Grafton Woman's Club New Year Reception at Moose Home
Grafton Woman's Club closes a year of revived social activity with an annual reception and dance at the Moose Home on New Year’s Eve. President Mrs. W A Beavers invites members and friends to attend the 8 pm reception and 9 pm grand march followed by dancing to the Haley Farneth orchestra until 1 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Beavers
O. Jay Fleming
Paul E. Malone
B. J. McGonigle
Richard B. Bartlett
C. Howard Cameron
Luke B. Ross
C. F. Shafer
Woman
Margaret Lehman
Virginia Shaw
Socialcalendar Notes and Local Weddings in Grafton
Friday Quota Club meets at Mrs Rhea Fisher Washington street. Monday American Legion Auxiliary Christmas party at Mrs T R Shields home with gifts program readings from Mrs Edith Scott Magna, Mrs Florence H Becker, and Mrs Carolyn Butterfield Hogg. Miss Grace Loar reads The Beau of Bats. Dr William Knox of Andrews M E church gives 20 minute talk. January meeting at Mrs Alden Beagle Pruntytown pike. Tompkins Connelly Rites announced. Miss Juanita Connelly and Charles Tompkins wed at St Pauls M E parsonage. Also wedding of Miss Helen Christine Courtney to Marmaduke Dent Monroe at Grace M E Church Hartwood Virginia. Rev Earl D Courtney and Rev J Allen Messer. Mr Sidney Armstrong sings.
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Quota Club
Rhea Fisher
Washington Street
American Legion Auxiliary
T. R. Shields
Edith Scott Magna
National Defense
Florence H. Becker
Carolyn Butterfield Hogg
Grace Loar
Bats
Constance Darcy MacKay
William Knox
Andrews M. E. Church
Tompkins-Connelly
Juanita Connelly
Charles Tompkins
Grafton
R. O. Phillips
St. Paul's M. E. Church
Thayer Street
Courtney -Monroe
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Helen Christine Courtney
Marmaduke Dent Monroe
Hartwood
Earl D. Courtney
J. Allen Messer
Sidney Armstrong
Edith Perrer
Betty Gow questioned by New Jersey officials in Lindbergh case
Betty Gow, former Lindbergh pursemaid, arrived in New York from Scotland and was taken for questioning by New Jersey authorities amid efforts to uncover new evidence linking Bruno Hauptmann to the crime. She was the last person seen with the child before the kidnapping and faced a formal inquiry.
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Betty Gow
New York City
Scotland
New Jersey
Bruno Hauptmann
New York
Miss Gow
Joint ownership and common ownership of property described
The statement defines joint ownership as a form where two or more persons hold title to a single piece of property in common. It discusses how rights and responsibilities are shared among co owners within legal frameworks.
California to try man first in death case
Los Angeles December reports state Missouri authorities must wait before prosecuting John N. Happel, the confessed slayer of two persons. He will first be tried for the trunk slaying of his wife Rosabelle Happel, then possibly for the fatal shooting of real estate man Henry W. Meyer near Rolla, Missouri. Meyer was found dead by his daughters on Christmas Day.
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Los Angeles
Missouri
John N. Happel
Rosabelle
Henry W. Meyer
Gr.St. James
Hoppel
George Stahlman
B. W. Allison
Rolla
Happel
Meyer
Minca M. Kramer
St. Louis
Elsie Linhart
Bloomington
Ind
Equip State Institutions With Power Plants Urged
Charleston reports that a House committee headed by Senator elect Rush D. Holt urges equipping state institutions with electric generating plants where surveys show cost reductions. The governor’s utilities expense runs about 225000 to 250000 dollars annually. Institutions named for survey include West Virginia University Weston State Hospital Hopemont Sanitarium and the state capitol.
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Charleston
House of Delegates
United States
Rush D. Holt
Holt
West Virginia University
Weston State Hospital
Hopemont Sanitarium
State Capitol
State Funds for Relief Greater in 34 Than
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins says state and local funds provided more relief in 1934 than in prior years, citing federal coordination with state agencies in Washington on December 28.
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Washington
Harry L. Hop ‘Kins
Vitamins for Us and Where They Are Found
Reader questions vitamins amounts and sources. Vitamin D is measured in units and is crucial for preventing rickets. Most vitamins are stored or produced by the body, with diet supplying needed amounts. milk fruits vegetables cereals and yeast cover needs. Vitamin sources include cod liver oil egg yolk liver and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin C from orange and tomato juices and milk. Vitamin B from whole wheat bread cereals and legume vegetables. Notes mention six pamphlets by Dr. Clendening available by mail order.
Peaches Browning in New York Wedding Surprise
Frances Peaches Browning, once in the public eye after a 1926 marriage to Edward Browning, now appears with her new husband Bernard Hynes in New York City. The disinherited former heiress wed Hynes in a surprise ceremony at a tucka shoe location in N.
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Frances
Peaches) Browning
Edward
Daddy) Browning
Bernard Hynes
New York City
Peaches and
Hynes
Tuckashoe, N
Unemployment relief costs rise in early 1934 period
Hopkins reported relief spending for the first ten months of 1934 at 323.89 million dollars, up 30 percent from 252.38 million in 1933. He announced January relief allotments totaling 136.79 million, with West Virginia receiving 3.16 million.
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Hopkins
West Virginia
Hodges Urges Graduated Income Tax for Sales Levy
Ohio’s educational parley heard State Senator Charles E. Hodges of Morgantown, West Virginia, call for a graduated income tax for incomes over 1500 to accompany a consumers sales tax. He argued the plan would uphold the ability to pay and avoid imposing equal rates on the modest and wealthy.
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Columbus
Ohio
Charles E. Hodges
Morgantown
W. Va
Hodges
Ohio Education Association
Measures Ready for Congress Opening
Washington reports six days before opening gavel the new House has 1700 bills ready for introduction at a pace of 209 daily. By January 3 they will near the last congress total of 2820. Missouri University data shows men outnumbering women among top students in liberal arts and science colleges.
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Washington
Liberal
Missouri University
New Cold Wave Hits Great Lakes and New England
The Associated Press reports a cold wave moving into the middle west and upper Great Lakes as New England cleans debris from a gale that killed three people with winds up to 175 mph at Mt. Washington New Hampshire. The piece notes Serbia's gold prospecting surge.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Upper Great Lakes
New England
Mt. Washington
N. H
Galapagos island murder theory ties Baroness and mate death
Capt. William Borthen, who found bodies on Adam and Eve Island, stated Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner and Robert Phillipson were slain by Alfred Rudolph Lorenz. Lorenz and Trygve Nuggrud reportedly died of thirst on Ena Island. G Allan Hancock’s survey shows no vessel left Charles Island this year. Onion and garlic fumes asphyxiated Samus Punch Jr. and his Negro cook. Punch revived, cook hospitalized.
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Walter B. Clausen
Associated Press
San Diego
Eloise Bousquet de Wagner
Robert Phillipson
Chasles
Galapagos
William Borthen
Marchena Island
Alfred Rudolph Lorenz
Lorenz
Trygve Nuggrud
G. Allan Hancock
Los Angeles
Government of
Ecuador
Charles Island
Baroness
Phillipson
Samus Punch, Jr
Washington
Finch
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Daughters of the American Solution
W. R. ‘Loar
Maple Avenue
Elizabeth Hanley
National Ritual Service
Jed Robinson
L. B. Cowbey
Ashland Christy
Henry Patton
Dorothea Sisler
Katherine Jones
Gary Sullivan
Loraine Stephens
Daisy Cropp
Charles Janus
David Huffman
Fleming Monroe
Dallas Young
MO. A. Lilly
East
Washington St
Fairmont
West Virginia Business College
Fairmont, W. VA
Beulah Belle Beauty Shoppe
Fredrick
Marinello
Franz & Burka
Beulah Bailey
Irene Collier
Beulah Belle Bailey
California
Logan Clendening
M. D
Clethening
Logan
Coats
Peaches
Senator Hodges
Congress
Great Lakes
Serbia
Union Brokerage Incorporated
Morgantown Ave
Klein & Co
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