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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1935
Page
3
An enjoyable picnic was held yesterday afternoon at Dever's Grove sponsored by the Laymen Council of the Methodist Prove tant church. About many members and friends attended. The afternoon featured games contests and sixteen valuable prizes. A five o'clock picnic meal was served. An impressive service closed the activities for the day.
August 16 social calendar shows Reed Raines and his orchestra performing for dancing from 9 to 1 o'clock at Moose Home.
London says the British government has invited the United States Japan France and Italy to a preliminary naval conference to discuss possible limits. Bilateral talks with France Italy Russia begin in September ahead of a formal 1935 conference under the Washington treaty. Germany and Russia may join the preliminary meeting if invited. The US origin of the treaty is noted.
A rib rocking mystery thriller opens today at the Strand Theatre with Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen in a comic suspense clash. Powell and Rogers play a New York attorney and society girl in Star of Midnight while Ginger Rogers and Powell star in a hotel mystery about two sleuths chasing clues amid a deluxe hotel setting. The film mix promises laughs and suspense as the key clue rests with a young beauty. READ THE WANT ADS FOR BARGAINS.
Mrs Kenneth Robinson hosted a Wednesday bridge gathering for Shinuston Bridge Club members. Guests arrived from Grafton, enjoyed bridge, dinner, and gifts as part of a social afternoon with listed attendees and the forthcoming Puine supper at the church in Marionment West Virginia. Birthday dinner for Mr and Mrs George Hall followed with guests from multiple towns and families bringing baskets and gifts.
Ran McKinney on Dewey avenue welcomes a baby daughter born this afternoon at City hospital weighing eight pounds fourteen ounces. Both mother and baby are reported well. Also noted is a coroner’s jury investigation into the stomach contents of Hon. Clay Burns, 44, who died two weeks ago.
General car foreman T H Hollen of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad visits Grafton with H R Gibson and L Ford attending a B and C cooperative meeting. Blueville, New Jersey, visitors, Miss Edna Lanerall of Baltimore and Dorothy Wiley of Maple Avenue, plus families from New York and Connecticut, are noted among locals and kin visiting here. William Delbert, 60, of Fairmont, loses a leg in an accident involving the Baltimore and Ohio road.
Commerce department data show the Rogers Post plane licensed on August 8. It is a Lockheed Orion with Pratt Whitney 350 horsepower engine and three seats, designed for long distance flying and test work. It is the latest design and planned for Post for flights to Siberie.
Representatives of three leading branches of Wesleyan churches voted to merge the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church into one body in Chicago on August 16.
Charleston August 16 Con tributions from local governmental units and types of labor available are listed by F Witcher McCullough state WPA director as primary factors in determining works projects to be constructed. He declared if West Virginia subdivisions are unable to meet contribution requirements they must accept types possible with reduced contributions or outright grants.
Anh Harding and her seven year old daughter Jane Banker are shown with actor Harry Bannister visiting in Hollywood. The family scene marks a rare public appearance as Harding and her ex husband Bannister have prior history and the report notes a divorce years ago.
Senate lobby committee hears that residents of Ridgefield Connecticut signed telegrams to congressmen opposing the Wheeler Rayburn utility holding company bill after a meter reader from Associated Gas and Electric warned rate increases and threatened job loss if they did not sign. Harry E. Hull, who investigated for the committee, testified about 110 telegrams from Ridgefield to Senator Maloney. The witness said twenty two additional telegrams were signed in response to the meter reader's assertion.
Charleston August 16 The board of public works will meet at 10 p m to study Budget Director Frank C Horn's recommendation for a raise in state employes salaries Commissioner J B McLaughlin said the board has tentatively approved parts of the schedule Horn outlined would eliminate pay inequalities and improve compensation.
Leon Gareanoff presents Thunder in the East at the Opera House starring Charles Boyer Merle Oberon and John Loder in a naval battle drama adapted from Claude Farrere’s The Battle. Nicolas Farkas directs scenes praised for stark realism and intense sensory impact.
RKO Radio romance of love and mystery features William Powell and Ginger Rogers in a stylish pursuit tale. Miss Rogers shows fresh glamor from Roberta while Powell plays a wary lead in a baffling mystery at the local theater tonight.
A beautiful woman vanishes and a newspaper columnist is killed under strange circumstances. Three rival factions seek the solution, each driven by a separate motive. Powell and Miss Rogers, long-time co performers, finally share a screen as RKO opens the microphones for this intriguing mystery. Tonight and tomorrow the Opera House presents the feature.
George Smith, a resident of South Grafton, Ohio, is held in Martin's Ferry on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license. He allegedly treated a girl with tuberculosis using snake oil and other ingredients.
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