Gleaners Class Meeting Highlights and Local Socials
Mildred Graham reports a Gleaners class at Andrews church hosted by Mrs. Fro on Francis Street with devotionals by Mrs. Idna Poling. The program featured duets, solos, a recitation, and a discussion on church social life, followed by a two course lunch for eighteen. Also notes a Sewing Club meeting hosted by Mrs. W P Clark, prize to Mrs. James Sturms, next gathering at Mrs. Isa Bickford on June 21. A Colonels Orchestra dance announced for Friday, plus anniversary celebration for Mr. and Mrs. A W Wagner with cake, guitar numbers by Richard Carroll, and Blue Ribbon Club refreshments. Also coverage of Central School eighth grade program and a wedding tableau with Magnolia Washington and Ezekiel Shorts among many guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gleaners
Andrews Church
Froon Francis Street
Idna Poling
Lee Murphy
Eugenia Pickens
Connie Seymour
Blanche Guard
Sewing Club
W. P. Clark
James Sturms
Isa Bickford
Washington Street
Mary Clark
Leo Crane
T. C. Gough
Mary Cannon
Frank Simmons
James Husslon
Mary Paugh
L. H. Greenwald
Fred McFarland
Lawson Delaney
John Shields
Clark
A. W. Wagner
Richard Carroll
Blue Ribbon Club
William McFarling and Son
Charles Lowery
Velma Hovatter
Eunice Carroll
Monaha Jackson
William Carlyle
Ralph Paugh
E. F. K. Roof
L. Nuzum
van Taylor
George White
John Wittman
Fred’ ‘McFarland
H. R. Shaffer
Frank Westcott
Lydia Bolmer
John Brown
Edith Mae
Evelyn Wagner
E. Kinsley
Central School
Richard McProuty
Betty Lou White
Betty White
Ruth Copp
Ruth Campbell
Billy Beall
Matilda Grow
Josephine Arble
Mary Lou Ridenour
Helen Lee Mantz
Robert Gilligan
Betty Rose Miller
Ezekiel
Magnolia Washington
Bride
Arthur Poling
Charles Campbell
Cleola Porterfield
Marjorie Bennett
Mandy Jones
Irene Courtney
Mirinda Blake
Dessie Losh
Rastus Jones
Denzil Hulley
Sam and
Bobb
Charles Poe
Clarence Grow
Frank and
Vernon
Booker ‘T. Washington
Jane Stubbins
John Kincaid
Moses Shorts
Iverna Marquis
Groom
Junior ‘Wees
Grandma Washington
Doris Vandergrift
Topsy Tanner
Step and Fetchit
Vergie Smith
Amos Jones
Robert Steven
Andrew H. Brown
William Balser
Lilian
Betty Lee Knight
Mr. Drinkwater
Billy Valentine
Millie Drinkwater
Mildred Nestor
van Porter
Mary Louise ‘Trisler
Kingfish
Darrel Pratt
Battle Ax
Bernice Miller
Sadie Blake
Anne Grow
Ruby ‘Faylor
Sarah Lampert
Ther Crawford
Evelyn Grow
Elizabeth Sanders
Frances Daw
Son
Lightning
Alfred Sloan
Prince
Ali ‘Bendo
Bobby Hamillton
Madam Queen
Mary L. Robinson
Senorita Butterfly
Alberta Camp
Gabriel White
Robert Sampson
Bobbie Hamilton
Vernon ‘Whetzel
Richard Leonard
Vernon ‘Whetzell
Neely Criticizes Supreme Court Ruling on NRA Calamity
U S Senator Neely of West Virginia calls the Supreme Court ruling a calamity for the American people. He says it leaves the coal industry as it was two years ago and threatens recent gains, urging permanent legislation for the coal sector.
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Washington
NRA
United States Supreme Court
U. S
Neely
W. Va
Bridge Work Closes Fetterman Bridge All Next Week
W O Bolin state road commission supervisor for Taylor county announced that a new floor will be installed on the Fetterman bridge. Traffic on the bridge will halt 8 am to 5 pm daily all next week with detours routed through the city via Riverside drive. The bridge will reopen each evening. The project is expected to take about a week to complete. Protests have been filed regarding the current condition of the bridge.
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Fetterman Bridge
Riverside Drive
W. O. Bolin
State Road Commission
Taylor County
Blueville
Bolin
Road Commission
Gambling War Declared in Charleston by Prosecutor
Charleston on May 29 reports Prosecutor J Blackburn Watts vows to keep gambling off sidewalks and to vigorously prosecute arrests in raids on numbers game dens. He notes over 125 arrests recently and says the drive will continue despite a quiet spell. Supreme Court denied appeals by C L Dawson and A T Matthews, both seized by state police. Dawson got 12 months' jail and a $1000 fine, Matthews a year and $500 fine.
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Charleston
J. Blackburn Watts
Supreme Court
C.L
Dawson
A. T. Matthews
Matthews
Relief Work Approvals for Tax Returns and Jobs
Washington reports approval of relief plans to hire unemployed professionals to examine income tax returns and idle tradesmen for construction jobs at army posts across 23 states. Formal requests total 65,956,816 dollars, with additional funds sought as applications from federal, municipal, and other agencies pour in. West Virginia adds 2,000,000 for flood control reservoir work, and 5,508,000 is allotted for Kanawha river lock and dam projects.
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Washington
Emergency Council
West Virginia
Iggatta Valley
Kanawha River
Former Professor Acquitted in Middlesex Trial
Cambridge Massachusetts May 29 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana a 53 year old former English professor at Columbia University and noted lecturer was acquitted of statutory charges arising from a trial in Middlesex Superior Court. The case concerned three 16 year old males.
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Cambridge
Mass
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana
Columbia University
Middlesex Superior Court
Congress hears claim of Russian textbooks flooding U.S. schools
Representative McCormack says about 200,000 imported textbooks for children contain Communist propaganda. He showed English texts with praise for Lenin and Stalin, anti–white schooling comments, and captions about hot lunches only in the Soviet Union. He warns the material defends the Soviet five year plan and militia.
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Washington
Russia
McCormack
Mass
Soviet Union
New Cooperative Group Planned by Coal Sellers
Cincinnati Ohio May 29 The formation of regional cooperative coal marketing organizations to maintain price and stabilize markets is forecast by R E Howe secretary treasurer of Appalachian Coals Inc The Appalachian Coals organization was formed before the NRA to eliminate cut throat competition and fix prices in the Southern West Virginia Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Kentucky fields Similar cooperative organizations will follow in other coal producing regions as a result of the collapse of the NRA said Howe last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
R.E. Howe
Appalachian Coals, Inc
Appalachian ‘Coals Organization
NRA
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
Howe
Two Pachecos Face Execution For Rancher Murder
Louis Pacheco and John Pacheco, both condemned in Canon City Colorado, await execution the week of May 26 for the February 1984 murders of rancher Clifford Smith and 16 year old Bobbie Griffin. Rev William Knox led the invocation at a banquet marking the case with school color decor and a program honoring the class of 1935 amid a packed First Presbyterian Church gathering.
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Colorado State Prison
Canon City
Colo
Louis Pacheco
John ‘Pacheco
Clifford Smith
Bobbie Griffin
William Knox
Andrews M.S
Florence “Wilkinson
Mildred ‘Keefer
First Presbyterian Church
Mrs Roosevelt Tours New Homes For Jobless Miners
Mrs Roosevelt spent about an hour surveying cottages in the wooded hills of a project near Park, New York, where jobless miners have been given a chance to establish new homes. She then goes to Morgantown after arriving from Elkins.
Mrs. Roosevelt visits Morgantown and Homestead project
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt tours Tygart area near Morgantown with a party of officials and residents. She plans to address the Children’s Aid Society of Monongalia County and survey local development, meeting project president Robert Z. Willson.
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Party of Friends
Morgantown
Childrens Aid Society
Monongalia County
Grafton
Fairmont
Roosevelt
Tygart
Robert Z. Willson
Partment
Austin Levy
Rhode Island
Goshen
Mill Andillages
Virginia
West Virginia
Children's Aid Society
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Telephone
John Peters
Philadelphia
Ronald Linn
Walter Goodwin
Herbert Carroll
Betty Lee Carroll
Lillian Wolfe
Alfred
Donald
George
John
Hugh Wagner
W.C. Goodwin
Eugene Brestell
Edith Madera
W. W. Wagner
Neely Bemoans
U. S. Supreme Court
Barbara
West
Santa Clara County
California
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow J
Hutton
Carolands
Sorthern
Harriet Pullman Schermerhorn
New Cooperative Group
Lei
Aber
Delly
Juanita Newhouse
Gertrude Cockrell
Margaret Wittmen
Jana
Monsieur Bol-Dorwint Robinson
Madame Bol-Mabel
Rogers
Rosalie
Margaret
Witt
Colonels
Margaret ‘Wittman
Third Street
Cincimeti
Ohio
Kelvinator
Sidrow
Mrs. Roosevelt
Miss Cook
Clarence Pickett
Evan
Moose
the Colonels Orchestra
Riday
Hilley Shea
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