Christmas in Alpine Village at Grafton Junior High
Grafton Junior High presents a Christmas play titled Christmas in an Alpine Village on December 20 at 2 30 p m in the school auditorium. Alfred Comedy writes the script with Mary M Holden as narrator and a program of Christmas songs by soloists and chorus including Christmas Bells Rise Up Shepherd and Follow Go Tell It On The Mountain Good King Wend elas Hark the Herald Angels Sing O Little Town of Bethlehem and Deck the Halls. numerous students are listed as participants across seven sections.
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Grafton Junior High School
Alfred Comedy
Mary M. Holden Geting
Mary Ann Boston
Norman Adlington
Eugene Phillips
Bill Fisher
John Kuhn
Wendelas
Herald Angels
Bethlehem
Joyce Boston
Mary Costolo
Mary Holden
Barbara DeMoss
Betty Dunham
Don Carder
Tion
Linda Bartlett
Patsy Bartlett
Rita Blue
Jerry Beard
Janie Clovis
Elsie Arthur
Ann Hardman
Shirley DeMoss
Paula Kinter
Jim Holden
Terry Kelley
Dayton Holcomb
Opal Kirk
Celeste Miller
Patty Knotts
Bruce DeVault
Memorial Set Up For WVU Teacher
Memorial in honor of late Professor Jacob C. Saposnekow created in West Virginia University Loyalty Permanent Endowment Fund. First contribution from Edvin M. Curry, 1998 graduate and Globe Construction Co. president. Saposnekow was longtime sociology faculty member. William D. Fisher Jr. underwent emergency appendectomy with satisfactory condition reported.
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Morgantown
Jacob C. Saposnekow
Pennsylvania
West Virginia University Loyalty
Gary Hogg
Lewisburg
Saposnekow
Edvin M. Curry
Globe Construction Co
Wichita, Kans
Oran B. Murphy 85 to be laid to rest in Bartlett
Funeral services are set for Friday at 1 30 p m at Bartlett Funeral Home for Oran B Murphy of Bridgeton New Jersey formerly of Grafton dies Monday night in Bridgeton He was born December 27 1900 in Barbour County a son of Harvey W Murphy and Florence Bryan Murphy He had worked as a foreman at Owens Illinois Glass in Bridgeton and was a member of Fetterman Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge. He is survived by his widow Sylvia crve Murphy two daughters Delores Murphy and Margaret Murphy two brothers George H Murphy and Roscoe Murphy two sisters Mildred Heffner Ia Shingleton and Mrs Guy Royce and one brother Henson J Murphy deceased. Friends may call after 10 am Friday.
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Bartlett
Oran B. Murphy
Bridgeton
N. J
Grafton
C. W. Scraggs
Fetterman Methodist Church
Clemtown
Barbour County
Harvey W
Florence Bryan Murphy
Sylvia Crve Murphy
Delores Murphy
Margaret Murphy
Fairmont
George H. Murphy
Delaware
Ohio
Roscoe Murphy
Mildred Heffner
Florida
Ia Shingleton
Guy Royce
Henson J. Murphy
Murphy
Owens Illinois Glass Company
Masonic Lodge
Bartlett Funeral
First National Sets 1957 Meet
The stockholders of the First National Bank of Grafton will meet at the banking house on Tuesday January 8 1957 between 1 30 and 2 30 p m for election of a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and other business as may come before the meeting announced by executive vice president Arthur G Yotes.
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First National Bank of Grafton
Arthur G. Yotes
Mrs Pallie Reger Dies At 79 In Grafton
Mrs Pallie Reger 79 native of West Virginia died at 5 30 PM in Rest Haven Nursing Home Grafton after a period of good health and four weeks of serious illness She was born November 21 1877 to Isaac and Amelia Shaffer Nestor She was twice married first William Mitchell then Fred Reger Survived by brother James Nestor two sisters Mrs Sarah Hawker and Mrs Bessie Breadlove all of Grafton and several nieces and nephews She belonged to Andrews Methodist Church lived in Grafton four years prior to that in West Palm Beach Florida Burial will be in Blimont Friends cemetery after visitation at Barnett Funeral Home tonight.
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Pailie Nistor Reger
Grafton
Rest Haven
Reger
West Virginia
Isaac and
Amelia Shaffer Nestor
William Mitchell
Fred Reger
James Nestor
Sarah Hawker
Bessie Breadlove
Andrews Methodist Church
West Palm Beach
Florida
Burneut Funeral Home
Chester G. Steyer
Ralph E. Barnette
Its
Church of Christ
Bliemont Cemetery
Barnett Funeral Home
Rector Helps In Making Fruit Cakes For St Matthias Sale
Rich fruit cake praised as jest like grandma used to bake by St Matthias Episcopal Church women. Gathering at the parish house on McGraw Avenue they mix ingredients and bake while Rev. Allen Sither steps in to help. Two cakes now on sale at the house for church funds.
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St. Matthias
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
McGraw Avenue
Allen. Sither
Ethel Keane
Aula Gilbert
Mary Pembroke
Hubert Miller
Thougt
Allen Sither
Burley Price Drops as Market Opens Decline
The average price of burley tobacco fell to 634.1 per hundredweight on Tuesday, marking the first drop since the oral market began about two weeks earlier.
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Huntington
Card of Thanks for Car M Cooper Family
The Cooper family thanks friends and neighbors for their sympathy after the death of Car M Cooper. Gratitude extends to the Rev and Mrs C E Hawkins pallbearers and Bartlett Funeral Home. May God bless you all from Mr and Mrs Dorsey M Cooper and Family.
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Car M. Cooper
C. EB. Hawkins
Bartlett Funeral
Dorsey M. Cooper
Women propose a second baking session if supplies run out
The group expressed willingness to bake again should shortages persist, indicating resourceful continuity plans and community cooperation amid limited ingredients.
Jesse H Hill Rites Held in Parkersburg
Funeral services for Jesse H Hill 72 of 1341 Lynn Street Parkersburg will be held Thursday at 11 a m at Ogdin Funeral Home with Rev Robert A Moore First Baptist Church officiating Burial follows in Odd Fellows Cemetery West Union He died December 10 at his Parkersburg home Surviving are his widow Cora Southworth Hill four daughters two sons two brothers 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren He was a retired Baltimore and Ohio Railroad engineer and had lived in Parkersburg two months moving from Grafton He was a member of Knights of Pythias Junior Order United American Mechanics and Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers Friends may call at Ogdin Funeral Home in Parkersburg
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Ogdin
Parkersburg
Jesse H. Hill
Lynn Street
Robert A. Moore
First Baptist Church
Odd Fellows
West Union
Mr. Hill
Ritchie County
William
Caroline Ash Hill
Cora Southworth Hill
Sarah Doyle
Washington, D. C
Mary Powell
Toledo
Ohio
Mildred Duncan
Johnstown
Alice Flaharty
Edward Hill
Akron
Morris
Chicago Police Seek Relatives Of Man
Huntington police ask Chicago authorities to locate relatives of James Williams a 44 year old former Huntington man who died in a Chicago hospital two weeks earlier No relatives claimed the body Williams was born in 1912 and married a local woman in 1936 His brother Lester Williams is believed to live somewhere in West Virginia, police said.
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Huntington
Chiego
Chicago
James Williams
Williams
Lester Williams
West Virginia
Pine Grove Fire Ravages Wetzel County Businesses
A Tuesday blaze in Pine Grove Wetzel County caused about 50000 in damage to the business district. The fire destroyed a general store a dress shop an insurance office and an unoccupied building while fire crews from eight nearby towns and two plants prevented spread to an Armory and other condemned structures. The cause remains undetermined but a defective furnace or wiring is suspected.
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Wetzel County
Compani's
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