Woman's club hosts turkey dinner and program at Presbyterian church
The book review department of the Woman's club enjoyed an afternoon meeting at the Presbyterian church with a turkey dinner. Miss Frances Noble presented readings and a play, Arthur Yates spoke on public safety, and plans were made for a Children's Christmas party and a New Year's ball. Officers were elected for the B and Veterans Auxiliary, with installation planned in January.
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Book Review
Woman's Club
Presbyterian Church
W. A. Beavers
Dean
Harold L. Noble
Frances Noble
Washington
Grafton
Blanding
Gretna Green
Constance D'Arcy MacKay
Noble
EB. R. Bucklew
M. Riffee
Elks Club
Field House
Riverside Drive
Larry Gill
Ohio
Cleveland
Oberlin College Glee Club
Glee Club
Harold Nowld
Arthur Yates
Taylor County Safety Council
Veterans
Ladies’ Auxiliary
V. W. Hall
Della Wittman
A. H. Carroll
T. Seymour
Phyllis Crane
Harold Cole
Cline Gough
Logan
Pearl Hussion
Erin Reed
John Biford
T. C. Gough
G. A. Hannon
Charles Flanagan
Social Calendar Paragraphs Highlight Christmas Gatherings
December church groups announce a busy social period with meetings and annual Christmas gift exchanges. Andrews General Aid holds 7 30 devotionals, Womans Foreign Missionary Society meets 7 30 with Mrs Vera Hamilton, Kings Daughters 6 30, Circle No 4 7 30, Pocahontas Degree 2 30, Ladies Aid 7 30, and a Blue Plate special joint supper at St Pauls Lutheran 6 30.
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Andrews Church
Group T
Womans Foreign Missionary Society
St. Paul's M. E
Vera Hamilton
Walnut Street
Kings Daughters Bible
U. B. Church
M. P
Ola DeMoss
Degree of Pocahontas
Redmens Hall
Ladies Aid
Blueville
Blueville M. E
Leo Crane
Woman's Auxiliary
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Church Council
Luther Brotherhood of
Christmas Party Highlights at Wickwire Creek Event
A Christmas meeting featured gifts and refreshments. Mrs. Mary Wood of Wickwire Creek celebrated her eighty fifth birthday with family, a decorated table, two birthday cakes, and well wishes. The Now and Then club gathered at Mrs. Mary Reisinger’s on West Wilford Street for sewing, beano, prizes, and holiday treats. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Elva Gough’s home on Park View Street in December.
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Mary Wood
Wickwire Creek
Mary Reisinger
West Wilford Street
Mirjiam Isner
Ruth Crouser
Minnie Stillwell
Mary Jane Poling
Mary Wagoner
Elva Gough
Ruth] Crouser
Pearl Poling
Nina Sturms
Edna Roy
Miriam Isner
Elva Gooh
Park View
Salesman dies by self-inflicted wound in neck
Charleston reports 15 year old Dee Charleston and 47 year old salesman Edward Lynn Bon ham died from a bullet wound in the neck. Coroner James E. Roberts said the death was related to personal safety.
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Charleston
Dee
Edward Lynn Bonham
James E. Roberts
Franco's Rear Guard Beaten Near Madrid Front
Madrid report says Francoist rear guard was destroyed in a flank action under rain as Socialist militia counter punched with artillery to stop assaults on Fresnedilla Valdemorillo and Boadilla Del Monte lines. Capital shifts to Red Christmas charity for militiamen families.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Fresnedilla
Valdemorillo
Franco
Boadilla-Delmonte
Signatures Affixed To U S Neutrality Plan
Buenos Aires reports delegations began signing a revised U S neutrality plan aiming for unanimous sponsorship after Argentina’s last minute objections were addressed. The final form mirrors Cordell Hull’s recommendations to unify five peace treaties into a workable framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
United States
Argentina
Cordell Hull
Sheriff-elect cites 1937 payroll for sheriff’s office
Sheriff-elect Herbert Evans told the court that 9100 will be needed for next year to pay five regular employees and additional help for tax tickets and delinquent taxes. Two deputies would earn 150 a month, a clerk 85 a month, two assistant jailers and firemen at 110 and 90 a month, plus 400 for assistants handling tax work.
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Herbert Evans
Coury Court
Youth Ends Life in Morals Court Verdict
A coroner and jury found that a 15 year old youth, Dee Logan, died by his own actions after confessing to drinking poison while three companions believed he was joking. Separate report says Sheriff Buzzard charged Seebert Wilfong with shooting his four year old son and wounding his stepson Lee Wolfe.
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Logan
Dee
Buster Wheatley
Ee Tae
Marlinton
Rodney Buzzard
Seebert Wilfong
Lee Wolfe
Buzzard
Wilfong
Witnesses from Grafton in Elkins District Court
Coronal officers and officials from Grafton including Corporal L W Bimrick Trooper W E Murphy Police Chief A E Lockard Deputy Sheriff Harry Batson H L Potts and Carroll A Lowe are in Elkins today as witnesses in U S district court Meanwhile residents in Clarksburg Shropshire and Morgantown are noted for weekend shopping visits and a Park View resident's family visit Ed Reed of Park View recovers after surgery and Carl Cooper remains home with a fractured leg from an injury a month prior
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L. W. Bimrick
W. E. Murphy
State Police
A. E. Lockard
Harry Batson
H. L. Potts
Carroll A. Lowe
Grafton
Elkins
U. S. District Court
W. P. Clark
Mary
Harry Carroll
Tom Beali
Hoskins
0. C. Igner
Dorothy
Park View
Isner
O. R. Dubois
Richmond
Indiana
Ed. Reed
Jim Martin
J. W. Jamison
Morgantown
Pruntytown
Carl Cooper
Sheriff Conducts Annual Delinquent Land Sale in Taylor County
Sheriff Lee Bennett oversaw the annual delinquent land sale for 1935 taxes at the Taylor county courthouse. Individual purchases totaled 1,500 with 1,276 in redemptions. 1,276 not bought or redeemed went to the state. Forty two sales occurred, and Bennett prepared to close his books for Sheriff-elect Herbert Evans tomorrow.
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Lee Bennett
Taylor County
Stote
Bennett
Herbert Evans
Young Girl Leaps On Roof to Escape Man
A 13-year-old girl fleeing an attempted assault leaped onto a hillside roof and into Ann Harding's chimney in Hollywood. She was found by police at the actress's residence and hospitalized for severe lacerations after a burglar alarm drew responders. Caretakers at the home reported seeing a man leave the grounds and hearing an automobile drive away.
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Hollywood
Calif
Ann Harding
Screen Star
Bonnie Wrankle
George Seaton
Harding
Europe
Revenge Back in Creek Aided by Confessed Suspects
The account describes a strangulated assault on an elderly farmer identified as Matthews. Reed struck him, dragged him through woods to a creek, and tied a rock to his neck with suspenders before throwing him in. Matthews' body was found three weeks later by boy scouts, with Gingell and others implicated in the killing.
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Reed
Gingell
Rees
Matthews
Washington
Kirby
Charleston
Reggie Childs to Headline Alumni Event at Field House
Reggie Childs, famed NBC maestro, will lead his orchestra at the Field House on December 28 as part of the G. H. S. Alumni Association Program. He began singing soprano in Paris and switched to violin after his voice cracked, later rising with bands led by Whiteman, Lopez, Waring, and Rolfe.
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Reggie Childs
NBC
Field House
G. H. S. Alumni Association
Paris
London
Canada
America
Paul Whiteman
Vincent Lopez
Fred Waring
B. A. Rolfe
Slaying Case Ties Youthful Trio to Matthews Murder
State police disclosed Joseph Kirby of Scranton Pa admitted taking part in the slaying of Elwood D Matthews near Silver Springs Md and named William Reed and Lawrence Gingell as accomplices. The case links robberies and abductions across Maryland Virginia and West Virginia as detectives pursue the trio.
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Battle
Kirby
Pugh
Silver Springs
Matthews
Charleston
Joseph Kirby
Scranton
Washington, D. C
J. H. Fillinger
Elwood D. Matthews
William B. Reed
Lawrence Gingell
P. D. Shingleton
State Police
Fillinger
Reed
Washington
Jack Miller
Philadelphia
Montgomery
P. P. Wilson
Wilson
Senate probes Van Sweringen assets in Missouri Pacific buy
Senate investigators scrutinized how the Van Sweringen brothers gained control of the Missouri Pacific system using dummy firms to bypass law. They examined transfers of terminal ownership in Omaha Fort Worth Kansas City and St Joseph and questioned a $20 million 1931 purchase funded by Alleghany and routed through Terminal Shares and a terminal trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
van Sweringen
Senate
Wheeler
Mont
Railroad Finance Investigating Committee
Missouri Pacific
L. W. Baldwin
John P. Murphy
von Sweringen
Omaha
Fort Worth
Tex
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Alleghany Corporation
Terminal Shares, Inc
Terminal Trust
William C. Potter
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Testiffy
Vani Sweringens
New York
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Generalissimo Chiang Sees Health Amid Crisis Talks
W H Donald adviser to the Chinese government reports Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek is in good health and spirits after a meeting at Sianfu. He says intensive negotiations are needed to relieve the crisis and to secure the release of Marshal Hsueh Liang from mutinous control. Donald plans to return to Shensi capital to push for the over lord's release and to address the rebel army's demands.
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Nanking
China
W. H. Donald
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sianfu
Hsueh-Liang
Donald
Shensi
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