GHS Band Concert Postponed to January 17
Grafton Senior High School announces the band concert is postponed from December 18 to Thursday January 17 due to an influenza outbreak. Director Paul W. Shahan says the event will feature Mrs Higgenbotham with her bass violin and a vocal solo by Miss Nancy Ann Staley. Proceeds from ticket sales will fund new band uniforms amid a Band Boosters fundraiser.
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Grafton
Paul W. Shahan
Shahan
Higgenbotham
Clarksburg
Nancy Ann Staley
Band Boosters Club
Blueville Church Group Holds Regular Monthly Meeting
The Kings Daughters Bible class of the Blueville Methodist church met last night at Mrs. John Brown's Addison street home. Mrs. Myrtle Brown presided and Mrs. Walter Knotts led devotionals. A social hour with refreshments followed. Mrs. Fred Zinn will host in January.
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Kings Daughters Bible Class
Blueville Methodist Church
John Brown
Addison Street
Myrtle Brown
Walter Knotts
Fred Zinn
Annual Glee Club Concert Postponed
Miss Nancy Ann Staley at Grafton Senior High School announced the postponement of the annual Glee Club concert due to many members out with influenza. A new date could not be arranged yet.
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Nancy Ann Staley
Grafton Senior High School
Glee Club
Briefly Told Hospital Discharges and Local Residents
Discharges list include Siddall 346 Pear Street Margaret Yanitch Rosemont Arbutus Allender 203 West Washington Street James Cross 123 East Wilford Street. City Hospital receives Philpot 119 Fanny Street Mary Jean Marsh 9 Leonard Street Dimetria Andrews 11 Luzadder Street Earl Sway Route 1 as medical patients. Mr and Mrs Robert Davisson arrive from Ticaca New York to visit parents F B Davisson Pearl Street and Mrs A A Holt Walnut Street. Mr Davisson discharged from the navy in December.
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Siddall
Pear Street
Margaret, Yanitch
Rosemont
Arbutus Allender
West Washington Street
James Cross
East Wilford Street
City Hospital
Tet Philpot
Fanny Street
Mary Jean Marsh
Leonard Street
Little Dimetria Andrews
Luzadder Street
Earl Sway
Route 1
New York
Robert Davisson
Ticaca
N. Y
F. B. Davisson
Pearl Street
A. ‘A. Holt
Walnut Street
Davisson
Navy
Christmas social notices fill December calendar
Many local groups schedule Christmas events from December 13 to 18. Louise Collins hosts the Hecalums, Red Cross sewing at Red Cross rooms, W C T U meets at Mrs. Fred Robinson’s on Maple, P H C in V F W hall, Mountain City Council hosts a covered dish dinner and gift exchange, Weekly Sewing Club at Miss Fleetta Storm’s, Fet'er en Msthedist church sewing, First Presbyterian Church party at 6 15 p m with Sarah Sayres contact, Fidel's Club gathering at 8, Red Wing chll at Mrs L H Greenwald’s, King’s Daughters Bible class party at Mrs A B Curight’s, V F W auxiliary meeting with gift exchange.
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Louise Collins
West Main Street
Ladies of the First Brethren Church
Red Cross
Fred Robinson
Maple Avenue
Mountain City Council
Lodge
Fleetta Storm
High Street
First Presbyterian Clearch
Sarah Sayres
Fidel's Club
First Presbyterian Church
Red Wing Chll
L. H. Greenwald
King's Daughters Bible Class
A. B. Curight
Yates Avenue
V.F.W
Hall
Pattern 9311 house frock offers easy fit and sizing
An advertisement notes pattern 9311 for a house frock with front panel buttons and easy ironing. It lists sizes from 26 to 50 and fabric details, stating yards needed for 35 inch width and a price of twenty cents per coin in a period catalog.
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Grafton Sentinel
P. O
Station O
New York
Marian Martin
Grafton Students Anticipate Christmas Vacation Delays
Grafton enters Christmas break as West Virginia University students face travel fears over slick roads and possible two extra weeks at home. Mary Virginia Dent leads the College of Pharmacy party plans for December 14, while an Inter-fraternity Sing on December 19 promises campus wide music and sorority dorm serenades. Martha Rector hosted Kappa Phi gatherings, dorm conversations note active craft trends like knitting resurfacing among girls. Virginia Stine shows off a blue sleeveless sweater from her first knitting effort.
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Mary Virgiia Dent
College of Pharmacy
Martha Rector
Kappa Phi
Virginia Stine
Coal burning turbine test gains approval in Baltimore
Officials from railroad and coal interests endorse six months of Johns Hopkins experiments on a coal burning gas turbine for locomotives. Dr. John S. Yellett led the tests with funding from a $1,000,000 fund contribution by the Pennsylvania Railroad with W S Franklin voicing strong encouragement for the pattern.
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Baltimore
Railroad and Coal Company
Johns Hopkins University
John S. Yellett
Belair
Institute of Gas Technology
Chicago
W. S. Franklin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Floral novelties catch youthful eye at Christmas
Florists' Telegraph styling offers seasonal ideas like a candy cane garden with striped carnations and pink cornflowers and white candles with red ribbon. Alyn Wayne notes these are member florist ideas, not his own. A pine cone owl centerpiece sits on mossy boughs with a large red ribbon. A welcome with a wishbone front door decoration features a plastic wishbone, pine sprigs, holly, and silver bells.
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Alyn Wayne
Florists
Telegraph
Florist
Turbine-Powered Locomotive Demonstration Near
Roy Barton White of the Baltimore and Ohio expresses optimism about a turbine locomotive project. A working model using hot air from burned coal is tested in Johns Hopkins lab basement and a full-scale unit may operate within 18 months.
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Roy Barton White
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Johns Hopkins Laboratory
Power plant with two moving parts eyed for efficiency
Proponents claim the power plant has only two moving parts and will run more efficiently in cold weather. They contrast this with current locomotive plants that lose efficiency in cold conditions.
B and O Carloadings Announced for Week Ended Dec 8 1945
Carloads handled by the Baltimore and Ohio during the week ended December 8 1945 totaled 64 940 broken into 40 673 loaded on line and 24 267 received from connections. The prior year week total was 68 741 with 41 557 on line and 27 184 from connections. A year earlier 1930 week had 55 202 carloads with 35 453 on line and 19 749 from connections.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Joblessness and New Census Figures Compared
The piece notes unemployment at 1,580,000 in November, with Bowles citing new census figures. It questions the census scope by excluding discharged veterans traveling or seeking rest before job hunting and civilian workers resting after wartime effort. The article suggests these groups may raise the true jobless total.
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Bowles
Buckley’s Canadian Mixture Promises Fast Cough Relief
A medical patent advertises Buckley’s Canadian Mixture as a powerful expectorant for bronchial coughs from gelding. It claims rapid action to loosen thick phlegm, ease coughing spasms, and improve breathing and sleep. Available at drug stores and Malone’s Drug & Chemical Co.
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Buckley
Jobless figures cited in census sampling debate
Officials discuss possible error in census sampling and estimate 2.5 to 3.5 million people seeking work. By contrast the War Manpower Commission projected 6 million could be unemployed by month’s end after VJ Day. Suitability noted as key in rayon manufacture.
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War Manupower Commission
Beware of Pin-Worms and Treatments Advertised
A sensational health notice warns that pin worms affect many children and adults, causing rectal itching. It promotes Jayne’s Paw tablets made with gentinn violet, claimed to cure pin worms, and urges asking a dentist for this product with a money back guarantee.
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Dr. D. Jayne
Sony
Jayne
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Blueville Church
Ember
Princess Frock
Marian
Diamondsskaggs & Company
Gates
Frank Cole
Texaco
Bridgeport
Skaggs & Company
Yellett
White
Robert
Doll House
Concern
Hobby Horse
Roberts
Tony
Nature
J. J. Kaufman
B&o
Malone's Drug & Chemical Co
Jim Penney
Big Brother
Jim Penney Boys
Wrisleys
Penney’s
Csimas Suoreets
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