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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1949
Page
3
Society notes from the Society and Club pages edited by Mrs Naomi Lawson, Club and Society Editor, with telephone line 185 for inquiries and society news submissions.
Mr. P J OConnor announces the marriage of his daughter Patricia Ann OConnor to John William Pitzer of High Street. The ceremony took place August 20 at St Augustine rectory with Father Fitzgibbon officiating. The couple will reside at 4 West Knotts Avenue after a wedding trip to Virginia.
The Cross family homecoming gathered at the Theodore McCracken residence on Sunday. Attendees included Margaret McCracken of Grafton. Leonard and Robert Miller. Robert Childers and family of Clarksburg. Charles Cross Edith Cross Helen Burbush Catherine Badnes of Weirton. Edna Kuhar of Shelton Connecticut. Virgil Norris and children of Baltimore. James Carder and children of Salem. Leslie Lear and family. Theodore McCracken and daughter. Verna Cross, all of this city.
The encyclopedia notes the earliest surviving glass may date about five millennia. It also describes the Amazon river bore as a spring tidal wave ten to fifteen feet high and speeds up to forty five miles an hour in the river mouth.
Various Grafton area property listings include a 5 room Parkview bungalow with recent construction but no bath, a Cafeteria Court for sale with building equipment and business options, a 95 acre Knottsville farm with electric water and large barn priced around 9500, two 40x120 building lots on Yates Ave near Turner Property, and a Maple Ave bungalow at 432 with 34 acre ground offering a renovated interior and garden site priced 3500.
Alpha Mu and XI chapters of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority held a Monday evening gathering at Airport Park Bridgeport featuring a hot dog and marshmallow roast. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Abe Newton and daughter Donna, Mr and Mrs Phillip Gerkins, Mr and Mrs Donald Poling, and many others.
Princess Barbara Taylor Johnson of Berkeley Spring has been appointed a Princess at the Court of Queen Silvia XIII of the Mountain State Forest Festival at El Inns October 6 7 and 8 Her appointment was announced today by State Senator Harvey D Beeler of the 16th State Senatorial District She is a daughter of Mr and Mrs John William Johnson and attends Greenbrier Junior College The flying gurnard is described as swimming in the ocean gliding through the air and walking on the sea floor on specially developed forefins.
Mr and Mrs Walter S Brown of Miami Oklahoma visit Clyde Brown in the Country Club area while Mrs B Browns Kinfolk host. Eighth district guest Miss Florence Seymour lands a Chicago Sun Times secretarial post after WVU and Gibbs training. The Rev Carl Davis vacations in North Carolina and will return to First Presbyterian. Imogene Devers, WV graduate and Columbia University doctoral student, visits family. J L Reese and W A Francis travel from Portsmouth visiting Washington PA. Raymond Curtis and wife return to Jersey City after weeks with Mrs. Curtis.
A local notice lists community events and reunions for September across Taylor, Webster, and surrounding areas. It mentions hospital admissions and discharges, a dance course completion, and several church circle, homecoming, and society meetings with locations and dates, including Hee Alumni initiation at the Beaumont addition and a Sayre reunion at Pleasant Creek church.
September 1 events include Mountaineer Council No 44 meeting at Daughters of America hall East Main at 7 30 p m Caravan of the WSCS visits St Pauls Methodist church at 8 p m all area Methodist churches urged to attend Ladies Aid St Pauls Lutheran at Mrs Harry Murray home Walnut street weekly sewing club hosted by Mrs L De Lahey Loveland Addition at 8 p m Circle No 1 WSCS St Johns Methodist meets at Mrs Mildred Combs Tygart Dam area at 7 30 p m
Amid a plane crash report in the Russian zone of Austria speculation grows over Barsov and deserter policy. An American spokesman criticizes state department haste in Barsov’s release while noting Americans missing in both Austrian and German zones. Contained are remarks on Soviet attitudes toward deserters and a broader postwar tension backdrop.
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