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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1929
Page
4
The Grafton Sentinel publishes weekdays from Grafton West Virginia with offices at 10 Latrobe Street. Advertising rates and deadlines are listed including payment terms and deadlines for classified ads and notices.
After a school dispute ends, the community turns to improving Grafton Park. Civic Club led by Mrs. W. A. Beavers plans a Christmas bazaar at the Elks Home December 12 and 14 to raise funds for park beautification and recreation. Proceeds aim to start a permanent city project with broad citizen support.
The Grafton Independent School District Board of Education condemns high school ineligible players and a recent strike. It calls for strengthened student records, clear authority lines, and full cooperation among superintendent, principal, and athletic director, with resignations demanded if terms are not met.
The board adopts a motion directing all school staff from superintendent to janitors to follow orders precisely and submit concerns first to the superintendent before approaching the board. The measure prompts heated debate as Tomlinson questions the board’s stance and the president warns staff of removal for noncompliance.
Preliminary work on the 1930 Grafton city directory began today with C C Warner of the Calkin Kelley Directory Company of Binghamton in charge. The directory will list all streets alphabetically with each householder name and address, include residents over 18 with occupation, and feature a business section listing businesses and professionals.
Bessie Love also known as Juanita Horton will wed William B Hawkes a Los Angeles stock broker on December 27 The couple announced the marriage plan after filing a license notice yesterday both are 28 and have not been married before.
Control of the Fox motion picture interests is vested in a board of trustees headed by William Fox. Represented on the board are Western Electric and Halsey Stuart and Company. The Fox Film Corporation and Ox Theatres Corporation, led by Fox, fall under the board’s supervision.
Harrisburg December 7 speculation on who Governor Fisher will name to fill the junior United States Senate seat. Analysts offered a wide range of candidates led by Joseph I Grundy of Bristol, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, as the top possibility amid Ware rejection and party dynamics.
Washington December 7. Commercial wireless telephone service between land and ships at sea will begin tomorrow with a live conversation between Chairman Brutteen of the House naval committee and Commodore H A Cunningham aboard the Sivarathn, hundreds of miles at sea. Officials from the navy commerce departments and the shipping board along with Chairman White of the House Merchant Marine Committee will observe.
The Alaska search for Carl Bielson and mechanic Earl Borland, missing since November 9 near North Cape, Siberia, was delayed as rescue planes at Teller were damaged during takeoff. Corbandt’s plane crashed yesterday and Crosson’s craft was damaged by snow drifts and heavy fuel loads.
Iowa's plea for reinstatement to the Western Conference was denied. Hawkeye athletics director B. H. Lauer announced the decision today in Chicago.
The New York Sun reports December 7 that Christmas bonuses in Wall Street will be as generous as ever this year, with some cases more liberal than before. The piece highlights wide distribution among firms in New York City and notes varied sizes of bonuses across financial houses.
Leonard Ice, 9, of Haywood was sentenced in Clarksburg today to three years in the state penitentiary on a forgery charge. He allegedly forged the name of G. H. Pryor at the Akron disbursing office on a check for 72 dollars.
May Succeed Morrow Associated Press Photo J Reuben Clark Jr former undersecretary of state named as a potential successor to Dwight W Morrow as ambassador to Mexico in a May report highlighting possible personnel changes at the U S embassy.
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