Mt Heights girl Diana Nicholson wins national Cappy Dick prize
Diana Nicholson 10 of Mt Heights is named Mason Dixonland’s sixth national Cappy Dick winner for the Feb 14 contest in Panorama and the Sunday Dominion Post. She and her family are active in community projects on Rt. 7, and she enjoys spelling math and tap dancing while planning to share her encyclopedia prizes with sister Paula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Conners
Dominion-Post
Diana Nicholson
Greer Building
Mason-Dixonland
Panorama
Sunday Dominion Post
Diana
Summers School
Mt. Heights
Kenneth
Buck) Nicholson
Rock Forge
Tiny Diana
Paula
Mt. Morris fire leaves 4 homeless
Mt. Morris Pa four persons were left homeless when a recently remodeled two story frame house was gutted by a kitchen fire. James Tennant family members were away at about 12 15 pm and returned to a total loss after Mt. Morris firemen battled for nearly two hours. Officials cited possible wiring in the kitchen as the cause.
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MT. Morris
James Tennant
Tennants
Morgantown boy returns purse and $78 to owner
Dennis Shaffer a Morgantown Junior High eighth grader found a purse containing $78 and IDs on Eighth Street and returned it to Mrs. Annabelle Dragovich. She praised his honesty and noted she only learned of the theft minutes before its recovery. Dennis left the purse with a store until the owner could be contacted.
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Edward E. Shaffer
San Dennis
Annabelle Dragovich
Michael Delardas
Dominion Post
Dennis Shaffer
Beechurst Ave
Dennis
Eighth St
Morgantown Junior High
Eighth Street
West Virginia
Dragovich
Religion series features Williams at West Virginia University
Dr. George Huntston Williams of Harvard will speak on Religion and Ferocity at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Mountainlair Theatre as part of a WVU Religious Studies series. He will hold an open discussion the next afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Collegiate Room on Further Reflections on Violence in Christian Metaphor. The event is free to the university community. Dalton G. Watkins, 59, of Terra Alta, died Saturday in Preston Memorial Hospital. He was born October 13, 1911 in Benton County Tennessee. Survivors include widow Margaret Hollis Watkins and brother James of Big Sandy, Tennessee. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at Fike Watson Funeral Home. Services are 2 p.m. Monday with George Kirk officiating. Burial in Terra Alta Cemetery.
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Kingwood
John V. Miller Jr
Board of Education
Preston County
Miller
Fellowsville
George Huntston Williams
Hollis
Harvard University
West Virginia University Program For Religious Studies
Mountainlair Theatre
Williams
Mountainlair
Fike Watson
Terra Alta
George Kirk
Lloyd B. Bixler
Uniontown
Uniontown Hospital
Morgantown
Joseph Bixler
Grace W. Bixler
Charles C
Lela Jane York
Torrance
Calif
Andrew D. Ferguson
Alvin K. Smith
LaFayette Memorial Park
Paul Smith
Ohio Ave
University Hospital
Monongalia County
Charles
Mary Shirk Smith
Sandale
Opal Herrington Smith
JoAnn Huffman
Nancy
Susanne Smith
Annie Kline
Fred L. Jenkins
Chapel of Prayer
Stacy Groscup
East Oak Grove Cemetery
Labor and the Economy
Manpower and Labor Studies Division
West Virginia University
Appalachian Center
Engineering Science
Evansdale
Lee Balliet
S.S. Samson
Monongalia- Preston Labor Council
Bixler
Lloyd
Friends
Andrew D Ferguson
Alvin K. Smit
Huffman
Frank
Lee
Rt. 2
Peebore
Taylor Funeral Home
Newburg
Mt. Zion
John Helms
Smith, Paul
Chapel of One
East Oak Grove
Watkins
Dalton
Preston Memorial Hospital
New Marion bridge to start on Booths Creek span
West Virginia Highways district office says work begins Monday on a new bridge for Marion County on the Monongah Watson Road replacing the Red Bridge east of Monongah. Contractor is F F Earp and Son. Completion expected by July 31 with area closed to traffic during construction.
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
Board of Education to review budget at Thursday session
Supt Lawrence G Derthick says a closed meeting held yesterday will be followed by a regular Thursday 8 p m session to discuss budgetary issues. The agenda includes open meeting proposals for facility improvements and salary schedules for teachers and staff.
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Board of Education
Lawrence G. Derthick
Hacker case set Monday amid WV murder trial
A jury is to be empaneled Monday in Franklin to hear William C. Hacker 74 of Edgemere Md charged with the 1970 Christmas Eve decapitation slaying of Herbert Lynn Cobun 52 of the Morgantown area. Prosecutor George Sponangle expects a three day trial as Pendleton County courtroom prepares for its first murder case in about 12 years.
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Gus Muntzing
Hacker
Maryland
Cobun
Moorefield
James Ansel
Clyde M. Lee
Sprangle
West Virginia University
Goodell and Rusher Debate at WVU Forum Festival
Charles E. Goodell former New York senator and William A. Rusher National Review publisher will debate Has the Indo China War Had an Effect on the American Public at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Mountainlair Ballroom Goodell will present the liberal view and Rusher the conservative view.
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Charles E. Goodell
U.S
New York
William A. Rusher
National Review
Mountainlair
Goodell
Rusher
Spring-Like Weather Expected With Snow Flurries In Mason-Dixon Area
Variable clouds bring cold temperatures and scattered snow flurries on the first day of spring. Highs will stay in the 30s to 40s with lows in the 20s and 30s. Tomorrow May bring rain after morning snow with highs in the 40s and 50s. Morgantown's March norms run 55 high and 33 low. Yesterday's Morgantown Airport readings were recorded at the Flight Service Station.
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Mason- Dixons
Morgantown Municipal Airport
Newburg Man Dies in Morgantown Fall
Frank Lee Huffman 52 of Rt. 2 Newburg died after a fall from a lodge near Elk Street and Decker Avenue in Morgantown. He was born June 1 1918 in Etam a WWII veteran and truck driver. Survived by mother Letta Huffman widow Virginia Huffman one son Stephen five sisters and five brothers. Funeral services set at Mt Zion Church with burial in Mt Zion Cemetery.
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Frank Lee Huffman
Rt. 2
Newburg
University Hospital
Elk Street
Decker Avenue
Morgantown
Etam
Letta Hardesty Huffman
Tunnelton
Charles Huffman
Mt. Israel
Virginia Murray Huffman
Funeral Notices from Uniontown and Nearby Areas
Several obituaries list Lloyd Bixler Frank Huffman Paul Smith Dalton Watkins aged 87 52 55 and others from Uniontown Morgantown Newburg Terra Alta with dates around March 1971. Calls to funeral homes and service times are given along with burial locations and officiants.
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Nicholson
General Paving
Ted
Tessy
Blackie
Mason- Dixonland
DeAnn Setler
Grafton
Cheryl Pounds
Stewartstown Road
Donna Jean Neely
Laurel Point
Sharon Jones
Granville
Carla May
Reedsville
Tennant
Tennant Vault Co
Preston
Dalton G. Watkins
He Was
Benton County, Tenn
Harmon Watkins
Effie Watkins
Big Sandy, Tenn
Margaret Hollis Watkins
James of
Big Sandy
New Marion
James Head
Agriculture Science
Dominion News
High Street
UPI
Anta
York
Plains
Lower Lakes
University-Sunday Dominion-Post
Mt. Zion Cemetery
Dale E. McKenzie
Charles Town
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