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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
13
Report notes delegates from Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Arizona North Carollina gathered in Detroit for a national real estate board meeting. Charleston board described as organizing body planning accommodations at major hotels with ample practice space. Transportation and room reservations arranged for about 20 delegates with lodging details to follow.
A fragmented OCR line contains unrelated phrases about mustard plaster and fingers with no identifiable people, places, dates, organizations, or events to summarize into a newspaper item.
Charleston realtors prepare for a convention in Detroit and a tour through Canada. The trip will include development topics on high grade residence sections, community playgrounds, club houses, and recreation facilities. The ethics of the real estate profession and selling methods are also on the agenda with many related subjects.
Byron Meyers was judged winner of a poster contest held for Charleston high school art students by the Charleston Woman's Club. Trooe Childress took second prize. Ralph Young and Phyllis Mankin received honorable mention. Submitting pupils included Irene Childrens Olive Brown Phyllis Mankin Katherine McDermid Dalian Marcum Ralph Young James Bixin Byron Moyer Betty Smith Edna Tully Grace Martin Ida Wink and Lesa Sullivan The judges were Mrs A Moore Mrs W D Fontaine Mrs RR Woolf Mrs L Hahn and Mrs Stra R A Poffenbarger The contest was judged March in the high school art room.
Mrs Donnally Morris was elected club chairman for the Junior department of the Charleston Woman's Club. Mrs Malcolm named vice chairman and Mrs Floyd Hiett secretary treasurer. A Lent benefit bridge was planned to boost department interest. Miss Parnlee McLester spoke on Letters We Write in Our Faces and the link between habits and facial expressions.
C and C reports total coal loadings for the week ending March 21 reach 13 636.1 cars from offices in Richmond headed by W J Harahan. Regional totals include New River 3504.0 Kanawha Cost River 1288.3 Logen 4911.7 Kentucky 1518.2 Long Fork 987.4 Millers Creek 427 and A C and 1 28 cars.
Special pre Easter services will be held at Calvary Baptist Church during the weeks of March 2 to April 12. Music will be led by WM Cavender and Phil M Jenkins with nightly topics including The Lost Axe Obeying Orders When Wheat Will Sell for 8.00 per bushel His Face to the Wall Stop That Knocking A Highwayman s Story Charleston s Greatest Quantic Listening In The Man Who Left His Friends
Potato waffles, a new food product, appear in more than 20 Charleston stores. Manufactured under patent by the Potato Waffle Company of West Virginia, with plant at 118 Charleston Street. A J Cook is president, Doctor Farnsworth vice president, A G Swearengin secretary and treasurer, R Bennywitt and W F aparthete board members. B Meirton is plant superintendent.
The Public Service Commission granted Mate increases for West Union Gas supplying West Union, Smithshire, and other Deddridge county communities. Rates rose to 38 cents per cubic foot with a 50 cent rate for a freed Ughta. An April 21 order set the date for shearing application of Scotts Run Halfway Company to discontinue electricine service along a three mile Wentover Randall line in Monagskia county due to a new bus line.
A heavily texted church page lists services across multiple churches in Charleston with pastors, sermon topics, and schedules. It notes morning worship at 11 o'clock, sermons on The Man Who Would Not But Who Do, expanse worship at 7:30, Bible school times, vesper services, and weekly meetings including Brotherhood lunches and Women's Auxiliary activities. Continued entries cover Ainwood, Putney Memorial, and other congregations with prayer meetings, Christian Endeavor, youth services, choir offerings, and installation events for teachers and officers. The notices underline pastor names such as Ernest Thompson and H. J. Pitzer, with locations in Charleston area churches and surrounding towns.
An old city church notices Sunday morning devotion “A Woman's Devotion to Christ” and evening service “Peeking the Dilttewlites of the In the Hisbe Way” at Fir a Methodist Episcopal Church. The piece lists ministers, Sunday School times, and various devotional topics across many churches including First Church, Lutheran, St Matthews, and other Protestant congregations with sermon topics and choir details.
The weeklong revival and outward church activities headline the schedule. Evangelist Geo. Miso, Rev. Franks W. Burdette, and Rev. I. Walter Hums lead services at multiple churches including 48 A.M. Church School and St Anthony Church. Devotions, sermons, and catechetical sessions occur daily with special events for Easter. The city also notes Sampson’s death on her hundredth birthday and a plan to complete Northern Canada's Medway project within two years.
The county clerk’s office reports marriages licensed yesterday in Kanawha County. A list includes Aumasta 8 and Bedsle Painter 22, Charles 8 Jenkins 18, and Delfi M. Martin 14, Arnie Crago 21, Naomi Gibson 22, Frank C. Cosby 43, and Katie Stone 34.
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