Robinson Attends Phi Alpha Delta National Convention
Robinson of McGraw avenue, senior in the College of Law at Virginia University, leaves for the national convention of Phi Alpha Delta at Kansas City as the official delegate of the William P. Willey chapter. The 25th annual convention gathers members from 44 chapters with addresses, ritual work, and a New Year’s Eve ball. Alumni attendees include Attorneys John Burdett, Hugh R. Warder, L. Warder, and E. Bailey Hoff.
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w'Taines Robinson
McGraw Av‘ Énior
College of Law
Virginia University
Phi Alpha Delta le
Kan Robinson
Jed W. Robinson
Hola
William P. Willey
R Oo
West Virginia
Reading Colleges of Law
United States
Kansas City
Grand Conven
Mumni
Taylor Y Bar
John Burdett
Hugh R. Warder
Ds L. Warder
E. Baileyhoff
James C. Holt
Webster
Law School
Faylor County Man Involved In Accident Details
Dellett M. Ips, 34, of Wendel, involved in an automobile accident at the intersection of Alch Road and Route 50 in Harris County. Ips was fined $10 and costs for defective brakes. Reed, 22, of Brownton, in the car behind, rammed a car ahead, causing $50 damage. Reed was arraigned before Magistrate Jesse Jones on driving without a skater's license and fined $0 and costs.
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Aptaylor
Dellett M.ips
Wendel
Harris
Alch Road
Route 50
Internet Reed
Brownton
Ding
Philiti
Struck & Fds
Jesse Jones
Skator
Reed
Kiwanis program features Joe Vincent on marriage bill
President E. I. Headley reviewed the year as Kiwanis end of year program at Cozy Rest Inn. Joe Vincent of Salem urged passage of a new marriage bill requiring medical tests for both bride and groom. Senator-elect W. J. Hussion spoke, and Dr. James V. Flanagan was to have led the program. William Kopperman and Hubert Parrish attended and Parrish joined as a new member.
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Grafton Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Cozy Rest Inn
Joe Vincent
Salem
W. J. Hussion
James V. Flanagan
William Kopperman
New York City
Hubert Parrish
Trio Injured In Car Crash At Emory and Henry
Dale Tuffy Hymes 22 fullback for Emory and Henry suffers lip lacerations brain concussion and tooth loss after a car crash near here early today Denver Hitzler 21 of Belington treated for brain concussion and a third passenger released after lacerations also hurt both Hymes and Hitzler are former Belington High athletes Hymes planned to return to practice tomorrow for basketball yearbook style local incident report.
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Dale “Tuffy
Hymes
Emory, and Henry
Here
Denver Hitzler
Belington
Pasenger
Junior
Hutzler
Belington High School
Emory and Henry
Aged Woman Succumbs To Cold In West Virginia Cottage
A 92 year old woman, Mrs Elizabeth K Smith, died of cold exposure after lighting a coal fire in a three room cottage in Huntington Cabell County. Her 98 year old husband William J Smith was under hospital treatment for exposure. Coroner Dr F X Schuller noted she had a heart ailment eight years and neighbor Hiram Johnson found the body after knocking failed to wake them. Police were summoned.
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Huntington
F. X. Schuller
Cabell County
Elizabeth K. Smith
City
William J. Smith
Hiram Johnson
Former Local Resident Passes In Morgantown
Mrs Lillie Feder wife of Joseph Feder formerly of Grafton died at 1030 last night at 328 Smith avenue Morgantown local friends advised. Funeral services will be held at the late residence at 2 pm Friday. Mr Feder was a barber and later an insurance agent, leaving Grafton for Morgantown about 15 years ago.
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Lillie Feder
Joseph Feder
Grafton
Smith Avenue
Morgantown
Feder
Navy to Hold Long Drills Across Coasts in War Games
Navy prepares five months of battle exercises from January to June, spanning the west coast Panama Canal Caribbean and Atlantic. Southern California fleet trains include nine battleships, two carriers, 15 heavy cruisers, 60 destroyers, subs and at least 48 air cruisers, with 500 planes expected to join the maneuvers. The Atlantic squadron arrives January 6 with Yorktown and Enterprise among the carriers.
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Calif
California
United States
West Coast
Panama Canal Area
Caribbean Sea
Atlantic Coast
San Diego
Panama Canal
Caribbean
Atlantic
Atlantic Squadron
Yorktown
Enterprise
Local Police Lodge To Be Represented Tonight
Several Grafton members of the Fraternal Order of Police will attend installation exercises and a luncheon of Mountaineer lodge No. 78 at the Stonewall Jackson hotel in Clarksburg at 7:30 this evening. Harry M. Squires of Fairmont, state president, will be a guest of honor, Patrolman Vincent Onestinghel will be inducted as the new president.
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Grafton
Fraternal Order of Police
Mountaineer Lodge No. 78
Stonewall Jackson
Clarksburg
Harry M. Squires
Fairmont
Vincent
Onestinghel
Aged farmer George Weber dies at 82 in Gladesville
Funeral services for George T. Weber 82 a Gladesville resident who suffered a hip fracture after years of ill health will be held at noon Friday at the Gladesville Christian church with Rev Ben Danks officiating Interment follows in Gladesville cemetery under the direction of A C Sinclair of Newburg He was born in Germany to Godlop and Mar Jane Lupson Weber and lived 46 years in Preston county as a successful farmer His wife predeceased him by 21 years He leaves siblings and many children including Ida Shuttlesworth Mary J Rowe R C Weber Bessie M Johns Millie Weber Gussie R Bucklew George Weber and Ioie Haney among others He was a member of the Gladesville Christian church.
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Gladesville
Christian Church
Ben Danks
A.C. Sinclair
Newburg
Weber
Germany
Godlop
Mar Jane Lupson Weber
Preston County
Charles Weber
Berkeley Springs
Ida Shuttlesworth
Newbury
Mary J. Rowe
Fairmont
R. C. Weber
Cassville
Bessie M. Johns
Morgantown
Millie Weber
Gussie R. Bucklew
George Weber
Independence
Ioie Haney
The
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New Gas Pool Found Near New York Line
Oil City paper reports a new wildcat gas well in Potter county near the New York line flowing 17 million cubic feet daily from 4,733 feet. Drilled by Belmont Quadrangle Drilling on R. Wolcott farm in Sharon township. If confirmed, this would open a new Oriskany sand gas field and follows the Beach Hill discovery in Allegany county New York earlier this year.
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Potter County
State Line
New York
Oriskany
Belmont Quadrangle Drilling Company
Bolivar
Wolcott
Sharon Township
New York-Pennsylvania
Beach Hill
Willing Township
Allegany County
Man Held For Murder After Christmas Eve Shooting
City patrolman Jesse Mullins said Henry Young would face a preliminary hearing this week on a murder charge after 18 year old George Winne Hemphill died in a hospital from a gunshot wound. Winne was shot during a Christmas Eve quarrel.
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Welch
Jesse Mullins
Henry Young
George Winne
Hemphill
Mullins
Winne
Board Opens Bids for Five Taylor County Schools
The Taylor County Board of Education will open bids at 3 30 this afternoon for five new school buildings under the WPA program and for mechanical electrical and plumbing work for the five buildings and the new Grafton High School. Bids may be opened at 4 00 p m with contractors expected to appear in person. Other schools to be built next year include Pruntytown Hepzibah Flemington Knottsville and Haymond. Builders Baker and Combs have moved equipment to the Riverside drive project site. Large signs declare the new high school a PWA project.
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Taylor County Board of Education
WPA
Board of Education
Grafton Banking and Trust Company
Grafton High School
Paul P. Warden
Pruntytown
Hepzibah
Flemington
Knottsville
Haymond
Riverside Drive
Baker and Combs
Morgantown
PWA
Missing 17 year old girl found after Christmas Eve disappearance
In Hagerstown Maryland police located Jane Akowsky, brown haired and 17, at a mountain farmhouse eight miles from home three nights after she left. She was unharmed but hysterical and uncooperative while authorities planned to question her only after she calmed. No arrest was made.
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Hagerstown
Jane Akowsky
William H. Peters
Peters
Carl Akowsky
Akowsky
Home Burned Welch Coalwood House Destroyed by Fire
The frame home of John Brewster at Coalwood was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin. The house, owned by the Premier Pocahontas Colliery company, was valued at about $1,000.
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Welch
John Brewster
Coalwood
Pocahontas
Auto accident damage suit to be tried tomorrow
Davis of CO. Davis sues Sam Trisler taxi owner and his company for 300 dollars for an auto wreck on Pruntytown pike earlier this month. The case, before Justice Hoye G. White Sr., is set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Davis heads a trucking firm and was transporting a truckload of oysters at the time of the crash.
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CO. Davis
Sam Trisler
Pruntytown Pike
Justice of the Peace
Hoye G. White, Sr
Davis
Death of Ray Sapp in Gladesville at 64
Ray Sapp, 64, longtime Preston County resident, died of a heart attack yesterday at 3:30 PM at his Gladesville home where he was born in 1874. He never married, lived with his brother Bruce Sapp, and is survived by brothers Hays Sapp and Creed Sapp and several sisters. Funeral by A C Sinclair with burial likely Friday in the Sapp cemetery.
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Preston County
Gladesville
Sapp
B. FP
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Bruce Sapp
Hays Sapp
Newburg
Creed Sapp
Washington
D. C
Kate Danks
J. Kale
Terra Alta
Grace Sapp
Gail Sapp
Sapp Cemetery
Forecast of two triple billionaires within twenty years
Associated Press reports Carl Snyder at the AAAS predicts the United States will see two or three billionaires in the next two decades under the Pareto wealth distribution law. He notes inheritance plays a small role, with most fortunes created rather than inherited, citing Mellon as a rare exception.
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Howard L. Blakeslees
Associated Press
Richmond
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Carl Snyder
New York
Vilfredo Pareto
George Washington
Mr Snyder
Stephen Girard
Thomas Hancock
John D. Rockefeller
Repoyeof
England
Germany
France
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Andrew W. Mellon
Record Cold Grips Nation After Severe Snow Wave
Huge cold snap leaves homeless in cities seeking shelter at police stations and missions. New York and New England endure subfreezing temps with many places reporting double digit negatives. Several deaths blamed on exposure across Ohio New York North Dakota and Montana as U S weather system moves southward and winds ease.
Cold Wave Grips Central U S With Snow and Low Readings
Farther south fair skies and bright sun will lift temperatures. One exposure death reported in West Virginia as readings ranged from 38 to 30s. Snowdrifts in northwestern Pennsylvania reached six feet while winds lessened. Wisconsin saw new cold wave with 6 below at Iowa Falls and 20 below at Wassaw. Fort Wayne Indiana and Springfield Ohio near 2 above. Extreme trough spans central Montana to Great Falls with 18 below and 16 below at Cut Bank
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Pennsylvania
Kane
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Lone Traffie
Kansas
Iowa
Iowa Falls
Wassaw
Fort ‘Wayne
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Ohio
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Continental Divide
Great Fells
Last Meeting of County Court in 1938 Held
The final 1938 county court meeting was held in the courthouse, with County Commissioner Harvey Scranagh of McGee completing six years of service. Routine business dominated the session as officials prepared for the organization meeting next Tuesday, January 3, to elect a president for 1939. Opha Bartlett remains a holdover commissioner and Thornton is the current president.
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Harvey
Retired B&O Auditor Passes Away in Baltimore
George H. Pryor, long-time Baltimore and Ohio disbursements auditor, died yesterday at his home on his 74th birthday. He retired recently after 54 years with the company and 32 years as auditor, known in local railroad circles.
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George H. Pryor
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pryor
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