Flag Day services well attended in Clarksburg
Hope Natural Gas executive Joseph M. Low delivered a stirring Flag Day address at a large B&O plaza ceremony. The event featured a parade led by school bands, Elks veterans, scouts, and service groups, followed by a floral bell homage and a patriotic address urging citizens to back the flag and its youth in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spry
Joseph M. Low
Hope Natural Gas Company
Clarksburg
B.P.O. Elks
Grafton
Elks
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The
American Legion
Sons of the American Legion
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Sea Scouts
Civil Air Patrol
Caf
Chaplin
L. Cook
Francis J. Chambers
Low
Paul H. McKain
America
Latrobe Street Man Fined and Jailed for Disorderly Conduct
Major Lewis, a Latrobe street resident, was arrested by Woodford and White after following and assaulting two local women. He appeared before Mayor C. C. King, who imposed a $50 fine and costs and thirty days in jail, with a stern warning that future offenses would be punished severely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Lewis
Latrobe Street
C. C. King
Woodford
White
Lewis
War Today Musings On Japanese Mettle And American Food Facts
A fragmented wartime column notes Japanese resolve and raises sober reflections on military posture in the homeland. It contrasts laughter at Japanese antics with the likelihood of serious leadership, while highlighting rice production leadership by Louisiana and a rise in meat needs to about 24 percent of supply this year from 16 percent last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Ritter
Sergeant Rauscher On 30 Day Furlough From England
Sergeant James G. Rauscher of the Eighth Air Force is on a 30 day furlough at 234 West Francis Street. He earned the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters for 27 missions over enemy occupied Europe after training at Keesler Harlington and Walla Walla. He entered RAF service January 29 1944 and is a 1943 St Augustine high school graduate. formerly with Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He will report to Fort Medde MA after furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Rauscher
Eighth Air Force
England
West Francis Street
Charles E. Rauscher
Margaret T."rauscher
Rauscher
Europe
RAF
Keesler Field
Harlington Field
Texas
Walla Walla
Washington
St. Augustine High School
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fort Médde
Fannie Holden 74 Dies After Sudden Heart Attack
Fannie Holden 74 of 629 West Boyd street died in City hospital at 10:15 last night, an hour after admission for a sudden heart attack. A longtime local church and club member, she was born July 20 1870 in Missouri, survived by cousin Gly Sinsel of Clarksburg. Funeral services Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Bartlett funeral home with Rev. W T Gifford officiating. burial Bluemont cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panther Holden
West
Boyd Street
Baptist
Mathew F
America Richardson Holden
Misouri
Grafton
Gly Sinsel
Clarksburg
Gostard Co
Bartlett Funeral Home
W. T. Gifford
Bluemont Cemetery
Baltimore and Ohio employee enters service
An employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is noted in the record before entering military service. The note mentions the individual’s prior career and presents historical context about a prominent Soviet leader with an alternate given name.
Train Crash Kills 16 in Pa Freight Derailment
At least 16 died and 32 injured when a freight train derailed on Mil ton tracks ahead of a Washington Buffalo passenger train. Over 200 shaken as engines and cars derailed. bodies freed with acetylene torches. Names of dead include Mrs Francis Chestock Shamikin Pa N E Graff Harrisburg Pa B C Stratton Camp Hill Pa.
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Williamsport
Washington
Francis Chestock
Shamokin
N. E. Graff
Harrisburg
B.C. Stratton
Camp Hill
Pfc
Lester Calvert
Buffalo
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Opera House
Tex
Fuzzy Knight
Jennifer Molt and
the Twomy Wakely Trio
Unasult
South Pole
Louisiana
United States
Dorothea Dix
Sergeant Rauscher
Byron Kuhn
States
Paul W. Brown
U. S. Army Infantry
U. S
Stark General Hospital
Charleston
D. C
Aleathea Brown
Addison Street
WAVES
New York
Betty Tufvander
Fr. Tufvaner
Coffeeville
Miss
Hunter College
Voice
Tufvander
Firestone Company
Memphis
Fairmont State College
George Washington University
Maryville College
Tennessee
Turvander
St.ohn's
Fort. Benning
James Lynn. Stephens
E. G. Kuhn
Pacific
E.G. Kuhn
S.C
Kuhn
SSSS
I.P. Stephen
Salamanca
Fort Benning
J. Lynn Stevens
Malone’s Drug, & Chemical Co
Fannie Holden
Bartlett
Funeral Home
Joseph Stalin
Tosit Vissationoviteh Dzugashvili
SSE
Dixie
Dental Colleges
Yan
Vrain
Johnson
Ream
S.M.A
Astszez Inc
Svearate
Watts Lele Ibf
Pablum
Owed
Ay Anne
William Prince
James Brown
Dick Brdman
George Tobias
Henry Hull
Warner Anderson
Raoul Walsh
Bere
Griffin
Lyon
PAYON
Bint
Reito ED
Tokyo
Flicka
R.D. Stout
Price
Prescription
Malone’s Drug & Chemical CO
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