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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1935
Page
3
Taylor County Unit No 12 American Legion Auxiliary plans a spaghetti supper at the Moose Home Tuesday January 15 from 6 to 7 pm. Mrs C P Harris chairs and Tony Olivia will prepare the meal. Tickets available from Ladies Auxiliary of Taylor County Post No 12.
Royal Neighbors of America No 3996 meets Monday in Webn hall for officer installation. Devotions led by Mrs R O Phillips, poem Some body Cares by Mrs Bateson, book review by Mrs Ray Shaw. Next meeting at Mrs A V Cup Bett home. Knottsville M E Sunday School to present a play at Jones schoolhouse Friday January 4 at 7 30 with small admission.
Fifty two local men have secured employment at the Tygart River dam site announced by the National Reemployment Office. Currently 25 laborers, 14 carpenters, 8 carpenter helpers, 2 watchmen, 1 rodman, 1 tool dresser and 1 teamster work there. Office buildings are being placed and actual dam work will not start soon. Two men were added yesterday, bringing the total to the reported figure. At peak construction about 1,800 Taylor county men will work in four six hour shifts.
Royal Canadian air force pilots dropped food to seven men adrift on two ice floes after their crude fishing shacks broke away from shore. Rescuers faced heavy ice, eighties weather, and failed early attempts, with eight people named including 78 year old W. Jones and companions Hugh Ross 58 and Lloyd Barnes 18.
Pendleton County seat Franklin gains first long distance phone service. Ralph M. Hiner, speaker in the 1934 House of Delegates, talked with Mayor Grover C. Evick of Franklin Charleston bound. Local ceremony noted in Franklin, West Virginia on January 4.
Telephon e operators from Hot Springs Arkansas and two Hot Springs pilots are identified as key witnesses for the government in a Kansas City trial. The case concerns the Union Station massacre in which four federal officers and Frank Nash were killed by machine gun fire. Stover allegedly ferried defendants Richard Galatas and Mrs. Nash to Joplin Missouri during the plot.
Mrs. H. Skidmore left the city yesterday to visit friends and relatives in Cincinnati.
A special grand jury in Webster Springs West Virginia indicts Henry Mitchell sixty of Webster county for the murder of his step son in law Walter Harris a restaurant operator The plea and trial date January 9 are noted along with an advertisement for Creomulsion a cough remedy as part of the same clipping
A rifle fired through a window killed Harris after he had ejected Mitchell from the Yant proprietor's restaurant. The incident details include a confrontation at the eatery and the fatal weapon being used during the dispute.
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