Giant Ford airliner to visit Grafton for sky ride
A Ford airliner will arrive in Grafton tomorrow at 2 p.m. and park at Watson Haddox field for several days. The aircraft offers a 12 mile city sky ride at a nominal cost, with pilots Capt. J. Mac Gilmore and A. T. Hartman among the crew. The plane, costing $36.00 and carrying 14 passengers, has three Wright whirlwind motors, a 76 foot wingspan, top speed of 150 mph, and modern amenities including lavatory and electric lights.
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Grafton
Watson Haddox Field
Lawson
America
War veterans honored at Memorial services in Grafton
Major Rolla J. Conley of Fairmont urged military preparedness during Memorial services in Grafton Rotary Club event honoring veterans. Civil War veterans John Hoffman and Alpheus Wilson attended, along with Spanish American War veteran Herbert Wolfe. Major Charles Burke led the program with ex service members present at Hotel Grafton.
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United States
Rollo J. Conley
Fairmont
Grafton Rotarians
State Senate
Rotary
Leslie J .Lear
Conley
Reno
John T. Hoffman
Alpheus Wilson
Fairview
Hoffman
Herbert Wolfe
Major Burke
Charles Burke
Loar
W. L. Reddick
Charles Wells
Grafton
Ona C. Jefferys
Ed. N. Lock
Paul Warden Jed
Judge seeks renomination for tenth district post
Beckley June 1 Judge M Ward announced plans to seek the Democratic renomination for judge of the tenth judicial district which after January 1 will comprise Boone and Raleigh counties. Summers is currently included in the district.
Widow Leah Crawford 92 Former Slave Dies in Morgantown
Mrs. Leah Hall Crawford 92 a former enslaved person born December 19 1844 died of pneumonia at 2:30 am at her son G C Hall’s Spruce Street home Morgantown. Survived by two children James Hall and Lizzie Pines large long life tied to Harrison County Marsh plantation and Warren M E Church. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm at the late home burial in Smith Cemetery Bartlett Funeral directing.
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Grafton
Leah Hall ‘Crawford
Crawford
G. C. Hall
Spruce Street
Reuben and
Nancy Lewis Strother
Old Marsh
Harrison County
Amon Hall
Jefferson Keener
Fetterman
David Woodyard
Pruntytown
William Wheeler
Amos
John C. Crawford
Lexington
Warren M. E
Thayer Street
Carroll
Warren M. E. Church
P Kenny resigns as chief engineer arrives in Grafton
The former state pens chief engineer P Kenny has reached Grafton and will not disclose future plans. The piece also lists numerous weekend visitors and residents in Grafton including the Showalter, Halt, Wolfe, Shafferman, Davis, Parkhill and Thayer families, with travels from Morgantown, Washington DC, Clarksburg, Fairmont, Buckhannon, Charleston and Pittsburgh among others.
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T. P. Kenny
Grafton
Kenny
Carl Showalter
Clarksburg
Pittsburgh
Theoumer Ioncas
Ethel M. Cotten
Washington, D. C
Everett McDaniel
Bertha Hodges
McDaniel
Lincoln Street
Cotten
Elkins
John Shields
West Main Street
John Boylen
Fairmont
Myrtle Thayer
Thayer Street
Patrick Cavanaugh
Cumberland
Leo Neason
J. Louis Neason
West Wilford Street
Bernard Stairs
Local CCC Boys Enjoy Work and Play at Camp
Nine Taylor county boys enrolled as members of Company 1528 CCC Camp SP-4 at Berkeley Springs West Virginia participate actively in camp life. Officers of the camp report enthusiasm for both work and recreation. Listed are Forest H Bartlett Woodrow N Brown William D Exline James Farence Hubert A Fowler Robert H Helms Louis Kelley Charles Rockwell and Franklin P Workman with their street addresses.
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Taylor County
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Forest H. Bartlett
West Francis Street
Woodrow N. Brown
West Wilford Street
William D. Exline
Flemington
J James ©. Farence
Latrobe
Hubert A. Fowler
Bartett Street
Robert H. Helms
West Main Street
Louis Kelley
Charles Rockwell
Pike Street
Franklin P. Workman
Fanny Street
Social rounds fill Morgantown and nearby towns weekend
Dozens of residents and out-of-town visitors from Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston, and Baltimore spent the Memorial Day weekend visiting relatives and friends across West Virginia. Highlights include Miss Dorothy Murray's stay with Michael Murray in Morgantown and Miss Jean Haymond visiting family in Dewey Avenue Baltimore linked trips, hospital updates, and local travel among Korte, Derby, Murphy, and Kinney households.
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Glenn Woods
Morgantown
R. T. Brooks
Wheeling
William Madden
West Washington Street
Dorothy Murray
Fairmont
Michael Murray
Maple Avenue
Jean Haymond
Baltimore
William Clinton Kinney
Kinney
O14
Garner
Clyde Kimmel
Kathryn
Wellsburg
Lee Bennett
West Virginia University
Byas Blaney
Charleston
Grace Blaney
M. L. Murphy
Frances Murphy
Clarksburg
J. B. Korte
C. A. Derby
Emerson
Miss Estamay
Derby
William Derby
Folsom
W. Va
Aubrey Derby
Washington Street
Joseph C. Korte
Mary Ann
Cincinnati
Charles Rupp
Charles Walters
Paul Jones
John A. Bunner
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Belle Henderson
West
Marior County
Corporal
L. W. Emrick
Gratton
New York City
John Thomas Evans
Gratton High
Cncor
Fairmont State Teachers’ College
Betty Crawford
Ever Dasso
George Evans
Mia
Waal
Henry Newman
Alta
Morgitown
Jessie B. Wolfe
Dora Beard
A. G. Flesher
John Seranage
Burlefson
Uessy Kesner
Harry Edgar Flesher
Ralph Kunst
Arthur Welch
Ella Welch
East Wilford Street
Chicago
John Puritin
Francis Shay
Shay
Harry Carroll
Route 50
Alice Knight
Huntington
Dorina
Margaret Mc~ Gee
Tunnelton
Boyd Yeager
Howard Evans
FB. Cather
Pearl Street
Bernard Wiley
Weston
Myrtle Aliams
Parkersburg
Williams
Walter Aiams
Loveland
Rollo Conley
Sentinel
Leah Crawford
David Dalzell
A. R. Parker
A. G. Hubbard
Wheeliz
Willie Hoppe
National Billiard Association of America
CCC
Street
C. E. Daugherty
Alice Graves
Rowlesburg
Clark Morgan
Helen Auvil
Knottsville Road
Ava
Stansberry
Janice
Margaret Taylor
Philippi
Ruth Hawkins
Pairmont
Edna Cole
Berkeley
Springs
Haze
Nelda Cole
Everett Cole
Pleasant
Creek
Nellie Cook
Davis High School
Retu
Blueville
Nellie Goley
Davis
Sara Davis
Passment
Forrest Crane
Leonard Street
Morgan County
Pleasant Creek
Miss Cole
Talkington
Daughtes Erelyn
Margaret
Barrackville
Harry Ringler
West Boyd Street
Beulah Bailey
A. F. Cottril
Cottrill
Glenville
Laura Virginia
Cambridge
Ohio
Virginia Moore
Richard Robey
Marialvina Malone
J. R. Kinney
W. H. Minor
Washington
M. J. Kinney
East Main Street
E. F. K. Roof
Points
South Carolina
Culbert Caulflower
Cauliflowe
Nice
Penny Smith
Mary Whelan
Mariz Murphy
Parkesburg
J. A. Whelan
John Handley
Marguerite
Byron Diln
Odewey Avenue
Adaline Wert
Re A.C. West
Maryine
Taterant
Glenn
Otticr
Main St
Maughan
Margalo
van Every
Camden
the Sentinel
Adam
Domenick
Fay
Uu Ba
C. F. Harpold
West Pike Street
Fountain Drug Store
Pel
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