Philippi Socials and Weddings Highlight Week
A Philippi society page details a busy week with Miss Virginia Mettler hosting a July birthday party and plans for the 23 Club. engagement and marriage news for Russell Wilmoth and Bernice Shaffer. wear Ever cooking demonstration dinner at Mrs. Watkins. a Werner roast. J B Lawrence picnic near Blueville. Quota Club meeting at the Y MCA center planning July 11 party. and a seventh birthday celebration for Miss Thel Dean hosted by Lucille McCafferty with a Maple Avenue gathering.
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Philippi
W. L. Chevront
Russell F. Wilmoth
Bernice H. Shaffer
Belington
Charles Wilmoth
Helington
Barbour County
Wilmoth
W. M. Shaffer
Elkins
Cumberland and Allegheny Gas Company
Gratton
Quota Club
Grafton
Juvenile Party at Kirby Street Hosts Ten Girls
Members of the club invited one guest each to a social evening and four course dinner at Miss Louise Gibson's home on Kirby Street. A fireside party featured humorous tales, with Hisle Cooper winning a Fairy Tale Book prize. Strawber ry ice cream, candy, cake and lemonade were served to ten girls, two from Philipp, Eliz a Pete and Eliza Channel.
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Virginia Mettler
Fair Mont
Harriett Blaney
Virginia
Mettler
Virla Fawcett
Fairmont State College
Virnla Fawcett
Pearl Scranage
Helen Thayer
Beulah Snider
Virginia Mettier
Louise Gibson
Kirby, Street
Hisle Cooper
Philipp
Elizapete
Eliza Channel
Comet Pons-Winnecke To Be Visible Tonight
Urbana Illinois June 28 Pons Winnecke's comet long watched by astronomers will best be seen tonight and possibly Wednesday and Thursday before it moves beyond this latitude. The comet will rise about midnight fifteen degrees above the horizon toward the southeast. Prof Robert H Baker head of the astronomy department at the University of Illinois notes the object is a small faint gray disk comparable in brightness to the Milky Way and may be best observed with field glasses.
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Urbana
Pons-Winnecke
Robert H. Baker
Department of
University of Illinois
Japanese Aviator Plans Flight to Japan from Pasadena
F H Asmith, a Japanese aviator and former U S Army air service man of World War I, announced he planned a 4300 mile flight from Pasadena to Japan to deliver a greeting to the orient. He said he would be pleased to risk his life for the voyage.
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Pasadena
Calif
F. H. Asmith
Japan
Orient
Narrowly Escapes Mad Customer Over Orange Crush Claim
A business man recounts arguing with a dealer who offered a cheap imitation of Orange Crush. He admits to losing temper and swinging at the dealer, defending Orange Crush as made from real oranges with juice, zest, and pure ingredients. He urges customers to demand the genuine brand in Krinkly bottles.
Beauty Crime Trial Turmoil Deepens With Affair Claim
In Los Angeles on June 28 a deputy sheriff’s note on a romance between Dorothy Mackaye and Paul Kelly compounds the manslaughter case against Mackaye. Attorneys deny the reports as prejudicial, urging jurors not to be swayed before deliberations begin.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Mackaye
Paul Kelly
Ray Raymond
Miss Mackaye
Bethalf
Kelly
Miss
Mackaye Release Details At Dinner With Director
Deputy sheriff reports Mackaye and an unnamed director were seen at a chicken dinner at the director's home. The officer stated Kelly was released from county jail to attend to game business and the couple were together for three to four hours.
Home Popular Survey Finds Urban American Home Portrait
The Literary Digest results from a two year study of 11 232 homes in 36 cities show average urban homes are occupied by small families who stay put. Zanesville Ohio was the most representative city with all homes visited. Most families own cars and radios remain less common.
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New York
Literary Digest
Zanesville
Ohio
President Coolidge Busy With Washington Busi ness
Rapid City dispatch notes President Coolidge is intensively handling routine Washington business this week. The report mentions Fred Anderson, a harvest boom advocate described as a resident in Staten Island, being arrested last night by B and C officers during air mail and private telegraph work.
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Rapid City
Coolidge
Washington
Fred Anderson
Staten Island
Executive to Hold Busy Week in Black Hills
The official’s schedule remains active with normal government duties and a second Week In Black Hills starting tomorrow. A flood of conference requests fills his calendar as he plans to host cabinet members before summer’s end. South Dakotans are pressing for visits to nearby cities and several have been accepted.
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Black Hills
Arso
South
America Not to Back Down at Geneva Treaty Talks
Geneva June 28 American delegates at the Geneva naval conference remain determined not to reopen the Washington treaty despite possible British and Japanese positions. Britain proposed cruiser classes while both sides study impacts on their navies during the treaty’s life. Technicians will reconvene for a preliminary destroyer discussion. Delegates called discussions full frank and cordial.
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Geneva
Greets Naval
Japan
Great Britain
Pacific
Beach Blazer Jailed For Failing To Pay Fine
Beach Blazer appeared before Squire L C Haymond unable to pay a ten dollar fine and costs for train riding and was ordered to work on the roads as punishment.
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Squire L. C. Haymond
Chamberlin and Levine Fly to Zurich Europe Visit
Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine, American trans Atlantic aviators, left for Zurich Switzerland after a tour of European elites. They were guests of honor at a Polish Chamber of Commerce banquet and met with President Moscicki before departure.
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Warsaw
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Europe
Zurich
Switzerland
Polish Chamber of Commerce
Moscicki
Rin Tin Tin at the Opera House This Week
Rin Tin Tin will be shown at the Opera House on Wednesday and Thursday with screenings likely drawing cinemagoers and fans of the animal star. Local patrons are advised to check times.
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Opera House
Fire Quelled at Baltimore Sugar Refinery
Fire broke out today among paper bags at the American Sugar refinery on the waterfront in Baltimore forcing several hundred employees to flee the smoke. The origin of the blaze is unknown and no serious damage is reported.
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Baltimore
Democratic convention endorses Alfred E. Smith for president
The Democratic state convention at Trenton New Jersey on June 28 adopted a resolution endorsing Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Trenton
N. d
Alfred E. Smith
New York State
Mine Workers Seek Supreme Court Reviews
The United Mine Workers of America filed petitions in the Supreme Court seeking reviews of twelve decisions by the U S district court in southern West Virginia. The unions argue constitutional issues were involved and claim the district court erred in finding intimidation and unlawful restraint of interstate coal movement. They maintain their West Virginia activities were lawful and that injunctions violated members’ rights.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Supreme Court
U. S
Diallet Court
Virginia
Thjnes
Borderland
Pate
West Virnla
Federal District Court
Trial Court
Opamt
West Virginia
District Court
Good Year wins prize for new navy airship design
The Good Year Tire and Rubber Co of Akron Ohio is awarded first prize in the navy design contest for a 6 500 000 cubic foot airship. The $50 000 prize supports a craft costing about $5 000 000 to build with a 780 foot length and 195 foot diameter. It will carry five airplanes a 46 member crew and travel 80 mph. The ship will operate with the fleet unlike the Versailles treaty restricted Los Angeles.
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We m
Good Year Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Navy
Los Angeles
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Pe Sentinel
Mary Margaret Sommerville
Fred Watkins
Park Cottage
Miss McCafferty
Meta Harne
Buckhannon
Opal Bolyard
Mary Wilson
Ethel Dean
Mary Zinn
Elizabeth Kelley
Ruth
Evelyn Welch
Virginia Shaw
Ruth Maysillen
Lucille McCafferty
Betty Alexander
Ruth Dean
Ethel McCartney
Dorothy Lambert
Catherine Marshall
Florence Dean
Isabelle Marshall
Fairmont
Junior Barnes
William Murray
Edward Ewers
Harry Blaney
Franklin Williamson
Ernest Riddle
Charles Miller
H. E. Brestel
J. B. Lawrence
Blueville
Sarah
Mary Miller
Mary Bennett
Jayce Reese
Rose Bunner
Sage
W. Va
Albert Miller
Herbert
John Reese
Jasner
Newton Miller
John Bennett
Carl Baxter
Thel Dean
Maple Avenue
Cornet
W. Main St
Grafton, W. Va
Dodge
Chandler
Withers Bros
Cor. Pike and
Sycamore Streets
Fetterman
Motion Picture Producers’ Association
Colleen Moore
Dolores del Rio
Pola Negri
Bebe Daniels
Haller Beverage Company
Philippi, West Va
Beauty
FATE
U.S. Home
America
Britain
Beach Blazer
Chamberlin
Levine
Endorse AL
Billy Sunday
The
Grafton Sentinel
United Mine Workers
Reni
Brenlin
Ralph
Kunst
May ST
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