L L Watson Dies After Brief Illness in Jefferson County
Jefferson County West Virginia man L L Watson died at his home after a four day illness from a stroke. He was 84, born April 4 1855 at Leetown. Survived by a large family including sons Neill S Watson and Raymond L Watson and daughters Mrs Leslie N Russell Mrs Eva W Van Huss Mrs C Wilson Moler and Mrs Lorine C Swanp. Funeral services at Summit Point Methodist Church with interment in Mason ic Cemetery Middleway.
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Jefferson County
W. Va
Mr. Watson
Ephriam and
Celina Locks Watson
Leetown
Lydia E. Hiett
Watson
Neill S. Watson
Charles Town
Raymond L. Watson
Winchester
Leslie N. Russell
Berryville
Eva W. van Huss
Summit Point
C. Wilson Moler
Lorine C. Swanp
Wadesville
Floyd L. Watson
Princess Julia of the Netherlands Born At Soestdijk
Crowds gathered at Soestdijk as guns and broadcasters announced the birth of Julia. By 1908 royal decree declared her a Princess of the Netherlands and Dragge Nassau, with Lippe-Biesterfeld title from her father. Amsterdam schoolchildren and vendors marked the event with memorabilia amid celebrations.
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Soestdijk
Juliana
the Netherlands
Dragge
Nassau
Mecklenburg
Five Die in Weekend Auto Crashes Across Region
A series of weekend crashes killed five people and injured others across Frederick and surrounding counties. Douglas McFarland admitted driving the Route 50 wreck that killed Ollie McFarland and two others. Graden Wallace died at Memorial Hospital from a fractured skull after a Stephens City crash. a unidentified woman died north of Winchester when a Martinsburg bound car veered and overturned. Funeral details were set for Ollie McFarland and Holmes Puffinberger with services announced in Frederick and nearby towns.
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Friendship
Mildred Puffinberger
Holmes Puffinberger
W. C. Lawrence
Omps Funeral Home
Ollie McFarland
Douglas McFarland
Puffinberger
Lawrence
Bristol, Va
George Snaff
Kentucky
Omps Funeral
Covington
Graden Wallace
Stephens City
Lester Simpson
Greyhound
Roanoke
Winchester
Harrison Clowser
Clearbrook
Wallace
Memorial Hospital
Mount Williams
Frederick County
Route 11
Samuel Cooper
Martinsburg
Kernstown
Cooper
Gibson
Graham Cooper
Sam Cooper
Baltimore
Welton A. Green
Miss Evans
Front Royal
Old Chapel
Baltimore Produce and Livestock Market Prices Report
Livestock and produce market prices for Baltimore dated January 31 list apples and bushel baskets with various varieties including Staymans and Yorks, rail and U S prices, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and poultry. Prices cover Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia markets with ranges for apples, potatos, poultry, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Washington
Ken Island
Soprano Margaret Speaks denies snub over Blacksburg concert
In a January letter to VPI officials Margaret Speaks the concert and radio soprano denies refusing to sing in Blacksburg saying the absence stemmed from contractural conflicts not attitude toward the town She notes she has long performed in small towns and offered to reschedule the Blacksburg concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blacksburg
Margaret Speaks
John E. Williams
Miss Speaks
Baltimore Livestock and Philadelphia Produce Report
Baltimore market notes show cattle with slower demand and lower prices across weights, calves steady, hogs up about two dollars, sows up to 17.50, sheep lambs steady with good quality bringing 8.75 to 9.00 for light weights. Philadelphia cheese and poultry prices listed along with egg totals at 1,748 cases reflecting steady trends.
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Baltimore Livestock
Baltimore
Philadelphia
P. R
Stock Market Report in New York Slows Rally
New York stock market shows a cautious crawl with leaders gaining marginally toward the end of the session. The tape moved slowly with few extreme advances as about 800000 shares changed hands and notable quotes include Am Can at 76 1 2, Am Radiator at 11 3 4, Am Smelt at 46 7 8.
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New York
Fall Fatal To a Worker
Relatives report the death of Paul B Warren a 51 year old Brooklyn structural steel worker killed January 21 in White Plains New York when a plank broke and he fell 18 feet into rocks. He had just started a new job and died on impact. He leaves a widow four sons and two brothers Harry D Warren of Stephens City and Calvin H Warren of East Berlin Pa. He is a grandson of A B Rothgeb of Stephens City. Funeral services were held at the Harry Moulden funeral home in Bristol Pa with burial in Bristol Cemetery.
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Stephens City
Paul B. Warren
Brooklyn
N. Y
White Plains
Warren
Mr. Warren
Bertha McCune
McKeesport
Matilda Yeagle
Bristol
Harry D. Warren
This Place
Calvin H. Warren
East Berlin
A. B. Rothgeb
Harry Warren
Bubbles” Warren
Harry Moulden
Stock Quotes Abridged Listing of Major Rail and Steel Firms
A condensed stock table lists company abbreviations with latest figures such as American Telephone 140 1 2, Anaconda 29 3 8, A T S F 34 3 4, Bethlehem Steel 54 3 4, U S Steel 52 3 4, General Electric 38 3 8, Chrysler 52 3 8, DuPont 109 1 2, Gen Foods 31 1 2, Johns Manville 68 1 2, Mont Ward 32 1 8, N Y Central 16 1 2, Penn R R 21, Southern Pacific 17 1 2, Woolworth 38 7 8, Westinghouse 92, and others listed with trailing figures.
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Am. Tel
Tel
Anaconda
Beth. Steel
C. and O
Chrysler
Colum. Credit
Con. Edison
DuPont de N
Gen
Elec
Gen. Foods
Gen. Motors
Int. Harvester
Johns Manville
Keninecott
Mont. Ward
N. Y. Central
Owens Il. Gl
Penn. R. R
Proctor and Gam
Repub. Sdl
Sou. Pac
A Small Business Man A Small Business Man
On relief in a $3 weekly room Robert Kaempfer wonders if he qualifies as a small business man He will go to Washington on Wednesday for the Roosevelt small business conference with the New York delegation of 175 Friends funded his travel to the event in the nation’s capital.
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New York
Robert Kaempfer
Daniel C. Roper
Commerce
Washington
Roosevelt
Wheat prices rise in Chicago as drought hits supply
Chicago bids show higher wheat despite drought in Kansas and cold wave fears. May wheat at 93 to 93 1 8 cents. July 88 to 88 1 8. Sept 87 7 8 to 88. corn and oats also up with spot prices in Baltimore and Winchester Grain Market listing mill deliveries.
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Chicago
Kansas
Bolt'more Grain
Baltimore
Winchester Grain Market
Middletown Debate Rescheduled to February 17
The Middletown Community League will hold its debate on February 17 after postponing the originally planned February 4 event. Local organizers cited scheduling conflicts and community interest in a fuller discussion.
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Middletown
Middletown Community League
Rites Planned Tuesday for Bushrod Carpenter
Friends and relatives will meet at Jones Funeral Chapel tomorrow at 1 PM and proceed to Lamp M E Church for services for Bushrod Carpenter 86 who died Sunday at his daughter’s home on Apple Pie Ridge. He leaves four sons Russell L G Edward O and Conrad B Carpenter of Frederick County and two daughters Nellie Swimley Station W Va and Mrs Edward Payne. Burial follows at the church cemetery with pallbearers Walter Richard Charles Hoover Joseph William and Bruce Lineburg.
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Jones Funeral Chapel
M. E
Bushrod Carpenter
Edward Payne
Apple Pie Ridge
Mr. Carpenter
John
Annie Carper Carpenter
Frederick County
Russell
L G
Edward O
Conrad B. Carpenter
Nellie
Swimley Station
W W. Va
G. L. Walters
Lemp’s M. E. Church
South
B. F. Switzer
Walter, Richard and
Charles Hoover
Joseph, William and
Bruce Lineburg
Slapping Case Is Settled To Jap Satisfaction
In Tokyo on January 31 the Japanese foreign office said a dispute over a Japanese sentry slapping John M. Allison, a top American embassy official in Nanking, was satisfactorily settled. The spokesman noted Japan’s forces at Nanking expressed regrets, while the American embassy in Washington awaited clarity on the apology’s acceptance.
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Tokyo
John M. Allison
Nanking
Foreign Office
Poudung
Washington
School Meeting Postponed to February 17
The regular meeting night has been postponed until Thursday February 17. Proceeds from the meeting will fund the purchase of shades for the school.
Page Returns From Meeting Postmasters
W Nelson Page of Blackstone Virginia attended the Fourth District Postmasters Association meeting in Blackstone on Saturday He said Virginia Postmasters Association districts will form quickly and he urged action He spoke on pending congressional bills and the district association approved one measure informing Virginia Senators Officers elected included T E Lee of Lawrenceville as president and T E Chambers presided
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W. Nelson Page
Blackstone
Fourth District Postmasters’ Association
Negro Barber George Washington Potter Died in Berryville
George Washington Potter a Berryville barber died at his home at midnight after a paralysis illness. Born August 4, 1879, he was survived by his wife Katherine and children Estelle James Mary George Jr Eliza John Sarah and three grandchildren William Prentiss and Charles. Services will be at Zion Baptist Church Berryville at 2 pm Wednesday with Milton Valley burial. Rev. R L Rawlins officiating. pallbearers named Carter Laws Page Page Page Jenkins.
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George Washington Potter
Berryville
Susan Dye Potter
Clarke County
Katherine Potter
Estelle
James
Mary
George
Eliza
John
Sarah
William
Prentiss
Charles
Zion Baptist Church
Milton Valley
R. L. Rawlins
Thomas Carter
Chris Laws
Hamilton Page
Albert Page
Randall Page
Edward Jenkins
Illness Fatal to Infant Edward Leigh in Grimes Va
Infant Edward Lewis Leight son of Mr and Mrs Horace O Leight Grimes Virginia died at City hospital Martinsburg West Virginia yesterday afternoon he was born July 16 1937 obsequies set for Grimes church with Rev F B Sapp officiating Survived by twin sister Evelyn Louise and brothers Horace Jr Charles and Donald Leight as well as his parents
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Edward Lewis Leight
Horace O. Leight
Grimes
City Hospital
Martinsburg
Leight
Frances Randall
Jones Funeral
Clay
F. B. Sapp
Evelyn Louise
Horace, Jr
Charles
Donald Leight
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L. L. Watson
Middleway
George Hazel
Hunter M. Davidson
Masonic Cemetery
Charles Moler
Kenneth Moler
Lloyd Russell
Strother Watson
Lloyd Watson
Daniel Elsen
Ralph Hann
Douglas Carter
Old Rugged Cross
Statenas T
R. E. Bayliss
James A. Miller
McFarland
Newcome
Bayliss
New Deal
McFarlands
McFarland Rites
Mount Olive
Jones’ Funeral
Mary Brill
Luther McFarland
Edward McFarland
Mamie Barr McFarland
Albert
Leo
Harvey
Ernest
George McFarland
Annabelle McFarland
Emme Haymaker
Dorothy Robinson
Holmes Boyd Puffinberger
Salem Church
Ridge
Reynolds
Grover
Virginia Miller Puffinberger
Lester
Lois
Pasket
Theodore
Bernice
Eugene
Bubara
Lela A. Williams Walace
Joseph
Roderick
Bloom
Bloom’s Dept. Store
N. Loudoun St
Stock Market Report
White House
National Association of Postmasters
James Roosevelt
Russell Whipple
Lehigh
Iowa
Paul Younts
Charlotte
N. C
John J. Hart
Ottawa
Ill
G. B. Garr
West Palm Beach
Fla
Peter Tague
Boston
I. R. Smoot
Salt Lake City
Catherine Matlock
Camboia
Vincent Burke
Washington, D. C
George W. Purcell
Bloomington
Ind
Florida Orange
N. Main St
Huntsberry
TOLL
Miia
NO. Braddock ST
France
Page
Edward Leigh
McCormick-Deering
Rene al
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