Burglary Fails at Malone's Drug Store Safe
Amateurs blamed after men enter Malone's Drug and Chemical Co store at 16 West Main and chisel exterior of the safe. The safe opened by Malone. pennies totaling 10.65 removed while other stock and narcotics untouched. Police say no prints, no suspects seen, basement entry via rear door. Also notes Baltimore and Ohio railroad car loads for May week and upcoming Recreational Advisory Council meeting at Lawson Center.
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Grafton
Grafton Drug and Chemical Company
West Main Street
Paul E. Malone
Malone
A. E. Lockard
W. D. Fisher
Lockard
Resporters
Malone’s
Robbers Invade Route 50 Gas Station
Robbers smashed the front door of the William Currey filling station near Valley Inn on Route 50. They did not take cash but absconded with cigarets and candy. County officers were notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Currey
Valley Inn
U. S. Route 50
Currey
Rites Planned for Grafton Plane Crash Victims
Arrangements for the funerals of Roy Lee Austin and Vernon Ball, two Grafton youths killed in a Redhouse Maryland airplane crash, were announced. Services for Austin will be at his mother's home at 3:30 p.m. with Rev. George E. Manson officiating, followed by Knottsville cemetery burial. Ball’s rites follow at his parents’ West Main street home at 11 a.m. with Rev. A Coleman Brown, burial in Woodsdale Memorial Park. Bodies to be returned home this afternoon or evening. Pallbearers listed for Ball include James Welch Jr and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Redhouse
G. T. Bartlett
Roy Lee Austin
Lincoln Street
George E. Manson
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
Knottsville Cemetery
Bartlett
Vernon Ball
Austin
O. V. Ball
West Main Street
A. Coleman Brown
Andrews Methodist Church
Woodsdale Memorial Park
Convicted Forger Taken To Moundsville Prison
Albert Johnson, who fled to Washington D C while awaiting action on probation plea from a two to ten year Taylor county forgery sentence, was moved to the state penitentiary at Moundsville yesterday by Sheriff Herbert Evans. He returned to Grafton willingly and asked to go to prison promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Johnson
Washington, D. C
Taylor County
Moundsville
Herbert Evans
Grafton
Tragic Dump Truck Accident Kills 3 Year Old Twin
James Edward Julian, three, son of Er nest Julian, is fatally injured when his twin brother Joseph unknowingly pulls a hoist lever on a dump truck. The bed lowers, pinning James by the neck. A coal operator, Hubert Knotts, discovers the child. he dies from a broken neck. No inquest, funeral plans arranged locally.
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Newbury
James Edward Julian
Ernest Julian
James
Joseph
Hubert Knotts
Scotch Hill
Preston Lady Death Victim Mrs Icie Halbritter 48
Mrs Icie Pearl Halbritter 48 died yesterday at her rural Tunnelton home after illness. Born February 12 1891 in Barbour county she was the daughter of James Henry and Julia Phillips. Survived by husband David H Halbritter married in 1910 two sisters and a brother and many children. Funeral 2 PM tomorrow Mountain View church Rev V C Wilson burial Mountain View cemetery under A H Knotts Tunnelton director.
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Icie Pearl Halbritter
Tunnelton
Barbour County
Mrs
Halbritter
James, Henry
Julia Myers Phillips
David H. Halbritter
Roy Phillips
Morgantown
Martha Sugley
Ellen Peal
Glenn
Carl
Lila
Lille
Opal
Robert
Jenna Halbritter
Preston County
Methodist Church
Mountain View Church
V. C. Wilson
Mountain View Cemetery
A. H. Knotts
Two Dairy Meetings In Taylor County Scheduled
Two dairy meetings are scheduled in Taylor County this month. Speakers include L. S. Hartley B agriculture agent Norris A. Sween Carnation Milk Company field representative. Topics cover milk markets and expanding dairy production to meet demand. First meeting tomorrow at Hepzibah school 7 30 p m. Second May 23 at the county agent's office 7 30 p m. Participants interested in supplying Carnation Milk are urged to attend. The Carnation plant is planned to start in June with routes drivers and producer contracts to be arranged.
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Taylor
L. S. Hartley
Norris A. Sween
Carnation Milk Company
Hepzibah
Carnation Mik
Carnation Company
Rates Reduced by Appalachian Power Company Tariff
The Public Service Commission approved a new tariff reducing rates for certain Appalachian Electric Power Company commercial customers. Effective June 1, the rate applies to firms with at least 5 kilovolt amperes capacity that do not resell power, seen as a further step in the commission's self-initiated utility investigation.
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Samuel Olvines
Columbia Gas Seeks Permission to Borrow From Parent Firm
Columbia Gas Electric and three subsidiaries filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission an application to permit the parent to borrow 1 787,000 of 41.2 percent notes. The funds would be used to provide facilities for distributing natural gas. The Model Airplane exhibit is Gas scheduled to open at 4 clock this Works and the Keystone Company Inc subsidiaries it was announced late Columbia operating in New York today.
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Washington
Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation
Securities Commission
Utt
Keystone Company, Inc
Columbia
New York
Memorial service plans for Reno Post 7 GAR in St Johns
Annual memorial sermon at St John s Methodist church will be preached by Rev H J Mitchell pastor and chaplain of Taylor County Post 12 American Legion. Big turnout expected from veterans and public with ceremonies at National cemetery to follow master of ceremonies John Edwards Jr and others directing.
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Reno
Grand Army of the Republic
St. John’s Methodist Church
H. J. Mitchell
Taylor County
American Legion
Edwards
National Cemetery
M. Zinn
John Edwards, Jr
Monongah
Baltimore and Ohio
M. J. Hannon
St. Augustine Catholic Church
Holt
James C. Holt
America
John T. Evans
G. A. Compton
Reno Post
Zinn
Ed N. Uoek
Ona Cy Jefferys
Josephine | Stutler
Lieut
Sterling
Moratintown
J. Isherwood
I (Ee
Waynesburg
Army Officer To Speak At Legion Gathering
Colonel Charles C. Robinson of Morgantown commanding officer of the 201st Infantry will address Taylor county post No. 12 American Legion Wednesday evening at the Moose Home. The event is anticipated as one of Graf ton’s largest veteran gatherings this year with a talk on Preparedness and a feed to follow.
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Charles C. Robinson
Morgantown
201St Infantry
Taylor County
American Legion
Moose Home
Grafton
Jenkins Rites Are Tomorrow
Estella Jenkins aged 68, longtime Baltimore and Ohi-office employee and widow of a Taylor county sheriff, died early yesterday. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bartlett Funeral Home on McGraw Avenue with Rev. H J Mitchell officiating. Interment Bluemont Cemetery. Body at Bartlett Home until service. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named. She died after an eight month illness at 101 East Knotts Avenue.
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Estella Jenkins
Baltimore and
Ohi-office
Taylor’ County
Bartlett Funeral
McGraw Avenue
H. J. Mitchell
St. John’s Methodist Church
Bluemont
D. L. Cutright
Ersel Pepper
Russell Dotson
E. J. Clapton
Paul Laign
John Edwards
Charles W. Steel
B. F. Poe
W. C Pembroke
E. H. McDaigh
Richard Manning
John Kimmel Luther Ford
C. L. Poe
Jenkins
East Knotts Avenue
Advisory Council Members Listed With Ex Officio Officials
The advisory council names include chair Hoye White and vice chair Frank Hollis among a long list of members such as Mrs C F Shafer Jed W Robinson Mrs W J Rohrbough Mrs Leslie Baar Defendarfer and others. Ex officio members are E G Kuhn county superintendent of schools the mayor of Grafton and Rev H J Mitchell president of the Taylor County Ministerial Association.
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Advisory ‘Council
Hoye White
Frank Hollis
C. F. Shafer
Jed W. Robinson
W. J. Rohrbough
Leslie J. Baar
Defendarfer
Harry Katte
Bie Virginia Mason
Madgeross
Joseph Keener
John Boston
Virgil P. Jones
Virginia Norman Bethel
A. J. Smith
Juanith Hardin
Suddarth
Ronald
Knotts
Muriel Crouse
Lester Sandy Farrell Yates
E. G. Kuhn
Grafton
H. J.mitchell
Taylor County Ministerial Association
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Lawson Community Center
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Opera House
Heekly
Constance
Moor
Tom Brown
Bobby Clark
Constance Moore
Ric Arlen Devine
Bela Araors
Sinclair, Funeral
Panthea Beulah
Jullahigitwin
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Marianne
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St. John's Cemetery
A. c. Sinclair
Newburg
Preston
Icie Halbritter
Doctor
Grafton Drug and Chemical Co
Commission
Charleston
Cordens Ccb
Columbia Gas
Plan Service For Veterans
Paul Newton
Laui@iies
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Sheriff's
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Loar Jewelry Store
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