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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1946
Page
3
Miss Etta L. Francis society page lists club meetings through December with postponements and hosts. Activities include 4-H, Circle groups, Ladies VFW auxiliary, WSCS, Junior Mountaineer, and Ladies Aid with times, locations, and cancellations.
Local girl Mary Lillie Biffle and Dale M Reel wed in a double ring ceremony on November 20 at the Methodist church in Cattlett State Kentucky. The bride, a Davis and Elkins College alumna and former Treasury Department employee, wore a tan aqua dress with brown accessories and pink rosebud corsage. She attended Pickens High School and Buckhannon High School and later Davis Memorial Hospital School of Nursing class of 1946. Mr Reel, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Reel of Putney Kentucky, is a Buckhannon High School graduate who served in the U.S. Army. He works as a construction engineer near Harlan Kentucky. The couple reside in Harlan for now.
The Belgium 4-H club hosted a Thanksgiving party at leader Mrs. Cora Gull’s home on Clarksburg road. Vice president Miss Alice Jean Gawthrop led the program with scripture poems songs and piano solos by members. Prizes were awarded to Joan Gawthrop Corrine Gull Bobby Gawthrop Garth Tucker and Maxine Weaver.
A group from the United Brethren church traveled to Pennsboro West Virginia on November 29 to visit former pastor Rev Lois R Lusader and attend services. Members included Mrs A B Cutright and children Helen Louise Rosemary Beverly Sue, Mr and Mrs C A Jenkins, E P F Baugh, Lloyd Eckerd, Mrs Ruth Crouser, Myre Anvil, Mrs C O Spiker and daughter Mary Virginia, Mrs Mettia Poling and children Lena Mae Lois Ann Alvin, Mrs Bell Hefner M Robinson, Mrs Squires, Mrs Powell, and Mrs Gladys Lash. The trip returned on train No 4.
The body of John Yanak, 38, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee, was found yesterday by his wife in their home with a shotgun at his side. Sheriff Porter Richards said the wound appeared to be a personal safety related incident.
Mr and Mrs J W Jacobs entertained with an old fashioned butchering on Thanksgiving day at their home on the Grafton Morgantown road. A noon dinner was served to neighbors and friends including Ralph Watkins Bill Henderson Bill Thorn Bill Watkins Merle Shackleford T Shackleford Arthur Poe Ursula Poe Emily Poe and Mrs Garfield Heck Kenneth Jacobs and sons Ronnie and Jimmie Pete Brock and the hosts.
Mrs. Thomas Watkins reports her husband, a teacher, and a child missing after dark when they did not return home. State police are notified and a search is ordered as authorities seek clues in the mountains and surrounding area.
KEW reports deer season enforcement with dogs tied and no night hunting. Five deer checked at Sheriff Melvin Newton's office by noon. Hunters Walter E. Vanhorn, Louis M. Bretz, John Salis, Pete Gojik, and J. A. Kittle listed in Booths Creek and Flemington areas. Checking stations listed across CS Route 250 region.
Temperature reports show eight inches of snow at Mt. Vernon and 19 at Cleveland with 18 inches in the Cleveland area after a heavy Sunday. Last night Bemidji Minnesota recorded the official coldest reading at 17 degrees below zero.
The Snowstorm team noted a November with 78 degree high and 20 degree low on various dates. Temperatures reached 22 degrees or below on 17 days. Total precipitation was 1.86 inches. There were 13 killing frosts, 15 clear days, 3 partly cloudy, and 12 cloudy.
The AFL union leader began his constitutional challenge to the Sea Act on May 28 by striking three record librarians at radio station WAAF Chicago after the station refused to hire more librarians. In Huntington a Veterans Administration report noted a growing need for nurses at Newton D Baker hospital Martinsburg.
Officials say the War Department would seek a draft extension beyond March if needed to align with a universal training program. The note cites debate over timing and policy while mentioning Frances E. Willard who founded the WCTU in 1839.
A Grafton resident with rheumatic pain reports arm stiffness and swollen elbow joints, unable to lift the arm. After taking RHU-AID she can raise her arm above her head, swelling subsides, and the pain eases, letting her resume life with renewed energy.
An old pattern ad offers applique embroidery lessons for a Christmas apron with bib options and transfer motifs from Pattern 7025, asking fifteen cents and a book offer. A parallel report notes a U.N. assembly debate on arms veto reform and peace pacts for Axis satellites, with Greece and Yugoslavia reparations central, aiming for finalized accords within about ten days.
Pattern descriptions for dresses and accessories appear with numbers 0165 and 9155. The ad offers sizes up to 16, yardage of 278, 39 inch fabric, and requests twenty cents plus mailing to The Gratton Sentinel Pattern Dept. Box 163 Stoica New York. Marian Martin color book offered for fifteen cents.
In a new assembly race the Social Democrats lose four seats and the Christian Democrats seven as the far right Liberal Democratic party gains to 14 seats, while the Communists rise to 10 from seven. Molotov, a longtime Soviet party figure, is noted as a potential successor to Stalin amid speculation about leadership. The Notre Dame faculty includes Protestants and Jews despite its Catholic affiliation.
Readable text notes gypsum wallboard manufactured from Great Lakes sources enough to form an eight feet wide ring around the earth. No further details on quantities or dates are provided.
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