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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
3
A 25th wedding anniversary supper hosted by Mr and Mrs Joseph Montgomery of Wickwire featured a spacious festooned home with evergreen decor a four course turkey dinner and a wedding cake centerpiece. Guests included Gem Bunner Frank Sypolt Elden Cleavenger Lee Rogers plus many relatives and friends.
The Pleasant Valley Parents Teachers Association held its December meeting with a program of songs exercises and short plays about Christmas performed by students from first through eighth grade. A social hour followed with refreshments provided by local residents. Earlier in the month volunteers built a cinder walk and steps from the county road to the schoolhouse.
A fragment suggests a holiday item titled Mrs and Mrs Adairs Present The Good Saint Nicholas. Readable text hints at a Christmas themed feature or gift note from a 19th or early 20th century era.
Gift ideas for men and women include shaving sets with cream after shave and powder, leather bill folds and pocket letter holders, cigars and cigarettes in Christmas boxes. For ladies, choose stationery bridge sets compact perfume handbags fountain pens pencils flashlights body powder perfumerizers manicure articles and candies from Johnsons Reymers and Lowneys.
Mrs. Wm H Adair and Dr Wm V Adair welcome a baby girl born Sunday evening at Woman's Hospital in Baltimore. The infant is the couple’s grandson, a notable Christmas joy for the Grafton family as grandad beams at the news.
Mr and Mrs W M Moats of Parkview announce the birth of a baby girl on December 23. The infant weighs seven pounds four ounces and has been named Mary Norine Moats.
Helen Wills Moody leaves the altar at St Clement's Chapel with her groom and a small wedding party. A crowd of 300 watched as cameras and reporters swarmed the couple. They left by limousine for a downtown station and then to the Wills home for a wedding breakfast. Moody, a broker, plans to reside in San Francisco and Mrs Moody will continue her tennis career.
A peremptory summons brought into Laurie John L. Witt mans court transformed into a festive scene with a Christmas tree, gifts, and a jolly squire handing out sentences as square packages to visitors, while Miss Dorothy Nye sits nearby.
In a courtroom a group of locals including a young boy perched on a chair enjoyed an unexpected holiday moment. A few cigars and a fruit orange from the table created a small scene of warmth as laughter rose among the spectators and a sense of Christmas cheer filled the room.
New York reports Fritz Von Opel, German auto maker and rocket aviation authority, envisions 1000 passenger planes at 5000 mph within a generation. He arrived from Germany with his wife, a licensed pilot, who helped during rocket tests. He claims a squid chemical three times more powerful than nitroglycerine will enable practical rocket flight and foresees rockets replacing catapults for ship launches.
Kingwood, Dec. 24. Local volunteer firemen battled a blaze for hours early yesterday threatening the Bowermaster building on Main Street. The fire likely started in Attorney M. T. Howermaster offices from a discarded cigarette butt. Losses totaled about 2000 with Bowermaster and United Cigars Stores among the largest claims. insurance partially covered.
Bethlehem reports Christmas preparations by Church fathers under guard as Latin patriarch visits by motor. The midnight service proceeds at the old Franciscan convent, while the Grotto sanctuary remains barred to Catholics and Anglicans on Christmas Eve, Greek Orthodox privileges reserved.
Mrs Maggie DeCost and Edgar Travis were released after several weeks of treatment. Mr Travis of West Washington Street Grafton has recovered enough to spend Christmas at home with his family. Hospital attaches noted the progress and anticipated final recovery.
Kingwood December 24 three occupants of a car escaped fatal injuries when the automobile crashed into a fire plug at midnight, wrecking the car. Joseph Siwaski 25 Howesville miner driver fractured skull serious injuries but expected to recover in local hospital. Mrs Elizabeth Greaser 35 Kingwood fractured right leg recovering at home. Robert Gribble 45 Hawesville mines electrician scalp torn away but injuries not serious.
An opinion by Attorney General Charlie C. McCall upholds the legality of the state Democratic executive committee’s decision to bar certain candidates from the 1930 party primary for not supporting the Democratic presidential ticket, while allowing those individuals to vote. It excludes Senator J. Thomas Heflin and Hugh A. Locke from candidacy in the governor and re-election races respectively.
Locke and McCall discuss independent campaigns in the context of 1928 Hoover support and Alabama primary law. McCall, seeking governor, argues the law does not strip from parties the right to set voter qualifications, calling for more liberal rules for voters than candidates.
London reports the Labor government plans to push the five-power disarmament talks in January aiming for a landmark conference. A V Alexander warns that any major capital outlays for naval or military defenses must be scrutinized in light of the anticipated changes from the talks. Home economics students at the University of Texas care for eighteen babies in the school nursery.
Frank Smith of Fayette was pardoned after serving three years of a twelve year sentence for assault. Pardon recommended by the jury that convicted him and endorsed by Judge J. W. Bory, with Governor Conley granting clemency.
A child writes to Santa asking for a big doll and a Christmas tree with a doll that talks, mentioning family members Nancy Jane Wat Blueville and Pauline Watking. Another note from a child mentions visiting Cincinnati and seeing little cousins, with a request for six presents and a kind man named Brown. A Wisconsin judge is noted for an undertaking parlor case.
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