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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1950
Page
3
A family menu offers a chocolate chiffon pie as a refined dessert. The recipe uses unsweetened chocolate, hot coffee, gelatin, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla, and a pastry shell. The pie is chilled four hours and served with whipped cream, followed by ham potato casserole and greens.
Cooking notes offer onion flavored potato dishes with milk bake time and buttered carrots served cold with French dressing. Advice highlights low bake temperatures for poultry to avoid toughness and encourages preserving vitamin C by stocking canned tomatoes for winter use and presenting melon with berries as a attractive dessert option.
A Friday evening birthday dinner at Mrs. Virginia L. Phillips Route 3 Graton honored W. Jack Matthew turning 85 and Aggie Summers turning 70. Attendees included many family members and friends from Fairmont and Route 3 Graton.
Mrs. J P Macaure of 408 France Street New Orleans testifies to HADACOL relief from nervous irritability and run down condition caused by deficiencies of Vitamins B1 B2 Niacin and Iron. She reports rapid improvement after starting HADACOL and urges others to try it. Advertisement from The LeBlanc Corporation dated 1950 offers trial bottle for 1.25 and large size 3.50 with warnings against substitutes.
The annual Brown Reunion was held Sunday with an noon basket din ner and afternoon program. Participants included Elaine Hathaway Sharon Hathaway Billie Lee Russell Charlotte Carder Maxine Brown Donna Brown Dorothy Brown and Bobbie Hof man. Prizes went to youngest Rickey Lynn Hathaway seven months and oldest Albert Brown eighty eight of Washington DC. Officers elected for next year are President Kenneth Garner Vice President Jennings Brown and Secretary Treasurer Clyde Brown. Eighty people attended.
Charles Junior Breedlove, who fell from a roof while working, sustained a broken back and fractured bones. He was taken to the Veterans Hospital in Martinsburg Wednesday and is reported as getting along very well. Mr. and Mrs. are visiting.
DEAN HALLIDAY advises homeowners to inspect maples for leaf drop, note the yellow maple leaf borer that tunnels leaf stalks, and collect and burn infested stems to destroy larvae. He outlines tar leaf spot, its green to black raised spots on red silver and cut leaf maples, and recommends fall leaf cleanup to control it.
Robert E Stevens and sons visit Baltimore relatives. Sunday guests at George Shaffer home include H L Woodford and Mary Alice of Grafton and Shaffer family. The Shaffer and Bartlett families host Monday dinner in Simpson. D G Karraker from Berkley California visits Oral J Jones. Karraker holds a chemistry doctorate and works at UC radiation lab. Knotts and Ludwick families visit in Knottsville and Flemington. Mrs H G Clem reports son Vance B McWhorter serving in Korea with the 5th Regimental Combat Team, a WWI veteran who studied at Honolulu during recall. Returning home not shown.
Mrs Blaine Sinse of Pruntytown and her mother Mrs Blaine Wilson of Bellington returned from a week with her brother Mr and Mrs C W Daugherty of Cuyago Falls Ohio. Guests include Mr and Mrs Raymond Gillespie of Uniontown Pennsylvania Mr and Mrs Clifford Miller of Brownsville Pennsylvania Mr and Mrs Fred Bergman and Ingrid of Uniontown and Mr and Mrs Gus Spano of Baltimore Maryland who were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs W G Gillespie at 640 West Main Street.
Eureka California reports widespread timber fires burning across 100000 acres of dry forest land. Thirty five people in Humboldt County are homeless as private woodlands near Eureka are consumed by flames. Firefighters struggle to contain the blaze as hot conditions persist.
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