Oam Jennings Passes Today
Oam Jennings aged 85 died suddenly at his niece’s home on Grand Street. Emeritus barber of South Grafton and later Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee. Survived by no close relatives. Body at Bartlett Funeral Home for Sunday services at 2 PM conducted by Rev M J Hannon, burial Mt Calvary Cemetery.
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South Grafton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
St. Augustine
Bartlett Funeral Home
Body found in Ohio smoker town continues investigation
Officials learned Powell, found dead at Cozy Rest, had probed painting work and ran a beer garden wife. He carried a Marietta Fraternal Order of Eagles card and an Elgin watch. Bartlett Funeral home handling the body as Mrs Powell prepares to travel for obituary details. A note on collapsible clothing boxes follows the report.
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Walter Hupp
Lowell
Ohio
Cozy Rest
Powell
Marietta, Ohio
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Edge
Elgin
Bartlett Funeral Home
Trade Directors to Meet Next Wednesday Night
Taylor County Board of Trade directors set a regular monthly meeting for Wednesday night September 4 at the Board of Trade Rooms. President Paul E. Malone says a contract with Frank D. McEnteer covers memorial pool plans for the old Grafton municipal park. City officials, led by Mayor C. C. King, have pledged cooperation as committee plans are reviewed and ads for an executive secretary are discussed.
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C. C. King
Board of Trade
Coup Rest In Jail Instead Of Rest Room
Mrs Ioie Bayes and her husband Isaac Bayes of Simpson are jailed in Taylor County for five days after failing to pay fines of five dollars each. They were arrested about 5 p m yesterday on intoxication charges when found in the ladies rest room at the Taylor County courthouse, where they told Magistrate Jefferys they were resting.
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Isaac Bayes
Simpson
Taylor County
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Simpson Man
Taylor County Court House
Mag. Jefferys
Love Resigns Ohio Co Republican Chairmanship
Ohio county Republican committee accepted the resignation of Attorney Francis Love as chairman and elected William Callahan to succeed him. Love, GOP nominee for congress in the first district, resigned to devote full time to the campaign. Water covers 143 million square miles of the earth's area. Lost green Dutch boy pin reward phone 818 124 3ts.
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Rotary Observes Ladies Night At Belvedere Club
Dr Porter Chartrand of Clarksburg entertained 52 Rotarians and Rotaryanns with a humorous address at the Belvedere club during Rotarys ladies night. The program was arranged by G T Bartlett Sr and D Howard Lawson. The local club planned to attend a Newbury Rotary meeting at noon September 2 with Donnelly, governor of the 185th district Rotary National, visiting.
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Clarksburg
Regular Army Booths To Recruit At West Grafton Fair
The Grafton Army recruiting office announced recruiters will be stationed on the fair grounds at Taylor county’s annual fair in West Grafton on September 12 13 and 14 to provide information about the Regular Army.
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West Grafton
Legion Jares Gather for 26th State Convention
Legionnaires and wives pour into Wheeling for the 26th annual state convention as 15,000 attendees from posts statewide are expected for four days. Separately, lawyers prepared an appeal to the Kanawha circuit court for Richard Lee Collins, 22, condemned for the slaying of Denver D. Hill. Geysers are noted as occurring only in the United States, Iceland, and New Zealand.
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Car Sideswipes Parked Auto on Morgantown Road
On U S Route 119 north of Grafton a 1941 Plymouth driven by Leon Carroll Jacobs of Clarksburg was damaged when parked and struck by a Chevrolet coupe driven by R B Beverages of Point Marion Pa. The collision occurred about 11 p m last night as both cars headed toward Grafton. Jacobs moved aside to avoid impact after seeing an approaching car. Beverages said he swerved to miss Jacobs but hit the parked car to avoid a collision. A passenger in Jacobs’s car suffered no injuries. Both vehicles were insured.
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Clarksburg
Grafton
R. 8
Point Marion
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Rowlesburg Man Severely Burned at Cement Plant Fire
William Pyles, 45, of Rowlesburg, an electrician at the Manheim plant of Alpha Portland Cement, suffered severe burns to the face neck arms and chest when a fuse blew and flash ignited his clothing. He was rushed to King Hospital for treatment.
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Rowlesburg
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Alpha Portland Cement Company
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Charleston Worker Crushed in Concrete Mixer Incident
53-year-old employee of the West Virginia Brick Company was reported in critical condition at a Charleston hospital after becoming enmeshed in a concrete mixer cog. Attendants cited crushed chest, back lacerations, and shock. Police said the worker was dragged into the machine when his trouser leg fouled a cog.
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West Virginia Brick Company
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List Most Streams Bad For Weekend Fishing Prospects
Charleston August 30 Poor fishing prospects faced West Virginia sportsmen in most streams over the Labor Day weekend. The Conservation Commission reported conditions for 23 counties with Putnam streams muddy and Kanawha Cod and Elk rivers in fair shape while many rivers were murky or very low. Several counties such as Wayne Tyler Pocahontas Nicholas Webster Upshur Barbour Randolph Tucker Pocahontas had streams that were clear but very low. Lewis Jackson Wirt Roane Calhoun Gilmer Mason Harrison Ritchie Wood Pleasants showed low or clear water, except North Fork of Hughes River in Ritchie County was muddy.
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Webster
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Wood
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