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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1946
Page
8
Godwin and Shaffer advertise as the Maytag dealer on Route 50 in Grafton Mer. Indicating a nationwide parts and service reach while highlighting their status as a central hub for all makes of Maytag appliances.
Frank Gerard organizer of the local AmVets post resigns as commander due to ill health. Chester Rogers, vice commander, will fill the office until another is chosen. The post, organized less than three months ago, reports 178 members with many new joiners daily. A dance for AmVets and guests is set at Park View club headquarters next Sunday night from 9:30 to 12:30. Chuck Glenn’s orchestra will provide music. Rogers and other post committees will attend a department meeting at the Waldo hotel in Clarksburg on Sunday, September 8 at 2 p.m.
Four youths including Huntington World War II veteran Aubrey Ray were sentenced today by Common Pleas Judge H. Clay Worth. Ray, 24, of Clarksburg, got five years at Moundsville for armed robbery of the Keith-Albee theater last April 10. Thomas W. Cable, 23, now in St Albans, drew two to ten years after pleading guilty to forgery for using his mother-in-law’s name on a $300 check cashed at a Huntington bank.
The secretary of state warned that special general election ballots for West la voters in the armed services may miss the August 25 deadline due to canvassing primary votes. D Pitt O'Brien noted the law is directive not mandatory, urging commissioners to finish printing and delivery to circuit clerks as soon as possible after official returns arrive.
The city imposes a one cent tax on each admission and requires timely reporting. Transient amusement operators must report immediately, with venues submitting daily-exhibition reports within 24 hours. Religious charitable educational shows are exempt. local theatres will be notified before September 1. Estimated annual revenue is $3,000 per the 1946 47 budget.
Attorney Jed W. Robinson, past district governor, spoke on Rotary principles at the Belere club dinner. Local secretary Robinson outlined key qualifications of a good Rotarian while W. L. Reddick visiting from St. Petersburg, Fla., attended with his son James Reddick of Fairmont.
Watt R. Biggs files a bill in Circuit Clerk Merle W. Bailey’s office for divorce from Jessie N. Biggs. Married January 1, 1910, they separated in 1941. All children are over 21. He cites cruelty.
Funeral services are held today at 2:30 PM at the family home in Philippi for OVGE Waddell. He was a Philippi High School and West Virginia University graduate with law degrees from WVU, practiced in Philippi, and was active in multiple fraternal orders. Survived by wife Marady and son Richard Lee, plus mother, sister Louise, and three brothers. Burial at Mt Vernon Memorial Cemetery under C. Q. Phillips.
Claude Kemper former local FSA director and WVU extension vegetable garden specialist will be main speaker with B A Hensely county agent and Reid county agent Calhoun also speaking. 4-H demo contest judged by G P Dorsey with Mrs Dorsey Home Demonstration agent Pocahontas county. Paper plates cups and flatware supplied. First lease in Pennsylvania noted from 1854.
A damaged New York article fragment from August reports Bertha Singer, a 60 year old Brooklyn woman, freed after a tense scene involving police and a muscular son Harry. The text references a zinc bathtub and Alcatraz metaphor, with unclear surrounding details.
The second son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Geachrist of Chesapeake, Kana wha county, died at Marmet Crippled Children's hospital after becoming ill about three weeks prior.
A child wandered away from his aunt’s Barrett street home about 9 30 p m and was found roaming in the business district. Tillie Deegan alerted City Patrolman Meraa, who with Mayor C O King spoke with the boy and escorted him to his home at 311 Beech Street. The mother Mrs Paul Jewell had been visiting her sister on Barrett street and had been frantically searching.
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