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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1929
Page
11
Local Moose chapter members meet Friday at 2 PM to discuss important matters in the Moose Home. Community notices also include Wilson family reunion on August 18 at Knottaville and various lodge meetings with reports and dues reminders.
Mrs Ona C Jeffreys led devotionals and Mrs C V Miller managed the program with poems by Riley The joint Dunham Goodwin family reunion was announced for Harmony Grove Baptist Church on September 1 A program committee G Kinsey Lee Goodwin Duryl Durham with Cleo Withers of Grafton as secretary prepared the plans.
Police found two dead adults and two asleep children in a Yonkers home after a gunman, identified as Mynn, killed Regan and Kehoe and shot Flynn who lay in another room. An incoherent note in Mynn's coat expressed hostility toward Regan and Kehoe. Flynn, a 30 year old watchman, had been a long term roomer in the Regan residence.
New York reports that Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, a 20 year tennis great and revered coach, is named captain of the U S Wightman Cup team to meet Britain in five singles and two doubles at Forest Hills Friday and Saturday. She will appear only in the final doubles match with Miss Jacobs against Phyllis Covell and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron.
Rome August 8 new marriage regulations from the Lateran treaties make church marriage sufficient and civil marriage unnecessary. Couples rush to use the simplified church procedure as anti clerical voices had previously weakened church role in matrimony.
Blueville residents John Cassell Anne and family visited Cassell's son Arthur in Fairmont. Mrs. Davis and the Mayberrys visited Thorn ton Pike hosts. Minnie Dearing of Pittsburgh visits relatives in Oak Grove and Simpson. Shroyer and George Travis called on business in Grafton. The group notes camping plans on Cheat River and Kirky Waters from Baltimore spending vacation with Grafton kin.
The Fairmont Board of Commerce gained a state charter. Additional charters were approved for Kiwanis Recreation Company in St. Marys, Central News Company in Wheeling, Tygart Valley Chevrolet Company in Grafton, and Smith Peterteum Company in Chester. Notary commissions were issued to four officials, several WV corporations dissolved voluntarily, and three families received compensation awards for deaths in state industries, with $7 weekly to each beneficiary.
The Reverend claims a woman can be a capable scoutmaster while stressing equal status during a shared ceremony in America. The Civil Code section read aloud by the priest states the husband is the head of the family. A hunting accident discharged John Alley's gun, killing his cousin.
Windsor Ontario August 8 John M Heath Detroit elevator engineer is sought for questioning in the death of prohibition agent Richard J Sandlands. Sandlands body was recovered from the Detroit river with autopsy citing a broken neck. US authorities had learned through Heaths lawyer that Sandlands boarded the Heath power boat and both men fell overboard after a scuffle.
In Oakland Tennessee on August 8, a man died after seeking intoxicated cows that had wandered off with mash they found in the woods. He and his cousin John Alley followed the herd and crawled through underbrush to recover them leading to a fatal incident.
Philippi August 8. Barbour county citizens form the Taxpayers Protective Association to study rising government costs. Fred EB Thompson is chairman Dayton R Stemple secretary with officers made permanent. Tax figures show West Virginia per capita tax rising from 5.66 in 1904 to 29.30 in 1923 and around 40 currently. Direct tax in 1923 was 86 percent, with 61 percent state direct tax.
Remainder was county district and municipal tax Amazing Increase. Since 1904 assessment valuations have increased 761 percent and the average state levy in 1926 was thirteen cents higher than in 1904. Major tax burden rests with counties districts and municipalities. Schools cited as main factor in tax rise since 1917 as over half of funds go to education. Barbour county real property values cut 20 percent but many properties offered for sale below assessed value. Public works cut about 50 thousand dollars from Barbour utilities assessment. A. Street convened meeting to study taxation and helped form by laws with Fred E. Thompson Dayton R. Stemple 8. W. England W. A. Street and A. S. Poling. Meeting adjourned to August 10 at 1 o clock at the courthouse urging all taxpayers to attend.
Paris reports Francesco Nitti nephew of the former Italian premier and two other opposition figures have escaped from the Fascist Isle of Lipari prison and reached Paris. Ant-Fascist circles hail the escape as a major inspiration and view imprisonment accounts as revealing regime tactics to suppress opposition. Escaping with Nitti were Carlo Roselli, former Genoa Institute political economy professor, and Emilio Lussi, a war hero decorated four times by the Salian government.
Aug 8 report details the body of Louise Lane, 26, slain in her apartment here, transported by Earl Smith to Morgantown for burial. Police suspect Roald Belmont Pugh, in Wilkinsburg suburb, connected to the crime. The case involves local authorities and the inquiry into the death of Miss Lane.
A mixed recipe fragment lists macaroni cheese bake with butter flour milk and cheddar, plus paprika salt green peppers and cracker crumb topping. It also includes a basic biscuit dough and a fruit shortcake base with pineapple peaches and bananas, plus chilling directions.
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