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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
3
Society editor Coral Parrish Montgomery files a standard social column note detailing events, greetings, arrivals, and portraits for the community pages. Phone contact is listed for social announcements and correspondence.
Mr and Mrs Hugh Boylen announce the marriage of their son Layman Jen to Miss Mildred Mayles of Gassaway. The ceremony took place December 18 at the Baptist parsonage in Cumberland Maryland with Rev Harold Moore officiating. The couple will reside in Flemington after a brief honeymoon.
Clarksburg reports the opening of the First National Bank of West Union and plans for new national banks in Elkins Philippi and Salem will release over 1.5 million to Central West Virginia trade. Reopenings secure deposits and unlock funds held since March banking holiday, with specific releases planned for each bank.
A fragmentary column cites Rosemary Ames on eye color and mascara to enhance blue eyes with a carrot-red hair frame and dark blue mascara. Interjected lines feature Santa on a sleigh and a pig named Buffy shouting about returning on Christmas Day, with chatter about lists of good girls and boys.
Local CWA offices have been ordered to furnish two skilled and eighteen unskilled laborers for project No 6 Sealing Abandoned Mines. Officials have secured the workers and await instructions. Speculation says all abandoned coal mines in the state will be sealed aiding stream purification across Taylor County and beyond.
Chicago hearing voices from George M. Harrison president Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and A F Whitney head Railway Trainmen urge drastic rail financing reform. They call for government funded credit to cover rail costs, a federal railroad credit corporation, and bonds sold at low rates to slash interest burdens by half. They warn high debt could push people to rely on charity without shorter hours.
Harrison warned that railroads with 60 percent of their capital could weather a low mood that halves traffic but cannot meet worker obligations. He argued profits favored machine expansion over pay, urged only public interest consolidations, and proposed payroll reserves, shorter work periods, retirement insurance, abolishing company unions, and stronger rail workforce cooperation.
In Berlin on December 21, a federation of over 4,000 Protestant pastors demanded reforms from Archbishop Ludwig Mueller. The emergency federation, led by former Reichbishop Friedrich von Bodensschwingh and Rev. Martin Uiemueller, warned Mueller to reassemble the church cabinet by next Saturday or lose confidence from the group and inform the interior ministry and public.
Anberry cocktail suits the holiday feast with Christmas color and a festive flavor. Serve in small glasses as a first course. Small salted ferns or celery sticks accompany the cocktail or can be offered on their own.
A historic menu lists Cranberry Cocktail with water sugar lemon and orange juice, strained, then chilled to serve in small glasses. Chestnut Stuffing combines boiled chestnuts with bread crumbs onions celery parsley salt paprika poultry seasoning butter egg and cream, mixed and cooked as a savory filling.
Stanley Fleming of Flemington visited Grafton yesterday as a business caller. Odus Currey of Grafton Route 6 was in Graf ton today, calling at the Sentinel office to subscribe for the newspaper.
Misses Anna Bright Shafer and Clay Robinson of West Virginia Wesleyan College return home for Christmas. William Edward Wells and Dorothy P. Wells, formerly of Graf ton, now of Washington DC, will visit sister Mrs. James Nestor and family on Knottsville pike. Mr and Mrs A E Shanabarger plan a trip to New Martinsville for several weeks visiting. Mr and Mrs J H Taylor of Elkins will spend the evening with Ames F Holt, law student at West Virginia University, who is spending the holidays.
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