Miss Abbott Honored for Lifelong Service at Banquet
Amanda Abbott, a Granville state primary teacher for forty six years, receives an honorary life membership in the National Education Association from the Alumni Association. A letter from William Owen of Chicago congratulates Abbott, praising her long service and the alumni’s appreciation. Hotel Grafton banquet noted for excellent service and decoration, with a well served menu and post dinner mints. Also an advertisement offers a lucrative Rawleighs distributorship in Taylor county with no experience needed.
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Brooks Ball
Melody Teasers
Gall
Mine Abbott
Amanda Abbott
Gratton
Abbott
United States
Ibbott
Association
William Owen
Chicago
National Education Association
Burns
Miss Abbott
Grafton High Alum
Grafton
Parker House
Metropolitin
Bandits Loot New York Jewelry Shop
Four armed bandits entered Barnett Goldstein’s jewelry shop at 97th Street and Broadway, bound the proprietor his son and a clerk, and escaped with seven thousand dollars worth of gems. They loaded the loot into a satchel and fled to a waiting car.
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New York
A. P
Barnett Goldstein
97Th St
Broadway
Court Fights Over Streetcar Rail Paving Order
Taylor county court orders Prosecuting Attorney to resist Grafton City commissioners bid to block Monongahela Construction from using old bricks between streetcar rails. City argues new brick required by contract and other materials harm rails. County court seeks return on restraining order, with answer pending.
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Taylor County
Watking
Grafton
Monongahela Construction Company
Ford
Warne B. Kittle
Mine safety topics and training highlights list
A concise index of essential mine safety areas including gases electricity drainage ventilation fires first aid rescue training lamps drawing management and mining machinery arithmetic. The compilation emphasizes fundamentals of safe operations and preparedness across mining disciplines.
Controversy to be thrashed to his home sparks police probe
The two girls testified in court then retired to their rooms at a local hotel Wednesday morning. They were interviewed by police who investigated the accident immediately after it occurred.
Carlson commits suicide in Hartford jail
John A. Carlson of New Britain hanged himself in his county jail cell using two handkerchiefs. The 44 year old plumbing contractor had confessed to murdering his wife by sitting on her in a show pond. His case was to go before the grand jury tomorrow after twenty four years of marriage.
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Hartford
Conn
John A. Carlson
New Britain
Carlson
One Killed In Wild Party On Fairmont Pike
Howard Gregory aged 20 of Monongah died from injuries after midnight auto wreck on the Grafton road. Clay Metz held for investigation and Ethel Anderson and Mack Amos held as witnesses after two girls testified they were invited to ride.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Howard Gregory
Monongah
Grafton
Gregory
Atpital
Clay "Peck" Metz
Ethel Anderson
Mack Amos
Metz
Gregory War
Cook Hospital
Mets
Ken al
Keno Hospital
Rand
Wen
Carnival Did Not Grow Rich From Its Grafton Engagement
An attaché stated the carnival in Grafton last week did not profit beyond expenses after five days. Decoration Day drew crowds and some spending, but the show failed to clear significant funds for the West Shows. The carnival moves to Clarksbury this week.
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Carnival
Grafton
Clarksbury
Miners Short Course Set to Open at WVU Morgantown
Morgantown June 6 All preparations are under way for the largest coal mining short course ever held at West Virginia University. Registration starts June 9 in Room 121 Mechanical Hall. Eight instructors will lead classes from June 11 to July 20 with an exam by the state department of mines on July 21 for mine foremen and fireboss certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
West Virginia University
Mechanical
Stem
A. C. Callen
Messrs
C. K. Brown
Adam Crawford
Wim
Norris, Jr
BE. E, Criswell
J. P. Madden
J. H. Haskell
J. C. Huston
A. m
State Department of Mines
R. M. Lambie
Flood System Complete on Miami River in Ohio Valley
Dayton pride marks completion of a vast flood protection project aimed at preventing repeat of 1913 disaster. The system, spanning over 80 miles, includes widening and deepening channels, five large earth dams, and relocated railways roads and farmland to protect seven towns and surrounding agricultural districts. Built at a cost of about 32 million dollars, the work is described as the world’s greatest flood prevention achievement with no water power features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Miami
Osborn
Panama Canal
United States
Alumni Banquet Set by St Augustine’s Association
The annual banquet of St Augustine's Alumni Association will be held at the Grafton Hotel Thursday evening. A pleasing program has been arranged and many former graduates are expected to welcome the class of 1923. Missionary Meeting members of Andrew's M E Church Foreign Missionary Society met yesterday for regular business and social time.
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St. Augustine's Alumni Association
Grafton Hotel
Foreign Missionary Society of Andrew's M. E. Church
Mrs Margaret Tucker and Kathryn attend Seton Hill exercises
Mrs Margaret Tucker and her daughter Miss Kathryn travel to Greensburg Pennsylvania for Seton Hill College commencement on Thursday They will be joined home by Miss Anne Tucker a Seton Hill student Among other notes James T Murphy and G V Wolfe saw Helen of Troy at the Fairmont theatre yesterday Members report a wandering boy likely at the Strand for The Old Homestead and a mention of several local visitors and commuters with names and places across Grafton and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Tucker
Kathryn
Greensburg
Seton Hill College
Anne Tucker
Seton Hill
James T. Murphy
G. V. Wolfe
Helen of Troy
New Fairmont Theatre
Strand
J. P. Kane
Pittsburgh
Wim
Yocum
Virginia
Bellaire
Ohio
Lila Lowe
Knotts Avenue
Margaret Brooks
Buckhannon
Louise Holt
Thayer’ Street
John G. Koelz
Parker Selvey
Washington Street
Farmington
Hendrickson
Tas
Wesleyan College
Wilfred
Old Homestead
Strand Theatre
Jesse Poe
McGrumphy Undertaking Company
Clarksburg
Thomas Spencer
Waynesboro
Fishburns Military School
Archie Powell
City Hospital
Powell
Burl Harrison
Hattie Poe
Grafton
To Meet With Mrs Tregelias Missionary Society
The Missionary Society of Andrews M E Church will meet with Mrs John N Tregelias Thursday evening at her home on West Washington Street. Busy Workers Met club members invited boy friends for games and music at Velma Cather’s Pearl Street home. Miss Mattie Jace to host Home Missionary Society Friday evening June 8 at 211 East Knotts Avenue for mite box opening and a short program. Banquet plans announced for Thursday evening.
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Busy Workers Club
Mattie Jace
Home Missionary Society of Andrew's M. E
East Knotts Avenue
Sociery
Coosey Visit to Kingwood Parents Over Weekend
Mr and Mrs Joe M Coosey of Kingwood motored to the city to spend the weekend visiting Mrs M Martin and Mr Martin of High street the latter’s parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe M. Coosey
Kingwood
City
M. Martin
High Street
Hospital News Causes of Several Medical Procedures
Hazel Blackman underwent appendectomy. Glen Callihan and Cephae Rodgers were admitted for tonsil removals. Mrs Roy Nestor, Mrs Tony Vesta, and Mrs June Satterfield received minor or major operations with Vesta recovering well. Miss Mildred Thomas had tonsils removed. B C Dunlap had a minor operation. Clarence Nutter was discharged home. Howe Knotts had his right eye ball removed after injury from barbed wire.
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Hazel
Benjamin Blackman
Glen Callihan
Grafton High School
Cephaé Rodgers
Central School
City Hospital
Roy Nestor
Philippi
Tony Vesta
June Satterfield
Fairmont
Vesta
Mildred Thomas
B. C. Dunlap
Clarence Nutter
Howe Knotts
Knottsville
West Virginia Sunday School Leaders Contest For Presidency
Wheeling sources say a local man will likely be elected president of the West Virginia Sunday School Association with J M Scott and Otto Schenck as leading contenders. Huntington and Clarksburg seek next state convention while four cities bid for three regional gatherings. Committees named for nominations and resolutions, and a name change to West Virginia Council of Religious Education aims to broaden the group’s scope beyond Sunday schools.
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Wheeling
West Virginia Sunday School Association
J. M. Scott
Otto Schenck
Huntington
Clarksburg
South
Montgomery
Romney
Bridgeport
Fairmont
F. B
Briainstool
Louis Bi. Black
Parkersburg
R. C. Hubbard
Charleston
J. T. Foster
Mason City
H. L. Bond
E. W. Halpenny
C. Stroniger
J. H. Hamilton
Pocahon
Inaccurate vital records hinder death cause analysis
Rate for typhoid fever whooping cough and infantile paralysis is discussed with rising automobile deaths from 90 to 1700 yearly. West Virginia statisticians cannot compile a table of death causes due to reporting gaps. Dr. Carl F. Rayer notes courts will fight over inheritance and legitimacy as births and deaths are not state recorded. Uncle Joe Cannon fled his birth certificate to avoid posthumous litigation, a historic record.
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West Virginia
Carl F. Rayer
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Joe’ Cannon
Congress
North Carolina Buard of Health
Germany to deliver new reparation note Thursday
Berlin June 5 A P Germany will transmit a new reparations note Thursday afternoon to the entente capitals. The government withholds details but it is understood the note specifies a fixed number of annuities and proposes that Germany’s payment capacity be assessed by an international committee of experts.
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Ted
Powers
Berlin
Germany
Entente
Judge Bitter Over New York Dry Repeal Act
In New York on June 6 Magistrate Sims condemned the repeal of the state prohibition enforcement act and sentenced three men to workhouse terms after their wives reported drunken abuse. He warned he would send to the workhouse all husbands facing such charges, noting the repeal’s fallout. One defendant James Kelleher, 45, of 666 East 164th Street, father of seven, received fifteen days after his wife Margaret complained of his conduct. The magistrate urged action against liquor sellers and questioned why federal authorities were not alerted.
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New York
Smith
Simms
Sims
James
Kelleher
East One
Fourth Street
Ren
Margaret
West Virginia births deaths data and new state staff
A 1922 county table shows West Virginia births and deaths with U S averages. Taylor County had 468 expected births and 229 deaths based on state and national rates, while actual counts were 249 deaths. Violet W Johnson, formerly of Portland Oregon, is named superintendent of the Children’s division for the West Virginia Sunday School Association and begins work June 1 with the Wheeling convention upcoming.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
United States
Bureau of Vital Statistics
West Virgina
Taylor County
Johnson Joins West Virginia Sunday School Leadership
Miss Johnson, longtime Kara Re ligion and Social Service staffer at Ton University, brings two years of public and Sunday School teaching experience, directs nursery and junior departments, and has led religious education schoolwide. She has supported children's and missionary work, aided community training schools in Portland Oregon Lynn Roslindale Massachusetts and Chicago Illinois, and contributed to Daily Vacation Bible School efforts for three summers. Secured by B W Halpenny, General Superintendent of the West Virginia Sunday School Association.
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Iit the
Ton ‘University
Y ‘Mise Johnson
Miss Johnson
Ark
Portland
Qreton
Lynn
Roslindale
Mase
Chicago
Minois
Mias Johnson
West Virginia
B. W. Halpenny
The
West
Ginia Sunday School Association
Watkins Seeks Additional Taylor County Youth for Camp
W Merle Watkins of Grafton County announces Taylor County can send more youths to the government funded training camp near Louisville Kentucky. Major John Sullivan reports 17 year olds meeting age and qualification may attend. The Fifth Corps Area has 2,678 applications already but aims for a 4,600 quota to 4,500 and asks for increased participation to meet the target.
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W. Merle Watkins
Grafton
Taylor County
Eday
Lomiaville
Kyed
Watkins
John 8
Sullivan
Infantry
CMTG
Fifth Corps
Taylor J County
Adjutant General of the Army
Camp Knox
Grafton Man Found Not Guilty Of Pistol Toting Charge
Eq Plum of Grafton, arrested in the city with a revolver, was dismissed by Justice J L Blocher after defense that the gun was a gift and was being taken home. The June Times reported the outcome this morning.
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Grafton
Pairmont
Plum
J. L. Blocher
Prisoner Education Begins at Maidstone School
At Maidstone Prison in Kent, a county education director has started large scale instruction by request of the prison commissioners. Seventeen prisoners learn shorthand, eighteen study French, and seven attend bookkeeping. Volunteer teachers also plan classes in engineering and Spanish.
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Maidstone
Kent
Julé's
Grafton Ladies Help Form Legion Auxiliary at Rowlesburg
Grafton Mooseheart Legion auxiliary members traveled to Rowlesburg on Tuesday to aid in organizing a Legion Auxiliary for the town. The Rowlesburg Legion Auxiliary was formed with a reported large membership and active support from local women including Mina Margaret of Keraie.
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Grafton
Rowlesburg
Mooseheart Legion
Loyal Order of Moose
Nealat
Legion
Mooneheart
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Nellie V, Demoss
Edgar Demoss
William Johnson
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Valley Falls
Charles McDaniel
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Harry Thorn
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Glade Run
Georgia Frank
Mardinga
Teane Foreman
Mt. Morrie
BaMeConkey
South Viewi
Clyde Lake
Brydon
A. B. Shroyer
Benjamin Miller
Virginia University
C. Y. Miller
Walnut Street
Henry W. Lippincott
Grand Rapids ‘Mich
R. W. Keane
Booch Street
Hospital News
Ts. Convent
NG Man
Allon
Violet Johnson
Moore Building
Violet W. Johnson
Oregon
Johnson
State Association
Ryana’on
Tilinole
Wisconsin
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Taylor
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