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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
4
A Plain Citizen argues the charter for Grafton centralized city control under a mayor and two commissioners may aid progress but warns voters must elect experienced, civic-minded men. The piece urges support for the Civic Club movement and accountability for three year commissioners to safeguard the city’s dignity and prosperity.
A Webster report says Miss Florence McWilliams is gravely ill at her home after complications from a cold following tooth extraction. She had come to Grafton for relief from toothache last week, then returned home and caught cold, putting her in a critical state. many friends wish her a speedy recovery.
A brief dispatch from Statton West Virginia dated January 6 1914 notes cultural attitudes among local churchgoers. The item reflects prevailing sensibilities and social norms of the period with a concise quote attributed to C P G.
The congregation met to consider extending a unanimous call to Rev. W. D. Harrell of Bremen Ohio to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Harrell, praised for building up Bremen’s church, is a Lane Seminary and North Western University graduate. Acceptance may come soon.
Cornelius Carter is critically ill with little chance of recovery at his home in the First ward. He has suffered poor health for over a year and has been bedbound since New Years.
New York prints a charged Lincoln letter from 1838 found in Maj. H. Lambert collection. Lincoln writes of Mary Owens of Kentucky rejecting his marriage proposal, confessing a sudden mortification and recognizing he may be in love, then vows to endure.
New York reports Miss Adel aide M Branch who lived near Melville Couch in Monticello for three years died suddenly and is now in a Long Island sanatorium. Mrs J P Warbass says Branch will recover in about a month and denied any intimate relationship with Couch, stressing she handled his legal work and acted as private secretary. The item also notes a snow cleanup issue and a local resident shopping in Fleming-ton with brief city ordinance mention.
Charleston WV Jan 6 West Virginia faces its big industrial question how to develop the natural water power in state rivers with regulation. Public Service Commission hearings outline permits and conflicts among Virginia Power Tri State over Bluestone Ander son Falls and river sites. Commission plans risk and revenue sharing 75 percent state take. debate over socialistic features and impact on development.
In Memphis on January 5, Mayor E H Crump and Public Utilities Commissioner Thomas Dyes led a large crew to tear up railroad tracks at a grade crossing where a freight train struck a car last night killing five and wounding several. Officials had ordered removal days earlier but no action was taken by the railroad. Witnesses report the train lacked rear lights and there was no switchman at the crossing.
The tank steamer in distress near Sandy Hook yesterday was the Okahoma and twenty-two of her crew appear to have perished. Eight were saved according to wireless messages received in New York on January 5 from Associated Press reports.
The Playground and Recreation Association of America released a census showing broad growth in playgrounds and recreation across the United States and Canada. 642 cities report active playground work with mostly municipal support, 2,400 play grounds under paid supervision, and over 6,000 recreation workers nationwide. 192 cities now open centers in evenings and 13 industrial plants maintain centers, with total spending about 5.7 million dollars in 342 cities.
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