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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1930
Page
4
Advertising rates state 2 cents per word for first insertion and 1 cent per word thereafter. Inquiries at the business office for same day ads require 9:00 a m submission. After 9:00 a m a 5 cent per inch composition charge applies. Removal notices due by 6:00 p m the evening prior.
The editorial laments hard times and unemployment but praises the Christmas spirit among youth and communities. It criticizes probation laws as overextended and urges executive clemency in cases, while reporting West Virginia congressmen pushing a hearing on locating veterans hospitals in Canandaigua and Huntington.
South ern West Virginia automobile club in Charleston urges adoption of Hoover traffic regulations expanding speed limit to 45 mph, but favors 40 mph as safer. It calls for uniform rules nationwide, stronger road patrol, and opposes higher auto license or gasoline taxes while proposing redirecting a cent of existing gas tax to county treasuries to fund roads.
In a Dec 19 1930 letter from Flemington West Virginia Mr Holt argues for keeping government at home. He cites colonial leaders and Jefferson asserting citizens guide governance. He questions distant governance and urges honest, upright citizens in Taylor County to support local sheriffs.
A historical debate argues for a uniform county patrol replacing some state public safety duties. It cites Taylor county jail costs, sheriff familiarity with locals, and potential funding needs estimated at 25,294 dollars for two and a half years. Barbour county could see a patrol cost of about 10,000 dollars yearly, with implications for gubernatorial candidates and county governance.
Mr Cooper lists the year’s eight most dramatic moments including Andree mystery revival, Coste and Bellonte’s nonstop westward flight, Bobby Jones’s grand slam, Gandhi’s civil disobedience, Lindbergh’s birth, prison fire at Columbus, the Great Drought, and the discovery of a new planet at Flagstaff. He notes Carol’s return to the Romanian throne and the R 101 disaster, excluding the naval treaty and Paris talks as lacking spontaneous appeal.
A garbled OCR passage mentions a prohibition era scene with a man named Honabiy and references to weighing scales and a tainted statement, all glimpsed in a brief courtroom or public hearing context. The text is incomplete, with names and actions unclear but implying an inspection or challenge related to prohibition enforcement.
Legal notice warns the public to stay off any property of the undersigned in Gi Tygart Valley Glass Co at 229-15. Offenders will face legal action.
Commissioner of School Lands of Taylor County offers Lot No.7 on Kunst Plat in Grafton for sale at public auction January 3 1931 at 2 PM in the Taylor County courthouse front door. Lot fronts 50 feet on Addison Street and measures 132 feet deep. Property once owned by Lucretia Lindsey, forfeited to the state for nonpayment of taxes, assessed at 1100. Terms require cash to cover costs, with rest payable via notes over six and twelve months bearing interest to the State of West Virginia.
Public auction at 2 PM for Lot 17 in T B Ramsey Addition Gratton with tax forfeiture history. Property once owned by Janet Ramsey then Feng Hogan later forfeited for unpaid taxes. Sale proceeds support tax and costs with six to twelve month credit and title retained by West Virginia until full payment.
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