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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1925
Page
5
The Elks club hosted a silver fête celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women’s Music Club. Guests enjoyed a reception, elaborate decorations in club colors, performances by club members, a Jubilee address, and dancing to the Shion Orchestra, with refreshments and a festive finish marking a successful evening.
Detroit reports a fatal shooting at a New Year Eve gathering with Adolph and Lonnie aged 21 among the dead. One suspect, Charles J. Cor, was arrested after claiming to be present. Meanwhile in Mt Clemens a 17 year old Timon Campbell is dead and Joseph Ryan a soldier is seriously wounded in a separate incident following a New Year party. Authorities note no liquor arrests despite a large New Year celebration and spending figures reach about 1.499 million.
Richmond dispatch notes favorable business prospects in the Fifth District with gains in retail trade in large cities and steady building activity. Cotton and tobacco areas show mixed signals while rail and banking conditions remain solid. textile firms report orders and normal hours, and building permits show regional variance.
Washington observes New Year with a White House reception running from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. under the long established order, inviting cabinet members supreme court figures Congress military and public. Alfred E. Smith is inaugurated governor of New York for a third time, matching a century old precedent with DeWitt Clinton.
In Tellaire Ohio Jefferson Tinton a 70 year old gardener and florist attacked his granddaughter with a pick handle injuring her then fled to a neighbor before returning to his room where he cut his throat with a razor dying before his son could reach him the granddaughter is in a personal condition from shock and injuries
Tuskegee Mass Jan 1 Sixteen persons were lynched in 1924 the smallest number since records began. The Tuskegee Institute report shows 17 fewer than 1923 with nine victims taken from law enforcement and six from jail. Officers prevented 45 lynching incidents. Offenses included criminal assault and insults to women across several states all victims were Black.
A city hospital report for December notes twenty one admissions and seventeen discharges, with eight major and eight minor operations. Twelve patients remained after month end, and deaths were the lowest in months. Local physicians performed most operations, with Dr. Portney from Newbury also operating. Several patients are recovering, including Mrs Helen Thayer and Mrs Pearl Goff, while Asa Beavers and others were previously discharged after injuries.
Baltimore January 1 three people were killed in separate shootings. Samuel Gresser 20 was shot in his grocery at Madison and McDonough by an unidentified bandit who fled. Minutes earlier two women Mrs Windisch 46 and Mrs Windisch 44 were shot dead in the home of Mrs Windisch. the husband, jailed on charges, surrendered to police.
Memphis Tenn January 1 1930 Liberty bonds valued at twelve thousand dollars tied to the Rondout mail robbery last June were recovered at Little Rock. Herbert Holliday serving twenty five years in federal prison for the $2 million loot. His niece Helen McNeil and his wife detained by postal inspectors seeking help to recover eighty nine thousand dollars said to be in the hands of two Arkansas attorneys. Holliday reportedly offered to reveal hiding place of nineteen0 thousand dollars of loot if his sentence was reduced but the offer was refused.
London reports a census showing 5,065,332 women among 17,177,050 British workers in 1921. Women own, run, and staff factories across fields from plumbing to rail yards, with many entering professional roles. Only two of 156,283 dynamo motor attendants are women, while women outnumber men in professional occupations excluding clerical work. The largest industry is personal service.
The record shows 1,676,425 people employed for personal comfort across households and institutions, including 239,944 women. Among door domestic servants, 1,148,698 are women and 61,008 are men, with more workers in agriculture than in mining and quarrying overall.
A Bartlett Bus company Studebaker bus on a return trip from a Galloway dance collided with a coal train near Simpson at about 2 AM. Driver Mr. Young escaped injury as the front end was damaged but the bus will be repaired and out of service only a few days.
On New Year Eve in Minneapolis Harry J Colewell an engineer with 21 years service for the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie Railway killed himself with a hanging at his home. He had replaced the regular engineer on December 20 when a rear coach plunged into the Chippewa river near Chippewa Falls Wisconsin killing eight. He left the train blamed on a broken switch belt and faced a tainted record before dying.
Lawrence and Lloyd Current attend Broadus College and spend holidays with Isaac Current family. Virginia Weeks of Mountain Lake Park visits aunt Mrs Luesson. Earl Shrout and party return to Morgantown after visiting sister Mrs Walter Current. Mrs George Hunt of Grafton visits Mrs W F Guteher. John Dailey returns from Cleveland with Chauncey Bailey and Howard Current home for holidays. Clarence Allen Painter of Graf ton visits relatives. Funeral for Mrs Sarah Walters in Webster noted. Mary Current ill with typhoid pneumonia. Mr and Miss John Ty Miller move from this place to Grafton and spent Chest holidays in Fairmont.
Miss Pauline sons shopped in Grafton on Monday. Harry Divom conducted business in Grafton on Tuesday. Wilbur Current, attending West Virginia University Morgantown, returns home for holidays. D R Potte g, Thornton Fire Brisk Company manager, visited from Clarksburg. Mrs. Fred Simmons of near Webster weekended with Mrs. Hyson Devers. Mrs. M. J. Painter attended Mrs. Ada Bush’s funeral in Graf ton last Sunday. Virginia Crickenberger hosted a Watch Party at her Washington Street home for N N P Sorority with members Alice Knight Ada Bush Rosemary Poe Virginia Crickenberger Josephine Maniey guests Prema Casteel Emma Annis Thayer Morgantown. Mrs. Z L Dean hosted a New Years watch party on Kennedy Street with Christmas colors and dancing. Guests enjoyed a salad luncheon. Mr. Kay Parkhill and Mrs. James O Parkhill hosted about twenty friends at a New Years party on Gay Street with green and white crepe paper, holly and mistletoe. A piano duet by Helen Coffman Ruth Waller Martha Able comic reading James Parkhill art exhibit and coal sketch, all at Parkhill home. A two course luncheon followed around 130 am.
The Flint automobile garage in Morgantown burned to the ground last night, destroying about 50 new cars and numerous old vehicles. Carl B Beaty of Fairmont estimated losses between 5000 and 10000 dollars, noting several cars were stored inside and insurance status was unclear.
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