Tuberculosis Seals Need Local Civic Drive
The Fairmont Times notes the annual sale of Christmas seals by the Anti Tuberculosis Society and laments the lack of local leadership. It urges Taylor County civic clubs to sponsor the effort, warns that delays endanger tubercular children at Hope Mont sanitarium, and calls for a local leader to head the campaign. It also reports a proposed fare rise by Tygarts Valley Traction Company from 7 to 10 cents, set for January 1 1920, with readers debating the impact on patronage and income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont Times
Anti-Tuberculosis Society
T. B. Society
Taylor County Tuberculosis Association
James B. Moran
Moran
Saraying
Taylor County Board of Trade
Carl Nuzum
Taylor County
Hopemont
Public Service Commission
Charleston
Tygarts Valley Traction Company
Traction Company
Trolley fare plan debated and local press shifts
A column argues that lowering trolley fares to increase ridership would raise net income more effectively than fare hikes. It urges stockholders to meet, adjust the petition, and promote local ticket book sales. The piece also lauds The Morgantown New Dominion’s return to Jeffersonian Democrat alignment and critiques independents. It notes Taylor County Court’s rejection of a County Welfare Board in favor of Salvation Army aid programs.
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Fairmont Times
Morgantown
New Dominion
Ned
Good Morning
Dominion
New Dominics
Socraty
Monongalia County
Taylor County Court
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Corps
State Briefs Humidity Attacks Local Sports Officials
Wheeling William Loftus of Bellaire Ohio named president of the Ohio Valley Football Officials Association. Mr and Mrs Andrew D Lucas both about 30 found dead by apparent suffocation in their home. Wellsburg Pete Groviak 29 a World War veteran held on an attack charge adjudged insane. Hamlin Melba Ha 6 dies from burns after falling into an open grate. Bluefield Jack Bryant of Norfolk Va and Hart Hammons of Pineville Ky named to share captaincy of Bluefield College football team for next year.
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Wheeling
William 3. Loftus
Bellaire
Ohio
Ohio Valley Football Officials Association
Andrew D. Lucas
Wellsburg
Pete Groviak
Bluefield
Jack Bryant
Norfolk
Hart Hammons
Pineville
X.y
United World Row Follows American Lead Despite Japanese Dissent
In Tokyo Japan issued an official statement challenging the push toward following America’s lead on global actions. The report notes persistent debate among nations as United World discussions continue from page one with varied stances and cautions about alignment and alliance.
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America
Japan
Tokyo
In Memoriam Lonnie Poling 1929 Remembrance Verse
In memoriam of Lonnie Leroy Poling who died November 25 1929 at age 24 years eight months sixteen days. The poem expresses pride and grief as family recalls a brother crossing to the other shore and awaiting kin in heaven with references to Mayme and Azalea and a hopeful tribute to the Savior as King.
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Lonnie Leroy Poling
Japan wary of associating with American peace plan
The text notes that she did not intend to ally with the American proposal. Given her close proximity to the disturbance, Japan feared actions would be seen by China as backing a side and hindering prospects for peace.
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Japan
Man's Custody Continued on Train Robbery Case
Tom Vernon alias Tom Averill, jailed in Pawnee Oklahoma, is charged with wrecking and robbing a Union Pacific train near Cheyenne on November 25. He claims kinship to Cattle Kate and Jim Averill, who were executed in 1889 for cattle rustling in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Tom Vernon
Tom Averill
Pawnee
Okla
Union Pacific
Here
Kate
Jim Averill
Averill
Sweetwater
Appeals From Continuea Land Valuations Challenged
Landowners contest lower court valuation of lands labeled front and back on Continuea from page one. They argue evidence shows front land worth $15 per acre and back land $10, while lower court set different values. Witnesses testified for the circuit court to support the higher valuations. The case centers on whether the assessed values reflect true market prices for the acreage involved.
Gang’s Guns Thwarted in Jefferson City Shootout
A state penitentiary in Jefferson City was the scene of an attempted assassination as three men in a car fired on detective Bert Haycock while he drove to work. Officer Dingman was wounded in the nose and abdomen, potentially fatal, while Curtis sustained a shoulder wound. Haycock escaped by dropping to the car floor. The assailants fled.
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Dingman
Curtis
Bert Haycock
Haycock
National Title Won By Youth of Webster Co
Clarksburg December 3 Webster county 4 H club judging team representing West Virginia won ninth place at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago and earned further honors William Henderson ranked first among about seventy five boys in sheep and ram judging with Morton Chilton as the other team member and Edison’s first incandescent lamp produced less than one and a half lumens per watt while modern lamps reach up to twenty lumens.
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Clarksburg
Addiiton
Chicago
Webster County
West Virginia
Charles 5. Horner
William Henderson
Semon
Atock
Chilton Morten
Publication order in complex mortgage suit in Taylor County
In the circuit court of Taylor County West Virginia John L Heehmer leads creditors in a suit against Good Hope Coal Company May Day Coal Company and multiple trustees and banks seeking to identify note holders secured by vendor’s liens on Good Hope and May Day lands in Pocahontas and Barbour counties and to settle accounts of trustees and bank receivers and determine interests and rents and to order sale of lands to satisfy claims with nonresident defendants Carrie Gramm and B W Auvill required to appear within one month to protect their interests.
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Circuit Court
Taylor County
West Virginia
John L. Heehmer
Good Hope Coal Company
May Day Coal Company
Clyde G. Turner
Lawson Starcher
William Morgan
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank of
Grafton
W. Va
Carrie A. Gramm
Samuel H. Gramm
Hardman Fuel Company
Beaver
Gratton
Wm. Morgan
Lawson Stareher
Wm. Morgan, Sr
Barbour County
George B. Morgan
Herbert W. Dent
W. R
D. Bryce Mason
Martin V. Tucker
B. W. Au‘vill
W. Rabler
Good Hope Coat Company
Good Pe Coal Company
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank
Pocahontas County
Fang
Carrie Gramm
Saidants
Good Hope
B. W. Auvill
Grafton Daily Sentinel Publication Notice
The foregoing be published in The Grafton Daily Sentinel a newspaper published in said county. FRANK M. HOLLIS Jr Clerk John L Hechmer Atty for Pitt. Dg1017 24.
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Grafton Daily Sentinel
Said County
Frank M. Hollis, Jr
John L. Hechmer
Pitt
Notice of Trustee Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Taylor County WV
Court ordered sale by Kanawha National Bank as trustee under a 1924 deed of trust to Pearle Cornwell and Clyde T Cornwell. Property 60 acres in Knottsville District Taylor County WV with coal rights reserved. Auction at Taylor County Courthouse Grafton WV on December 28 1929 at 10 am. Delinquent taxes apply.
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Circuit Court
Taylor County
West Virginia
Kanawha National Bank
Union Trust Company
Pearle Cornwell
Clyde T. Cornwell
Kana‘wha National Bank
Grafton
Knottsville
County of
Taylor
Hester McDonald and Husband
J. M. Gully
Pearl Cornwell
Asa M. Moats
Dessie M. Moats
Railroad head fined for false coal shipments charges
D Prudemann, president of the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad, pleaded guilty to twenty five counts alleging the railroad falsely billed coal shipments. Federal Judge Benson W. Hough fined him twenty five thousand dollars.
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Columbus
D. Prudemann
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
Benson W. Hough
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Howard Holt
Latrobe Street
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Colonel Lindbergh
Margaret McKinney
Fairmont
State Board of Childrens Welfare
Charles A. Lindbergh
Los Angeles
Eley Wu
The
Grafton Printing Company
Hamlin
Melba Ha
United World
Lonnie Dear
Dear
California
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