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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1947
Page
5
Reports from 24 counties show hunters bagged 378 deer on the season's fourth day, lifting the weekly total to 3277. Taylor county did not report. Weeklong totals use a pattern of sharp day to day changes, with Mondays a record 1240 and fluctuating counts through midweek as deer hunting moved along its season.
Industrial accidents claimed 44 lives in November in West Virginia, including 36 coal miners. Non fatal accidents totaled 5 17. March had 45 fatalities, the worst month on record. Forty four widows and 34 children under 16 were left.
In Shinnston on December 9, 45 year old Mason Caldwell of Robe was crushed to death when a mine motor jumped a track and threw him against a coal vibrator at the coal company mine. The report notes MacAdam surfaced roads named after 18th century Scot John Loudon MacAdam.
Charles Lloyd Galtan aged 54 father of Mrs Wayne Runner of this city died suddenly at his Morgantown home. He was a miner, son of George and Helen Henry Gastan, survived by wife Rosa Maxwell Galtan and three children, Charles Odbert Gattan and Mrs Wayne Runne. Also surviving brothers and sisters in Clarksburg and Gary Indiana. Funeral at Jenkins and McCulla Morgantown Saturday at 1 30 p.m. Burial Beverly Hills Cemetery.
Benjamin Sharan Ons yesterday in Oak Grove after a week long illness. He was born September 7, 1848, a son of Amon K. and Anne Roderics. Survived by sisters Mae Merrifield Viola Radzka Alice Hardesty Maude Mycry. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Services for Granville G. Weaver 77 who died at his Arden home will be held at Clemtown Church at 2 30 p m Saturday with burial in Clem town cemetery under Bartlett Funeral directors guidance Friends may call at the late home this evening and until the funeral Tomorrow the retired farmer is survived by his wife, two children and two sisters
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