Local rent dispute ends with $30 monthly rate ruling
In Blueville a six member jury limited monthly rent for Mrs. Florence Shaffer’s cottage to 30 dollars, rejecting a 75 dollar demand. Tenants Wilbur and Mattie Hall and M L Matheny argued rent should cap at 30, while paying 20 previously and 30 more for paint. Judge Jefferys noted notice to vacate. appeal possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Justice Court
Blueville
Wilbur C. Hall
Mattie K. Hall
M. L. Matheny
Florence Shaffer
C. Jefferys
Matheny
Hall
Tennants
Mag. Jefferys
Rogers
Jefferys
George Jolife
D. E. Robison
Waitman Robinson
Allin Bennett
Martin Nicola
Grant Williams
Harry Friedman
Baby Donna Sapp Dies At Birth In City Hospital
Donna Sue Sapp died at birth this morning in City hospital. She was an only child of Glenn and Ada Ball Sapp Route 1. Interment Sunday at Webster cemetery at 10 30 a m with Rev W J Richardson officiating. Parchment noted as material made from sheepskin or goatskin vellum from calfskin.
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Donna Sue Sapp
Glenn
Ada Ball
Sapp
Route 1
City Hospital
Webster Cemetery
W. J. Richardson
Many Local Odd Fellows Attend Special Session
More than 1,400 Odd Fellows from Grafton Webster and Flemington lodges gathered in Morgantown for the largest northern West Virginia session. 207 candidates received first and second degrees as a team from Esternport Maryland and Morgantown performed. Grand Secretary A J Wilkinson of Huntington spoke amid a lineup including grand master William A Shuman grand warden A Ford Winters grand treasurer George Hunter and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Lodge
Webster Lodge
Flemington Lodge
Independent Order of Oddfellows
Oddfellows
West Virginia
Morgantown
Esternport
A. J. Wilkinson
Huntington
Grafton
West Virginia University
William A. Shuman
A. Ford Winters
George Hunter
Moore Dodrill
Jeff Lockard
A. P. Casto
Rufus A. West
Filtration Plant Repairs Completed in Parkview
Street Commissioner John Knotts announced completion of four filter bed renewals at the Parkview filtration plant. The project cost about $12,000 for sand gravel and equipment, begun last fall per state health department guidance, first repairs in 15 years.
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Parkview
John Knotts
State Health Department
Charleston
Knotts
Plans for Labor Day Turtle Derby in Grafton
Jaycee Junior Chamber of Commerce finalized 50 entries for the Labor Day turtle derby at the high school stadium with a goal of 50 more. Turtles from Henderson Kentucky arrive weekend. entry fee five dollars. Prizes total up to five dollars per heat with a grand prize of twenty five dollars from a five hundred dollar Camp Towles fund pledge. Admission is ten cents with proceeds to Band Uniform fund. Grafton Senior Band to perform. solicitation team named for YMCA drive with Lloyd Mumaw as chair and members Beall Shafferman Nestor and Jackson.
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High School
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Victor Cuppett
Henderson
Cupett
Fach
Camp Towles Fund
Jaycees
Grafton
Lloyd Mumaw
William Beall
Richard Shafferman
William Nestor
Fred C. Jackson, Jr
Air Show at Benedum Airport Sponsored by Local Club
The Clarksburg Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors an air show at Benedum Airport in Bridgeport on Sunday September 8 to promote aviation. Army and Navy authorities will send latest tactical aircraft with Navy planes arriving at 1 PM and Army planes shortly after. Corporate plane manufacturers will display their new models and top stunt pilots will highlight the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benedum
Bridgeport
Clarksburg
Army
Navy
Copeman Brother Opens Auction Business in Grafton
J Morgan Copeman of Kingwood, younger brother of Jim Copeman, announces an auction business in Grafton with weekly sales initially, later expanding. He is licensed, bonded, and plans a circuit of Graf ton Elkins and Kingwood, after recent graduation from Reppert School of Auctioneering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Morgan Copeman
Kingwood
Jim’ Copeman
Taylor County
Monongahela Power Company
Territorial Development Department
Fairmont
Grafton
Copeman
Elkins
Kingwood High School
West Virginia
Reppert
Decatur
Indiana
Lynchburg's C. L. Lewis Bids 397,500 for City Parking Garage
C. L. Lewis of Lynchburg Virginia submitted the low bid of 397500 for a municipal parking building to be erected in Bluefield. The structure will accommodate 800 automobiles.
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Bluefield
C. L. Lewis
Lynchburg
Rationing sidelights from Revolutionary War days
Ed and Mrs Edith of Fairmont highlight Norman Kendall's discovery of early rationing in American history. The piece quotes Howe's 1777 Philadelphia regulations on ensuring scarce goods like spirits, molasses and medicines were controlled, including permits and limits. It cites Washington's orders near Valley Forge to thresh grain by deadlines, with enforcement by army commissaries.
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Edith
Fairmont
West Virginia
Grafton
Norman Kendall
OPA
America
Kendall
E. E. Meredith
Norman F. Kendall
William Howe
Philadelphia
K. B
George Washington
CPA
Valley Forge
Philadelphia County
G. Washington
Robert H. Harrison
Two Graftorians Seek Divorces
Two petitions for divorces were filed in Circuit Clerk Merley court. Mabel Cross Shoemaker of 322 Warder Avenue seeks a divorce from Frans Edward Shoemaker of 900 West Boyd Street, married March 4 1939 in Oakland Maryland. She cites cruelty and asks custody of two daughters with alimony. David Watring of 201 Lon Longstreet seeks a divorce from Geraldine Stevanson Watring, now in Cumberland Maryland. Married February 20 1937, separated March 1 1944. he cites desertion and seeks custody of their son.
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Merley
Bassy Mabel Cross Shoemaker
Warder Avenue
Frans Edward Shoemaker
West Boyd Street
Oakland
David Watring
Lon
Longstreet
Geraldine Stevanson
Watring
Cumberland
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Odd Fellows
Coole
James Cagney
Hedy Lamarr
Red Skelton
Esther Williams
Ethel Smith
Basil Rathbone
Harry James
Xavier Sugat
Grafton Theatre
W. Va
Jim Copeman
Stein Tarece
Sanford
Rose and
Roberts
Mafredith
Pardieg
Tilscote
Oreily
CTA
Drug & Chemical
THE
West Side Beauty Shop
Malone’s Drug & Chemical CO
Pure Oil Service
West Main Street
Harry S. White
U.S. Route 50
Bluevil
Paul R. Messenger
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