Local Society Notes and Farewell for Ava Dell Headley
Miss Jerry Morgan reports on a Blueville farewell for Ava Dell Headley who departs for Parkersburg to attend Main State Business College. Social calendars feature club meetings at Carpenter home and Friendship Bible class plans, plus Layman’s Council entertainment and Business Girls bowling at the YMCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Headley
Blueville
Ava Dell
Miss Headrey
Parkersburg
State Business College
Ruth Bolyard
Geraldine Sturm
Ruby Knotts
Mary Prances Keener
Mildred Lucas
Freda Lucas
James Allender
Wayne Adams
William Towles
Dee Knight
Joe Hoban
Kenneth Foster
Bus" Duckworth
Howard Blue
Paul Fawcett
Leo Newton
Junior Fawcett
Bill Allender
Fred Jackson
George Knight
John McFarland
Francis Flanagan
Bill Stevens
Lloyd Bolyard
Lawrence Brown
Social Calendar Highlights Local Reunions and Events
Community listings detail Aug 7 Ladies Aid meeting at Mrs B C Isner for silverware shower, Aug 9 family reunions at Davison Run Baptist and Lambert homestead, Aug 9 Brown reunion at Graf ton Fairmont road church grove, Aug 10 B and O Veterans memorial services and picnic prep, Aug 13 Boy Scout musical at Methodist church, Aug 16 Isner and Murphy family gatherings, Aug 16 Morgan and Davis Meredith reunions, plus nursery mentions at Grafton City hospital and social gathering notes from local church groups and Women’s Home Missionary Society events with program details and prize winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid of the
United Brethren Church
B. C. Isner
Beech Street
Yates-Gawthrop
Davison Run Baptist Church
Harrison County
Lambert-Weaver
Lambert Homestead
Boothsville
Brown
Brown Church Grove
Grafton-Fairmont Road
Boy Scouts of the Methodist Protestant Church
Isner
Murphy
Clemtown
Morgan
Mount Zion
Fairmont
Davis-Meredith
Beechwood Grove
Alma
Taylor County
C. Shahan
Jess Goff
W. R. Loar
L. J. Loar
Charles Marshall
George Welsh
Lawrence Sinsel
John Thayer
V. Chenoweth
J. A. Sinclair
Ganeuien
Westward Motor Trip Ends as Miss Stafford Returns
Miss Betty Stafford daughter of Mr and Mrs J F Stafford of 329 Walnut street retired last evening from a motor trip through the west. She traveled with William Gibson of the city and a party from Columbus Ohio visiting sites such as the Grand Canyon Mesa Verde Rocky Mountain and Yosemite National parks San Diego and San Francisco. The group left Columbus July 1 and began the return July 30 noting excellent weather five days of rain and two flat tires on the way back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Betty Stafford
J. F. Stafford
Walnut Street
Stafford
William Gibson
Ann Charles
Robert Charles
Dorothy Traphagan
Columbus
Ohio
California
Charles
Ohio University
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Yosemite National Park
San Diego
Miss Stafford
San Francisco
Bridge Club Party Hosted by Mrs Schroeder on West Washington
Mrs Fred Schroeder hosted a bridge club gathering Monday night at her West Washington home. Prizes for high score went to Miss Virginia Holt and Mrs Ernest M Clark. A frozen salad course was served to the guests including Mrs Lynn Faulkner and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. T. Club
C.T. I
Genevieve
Mildred Carpenter
McConkey
D. L. Carpenter
Lenore
Bridge
Fred Schroeder
Bride Club
West Washington Street
Virginia Holt
Ernest M. Clark
Schroeder
Holt
Clark
Lynn Faulkner
Virgil Rohrbough
Geneva Hilkey
Irene Kunst
John K. Burdette
Jean Murray
Births of Barbara Joan Thayer and Ann Beagle Hood
Lieut and Mrs John M Thayer announce a July 26 birth in Great Falls Montana a 7 lb 11 oz daughter named Barbara Joan. Mr and Mrs Paul Hood announce an August 5 birth in Fairmont West Virginia a daughter named Ann Beagle Hood. Grandparents include Dr and Mrs Alden Beagle Pruntytown Pike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Thayer
Havre
Montana
Great Falls Hospital
Great Falls
Mont
Barbara Joan
Thayer
Grafton
C. C. ‘Thayer
Thayer Street
Paul Hood
Rivesville
W. Va
Cook's Hospital
Fairmont
Miss Hood
Ann Beagle Hood
Hundreds Arrive for West Virginia Democratic Convention
Clarksburg Aug 7 Hundreds of delegates and party officials arrive for the Democratic state convention with 1004 delegates officially credited. State Chairman R C Andrews and Attorney General Homer A Holt meet with the state negro convention as sessions set for 9:30 a m tomorrow. Governor Kump to deliver keynote and Neely to speak before balloting for supreme court nominees and presidential electors. Headquarters opened in convention hotels by several supreme court candidates including Fred L Fox Frank C Haymond D H Hill Arnold Alfred D Preston Walter W Ross G W McCauley and James B Riley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
R. C. Andrews
Homer A. Holt
Democratic State Executive Committee
Supreme Court
Kump
Holt Peak
M. M. Neely
W. Va
Fred L. Fox
Frank C. Haymond
Fairmont
D. H. Hill Arnold
Elkins
Alfred D. Preston
Beckley
Walter W. Ross
Bluefield
G. W. McCauley
Moorefield
James B. Riley
Wheeling
Andrews
Long Legislative Session In Pennsylvania Ends
Harrisburg pa aug 7 the long turbulent session of the pennsylvania general assembly ended at dawn with a 45 million dollar revenue program for unemployment relief as its major achievement. Tired legislators joined jobless pickets in the finale as several hundred unemployed ended their two weeks in the senate gallery while the lawmakers waved goodbye after 14 weeks of quarrels and marches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Senate
House
Flooded Colorado hospital moves 200 women patients
In Pueblo Colorado on August 27 more than 200 women patients were moved into the main building of the state hospital to escape rising flood waters from the Fountain River. The swollen river washed away two cottages and damaged a hospital ward as residents evacuated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo
Colo
Colorado State Hospital
Fountain River
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jerry Morgan
The
Sentinel
Friendship
Friendship Bible Class
First Christian Church
Grafton Park
Strawsie Jones
Pearl, Kite
D. E. Robinson
W. R. Williams
Stanley Nicola
C. F. Hannon
Nellie Williams
Julia Elvira Nicola
Frank Graham
C. C. Richman
W. J. Richman
Clyde Courtney
Theodore Robinson
Stanley Nicola, Jr
Rev
H. J. Mitchell
John Lilly
Luther Fast
C.F. Hannon
Nley Nicola
George Grow
Business Girls Bowl
Business Girls' Club
M.C
Williawley
Ada Poling
Grafton City Hospital
Grafton Drug and Chemical Company
Best Inn
Carolyn Brown
Helen Brown
Nellie Tucker
Louise Church
Dorothy Sapp
Main Street
Strand Theatre
Fanny F. Holden
Mary Ellen
J. Worders
R. C. McDade
A. Ray | Shaw
H. H. Weekly
J. &. Freeman
Edmond ‘Hardin
William Mageuran
G. Moreland
Grace Wolfe
J. N. ‘Tregalles
H.C. Compton
William Knox
Mattie Jaco
Lila Miller
Grace Miller
Gladys Wiseman
Pennsylvania
Greyhound America
Greyhound
Tlow
Washington
D. C
New York
Grint
Dallas
IND Bus
UG Company
Phrone
Athos Greyhol
Main St
Jergen
Quick -Lax
Quick-Lax
Rexall Orderlies
Rexall
Sinn
Tobacco
Cardus Tonic
Glen B. Ledford, JR
Glen B. Ledford
LaFollette
Tennessee
Glen B., Jr
Scalf
N. R
Elmo Products
Magnesia
Lee
Emily L. Purner
Wolf Summit
Tam
Castoria
BAYER
Weit
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