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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1932
Page
3
Society notes from Montgomery column by Coral Parrish Montgomery highlight social events and notable gatherings. Contact details appear for the society editor and readers are invited to share engagements and announcements.
The Woman's Club of Grafton will hold its annual New Year’s Eve dance at the Moose Home Friday evening December 30. Bill Doll and his University Orchestra of Morgantown will provide music for the event. Dancing runs from nine to one. the affair is billed as a leading social event of the holiday season.
The Gleaners Sunday School class of Andrews M E church hosted a gathering at Miss Lee Murphy’s home on East Main street with Christmas decorations. Officers elected were Iva Carder president, Daisey Poling vice president, Josephine Luzadder secretary, and Lee Murphy treasurer. many members and several guests attended and a three course luncheon followed.
A reader suggests lemon juice stirred into warm water as a daily facial rinse. Use one teaspoon in a tumbler of warm water and sponge the face, neck, and arms morning and night. This treatment purportedly whitens the skin and stimulates circulation.
Mrs Lillian all and Miss Elizbeth Ervine, after visiting Mr Everyready 45 and Mrs H F Church, returned to their home in Fairmont. Mrs C W Rauschenbach of Hammond Indiana arrived to visit her father and mother Mr and Mrs W W McDaniel of Cecil and other relatives in Grafton. J A Setler is confined to his home on St Charles street with influenza. Mr and Mrs L T Goff of Baltimore spent the holiday season.
Photographs of all Grafton Rotarians mounted on a large cardboard with each Rote name across a corner. A. M. Knotts fined $10 this morning for speeding and resisting an officer. Sixty-six men work for the city under the R. F. C. plan on Grand Street and Maps Avenue as Commissioner Pate Withers struggles to supply tools. Temperature noon 50 with cloudy skies and misty rain. Influenza and scattered pneumonia are widespread per physicians. MClaud Cunningham of Clarksburg said he saw an insurance salesman. his automobile struck the curb on West Main near J. Lee van stave in forenoon, wheel damage. A Freedentity Srocs cotton material made into clothing for delivery to needy persons announced at Salvation Army citadel. No cases docketed at city hall. routine civil debt actions only. West Fork Creek and Tygarts River at near normal despite heavy snow and rain. County court to meet January 3 for reorganization. Harvey B. Scranage seated. S.A. Waller and Arthur Robinson to form court unless Waller resigns to Welfare board post. New York reports 55 year old Malcolm D. Whitman, former national tennis champion and Lasher and Whitman executive, committed suicide by leaping from penthouse.
Families and friends gathered for Christmas holidays across Philippi including Dr. Yates Mullens visitors, West Boyd Street families, and extended relatives in Grafton, Blueville, and Anderson. influenza cases noted with Imogene Devers in Thornton and Mrs Skinner in Bronlow Park. several figures and relatives from Ashland, Marietta, Pittsburgh, and Miami planned winter travel.
Hollywood notes trace a banner year for fresh faces led by Katharine Hepburn in A Bill of Divorcement and George Raft in Scarface. Lee Tracy and Paul Muni drew big sensations, Ann Dvorak spiked to stardom, and Joan Blondell, Cagney, Hayes and Howard added laurels amid a surge of screen discoveries.
The Ohio School Survey Commission adopted the Mort plan from Columbia University proposing an equalization fund to aid the states schools. It aims to guarantee a minimum education level of 40 dollars per elementary pupil and 68 dollars per high school student per year with amendments to raise the fund.
Chicago on December 28, the will of Charles M. Smith, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, was probated revealing a request that his ashes be scattered along the railroad right of way where he worked. He asked that ashes be scattered from a locomotive cab at sunset near the Beverly curve inside the city. Relatives could not be reached to confirm if the request was carried out after his death on September 5.
The small dwelling of E. K. of Rosemont burned Tuesday evening with a loss estimated at 50 dollars. Shotguns and shells stored in the home posed danger to firefighters as authorities feared explosions would injure someone. Origin of the fire could not be determined. Rotarians received unique Christmas greetings from fellow members.
Franklin L. McDaniel aged 13, son of Andrew and Ada McDaniel, died at home on Walters Fleet Street about two this morning after seven months illness from diabetes worsened by influenza. A East Grafton student, the family had recently moved from Barbour county. Survived by parents, four brothers Ray John Howard and Carl, a sister Stella. Funeral at Locust Grove Church in Barbour county Friday at one, W H Arnold in charge. Bartlett Funeral Co. care of remains.
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