Bridge Dynamiting Report Near Prickett’s Creek
An early Sunday blast damaged the Baltimore and Ohio bridge over Prickett's Creek five miles north of the city. The explosion woke residents about 1:20 am. authorities and railroad officials investigated, finding evidence of an attempted dynamiting. Farmers Walter Prickett and son aided the inquiry, with Sheriff Chariton coordinating deputies to the scene on a special train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prermont
Wo Val
Baltimore and Firoad
S Creek
Charlton
Prickett
Cohnelisville
Penn Prickett
Prickett’s Creek
Waler Prickett
Baltimore and Ohio
Connerville
Sunday School Convention At Christian Church
Taylor County Sunday School Association will hold a convention on July 27 at the Christian church. Pastors and superintendents are asked to announce. J H Maysilles, president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Sunnday School Association
Christian Church
J. H. Maysilles
Prans Library For One Room School Houses
A 25 book library selected by Dr. John J. Tigert for one room country schools. The list, Tigert’s ballot in a two-foot shelf contest, is sponsored by the American Library Association and the National Education Association. It covers grades from first to eleventh with classic children’s and reference titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tywisith Cipano
John J. Tigert
United States Commissioner of Education
Dr. Tigert
Deming
Maud Lindsay
Arthur Rackham
D. E. Boyd Smith
Josephine D. Peary
Katherine Depp
Horace Scudder
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lewis Carroll
H. B. Doston
Kipling
Poopto
Sheriff H H Duvall Led Clash at Clifton Mine
Wellsburg West Virginia July 17 AP Sheriff H H Duvall Brooke County and eleven miners killed in a gun fight at Richland Coal Clifton mine near Wellsburg after militants attacked tipple and houses. The clash left multiple wounded and triggered state police deployment as authorities probe motive and casualties.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Wheeling
W. Va
HH. Duvall
Brooke County
Richland Mining Company
Cliffton
Wellsburg
Avilla
Irwin Mozingo
Duvall
Thee
TL Duvall
Richland Coal Company
Pennsylvania State Line
Tul Duvall
Tipple
Clifton
Father
Wellaburs
Clots
Ohio County
Morgan
Washington
Otto Leulen
Lincoln Hill
Charleston
Fairmont
Haywood
Brooks County
Jackson Arnold
Capt
White
Co. ‘A
Col. Arnold
Avella
Nir
Quinn
Eneh
Wasse Virginia
Thomas H. Duvall
Sherif Harry Clouse
J—I. C. McKinley
McKinley
Welleburg
West
Virginia
Hughes
Shso
Orve
Co Funty
A. P
War Department
Richland Coal Co
Weeks
Fairmont Man Ends Life After Illness Crisis
In Fairmont West Virginia on July 17 David Hawkins, 46 of 380 Haymond Street, after a long illness, shot himself with a 22 caliber pistol in his bedroom. His wife Ettie and two children survived. she alerted a nearby constable as Hawkins entered her room and fired. She fled across the hall and heard the shot as she reached the street.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Thealin
David Hawkins
Haymond Street
Ettie
Hawkins
Grafton Post Office Tops WV in Savings Certificates Sales
The Grafton post office led West Virginia second class post offices in June sales of treasury savings certificates with 25925 purchased. National ranking placed Grafton fourth in the district after Washington DC, Richmond, and Charleston. Data from 260 offices and the Richmond Fed shows WV total 164346 and a nationwide 579068. Certificates pay 25% growth in five years and can be redeemed anytime before maturity.
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Grafton Post Office
West Virginia
Treasury Savings
Grafton
Federal Reserve District
Washington, D.C
Richmond
Charleston
W. Va
Howard T. Cree
Federal Reserve Bank of
Post Office
Treasury Department
Mountaineers Not Always Toting Guns in Kentucky
CATLETTSBURG KY July 17 Typical mountain moonshiners are not all gun toting troublemakers. A news correspondent found moonshiner DIN in a log shack after a mountain visit of thirty to forty miles. DIN greeted visitors with wary friendliness and denied knowing about stills despite inquiries.
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Catlettsburg
Kentucky
Bil
Farmon
Jalong
Mountain lodge life and Epworth League institute notes
A detailed portrait of a moonshine den and mountain cabin life contrasts with a forthcoming Wesleyan College Epworth League Institute. It describes rustic hospitality, crude furnishings, and resourceful living, then details plans for a week of religious study, recreation, and social events led by notable church figures and supported by rail arrangements.
M. E. Young Folks Meet in Convention Buckhannon
The West Virginia Conference Epworth League Institute will be held in Buckhannon from August 7 to 14 at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Noted faculty include Rev. Claude B. Goodwin of Huntington and Rev. Denver Pickens of Terra Alta as managers, with Dr. Charles B. Guthrie among the instructors.
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Chicago
Richard Aspinall
Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
C. H. Beall
Vanderbilt, Mu
Ralph C. Brown
Sur- Rey
James W. Engle
Arksburg
Walace B. Fleming
H. C. Howard
Parkersburg
A. C. Rapking
Buckhan
James E
Moundsville
C. R. Snodgrass
Ravenswood
C. G. Statter
Huntington
J. Wells
Cameron
T. M. Zumbrunnen
Gratton
E. Vernon Smith
Clarksburg
Beatrice Huger
D.C. Pickens
Terra
C. A. Miller
Morning Watch
West Virginia
Epworth
Epworth League Institute
West Virginia Wesleyan Colenie
Claude B. Goodwin
Isdean
Denver
Pickens
Terra Aili
Charles B. Guth
Tary Epworth
Coal Strike Arbitation Talks Hold Fast in Washington
Overnight talks among bituminous coal mine operators in Washington aimed to respond to President Harding’s arbitration offer. Most groups favored accepting with conditions, Indiana divided, Ohio and Pennsylvania wary, Hoover urged acceptance, and a White House briefing followed as officials contemplated drastic action within 48 hours to reopen mines for the public interest.
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Washington
Prident Harding
Mlinois
Ohio
Elations
Southwest
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Hoover
Alfred M. Ogle
Cowl
Ogle
WI Field
Pittsby
Whi
Presid Harding
Reverend Culp Arrested on Wife Abandonment Charge in Xenia
Rev Walter W Culp pastor of a Leyler Ohio church was taken to Xenia to face a wife abandonment charge after allegedly deserting his wife and nine children while earning 1200 dollars a year and a nearby resort. He left with Esther Hughes 19 a congregant Miss Hughes returned to Ohio today.
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Port Huron
Walter W. Culp
Wiley
Ohio
Xenia
Culp
Alleg
Nineseldren
Esther Hughes
Miss Hughes
Rev. Corp
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H. H. Duvall
New Europe
Allen
Hans Brinker
Dodge
Little Women
Alcott
George Washington
Scud
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Ivanhoe
Scott
J. G. Needham
Dy Kinne
Cooley
Gien
Steubenville
A. V
Follansbee
Réehland
Wing
Cody Robinson
Charles Nichols
Emerson Hough
Mozingo
Weilsburg
Glintonville
Netherlands
Self
B. Vernon Smith
Prograu
Wesleyan
Howard Hall
Tlea
Clal
M. E
State
Epworth League Societies
J.B Moran
Fetterman Trict
Jon Brand
Wendel
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