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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1919
Page
7
The town records numerous residents and guests returning from travels and military service. People from Philippi, Cumberland, Clarksburg, Fairmont, and Fairmont area towns appear visiting or hosting relatives, with several veterans and families reporting homecomings from France, Germany, and naval stations. First names and affiliations indicate a busy postwar social scene and local civic ties.
The Advance Ticket Sales Committee awarded prizes after the first circus exhibition. Rebecca Purkey led the young ladies with 114400 votes earning a diamond ring, Maude Bolyard 43160 votes a wrist watch, and Cecil Ramos 32600 votes a lavellier. Carl Warder won the bicycle with 50200 votes, Ed Ford received steel roller skates. Boy Scouts led organization contestants with 30700 votes, Red Men 12900. Voting was tallied by Elsie White and Ethel Roach.
Paris July 7 The Austrian Government has given up the idea of a union with Germany for the time being Dr Otto Bauer says Austria is small and ruined and can only exist with permission from the Entente The foreign secretary adds Austria is not powerful enough to bind a union without Entente consent The essential point is the unity of the proletariat front with the Entente support
Wheeling West Virginia July 3 Jack Dempsey new world champion heavyweight plans to visit relatives in West Virginia. Dempsey says his Mountain State kin are part of old feudal families and that he was born in Hogan County West Virginia. He is a cousin of Mrs. William Porter wife of the mayor of Williamsos, A. H. Evans of see Myed near home.
Governor John Cornwell denounces socialism and Bolshevism at a Marshall County Independence Day gathering in Moundville. He warns agitators are sowing distrust between labor and employers and threaten the state’s industry and livelihoods.
A delivery wagon, without horse or driver, rolled on Latrobe Street yesterday morning. It moved backward down a steep, smooth incline, gaining momentum, swerved, cleared a hedge, and crashed into a stone fronting Mr George White's premises without causing damage. Spectators watched a self-propelled wagon misbehave during a local event.
Charleston West Virginia reports that oil and gas companies seek an injunction from the Supreme Court or federal district court to block the state tax on crude oil and gas produced, arguing discrimination and burden on interstate traffic. The tax, two cents per barrel of oil and one third of a cent per thousand feet of gas, was enacted after a heated special session.
The ten months old son of Mire Belle Mooney died suddenly last evening at the home of Mrs. Mooney's father, Mr AD Hoffman, on Walnut Street at about seven o'clock from bronchial pneumonia. The funeral is set for 2:20 this afternoon at 247 West Street.
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