Dances Highlight Yule Social Calendar this Week
Three private clubs stage Christmas events this week with two dances on Christmas night. Elk’s ball Moose dance for members and spouses. Eagles hold a holiday dance Saturday night. Eagles party for 400 children and 300 adults featured Santa, gifts, and treats. Nina Lou Stone led dance exhibitions with a musical program. Jarvis the magician performed. Bil Brookover’s Band plays Moose event. an all girl orchestra to accompany the Elk ball.
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Moose Home
Eagles
Eagles Club
Santa Claus
Nina Lou Stone
Stone School of Dancing
Great Jarvis
Marion County
Bil Brookover
Clarksburg
Trains Strikes and Kills Man in Kimberly Area
In Charleston on December 24 a Chesapeake and Ohio railway train struck and killed Lane Parson, 59, of Kimberly as he walked along the tracks near his home yesterday.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Lane Parson
Kimberly
Sister Of Grafton Woman Dies Sunday
Mrs. Bell Rogers 78 of Blandville dies Sunday morning in Vin Clarksburg. Daughter of Moris and Sarah Moore White, widow of William Rogers, she leaves daughters Mrs. Laura Sutton Amsterdam Ohio and Mrs Hall at the death scene.
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Bell Rogers
Blandville
Mollie Strader
Clarksburg
Moris
Sarah Moore White
William Rogers
Laura Sutton
Amsterdam
Ohio
Hall
Poling Forfeits Bond At City Hall Today
Earnest Poling of this city forfeited $25 and costs this morning when he failed to appear before Mayor C. O. King on charges of parking his truck in a restricted zone. Poling’s car was parked on Lincoln Street Sunday night and was struck by a 1933 DeSoto sedan driven by Miss Dick Glenn of Washington Street. both vehicles were badly damaged.
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Earnest Poling
King
Res.r
Poling
Lincoln Street
M.s. Dick Glenn
Washington Street
Freight Rammed Olympian Near Waubay After Siding Error
A fast freight overshot a siding east of Waubay and struck Milwaukee’s Olympian injuring 61 of 450 Christmas travelers and hospitalizing eleven. The collision toppled locomotives and a baggage car. Roosevelt’s 42nd presidential inauguration is noted in passing.
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Waubay
Milwaukee Railroad
Chicago
Tacoma
Wash
Fares Pfister
Webster
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Five West Virginia losses rise to 3 million by year end
Charleton reports total West Virginia losses for January to November reached 3,022,762 with last month adding 215,685. Marshal Robert P. Kidd notes October losses were 269,690. In 1945 a ti month period totaled 2920 281. Brazil won independence from Portugal in 181? becoming a republic in 1889. Buenos Aires is nicknamed the Paris of the Western Hemisphere.
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Charleton
West Virginia
Robert P. Kidd
Prominent Surgeon Dr John Staige Davis Dies
Baltimore December 24 reports the death of Dr John Staige Davis a pioneer in plastic surgery at his Guilfer suburb home aged 74 He authored Plastic Surgery Its Principles and Practice first issued in 1917 and long regarded as an authoritative work in the field His name is linked to a skin grafting method in the profession.
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Baltimore
John Staige Davis
Pioner
Guilfer
Davis
Mrs Santa May Spend Christmas In Jail
A Taylor county police report says Mrs. Santa Claus may spend the Christmas Eve in jail after 2 a.m. sighting on Main Street. Officer Ila Moran found an elderly woman, about 55 to 60, with two dolls and many toys on a curb near Bridge Street, investigating the unusual scene in the cold night.
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Santa Claus
Taylor County
Panolman
Moran
Sadie
Local Woman Kisemore Remains Confined in County Jail
Kisemore, a local resident, is still confined in the county jail with little hope of returning home for Christmas as authorities report limited chances of release before the holiday.
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Kisemore
Eight Giver Six Months On Election Charges
Huntington judges impose suspended sentences of six months in jail on eight of the defendants for irregularities at the primary election. John Hallanan, brother of WV Republican official Walter Hallanan, to stand trial. The court fined each defendant $50 and costs. Defendants: B R Ackin, Erskine Barton, Willis L Pron ONeill, Bunn, S Wirt La Lance, J W Petry, C N Petit, Lawrence Trent.
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John Hallanan
West Virginia
Republican National
Die of Burns Claims Young Ward in Hospital
Ward Reckart Jr a year-old boy died in a hospital yesterday from burns suffered in an accident. The tragedy was reported in local notices and authorities are investigating the incident.
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Ward Reckart
Ward, Jr
Fire kills Mrs Reckart and two daughters. home destroyed
In a tragic blaze at Hareloon county, Mrs Leona Reckart aged 25 and her two young daughters perished. The dwelling was consumed, leaving a lane area in Dolly Pihate pate, with local residents gathering to organize a relief fund and collect for the family.
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Leona Reckart
Hareloon
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