Reunion notes and community events in Grafton area
A long list of social gatherings and notices from Grafton and Evansdale areas. Includes Quetarians dinner plans, Evans reunion dinner at Hotel Grafton, a large Brown family reunion with music by Grafton High school band, lawn fete by Ladies Aid Society, and various visits and church events. Also reports a Washington based Army officer Lt Earl Phillips returning to share advanced infantry training experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Earl Phillips
397Th Infantry
Phillips
Taylor County
War Department
Ladies Aid Society
First Brethren Church
St. Charles Street
Baby Month Offer From Loar and Son at Grafton
With each five dollar order for pictures of any child under six years a free enlarged colored picture is offered. The advertisement from W R Loar & Son of Grafton West Virginia emphasizes value and novelty in their portrait service.
Augusts Own Drink Coffee Frappe Beverage Guide
Augusts Own Drink Coffee Frappe explains how iced coffee becomes more appealing in heat. It describes cooling strong coffee in a Hazel Atlas jar then shaking with cream sugar and crystal ice, pouring over cracked ice in tall glasses for a frosted, refreshing drink.
Crystal Ice Company Coal Offer Promises Quality Prices
An old ad notes Crystal Ice Company can supply coal at reasonable prices without harming drink flavor, highlighting quality and value for customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T He Crystal Ice Company
Poe and Davidson Family Reunions Highlight West Virginia Gatherings
Ground committee members and hosts planned a large family reunion with a green yellow color scheme and marigold centerpieces. A separate birthday dinner honored Mrs. H P Davidson on August 9 at J D Martin’s home with many relatives in attendance. The sixteenth Poe family reunion is set for August 25 at Devers Grove Wickwire near Grafton with a program and invitations extended to all. A Pruntytown recital features Virginia Fawcett and a varied program of piano solos duets and vocal pieces, concluding with a Mother Goose playlet and dance numbers by local performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruce Whitehair
Simpson
Simpson Baptist Church
Grove
Ernest Tobin
Grantown
S. A. Whitehair
Elizabeth
Country Club Road
Mra
Claude Newton
Edith
Donald Eugene
Grafton
Artie Post
Pauline
Daisy
Bonnie Jeanne
Galloway
Oscar Workman
Lyle
Omar
James Armand
Wendel
Edith Tobin
Davidson
I, Q. Marton
F. Monroe
Flemington
H. P. Davidson
J. D. Martin
M. M. Davidson
Sallie Davidson
Collie Davidson
C. A. Sinsel
Lucy Monroe
D. L. Cather
Bertis Cather
Susanna Martin
Plemington
Ohn M. Flanigan
Clarksburg
Poe
West Virginia
Dever
Vocal and Piano Solo Medley By Local Performers
A sequence of musical items features Hazel Jones, Mary Johnson, Georganna Bennett, Madeline Cor, Grace Grainger, Thelma Moats, Bettye Flesher, Bettye Plesher, and Fay Terry. Selections include a vocal duet Just a Little Sun, piano pieces Prairie Waits In a Rose Garden Good Night Song and Good Night Song, a trio Marche, and a musical reading Little Chink with pianist Bettye Flesher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Fawcett
Pruntytown
Lass
Pruntytown M. E. Church
Keats
Louise McPhail
Shackley
Bertha Cornwell
Avis Smith
Fearis
Virginia Woodyard
Pussy Mine
Anna Giles
Beethoven
Georganna Bennett
Madeline Colver
Fay Cover
Shubert
Bettye Flesher
Mother Goose
Parlty
Ruth Hoffman
Jack and Jill
Pay Cover
Anna Files
Jack Horner
James Howard Reed
Edna Moats
Mary Quite Contrary
Hazel Jones
Little Boy Blue
James Flesher
Miss Muffet
Ruth Morgan
Tommy Tucker
Lewis
Lee Bennett
Mary
Rapp
Arnold
Madeline Lambert
Lou
Marilyn Warner
Frances Arnold
Josephine Lambert
Columbine
Ewing
Madeline Cover
Dna
Johnson
Mary ‘Rapp
Streakbog Bet
Terry
Local residents share visits and summer travels
A Morgantown group visited Grafton to spend a day with R. M. Brown of the First Ward, welcomed Miss Maude Brown for a week. William R Wolfe and family from Morgantown were joined by Pittsburgh guests at E F Clark’s home. Claude Vogeding John Tucker party returned from Atlantic City. Journeys included motor trips to Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Regina Faherty, a Washington School graduate, visits before returning to Washington. William Mostey Jr returns from Toledo after three months with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Wolfe
Jane Elizabeth
Billy
Morgantown
Grafton
Claude Vogeding
John ‘Tucker
Atlantic City
Dickie
Betty Bord
William J. Bailey
Merle Bailey
Betty Jean
Eleanor
Pittsburgh
King Hendrick
Morniig
Baltimore
Mount Claire
Frank Hedrick
W. E. Mosely
Woolworth
Philadelphia
Lexington
Virginia
Regina Faherty
Washington School
Washington, D. C
McGraw Avenue
Washington
William Mostey, Jr
Toledo
Ohio
Detroit Post Office Clerk on Vacation with Parents
Cietor Blaney, a clerk at the Detroit Michigan post office, is spending his vacation with his parents Mr and Mrs George L Blaney on High Street. Donald Wilhelm of Rowlesburg is visiting his sister Miss Mary Wilhelm on West Main Street for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cietor Blaney
Detroit, Mich
George L. Blaney
Donald Wilhelm
Rowlesburg
Mary Willhelm
West Main Street
Stuffed Green Peppers and Cucumber Dressing Menu
Food item notes include stuffed green peppers with bread crumbs tomatoes rice onions and butter, baked 35 minutes with water in the pan. Also cucumber dressing with salad dressing cucumber pickles onions salt paprika celery salt then chill and serve. Macaroon Custard Dessert combines sugar flour salt egg yolks milk vanilla macaroon crumbs and beaten egg whites folded in, then cooled.
Celestial Meteor Shower Seen by Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay Wisconsin August observed early today the Perseid meteor shower known as tears of Saint Lawrence. Edwin B Frost editor Astrophysical Magazine said six students counted 140 meteors in two hours after midnight with sky coverage under half. Meteors were not unusually large and resembled prior displays brightest August 11 then faded.
Goats Mistaken for Deer Lead to Night Hunt Arrest
Lew Tillock and James Cook, while fishing near Toledo Oregon, lost track of their tethered goat and mistook a rustle in the woods for deer. They fired with flashlights, killing the animal they believed to be a deer. Two game wardens arrested them for hunting at night and fined $200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ore
Lew Tillock
James Cook
Baby killed when mother thrown under truck near Logan
A month old child of Mrs Elmer Thomas died last night after she and the child were thrown from a returning family picnic truck in a motor mishap. Mrs Thomas escaped uninjured. Local officials report the accident occurred as the vehicle jolted and overturned, the child perishing in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
W. Va
Elmer Thomas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Coral R
Parrish
Institute
Grafton Quotarians
Helionimus
Park
de- I
John Evans
Dilleton
Homestead
Evansdale
Allbasket
Earnest Reed
B. Knotts Avenue
Baker and Lanham
J. A. Kimble
Maple Avenue
L. B. McGinnis
Newburg
C. M. Kimble
Everett
Paden City
J. E. Billiter
Canton
Catholic Daughters
Catholic Daughters of America
Knights of Columbus
Grafton Womens Christian Temperance Union
First Baptist Church
Black Falls
William B. Mallonee
Odbert
Emily
Grafton Park
Tygarts Valley
William ©. Mallonee
Jehildren Oobert
Cheat River
Margaret Hanway
Sallie Bunner
Buddy Lambert
R. McCue
W. R. Loar & Son
Grafton, W. Va
Osgood
Love Drug Company
H. L. Potts
James Fast
Fairmont
George Kiger
Harold Moore
M. H. Brown
Charles P. Rogers
Clyde Brown
Atwater Kent
Atwater
Yates Ave
West Va
Alexander George
Bloomfield
N. J
John Jacobs
Jacobs
Brookdale
Gamewantens
Burton & Randolph
Price
Burton & Randolph Inc
Gotham
Paris
Chamye
Iit
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