New Year Party Held by Grafton Commercial Club
Members of the Commercial club of Grafton Senior high school met at Miss Betty Jean Travis’s West Main street home Monday evening. Prizes were awarded to Sherman Haselden Loretta Gallaher and Mary Mortis. A gift exchange followed with a gift for the hostess. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Travis and her daughter Betty Jean. Attending were Dorothy Hovat ter Peggy Haislip Barbara Devers Katie Hamilton Newk Weaver Vivian Snyder Phyllis Burnside Martha Kemple Mary Morris Loretta Gallaher Mary Scarcelli Robert Rogers Shirley Pitzer Elaine Woodyard Sherman Haselden Miss Travis Mrs Travis and Donnie Travis. The Youth committee of the Grafton Womans Club announced January February Story Hour presenters Mrs Victor Willhide Mrs D P Cruikshank and Mrs Philip Gerkin with possible recordings by Margaret OBrien.
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Commercial Club
Grafton
Betty Jean Travis
West Main Street
Sherman Haselden
Loretta Gallaher
Mary Mortis
Travis
Betty Jean
Local groups announce January meetings and events
Community calendar lists numerous January gatherings across churches clubs and auxiliaries. Highlights include Ladies Auxiliary Fire Dept Circle No 1 WCTA and Beta meetings with officer installations and special notes on changes of date and reservations. Also notes a shift in farm power from horses to tractors with modern counts.
Noted publisher dies in Arkansas hotel
Dave Gideon a prominent Huntington West Virginia publisher died in an Arkansas hotel last night. He was a longtime adviser to Republican leaders and a delegate to national conventions. Gideon will be buried in his hometown with many tributes from state and national political circles.
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Huntington Pub
Effie Edgell
Smithfield
West Fishing Company
Virginia
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
B. Henderson
West Main
Gideon
State Street
White House
Calvin Coolidge
Huntington
Dave Gideon
West Virginia
Arkansas
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GHS Commercial Club
The
Grafton Womans Club
Victor Willhide
D. P. Cruikshank
Philip Gerkin
Margaret O'Brien
Ladies Auxiliary
Fire Department
Circle No. 1
St. John’s Methodist Church
Fred Shaw
Boyd Street
W.C.T. A
First Baptist Church
American Federation of Musicians
K. of C
Women's Hospital Auxiliary
Band Boosters Club
White Rose Grove No. 2
Supreme Woodmen Circle
K. of P
Delta Nu
Tau Phi Lambda Sorority
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
K. of P. Judge Hall
American Home Department
Womans Club
William Beall
West Wilford Street
Taylor County Beagle Club
Fetterman Church
Book Review Art and Literature
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
First Brethren Church
St. Charles Street
Fisher
Harry Poling
Lincoln Street
Fidelis Club of
Presbyterian Church
Degree of Pocahontas
D. of A. Hall
Mountaineer
S Council No. 44
U.S
Florida
Dora ‘Annegan
Flemington
St. Petersburg
Nelton
Donna Ray Lee
Newburg
Port
Marjorie Deslaney
Lincoln” Street
Charles” K
Beech Street
City Hospital
Blanche
Bryan
Pike Street
Melvin
Newton
Betty June
Dolores Norris
George Norris
Brownlow Park
Land
Peggy
Hot Springs
Daisy Stanley
Thomas A. Edison
Additional Society
Chevrolet
Harmoniny
Gether
Americas
Ibexeien
Americas Best Buy
Carry Motor Company
Grafton, W. VA
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