Reasonable Doubt Raised in Tony Stafford Murder Trial
Six jurors favored conviction while six favored acquittal after an eight hour deliberation in the Tony Stafford case. Stafford testified he had lived in America 14 years but was not a citizen and, during the Glen White strike, claimed to have led relief work and not been in Glen White on the shooting day. Jury discharge followed no verdict, with a special term to begin January 12 to reconsider the charges.
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America
Tony Stafford
United Mine Workers of America
T. J. McGinnis
Mine Workers
Stafford
Glen White
United States
Lester
Beckley
John Kennedy
Mitchell Walters
Moundsville
Construction Begins At Main And Kanawha Corner
Workmen excavate the northwest corner of Main and Kanawha for a new building by Dr. and Mrs. T. E. Combs. A substantial structure will replace the wooden shacks that were destroyed last July.
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Main
Kanawha Reefs
T. E. Combs
Lilly Land Company adds 700 Beckley lots and 40 acres at Matoaka
The Lilly Land Company closed deals for 700 Beckley lots and a 40 acre Matoaka tract. Engineers will survey Matoaka plots for sale within a week, with Virginian railroad parallel to the tract. G. S. Gadd will market the Matoaka lots as the firm has completed ten Beckley additions totaling about 2,000 lots and roughly $400,000 in outlay.
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The
Lilly Land Company
Beckley
Matoaka
Virginian Railroad
G. S. Gadd
Dr Wood elected association head at Huntington meeting
Beckley Baptists at the state association gathering in Huntington report Dr M L Wood of Huntington chosen president. Other officers include Rev J D Runkle first vice president, Joseph Thurmond second vice president, W H Harrold secretary, E H Flynn treasurer, Jerome Phillips auditor, with about 300 delegates enrolled though attendance ran higher. Dr A S Kelly presented mission banners to nine districts amid week of addresses and music.
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Beckley Baptists
State Association
Huntington
M. L. Wood
J. D. Runkle
Sistersville
Joseph Thurmond
Alderson
W. (. Harrold
Parkersburg
E. H. Flynn
Jerome Phillips
A. S. Kelly
Guyandotte
Kanawha Valley
Hopewell
Twelve Pole
Eastern Raleigh
Mt. Pisgah
Association
Big Baptist
Teacher hit by ball on school ground at Prosperity
Nole Thurmond, son of Mr and Mrs R T Thurmond, teaching at Prosperity, was accidentally struck in the left eye by a ball Monday while playing with boys on the school ground. The eye is seriously injured but doctors believe eyesight will remain unaffected after healing. He was taken to Beckley and remains under a physician’s care.
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Nole Thurmond
R. T. Thurmond
Prosperity
Beckley
Miners Return to Work After Radicals Warned
Miners in the Kanawha district resumed work Monday morning despite reports of radicals planning a second armed push into the Guyan valley. A Sunday Miami Cabin Creek meeting, led by radicals, allegedly aimed to move from Kanawha and Raleigh counties westward into Guyan valley. President C F Keeney of the mine workers denied knowledge of the meeting or any planned action.
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Kanawha
Guyan Valley
Miami
Cabin Creek
Raleigh
C. F. Keeney
Penny Wise Pound Foolish Car Theft Tale
An army officer in Beckley recounted a man from near Puliski Virginia who bought a car for 1475 dollars. He parked it by the roadside after a farmer refused overnight storage for two dollars and thieves stripped the vehicle, leaving it worth under a hundred dollars.
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Penny Wise
Pound
Beckley
Puliski
New Hotel Opens in Raleigh Herald Building
Mrs. E. E. Wood opens a new hotel and boarding house in the Raleigh Herald building. Generous home cooked meals featured with Sunday chicken dinners for 65 cents. Short orders for breakfast offered.
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E. E. Wood
Raleigh Herald
Dinner In Honor Of Road Builders
A gathering at John R. Smith and Mrs. Smith celebrated a joking promise to host a chicken dinner once the road funds under bond passed. Nine attendees, including local officials, praised the Smiths for a bountiful spread and Mrs. Smith as the county’s best cook, despite several absences due to other duties.
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John R. Smith
Shady Spring
D. H. Workman
J. L. Bumgardner
A. W. Griffith
W. J. Campbell
W. Ae A. B. Maxwell
Amos Stoyer
J. W. Maxwell
L. Scott
Chas. Hodel
Mr. Smith
Mrs. Smith
King's Daughters Meeting With Laura Pierson Next Tuesday
The King's Daughters will meet next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Dr. and Mrs. K. M. Jarrell with Miss Laura Pierson presiding. The group has been active since the new year, preparing for the writer's work and aiming to influence West Virginia representatives in Washington in favor of ratifying the peace treaty without amendment.
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Laura Pierson
K. M. Jarrell
Beckley
West Virginia
Washington
League of Nations
W. M. Taylor
Bailey family to spend winter in Roswell New Mexico
L D Bailey, visiting Charleston on business, plans early departure with family to Roswell New Mexico for the winter. He has been ill with diphtheria and complications since leaving Beckley, and the climate change is hoped to aid his recovery.
Moonshine Death Baffles Prohibition Officials
Grover Kinser of Chapmansville Logan county died after drinking moonshine whiskey Saturday afternoon around four at a sawmill. State prohibition department will investigate the poisoning. Kinser left a wife and five children. Theories blame lye in manufacturing or tainted mash from stills left unattended.
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State Prohibition Department
Grover Kinser
Chapmansville
Logan County
Kinser
Beckley Citizens View Army Camp
Beckley residents viewed a regular army camp on the courthouse lawn as the List Field Artillery recruiting battery pitched tents Monday night and Tuesday morning. Lt Walter L Kiuss led four officers with 35 enlisted personnel, bringing a motor battery of two American 75 millimeter guns, an armored tractor, multiple trucks, a staff car, and a complete repair shop on wheels weighing eight tons. The camp, traveling from Camp Knox Kentucky, toured the southern states before heading to Charleston for an indefinite stop.
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Beckley
List Field Artillery
Court House
Walter L. Kiuss
Camp Knox
Charleston
Watts Baby Dies After Pneumonia Battle
Eight month old Janie Wingfield Watts, daughter of Mr and Mrs R D Watts, died Wednesday at five am after a weeks long illness. Doctors said pneumonia, with heart and digestive complications, led to the death. She leaves twin brother and grieving parents with the sympathy of neighbors and friends.
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Janie Wingfield Watts
R. D. Watts
Tunnel Cave-In Disrupts Coal River Rail Traffic
A tunnel cave-in at Calvert last Friday night suspended freight and express traffic on the Coal River division of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Passengers between St. Albans and points above Calvert are being transferred at Calvert as crews clear the debris after a wreck-train derrick dislodged timbers and caused the roof to fall.
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Coal River Division
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
St. Albans
Calvert
Lynch Ellison Nuptials Here
Miss Josephine Mae Ellison of Oxley and Paul James Lynch of Blue Jay wed last Saturday in Beckley with Father J P T Holzmer officiating. The groom works with his father in the Blue Jay Lumber company and the bride, a Beckley High School 1918 graduate, will live in Blue Jay, with home to friends after November 15.
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Josephine Mae Ellison
Oxley
Paul James Lynch
Blue Jay
Beckley
J. P. T. Holzmer
P. C. Lynch
Blue Jay Lumber Company
Raleigh
Beckley High School
Woman Dies By Own Hand At Lynchburg College Home
Mrs. William A. Webb wife of the Randolph Macon Womans College president died Friday morning at her Lynchburg home from a dose of carbolic acid. The city coroner ruled suicide amid a mind derangement caused by her husband’s nervous breakdown while he was in California seeking recovery.
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William A. Webb
Randolph Macon Woman’s College
Lynchburg
California
Counterfeit War Savings Stamps Warned By Treasury Official
W. S. Wm. J. McGee assistant treasurer of the United States at the San Francisco subtreasury warns against counterfeit War Savings Stamps. The forgeries are photographic reproductions with blue ink and solid lines behind the portrait, pasted on genuine certificates and cashed at current rates by merchants.
Negotiations Restart for Nitro Sale by War Dept
Negotiations for selling the Nitro plant have been renewed with Assistant Secretary Crowell handling the deal. Officials say a closure is likely by week’s end, citing a total government cost of 70 million dollars and the top bid under seven million. War officials oppose scrapping, arguing the plant is a well built industrial unit with potential value for dye or chemical industry expansion if operated.
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Crowell
War Department
United States
The Linotype May Become Obsolete
Harry Andrews of the Los Angeles Times predicts the linotype will vanish within ten years as photo engravings from typewritten copy prove practical. The Times cites a $7,000 plant capable of producing a 24 page paper in four hours and argues the shift could lower costs despite current deadlines and layout challenges. The Literary Digest recently printed an entire issue from photo engravings of typewritten copy.
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Harry Andrews
Los Angeles Times
Times
Andrews
Linotype
Literary Digest
Educational Rally Aims to Improve West Virginia Schools
County Superintendent C F Cooke and Beckley Schools chief Andrew J Peters attended a Superintendent’s Association gathering in Princeton with leaders like J Frank Marsh to plan an educational campaign. Peters was among five delegates chosen to help shape the organization’s plans, aiming to raise regional school finances conditions and teaching efficiency toward Northern county levels.
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C. F. Cooke
Andrew J. Peters
Beckley
Princeton
West Virginia
State Department
J. Frank Marsh
Supt. Peters
Ashworths Form Law Practice Partnership
David D. Ashworth district supervisor of schools plans to settle into law after this year with Ben H. Ashworth his cousin as partner. Both are WVU law graduates, well grounded in legal procedure and expected to build a solid practice locally.
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Ashworth and
Ashworth
David D. Ashworth
Board of Education
Ben H. Ashworth
West Virginia University
Hopes to Prevent Strike Grow as Talks Continue
Federal officials weigh steps to keep coal mines operating to feed railroads and factories. A four hour conference with Secretary Wilson in Washington failed to resolve disputes between coal operators and miners. The looming strike threatens half a million workers in Illinois Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Wilson
Washington
Lewis
Great Central
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
P. H. Penna
Terra Haute
Ind
Roosevelt
Tot Has Narrow Escape in Regina Crossing Incident
Regina child Tot Pickus, daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Pickus, narrowly escaped injury when struck at a street crossing Monday evening. The automobile rolled over the child but did not touch her body, leaving her frightened yet unharmed.
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Tot
Regina
Louis Pickus
Explosion Fatal to Young Sawmill Worker
John Deringe aged 18, son of Mike Deringe of Sprindale Fayette county, fatally injured when a boiler at a sawmill between Springdale and Clute exploded. He suffered severe burns and a crushed right leg, was taken to Hinton hospital, where he died days later.
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John Deringe
Mike Deringe
Sprindale
Fayette County
Springdale
Clute
Hinton
Cabell Justice Resigns Amid Malfeasance Indictment
Justice G L Armstrong resigns after a Cabell county grand jury indictment on malfeasance of office charges brought by the state tax commissioner. The resignation was tendered to the county court.
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Cabell
G. L. Armstrong
Cabell County
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Beckley and Matoaka
Dr. Wood
Baptist
Logan
Beckley Citizens View Army Camp
Court House Lawn
Watts
Lynch-Ellison
Father Holzmer
Secretary of War
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