Mutual Sheriff Races Split By Fraternal Rivalry in Braxton
In Braxton county, G B Fisher, Democrat from Flatwoods, and Glaude C Davis, Republican from Flatwoods, both seek the sheriff nomination. After much sleepless plotting and a split over running against a close friend, Fisher withdraws leaving Davis to seek a successor. Local committees are urged to find two capable candidates, one Democrat and one Republican, despite the brotherly rivalry.
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Damon
Braxton County
Pythias
Glaude C. Davis
Flatwoods
Davis
Ikewise
Fisher
Tim
Alo Te
Hood
Democratic Andirepublican Partie
Sherif
Jaxton County
Summer drinks and desserts recommended by Mrs Scott
A Philadelphia North American culinary expert offers affordable summer desserts and refreshments for porch parties. Recipes include blackberry sherbet, frozen tea, apricot and lemon sherbet, red raspberry and currant sherbet, pineapple sherbet, grape sherbet, and fruit syrups. Special note on sugar syrup storage and serving suggestions.
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Anna B. Scott
Philadelphia
Sunday School Workers 10 Meet Ellenboro
Ellenboro July 22 The clay district Sunday school convention will be at Wince chapel near Pike on July 26. Program includes Devorions Jimnes Bumgardner on What Constitutes and Completely Organized Sunday School. Rev Carty leads devotional. The event also lists teachers and topics with several local names and roles.
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Ellenboro
Clay District
Wince Chapel
Pike
Devorions
Jimnes Bumgardner
Jay J. Cinehaeham
Prohibition convention attendance and local visits noted
Mr Lee Wilson and children visit Mrs Virginia Wilson in New Orleans. Mrs John B Yates visits a Blomington relative. George P Sigler and Jay Cunningham attend the national Prohibition convention in St Paul. Local streets receive improvements with cement watchman and new walks on Columbia street. Various residents including T J Mobley, Miss Myra Mayfield, Mrs J C Stuck, Mrs Jennie Gribble, Mrs Ida Maxwell and daughter, Miss Tian, Mrs Albro Corder and Oma, Miss South Westie, Miss Kiama Gutrell, Mrs Laur t Dland, and B Forsbure make local visits or are guests in neighboring towns.
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Lee Wilson
New Orleans
Virginia Wilson
John B. Yates
Blomington
George P. Sigler
Jay Cunningham
Pannsboro
St. Paul
Minn
T. J. Mobley
Sistersville
Carter OM Company
Myra Mayfield
Morganoven
Mayme Twyford
J.C. Stuck
J. A. Crouse
Cleveand
Jennie Gribble
Venusebro
Orgy West
Ida Maxwell
Mise Tian
Parkersburg
Albro Corder
Officers Installed by Eastern Star in Union
At a recent Union meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star officers were installed for the ensuing term including Grace Pease as worthy matron and TF. Jones as worthy patron. The report also notes deaths of a 42 year old woman, Andra Smith at 24, and Angeline Crutcher, with funeral details and local tuberculosis notes. Plans for paving seven and one quarter miles of road were announced, along with a district Sunday school meeting slated for July 30 at 2 PM.
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Whst Union
Order of the Jaatern Star
Grace Pease
TF. Jones
File Blair
Sarah Howard
Laney Rymer
Ada Osborn
Mary Enele
Margaret Jones
Marshal
Hartwarder
Homer Thynie
Cister and Morse
Marietta
Pike
We: Tinton
Central District Inc
Jaco
Middle Island Road
Scott Hill
Thort
Wabash
Pit Fen Run
Music Affects Smell Says Chicago Music Director
Robert W. Stevens, University of Chicago music director, reports experiments showing music stimulates the sense of smell rather than hearing. He cites notes on various compositions creating scents like peppermint and onions, notes dogs sniff when hearing organ music, and cites support from Prof Ward and Mme Albertina.
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Chicago
Robert W. Stevens
University of Chicago
Stevens
Mr. Steyne
Ward
University of Ilinois
Mme
Albertina
Chicago Oper Company
Lake Invents Submarine Ship For Sea Floor Salvage
Milford Connduly Lake, inventor of the Lake submarine, unveils a surface ship plus a submersible to salvage sunken vessels on the sea floor. The craft operates to 300 feet, covers 20 to 40 square miles daily, and can suck 30 tons an hour from wrecks. First tests in two months with a potential salvage company forming.
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Milford
Connduly Lake
Mytis
Lag Island Sound
Jon
Enil
Lake
Busees
Take
Officers Foil California Counterfeit Ring
Francisco July 22. Secret Service agents raided a barricaded counterfeit operation arresting Joe Ernest Riley and wife Laura Til Riley and Walter H Simmers and wife Grace Simmers. Plaster moulds, nearly 400 discarded plaster moulds, $100 in counterfeit dollars dated 1878 and unmelted metal bars found. four arrested locally with three others previously near Los Angeles. Ring planned to use Mrs Simmers to pass fake dollars during shop tours to trap clerks.
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Francisco
United States Secre Service
California
Secret Service
Joe Ernest Riley
Laura Til
Walter H. Simmers
Grace Simners
Los Angeles
Evil Jones
Martin
Simmers
Riley
Train Ride Delights Georgia Aunt from Franklin County
In Toccoa Banks county teacher Tara Kesler brought his aunt Mrs Lucy Miller from Franklin county to see a railroad train. Born seventy one years ago in Franklin county she had never ridden a train before and found it grand though she believed trains ran in grooves rather than on steel tracks.
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Toccoa
Tara Kesler
Banks County
Lucy Miller
Franklin County
Dog recruit mascot for Oklahoma troops gains enlistment
In Muskogee Oklahoma on July 22 Jero Hatcher a dog joins Company F as mascot for border service. Mrs Devasher a doctor offers her pet replacing a son, as WCTU members prepare comfort bags for the soldiers. The mascot will wear a red white and blue collar and carry a toy pistol. He will be sent to Fort Sill soon.
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Muskogee
Okla
Jero Hatcher
Company F
Fort Sill
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