Stockholders Meeting At Grafton Foundry and Machine Co
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Grafton Foundry and Machine Company will be held at the Board of Trade rooms in Grafton on Tuesday afternoon July 18 at 2 30. H M Leps secretary. Our annual water melon sales day this year will be Saturday September 16 1911 and every year thereafter the first Saturday after the tenth of each September. Hartley and Glatkey Independence West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Foundry & Machine Company
Board of Trade
City of
Grafton
H. M. Leps
Secy
Hartley and Glatkey
Independence
West Virginia
Mechanics lien suit in Taylor county court
G Angier sues Rebecca Warder and J Warder J Yates and Georgela Yates and Henry Thomas in Taylor county circuit court to establish a mechanics lien on Rebecca Warder lot deeded by J W Yates and T H Yates in 1901. Henry Thomas named nonresident must appear within a month. notice ordered for publication in Grafton Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court of
Taylor County
Henry Thomas
Rebecca R. Warder
Grafton Sentinel
M. D. Allender
MO. L. Hechmer
Bourbon Remedy Company ad and visit to Fairmont
One 50c bottle of Bourbon Poultry Cure makes 12 gallons of medicine. Free sample and booklet on diseases of owls available from Bourbon Remedy Company Lexington. For sale by C. P. Green and W. Malp Street. Amos Powell couple visited Fairmont for the Fourth, toured parks, and called on friends including Rev. H. C. Howard who showed the nearly completed church and parsonage slated for September dedication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourbon Remedy Company
Lexington, Ky
C. P. Green
W. Malp Street
Amos Powell
Fairmont
H. C. Howard
John Iler Beats Wife Incident in Coleridor Building
John Iler living above the Central Meat Market in Coleridor building returned home at 1 30 this afternoon and engaged in a trouble with his wife. Police arrested him and the trial will be held later. He is alleged to have struck her several times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johner
Coleridor
Peaceful Fourth of July urged in verse and legal notice
A poetic plea for a safer quiet Fourth of July contrasts with a formal notice from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company seeking to appraise just compensation for land in Taylor County West Virginia. The notice lists many named individuals and estates interested in the property to be taken for railroad expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Matz
W. B. Lynch
BE. L. Lynch
W. BE. Mallory
F. A. Jefferys
RF. Sears
T. J. Kremer
Thurman Spriggs
Tena Smith
Elders of the Christian Church of
Stafford
Ohio
Margaret Tuttle
Newton Stead
Mallissay Okey
Jno
William Hogue
Catherine Seabaugh
Florence Carmichael
Elizabeth Driggs
Malissa Spriggs
Philip Mulbrough
George Meckling
T. J. Carmichael
Rose Okey
J. Camden
E. J. Witherman
Malissa Barnett
Matt Bowen
Mattie Smith
William Barnett
Nancy Carmichael
Mattie Carmichael
Isaac Goodwin
Harriet Butcher
Gaylord
Emily Dawson Daugherty
Artemisia Gibbon Arnold
Theophilus Butcher
Calvin Butcher
Ephraim M. Butcher
Theodore Butcher
Emaline Alkire
Adeline Riggs
Martha Whaley
Saline Kendall
Elias Butcher
Benjamin F. Butcher
Joseph Clinton
A. D
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Circuit Court
Taylor County
West Virginia
Taylor
Knottsville
Old Bridge No
Old Bridge No. 100
Said County
Balton & Ohio Railroad
B. F. Bailey
Attempted Assault Charge At B and O Depot
John Pickering, a loiterer, was arrested after attempting to strike B and O officer Anglin at the depot when told to move on. He was jailed, given a hearing before Justice Monroe, charged with loitering and attempted assault, and ordered to leave town at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pickering
Anglin
Justice Monroe
Latham Transferred to Belington Moves Family to Maple Ave
George R. Latham salesman for Orrick Grocery Company transfers from Belington branch to the Belington city branch replacement for L. C. Pangle. Latham relocates his family to Maple avenue. Mrs Latham is sister of Mrs John R Waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Latham
Orrick Grocery Company
Belington
L. C. Pangle
Mr. Latham
Latham
Maple Avenue
State levies cut in half to fund West Virginia schools
Charleston, July 3. The board of public works reduced the state tax for 1911 to two and a half cents per $100 valuation, down from four and a half. The levy is expected to net about $270,000 for the general school fund, with $412,716.01 transferred from the state fund to raise the minimum school fund to $750,000. Increased corporate revenues and licenses drive the cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Board of Public Works
West Virginia
Balloon fails to rise at Oakland Fourth of July event
Prof Walter Goudy and assistant James Vernon attempted two ascensions with a large balloon for a local aeronautical show at Oakland during the Fourth of July celebration. Despite hard inflation, a steady Allegheny breeze blew the balloon westward, causing gas loss and repeated accidents, forcing the attempts to be abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Goudy
James Vernon
Oakland
Goudy
Fair Ground
McCloskeys To Direct Moorefield Theatre Project
Prof and Mrs F A McCloskey, long known in local theater, finished directing a Mountain City Band minstrel show in Oakland Maryland and will travel to Moorefield West Virginia to lead a new local theatrical venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. McCloskey
Mountain City Band
Oakland
Moorefield
W. Va
China seeks new grain markets as price eyed in past year
Kwan Kai of Hong Kong, dubbed flour king of China, visited Spokane with May Back Hui and J. D. Armstrong to survey Pacific slope grain flows. He predicts China will import more grain than ever next year due to rice crop failures and cheaper wheat in the Northwest and Pacific states. Kai plans a U S tour on the Viceroy of Canton’s request to study American libraries, noting his San Francisco residence 1879 to 1891 before returning to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wash
Jilly
China
India
Kwan Kai
Hong Kong
Spokane
May Back Hui
Portland
J. D. Armstrong
Tacoma
Kai
Pacific Slope
Pacific
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
United States
Canton
American Library System
San Francisco
Sunday Guests and Local Happenings at Oak Grove Farm
A 40 person crowd serenaded bride's parents at Sunnyside on Monday. Visitors include J W Shroyer Mollie Loughridge Ella Clarkson Will Jenkins Ada Means from Evansville. News notes list illnesses horses births and farm activity in Knottsville with weddings and grange meeting reminders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Shroyer
Mollie Loughridge
Ella Clarkson
Marquis
Will Jenkins
Ada Means
Evansvile
Walnuc Grove Farm
J. M.hall
Hal
Miss Talkington
Buckeys
Fairmont
Shaffer
Fairmont Normal
Newbury Spenet
Oak Grove Farm
Ernest McDaniel
Sunnyside
Arthur C. Thomas
Pearl Thomas
Messrs
Fred Bradley
J. Haymond Colevank
Myrtle Dayton Apprehended After Family Assault Incident
Myrtle Dayton, known in police court circles, clashed with her mother on July 4 and was charged with striking and hair pulling. Awaiting arraignment before Justice Monroe, she was released on condition to pay costs and leave the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Dayton
Justice Monroe
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Stockholders Meeting
John Iler
Broaddus
Elkanah Haley, A. M
Philippi, W. Va
James ‘A. Edgerton
American Press Associa
Sam
Der
Emma Hall
Claree Watson
Columbus Fisher
Maggie Waldo
Owen Francis Fisher
Edwin Wagner
Adam Fisher
Malinda Wright
John W. Fisher
William B. Wagner
Bertha Butcher
Charles W. Fisher
Olive Burwell
Emzae Batten
Gideon Fisher
Lora Dawson
Catherine Dawson
Dora Dawson
Drusilla Cunningham Ray L. Lacey
Grant Fisher
Louisa Butcher
Fathe
F. Bailey
Officer
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Baloon
Morefield
John M. McDaniel
Lon Wilson
Philippi
Will Lyman
Nebraska
Nathan Shroyer
The
Pines
Bridgeport
Cora McDaniel
E. McDanielton
Hugh McDaniel
Beechwood Farm
Edith
Charles Swisher
Parkersburg
Harold Swisher
Billy” Bolden
Excelsior Grange No. 237
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