Election Fight Sends Man to Jail and Boy to Hospital
Walter Bowman, 86, of Orgas, is jailed in Boone County after an election-day quarrel with his wife over voting. A 12-year-old, Martin Gobel Jr., was shot in the leg when Bowmen pulled a 12 gauge gun as the father-in-law and boy tried to intervene. The boy was taken to Kanawha Valley Hospital in Charleston for treatment. Bowmen awaits trial pending the boy’s condition.
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Register
Whitesville
Walter Bowman
Orgas
Here
Boone County
Madison
Martin Gobel Jr
Charleston
Bowman
Emory Pitgenberger
Martin Gobel
Martin Jr
Kanawha Valley Hospital
Pitsenberger
WPA
Medical School Restored to Class A Status
West Virginia University President Chauncey S. Boucher announced the AMA has reinstated the school of medicine to class A status on probation for inspection. Dr. Wil D. Cutter said the action preserves transferability of students to complete their final years at other class A medical colleges. The loss of class A occurred in February 1935.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
W. Va
Chauncey S. Boucher
West Virginia University
S College of Medicine
American Medical Association
Boucher
Wil D. Cutter
West Virginia College
Council of the American Medical Association
Partisan Hides Evidence But It’ll Grow Up Again
A peace officer reports catching filling station man E. E. Echols red handed burying election evidence in Whitesville. Constable Emory Pitsenberger said he made the arrest and that Echols dug in the ground burying sunflowers.
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Register
Whitesville
E. E. Echols
Emory Pitsenberger
Echols
Two Questioned In Garrotting Case
Associated Press report from New York says two men were questioned by detectives in the garrotting death of R. Walton Ford a 35 year old interior decorator formerly of Roanoke Virginia. Eight other suspects were freed after being rounded up within hours of the discovery of Ford's body in a fashionable Midtown hotel. Ford worked for a department store and had arrived in New York about 15 years ago.
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Associated Press
New York
R. Walton Ford
Roanoke
Ford
Mexico Oil Strike Threat Raises Labor Demands
Mexico City reports a general strike threat to the oil industry amid 100 wage and condition demands in a draft blanket labor contract. Foreign operators Aguilla Shell Huasteca Standard of New Jersey and Pierce resist concessions. Petroleos de Mexico is a key government lease holder.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Mexico
Congress
Aguilla
Royal Dutch Shell
Huasteca
Standard of New Jersey
Pierce
Petroleos de Mexico
Bluefield Woman Visits Parents
Mrs. G Browder of Bluefield is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Omer West in this city. The Stringops parrot from Australia cannot fly and burrows in the ground for shelter.
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Bluefield
Register
Whitesville
G. Browder
Omer West
This City
Australia
Pet Spaniel Dies Mistress Dies Too in California
Poulver City Calif Mrs Margaret McNulty 75 sent her 16 year old Cocker Spaniel Min to a dog hospital two weeks ago instructing Take good care of her If the dog dies Ill die too A week later the hospital phoned to say the dog was dead Mrs McNulty died minutes later She was buried last Saturday Min was buried today in a pet cemetery.
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Associated Press
Poulver City
Calif
Margaret McNulty
Min
States differ on social laws across the union
Constitutional amendments authorizing participation in the federal social security program were ratified in Kansas Florida Louisiana and Colorado. Old age pension plans faced defeat in three states. Eleven other states passed 26 amendments while many results remained unclear. Nevada Washington and Oregon seemingly rejected initiative and referendum for old age benefits. South Carolina showed indecisive returns on a similar amendment.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kansas
Florida
Louisiana
Colorado
Nevada
Oregon
South Carolina
Skeeter Hosts Dance Tonight in Whitesville Hall
J C Skeeter sponsors a dance in Whitesville at the new Whitesville ball room in the Recreation Hall tonight. The event invites the public to attend this local social gathering and enjoy music and dancing.
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Register
Whitesville
J. C. Skeeter
Recreation Hall
November Berries In Bluefield Woods
Arthur Wallace ventured into the woods and returned with a pail full of blackberries, marking the season's second harvest.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
Arthur Wallace
Big Turkey Crop Lowers Prices at Brady Market
Brady Texas opens Thanksgiving turkey market with abundant choice and a No 1 bird wholesale price around 12 cents per pound. Reports from the southwest say flocks are 25 to 50 percent larger than 1935. Brownwood dealers expect 60 to 65 cartons, about 100000 birds, for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Brady market opens near Armistice Day with a turkey trot parade in Cuero.
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Associated Press
Brady
Tex
Southwest
Cuero
Last of the Missouri quadruplets may be saved
Memphis Tennessee doctors weighed hope as two day old Lee Earl Bridges, the sole surviving member of a Missouri quadruplet birth, showed signs after four babies were born Monday night to James and Mrs Bridges near Senath. Two siblings, a boy and a girl, died shortly after birth.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Lee Earl Bridges
Missouri
James Bridges
Senath
Farmer-Labor Party Planned Nationwide Appeal
Clarence Senior, national executive secretary of the Socialist party and manager of its 1936 campaign, said from Socialist headquarters that Labor's Non-Partisan League should immediately move to form a national Farmer-Labor party following President Roosevelt's landslide victory.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Farmer-Labor
Roosevelt
Clarence Senior
Socialist Party
Socialist
Senior
Prenatal Clinic Opens at Winona in Wyoming County
Miss Helen Howell a public health training nurse at the health training center led student nurses in Winona helping Wyoming county health authorities run a prenatal clinic for area mothers. Raleigh Fayette and Wyoming counties have held a series of prenatal and well baby clinics with training center officials assisting. Doctors Cardus and Pridmore directed the clinic with Wyoming County public health nurses assisting.
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Helen Howell
Department of Health Training Center
Winona
Wyoming
Raleigh
Fayette
Cardus
Pridmore
Wyoming County Public Health
Rites Yesterday for Bolt Farmer Obituary
Funeral services for Oley B. McGraw 54 of Bolt were held at Bolt Baptist Church with Rev. Grant Stevens presiding. Burial followed in Bolt cemetery. McGraw born March 14 1884 in Wyoming county was a Bolt farmer for 32 years, survived by wife Cora seven sons Lon K McDaniel Olie Orville Wilson Cecil N Denzil P Charles all of Bolt two daughters Lona Mintie Inez and his parents.
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Oley B. McGraw
Bolt
Bolt Baptist Church
Grant Stevens
Bolt Cemetery
Wyoming County
Joseph McGraw
Cora McGraw
Lon K
McDaniel
Olie
Orville W
Wilson
Cecil N
Denzil P
Charles
Lona
Mintie Inez
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