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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
5
Enrollment in the Grafton city schools declined by 138 pupils from last year while a six week period adds 13 pupils to the total 1261 from 1248. Loss due to families leaving and a raised minimum entry age explains shifts with 1171 average daily attendance and 97 percent.
State Troopers A. G. Brown and W. Chips reported four arrests in Flemington. Two charged with breaking and entering, one with felonious assault, and another for interfering with an officer. Joe and Tom Bays arrested last night on breaking and entering charges at Standard Supply Company.
Argil Goodwin and Tom Goodwin brothers were brought to Taylor county Jail. They will be arraigned before Magistrate A. R. Weston with bond set at $1000 each. Argil was fined $29 and sentenced to 30 days for an alleged felonious assault on a person named Run Weekly. The incident occurred near Flemington on Halloween Night.
New York December 4 The second shipment of three fighting planes part of an order of twelve placed by the Chinese Nationalist government was on its way to China today. The total order amounts to nearly one million dollars.
Samuel Insull stated before the Economic Club that his companies would proceed with a 200 million dollar expansion program for the utilities under the Insull interests. He said business would not be as usual despite the stock market downturn and that expansion would go ahead as planned.
President Hoover has prepared a personal budget that presents expenditures by activity rather than by department. The form aims to offer a clearer, citizen friendly view of next year’s outlays for national defense veteran care law enforcement and related areas.
The Goodyear blimp Defender completed a 1100 mile flight from Akron to Miami and passed over Barboursville Kentucky today.
In Chicago the three self styled doctors Russell Pratt Ransom Sherman and Joe Rudolph perform extemporaneous humorous bits on WMAQ as a hobby for three years Joseph Rudolph joins them as pianist and tenor on air Pratt president of a downtown store and secretary of the Chicago credit men’s association Sherman an insurance broker all from Appleton Wisconsin and eight colleges said Pratt. the trio calls their radio act a fminsical potpouri and says it pays well.
New York actresses dog trio Sam, Jessie, and Nina live on a 22 story terrace above the East River with Alice Brady. The wirehaired terriers stroll, ride, and attend theatre with their mistress while Percy the parrot chats in Spanish and belts out songs as Brady acts in Romaine Rolland's The Game for Love and Death.
Blows at a Saturday night event in South Chicago led to the death of 19 year old Carl Howell from a concussion. The incident occurred during an amateur boxing match linked to the M C A. Also noted is a PTA meeting scheduled for Thursday at 7 30 pm in the First Ward School auditorium with principal Virgil Rohrpaugh promising a strong program and Christmas entertainment plans underway.
Chicago December 4 A 40 ton stone bull unearthed from the palace ruins at Akkad is now in the new Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago The bull 17 to 18 feet long was used by Sargon to impress envoys from tributary regions and is featured with other reliefs from Sargon's palaces in the museum collection Professor EdwardHierd led the expedition that found the relics
Edith Ransome, star of White Cargo, won a $20,000 judgment against Thomas Wilkes, Inc., Thomas Wilkes, and Lionel Samuel. She had sued for $120,000 in damages claiming she was discharged from the cast and forcibly ejected from the theater in San Francisco.
Miss Carmela Ponselle of the Metropolitan Opera announces her engagement to Joseph J. Lyons, a Tammany politician and real estate operator. She says the marriage will not occur for another year. she previously married Dr. Henry Giamarino in 1915, with a six month cohabitation and divorce in 1920.
An international romance began with love at first sight and a whirlwind courtship but ended today as Baroness Elizabeth Thyssen and former Baron Stephen Thyssen were granted a divorce decree. The decoupling marks the dissolution of a high profile union amid transatlantic attention and aristocratic ties.
In Corpus Christi last spring Thyssen met Elizabeth Clarkson who had graduated high school in 1928. They married, and it was only after she became a UC student this fall that she learned her husband was of royal English lineage. Family reconciliations reportedly contributed to the divorce.
Chicago sources estimate the city’s drug trade costs residents about 52 million dollars annually to stay well or get well. It notes some funds return to customers via an 18 million dollar annual payroll of wholesale drug concerns in the city.
In Charleston yesterday a one day meeting of secretaries and treasurers of farm loan associations in southern West Virginia discussed Federal Farm Loan Bank policies. Officials from the Federal Farm Loan Bank of Baltimore attended the session.
Associated Press reports veteran Olympic printer Jackson Scholz has left track work and wanders Honolulu byways seeking fictional material. He pursues stories beyond the arena of sports printing.
Mr. Robert Coulson of Morgantown claims Konjola relieved a severe illness described as kidney trouble and a general failing system. He reports eight bottles taken, purchasing through Grafton Drug and Company, and asserts dramatic personal improvement from the product.
Brussels reports Premier Jasper renews his cabinet with all ministers, retaining the old lineup. A royal decree is published to recognize the move while the resignation was tied to the reshuffle related to Ghent University concerns.
Executive committee of Chester County American Legion denied a request by World War II veterans incarcerated at Sing Sing prison to form a local post. The committee found establishing a post impracticable, but affirmed veterans rights and promised to consider their concerns for Legion activity. In unrelated notes, a U S transport tally and a report on the first trans Atlantic cable progress are mentioned.
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