GHS Mixed Chorus Christmas Concert Tonight at 8 15
The Grafton High School mixed chorus directed by Miss Neriy Ann Staley will present a Christmas program at 8:15 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Seventy two voices perform alongside boy and girl choirs with solos and a Nativity pantomime. Songs include These Things Shall Be Great Is Thy Love Darkness is Falling and Silent Night.
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Grafton Aish School
Neriy Ann Staley
Bing
James Yost
Lelia Joan Haun
Mary Warden
Allelujah
Mary Virginia
Richard van Parkhill
Irving Berlin
Virginia Lee Carpenter
Helen Louise Cutright
Petrovich Girls Honored With Birthday Party
Mrs. Al Petrovich of 316 Walnut Street hosted a double birthday party for her daughters Sherry Ann and Mary Charlene last evening. Guests included many friends and relatives. The celebration featured party games, Christmas carols, and two birthday cakes with candles.
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al Petrovich
Walnut Street
Sherry Ann
Mary Charlene
Mrs. Petrovich
Freddie Laer
Barbara Manley
Junior
Mary Ruth Armstrong
Rhes Miller
Nancy Shahan
Shirley Jean Devers
Kenneth Royce
Connie McCartney
Carolyn Tacy
Betty Jean Austin
Annette Kunst
Jean Holt
Bonnie
Linda Uhl
Annette Shahan
Cora Mae Knight
Barbara Burdett
Nancy Carol Devers
Joan Bennett
Hayward Isner
Hubert Armstrong
William Beavers
Kenni Stutler
the Vietr
Friendship Class Holds Meeting And Xmas Party
The Friendship class of Andrews Methodist church held its December meeting and Christmas party at the church. Hostesses were Nancy Wagner Winifred Moats Mabel Lee Patton and Virginia Rosier. The evening opened with carols a brief business session led by president Pauline Gerkins a gift exchange and games followed by refreshments for members and guests including Pauline Gerkins Evelyn Dowell and others. The dodo bird has not been seen since 1681 and dairy facts about milk consumption and imperial government are noted.
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Andrew's Methodist Church
Nancy Wagner
Winifred Moats
Mabel Lee Patton
Virginia Rosier
Pauline Gerkins
Evelyn Dowell
Alice Poling
Dorothy Woodyard
Virginia Gall
Mary Jo Patton
Nellie Williams
Margaret Shahan
Rapid Shahan
Jean Shahan
Donald Wagner
Francis McCracken
8. T. Seymour
Martha Hines
Frances Zinn
Richard Zinn
Arta Shomo
Doris Wagner
Fourt
WCTU And LTL Groups Hold Recent Meeting
WCTU and Loyal Temperance groups held a Christmas themed meeting in McGraw avenue church. Mrs. Lelia Peters presided with remarks from Mrs. Mildred Goff and 16 LTL members presenting a program. Rev Jones spoke on There Was No Room For Him In the Inn as attendees shared Yuletide fellowship and planned January church afternoon meeting at First Baptist.
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Wevam Wtu
Wil
Bred Robinson
C. F. Shafer
Lelia Peters
Mildred Goff
Main Street Loyal Temperance Legion
Lillian Gall
Weste Side Legion
Vir
Sinia Maon
McGraw Avenue
Jones
West Main ‘Street
First Baptist Church
Taft to testify on closed session banking bill today
HINT-ANTI moved to front after a similar defeat as Buck stated Taft would testify at a 2 PM closed banking committee session. House leaders see little chance of a cost-of-living measure passing amid Democrats and Republicans defeating the Walcott bill yesterday. sponsors lacked the two-thirds vote.
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Pake
Buck
Taft
Banking Committee
The New Look Pattern 359 Promises Slimming Style
The advertising notice touts Pattern 359 with a long godet peplum and new sleet looks for a feminine silhouette. It offers sizes from 14 to 42, includes a complete chart, and invites readers to order for 25 cents by sending name address style and number to The Grafton Sentinel Pattern Dept in New York. It also promotes the Marian Martin Fall and Winter Fashion Book for 15 cents and claims a free pattern inside the book along with a hat and bag illustration.
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Patten
Grafton Sentinel
West 18Th Bt
New York
Marian Martin
Lawmakers Clash Over GOP Drive For Taft Plan
The House failed to pass the Republicans seven point plan for the cost of living with a 202 to 188 vote, five short of needed margin as Democrats opposed. Senate Republicans planned talks with House leaders to decide whether to rush a modified Wolcott bill, with Speaker Martin saying the House would try. Taft criticized the move as complex and unlikely to finish by Friday. Snow disrupted travel with icy roads but temperatures rose from 13 to 39 degrees as conditions improved.
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Tuman
Lait
Senate Republican Policy Committee
GOP
House
Martin
Halleck
Taft
Senate
Wolcott
Federal Reserve Bank
Blackjack Billy Fox to Fight Lesnevich for World Title
Philadelphia report states Blackjack Billy Fox will face Gus Lesnevich for the light heavy world title at Madison Square Garden on March 5 with contracts to be signed in New York. Lesnevich, 32, of Cliffside Park New Jersey, is the reigning titlist who previously knocked out Fox in the 10th round last February. Fox has won all other bouts, and the matchup draws possible future notes regarding heavyweight contender Joe Louis.
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Philadelphia
Billy Fox
Gus Lesnevich
Madison Square Garden
Fox
Prank
Blinky
Billy
Hevea Tree Delays Rubber Production for Two Decades
A hevea tree requires about 22 years after planting to reach full rubber production. Experts note trees growth, climate, and cultivation practices influence yield timelines and may extend or shorten the onset of peak output.
Stassen criticizes officials for market exits and government ties
May ask notes Stassen urges not only market withdrawal but also government disengagement. He cites Edwin W. Pauley, special assistant to Secretary of the Army Royall, who testified to senators about commodity holdings near $1,000,000 and denied using government information in his trading activities.
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Stassen
Edwin W. Pauley
Army
Royall
Senate Committee
Pauley
Average family budgets in 34 cities drift higher
Last June family budgets averaged about $20.4 per week in Cincinnati New York and Seattle, with about $1 000 to $1 100 yearly in those cities. March 1946 figures ranged around $15 per week with 850 in New York 854 in Seattle and 793 in Cincinnati. City by city comparisons list Washington New York Pittsburgh and Baltimore among others with varied weekly costs.
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Vwuntimuca
Page One
Cincinnati
New York
Seattle
Washington
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Norfolk
Richmond
Reburial Services for Newton P. Ballengee
A report from Bluefield lists pallbearers and color guards from Legion and V P W, a bugler from the West Virginia Military District at Charleston, with six services planned tomorrow. Newton P Ballengee, 67, of Bluefield, receives a final resting place in the National Cemetery after wartime service. The local Griffin Yar notes no further interments are anticipated until after Christmas.
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Legion
V.P.W
West Virginia Military District
Charleston
Newton P. Ballengee
Bluevile
It & In
Fragmented 1914 Names and Notes Appear in Flemington Area List
A garbled page fragment lists numerous names and addresses in the Flemington and Rosemont areas, including West Main street entries and Route numbers, plus stray notes on fashion, court house mentions, and a 1914 line about dye production in the United States. The text also includes unrelated items on oxygen purity, ancient kings as landowners, and type metal composition, with several incomplete names and places.
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Miss Marion
GHS
RTS
Herbert Fornash
James Williamson
Charles Adlington
George White
Alpha Mu
Beta Sigma Phi
da Carpenter
Maple Avenue
WSCS
Andrews Church
Mountain City Council No. 49
D. of A
VFW
Kings Daughters
United Brethren Church
Woman's Council
Church of Christ
W. A. Harrison
Blueville
Mary Jean Grinnan
Eastern Star Woman’s Club
Masonic Temple
Minnie Cole
Donna Jo Cooper
Lincoln Street
Delta Nu
Tau Lambda Sorority
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Beulah Bailey
West
Washington Street
Leoma Zumbro
First Brethren Parsonage
Philathea
Merrill Stilwell
Janet Sue Boylen
Mackin Street
Mountaineer Council No. 44
VFW Hall
East Main Street
Congress
U. S. Department of Justice
Jerusalem
United States
Egypt
Erzee
Prince Carl Gustav
King Gustav of Sweden
Royal Castle
Stockholm
Princess Sibylla
Prince Gustav
Grace Moore
Mercury
Taylor County
Morniig
Risven
Lesnevich
Eton
Santa Claus
Union Drug CO
W. Bartlett
George O. Gawthrop
Charles F.W. Kunst
West Main
Cobs
George B. Elliott
West Main Street
Earl F. Keener
Nathan H. Coulson
James J. Bailey
Thornton
George F. Stemple
Flemington
Andrew H. Mayle
Rosemont
Charles N.hawkins
Hebert B. Riffle
Harley J
States
Medicine
Westinghouse Electric Ranges
Westinghouse
Corox
J. Lee Evans Furniture
West Main St
Grafton
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