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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
3
Society page notice requests reunion details for the Sentinel social calendar. Reunion secretaries are urged to notify the paper with time place and date to publish.
Registered nurses in Grafton host a benefit dance at the Moose home with Jack Beatty and his Fairmont orchestra. Proceeds go to the Dr Hupp Scholarship Loan Fund for Nurses in Wheeling West Virginia. The event aims to bolster county contributions and includes novelty acts and special numbers by the orchestra.
A Central Press bridge column analyzes a North bid disaster in 2 No Trumps, detailing defensive sequences led by East and West to force declarer down five tricks. The writer offers tactics to counter similar misbids and explains possible swing lines and end positions.
The Flemington West Virginia council met August 4 1936 to set the current year tax levy estimates. The record shows the mayor recorder and council members approving estimated receipts disbursements and levy by class with real estate and personal property valuations and total municipality figures. Anne Fleming county clerk certifies the levy conforms to the council order.
Charles Davis of Philadelphia visits his parents on Latrobe street. Dr. O S Campbell is taken to St Marys hospital in Clarksburg for kidney surgery by Dr Bert Haines. Mr and Mrs H E Nice visit Grafton from Rowlesburg. Mrs D O Bartlett and daughters Lynette and Esther visit Grafton. Hoye G White Sr learns of illness of brother W J White of Mountain Lake Park Md. he leaves for that city. Mrs William J Madden and Alta Rita Madden depart for Portland Oregon to visit brother William Jenkins. Miss Betty Lee Barnes and father W L Barnes go to Philadelphia for infantile paralysis treatment at Shriners Hospital. Miss Irene Collier of Grafton and Boerie Stemple of Philippi visit Dawson's Camp with Broaddus College friends. Mrs R J Maloney travels to Tiffin Ohio for son Robert Jr's appendix operation. Johnny Gall returns from six weeks in Lancaster NY. Mrs Fletcher Studder and daughter Mary Ann visit in Grafton from Monroe Louisiana. Mr and Mrs William Norris and children Merie Douglas Paul and Kenneth return to Clarksburg after a week in Grafton. Mr and Mrs C R Morgan of Fairmont and Edward Gallaher of Beaumont Calif visit Grafton relatives. Gallaher will stay a few days with Mrs C D Powell and others.
Anamosa Iowa August 14 Johnny McGrath after 25 months in the state reformatory is released from a ten year sentence for breaking into a Shenandoah Iowa liquor case. Promised job by James Braddock world heavyweight champ who pled with Governor Herring and parole board to employ McGrath at 35 a week and supervise his social activities. McGrath credits Braddock with his comeback and says the champ will help him and that he has found religion and is off liquor.
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