Destruction of Old Taylor County Court House Underway This Week
Charley Brinkman laments the loss of Taylor County’s original 1846 Court House. The 100 year old Temple of Justice at Pruntytown faced removal as movement shifted county seat to Grafton. Cornerstone artifacts and a time capsule were moved to Charleston for Masonic Archives.
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Charley Brinkman
Taylor County Court House
Grafton Sentinel
Colonial Court House
William Prim
Old Temple At
Justice
Taylor County
Pruntytown
Grafton
Mayo Leroy
Cofran Ofton
A. H. Thayer
Bosley
John W. Bartlett
A. 2. Casteel
Robert G. Cather
John F. Curry
A. Y. D. Thorn
United Tes
Gratton
West Virginia
Brinkman
Charles Lewis
Hugh Evang
Sherif
John S
Herz
Ceri Court House
Prumtytown
A. J. Cralle
John ‘T. Whitescarver
C.C. Showalter
State Board of Control
Ambrose Snively
Graftom Lodge No. 15
A. F P
A. M
A. J. Wilkinson
Zephaniah C. Martin
Frederick C. Dudley
John S. S. Herr
Mystic Lodge No. 75
Baltimore Sun
Wheeling Register
Foundation
Percy Robison
Temple of Justice
B. F. Poe
Charleston
Masonic
Six Divorces Filed in Circuit Clerk Office
Six bills of complaints seek divorces with custody and name restorations. Wimbish seeks separation from Beverly Bark Share Wimbish after marriage in 1944. Knotts requests divorce from Howard E Knotts with child custody. Scott asks divorce and custody from Clyde Scott after a 1944 marriage. Mitchell seeks divorce from Kenneth P Mitchell with custody for their son. Keener asks divorce from Dorwood Junior Keener after marriage in 1945. Ball seeks divorce from Rosemary Virginia Ball, married in 1945.
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Merle Bailey
Sarah Elizabeth Wimbish
Beverly Bark- Share Wimbish
Ruth McCartney Knotts
Howard E. Knotts
Mary Lee Scott
Clyde Scott
Oakland
Helen Lee Mitchell
Kenneth P. Mitchell
Ganther
Betty Louise Keener
Dorwood Junior Keener
Russell Edgar Ball
Rosemary Virginia Ball
Army And Navy Cautions On Use Of Big Inch Line
The Army and Navy warned a congressional committee that nothing should be done with the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines that would hinder their rapid use for oil transport in any national emergency. Admiral Frederic J. Horne, head of the Army-Navy Petroleum Board, urged keeping the lines available for wartime fuel, favoring peacetime use of the Texas to East Coast lines only for oil, not for gas or other fuels.
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Washington
Army and Navy
NatwAl Gay
Oa Sike
Frederic J. Horn
Cnairman
Army- Navy Petrolum Board
Winus
Horm
Texas
France faces cabinet crisis as Blum party meets
In France the socialist congress of Leon Blum's party plans a 6 p.m. session to consider a Communist invitation to form a two party government with Maurice Thorez as premier. Georges Bidault resigns, Auriol wins 284 votes with Cachin 170 and Varenne 98, backed by the MRP.
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France
Leon Blum
W Socialist Party
Maurice Thorez
Communist Party
Thorez
Auriol
Marcel Cachin
Alexandre Varenne
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Georges Bidault
Miners Warn Of Economic Fallout Over Pipeline Plan
United Mine Workers officials warned that broad unemployment would follow if coal miners lose work, stating the Commonwealth would suffer financially. They expect committee spokesmen to oppose reconverting pipelines to natural gas as a temporary measure amid the soft coal strike.
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United Mine Workers Union
Commonwealth
Corgan
Federal Power Commission
Soil Conservation District aids 1345 landowners in packe es
The Tygart s Valley Soil Conservation District reports aid to more than 1 345 landowners for soil conservation packe es across Barbour Upshur Taylor Tucker and part of Randolph counties. Chairman Fred Co demands heavy equipment to accelerate work. State act 1939 assigns district boards to help, with proposed $600 000 state surplus for equipment. Boards to charge landowners actual operating costs plus depreciation. Frosty weather noted with temperatures from 13 to 30 degrees and brief relief forecast.
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Tygart's Valley
Board of Supervisors
Man
Soil Conservation District
Boards of Supervisors
Booth
Fears of Bloody Spanish Civil War Rise in US View
U.S. fears a bloody Spanish Civil War as Polish and White Russian measures against Franco Spain could provoke wider conflict. Senator Tom Connally and others warned that supporting either side might isolate Spain from the world, amid debates in the United Nations assembly committee.
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Max Harrelson
United States
Spain
Tom Connally
D-Tex
United Nations Assembly
Polanc
Franco Acre Mentana
Wileh
Yo Vianky
Prca Wy
Enjoin Picketing by School Was Strikes
Circuit Judge Allan F Bouehelle issued an injunction to halt picketing by Kanawhi county school bus drivers after thousands of children were stranded. The order named Frank Rebhan and other AFL Brotherhood officials, amid reports that 30 of 72 drivers did not report and a large number of children could not attend class.
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Charefeton. Dee
Kanawhi
Allan F. Bouehelle
Frank Rebhan
AFL Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers Union
Rebhan
Card of Thanks for Russell Fast’s Family
Our heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation are extended to the Rev. S. F. Hauser Bartlett's Funeral Home and to friends and neighbors for their sympathy at the death of our beloved husband and father Russell Fast. Mrs. Russell Fast and family.
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S. F. Hauser
Bartlett's
Russell Fast
Horchler Dies in Newburg After Long Illness
F W Horchler former coat operator and postmaster at Newburg died yesterday at his daughter's home in Newburg after a long illness. Born May 28 1869 he leaves six children Fred and Albert Horchler Mrs Donald Annan all of Fairmont Mrs Mabel Campbell and Edward Horchler of Newburg four grandchildren and two sisters Mrs Anna Frader and Mrs Emelli Stanhagen of Fairmont Services will be conducted from his home Thursday at 2 30 pm by Rev E F K Roof Trinity Lutheran Church
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F. W. Horchler
Newburg
Mabel Campbell
Fred and
Albert Horchler
Donald Annan
Fairmont
Edward Horchler
Mary Jo
Carlyle Anna
Frederick Horchler
Annabell Campbell
Newsbug
Anna Fra‘der
Emelli Stanhagen
E. F. K. Roof
Trinity Lutheran Church
Oakland hit by AFL strike shuts down mass commerce
The San Francisco area faced a citywide strike with widespread industry halts affecting about one million people. Newspapers stopped publishing and 129,000 commuters stayed home or moved by car as unions retaliated for police escorting non union trucks to department stores. Charles W. Real of the California Federation of Labor reportedly signaled the strike from Washington while in transit.
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Wenmnnen Nem Pabe
The
Post-Inquirer
AFL
Oakland
Charles W. Real
APL California Federation of Labor
Bay Distict Council of Teamsters
Washington, D.C
In Oakland Full Strike Effects Reported
The Times-Star described effects of the strike concentrated within Oakland and Alameda. Businesses that usually opened at 7 am operated as usual, with pickets around utility plants. Hospitals and emergency services remained active and operating normally.
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Oakland
Alameda
Times-Star
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