Easter pageant draws county churchgoers to state school
Easter Sunday activities center on the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys as inmates present their 10th annual Holy Week pageant Even as He Said drawing many area churchgoers for sunrise services at the school gym. Churches across Taylor County scheduled sunrise and regular services with meals and choir concerts tied to the pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
West Virginia
O.N. Reneau
Hartzel Bodkin
Trinity United Methodist Church
Willis Bradley
Fetterman United Methodist Church
Rose Hill Methodist Church
Webster United Methodist
Pruntytown
Fetterman
Eugene F. Klug
St. Augustine Catholic Church
West Washington St. Knottsville
Mt. Pleasant
United Methodist
Edward O
Perine
Wesley Chapel
Thornton United Methodist Church
Blueville
H. Edgar Suite
Haymond
Morgantown-Grafton
St. John’s
Blueville United Methodist Church
Church of the Good Shepherd
Lucas Ridge Road
Richard L. Wright
First Christian Church
Beech and
McGraw Ave
Edwin Peterson
Oakgrove
Bruce Wood
Beulah
Final day to ride Grafton train amid rail service cut
April 30 marks the last passenger run from Grafton on the B and O line to Parkersburg with 3 30 p.m. departure via Rowlesburg and Terra Alta. Councilman Lansbury circulates a Nixon letter urging continued service, noting minimal recent ridership and job protections for local workers. Congress member Staggers denounces Railpax cuts and backs B and O routes through Cumberland Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Albert Lansbury
Nixon
Lansbury
B&o
William Beall
Rowlesburg
Terra Alta
Parkersburg
M. B. Tolley
Cumberland
Cincinnati
Ohio
Railpax
New Nationwide Rail Corporation
T. T. Rollins
Rollins
Beall
Post Office
Harley O. Staggers
House
Washington-St. Louis
Washington-Chicago
Staggers
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Blueville Bank Tops Growth List in American Banker
The Blueville Bank of Grafton is named the fastest growing bank in the continental United States in the April 1 American Banker issue. In operation since July 1966, it reports 10 million dollars in assets and credits local projects such as the West Virginia Best tomato facility in Flemington and plans for a Thorofare Market at U S 50 and the Grafton Morgantown Road intersection. Glen Harman, bank president, is pictured with four other leading bank presidents. he cites community projects as key to growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blueville Bank of
Grafton
United States
Glen Harman
Harman
West Virginia
Flemington
Grafton City Hospital
Anna Jarvis
U.S. 50
United Aircraft of
Harrison County
Grafton-Morgantown Road
Hazards at rink still uncorrected in Grafton
State Fire Marshals ordered corrections at a Grafton roller skating rink after a February 25 1971 letter. Required changes include panic hardware on the main exit unvented gas heaters removal and a ramp instead of the metal grate fire escape. Owner Frye-Harper Skates Co and building owner J W Moore dispute responsibility while no permit has yet been issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Carolina Harper
Frye-Harper Skates Co., Inc
U.S. 50
Melvin Frye
Frye
J.W. Moore
McGraw Ave
Moore
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