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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1950
Page
4
The item notes that the Gr ap ton Publishing Company prints a weekday 2 afternoon edition from 102 Latrobe Street Grafton West Virginia. It describes ownership, historical basis as a weekly starting 1870, and transition to a daily except Sunday since 1903. It also lists telephone, office details, and Associated Press rights for local and W WP dispatches.
Mrs Cuyahoga Kate Patton aged 85 of Route 1 Avella Pennsylvania died at 10 p.m. Saturday. Born in Cleveland Ohio November 18 1864 she was daughter of the late John M Downing and Sarah Downing. Her husband John Brown Patton is deceased. Surviving children include Mrs Florence Abraham George D Patton and Walter A Patton. Surviving stepchildren include Mrs Mary Lawson Miss Anna Patton Mrs Elizabeth Rite and Mrs Agnes Purthtop plus stepson Robert Patton. She is survived by eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. A member of the Grafton Epis-
R. Jones pitched Belle's Newsstand to their eleventh victory of the weekend, defeating South Side 12 to 4 in a five inning game. Belle's will face Washington Street tonight with Frye pitching for Belle's.
Mrs Patton who had lived in Grafton for many years also resided in Turtle Creek Pennsylvania and was a long time Avella resident for eighteen years.
Elmer E Elsworth Raymond 72 of Curve Bridge Route 1 Grafton died at home Saturday Born in Bellefonte PA September 15 1876 son of the late Mr and Mrs William Howard Raymond His wife Carrie Spinney Raymond died in 1941 Surviving two children Nellie Poznanovich and William Raymond both of McKeesport PA One half brother Paul Raymond of McKeesport and two half sisters Edna Bartlett Washington DC and Bertha Gregorire Chicko California Also seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren He was a retired trackman for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company and had lived in Grafton 39 years formerly Belfonte
In a harsh western landscape Doctor Ives helps a wounded man Brule and discovers a hidden hundred dollar bill, while a new woman of the range appears on the riverbank. Tension builds as Brule’s schemes unfold and the frontier’s clash of progress and peril emerges.
Esketh Pearson notes Wilde's fondness for ornate neckties in his salad days and shows Willie's blunt reply. Fee highlights Mayor Jimmy Walker's infamous early remarks from Time reissues. Gertrude Ederle's Channel swim compared to biblical and historic crossings. Two vagabonds share a park bench exchange ends with a shrug. Copyright 1950 King Features Syndicate.
South Side McAfee picks up two, as Belle and McCord secure a key home run effort. McAfee drives in runs, boosting the team's late inning lead in a tight game.
Fragments describe postwar shipbuilding and the American push to repair ships in Japan. The piece credits the reciprocating engine as a man’s greatest friend and notes that American production, guided by Henry Kaiser, turned the Liberty ship into the first ocean going vessel mass produced anywhere.
Special to Central Press reports that U S aircraft production will be ordered doubled under an accelerated defense plan, with critics noting past wartime surges and emergency controls. Inside info suggests threefold increases may take two years under current conditions. Also described are piggy back rocket experiments at Banana River and White Sands, plus State Department efforts to brief Capitol Hill staff to better explain American foreign policy.
A collage of quirky lines mentions U S warships being taken out of mothballs and asks what kind of insects subsist in a diet of armor. It then jokes about television screens, relatives from renting a summer collact, and an award to the Ute tribe.
In a frontier tale, Brule is saved by Ives the doctor after a staged assassination attempt by Brule for a larger hit on Colonel Carradine. Ives confronts Brule about his hired killer role, warns of future danger, and Brule regains consciousness as a hopeful, wary ally to a young woman seeking escape and safety on the badlands road.
The article notes pre fabricated ship parts and rapid assembly with yards completing a vessel in 39 days and a single week during wartime effort, highlighting the extraordinary speed and effort of the yards in building Liberty ships.
The Reverend George E. Manson will officiate a Tuesday 1 30 p m funeral service at Bartlett Funeral Home for Mrs Kate Patton Cuyaboga. Burial will be at Bluemont. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Our best sources of calcium are fresh milk concentrated and dry milks ice cream and cheese. We need calcium to build and maintain sound teeth and bones.
An elderly lady seeks housekeeping with rate details for first insertion and successive discounts for multiple insertions. The page lists numerous classifieds including sales of household goods, rental properties, furnished and unfurnished rooms and apartments, and a mail order Christmas card offer with sample imprints, all with contact telephone numbers and street addresses.
The State Road Commission of West Virginia invites sealed proposals for State Project 7451 in Taylor County. Bids due by 10 a.m. August 29 1950 in Charleston. Work includes grading draining cement concrete paving and bridge on Bridge Street in Grafton No. 8 1827 with a $7000 certified check requirement.
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