Veterans Auxiliary Meets In Regular Service
The B. and O. Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary held their regular meeting with many in attendance. Memorial duties were led by Mrs Pearl Hussion and William Graham. A memorial service honored deceased members with readings, flowers, and a singing of God's Tomorrow. Maids and officers took parts, and Mrs Cline Gough offered prayer. A Ladies Aid session followed at Webster M B Church with devotional exercises and a social hour.
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Veterans
B. & O. Veterans and Ladies Au Mliary
Pearl Hussion
William Graham
Harold Cole
Robert, Wittman
T. Seymour
George Hannon
Cline Gough
W. F. Clark
Charles Flanagan
Isa Bickford
William Wilson
Outer Guards
Ray Withers
C. D. Powell
T.C. Gough
Idella Carroll
Ladies’ Aid
Ladies Aid Society
Webster M. B. Church
Merba Gibson
Lulu Reynolds
Thelma Cooper
Georgia McDaniel
Cora Wolfe
Delpha Curran
Ethel Preston
Claude Newton
Edna Felton
Velva Me‘pans
Marget Felton
A. L. Reynolds
Odbert ‘Cooper
Herman Getz
Mac
Jane
Lake
Alice
Geraldine Gibson
Gladys Taylor
Georgia Pon Pearl Felton
James Vran
Herbert Sinsel
Ralph Gibson
James Fordyce
Arthur Wolfe
Haymond Church Festival Sets Ice Cream at Bertha Montgomery Grove
A local church festival at Bertha Montgomery's Grove on Wickwire Road runs Thursday August 15 from 6 to 8 PM. Ice cream, pop, weiners, cakes, and candy will be available for attendees.
Social Calendar Highlights Community Events
August 15 Missionary Society meets at First Presbyterian Church at 7 30. August 16 Reed Raines orchestra plays dancing from 9 to 1 at Moose Home. City hospital admits Charles Tighe and Andy Poe for medical treatment. Lian reunion planned at Dawson Camp August 18 with baskets and all-day attendance urged by Claude Pullian and Forrest M Deakins. Fisher Class meets at M P church led by Mrs C C Richman with memorial for Pearl Copp followed by social time and refreshments. Betty Williams hosts a weiner roast on West Main Street tonight.
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Grafton High School
Carr Chi Company
Glenn Brady
Belington
Belington High School
Dam
Walnut Street
Missionary Society of First Presbyterian Church
Reed Raines
Moose Home
Charles Tighe
City
City Hospital
Andy Poe
St. Charles Street
Dawson Camp
Claude Pullian
Forrest M. Deakins
Weiner
Betty Williams
West Main Street
Bridge opening bids and quick tricks in duplicate game
An article on bidding theory explains that an opening bid of one no trump signals a range of quick tricks based on built strength rather than exact totals. It cites last Thursday's duplicate game where North held a six and a half quick tricks hand yet the table failed to reach game with no trump or two diamonds.
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Declarer
Unusual bridge hand from Lake Placid club yields 2 Hearts bid
In a Lake Placid club hand West opens 2 Hearts with a single ace trick, claiming many tricks justify forcing tactics. The bidding sequence shows West and East exploring majors while declarer leverages ruffs to establish hearts and trumps, with West winning the majority of remaining tricks.
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Lake Placid
Hearts
West
Local gathering lists several attendees at bake roast
A social event featured roasted wieners and various games. Attendees included Misses Dorothy Henderson, Alice Flanagan, Rose Mary Smith, Rose Anna Wilson, Betty Brand, Mary Henderson, Geraldine Utsinger, Norma Lee Fauley, and Katherine Henderson. Also present were William Smith, Bobby Brand, Bobby Jackson, Dickie Warne, John Musgrove Jr., Dale Lockard, and Warner Phillips.
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Weiners
Dorothy Henderson
Alice Flanagan
Rose Mary Smith
Rose Anna Wilson
Betty Brand
Mary Henderson
Geraldine Utsinger
Norma Lee Fauley
William Smith
Katherine Henderson
Bobby Brand
Bobby Jackson
Dickie Warne
John Musgrove, Jr
Dale Lockard
Warner Phillips
Local visits and familiar names travel share news
Miss Marie Guth, Miss Mary Jo Rauscher and James Rauscher of this city visit relatives in Fairmont while Lloyd Logsdon visits friends in Clarksburg. Miss Jean Harter of Newburg visits Mr and Mrs Earl Smith here. Lon Riggleman of Kingwood visits relatives this week. Mr and Mrs Boyd Harler and family of Newbury attend the Shafferman reunion near Grafton.
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Marie Guth
Mary Jo Rauscher
James Rauscher
Fairmont
Lloyd Logsdon
Clarksburg
Jean Harter
Newburg
Earl Smith
Lon Riggleman
Kingwood
Boyd Harler
Newbury
Shafferman
Grafton
Window Washer Falls From Porch in Chicago Tragedy
George Krider, 41, a window washer, leaned back on a second floor porch railing when the wooden support gave way. He tumbled 15 feet to the ground and suffered a probable skull fracture. The leather strap was his protection against the height.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georer Krider
Krider
Passing Motorists Refuse To Help Man to Hospital
Huntington August 14 A truck wrecked into a sedan driven by Bernie Hesson 22 of Proctorville Ohio severing his left arm L Pullen a garage owner took the injured man to a hospital where doctors said the probable will recover Frank Daily a passenger said Pullen was the fourth motorist to arrive after the accident He added the other three refused to help saying the amount of blood Hesson was losing would soil their machines
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Bernie Hesson
Proctorville
L. Pullen
Frank Daily
Hesson
Pullen
Iervsee
Arms trade surges worldwide amid wartime material flows
A 1934 to 1935 survey shows global gains in international movement of arms, munitions, and war materials. U.S. cotton linters exports hit a record, used for rayon and explosives, while scrap iron and steel exports rise to new highs. France Germany the UK Japan and Italy increase imports of linters. benzols for explosives rise in French and Italian trade.
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Washington
United States
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Italy
WPA Officials of Two States Hold Meeting
WPA officials from West Virginia and Ohio gathered in Gallipolis to coordinate activities on proposed projects. Attendees included F. W. McCullough WPA chief of West Virginia Major John F. Conklin district engineer J. H. McGinnis reemployment director Lieut-Col Roger G. Powell Ohio river division engineer and other agencies as they inspected the new Gallipolis dam.
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Gallipolis
Works Progress Administrations
West Virginia
Ohio
F. W. McCullough
WPA
John F. Conklin
Federal District
J. H. McGinnis
Roger G. Powell
Ohio River Division
Cincinnati
Man Dies After Fall From Garage Roof in Buena Vista
W M Price aged 68 died from a fractured skull after falling from a garage roof in Buena Vista West Virginia on August 14. The death was reported by local authorities and noted as accidental.
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Buena Vista
W. Va
W. M. Price
Daily crossword puzzle across clues
A clipped listing of across clues appears with scrambled and partial words. The readable fragments reference puzzle theme items such as spinning up a cus machine tom and various partial words like 22-A hollow, 24-Exclamation, 25-The middle of false hair, 28-A fruit, 29-Masculine, 31-Ignoble, 18-Clausify, 32-A flounce, 33-Question, and several down clues mixed with garbled text. The passage indicates a historic newspaper puzzle page with numerous incomplete entries and stray letters.
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War Office
Asth
Sunda Islands
1934 Foreign Arms Exports Rise Amid Global Purchases
United States 1934 gun and ordnance exports show sharp gains from 1933 figures. Metal cartridges jump to 151,117,000. rifles to 36,852. machine guns to 1,134. Explosives rise to 1,290,663 pounds. Major buyers include Japan, South America, and France, with Italy and the UK increasing shipments of artillery materials and munitions.
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United States
Japan
South America
Italian Africa
France
United Kingdom
Ethiopia appeals to League over arms embargo dispute
Ethiopia protested to the League of Nations that Italy is sending troops and war material into Eastern Africa and that Ethiopia cannot purchase arms abroad. The Ethiopian minister Hawariate urged the secretary general to present the appeal to the council, noting no Ethiopian manufacture exists and export prohibitions block defense imports.
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Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Paris
League
Hawariate
League Council
Africa
Oil Control Bill OKed by House Interstate Commerce Panel
The house interstate commerce committee approved a new oil control bill aimed at pressuring action before adjournment. It authorizes federal sanction of voluntary industry pacts to curb waste and unfair practices, creates a five member independent petroleum board, and supports an interstate oil and gas conservation compact from Dallas. It also allows regulation of imports and enacts the Connally law to ban interstate shipment of oil produced against state laws.
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Cole D
Congress
Dallas
Texas
Federal Petroleum Administrative Board
Industr
Connally
House Saved In Two To Permit Debt Settlement
Oklahoma City at Aug 14 carpenters blocked a foreclosure by keeping the house divided on two lots. The owner Mrs Fern Chadwick moved belongings into the portion built on the second lot to allow the loan firm to proceed with a partial seizure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Fern Chadwick
Lumberjack Seeks Beard Protection From Police
Spokane, Aug 14. Mike Yerkal, unemployed woodsman, asked police to guard his beard after a camp confrontation where a man threatened to shave him or drive him away. Yerkal says he has worn the beard for many years and likes it, asking whether the barber should be arrested. Police promised beard protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Mike Yerkal
Mike
Mother, 100, Hurries To Take Son's Part in Fight
Wilkes Barre PA August 14 Oliver Deiter and two youths quarreled leaving them bruised and battered. Oliver TJ and his centenarian mother were held for a police court hearing.
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Wilkes-Barre
Oliver Deiter
Oliver
Gilmer County Court fills vacancy after Mollohan resignation
Alfred Vanhorn of Orton was chosen to join the Gilmer county court to fill the vacancy created by the July 2 resignation of C. D. Mollohan, former court president, in Glenville on August 14.
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Gilmer Co
Glenville
Alfred Vanhorn
Orton
Gilmer County Court
C. D. Mollohan
Officers Pursue Wanted Man Into Williamson Court
Three officers chasing Er nest Fields who escaped the county jail ten months ago followed him into the Williamson courthouse where he offered to surrender. The incident underscores a tense pursuit through a city area, with officers determined to apprehend Fields despite the passage of time.
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Williamson
W. Va
Ernest Fields
Fields
France plans forts and air bases on Somali coast
Long range guns are mounted on off shore islands while the French cruiser Dumont Duville is to arrive Aug 18 and stay indefinitely. Senegalese troops will augment the local garrison as hangars are built for airplanes. Jeers at a visiting Italian naval force spark fears of an Ethiopean sympathy uprising, though military leaders remain cautious.
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Mussolini
Elephants Debut Striking New Tricks This Season
The Hagenbeck Wallace and Forepaugh Sells shows unveil a reworked circus with new stars and extraordinary feats. Elephants trained by “Cheerful” Gardner perform on the hippodrome track with speed and precision unseen before. Bessie Hizer leads the center ring with twenty elephants, showcasing a host of remarkable feats. Lizzie, her pet, supports a remarkable herd in the big top at Grafton starting Saturday August 17 with 2 and 8 p m performances.
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Grafton
Gardner
Bessie Hizer
Lizzie
Bessie
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