Rotary Club Birthday Celebration Honors Early Members
Grafton's Rotary club marks its 20th anniversary tonight at the M C A dining room with six surviving original members honored. Ole E. Wyckoff presides, W. A. Beavers Sr. presents guests, and memorial remarks by Dr. D. C. Peck honor past members including Hendrickson Carr Sinsel Holt Sawyer Burns Keefer.
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Grafton
Rotary Club
M.C.A
Rotary International
Ole E. Wyckoff
West Virginia Bar Association
E. Guy Kuhn
Mr. Wyckoff
W. A. Beavers, Sr
D. C. Peck
William B. Hendrickson
Thomas Carr
Charles A. Sinsel
Howard H.holt
Edmund L. Sawyer
L. W. Burns
C. A. Keefer
O. Jay. Fleming
G. Thomas Bartlett, Sr
Jed W. Robinson
Rotary
Howard Aspinall
Kuhn
New York City
L. C. Shingleton
Clarksburg
HE. Flesher
Pruntytown
John W. Ault
Wheeling
H. A. Gibson
Baltimore, Md
B. W. Alvis
Elkins
Bartlett Qualifies To Serve Six-Year Term
Final business before the Taylor county court saw County Commissioner Opha Bartlett qualify to serve a new six year term starting January 1. Other officers took oaths of office earlier. The court postponed action on naming justices and constables for vacancies in districts to January 6, their first meeting of the new year.
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Taylor County Court
Opha Bartlett
Son of Beckley Judge Dies After Roadside Found Unconscious
Herbert Stansbury Jr., 25, son of a Beckley police judge, died in a hospital after being found unconscious with a fractured skull along State Route 3 near Metalton. Police consider possible beatings, robbery, or hit and run. $16 was missing from his pockets. Survived by widow and two children.
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Hasty A. Stansbury
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Stansbury
Beckley
Glen Daniel
Metalton
Stansbury
Fire Losses Decrease In State During Month
West Virginia fire losses in November totaled 35790 dollars, a drop of 112628 dollars or 76 percent from a year earlier. Among 29 fires reported, 15 were total losses. Investigations occurred and two arson indictments were returned, one in Monroe County and one in Lincoln.
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Huntington
Fred B. Watkins
West Virginia
Monroe County
Lincoln
Flu Epidemic Not Expected In West Virginia
Charleston December 27 Dr A M Prie head of the state health department said there is no indication of an influenza epidemic in West Virginia this winter. He noted last February had 4647 cases and March 2040, with 8013 for the year so far versus a 10 year average of 4124. Epidemics tend to cycle every three years due to susceptible groups.
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Charleston
West Virginia
A. M. Prie
State Health Department
Price
Agreement on food sought amid Spain crisis
The State Department outlined final efforts to obtain an agreement on food shipments to Spain as urgent action looms. The United States, ready to aid with Red Cross deliveries and monthly aid, seeks assurances Spain stay neutral and Franco adopts a friendlier stance toward the U.S. while limiting axis collaboration through talks led by Ambassador Weddell.
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Lloyd
United States
American Red Cross
Spain
Brush
Alexander Weddell
Madrid
Generalissimo Franco
Serrano Suner
Roosevelt
Britain
Franco
Charles Welsh veteran railroad conductor dies at 78
Charles J. Welsh 78 a retired Baltimore and Ohio conductor died yesterday in Allegany hospital Cumberland after pneumonia He ran to Grafton for years never had an accident with 45 years service He began with B and O on January 18 1882 Funeral tomorrow at St Patrick s Cumberland Surviving: three daughters Mrs Mary Margaret Trant Mrs Helen Hopkins Miss Virginia Welsh and four sons Charles P Edward V J Howard and John T Welsh A brother Michael J Welsh 83 of Cumberland also survives and other relatives
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Charles J. Welsh
Baltimore and
Oho
Grafton
Allegany Hospital
Cumberland
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Rwv
Welsh
Annie
Lavin) Welsh
Pal
Mary Welsh
Holy Name Society
Cumberland Council
Knights of Columbus
The
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Mary Margaret Trant
Helen Hopkins
Pitbush
Virginia Welsh
Cecelia Street
Charles P. Welsh
Edward V. Welsh
Annapolis
J. Howard Welsh
John
Jack) T. Welsh
Baltimore
Michael J. Welsh
Car fire causes over hundred in Flemington
An automobile fire, arising from a short circuit in the ignition, caused more than 100 dollars damage to a car owned by A. H. Cropp of Flemington. The incident occurred Wednesday while the vehicle was parked on West Virginia avenue in Northview, Harrison County.
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A. H. Cropp
Flemington
West Virginia Avenue
Northview
Harrison
County
Clarksburg Driver Pleads Guilty After Passing On Blind Curve
State police arrested Harry Earl Neely of Clarksburg for passing a car on a blind curve on route 50. He pleaded guilty before Justice A B Kamabenshue, was fined five dollars plus costs, and released after payment. Neely’s case follows a separate fatal shooting near Cedar Rocks Country Club where H B Nethouse and his estranged wife were found shot dead in the front yard.
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Harry Earl Neely
Clarksburg
Justice of the Peace
A. B. Kamabenshue
Neely
Wheeling
H. B. Nethouse
Nethouse
Cedar Rocks Country Club
90 Year-Old Woman Burned As Scarf Catches Fire
In St. Albans Mrs. Emily Morrison, 90, leaned over a kitchen stove when a scarf around her neck caught fire. Firefighters and relatives found her trying to beat out the flames. Physicians said the burns to her face and eyes are likely fatal.
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ST. Albans
Emily Morrison
Former brokerage firm employee commits suicide in hotel room
BLUEFIELD, Dec 27. The body of Lloyd Cummings, 35, a former employee of a Bluefield brokerage firm, was found today on the floor of his hotel bedroom. Coroner W. W. McNeal said Cummings shot himself through the head.
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Bluefield
Lloyd Cummings
Bluefield Brokerage Company
W. W. McNeal
Cummings
Lustig Sues Gloria Jeans and Universal for 525000
Billy Lustig band leader sues Gloria Jeans her mother and Universal Pictures in New York Supreme Court for 525000 claiming he signed Gloria to a contract in Scranton in December 198% for a musical engagement or act.
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Cloria Jeans
Universal Pictures
New York Supreme Court
Billy Lustig
Lustig
Gloria
Scranton
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