Wedding Announced for Ruth Knight and Bud Johns
A surprise wedding was held Sunday December 8 at 236 Maple Avenue with Rev. Lois Luzader officiating. Ruth Knight, a Grafton High senior, married Charles "Bud" Johns, son of the late M. D. Johns, who works at the dam. The couple will reside in Grafton. Attendees included family members from the Knight and Hart families and other local residents. The article also covers a Missionary Society meeting at United Brethren and a Christmas party hosted by the Business Girls' club at Cozy Rest with gift exchanges and games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth
Charles
Bud” Johns
Ember 8
Maple Avenue
Lois Luzader
United Brethren Church
R. E. Knight
Grafton High School
Johns
M. D. Johns
Dam
Audra Hart
Jimmie Hart
Robert Drew
Jarksburg
Glenn Davis
A Lloyd Ware
Margaret Eaver
William Ellets, Jr
Lila Shaw
Robert. Raymond
Martha
Connie Knight
H. E. Knight
Grafton
The
Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church
B. F. Poe
Francis Bennett
Guy Bennett
Loyd Bragg
Cozy Rest
Business Girls’ Club
Ada Poling
Ann
Clara Korte
Christamas
Social Calendar And Mountaineer Council Anniversary
Community events listed include American Legion Auxiliary and Star Sewing Club activities on Dec 11 and 12 at various venues, plus Dec 13 anniversary plans for St Pauls Lutheran Ladies Aid. Mountaineer Council No 44 J O U A M marks 10th anniversary with a large program Dec 17 at Wehn hall, featuring songs, readings, and speeches. Veterans and Ladies meet elect officers in Modern Woodman hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Moose Home
Star Sewing Club
C. F. Dotson
Walnut Street
Cristmas Exchange
P. H.C
Red Men's Hall
O. E
Naomi
Masonic Temple
Ladies Aid and Womans' Auxiliary Societies
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Mountaineer Council
D. Camp
W. H. Canfield
E. McVicker
America
J. M. Shaw
Alvey Jacobs
Mountaineer Council No. 44
Davie Moats
Howatter Brothers
H. H. Reynolds
Maryland
Patsy and
Eleanor
Reading
Mildred Britton
Camp Sisters
C. C. Moats
Freda Moats
Helen Camp
Hovatter Brothers
Wehn Hall
B. & O. Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary
Woodman Hall
William Graham
W. J. Hussion
Della, Wittman
Kid 1936 Father Time Visits Shirley in Miami Beach
Shirley Lee Rogers of Evanston Illinois enjoys sunny Miami Beach as northern residents bundle up. The article lists local veterans officers and roles, plus a forthcoming Sterling Radio Gang concert at the Methodist Protestant church sponsored by the Laymen's Council. It notes a Christian Endeavor society meeting led by Mrs. Frank Graham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Lee Rogers
Evanston, Il
Miami Beach
Fla
Young Rogers
Sterling Radio Gang
Methodist Proatstant Church
C. E. Society
Christian Endeavor Society of the Methodist Protestant Church
Frank Graham
Local business visitors travel through multiple towns
George Jackson a business visitor in G last night. Dr Alden Beapin plans to cut annual football honevet West Virginia Wesleyan in Buckhenn. Pearl Smith Joseph Dryfield and Clyde Hickman are business visitors in Fairmont today. Brooks Reed relief administrator Taylor county made a short trip to Fairmont yesterday. Agnes Tierney Eunst and Ethel M Fryer of the local NRS office are in Kingwood today. County Assessor E N Lock and Deputy Ed St Clair expected to return to Grafton today after Charleston business matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jackson
Alden Beapin
Vealra
West Virginia Wesleyan
Buckhenn
Pearl Smith
Joseph Dryfield
Clyde Hickman
Fairmont
Brooks Reed
Taylor County
Agnes Tierney
Eunst
Ethel M. Fryer
NRS
Kingwood
E. N. Lock
Ed St Clair
Grafton
Charleston
Christmas party plans and committee roles outlined
The committee named includes Mrs Rose Nichola Miss Leona Mitchell and Miss Evelyn Summers. Plans for a Christmas party at Miss Eleanor Jacobs home on Walnut street with refreshments served by Eleanor Jacobs chair W R Williams C O Ricnman and Beulah Stevens. The January meeting will be held at Arbutus Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Nichola
Leona Mitchell
Evelyn Summers
Heln
Eleanor Jacobs
Walnut Street
W. R. Williams
C. O.ricnman
Beulah Stevens
Arbutus Williams
Negro Hobo Ordered To Leave Grafton At Once
A negro hobo named George Brown was arrested on Main street at 12 30 a m for loitering. Mayor BE Otto Waugh in municipal court ordered him to leave town at once and he agreed to comply. Hamilton was arrested at 2 15 a m at his home on a drunkenness charge and fined five dollars after pleading guilty before the mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Brown
Main Street
Otto Waugh
Dim Hamilton
Woman Killed By Car Near Church in West Virginia
State police report Mrs. C. B. Long, 52, was struck and killed while walking to church on a highway in Little Birch. In Princeton, an unidentified truck driver injured when overinflating a tire caused the casing to explode, fracturing his shoulder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little
Princeton
SEC PROCEEDS Involving U G S and Holding Firms
SEC moves in a multiway suit over the U G S holding company act challenges. McAvoy says he cannot file criminal proceedings. several subsidiaries contest the act in court. In Addis Ababa reports, fascist plans risk renewed Ethiopian warfare and Italian advances loom. Eden heads to Geneva as tensions rise and Haile Selassie’s forces confront bombardments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAvoy
Philadelphia Electric Company
SEC
James M. Landis
James D. Ross
George C. Mathews
Robert E. Healy
Addis Ababa
Italy
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somaliland
Haile Selassie
Assab
Red Sea
Tigre
Ethiopis
League of Nations
France
Great Britain
Eden
Geneva
Anthony Eden
Britain
League Affairs
Pierre Laval
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Mildeed Graham
Soca
Geneva Hilkey
Carrie Bennett
Ruth Mays
Jones
Nell Tucker
Katie Tucker
Bee Tucker
Miriam Isner
Dorothy Sapp
Elizabeth Neason
Virginia Shaw
Turrill
Parkersburg
George Hannon
Harold Cole
Effie Gough
Marshall
Leo Crane
Idella Carroll
Isa Bickford
Wittman
T. C. Seymour
Harry Carroll
W. N. Malone
Noes
Franz
Burka
W. Main St
Satterfield School
West Main
Jennity
Marinello Beauty Shop
McCrory's
Ethiopan Crissis
Caliro
Tewfik Nessim Pasha
Fuad
Inopia
Cornelius van Eh Engert
United States
Dessye Haile Se
Lassie
Beulah Belle Beauty Shop
Franz & Burea
Mel
Hartley
Hartley’s Toyland
Fairmont, W. Va
Katherine Meachem
Roy J. Freyhaus
Detroit
Miss Meachem
Freuhauf
Chicago
Des Moines
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