Thanksgiving Day Football Victory Hails Thrilling Battle
The writer recalls a two day break with a quail hunting trip on Judge Robinson's Barbour county farm, then Thanksgiving events including the alumni meeting in Morgantown and the West Virginia vs. W. and J. game. A big victory is celebrated as one of the year's most thrilling football battles, leaving the author tired but thankful.
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Luther Hodges
Judge Robinson
Barbour County
Morgantown
Alumni meeting exposes smooth old guard at university talk
At the alumni gathering the mob was steered like a ward convention by an organized group. The veteran grads and athletic department leadership shut down genuine discussion on topics the meeting was meant to address, preserving the established order at WVU.
Alumni clash over university athletics at large meeting
In a heated University alumni gathering, a resolution denouncing those who challenge athletic affairs was pushed through, stifling open discussion. Critics warn the maneuver deepens distrust, noting a large deficit and debts in the Athletic Department. A graduate proposal urged a formal questionnaire to survey alumni views.
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Athletic Department
Alumni Association
Centuries of progress to Chicago 4H reunion trip
The narrator recalls visiting Horton's Lindsays and Mrs McNerney twelve years earlier and planning a reunion. A joyful journey over rough gravel roads led to a thrilling Horton reception, described as warmly personal.
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Horton
Lindsays
Smith Renews Road Trip Through Illinois Missouri and Kansas
The narrative continues a cross midwestern journey noting mileage corrections from Chicago to Jacksonville, crossing the Illinois River valley on a new drawbridge, and visiting Hannibal Mark Twain sites. It describes farm country, a Mississippi river crossing into Missouri via a rail bridge, a speedometer test track near Hannibal, then travels through Macon and St Joseph toward Kansas, highlighting rural scenery, fur trade history, and highway observations.
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Chicago
Jacksonville
Cicero
Ellsworth
Kansas
Jacksonvis
Inois
Illinois
Grafton
Morris Til
Des Plaines
Tenois River
Jackson
Thi Nois
Illin T
Louisiana
Tia
Jefferson
Hannibal
Mississippi
Mark Twain
Twain
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
U. 6
Missouri
St. Joseph
St. Joe
mid-West
Macon
New Chariton
Chariton River
Brookfield
Chillicothe
Des Moines
Tive
Pottom
Acros
Topeka
Troy
Horton
Kan
Sonya confronts danger during storm on Rus sian Lake island
Sonya fishes alone on a island as a storm looms and a drunken man hidden by dead pines corners her. She plans a dash to the water but a hostile, unseen threat prevails until two prospectors arrive with a guard voice halting the assailant and saving her.
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Sonya
Pante
Rock
Russian Lake
Contested fight and political jabs collide in scattered pages
A jagged scene shows a knife duel ending as a rival wrests the weapon away and a bystander bids the assailant to fetch a hostage. The text shifts to a Washington air of disagreement as Ickes defends the Public Works Administration against Alfred Smith’s critique, insisting on its efficiency amid shifting political dialogue.
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Washington
Alfred Smith
Ickes
Public Works
Proposed Finance Plan Seeks Tax Shifts for Bond Debt
The bill outlines shifting interest and debt payments for county school and municipal bonds from direct levies to taxes on privileges, franchises, and incomes. It details revised allocations by property class, with reductions to school apportionments and a guard against tax shortfalls by prioritizing debt charges from property taxes if indirect taxes fail. It also enforces equal taxation across districts by keeping levies proportional to maximums.
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Mit
Aged Woman Dies. Rites Planned At Menear Home
The community mourns Mrs. Shackelford a longtime Missionary Baptist. Wife of Ephriam Shackelford married in 1868 she passed away at her daughter’s home. Survived by three sons Luthe Lee and Ira, one daughter Mrs J L Menear, three stepchildren, one brother and one sister. Funeral Saturday at 1 PM with Rev. Millard Stump officiating burial in Luzadder cemetery Bartlett Funeral Company in charge.
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Shackelford
Ephriam Shackelford
Great Beyond
Lee Shackelford
Ira Shackelford
Haymond
Luthe Shackelford
Watsonville
Cal
J. L. Menear
Elza Shackelford
Clara Shakan
Alice Marquess
Thornton
Harvey Bailey
Independence
Mollie Menear
Millard Stump
Luzadder
Bartlett Funeral Company
Forbidden Valley Synopsis Shifts To A Striking Yukon Scene
Curt Tennyson aids K Murlin at Husain Lake in a perilous Yukon frontier. He and Paul St Claire pursue Igor Karakhan, an international crook, through a backcountry settlement as a drunken half breed taunts them. A tense standoff erupts as a knife, gun, and hidden threatenings collide.
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Sonya
Curt
Waltiam
Leen
Edmonton
Curt Tennyson
de K. Murlin
Royal Mounted
Igor Karakhan
Lilluars
Paul St. Claire
Mia
Husain Lake
Dover
Paul
Elin
Elks Honor Their Dead Memorial Services This Sunday
Grafton No 308 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks holds memorial services this Sunday at 2:30 PM in the lodge room on Jay Main Street. Hon. Arthur Heinze of Montana will deliver the memorial address. Music by a men's choir, vocal by Florine Fried, and a piano solo are planned. Officers will perform the regular ritual in memory of deceased members. attendance is invited.
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Arthur Heinze
Mont
Grafton
Order of Elks
Memorial Progr
Jay Main Street
Cedric O. Reynal
Florine Fried
Lodge of Sorrow
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Union Brokerage
Paniity Fonds
Moffiintown
Avenue Fairmont
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