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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
7
The city shifts from magneto to modern common battery service with no hand ringing. Complete equipment moved to Citizens' National Bank building to serve 225 telephones under supervisor R J Eisenhauer, with Miss Lena Rosenbaum as chief operator. Public visits planned after completion.
Ralph Ault, an oil driller from Dennison Ohio, found sleep more vital than footwear after a long shift. Driving home he dozed with his feet over the seat and woke to discover both shoes missing, a cow nearby gnawing on one of the shoes.
The Baltimore Sunday American will replace the Washington Herald in West Virginia starting August 2, with the Baltimore American and American Weekly section added. The edition retains the same comics, features, and a four page Fiction Section, available at the same stands and price as the Washington Herald. Your newsdealer has copies.
A lengthy log lists radio programs across stations NBC CBS WGN KDKA WCPO WGMN WAVE WISPO and more. It details acts such as Otto Thorn's Orchestra Wild West sketches and numerous musical ensembles plus drama readings and news segments throughout the night into midnight.
In Cincinnati on Aug 7 a Chesapeake youth Alonzo Thompson, 19, on trial for first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Patrolman Lawrence Robbins during an attempted robbery. Thompson denied the charge from the witness stand as the judge postponed closing arguments to Monday to allow a juror to attend a wedding.
A yellow jacket stung Thurman Ruch who then set grass afire to destroy the nest. The blaze threatened village buildings in TIFFIN before firefighters halted the flames.
In Elloree South Carolina on August 7 a 20 pound gobbler at the W H Ballard farm relieved a turkey hen on a nest and stayed through four weeks of heat until five poults hatched. Mrs Ballard says it was the gobbler’s own idea.
Draper notes a drop from 9,900,000 to about 9.6 to 9.7 million since April. He stresses these figures are not official and rely on various sources for internal information. AFL President William Green cites over 11 million unemployed, while a National Industrial Conference Board estimate in April placed 9.8 million out of work.
The newspaper O Oeuvre says Hamburg left July 31 with 28 bombing planes munitions staff pilots and military officers. The planes arms and men were for the Spanish rebel forces, the British foreign office learned. Two German executions complicated Germany’s stance on France’s plan for a binding “hands off” accord.
reports say four Germans executed by Spanish leftists in Barcelona sparked anxiety in Paris and London. King Alfonso slated to Berlin to attend Olympics and discuss with Hitler as Blum and Dusbos push a neutral weapons ban. Germany awaits reply to a six nation pact on excluding war materiel from Spain.
Local pastor slides as a feature of the entertainment hour Thursday evening. A steady rain kept the afternoon recreation indoors in the gym. After vesper services Friday, a story hour will be held with the annual chatauqua to feature the assembly Saturday night.
The article reports three suspects linked to an open air Black Legion meeting on October 5, 1935. It notes plans to flog a man tied to a tree for missing meetings and cites initial PenLand case arrests announced by Prosecutor Duncan McCrea on June 4. The investigation follows the May 12 slaying of Charles A Poole.
BEAVER Pa Aug 7 The transcontinental vacation trip of Bert M Bromley and his family ended in a collision on a narrow curve at the foot of a steep hill. Bromley, his wife and 12 year old son were killed. Mrs Bromley and her son were conscious but trapped in flames as spectators and firefighters worked to free them. Bromley and a 16 year old daughter Bonita were pulled from the wreckage. he later died.
Two automobiles collided on Backbone mountain injuring Kenneth Murphy and Buck Harper. Murphy, 21, suffered a broken jaw and head wounds while Harper, a Davis and Elkins college football player, received leg injuries and was treated.
In the matter of Ira W McDowell bankrupt a discharge petition will be heard on September 9 1936 at ten o clock in the forenoon in Elkins West Virginia. Clerk to mail copies of the order to known creditors. W E Baker judge. (SEAL) Wm C Howard clerk. Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company v Condemnation Anna M Jarvis et al Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company notified of hearing August 15 1936 at 10 AM in Taylor County circuit court room Grafton West Virginia.
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company proposes to file to appoint commissioners to fix just compensation for right of way and easement for an electric transmission line across two parcels totaling about 158 acres in Fetterman District, Taylor County. The parcels include land once owned by Anna M Jarvis with coal rights partly owned by Lillian Jarvis. The line would run along a surveyed center line with poles at marked points and be at least 18 feet above ground. The company seeks authority to trim vegetation and excludes coal mining, oil and gas rights from taking. The surface rights would remain usable after construction with limited temporary use for maintenance.
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