Pools Worthy Of Grafton Considered By Jaycees
A Grafton Jaycees delegation plans an all day trip to New Martinsville Mannington and Fairmont to study municipal pool plans and financing. Led by Francis L Walder the group aims to learn building needs and revenue bond options while ensuring no taxpayer burden. The effort follows a loss of the city park bathing beach and seeks to add recreation with WPA sponsorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
WPA
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Unis
Blue~mont Cemetery
Lawson L. Loar
Clarksburg
Jaycees
Tygart
Playground Circus At Fetterman On Monday
The Fetterman playground hosted a circus style program yesterday evening with songs by Barbara Marshell Eloise Gill spie Betty Gillispie and Anna Bell Hart. Stunts by Barbara Marshell and Connie Sey mour. Charles Bartlett and Charles Denton provided the musical program. Bela Rogers and Janice Haskins were fortune tellers. The show was a farce that kept the crowd laughing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fetterman Playground
Barbara Marshell
Eloise Gillspie
Betty Gillispie
Anna Bell Hart
Connie Seymour
Charles Bartlett
Charles Denton
Bela Rogers
Janice Haskins
Monongah Division Workers Enjoy All Day Outing
Nearly two thousand Monongah division employees and families gathered at Mountain View camp on the Graf ton Fairmont road for a company outing awarded for best safety record in 1940. High railroad officials attended including C W Van Horn and A C Clark along with division superintendents and engineers. Golf tournaments, a picnic lunch, softball games, contests, and dancing followed a day of festivities with the Trail Blazers providing music and the event deemed a huge success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monongah
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
D. F. Stevens
C. M. Shriver
George W. Elsie
C. B. Harreson
J. J. Ghoman
Baltimor
John Edwards
Cumberland
H. M. Sherrard
van Horn
G. T. Bartlett, Sr
Paul Warden
G. T. Vance
Francis Warder
New Country Club
Mountain View Camp
WMMN
Riddle Father of Faye DeLancey Dies at 82
Rev Alpheus V Riddle 82 retired Methodist minister died at home in Harrisville after a long illness Burial at Riddles Chapel cemetery Funeral at 2 PM Wednesday conducted by Rev I E Steyer Survivors include wife Arrena Wilson and seven of eight children plus sister and three half brothers buried in Ritchie county, West Virginia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpheus V. Riddle
Faye DeLancey
Grafton
Harrisville
Ritchie County
Riddles Chapel
I. E. Steyer
First Methodist Church
Pennsboro
McKinley
Riddle
John and
Minerva Richards Riddle
Arrena Wilson
H. M. Riddle
Wheeling
A. C. Riddle
Cairo
A. F
H. F. Riddle
Washington, D. C
Addie Kirkpatrick
Clarksburg
Elizabeth Grimes
Morgantown
Mary L. Ramsey
J. W. and
E. L. Oates
Creed Oates
Parkersburg
Kay Family Reunion Set For August 31 In Beck, Raleigh Co
Kay family and kin from five southern West Virginia counties receive the annual call for a reunion to be held August 31 at Beck in Raleigh County. Robert H. C. Kay of Charleston, president of the Kay Family Reunion Association, says the gathering is a simple get-together for renewing old friendships and making new ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Kays
West Virginia
Beckwith
Raleigh
Robert H. C. Kay
Kay Family Reunion Association
Visitor Arrested On Charge of Hazardous Driving
Harold Frazee of 219 West 80th Street New York City was arrested at the intersection of routes 119 and 50 by State Trooper G F Randall. He pleaded guilty at arraignment before Justice of the Peace Ona C Jefferys and was fined five dollars plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Frazee
West 80Th Street
New York City
G. F. Randall
Tthe Peace
Ona C. Jefferys
Soldier Fugitive Nabbed By Kentucky Policeman
HARLAN Ky Aug 12 A Fort Knox soldier named William R Scarsborough accused of escaping during a July 30 guardhouse riot at Fort Knox and implicated in Pvt Carl B McClellan s fatal wounding is held for army officers. He was arrested by Patrolman Carl Preston on the Harlan Pikeville road after Preston fired over his head to halt him as he fled from a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan, Ky
Fort Knox
Fort
Carl B. McClellan
Bicknell
Ind
Harlan
William R. Scarsborough
H. Butler Briscoe
McClellan
Carl Preston
State Highway Patrol
Harlan-Pikeville
Preston
Scarsborough
United Kingdom Flying Mishap Kills Americans
Montreal reports the Royal Air Force ferry command announced that twenty two men died in a flying accident in the United Kingdom last Saturday. Seven of the deceased were from the United States and eight from Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force Ferry Command
Grafton Levy Estimate Receives State Tax Approval
The 1941 Grafton budget plans to pay 10 percent of old municipal debts, about 3600 dollars from current receipts, with total receipts projected at 53762.86 and disbursements at 76535.86. Mayor Charles O. King was advised of state tax commission approval, with key expenses including water, police, street and sewer costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles O. King
Don Byrum
L. D. Schmidt
Water Department
Taylor County
Board of Education
Funeral for Mrs Delilah Gall Held at Harmony Grove
Funeral services were held at Harmony Grove Baptist church for Mrs Delilah Ernestine Gall 67 widow of Robert B Gall who died Sunday at her home route 50 east of Bridgeport. Rev L T Harvey and Rev Henry Loving officiated with burial in Harmony Grove cemetery. She was born December 23 1873 and lived at the same site all her life. Surviving are nine children including Mrs Ruby Thorn Mrs Opal Hively and several others, twenty grandchildren and several siblings. Her husband died ten years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmony Grove Baptist Church
Delilah Ernestine Gall
Robert B. Gall
Route 50
Bridgeport
L. T. Harvey
Frametown
Henry Loving
Harmony Grove Cemetery
R. Lee Harr
Boothsville
Charles W. Reynolds
Martha Jane Linn Reynolds
Ruby Thorn
Grafton
Opal Hively
Parkersburg
Ernestine Findley
Hepzibah
Taylor
Camden Varner
Williamstown
Rosa Lea Cooper
East Rochester
Pearl Gall
Charles ,Wayne Gall
George Gall
Robert Gall
A. 8. Morrow
Presley Cropp
Meadland
Sidney Reynolds
Fairmont
Rufus Reynolds
Donah Tucker
Army to Build Huge Air Bases as Ferry Points
Senator Brewster says the Army will spend 5.6 million dollars to expand Presque Isle and Houston air bases in Maine to serve as ferrying points for bombers and warplanes bound for Great Britain. The facilities at Presque Isle would become the largest Army field in New England with runways over a mile long.
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Washington
Brewster
Army
Presque Isle
Houston
Great
New Aingland
Aussies Fear War In East
Aug 12 Melbourne reports the federal parliament will convene August 20 to discuss the Far East situation and ministerial representation in London. Prime Minister Menzies said after a war cabinet session that he may go to London soon. Opposition leader Curtin warned war draws nearer and urged loyal service as charts of coastal waters were printed by the Department of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melborne
Australia
London
Robert G. Menzies
War Cabinet
Menzies
J. H. Curtin
Curtin
New Precinct Numbers Adopted Across West Virginia Counties
Secretary of State William S. O'Brien ordered all 58 county courts to number precincts consecutively from one, replacing district based figures. The move aims to prevent duplicated numbers, aid the new permanent registration system, and requires re arranging precincts to cap urban voters at 600 and rural at 500 per precinct while leaving room for future growth within magisterial districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
William S. O'Brien
Secretary of State
Death Strikes Twice Among Kaufman Family
Lawrence Kaufman a Charleston clothier learned yesterday that his brother and business partner Grover Kaufman died last Friday and that another brother Dr Isadore Kaufman fifty nine a Philadelphia lung specialist also died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaufman
Charleston
Lawrence Kaufman
Charleston Clothier
Grover Kaufman
Isadore Kaufman
Philadelphia
Taylor County Farm Tenant Purchase Committee Meets Again
The Tenant Purchase committee for Taylor county met last Friday to outline the program offered by the Farm Security Administration. Members Arthur N. Allender, Sylvanus C. Colebank, and Robert Roberts urge qualified tenants, sharecroppers, renters, and farm laborers to visit the FSA office at the Grafton Post Office building to learn details and apply. Interest is 3 percent with payments over up to forty years, making farm ownership possible within rent money. The trio emphasizes limited funds for Taylor county and urges prompt inquiries from interested buyers and any locals with farms for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Arthur N. Allender
Sylvanus C. Colebank
Robert Roberts
Farm Security Administration Office
Grafton
Taylor Country
Farm Security Administration
American Legion Confab Set With Fireworks Display
Huntington hosts the state American Legion convention from August 31 to September 3. Convention Chairman E. E. Winters announced a fireworks show to depict a historical spectacle for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
American Legion
E. E. Winters
Winters
German Arrests Hit Detroit Immigration Warrant
Detroit August 12 German national Julius Schmidt, once deported for WWI sabotage, was arrested at NashKelvinator plant on an immigration warrant and faces deportation. FBI agents also arrested August Baecker for failing to register as a foreign agent with the German government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
FBI
August Baecker
Secretary of State
Bombing Hits Suez Zone and Alexandria Ports
Cairo reports Suez canal area and Alexandria port bombed by Nazi planes last night. Eight killed and 13 injured in the canal zone, four injured at Alexandria. Communique notes damage in the canal area and slight damage at Alexandria as the Mediterranean naval base experiences air raids.
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Cairo
Suez Canal
Andria
Britain
Canal Zone
Alexandria
Canal
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Rudy Vallee
Helen Parrish
Captain Marvel
George Huston
Richard Arlan
Andy Devine
Arctic
Monongah Division
Pairmont
Robert L. Stutler
Ellen DeMasters
Wilsonburg
Miss Costello
Earl R. Carruthers
Daisy Eakle
Sofia Eakle
A.V. Riddle
Kay
Raleigh Co
Crescent Club
Visitor
Kentucky
Willhide
W. C. Willhide
Grafton Levy
U.K
Gall
East
Department of Commerce
Drug & Chemical CO
Hawaii
Doris Duke Cromwell
New Jrsey
Taylor Farmers
Grafton Taxi Co
Percy E. Lucas
Loar Jewelry Store
Dixie
Clyde Elliott
Suez
Om Healy
Walt
Monongahela
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