Oil field activity and state political notes in West Virginia
Harrisville reports the W. Wilcox No 1 well on Pike drilled 4m last week and shot with 40 quarts of nitro glycerine. Production rose to 800 barrels. offset wells show oil in Keener sand and may be drilled tonight or tomorrow. Galehouse promoted to director of West Virginia relief in Charleston. Lazear to replace him in county role. Logan campaigns split as two brothers lead each side. N E Steele named Republican chairman, while George C Steele heads Democratic committee. Governor Kump to speak at multiple events including Greenbrier Valley Fair and state conventions. appearances span Lewisburg Parkersburg St Marys and others. Emory Lilly, wanted for armed robbery, is jailed in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
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Harrisville
Co. W. Wilcox
Pike Field
Wilson
Galehouse
Moundsville
Donald C. Gale
Marshall County
Firlt
West Virginia
W. N. Beehler
Cleveland
Charleston
Earl Lazear
Ohio State Relief
Columbus
Logan
N. E.steele
George C. Steele
Parkersburg
Bradley
St. Mary's
Beckley
Maryland
Emory, Lilly
Ellison Ridge W. Va
Upper Marlboro
Surprises Doctors As Hart's Creek Man Survives Wounding
Homer Tomblin, 33, of Hart's Creek Logan county, was shot between the eyes and expected to die within hours. Brought to a Logan hospital Sunday night, doctors delayed removing the bullet, yet he astonished physicians by living two days later and expressing confidence of recovery.
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Logan
Homer Tomblin
Hart's Creek
Logan County
Opera House to Feature Rothschild Film in Special Run
Producers halted all studio activity to concentrate on George Arliss film The House of Rothschild for a three day showing at the Opera House Thursday Friday and Saturday. The move marks a historic tribute in Hollywood history as Schenck and Zanuck prioritize this project.
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Rothschild
Arliss Stars in Rothschild Epic Film at United Artists
Major film from United Artists traces Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Nathan Rothschild rising from obscurity to prominence after the Napoleonic era. Aligned with Arliss are Boris Karloff Loretta Young Robert Young and a large cast. Also noted are a Mars life feature and army ants discovery in accompanying magazine insert.
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Frankfort
Germany
Mr. Arliss
Mayer Amschell Rothschild
Nathan Rothschild
Arliss
Boris Karloff
Baron Ledrantz
Loretta Young
Nathan
Julie
Robert Young
Fitzroy
Duke of Wellington
C. Aubrey Smith
Helen Westley
Arthur Byron
Florence Arliss
Murray Kinnell
Reginald Owen
Alan Mowbray
Tacy Fair to Be Held Next Saturday P.M
Philippi community plans a Glacy Glade district fair with premiums announced for entries set for Saturday afternoon. Leases announced as G C Murphy to open a store on Main Street after September 1 with redecorating of Crim building interior underway. Dorsey Mayle jailed again for drunkenness and vandalism after a brief parole from county jail. Marriage permits issued to Basil Kenouff and Mary Phillips and to Garland Foy and Edith Moore. Local visitors report and trips to Pittsburgh and Spencer.
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John C. Capenter
Philippi
Glacy
Glade District
G.C. Murphy Store Company
Crim
Main Street
Arnett D. Marks
Basil Kenouff
H.chencuff
Mary Phillips
Grover Phillips
Garland C. Foy
Morgantown
Creed Foy
Monongalia County
Edith Moore
Martin. Moore
Barbour County
Reunion of Sanders and Lantz families at Madison beach
Rowlesburg, Aug 29 The tenth annual Sanders and Lantz reunion drew several hundred relatives and friends to J. D. Sanders beach on route 50. Notables from afar included J L Sanders and son Walter of Pataskala Ohio and Walter Sanders of Newtown Pa. A brief program featured Rev. A Herzel and Rev. Roy Meyer with musical numbers by Neva Sanders Katheryn and Mary Ann Meyer Stella and Ica Kelley. Officers elected for the coming year include President J D Sanders and Vice President Ward Pifer. Many guests called at the Wheeler homestead to honor Mrs Hannah Wheeler on her 78th birthday with a bound birthday book. Various visitors arrived from Ohio Maryland and Virginia to join the celebration.
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Rowlesburg
Sanders and Lantz
J. D. Sanders
Madison
Route 50
J. L. Sanders
Walter
Pataskala
Ohio
Walter Sanders
Newtown
A. Herzel
Lutheran Church of
Aurora
Roy Meyer
Johnstown
Neva Sanders
Terra Alta
Katheryn
Mary Ann Meyer
Stella
Ica Kelley
J.D. Sanders
Ward Pifer
Amboy
Cecil Lantz
Kempton, Md
Lantz
Herman Burkhalter
Sanders
Naomi Sanders
E. W. Sanders
Willis Harsh
Roscoe Lantz
Old Wheeler Homestead
Hannah Wheeler
Wheeler
Jane Palmer
Warren
W.merle Watkins
J. Guy Allender
Grafton
W. J. Miller
Virginia Miller
Middleton
Jessie Armstrong
Marietta
H. P. Loughrie
David, Wesley
Bonnie
Cumberland
Ella Moore
Harrisonburg
Minnie Wright
Margaret Sypolt
John McFarland
W. C. Hooton
Cleveland
Lottie Loar
Roosevelt Democratic Club Meeting Discusses Campaign Plans
The Roosevelt Democratic Club, long dormant, held a brief session at the courthouse to perfect its organization. Committees reported and campaign plans were informally discussed. An executive committee meeting was set for Thursday to select a membership panel and map the campaign program. President Thomas E. Joyce indicated a general meeting with a prominent speaker is likely next week.
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Roosevelt Democratic Club
Court House
Thomas E. Joyce
Book of Verses Recall 100th Birthday Observance
Mrs. Mary M. Love reaches her centennial with a memorial planned next month. A preserved keepsake, a tiny Bible verse book titled Dew Drops, presented over 60 years ago to Sentinel news boy Tom Barns, recalls years of service and memories.
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Mary M.love
Thomas H. Barnshouse
Sentinel
Street Cafes Barred by Illinois Statute
Springfield August 29. The attorney general of Illinois seeks to ban al fresco dining on sidewalks in Chicago. The continental custom of dining outdoors shall not invade the city as authorities move to regulate sidewalk cafes already dotting the area.
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Illinois
Springfield
Chicago
Holt for U S Senate gains labor backing in convention
Otto Kerner criticizes curbside dining bans as traffic obstacles while Holt wins labor support at a convention in West Virginia. United Mine Workers official Van A. Bittner aided Holt’s campaign, with delegates parading to Sulphur Springs for a picnic after the primary. Final sessions planned, highway lights off in New York area for economy. Shining Rock Mountain near Asheville gets its name from a white quartz cliff.
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Holt
House of Delegates
United States Senate
van A. Bittner
United Mine Workers of America
West Virginia
Sulphur Springs
New York
Shining Rock Mountain
Asheville
N. C
Rush Holt Endorsed by State Labor Federation
Logan West Virginia August 29 John B Easton president of the West Virginia Federation of Labor said in his annual report to the State convention that labor in West Virginia is solidly behind the national Administration s recovery program Easton termed Rush D Holt Democratic Senatorial nominee
Skaggs Wins Lake Cruise Prize For Norge Sales
Marlon Skaggs, a Norge refrigerator agent for the G W Loar Co, wins a 600 mile lake cruise prize starting September 1. Three hundred plus travelers will sail from Cleveland to the Thousand Islands and Great Lakes aboard a chartered steamer, with Norge bearing all expenses and the Century of Progress visit included.
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Norge
G. W. Loar Company
Marlon Skages
Thousand Islands
Great Lakes
Skaggs
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Norse
Chicago
Norge Company
Largest still seized by New York troopers in Rome raid
In central New York authorities seized the largest still, a 30,000 gallon plant near Point Rock after dawn raid. Six men were arrested at gunpoint in Rome. Marshall Del Nero, Socialist candidate for Oneida Surrogate, and five others named Sam Marghent Dominick Marghent Frank Costello Fred Tady and Carl Scheible identified themselves. Troopers forced entry through three gates into a barn housing seven vats and six copper columns. The probe linked the operation to Fish Creek pollution.
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Rome
N. Y
New York
Point Rock
Marshall del Nero
Oneida County
Sam Marghent
Dominick Marghent
Frank Costello
Fred Tady
Carl Scheible
Fish Creek
Pair of Women Convicts Break Illinois Prison
New York reports that Mrs. Sarah Kane and her brother Clinton Beasley were extradited to North Carolina on charges of kidnapping and luring two Johnston County girls to New York for immoral purposes. They are under indictment in Johnston County for allegedly luring Carmelia Price and Olga Barbour, both 16, to New York with promises of work and using them illicitly. The girls were sent home after a vagrancy charge was dismissed.
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New York
Sarah Kane
Clinton Beasley
North Carolina
Smithfield
N. C
Manhattan
Walter F. Barbour
Johnston County
N.C
Carmelia Price
Olga Barbour
Cotton price relief urged by York firm in United Territory
WR Grace and Company of York believes cutting ton acreage in the United States will raise prices for Egyptian, Peruvian, Indian, and Brazilian cotton. Relief agencies in Oakland California report fifteen percent of destitute transients arriving in the state in their own cars.
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York
The
United
Oakland
Cal
Min
Officers Share Reward For Bonnie and Clyde Death
Six peace officers who killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker split a $1,000 reward posted by L. G. Phares, chief of the Texas highway patrol.
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Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker
L. G. Phares
Texass Highway Patrol
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