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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1944
Page
3
Restrictions in planning for later developments or economic changes in the peacetime program are discussed. Miss Drainer was employed until recently by J. Lee Evans Furniture Co. in this city.
Dispatches from the front describe British Second Army thrusts west and south from Caen area aiming to collapse the German wedge between Noyers and Allied Caumont. A gains of about 21?2 miles since the start, with Caen captured earlier but contested subsurbs. German subterranean works noted as defense.
Miss Flora Belle Floyd daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred E Floyd of Tygarnt s Dam married Pfc Leonard S Bott son of Mr and Mrs Bott of this city in a quiet single ring ceremony held last Monday at 12 noon in Oakland Maryland The Rev John W Birk officiated Attendants were Pfc John Paul Floyd and Mrs Floyd Bride wore a white street length dress with white accessories A shoulder rose corsage accompanied gown Mrs Floyd wore brown and yellow dress Both graduates of Grafton High School class of 1943 They are connected to Glenn L Martin Baltimore and Camp Rucker Alabama Bott returned to San Francisco last week with Floyd going back to Baltimore Maryland
July 17 cancellation affects the Red Wing club meeting with plans to reschedule. July 17 Ladies auxiliary to the B of R T to meet 7 30 p m in the K of P hall. July 18 V F W auxiliary will meet at the hall 8 p m. all members urged to attend. July 18 Mrs A H Leach of East Lincoln street to entertain the Lindy club at 8 p m. July 18 Emma Rogers Bible class West Main Street Methodist Church social room at 8 p m. July 19 Quota club gathers at Miss Virginia Hanway’s Route 60 home for covered dish dinner and regular meeting at 6 30 p m.
Social notes list visitors from Baltimore Richmond and Washington D C visiting local families and returning to Akron and Wellsburg. Several guests gathered at Maple Avenue homes while others travel from Fairmont Charleston and Pruntytown for weekends and visits. A July birth announced for the Mersing family in Norton notes a son named Kermet William.
Miss Louise Satterfield and Kermit Dillon married at 11 o clock Friday morning July 7 in the Methodist parsonage at Oakland Maryland. Rev Minor Sprague officiated. Mrs Dillon and Mrs Orphie Poe of Knottsville attended the ceremony.
Miss Barbra Draier daughter of Mr and Mrs George Drainer of Pruntytown attends summer sessions at the Traphagen School of Fashion New York enrolled in the intensive course in interior design and decoration. Her six weeks of study will be directed by noted instructors and she looks forward to trade contacts with manufacturers and decorators, hoping for an opening to professional opportunities.
Dewey continues to delay naming a running mate while Governor Bricker of Ohio remains in limbo. The pair may meet en route to a governors conference in St Louis on August 2 and 3. The governor returned to Albany after a Pawling farm weekend with Dewey's children. Dewey hinted no meeting scheduled this week with Bricker and communications with Bricker have been frequent by phone since the Chicago nomination.
Moscow reports place Russian forces within 10 miles of Kaunas and approaching Brest Litovsk as 500,000 men allegedly incapacitated on the eastern front. The push includes gains from Latvia across Lithuania and along the Wilno Warsaw line, with German positions retreating.
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