August 21 Community Gatherings Across local churches and reunions
Lodges host a picnic at LNG Was Grove grounds with a noon basket lunch. Homecomings at Haymond church and Union Baptist church with multiple services and speakers. Reunions include McVicker near Webster Baptist church, Nuzum Family at Morris Park Band Stand in Fairmont, Kemper at Jackson's Mill, plus Legion Auxiliary meeting. Delta Nu Tau Phi Lambda hay ride at 7 15 p m. Canoe tickets due August 28 for Poe family reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekahs and Oddfellows Lodges
LNG
Union Baptist Church
Desist
Nuzum
Morris
Kathaleen Polyard
Irma Stutler
Francis Linn
Lucille Henderson
Helen Lucas
Poe
Grant Williams Celebrates Seventy-Fifth Birthday At Home
Grant Williams of 11 Walter Street was honored with a party at his daughter Mrs Douglas Powell’s Loveland Addition home on a Wednesday evening. Present were Fairmont residents Harley Killian Frank Morgan Eugene Morgan Robert Morgan Howard Miller Walter Haddix Betty Morgan Patricia Brady Morgantown Colletta Williams Mary Lou Booth and Douglas Powell along with the birthday honoree and his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Williams
Walter
Eugene Morgan
Robert . Morgan
Howard Miller
Fairmont
Walter Haddix
Betty
Patricia Brady
Morgantown
Earl Wilams
Colletta
Mary Lou
Doris Jean Booth
Douglas Powell
Grant Wiliams
Mrs Wilkinson Hosts Missionary Society Dinner
Mrs Florence Wilkinson hosted the Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church at her Bluemont Street home. A six o'clock chicken dinner preceded the business session led by President Mrs A A Miller. Devotions by Mr Rhea Fisher covered Isaiah, and the study book on the Lie of Amos was reviewed. Attendees included Mrs A A Miller, Mrs Elizabeth Handley, Mrs Carrie Sellars, Mrs F B Suddarth, Mrs Gertrude Shaw, Mrs Rhea Fisher, Miss Helen Thayer, Mrs R L Campbell, and the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Wilkinson
Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church
Bluemont Street
A.A. Miller
Rhea Fisher
Isaiah
Wilkinson
Amos
Picnic Supper Feature Of Business Girls Meet
The Graf ton Business Girls hosted a picnic supper at the Prunty town Methodist church social rooms on Wednesday. Miss Ellen Jane Wiseman presided in the president's absence and plans were laid for a concession stand at the County Fair. Members present included Gwendolyn Proudfoot and Elizabeth Rendle among others. two guests attended. The next meeting is scheduled at Hotel Grafton on September 7 with Miss Rendle as hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pruntytown Methodist Church
Grafton
Gwendolyn Proudfoot
Ellen Jane Wiseman
Helen Gerkins
Maxine Cockrell
Jean Grinnan
Josephine Haddix
Norma Jean Moore
Gladys Murphy
Evelyn Greene
Laura Gennette
Virginia Mae Stine
Gloria Squires
Helen Shomo
Clara Jean Fines
Elizabeth Rendle
Nellie Cook
Virginia Rosier
Margaret Grinnan
James Shafferman
Washington, D.C
Club
Hotel Grafton
Ostess
Upcoming church and fraternal meetings notice
August 19 the Women’s Missionary Society of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will meet at the church at 8 p.m with Mrs C D Losh leading. Note the date change. August 20 Mountaineer Council No 44 Junior Order United American Mechanics meets in the W F W hall on East Main Street at 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Missionary Society of the
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
C. D. Losh
Mountaineer Council No. 44
United American Mechanics
W.F.W. Hall
East Main Street
Kines Hoff man Wedding Solemnized August 6
Betty Kines of Grafton wed Eugene Hoffman of Rowlesburg in a quiet Lutheran ceremony at Red House Maryland officiated by Rev. Alvah Jones. The bride, daughter of Mrs. Jogia Kines and the late Jacob Kines, wore white with a purple orchid corsage. Best man Paul Messinger. maid of honor Miss Tacy Wodzewski. The couple plans a wedding trip to Navara Falls, New York, and Canada and will reside in Denver West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red House
Maryland
Betty Kines
Grafton
Eugene Hoffman
Rowlesburg
Alvah Jones
Jogia Kines
Jacob H. Kines
Hoffman
Roy A. Hoffman
Kines
Tacy Wodzewski
Kingswood
Paul Messenger
Hazel Atlas Glass Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Navara Falls
New York
Canada
Denver
West Virginia
Utah Mormons Operated Blast Furnace in 1852
A historical note recalls the Mormons setting up and running a blast furnace in Utah in 1852, during a period when community sites like Oak Grove church near Mealey's filling station hosted events one mile off Route 119.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Grove Church
Route
Mealey's
Utah
Wife Preservers Split buns with cheese and bacon
A simple snack idea describes splitting buns, spreading one side with mustard and the other with butter or Margarine. Add a cheese strip on one side, wrap with bacon, secure with toothpicks, and grill or bake slowly until cheese melts and bacon cooks.
Family trips and visitors headline local brief notes
Children Larry and Carolyn of 1225 West Main returned home after a Great Lakes tour visiting Niagara Falls Toronto Kingston and Algonquin Park in Canada. Sherman Haselden and wife from Route 2 Grafton vacationed along 21 states visiting Petrified Forest Painted Desert Grand Canyon Hoover Dam Sequoia Yosemite Yellowstone Black Hills Pike's Peak Old Mexico and Truman's summer White House. House guests Mrs S M Squires hosted Dottle Lou Patty Ann Linn and Janie Ridenour in Greeley and nearby relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry
Carolyn
West Main Street
Great Lakes
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Canada
Kingston
Algonquin Park
California
Sherman Haselden
Grafton
Petrified Forest
Painted Desert
Grand Canyon
Hoover
Boulder) Dam
Sequoia
Yosemite
Yellowstone National Parks
Black Hills
Pike's Peak
Old Mexico
Truman
White House
Greeley
Colorado
Haselden
James
Tommy) Knight
Sherry
Connie
Tommy
Knight
Gail Goodwin
Maple Avenue
Grafton High School
S. M. ‘Squires
Warder Avenue
Dottle Lou
Patty Ann Linn
Brilliant
Ohio
Janie Ridenour
Marietta
Georgia
Local college and university staff and researchers listed
Local page notes list named staff and researchers from State College Pennsylvania West Virginia University and other institutions. Included are graduate students graduate assistants extension agronomists instructors and researchers across multiple colleges and bureaus in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Balser
State College
Pennsylvania
J. E. Harrod
M. M.junkin
C. W. Klopp
State Farm Bureau
H.M. Schaof
Edward H. Tyner
Ohio State University
Chester P. Sharp
Taylor County
Ard
Glenn Zinn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Teresa Giorgian
Chicago
Atlantic City
Joyce Thoresen
Sandra Perry
International Soundphotos
Mrs. Wilkinson
Missionary Society
Willis €. Donley
the Loyal Order of Moose
San Francisco
Cal
Wisconsin
Loyal Order OF Moose
Ralph Shahan
Business Girls
Kines-Hoffman
Norman Thomas
Washington
Walter George
Center
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Socialist Party
Boston
Nina M. Brown
Trixie
Sylvia Canaday
N. J
Iowa
Barbara Joel
Council Bluffs
Internationaly
Priefly
Alice Byrnes
Herkeimer
N. C
DuPont Company
Miss Byrnes
Wilmington
Del
Dollar Day
Bizes
Panis
Lan
Caplan’s Jewelers
Main ST
W. Va
al Ray
Lola Lee Ee
TNS
General Electric
U. S
G.E
Delaney's Electrical
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