Trade Board Meeting To Discuss Dam And Power
The Taylor County Board of Trade will meet at the courthouse at 8 o'clock this evening in an organization session. President J. Walter Jr. will oversee selections for committees and discuss plans to study converting the dam above Grafton Park on the Tygarts Valley river into a hydro electric project. County and city officials show interest in pursuing cheap electric power for homes and industry to attract manufacturing sites.
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Taylor County Board of ‘Trade
Court House
J. Walter, Jr
Grafton Park
Walter
Board of Trade
Chilton Carries Braxton County in Senate Race
Sutton reports W. E. Chilton, of Charleston, carried Braxton county in the Democratic senatorial race with 1344 votes to Holt 764 and Koontz 109 from 49 of 50 precincts.
Stomach distress touted in Graton with Indo-Vin remedy
Advertised stomach relief arrives in Grafton with Indo-Vin a liquid blend of 21 medicinal plants promising rapid relief from gas bloating and indigestion. Proponents claim it works with food, cleanses toxins, and restores digestion within minutes at a few cents a day while denying alcohol or habit forming drugs. Authorities link heat to faster fermentation and stomach distress in July and August.
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Grafton
Grafton Drug & Chemical Co
Erhard Wins in Tucker County Primary Nominees Named
Parsons August 8 two incumbent Republican county commissioners ran in seventeen of eighteen precincts. FP. B. Pifer of St George and R. J. Bob Smith of Parsons were renominated. Glen Harman of Davis led Harry Campbell of Davis by fifteen votes with one precinct missing for the third seat. Democratic results list Caldwell and Holt among top vote-getters for U S Senate and other races. County offices filled include county commissioner and board of education with multiple nominees listed.
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Parsons
Tucker County
FP. B. Pifer
St. George
R. J
Bob” Smith
Glen Harman
Davis
Harry F. Campbell
United States
Fisher
Hatfield
Kilpatrick
Rosenbloom
Stein
State Senate
Hetz Pownall
Moorefield
E. Bunker Reynolds
Keyser
Roy E. Wiseman
Elk Garden
Congress
Herbert E. Hennis
Martinsburg
House of Delegates
Gordon G. Lambert
Samuel Schilansky
Thomas
County School Board
Will E
Deitz
Mile Ferruso
George W. Higgs
Ray E. Williams
Gates Williams
United States Senate
F. E. Caldwell
J. W. Caldwell
Chilton
Conaway
Holt
Koontz
Sale
Shaver
Aylor
Randolph
Glenn Mooman
Petersburg
George Dixon
Piedmont
Lloyd Erhard
C. W. Minear
Faye Graham
G. C. Fansler
D. L. Evans
Leadmine
Harry DePollo
M. J. Phillips
Montrose
J. FP. Robinson
L. B. Arnold
Hambleton
County Board of Education
Virginia Currey
A. Smith Hockman
George C. Miller
Funeral for Langelo Highlighted by Sister's Action
Morgantown Aug 8 The body of Mike Langelo 45 year old miner and Republican state senate candidate from the Eleventh district is held at Davidson Funeral home awaiting word from his sister in the east Sangelo was killed late Monday night in a fall at No 5 mine of Pursgrove Gas Coal Co at Gassville Fellow miners freed his body but he was dead from suffocation Langelo had lived in Cassville about 10 years active in politics and had previously run on the Socialist ticket before entering this year’s Republican bid His opponent for the nomination would have been Howard H Holt publisher of a Grafton newspaper Word has been sent to a sister
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Morgantown
Mike Langelo
Davidson
Sangelo
Pursgrove Gas Coal Corporation
Gassville
Langelo
Cassville
Howard H. Holt
Grafton
West Virginia banks receive FCC loans in May
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation disclosed May loans totaling 394 400 to West Virginia banks. Disbursed was 31 400 to the receiver of Citizens National bank Philippi. other sums went to Bayard National Bank Parkersburg Central Bank and Trust Co Philippi First National Bank St Albans Peoples State Wayne and Wellsburg National Bank. Additional preferred stock subscriptions totaling 120 000 were authorized but not disbursed. Also Kanawha Banking and Trust of Charleston received 250 000 in capital notes purchase.
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Washington
West Virginia
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Citizens National Bank of
First National Bank of
St. Albans
Peoples State Bank of Wayne
Wellsburg National Bank
Wellsburg
Berkeley Springs
Matewan National Bank
Matewan
Point Pleasant
National Bank
Kanawha Banking & Trust Company of
Charleston
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Grafton, W. Va
Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
N. Y
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Associated Press
Erhard
Ronq, L
Anal
Grafton Printing Co
Sinsel
Tracy
Rexall
W. Main St
Ogort 4
Madge Evans
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
FOX News
Warner Bros
Shirley Tem
R. F. C. May
Virginia
Mercantile Banking Trust Company
Moundsville
Citizens National Bank
Phil
Wants
Taylor County
Opera House
Hell's Angels
United Artists Picture
Wolfe
Liberty
the Opera House
Taylor County Hardware
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Essolene
Esso
Personal Finance CO
Deveny Bldg
Monroe St
Fairmont
All Grafton
Rhursday
Grafton Kiwanis Merchants Com
Munity Picnic Committee
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