Christmas Yuletide Observances At Grafton Churches
Grafton churches prepare Christmas services with cantatas pageants and messages. St Pauls Methodist Episcipal will present The Holy Child cantata in the morning and a nine scene pageant at night featuring over fifty participants. The pageant opens with cherubs and follows the nativity story through song reading and pantomime with a large cast including Samuel prophet Jesus David Death and Herod among others. Continued on page eight.
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Churches of
Grafton
St. Paul's Methodist — Episcopal Church
Carrie B. Adams
Christ
Pagent
Boone Thaal
Mies Cherubs
Betty Stafford
Margaret Moran
James C. Holt
Samuel
Jessie
R. W. Cuppett
David
James Boone
Dorothy Hefner
Joseph
Charles Custer
Mary
Arline McDaniel
Angel
Mary Fewcett
Glenn McDaniel
Clay Robinson
Herod
Harold Marshall
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Trout and Bass Culture Station at Leetown Site
Representative Bowman announces a $75,000 trout and bass culture station to be built at Leetown in Jefferson County West Virginia. About 100 acres will be used with project work beginning in spring after titles are examined.
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Washington
Bowman
West Virginia
House
Agriculture Department
Leetown
Jefferson County
Miller's Shoe Store Silk Hose at Attractive Price
Miller's Shoe Store offers a special price on solid boxes containing three pairs of women's silk hose. The offer applies to all available sizes and provides a convenient choice for buyers seeking luxury hosiery at a reduced rate.
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Miller's Shoe Store
Carnegie Tech Football Schedule Oct 30 at Local Field
Carnegie Tech announces its 1931 football visit to play West Virginia University Freshmen at the local field Friday October 30. Superintendent H A Rice says this is the first collegiate game booked for the field next season, with Broaddus and others possibly adding one or two games here.
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Carnegie Tech
Carnegie
Tech
West Va
Supt. H. A. Rice
Broaddus
Tragic Collision Sees 45 Lost In Oberon Arcturus Crash
In thick fog off Copenhagen a collision between the Oberon and Arcturus leaves 45 feared dead from the Oberon and Arcturus crews. Only 36 saved. many injured, with rescue hampered by zero visibility. Five seaplanes poised to assist once fog lifts. noted survivor Phyllis Tripple, secretary at Helsingfors consulate, among the rescued.
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Copenhagen
Iner Oberon
Bris Hjelt
Oberon
Osal Hiel
Arcturus
Laso Island
Helsingfors
Hull
England
Phiyllis Tripl
Finland
Surrey
Seek to Determine Police Vice Graft on Wall Street
New York December 20 investigations proceed to determine if police vice graft reached Wall Street. A blanket subpoena covers 120 squad members and families across 2000 brokerages and banks in the metro area. Transcripts suggest bribes from women and gamblers were used to trade markets or move funds. Referee Samuel Seabury has heard that police conspired with lawyers and bondsmen to arrest women and petty criminals and take payments to drop cases. Four officers face departmental trial on the basis of these findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Isidor J. Kresel
Samuel Seabury
William B Cruise Dies After Long Illness at 63
William Bernard Cruise 63 prominent politician businessman and Elk and Knights of Columbus member died Friday night at 10 45 at his father in law Jos eph Remlinger s home 231 West Wilford Street after a five year illness He was inactive for five years due to fits but remained popular meeting old friends Funeral services will be at St Augustine s Catholic Church Monday at 9 am Father M J Yann en in charge Burial will be in Mount Calvary by Bartlett Funeral Co Body lying in state at Bartlett s until time of final rites Cruise was a longtime Democratic leader in Taylor County and served as county executive committee chairman for 15 years He helped select WW Soldiers as a member of the local draft board The notice concludes with continuation on page eight.
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William Bernard Cruise
Elk
Knights of Columbus
Joseph Remlinger
West
Wilford Street
Bartlett
Cruise
Unth
William B. Cruise
West Virginia
Taylor County
Taylor
Soldier Ends Siege In Suicide At Fort Serrat
In Perpignan France on December 20 a Senegalese soldier Seenda who went amok killing three and wounding four and held 2000 troops at bay for hours shot himself in the head as garrison forces besieged him with bombs rifles and tear gas. The subterranean vault where he hid was demolished after no life was heard and his body was found beside a big rifle with evidences on the walls of a failed escape attempt.
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Perpignan
France
Seenda
Amuck
Fort Serrat
Miller's Shoe Store Offers Post Christmas Refunds
Local ad promises no risk shopping with exchanges or refunds after Christmas. Shoppers are assured they can return presents from Miller's Shoe Store for a refund or exchange without questions.
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Miller's Shoe Store
Generous Christmas Appeal for Salvation Army Aid
A Christmas plea urges generous giving to the Salvation Army to ease widespread unemployment and hunger. The author contrasts festive cheer with the growing line of those seeking aid, citing stories of unemployed workers and families ruined by shortages, and emphasizes enduring shelter and support beyond emergencies.
Mannington High School Seeks State Championship Ruling
Mannington high school asked the State Athletic Board of Appeals at the meeting here to declare a state football champion for the recently finished season. The board lacked authority to name a champion. Also discussed were eligibility cases, a major cage dispute involving Cario and Grantsville, the forfeiture of the Grantsville win, payment of a $25 game guarantee, and trophies for upcoming tournaments with Josters Trophy of Cleveland.
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Mannington High Schol
State Athletic Board of Appeals
State Athletic Association
Cario
Grantsville
Statfely
Josters Trophy
Cleveland
Clarksburg
Daring Escape by Two Prisoners In Northern Louisiana
Ruston December 2 Northern Louisiana reports a bold escape by two prisoners who handcuffed and tied a sheriff, a deputy, and a third prisoner to a tree, then escaped in the officers car. The men G C Edwards and Jim erre ll, held up the sheriff and deputy, seized the officers keys, and freed themselves. A second suspect Mike Eskew resisted liberty, while Edwards freed himself with an extra key. The captives were en route from Farmersville to Monroe after arraignments for a Farmersville bank robbery. The fugitives abandoned the first car due to mechanical trouble and took another as a search began.
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Ruston
Lousiana
Monroe
Farmersville
G. C. Edwards
Jim
Silver Springs
N. M
Pat Murphy
Edwards
Mike Eskew
Lberty
Best buy at Millers Shoe Store for Silk Hose and more
Nothing compares to Silk Hose Silk Socks Shoes Galoshes Spats and Arctics as presents they are useful and practical The note ends by suggesting Miller's Shoe Store as the best place for a purchase.
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Miller’s Shoe Store
Senate Approves Emergency 116 Million Public Works Bill
The Senate passed an emergency 116 million dollar public works measure to fund national improvements. About 80 million would go to road construction with the rest for land waterways and public buildings. President Hoover would allocate funds as needed, with drought relief totaling 45 million under consideration.
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Washington
Senate
Aoe
Pollette
Wisec
Walsh
Massasetts
House
Hoover
White House
Lucas admits circulation literature in Norris campaign
Washington reports Robert H. Lucas executive director of the Republican National Committee testified before the senate campaign funds committee that he ordered anti Norris literature circulated in Nebraska during the last campaign. He said the material cost 4237 dollars and was a personal contribution to aid Norris’s defeat due to his Democratic leanings and opposition to Coolidge and Hoover. The mailings included cartoons on wet and dry issues pamphlets on Norris and a letter from the Democratic Victory Scouts urging support for Norris with a postscript backing Hitchcock.
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Washington
Robert H. Lucas
Tor
Republican National Committee
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Nebraska
Norris
Imeas
Coolidge
Hoover
Charles I. Stengle
National Farm News
Hitchcock
Lucas
Nye
National Committee
Water Power Act Analysis in West Virginia Law Quarterly
Morgantown West Virginia December issue of the West Virginia Law Quarterly publishes J W Simonton analysis of the 1929 water power act. He argues the act fails to conserve state water power and mainly promotes licensing development by private utilities. The piece, drawn from a year of research, compares US statutes and cites numerous authorities.
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Morgantown
W. Va
J. W. Simonton
West Virginia University
West Virginia Law Quarterly
Just Out
Simonton
College of Law
United States
Railroad unions push job sharing to ease unemployment
Cleveland reports a plan by railroad worker unions to cut mileage pay to create work for idle staff. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and others say reductions are temporary and aim to share jobs on routes, though officials warn nationwide coverage may still leave many unemployed.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad
Fy Whitney
Whitney
David B. Robertson
Firmen
Two Sailors Die In Storm Aboard Cel Near Chile
In Valparaiso Chile two crew members aboard the United States tanker Cel were killed when a storm battered the vessel off the Chilean coast. The incident occurred as the ship was underway near Valparaiso.
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Valparaiso
Chile
United States
Cel
Chilean
Miller's Shoe Store Promises Quality Gifts
Affordable Christmas shopping note touts Miller's Shoe Store offering better quality gifts for just a trifle more and enhancing social standing and enjoyment.
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Lany City
St. Paul’s Methodist
Brethren, Baptist, West Main and
Nazarenes
Cattegat Waters
Grafton Printing Co
The
Sentinel
WM. B. Cruise
St. Augustine’s Catholic Church
Bartlett's
W. R. Loar & Son
Pieam Hhoto Mitzi Green
Amila
W. H. Arnold
Salvation Army
Salvation, Army
Earth
Salvation
Elks Home
St. Augustine Church
John W. McCafferty
Mannington’s High School
West Virginia Athletic Board of Appeals
North
Louisiana
Senator Norris
Water Power Act
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