
Octavia
L. Powell
Marjorie Javins
Wellie Cummings
Intno Dunbar
William Humphreys
D. Todd
William T. Lively
Kanawhs Savings Wnd Loan Association
Chesapeake Realty Company
Chesapeake Land and Development Company
Chesapeake
Nettie Perkins
Elia Sprouse
Fry Street
T. H. Gillsple
Horace A. Pierce
Binck No
J. B. Walker
W. R. Lawrence
M. Lawrence
Long Branch
Davis Creek
Middle Fork
Irvin Woodrum
South Charieston
W. A. Lavison
Opal Ramsey Cannell
London
Marlborough Band Company
Gertury Lard Company
Nes
Porxbury
Itr
Toney Found Guilty by Jury in Household Shooting Case
The jurors reached a guilty verdict after a man testified that he planned to force his wife away, borrowed a shotgun, and shot Graham when confronted at a back doorway. He claimed Graham attacked him first and cited fear of Granam as part of the motive. The jury deliberated about a few hours before returning the verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granam
Graham
Toney
Deputy to Go After Coburn
Deputy investigators pursue theory that Shawyer drowned upstream before the boat capsized opposite Court street. Witness accounts vary about number aboard and Shawver’s fate as police learn of a drowning. Shawver was buried at Spring Hill Cemetery after services at his Bradford street home led by Rev. B. P. Taylor of the Pure Mo. church South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawyer
Court Street
Linkenhager
Cochran
Shawver
Coburn
Spring Hill J
Yesteray
Bradford Street
B. P. Taylor
the Pures Mo. Church
South
Obituary notices scattered across Charleston area
Obituaries report Fred Hunt age 64 of Crescent Road died after surgery. services at Wesley Memorial Church with interment in Hope Cemetery. Also John William Siders 52 of Watts Street died. service at Lanham Cemetery with daughter Marjorie and son William surviving. Additional notices include Annie R White, Nannie Ellen Augustine, Ann Tucker Wills, Macel McMorrow, Emma Beatrice Ferguson, Homer Goings, and Joyce Evelyn Crews with funeral details and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Shunt
Fred Hunt
Crescent Road
Wesley Memorial
Bigley Avenue
R. W. Miller
Hope Cemetery
Rome County
Charleston Lumber Company
Fe Brothers
Down Wiam
Siders
John William Siders
Watts Street
Lanham Cemetery
Jackson County
Charleston
Marjorie Siders
William Siders
Adventchurch
Nannie £. Augustine
Nannie Ellen Augustine
Martha Robinson
Parkersburg
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Augustine
Frea
Hunt
Crescent Rond
Mottley
Wesley ME
William Marcum
Streeter Page
Anarw Shirkey
Fred Welcher
George Gunter
Julius Hudson
Emma Ferguson
Emma Beatrice Ferguson
Christan Lauren
Ferguson
J. B. Ferguson
Elsie Jordan
Beatrice Jordan
Ean
John Clifford
Pauline Stark Divorced From Jack White in Court
Pauline Stark, motion picture actress, was granted a divorce from her husband Jack White, film producer, in superior court today. She charged cruelty in the divorce filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angles
Pauline Stark
Jack White
Superior Court
Greenbrier Visitors Attend Kates Mountain Club Events
June 23 White Sulphur Springs residents note a Southern breakfast at Kates mountain club followed by riders on Kates mountain and Freeland trails. Guests include Mrs W Pilling, Mrs Josephine Pilling of Washington DC, Miss H M Grier of Milford Delaware, and many others visiting the Greenbrier racing scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springs
Kates Mountain Club
Isis
Kates Mountain
Freeland
W. Pilling
Josephine Pilling
Washington Dy
Frank Dailey
New Brunswick
HM. L. Grier
Milford del
P. H. Todd
W. L. Truesdale
John H. Downes
F. K. Hertinger
Miss Mixter
W. H. Fenn
Elmhurst Farm
Francis 5. Whitton
New York
Washington
Edigar Salinger
Isaac Herrmann
Greenbrier
A. Wannemacher
Adele Wannemacher
Irvington
Alfred W. Smith
Wills McLoughlin
Philadelphia
J. H. Hurst, Jr
Ridley Park
N. B. Williams
Easton
Pas
N. QO. Taylor
H. A. Deeley
A. Williams
John Mac Wille
Hankow
China
A. B. Ward
Switzerland
I. H. Kline
Wichita
Kan
H. C. Sanford
Salt Lake City
Julia Connelly
Pittsburgh
H. E. Carley
Deyton, O
Chester Kays
Atlanta
H. B. Whiting
Minneapolis
Annie Dobbins
Richmond
E. H Avnoold
Kanawha River Tragedy Claims Second Victim At Dawn
large crowds lined the Kanawha riverbank as authorities searched for a second drowning victim. Police diverted traffic on Ka Tawhae street amid heavy car congestion while Barlow's undertakers stored an inhalator on the riverbank. The cases include Wallace F. Shawver, found Sunday morning after going missing Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ka- Tawhae Street
Barlow
Young Kirk
Thomas P. Kirk
Elizabeth Street
Charleston High School
Kirk
Independent
Wallace F. Shawver
School Contract Awarded to Harris for Basement Room
The Charleston Independent district board of education awarded E. L. Harris of Charleston the contract for adding a basement room at the Roving School on Orange Street. Including excavation the project cost runs about 3100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston Independent District Board of Education
E. L. Harris
Charleston
Orange Street
Delegation urges Waynesboro West Hamlin highway route
A Lincoln and Wayne counties delegation urged the state road commission to build a highway from West Hamlin to Wayne via Nestlow. The commission took the request under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Wayne Counties
State Road Commission
West Hamlin
Wayne
Nestlow
United Fuel Rate Case Brief Filed
The United Pye Gas company filed a brief with the Public Service Commission defending the current temporary rate in the Southern West Virginia area. It argues reducing the rate would cause serious injustice by failing to reflect the value of the plant as of December 31, 1928 plus reasonable overhead, working capital, and new property acquisitions since 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Pye Gas Company
Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Charleston
West Virginia Pupils Chosen for Talkies Tests
Mary Hrace of Rowlesburg and Guy Nicholson of Welch, eighth graders, were selected to join tests in Washington from July 1919 to explore the value of sound films in public school teaching. The test, sponsored by a major film company with the U S Bureau of Education, aims to assess educational value and develops subjects for lessons. Myra Nefflen will accompany the students as state supervisor of mural schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Mary Hrace
Rowlesburg
Guy Nicholson
Welch
Washington
Liny Company
United States Bureau of Education
Hoover
Coniey
Iim Company
Canby
Myra Nefflen
Bruce
Nicholeau
Bureau of Education
Hooter
Gmn
Water Commission To Hear Pollution Cases
The state water commission will meet today to hear evidence on pollution in Elk Creek near Clarksburg and Brushy Fork near Princeton and Middle Island Creek near Middlebourne. Officials from Clarksburg FHS Princeton and railroad interests face questions about pollution and oil companies respond to residents’ complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Water Commission
Elk Creek
Clarksburg
Brushy Fork
Princeton
Long Middle Island Creek
Middle
Bourne
FHS
Viginian Railroad
Middlebourne
Marriage Licenses Issued in Kanawha County
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday by the county clerk to Lubert Burdette 23 and Ica Burdette 23 Charing J Neeley 27 and Lillian Copenhaver 23 Edward Kuhn 22 and Blanche Moran 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanawha County
Lubert Burdette
Ica Bureette
Charing J. Neeley
Lillian Copenhaver
Edward Kuhn
Blanche Maran
Youth Killed in West View Park Car Accident
In Pittsburgh on June 23 18 year old Arn old Carolin died after being ejected from a moving car at West View Park. He reportedly stood up in the vehicle and was thrown about 25 feet to a hillside killing him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Arnold Carolin
West View Park
Charters Granted and Dissolutions Reported by Secretary of State
Secretary George W. Sharp announced charters issued to several West Virginia firms including The Citizens Nations Gas Company of Charleston with 1 000 shares and The Wheeling Enterprises Inc of Charleston with 1 900 shares. Increases in capital stock were listed for Jackson County Bank Ravenwood and Holtzerman Chicago Store Company Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Sharp
Lwo
Citizens Nations Gas Company
Charleston
E. R. Diggs
New York
H. W. Russell
L.M. Adams
Parkersburg
Wheeling Enterprises, Inc
T. S. Clark
T. L. Johnson
Yvonne Riffe
Secretary of State
Fairmont -Lewis-Ward Motor Company
Becki Maxine Canl Company
Morgantown
Point Pleasant Bus Company
Point Tyler Traction Company
Lis~ Willow Coal Company
Clarks-burg
Jackson County Bank
Ravenawood
Holtzerman Chicago Store Company
Minneapolis
Sharp
West Virginia
Witputte Coke Qven’ Company
Flexotlle Lot Company
Tiliness
Kelman
Driaware
Uniform Color Signs For Parking Urged At Civitan Meeting
At a Civitan Club gathering in Incheon a speaker urged nationwide use of colored parking signs with blue for no limit green for half hour and other colors for other limits. The proposal was referred to the subjects committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civitan
Fiem Hantia
Italk
Incheon
Jelvitan Club
Ennkwha
Tne
Quomnee Flore
Activites
Vocational Guidance Committee
Four Nations Approve Plan In Rome Europe Seeks Assurances
The text notes Italy seeking assurances on a planned Austro German union and U S officials avoiding involvement in European politics. Germany accepts the plan with revised financial backing while creditors raise questions. The president and secretary emphasize US neutrality amid broad public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Rome
Italy
Europe
Hotel Man Resigns City Post to Join Pioneer
Richardson, longtime assistant manager of Hotel Ruftner, leaves the city to become manager at Hotel Pioneer in Logam, replacing Richard Arters who sails for England on July 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E.R. Richardson
Ruftner
Lofan
Richard Arters
England
Proudfoot Reenlists in State Police Force Limit Set
Superintendent R L Osburn announced the reenlistment of Lawrence W Proudfoot of Grafton as a state trooper assigned to Parkersburg with Company D. Proudfoot was among 26 troopers discharged last month due to funding shortfalls and reduced appropriations, with further enlistments planned to reach 125 total, pending resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Osburn
State Police
Lawrence £. Proudfoot
Grafton
Parkersburg
Proudfoot
Ely
Osborn
A. 5. Harney
Federal Prohibition Department
West Virginia Board Examines 16 Dentistry Applicants
The state board of dental examiners began exams for 16 applicants seeking licenses to practice dentistry in West Virginia. The tests will continue today and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Dental Examiners
West Virginia
Court Routine Suits Filed in Common Pleas Court
In common pleas court on the law side J O Vickers sues Dixies Atlas Republic Insurance for 1500 damages. On the circuit court low side Trojan Steel company sues Fairfield Engineering for 1000 damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Pleas Court
J. O. Vickers
Dixies Atlas-Republic Insurance Company
Republic Life and Accident Insurance Company
Trojan Steel
United Hotels closet space feature highlighted
An advertisement touts the roominess of closet space at United Hotels noting dresses remain hung and extra suits fit, comparing it to the larger room and better value for money. It emphasizes a single convenient service and hints at a button sewn on a vest as a humorous aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Hotels
United Service
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
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Hardman
Annie R. White
Mausia Gray
Gray
Ruth Coleron
Hattie Harvey
Banks Creek
Misa Cordelia White
Ann J. Wills
Ann Tucker Wills
W. C. Tucker
Beckley
Homer Goings
Focal
Reuben Poetry
George Philip
Harry and
Henjeroin
Joyce Evelyn Crews
J. W. Crews
Beechwood Avenue
Harris
Want Road In
Skeets Gallagher
Stuart Erwin
Carole Lombard
Lilyan Tashman
Norman Foster
Lowell Thomas
Paramount Pictorial
FOX Moviftose News
ED. McConnell
ED McConnell
Keniil
WOBL
United Fuel Rate
Gas Company
Miss Swem
Debiel Boone Hotel
Eugene
Capitol
Shawnee
Kearse
Giles
Vagabonds
Scholl
Y All Drug, Alive
Dept. Stores
Yeu
Valley Bell
Capitol 450
Otte
Benjamin Franklin J
York City
Roose
Seattle
Wash
Forcestar
N.J
Trenton
Harrisburg
Albany
Syracuse
N.Y
Rochester
Niagara Falls
N.Y Serbs
Hick
Dupo
Kansas City
Tucson
Conquisance
Toronto
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