Shinnston Prepares For Annual Chautauqua Festivities
Miss Henrietta Strongfeld of New York arrives to help with junior chautauqua work as a large parade attracts hundreds of children. Local car owners donate rides, boosting ticket sales and promotion. The week promises the best attractions yet with boosters active and favorable weather forecast. Birthday party for Annette Long noted, while others mark visits, operations, and travels among community residents.
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Shinnston
Henrietta Strongfeld
New York City
Fire Laddies of Salem 10 Carnival Arrives for Week
H Foster of Baltimore, agent for Reynolds Greater Shows and Carnival Co., announced the Salem visit. The carnival will be quartered on the Wil Mums lot near Patterson road for one week. It operates under local volunteer fire department auspices and expects a large local patronage. Nearby Point Marion visitors head to the exhibit.
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Salem
H. Foster
Baltimore
Reynolds Greater Shows and Carnival Company
Wil- Mums
Patterson Road
Old English Farm House Design With Diamond Paned Details
A vintage specifications page describes an Old English style farm house with rough plaster on metal lath walls, heavy chestnut colored beam work, diamond pane sash, and a large living hall. It outlines rooms on two floors including four bedrooms, a parlor, library, butler’s pantry, kitchen, laundry, and sun parlor, plus detailed interior finishes and estimated costs.
Belgian picnic planned at Point Marion on July 14
Representatives of the Belgian colony will travel to Point Marion next week for a large Belgian relief committee picnic. The event on July 14 features a Salem band, public speaking, games, an ox roast and various amusements. Bank notes show healthy finances with nearly 800000 in resources and only twelve cents in overdrafts. Woodmen of the World plan to unveil a monument at J. W. Weekley’s grave in Wilbur Sunday, with a large auto delegation. Additional local items include marriages and visits among Salem residents and relatives.
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Point Marion
Salem Band
First National Bank
Woodmen of the World
Wilbur
Tyler County
J. W. Weekley
Celebration at West Union Fourth of July Celebration
A crowd of about two thousand attended West Union's Fourth of July festivities. Highlights included a suffrage speech by Miss Lola Walker, various athletic contests, an automobile parade, hill climbing, a baseball game, a baby show, and a concert by local performers.
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West Union
Lola Walker
Great Fourth of July in West Union history headline
The Wilbur band leads a festive Fourth of July in West Union. Marriages include Miss Celesta Hurst of Smithton and Cecil Zinn of Salem on July first. Local obituaries note George Surader’s death at home on Ragans Run with interment at Bethel. Pneumonia affects James P. Gain of Arnold's Creek, hospitalized at St Mary’s in Clarksburg. Republican county committee announces June 30 appointments. Births report a ten pound boy to Mr and Mrs Ray Congay. Reverend Vernon Lytle resigns as pastor of the Christian church to enter Yale University. Community members attend Woodman memorial services in Smithton. Personal notes mention Mrs J W Blair at Camp Kanawha with her son in Huntington. Mrs Charles Maxwell and son from Clarksburg visit. John Murphy in Clarksburg at St Mary’s. Tom Wescott family set to spend summer in Pittsburgh. Mary George, grand chief of Puthan Sisters, visits West Union Temple.
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Alvin Vincent
West Side
Coell M. Smell
First National Bank
Clarksburg
Geraldine Rinehart
Renlah Boegess
Wyatt
U. Alvin Vincent
C. A. Cole
Paul B. Tetrick
Grafton
EB. C. Wisser
Erdystine
Coulter, Pa
James H. Hess
The
Montray Realty Company
New York
Our City
A. J. C. Bond
Zinn
Salem
Orr Meredith
Florida
Parkersburg
Meredith
June
Clella Bee
Cowen
Webster County
J. W. Blair
Camp Kanawha
George
Machine Gun Company
Huntington
Charles Maxwell
Gon
John Murphy
St. Mary's Hospital
Tom Wescott
Priday
Pittsburg
Mary George
Puthan Sisters
West Union Temple
Knoxville man nets mysterious Florida fish on vacation
Dr H J Kelso and wife visited Pa Grille Florida ten days and landed an unusual fish whose species remains undetermined. Local guide J A Saunders assisted Burns and G M West Feed Supply Store note the odd catch and offer related services while the Tampa Morning Tribune hints at the novelty of the find.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Florida
H. J. Kelso
Kelso
Eveten
Grille
Fla
Tampa
Quality and Tribune
Kelgo
B. R
Burns
J. A. Saunders
G. M. West
Fervent love letters spark separation suit in New York
Mrs. Byrd H. Mowery charges her husband Harold W. Mowery with cruel treatment and unwanted attention to Loretta Bean private secretary in the Ohio state industrial commission Cleveland office. He denies the allegations saying Bean letters were harmless friend notes. A stray fish tale about a large wampus and a pompano-like fish follows in the same fragment.
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New York
Supreme Court
Byrd H. Mowery
Loretta Bean
Cleveland
Ohio State Industrial Commission
Miss Bean
Mowery
Kells
Harold
Loretta
Harold W. Mowery
New York City
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G. M. West Feed Supply Store
Thornton Fire Brick Co
Golf
Johnson
Ardare
Glen Elk Lumber CO
W. VA
Bell
Glen View Brick Co
City
Ray Long
Annette
Estelle Randall
Mont
Fletcher
Randall
Bert Miller
Virginia Batterfield
Walnut Street
Wheeling
Mrs. Miller
Ellis W. Tisdale
Charleston
D. L. Coflindagfer
Tisdale
Harry Watson
Fairmant
F. EB. Faqua
Radford
W. K. McCray
Mannington
G. A. Radford
John M. Knox
Nin Knox
Main Street
Jay Riggs
Toledo
Fire Laddies
N. C
Clyde Smith Adams
Church Street
G. C. Southern
Adamston
Will
Alt
Is and
Milton Davi
Stafford Coll Co
Batton Bros
S. Second St
Bell Phone
He Wilbur
Shrader
George Surader
Ms Homel
Ragans
Bethel
James P. Gain
Arnold’s Creel
Republican County Committee
E. Strickling
W. D. Swentzel
Boyd C. Maxwell
Ray Conagay
Woodman
Smithton
Tennessee Mann
Mife
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