First anniversary of Matewan battle marked by police oath
In Williamson and across Mingo county volunteers were sworn in as State police to bolster order after the Matewan clash's first anniversary. About 200 men expected to serve, while shootings were investigated at Rawl War Eagle and Luck Creek. A fire damage claim topped $50,000 at the War Eagle mine. One man, John Tussing, survived a gunshot near Luck Creek.
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Williamson
W. Va
Associated Press
Matewan
Tug - River
Mingo County
West Virginia-Kentucky
Rawl
War Eagle
Luck Creek
Heal Houwte
Alex Hishop
John Tussing
Lyck Creek
Tunsing
Charles Tully
Crystal Brock
Obituaries for May 1921 in Washington area notices
Obituaries and funeral notices list multiple individuals including Elaine, Talitha Case, Emma D., Eliza Estey, Frances Foley Paley, Elizabeth Green, Greer Elizabeth, William Johnson, Morris Ketcham, Joseph McCann, Michaely O’Donoghue, Eugene Peters, Mary Reed, and Byard Douglass White. Details include dates of death from May 15 to May 20 1921, residence addresses in Washington DC, funeral times from May 18 to May 22, private or public interments, and home or church services at Sacred Heart, Metropolitan Church, Fort Lincoln, and St Matthew’s Church with locations in Northwest DC. The notices ask relatives and friends to attend and note interment locations and service times.
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Elaine
Fourth Street
Congress Heigts
Tan Talitha Case
Emma D
Ward Plaine
Piineral Servicea
Thomas
Seventh Street
Vacksturyg
Estey -Siddenly
Eleventh Street
Eliza
Wice
Wither H. Estey
Serglean
Foley
Frances A
Presley Gi. Paley
William P. Valey
S Street Northwest
Green
Frank Monroe
Elizabeth D. Green
Mis
Royden D. Chase
Frances W. Green
Thomas G. Sergeon
Wll
Rock Creek
Greer
Elizabeth A
John FR. Creer
John FR. Creer Funvent
Touden Street
Wriday
Johnson
G Street
William W
Oved Washand
Victoria Johnson
Sadie V. McCoy
Butt
Joseph W. Johnson
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
Lyw
Ketcham
Atama Mill Road
Morris
New York
Fifteenth Street
Joseph W
Mary A. McCann
McDermott
Church of Sacred Heart
Mad
Park
Miners' Dispute Raises Tensions in West Virginia
Reports of armed men moving toward the Mingo region sparked police monitoring and border sheriff inquiries. Labor leader John L. Lewis and Labor Secretary Laves discussed Tug River tensions, with Lewis urging operator recognition of miners' union rights and peaceful assembly to bargain, while noting privately employed detectives as a fault line.
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Tug River
West Virginia
Laves
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Mr. Davis
Mr. Lewis
Mingo County
Lewis
Court halts use of evidence in moonshine case
United States Commissioner Hayes ruled a search warrant used on Marlboro Street was defective. The seizure including a gallonal moonshine whisky and statements attributed to Shaw cannot be used, and the still is deemed contraband not to be returned.
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United States
Hayes
Marlboro ‘Street
Shaw
Ministers Needed in Virginia Fields
The 126th annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Virginia opened with sermons on The Church in the Diocese of Virginia. The Diocesan Missionary Society reported 89,902.77 in disbursements and 44,220.04 in receipts, noting a 1500 salary plus house for a married white minister. The report cites 18 vacant cures, 2 self supporting parishes and 16 rural parishes, about one sixth of the diocese, raising questions about service continuity. Special to The Washington Post. Charlottesville, Va May 19.
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Washington Post
Charlottesville
Council
The
Protestant Episcopal Church
Diocese of Virginia
W. Russell Bowie
St. Paul's Richmond
Frederick W. Neve
Ivy
Beverley D. Tucker, Jr
Theological Seminary
Bowie
Robert Beverly
Essex
Diocesan Missionary Society
Obituaries and local notices from Suburban Rockville area
Suburban Rockville notices report the deaths of Mrs Emma Walker of Gaithersburg aged 56 and Mrs Gerline Alinut near Etchison aged about 62 with details on survivors and funeral plans. Also announced are county road reconstruction bids from Beane to Montrose with $20000 bond funds, and a Diocese of Washington Sunday School Institute gathering at Christ Episcopal church in which Canon DeVries presided and Rev Freeman gave the principal address.
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Gerline Alinut
Jacob M. Alinut
Etchison
Board of County Commissioners
Mareen Darby
William Lynch
Barnesville
Goshen
Beane
Montrose
Rockville
Sunday School Institute of the
Diocese of Washington
Christ 'S Episcopal Church
Canon Wiliam I. DeVries
Chevy Chase
James EB. Freeman
Trinity Church
Washington
Inventor Leaps to Death in New York Window
Dr Frank Borsody aged 75 a Hungarian born inventor of hygienic implements died by suicide today leaping from a sixth story window on West 177th Street His career earned gold and silver medals at Paris and Nice decades ago and he had retirement period while a nurse attended him after years of illness.
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New York
Frank Borsody
Ion West Li7th Street
Boreody
Hungary
University of
Budapest
Khent
Paris
Nice
Air Mail Charges Stir Federal Probe In Chicago
Telegram from air mail pilot William H. Jones supports C. C. Eversole's charges of inefficiency and graft in the service. Jones says crashes due to defective parts and bad engines, plus drunkenness and incompetence among officials, reflect conditions in the Pacific division. Investigating committee plans to finish Saturday and then head to Washington with evidence.
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Chicago
Air Mail
C. C. Everisole
William H. Jones
Pac Icific Coast
Everpole
Jones
Pacific Coast Aero
Eversole
Pacific Coast
Washington
Washington Woman Participates in Closing Missionary Exercises
May 19 Hagerstown Maryland report on the forty fourth annual convention of the Christian Missionary Society of Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia adjourned with plans for next year in Baltimore. notes on children's home project and appeals from Miss Bowers and Mrs Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Hagerstown
The
Christian Missionary
Society
Maryland
Delaware
District Columbia
Baltimore
George A. Miller
Washington
J. B. Huntley
M. A. Bowers
Kington
Bessie
Madzen
India
Affira Anderson
E United Society
St. Louis
Two Men Held in Check Flashing Case in Clifton Forge
Special to The Washington Post Clifton Forge Virginia May 19 Authorities jailed James Berry and Fred Bowers on the charge of check flashing. One allegedly passed a bad check on a local merchant and the other tried to cash a check at a bank with false representations. They were traced to Covington and brought back for trial.
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Washington Post
Clifton Forge
James Berry
Fred Bowers
Covington
Confederate Memorial Exercises to Be Held in Alexandria
Senator Claude A Swansah will speak at Confederate memorial exercises in Alexandria on Tuesday under the auspices of the Lee Camp United Confederate Veterans and Mary Custis Lee Seventeenth Virginia Regiment Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. If rain, events move to the Young People's building. the Citizens band Alexandria light infantry and boy scouts will participate. A quartet will sing. The exercises end with a volley and taps at the Confederate mound. Committees seek 8200 to fund Salvation Army 1921 1922 budget. About 100 Kiwanis members from Washington visit Alexandria for luncheon in Westminster building. Sundry School league second game at Baggett field 530 pm Trinity Methodist Episcopal vs Second Baptist. First Baptist beat Methodist Episcopal South 15 2. Dr Louis H Foulke health officer charged citizens over sewer connections. 30 day compliance ordered or fines.
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Washington Post Bureau
Patrick Sr
Alexandria
Clsude A. Swansah
Confederate Memorial
Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Boy Scouts
Harrie White
Sharman B. Fowler
Kenneth W. Ogden
J. ‘Witmer | Waller
Confederate Mound
Christchurchyard
Alexandria Sundry ‘School League
Baggett'’s Field
Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Second Baptist
First Baptist
Methodist Episcopal South
Women Meet Today in Roanoke At Federation Convention
Delegates from across Virginia gather in Roanoke for the opening session of the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs second annual convention. Speakers include Mrs. John H. Lewis of Lynchburg on a Virginia Woman in the English House of Commons, plus Miss Mattie L. Cooke of Hollins College and Mrs. Gertrude E. Boatwright of Virginia College.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Virginia
Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
John H. Lewis
Lynchburg
England
House of Commons
Mattie L. Cooke
Hollns College
Gertrude E. Boatwright
Virginia College
Prices for Grain and Live Stock at Baltimore May 19
Thorough list of poultry, eggs, butter and grain prices from Baltimore and Chicago on May 19. Includes live poultry figures for chickens ducks and roosters, egg prices for nearby firsts, butter and creamery varieties, and grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye barley. Also provides official prices for No 2 red winter wheat and nearby corn and yellow corn futures with contract ranges.
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Baltimore
Chicago
Live Stock Market Prices From Chicago May 19
cattle ranges show top yearling steers at 9.65 with bulk 8.00 to 8.85, fat stock 6.00 to 7.50, bulls around 6.25. hogs see top 8.26 to 8.80, bulk 8.20 to 8.70 with pigs up 10 cents. sheep report shorn lambs top 12.00, bulk 11.50 to 11.75 and strong Texas yearlings at 9.50 with best ewes at 6.75.
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Chicago
Texas
Cotton middling market quotes from New York to Charleston
The report lists benchmark cotton prices across ports with New York at 12.45 cents per pound, Norfolk at 11.50, and Charleston at 11.25. These figures reflect regional trading levels in mid inland markets.
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New York
Norfolk
Charleston
Wellsburg Citizens Seek Repeal of Blue Laws
In Wellsburg West Virginia citizens protest the town’s blue laws enacted recently. They plan next Sunday to enjoy a comparatively “wide open” town as the council faces pressure to repeal the restrictive ordinances.
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Wellsburg
Citizens
Council
Washington Post
Wellsburge
Council Nance
Ban on bare legs shocks Sis'ersville High students
Special to The Washington Post reports in Braterville Virginia on May 5 that the faculty banned naked legs and silk stockings prompting students to rush home for regulation hosiery. Hagerstown May 19 notes a C and O canal towpath washout at Millers Bend delaying traffic and requiring work to close the opening. Lynchburg May 19 Judge Barksdale granted four divorces for desertion: Lavinder Lavinder Quarles Quarles Murray Farmer.
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Washington Post
Braterville
IW. Va
Sis’ersville High School
Weg
Hagerstown
Millers Bend
Williamsport
Lynchburg, Va
Judge Barksdale
Circuit Court
Nathan A. Lavinder
Julia James Lavinder
Oakney Quarles
Olive W. Quarles
Sadie R. Murray
William N. Murray
Berta G. Farmer
Simon Farmer
Driller's helper killed by derrick beam near Cameron West Virginia
Nile Dowler twenty was killed when a large beam used on a derrick fell and struck his back instantly near Cameron West Virginia he was the son of Clifford Dowler. Fredericksburg May 19 Governor Wentmoreland Davis Mrs Davis and staff and generals Pershing Peyton March Lejeune and Butter are among those with hotel reservations for Fredericksburgs two hundred fiftieth anniversary celebration next Wednesday
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Washington Post
Pecal
Fredericksburg
Wentmoreland Davis
Fall of Slate Kills Miner in West Virginia Mine
Edward Garrison aged 58 was fatally crushed by a slate fall at the Whitaker Glessner Company mine in Fulton West Virginia He was exiting the mine and placing tools when the slate collapsed Two sons survive the deceased.
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Fulton
W. Va
Edward Garrison
Whitaker-Glessner Company
Garrison
Fidelity Bank and Trust Company Closes in Miami
The Fidelity Bank and Trust Company in Miami closed by order of the State comptroller. The failure affects unknown liabilities with $2.8 million available for liquidation to meet $2.325 million in liabilities, leaving a 10 percent margin.
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Miami
Fla
Fidelity Bank and Trust Company
R. W.mclendon
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