Thomas P Kenny longtime Grafton figure dies after illness
Thomas P Kenny age 69 of 221 East Washington street dies after an extended illness. A Taylor county native and prominent Democrat, he was mayor of Grafton in 1909 and served in the state senate in 1911. He organized Kenny Machine and Foundry, worked as Navy inspector in WWI, and held posts at the State Penal Institution. Survivors include siblings in Ohio Pennsylvania and California. Funeral at St. Augustine Catholic church with burial at Mt Calvary burial home Chandler. flowers requested omitted.
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Thomas P."kenny
East
Washington Street
Grafton
Patrick
Elizabeth Daly Kenny
Taylor County
St. Augustine
State Senate
Kenny Machine and Foundry Company
U. S. Navy Department
Dayton
Ohio
State Penal Institution
New York
Houston
Texas
Chicago
Taylor County Draft Board
D. L. Bosley
B. G. Watt
Alphonse Leuthardt
Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers
John D. Kenny
Cleveland
Robert B. Kenny
Pittsburgh
Raymond Kenny
Italy
Elizabeth Kenny
San Francisco
Ann M. Kenny
Charleston
Regina Kenny
St. Augustine Catholic Church
M. J. Hannon
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Bartlett Funeral Home
W. P. Clark
Howard Courtney
James Bishop Harry Friedman
Joseph Hussion
Richard Manning
William J. Madden
Blair Mugler
Byron Dilworth
Thomas H. Cather
W. E. Gillispie
Charles O. King
W. M. Watkins
Charles Brinkman
Wiliam Cannon
Harry G. Clark
Karl Glen
Frank Cather
James Madden
John M. Farlans
Joseph ‘Mason
Robert Love
A. T. Miller
A. Leuthardt
Dodson Haslip
Patrick McGrady
William O'Brien
Charles Flanagan
William Hussion
Arch Stavely
Charles 0. Shay
William R. Williams
Thomas Underwood
John Tucker
Pears Added to Fresh Produce Pricing in Several Counties
Rationing round up from Charleston notes pears added to the fresh fruit and vegetable price order effective Thursday in Group 1 and 2 stores across Doddridge Harrison Lewis Marion Monongalia and Taylor counties. Pears priced at 16 12 cents per pound. The only weekly price change is U S No 1 potatoes except sweet potatoes five pounds for 31 cents a one cent decrease. All other prices stay as previously announced.
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Charleston
Doddridge
Harrison
Lewis
Marion Monongalia
Taylor Counties
District Office of Price Administration
U. S
Paris Area Under Fire as Berlin Reports Food Crisis
Berlin radio at 4 pm claimed the city is besieged with gunfire audible in the capital. The food situation is described as acute with 2,829,000 people fed by community kitchens and a police strike said to have broken out. Patton’s forces reportedly mauled the Loire valley towns and sparked uncertainty over Chartres and Versailles suburbs.
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Berlin
Patton
Paris
Dreux
Chateaudun
Orleans
Loire
Chartres
Versailles
Patton advances as Paris front line forms
Front dispatches describe Patton’s forces pushing 60 to 80 miles eastward from Le Mans with negligible resistance. The third army link captures Dreux Chartres Orleans and Châteaudun as German positions at Le Mans retreat. Dreux lies 40 miles west of Paris and 35 miles from Versailles suburbs. Paris now on the front line.
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le Mans
Dreux
Chartres
Chateaudun
Orleans
Paris
Versailles
Eure River
West Virginia sees shift to Spanish in high schools
Charleston report shows a growing taste for Spanish as an elective on West Virginia campuses. State supervisor A J Gibson notes declines in Latin French and German enrollments as overall high school enrollment drops from 138 237 in 1942 43 to 123 963 in 1943 44.
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Charleston
West Virginia
A. J. Gibson
Tygart Valley Soil Conservation Plans Forest Planting Options
Taylor county farmers have three reforestation options from the local Soil Conservation District. Fall planting of conifers like white pine and Norway spruce is possible from Sept 1 to the first frost. Alternatively, stock can be ordered Oct 1 and heel-in for winter protection for spring planting, with fall planting for pines spruce and larch and spring for hardwoods and shrubs. The district can furnish up to 3,000 trees per farm for erosion control or woodland improvement.
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Taylor County
Soil Conservation District
W. H. Fuller
Army Carmiant Caravan to Visit Grafton Tomorrow
An army caravan with military equipment and two veterans return from combat will arrive from Elkton to aid Akron rubber companies in manpower. Two 20 minute programs at 12:00 and 3:00 feature music, front-line accounts, and appeals by Goodyear and Lieberling rubber firms. Equipment on display at 205 West Main includes a dunk amphibian jeep and a shop truck. housing facilities may be offered.
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Elkins
Akron
Ohio
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Lieberling Rubber Company
U. S. Employment Service
West Main Street
Allies push inland as beachhead widens and supply lines form
The report describes rapid Allied progress after D-day with American and French troops advancing inland, villages and towns captured, a continuous front forming 50 or more miles inland, beachhead area of about 500 square miles, and strong airborne units behind enemy lines. Reinforcements including armor are landing, casualties reported as light, and junctions with assault infantry and parachute troops solidify routes for northward drive toward Provence.
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GES
Alps
Provence
Patch
Recognition and furlough notices in wartime town
Local notices report Pvt Vin Ball receiving a combat medal and presidential citation after service in France and earlier campaigns in North Africa and Sicily. Other items include Sgt Herbert McVicker on a 14 day furlough, Cadet Willard Donley’s transfer for flight training, and reunions with boyhood neighbors in France.
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Pvt
Vin- Navy
Scent L. Ball
Grafton
France
A. A. Fantry
Beech Street
C. E. Ball
Luzadder Street
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Unemployment Aid Proposal Urges Nationwide 820 Week
War mobilizer James F. Byrnes urged the House Ways and Means Committee to set a nationwide unemployment compensation formula of 820 weekly for 26 weeks. States would administer the program with federal reimbursement for strained funds. House leaders expect reconversion issues to be settled soon, possibly next week.
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Warnuries Creme Yee
James F. Byrnes
House
Ways and Means ‘Committee
Byrnes
Death of Anne B Goodnow at 10:20 PM at home
Anne B Goodnow of 444 Pearl Street wife of William Monroe Goodnow and mother of ten children died suddenly at 10:20 PM. She was born April 21, 1890 in Leon West Virginia daughter of Jake A Casto and Harriet Casto. Survived by husband several children and siblings with funeral plans pending Bartlett funeral home.
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Annie Blanch
Pearl Street
William Monroe Goodnow
Grafton
Jake A
Harriet Casto
Leon
West Virginia
William M. Goodnow
Gerhold
Baltimore
James M. Goodnow
Charles Casta Leon
W. Va
Robert Casta
Michigan
Lydia McGraw
Washington
Minnie Burns
Bartlett Funeral Home
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Thomas P. Kenny Pasots
Malone’s Drug and Chemical Co
Goebbels
Pisa
Signal Corps
International
Chartres Falls
Just
Fort Pitt
Ake
Malune’s Drug
Tygart’s Valley Soil Conservation
District News Conservation Farming
Willhide
Latrobe ST. V. C. Willhide, Mer
Herbert Paul McVicker
Camp Maxey
Paul Junior
West Wilford Street
Willard B. Donley
Ben F. Donley
Donley
St. Marys
Santa Ana Army Air Base
California
Ontario
Calif
Western Maryland College
Westminster
Air Corp
South Grafton
Frank, Miller
Ethel Miller
Barrett Street
Milford Griffith
Claude Griffith
Thayer Avenue
Victor L. Moore
USN
Rosseau Calif
E M. Moore
Young Moore
Camp
Hugh B. Trimble
Camp Bowie
Dessie Trimble
Lincoln Street
Charles Cockkrell
William Cockrell
James Crouser
George F. Cooper, Jr
U. S. Army
Cpl
Cooper Iz
Demingq
Sean Choi
RAF
Stettin
Buti
Kiel
Seiberling Rubber Company
Morgantown
Fairmont
Clarksburg
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service of the War Manpower Commission
Anne B. Goodnow
Childret
Dixie
Aear
Harry Sherman
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