Christmas Holiday Visitors Arrive In Grafton Area
Miss Helen Rau and Carl Redinger arrive from Washington to spend Christmas in Grafton. Garnett Jacobs, secretary to Captain Morehead, visits Dayton for the holidays. O George Bliss departs for Scranton to spend Christmas Day. Richard Bartlett leaves for Charleston to begin north south game training. Thomas Warder arrives from Zanesville to visit his mother Mrs Hugh Warder. Rose Marie Folio visits family in Grafton while working in New York. Francis Flanagan of Potomac State College returns to Grafton for the holidays. Betty Watson and infant discharged from hospital. Bessie Powell discharged from hospital. Mr and Mrs Joseph White and son Joey visit Hoye White Sr. in St Charles. Fred Wolfe and wife from Washington celebrate Christmas in Grafton. Lighted Highway to be shown at St Pauls Lutheran Christmas night at 7 30. Tra Allen Stine at WVU spending vacation with parents. Ed Ware leaves for Washington DC to visit daughter and grandson. Clayton Butcher at WVU spending holidays with parents in Thornton. Harold Knight at Bethany College spending Christmas vacation.
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Helen Rau
Carl Redinger
Washington
D. C
Grafton
Garnett Jacobs
C. T. Morehead
B. É& O. Police
Dayton
O. George Bliss
Dam
Scrarr Jen
Richard Bartlett
North
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Allen Stine
West Virginia University
Ed Ware
Washington, D. C
Clayton Butcher
Thornton
Harold Knight
Bethany College
Mrs Cooper passes away in Harmony Grove
Death claims Eunice Cooper a lifelong Harmony Grove resident aged 72 or 73 survived by daughter Mrs Guy Davis Morgantown two sons Ernest and Earl a brother William Carter and a stepson funeral Friday at 1 pm Harmony Grove Baptist church with Rev Milliard Stump officiating interment Harmony Grove cemetery
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Eunice Cooper
Harmony Grove
Guy Davis
Stewart Avenue
Morgantown
Isaac Bowman
Jane Hart Carter
Taylor County
William L. Cooper
Davis
Ernest J
Earl
William E. Carter
Cooper
Harmony Grove Baptist Church
Milliard Stump
Canfield-Black Nuptials Surprise Friends in Baltimore
The wedding of Miss Cléola Canfield of Grafton to Ralph E. Black of Baltimore was a noon, single ring ceremony at Park Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore with Frederick I. Mumford officiating. Attended by groom’s sister Miss Josephine Knight, the reception followed at the Black home. Black, a 1926 Grafton High School graduate, has worked at National Stamping and is employed by Balti mure’s Snare Company. The bride wore white and navy, paired with a silver muskrat coat, and roses in her corsage. The couple planned to spend Christmas in Grafton before future plans are announced.
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Canfield
Cléola Canfield
Grafton
Ralph E. Black
Baltimore
Park Methodist Episco- Church
Frederick I. Mumford
Josephine Ek
B. R
Black
Grafton High School
National Stamping and Eling Company
Balti
Fletcher-Saucere
Gertrude M. Fletcher
Pills A. Saucere
Joe Fletcher
Olan
Assemblies of God
Fairmont
Police
C. H. Satcere
Webster
Frederick Snare
Christmas Tragedy and War News Mix in Turbulent Times
A weekend car crash near West Hill injures Mayle family members while guests in the other car escape unharmed. Separately, Maggie Seigler’s planned reunion with her son Edward ends in heartbreak when the boy is not the one she expected. The wider world scene shows Britain pushing preparedness, Italy’s actions, and Ethiopian casualties as the warfront heats up, with Christmas expectations fading in a world of conflict and uncertainty.
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Lausanne
Tembien
Mariam Quorar
Ous
Tonqua
Ethiopis
Upaeir
Aurora Farmer Found Dead From Ill Health
Joseph O. Wotring, 75, longtime Aurora farmer and community resident, was found dead Sunday morning after months of illness. The death appears due to a heart condition. He was the last survivor in a family of eight children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph O. Wotring
Aurora
Mr. Wotring
Sandsbury Baby Terring Oren Born on West Main
Mr and Mrs Benjamin F Sandsbury welcome a nine pound baby boy named Terring Oren born this morning at the West Main Street home of Mr and Mrs C O Sandsbury. Both mother and child are reported well. He is the great grandson of the late Samuel and Katherine Menear Wotring. Funeral services are set for 2 p m Thursday with Undertaker Walter Spiggle in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Sandsbury
C. O. Sandsbury
West Main Street
Terring Oren
Samuel and
Katherine Menear Wotring
Walter Spiggle
Four Hurt in Collision Between Two Cars
Four persons were slightly injured and three unhurt when two cars collided on the Grafton Philippi road near West Hill early this morning. One car was driven by Aley Mayle, 27, of West Hill, and the other by Ky Atchley, 50, Pearl Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
Mayle
Wilbert Mayle
Parley Mayle
West Hill Settlement
Atchley
Wilbur Swisher
Virginia Chapman
O. E. Cox
Aley Mayle
West Hill
Ky Atchley
Pearl Street
Grafton-Philippi
Mother Seigler seeks long lost son at reform school
In October a Wyco mother, Maggie Seigler, learned a 14 year old Edward Seigler was at the reform school after years apart from his family. Letters between Rev Desist and Mrs Seigler confirmed his presence since 1931, with the boy unaware of his parents or their fate. Authorities began reunification steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Seigler
Wyco
Wyoming County
Reform School
Edward Seigler
D. F. Desist
Peace Prayer Procession at Church of the Nativity Ignites Holy Night
The article describes a Christmas Eve scene at the Church of the Nativity with an altar ablaze effigies of the Holy Child revealed behind a curtain, bells ringing for Christmas Day, and worshippers kneeling in a small grotto. Outside in Bethlehem Pilgrims gather in Shepherds Field for bonfires, roasted sheep, and Arab bread amid frost.
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Bethlehem
Judea
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