Harman Paint And Cleaning Wins Grafton Bridge Bid
Taylor County Court awarded the contract for repairing painting and cleaning of the South Side Grafton Bridge to Harp Brothers of Grafton with the lowest bid of 43024.82. Conn Welding and Machine Co of New Castle Pa bid 45024.82. The original plan split work into two sections, with sidewalks repair deferred to a later year and 21017.57 subtracted from the bid, leaving 22017.57 for repair. Notice of bridge closure start will be published later by clerk Mrs Roxie Bt Clair Fowler.
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Taylor County Court
Grafton
Harwp Brothers
Jowest
Conn Welding and@ Machine Company
New Castle
Pcourt
Wes
Roxie
Clair Fowler
Outside Sewer Plan Denied by Public Service Commission
The Public Service Commission rejected Barboursville's plan to levy a $3 tap fee and $12 annual charge on residents outside the city who would connect to the municipal sewage system. The PSC found the proposed fee illegal since the city would not own or maintain the sewage lines as required by law.
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J.charleston
Public Service Commission
Barboursville
PSC
Fire destroys block. damage estimated at one million
A fierce blaze in Maywood, Illinois, destroyed a block of buildings Monday night with damage pegged at about $1 million. L. V. Minnick, Nitro police chief, was elected first president of a new state association of former state policemen among 26 former Department of Public Safety members at an organizational meeting.
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Weston
L. V. Minnick
Nitro
Minniex
Department of Public Safety
Lawson named justice of the peace in Taylor County
Justice Taylor County Court yesterday selected W C Chick Lawson to succeed the late Justice John W Snider. Lawson runs unopposed on the Republican ticket this fall and will take office in the McAvoy Building Latrobe Street after remodeling. He is a well known business man who attended West Virginia University and Fairmont State College.
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Taylor County Court
W.C
Chick) Lawson
John W. Snider
Lawson
McAvoy
Latrobe Street
West Virginia University
Fairmont State College
Mrs Currey Dies At 77 In Grafton Ridge Home
Mrs Allie May Currey age 71 of Currey Ridge Community died yesterday at noon at her sister in law Icie Smallwoods home She was born February 18 1879 in Taylor County to William and Mary Jane Smallwood Her husband James I Currey survives two sisters and a brother A Harmony Grove Baptist Church member services Thursday 2 pm at Harmony Grove Baptist Church with Rev Clyde Wright officiating Burial will be with the Legislature's survey staff on school curricula and representatives of the state Commission on Education appointed last year under legislative resolution
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Allie May Currey
Grafton
Currey Ridge
Icie Smallwood
Taylor County
William and
Mary Jane Scrannage Smallwood
James I. Currey
Albert Smallwood
Clara Currey
Flora Maxwell
Rhimston
Harmony Grove Baptist Church
Clyde ‘Wright
Simms To Move Up Lions Ladder
Dudley Simms of Charleston West Virginia advances in Lions Club leadership at the 39th international convention in Miami. He is unopposed for second vice president as the event opens Wednesday. Only 150 oil wells have ever been drilled below 15 000 feet.
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Simms
Lions
Miami
Dudley Simms
Charleston
W. Va
The
McFarling Rites Set On Wednesday
Funeral services for William W McFarling will be held Wednesday at 7 20 p.m. at Bartlett Tucker Funeral Home Bridgeport with Rev Henry O Loving officiating. He died Sunday at 7 50 p.m. at his home in Bridgeport. Burial will be in Webster Cemetery.
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Bartlett Tucker
Bridgeport
Henry O. Loving
William W.mcfarling
Webster Cemetery
Dublin selects Roert Briscoe as new lord mayor
In Dublin city a Jewish councillor Roert (Bob) Briscoe aged 61 with seven children was sworn in as lord mayor at Mansion House replacing Denis Larkin after the council election. The chamber and public galleries cheered the announcement amid the election race that eliminated two other candidates. An odd line notes a million filters in each kidney.
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Dublin
Ireland
Roert
Bob) Briscoe
Denis Larkin
Mansion House
Bris
Larkin
Funeral details from Harmony Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport
Friends may call at the Bartlett Tucker Funeral Home in Bridgeport after 7 tonight. The service details are provided at Harmony Grove Cemetery arrangements.
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Harmony Grove
Bartlett‘Tucker
Bridgeport
State Interim Bodies Convene in Open Meeting
Charleston interim committees of the Legislature opened a two day meeting and joined two educational survey groups to discuss the curricula of public schools in the state. The committees met jointly.
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Charleston
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West Main ST
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