Society notes of Charleston summer visitors and arrivals
Society news lists numerous Charleston residents and guests making trips or returning home for the summer. Catherine Smith departs for Lewisburg. Noyes Smith returns from Detroit. Eddie and Mildred Cameron visit from here before summer work in Pittsburgh and Staunton respectively. Readers are updated on Miss Eastwood, Miss Moore, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Payne, Mrs. Thayer, and others visiting relatives or at camps, plus several returns from trips to New York, Marlinton, Winchester, Norfolk, and more. Births announced include Helen McClure Putney and a son for Holsteins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Smith
Lewisburg
Mildred Eastwood
Andree Clerk
New York
Mary Rowe Moore
Cincinnati
Charleston
Beasle Anderson
Hugh Stewart
Kanawha Street
Chicago
Milwaukee
Nina Payne
Marlinton
Motle Kidd
John W. Hall
Lexington
Mrs. Gamble Dick
Blotea Gregory
New York City
Hon H. Kelly
High-Grade Mattresses Firm Opens in City
A new mattress manufacturing concern, High-Grade Matttras company, started in Chale ton at 413 Charleston street. Owned by W. N. Meddings and P. D. Shoffner, it offers mattresses fitted to the consumer and specializes in renovating cotton, felt, hair, and hex spring mattresses. The plant employs six men and has a capacity of 25 mattresses daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaleton
Mattyras Company
W. N. Meddings
P. D. Shoffner
Charleston Street
Pharleston Mattress Company
Ask Pop This One He Won't Know It
Chicago feature summarizes a bulletin from the American Research Foundation on oil wells. It explains that a 4000 foot well contains far more pipe than the depth implies, with 22 inch pipe starting and lengths increased from the surface as the hole deepens, noting earth movement and multiple nested pipes to prevent pinching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pop
Chicago
American Research Foundation
Elm Grove Operator Receives Vail Medal for Initiative
Miss Margaret Xkonter of Elm Grove was awarded the Theodore N. Vail memorial medal at a Wheeling telephone society meeting for quick action during a March 31 1924 bank robbery. She alerted a brother, enabling swift aid and aiding the bandit’s capture and recovery of about 2000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Xkonter
Elm Grove
Wheeling Telephone Society
Gonter
Wheeling
First National Bank
Miss Gonter
Theodora N. Wall
SM. Briggs
Traffcc
Chesareake
Potomec
Charleston
Miss Ganter
Bell System
Milliena
Vail Medale
Chesapeake and Potonjaé Telephone Company
West
Brigws Eald
Theodore N. Yall
Hell System
Vall
Sergion
W. 9
Veteran Bus Driver Covers 90000 Miles In Town Service
Brownwood Texas June 27 JE Gentis aged sixty nine has driven the town transfer passenger bus for twenty one years without a day off. He makes six trips daily between two depots, about twelve miles each day, totaling roughly 99950 miles in his 21 years of service, nearly four laps around the earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownwood
Texas
JE Gentis
Doctor jailed for baptizing infant in Moscow
June 27 report states Dr. Stefan Georgieff, a retired physician, is charged with moral assault after baptizing his infant grandson during the temporary absence of the child's Communist father. Indicted before the Moscow lower court, the case follows the baby's illness while the father was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Stefan Georgieff
Ivan Michailoff
Lower Cour
Georgieff
Denies Lincoln Slayer Was Shot in Garrett Barn
Kokomo Indiana June 27 John Wilkes Booth assassinator of Abraham Lincoln died forty years after the crime, says Rev. John Wesley Potter. He declares the man shot in Garrett's barn on April 26 1865 near dawn was Gerald Ruddy Robyne, one of Booth's helpers. Booth fled to Texas, South America, returned to Enid Oklahoma in 1903, and killed himself. Potter aims to teach truthful history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Ind
John, Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Dved
John Wesley Potter
Lincoln
Garrett Howe
Uut Tooth
Gerald
Ruddy) Robyne
Physician Denies Movies Hurt Eyes In Newark
Dr Crankshaw, directing at the Feudidentin company, argues that eye strain from concentration is more to blame than movies. Gates Industrial data show 41000000 workers face eye issues, with flicker control improving comfort. A separate item notes Prince Salvator’s world tour amid claims to Polish throne and a Glasgow damages suit from a schoolgirl track incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Concentratas
Dorttharius
Feuidentin’ Tnee‘e Company
Gate
Br. Crankshan
List of hotel guests at Hollies hotel yesterday
Names from the Hollies hotel guest list include G. S. Wetherell Philadelphia W McLean Wheeling W H Lofes Baltimore Theodore Hoard Clucinracl I By Gay and wife Blair I Iaererstein Clever land H A Junkin Famillon M E Chessy Duffield Va Bernice B Hoylas Sisterville Va Harry K Pollitt Beard's Fark B L Kis Baltimore Falch Cehb Portsmouth Hubert Z Seifert Cincinnati Sallie Hollyetan Lancaster Kyi oC AL Rowman Pittsburgh I EL Naylor and wife Huntington F C Honle sloger Morgantown Edwarth Young Lynchburg Edward Sherry Philadelphia L C Davidson Richmond Lansing Mich William Farrsilang wifs Hrush Creek W V H H Harker Huntington Mr and Mrs C A Evans Atlanta Gate Perkins Cincinnati F H Davis Athens Ohio Kanawha Hotel Forde Duckworth Gassaway Misa Sue Courtney Huntington Mery archer Courtney Huntington F B Button Knoxville Tenn M 2B Fowler New York R & Dray Chicago BA Jaden Chicago N A King Chicago George Schoene New York Kirk Heatwole Hinton TM K Rogeta Jr Hinton a Bradle Cundon W Va N W Miller Alder Ron J HB Higham Chester T A Monroe New York Dr Sturdevant Canton N C 3 Camden Boston Dana Greens Hast Golf W Va A B Bendias Gulf W Va Jaftner Hotel F O Gara Quinnimont FE Ellis and wife Huntington J W Boarman Haltimere Mra H A Hamp
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollies Hotel
G. S. Wetherell
Philadelphia
W. McLean
Wheeling
Beard's Fark B
Baltimore
Falch
Kanawha Hotel
Forde Duckworth
Gassaway
Misa Sue Courtney
Huntington
Meryarcher Courtney
F. B. Button
Knoxville
Tenn
Fowler
New York
R. &. Dray
Chicago
Jaden
N. A. King
George Schoene
Kirk Heatwole
Hinton
TM. K. Rogeta
Jr. Hinton
A. Bradle Cundon
W. Va
N. W. Miller
Alder- Ron
J. HB. Higham
Chester
T. A
Unknown Flemish Portrait Sells For Small Sum
In Oslo on June 27 a hitherto unknown portrait of King Charles the First, rumored to be by Dyck, was purchased at a local sale for a mere song by an area lawyer. The work, praised for Dyck’s renowned Flemish charm after Rubens and Yarn, hints at early masterful artistry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Oslo
Norway
Charles the First
England
Dyck
Rubens
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Sarah Fletcher
E. A. Tray, Jr
Viatt
Ene
Miss Fay Tincher
Richwood
Hera
Ose
Annette Thayer
Winchester
Bruart Walker
Harry Thayer
Vivian Popp
Norfolk, Va
Harrington Jones
Sas
Wiliam Gelasinger
Billy, Jr
Berwind, W. Va
Charles Popp
Ruffner Avenue
Robert Hawkins
Jackson's Mills
Ames M. Watts
Marmet
Battle Creek
Michigan
George M. Ford
Milroh
Morgantown
John Pelzell
Howard Elster
Blumberg
Milton
Washington
Blimberg
The
Daughters of Hedassah
Zioniat! Organization
Obley
Fairmont
Misa Alma Eliott
W. C. Terror
Ann Elliott
Portsmouth
Ohio
L. C. Peel
Frances Waudh
Pyerite Conner
L. T Sayre
Point Pleasant
P. Clark
Bradford Street
L. King Haw
Welter Blerkamp
Len Kell
Tohn Campbell
Bangor Marine
Mra
Norman Baker
Peace Springs
Dan Prichard
Tir
A. FL Boyd
Virginia Street
Charles Roury
Nancy Ellen
Catherine
Iona
Charles
Chris
Atlantic City
Billy Chilton
Harry Beory
James Berry
Richard Beary
Lawton Heary
Camp Jackson
Covington
Biss Lena Means
West Virginia University
Pittsburgh
Go. Whilton
Fayetteville
Ebersole Gaines
Wiliam Lively
Weston
Erekiné Hui
Roanoke
Jean Rowan
Joan Crowler
White Sulphur Springs
Carrington Jones
Norfolk
Jones
Ethel Popp
Robert Bell Putney
Malden
Helen McClure
James A. Holstein
Billy
Matress Manufacturing Company
Milady
State Street
Vail Medal
Margaret K. Gonter
Mangaret K. Gonter
J. J. Campbell Mathews
Sroupetta
Bubees
Cee Aturdey
Seectalcia
M. V. Godbey
A. C. Lambert
Bank of Commerce
Luxor
Columbia
Sunlight
Victor
J. M. Gates
Sona Co
Corner Summers
Virginia
Denies Lincoln
Indiana
John Wilkes Booth
Picture House
Bath
Eng
Prince Fawl Salvator
Medie
Poland
Golr Gall Damagh
the &T
Andrews
Lansing
Mich
William Farrsilang Wifs
Hrush Creek
W. V. H. H. Harker
C A. Evans
Atlanta
Perkins
F. H. Davis
Athens
Jaftner Hotel
F. O'Gara
Quinnimont
FE. Ellis and Wife
J. W. Boarman
Haltimere
H. A. Hamp
W. Q. Watters
Piedmont and
Elizabeth Streets
Highland Drive
Quarrier ST
Capitol
MAY Shoe CO
Hale Street
dJuly
Virginian
America
Montgomery
Stor J. HM. Jackson
Virginian Electric Co
Luxite
Hill’s
Polan
Otirom Polan
Lolan
Capitol Street
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