Two Men Face Hearing Over Gambling House Run
R J Reed and L C Phillips are accused of operating the Sports Center at 14 West Main Street. They face a hearing at 10 tomorrow before Justice Hove G White Sr. on gambling charges after Albert Wilfong secured a warrant and paid a pool hall fine. Witnesses are being summoned as the case marks a rare local arrest for gambling and race horse or top machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Reed
L. C. Phillips
West Main Street
Justice of the Peace
Hove G. White, Sr
Albert Wilfong
Fairmantee Grafton
Herbert Evans
Reed Nd Phillips
Justice White
Wilsone
Reed
Phillips
White
White Woman and Negro Picked Up Saturday Night
Police witnessed an unlawful act near Bridge Street Bridge at 10 15 PM Saturday. The white woman identified as Mrs Lila Dennis a WPA employee and the man as William Jones faced Municipal Court the man paid a 25 fine and costs while the woman's $24 bond was forfeited after she failed to marry before the 8 AM tribunal.
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Bridge Street
Cos
Fylie
Lila Dennis
William Jones
Jones
Muhicnal
Manrry
Twelve Arrests Reported In County Over Weekend
The county police indicate only twelve arrests occurred over the last two days amid city rumors of a blitz. Reported incidents include drunken behavior and a disrupted disturbance, with several individuals detained and pending court appearances as officials enforce order.
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Staereshearln
Baccalaureate Sermon Opens Grafton High Graduation Week
The nearly full auditorium at Grafton Senior High on Riverside hosts the 1940 class baccalaureate with Dr. Wallace B. Fleming of West Virginia Wesleyan College delivering a 20 minute inspirational address. A mixed chorus performed four numbers including The Builders and Blessed This House, as pastors led invocation and benediction. Class night is set for Wednesday, continuing the commencement week program with a theme parody on the class motto.
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New
Grafton Senior High School
Riverside Drive
Wallace B. Fleming
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Fleming
Cadman
Ware
Megro
Lrane
Lev. A. Colman
Andrews Methodist Churc’s
Pov
I. J. Mitchell
St. John's
St. John's Methodist Church
Taylor County Ministerial Association
School displays to open at new building unveiling
The home economics and industrial arts departments will showcase their work in open displays at the new school. The event invites the public to view student projects and learn about department activities in the new facility.
Officers Probe Flemington Affray and Wounding
Police continued the investigation into a Saturday night melee in Flemington in which Lonnie Bays was severely wounded. His brother Tom Bays and Andrew Gillis are jailed along with others as authorities pursue the case and determine the instrument of injury.
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Flemington
Lonnie Bays
Bays
Tom
Andrew Gillis
Coun'y
C. W. Dye
G. F. Randall
Paul F. Warden
Bay
Lad es Night At Grafton Lodge Delayed By Shortage
Ruler John H. Eridford announced the weekly Lad es Night at Grafton Lodge was delayed as music could not be obtained for the ladies. Arrangements for the fair call for Tuesday evening June 4 with dancing and lunch featured.
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Grafton Lodge
Eyaltu
John H. Eridford
Former state employee dies at hospital in Pruntytown
Edward M Whitescarver aged 65, longtime officer at the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys in Pruntytown, dies after eight weeks illness at Union Protestant Hospital Clarksburg. Survived by widow Leonora Barte, two sons Edward A and Robert S, a daughter who died in infancy, and many siblings. Funeral at Beulah Baptist church Pruntytown with burial in family plot.
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Edward M. Whitescarver
West Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Taylor County
Union Protestant Hospital
Clarksburg
Union Baptist Association
Whitescarver
Beulah Baptist Church
Prunnytown
Fresher and Stoops
Fruntytown
Grafton
Leonora Barte
Belington
Edward A. Whitescarver
Flemington High School
Robert S. Whitescarver
Westinghouse Company
Pittsburgh
Maria Virgnnia
Grace Whitescarver
Mary Whitescarver
Pruntytéwis
George Whitescarver
Charleston
James W. Whitescarver
Printyown
Frank Whitescarver
Buickhannon
C. C. Whitescarver
Predd
High Point
Mus
Elizabeth Willis
Lumberport
J. S. Whitescarver
Alabert Whitescarver
Britain mobilizes for invasion threat amid conscription gaps
The Evening Standard cites 730,000 conscripts未 summoned and many of age未 registered as Lord Beaverbrook warns of manpower shortages. Sir Stafford Cripps heads to Moscow on an economic mission while Britain moves to bolster home defenses. General Sir Edmund Tronside not assigned home defenses as Dill becomes chief of the imperial general staff in a rapid shift of command.
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Calais
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Churchill
Russia
Sir Stafford Cripps
Lavorite
Parlament
Moscow
Channel
England
Great Britain
Emund Tronside
John Greer Dill
Empire
Imperial General Staff
Britain
First Lady In Paris War Vision Describes Invasion
The record describes the first lady addressing an audience about French capital devastation from torn feet to gaping wounds. She asks listeners to picture a blitzkrieg invasion and the resulting dead bringing fear and warning.
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Davis
Floor Work Published At Three Dollars Per Hour
Floors painting and flooring services priced at three dollars per hour with a lower rate of one dollar forty cents for additional tasks. The notice lists labor costs and basic service scope for floor finishing and painting jobs.
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Reed and Phillips
Opera House
Deanna Durbin
Kay Francis
Bill
Higgins Family
Tex Ritter
The
Edmund Lowe
Bela Lugos
SRM
Etta Phillips
U. S
President Roosevelt
New York
Ireland
Wallace Fleming
West Virginia Wesleyan
Ed Whitescarver
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn
N. Y
Navy Yard
North Carolina
Central Press
France
Wew
George VII
Queen Elizabeth
Scotand Yard
Oswald Mosley
Brixton
American Red Cross
Asarexa
Grafton Drug and Chemical Company
Malone
Grafton Granite & Marble Works
Demoss Bros
W. VA
Luu
Ae Ae
Mirage
Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories
Nu-Blue Sunoco
Sunoco
Main & Bridge Street
J. D. Shahan, Jr
Fellowsville
W. van
Paul Macomber
Lessie
Tucker
Bowlesburg, W. Vr
Rocz Dellcia
Independence, W.va
Newburg, W. Va
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