Noted English Authority Will Give Talk Here
Dr John Draper professor of English at West Virginia University Morgantown will discuss Elizabethan England at the Grafton Women's club general meeting next Monday at 8 pm in the Elks Home lodge room East Main street The Literature and Art department sponsors the program with Mrs E G Kuhn chairing the program committee The evening will include musical numbers arranged by the Music department Members are urged to attend and bring a guest Dr Draper is nationally known as an authority on his topic and the meeting will be remembered by the club and guests
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John Draper
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Grafton Women’s Club
Elks Home
East Main Street
E. G. Kuhn
Draper
Quota Planning Holiday Party On December 17
Grafton Quota club discussed plans for the annual Christmas party on Monday evening December 17 at Cozy Rest Inn. In Maude Bush's absence, Secretary Ethel McCafferty led the meeting with reports on club projects. Christmas baskets will be given to needy aged folks, and tickets for a Christmas dance at the Moose Home were announced. Funds from the ball will support girls service work. Four new members were welcomed: Dr Edna Myers Jeffreys, Sarah Sayres, Dora Staton, and Nelle Hawkins.
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Grafton Quota Club
Cozy Rest Inn
Maude Bush
Ethel McCafferty
Moose Home
Nell Peters
Community church group schedules in early December
Local notices list multiple December meetings across Andrews Methodist St Pauls Lutheran and other groups. Activities include Ladies Aid groups, Warden's Republican club, General Aid, Weekly Sewing, Woman's Foreign Missionary society, Clara Fauver auxiliary, B and O Veterans, Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Grafton Womens club with times from 2:39 pm to 8 pm and venues such as church parlors, Knights of Pythias hall, VFW hall, Elks Club, and First Baptist church.
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Ladies Aid
The
Andrews Methodist Church
Warden’s Republican Club
Taylor County
Knights of Pythias Hall
M& M Bank
General Aid Society of
St. Paul's Methodist Church
John Bickford
Washington Street
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Andrews Methodist Church
W. A. Beavers
McGraw Avenue
W.R. Loar
Clara Fauver
B. and O. Veterans
V. F. W. Hall
V. F. W. Baazar
Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Profesor Draper
Stewart Lough wedding in Winchester Virginia
The marriage of Miss Marie Lough daughter of Mr and Mrs W F Lough Bridgeport to Harry Stewart of Bridgeport was held recently in Winchester Virginia with Rev Harman McKay officiating. Stewart is a West Virginia University graduate and Marie Lough is a West Virginia Business College graduate. They reside in Bridgeport.
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Marie Lough
W. F. Lough
Bridgeport
Harry Stewart
Winchester
Harman McKay
Stewart
West Virginia University
Morgantown
West Virginia Business College
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Dinner Dance in Clarksburg
Grafton lodge members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen announce they will sponsor a dinner dance at the Waldo hotel in Clarksburg on Sunday December 10. Dinner begins at 6:30 p m with the program following.
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Grafton
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Percy Goff Lodge No
R. T
Clarksburg
Waldo Hotel
Barclay on Bridge Move to Slam in Diamonds
The column warns players against revealing information to opponents during bidding. It notes a Spade bid idea leading to Hearts, reports no slam by East–West, and cites a hand where North’s inference about West’s club length allowed a successful slam despite a planned sacrifice.
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Ding
Hearts
P G O A Club Elects Officers At Monday Meeting
The P G O A club entertained guests at Miss Alyce Reed's home 107 West Washington to elect officers and plan future events. Alyce Reed was chosen president with Connie Limbers vice president, Jean Sorge treasurer, and Marie Forcella secretary. They outlined Sewing Week gift making and a Christmas week party with gift exchange. The next meeting will be at Miss Jo Clair Wright 241 Ross street with new officers presiding. After business a dessert was served and the evening featured dancing and games with attendees including Jo Clair Wright Rita Anne Barlow Helen Smith Josephine Lopez Mary Kay Haislip Virginia Foley Bette Patterson Ruth Lother Helena Hussion Connie Limbers Jean Sorge Marie Castillia Forcella.
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Alyce Reed
West Washington Street
Connie Limbers
Jean Sorge
Marie Forcella
Jo Clair Wright
Ross Street
Miss Reed
Ruth Lorther
Rita Anne Barlow
Helen Smith
Josephine Lopez
Mary Kay Haislip
Virginia Foley
Bette Patterson
Ruth Lowther
Helena Hussion
Mrs Thomas S McMillan to Congress Seat
Mrs Thomas S McMillan succeeds her late husband as Representative from South Carolina after Rep McMillan died at his Charleston home last September.
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Thomas S. McMillan
Congress
South Carolina
McMillan
Charleston, S. C
Church Society Holds Meeting On Last Friday
Regular monthly gathering of the I Try Missionary club at First Christian church featured devotionals by Doris Jean Thorne and a program by Nancy Fauley. Items included a poem The Frontier by Loretta Henderson and Raccoon John Smith read by Frances Smith, with motion pictures and hymns to follow. Refreshments were served in Fellowship hall to listed members. next meeting set for January 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Try Missionary Club
First Christian Church
Doris Jean Thorne
Nancy Fauley
Loretta Henderson
Raccoon
John Smith
Frances Smith
Hi Tri Missionary Club
Little Town of
Bethlehem
Fellowship Hall
Dorothy Simmons
Isabella McKinney
Doris Jean Thorn
Mardub Tha Jean Moore
High Missionary
Maxine Sistering
Hattie Richards
Miss Britton
Miss Stevens
Geraldine Stevens
Dora Lee Britton
Eugenia Stevens
Juanita Richards
O. W. Grow
Ex Clarksburg Girl Weds in Indiana Church Ceremony
Margaret Ellen Smith daughter of Rev J Marion Smith and Melvin K Turner wed Sunday in Muncie Indiana at the First Baptist Church where the bride's father officiated the service. Mary Louise Reeve acted as matron of honor and Harold Lincoln Smith escorted the bride. An informal reception followed in the church hall. The bride, once active in Clarksburg musical groups, was a member of Washington Irving High School orchestra and cadmon choral club.
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Muncie
Ind
Margaret Ellen Smith
J. Marion Smith
Melvin K. Turner
Mary Louise Reeve
Harold Lincoln Smith
Church Assembly Hall
Clarksburg
Washington Irving High School
Acapella Chow
Cadmon Choral Club
Brownton Girl Receives Cap in Nurse Training Ceremony
Miss Louise Virginia Radcliffe of Brownton was among eleven nurses at Union Protestant Hospital who received caps after four months of preliminary training. The event, presided by superintendent Miss Beulah M. Brown, included a candlelight service and honors to oldest alumna Misa Elise Rodewald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Virginia Radcliffe
Brownton
Union Protestant Hospital
Beulah M. Brown
Misa Elise Rodewald
Knight Announces Betty Knight to Karl Devers in Winchester
Mr and Mrs Edward Lee Knight Brownlow Park announce the marriage of their daughter Betty Knight to Karl Devers of Farmont in a quiet ceremony at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Winchester Virginia. The couple resides in Fairmont where Devers works for L A Hess.
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Edward Lee Knight
Brownlow Park
Betty Knight
Karl Devers
Farmont
Evangelical Reformed Church
Winchester
Virginia
Stephen L. This Kiiger
Knight
Roy Knight
Fairmont
Mr. Devers
L. A. Hess
Court Denies Kuhn Fur Part One Governor After Sentence
German-born Kuhn, naturalized in 1933, keeps citizenship as court rejects claim to revoke. State argued he altered records to hide $500 disposition in Murray matter. Kuhn had turned Bund leadership to acting fuehrer Gerhard Kunze who said he would lead temporarily.
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orunUeu Fur
Kuhm
Kuhn
Murray
Bund
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
Kunze
Heart Attack Fatal Claims Life of ICC District Supervisor
Hays Dill, 46, district supervisor for the Interstate Commerce Commission Motor Carrier bureau, died of a heart attack yesterday in Wheeling. He moved to Wheeling from Columbus, Ohio, in 1936 and is survived by his widow and five children.
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Wheeling
Hays Dill
Motor Carrier Bureau
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dill
Columbus
Bake sale planned to fund Christmas basket program
The Guild of St Matthias Episcopal church met at Mrs Clyde J Gilbert home to decide on a bake sale at Turner's store on Saturday at 9:30 AM to raise funds for the Christmas basket program. Members will bake pies cakes and pastries and one new member Mrs J S Palmer joined. Rev George E Manson attended as rector guest.
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St. Matthias Episcopal Church
Clyde J. Gilbert
Walnut Street
John F. Hopkins
Gilbert
Turner's
J. S. Palmer
George E. Manson
St. Matthias Church
Mines Closed Again in Anthracite Region
Scranton Pa December 5 mines in Pennsylvania's anthracite region were shut for a second day leaving about 100000 workers idle. Operators and miners held conferences in New York and Philadelphia while no reopening was announced this week. Surplus coal led to price cutting and talks on stabilization with a next meeting planned for Monday to study market adjustments.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
New York
Philadelphia
Deer Kill Reported by Flemington Men After Hunt
Nathan and Dorsey Bolyard of Flemington route 1 returned home Saturday after a three day Tucker county deer hunt with a nine point buck weighing 125 pounds. Nathan Chimney Fire crews answered a 9 30 last night call to extinguish a chimney blaze at 434 West Main street Mrs I F Wolverton with negligible damage. Elizabeth Williams admitted to Grafton City Hospital as medical patient. William A Swiger's condition improved after being struck by a hit and run driver on U S route 50. no clue yet from police. John Ruley of Park View returned home with an eight point 150 pound deer from Preston county. Mrs E F Clark and Mrs H H Holt attended the Clarksburg Women's club opening concert at Stonewall Jackson hotel. Mrs H M Sherrard returned home from Newark Ohio. J O Spiker taken to Camden Clark Hospital for operation. condition favorable.
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Nathan
Dorsey Bolyard
Flemington
Tucker County
Grafton
I. F. Wolverton
West Main Street
Elizabeth Williams
Walter Street
Grafton City Hospital
Swiger
William A. Swiger
Johin Ruley
Park View
Carr China Company
Orploye
Bruceton’s Mills
Preston —County
E. F. Clark
Howard H. Holt
Clarksburg Women's Club
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
J. O. Spiker
West Wilford Street
Camden-Clark Hospital
Parkersburg
Lutz
Training Needs Told Assessors Training Need Told Assessors
West Virginia should hire trained personnel and apply modern valuation methods to standardize property assessments. Officials urged use of assessors manuals, tax maps, building classifications, and depreciation tables. Local control urged over central systems to avoid unequal taxes and preserve local responsibility.
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Charleston
West Virginia
W. J
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Holt
Conaty
Board For Public Works
Irene Castle Drops Her Suit To Secure Freedom
Irene Castle McLaughlin, noted dancer, today with county detectives and a physician dropped her divorce suit from Frederic McLaughlin, wealthy coffee merchant, amid charges in a criminal court. The case centers on the death of a newborn baby found in the woods near Russeltown, with a mother on trial for murder.
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Sofia Kulick
Minnie Kulick
Kulick
L. A. Reynolds
Russeltown
Irene Castle
Chicago
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Inter- Pittsburgh
Jer Frederic McLaughlin
Winnie Ruth Judd believed dead or in hiding near hospital
Phoenix reporters note searchers suspect Winnie Ruth Judd has taken her own life or fled nearby after the second escape from the Arizona State hospital. Police chased leads near the hospital as bloodhounds failed to smell a trail, and a note left for a friend suggested self-destruction as her fate.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona State Hospital
Los Angeles
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C. G. Conn
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