Philippi High plans 68 graduates for June commencement
May 15 Philippi High will graduate 68 students, the largest class in the school's history, with commencement on Thursday, June 4 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Senior planned program includes salutatory Mildred Sturm, valedictory Vivian Zinn, and awards. Rev. J. Marion Smith will preach the baccalaureate May 31 at 8 p.m. Class day on May 28 features prophecy Joan Wilson and other student tributes. The piece also notes the first class in 1908 and lists later local leaders and police recalls.
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Philippi
Philippi High School
Mildred Sturm
Mildred Zirkle
Kenneth Marteney
Anna Maria
Donald Baughman
Vivian Zinn
J. M. Smith
J. Marion Smith
First Baptist Church of
Clarksburg
Joan Wilson
Margaret Talbott
Zoja Lang
Frances Daugherty
Janet Schwiman
Virginia Lee Barnes
Focal High School
Russell Roe
San Diego
Cal
Radio Division
United States Navy
Charles Switzer
Douglaston
S. 1
I. E. DuPont
DeNemours
Cecil Peck
Huntington
Forrest Bartlett
Barbour County
Herman S. Haller
Sharp Holds Lead in West Virginia Gubernatorial Nominations
Returns from 2,270 precincts show Sharp with 69,099 votes to Miller's 68,529 for the Republican governor race. Holt leads Democrat contenders with 111,065 against Via 79,289. Neely posts a 100,000 vote margin for the Democratic U.S. Senate renomination as Revercomb trails in the Republican gubernatorial field.
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H. Miller
Sharp
Miller
Kanawha County
Braxton
Cabell
Mercer
Lincoln
Hampshire
Wayne
Mingo
Wyoming
Kanawha
Holt
Homer A. Holt
Via
Bailey
Hodges
M. M. Neely
United States
Senate
Neely
Ralph M. Hiner
Revercomb
Chapman Revercomb
Charleston
The
Young Republican League
End W. C. Grimes
Wheeling
Grimes
Lewis
Six Convicts on Run Across Oklahoma Kiamichi Mountains
Four long term inmates escaped from a prison farm in southeastern Oklahoma prompting a manhunt across the Kiamichi mountains. Oklahoma State Crime Bureau aided by an airplane with radio directed officers closing in on the fugitives near a farmhouse lair. Guards Tuck Cope and Vitor Conn were among those freed. One guard was stabbed in the neck during the escape.
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Brick Yard
Oklahoma
Kiamichi Mountains
Oklahoma State Crime Bureau
Tuck Cope
Vitor Conn
Wilburn Doaks
Cape
Two Youths Are Fined For Fishing Illegally
Harold Bailey and Jesse Harris of Lewis county along with Sherman Fox and Paul Henline of Braxton county were found guilty this week by State Game Protectors Lloyd England and S. O. Clayton. Each was fined twenty dollars plus costs for fishing without a license and catching bass out of season.
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Philippt
Harold Bailey
Jesse Harris
Lewis County
Sherman Fox
Paul Henline
Braxton County
Lloyd England
Philippi
S. O. Clayton
Classified Sentinel advertising rates and notices
Classified text explains two cents per word for first insertion and that figures count as words. It notes the Sentinel not responsible for more than one incorrect insertion and lists several rental notices including furnished and unfurnished rooms at Yates Tourist Home Pruntytown and Gulf Filling Station Blueville with room counts and amenities.
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Sentinel
The
Yates Tourist Home
Pruntytown
Gulf Filling Station
Blueville
Lincoln St
Seven Keys To Baldpate Movie At Opera House Tonight
A film adaptation of the Earl Derr Biggers novel and George M. Cohan stage hit plays at the Opera House tonight and Sunday. Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Erin O'Brien Moore lead a cast in a mystery comedy about seven key holders at a deserted Adirondack inn and a hidden fortune.
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Adirondacks
Existance
Earl Derr Biggers
George M. Cohan
RKO Radio
Gene Raymond
Margaret Callahan
Erin O’brien- Moore
Eric Blore
Moroni Olsen
Grant Mitchell
Ray Mayer
Hero
Biggers
Baldipate
Cohan
Screenwriters Wallace Smith An Kay and Bob plan film yacht set
The typist notes that Wallace Smith An Kay and Bob wrote the picture script aboard the Dekin yacht with Edward Killy and Will, while Bob and Priscilla agree to marry after Bob’s divorce follows a proper waiting period.
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Wallace Smith
An Kay
Bob
Honthony Veiller
Cymoon
Dekin
Edward Killy
Will
Priscilla
Iam Hamilton
New Team Ain't In New Movie
Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor star in Small Town Girl at Strand Theatre. MGM’s picturization of Ben Ames Williams’s novel produced by Hunt Stromberg and directed by William Wellman follows Kay Brannan in Carvel Massachusetts as she marries Bob Dakin after a nightclub meeting. Bob forgets the wedding and Kay faces an unhappy, appearances preserving predicament as he courts Priscilla and maintains two lives.
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Janet Gaynor
Robert Taylor
Strand Theatre
M-G-M
Ben Ames Williams
Hunt Stromberg
William ‘Wellman
Kay Brannan
Carvel
Massachusetts
Elmer
Bob Dakin
Boston
Gretna Green
Bob
Kay
Priscilla
Every Girl Wants to Live See How This Girl Did It
Kay endures trials and gentle influence helps Bob quit drinking and focus on his surgical career. After a crisis in Priscilla's apartment Kay returns to Carvel and resigns herself to forgetting him. Bob seeks forgiveness, and they ride away toward happiness.
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Kay
Bob
Priscilla
Carvel
The Prisoner of Shark Island Film Deems Real
The film is described as authentic and based on actual events that stained the nation's honor. It depicts a prison where brutes were masters and sharks were guards on American soil, condemning an innocent man to life as a slow death.
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Shark Island
Dixie
Foreword praises Dr. Mudd as unjustly condemned hero
The foreword to a film about Shark Island praises Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd of Maryland, noting that years have removed the shadow on his name and that the nation now acknowledges the injustice against him. Senator George L. Radcliffe signs the statement.
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Shark Island
Samuel Alexander Mudd
Maryland
Sly manager Inksmanie Plans to Reform Youths
A clever manager named Alan Dinehart ingratiates himself with a group of wild youngsters to reform them. He arranges to have Miss Hudson work in his plant and uses his craft to manipulate a nephew. In the finale the three youths discover his deception and the tale ends on a cheerful note.
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Strand Theatre
Trvin S. Cobb
America
Cobb
Rochelle Hudson
Johnny Downs
Norman Foster
Chicago
Miss Hudson
Downs
Alan Dinehart
Tos Mance
Nephew
Transient Ordered To Leave City by Mayor
Steve Swelkovich, described as a transient, was ordered by Mayor B O Waugh to depart the town and stay away after a morning police court appearance for loitering. He was the sole individual to contact the city executives that day.
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Steve Swelkovich
B.O. Waugh
Steve
Car overturns. Mrs C Chase injured in Sistersville curve
May 15. Mrs C Chase of Charleston sustained severe injuries when the automobile carrying him overturned on a curve near Sistersville. The report notes the location and the injured party.
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Sistersville
C. Chase
Charleston
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