Grafton Sentinel Subscription Rates Displayed
The Grafton Sentinel lists subscription options from 30 cents weekly by carrier to annual mail rates of nine dollars, with six month and three month plans and higher rates for outside Virginia and West Virginia, as printed in an AP affiliated edition.
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Associated Press
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West Virginia
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Inland Newspaper Representatives, Inc
York
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Fair program ads and new locals boost community fair plans
Notes on upcoming Taylor County fair activities and figures. Paul Malone’s new pharmacist is Mr Turner, praised for his work. Cooking school with Ken Godwin’s Maytag demonstration at Manos. Dorsey Smith runs a western dude ranch with Big Clear Creek Judge, promising two days to test horses and a claim of over 744 miles of West Virginia mountain trails. Printer’s $160 extra profit cited as legal and fair, advertisers urged to support the event through ads.
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Paul Malone
Paul
Mr.Turner
Dorsey Smith
Big Clear Creek
West Virginia
Taylor County
County fair call to boost town paper and festival pride
The author urges readers to support a bigger and better county fair with volunteer help and local advertising. Buckhannon hosts a strawberry festival, Kingwood a buckwheat festival, Terra Alta a Fourth of July rodeo, and Grafton is urged to add events. The piece notes war news dominates, and asks for community involvement to fund and improve local coverage.
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Buckhannon
Kingwood
Terra Alta
Grafton
U. S
Grafton Junior High and Grafton High Staff List and Biographical Note
The report lists Grafton Junior High and Grafton High names including Teets Ford Haymond Smith Smallwood Luzadder Eisner McDilda Goodwin Cain Kennedy Williamson Kelley Tucker Smith Swisher Kunst and others. It notes instruction personnel supervisors Roberta Chenoweth music Virginia Hanway teachers Mellie Gerkkin Rasmussen Booth Newton bus drivers and extras. It also mentions Lloyd Merriman, an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, who paused a Stanford football career to sign a contract and earned a bachelor of science degree upon returning to his alma mater.
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Page
Grafton Junior High
Robert T. Teets
Richard L. Ford Haymond
Francis Smith
Hepzibah
Harry Smallwood
Knottsville
Ross Luzadder
Parkview
Albert Eisner
Pruntytown
Grant McDilda
Rosemont
Minnie Goodwin
Simpson
E. Cain
Thornton
Grovernor
Webster
Vacanti
Wendel
Lottie Rein
West Grafton
Malden
Richards
West Hill
Thurwood Kennedy
Flemington High
Fred Williamson
Fred T. Kelley
Grafton High
A. L. Tucker
Nettie Smith
Paul Messenger
Bertha Swisher
Fred W. Kunst
Roberta Chenoweth
Virginia Hanway
Margaret Mellie
Mildred Gerkkin
Gertrude Rasmussen
Hazel Booth
Beulah Grimes
Lillian G. Newton
Lloyd Merriman
Cincinnati Reds
Stanford
Russian submarines seen off Newfoundland banks by fishermen
A Newfoundland weekly reports sighting of Russian submarines surfacing on the Grand Banks off the Newfoundland coast. Fishermen observed the subs with no official confirmation from St John’s, mirroring similar unidentified submarine reports from other Atlantic areas and the Pacific.
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St, John's
Newfoundland
The
Sunday Herald
Grand Banks
St. John’s
Atlantic
Pacific
Classified Rates And Listings From The Sentinel Of Morgantown
Classified section shows ad pricing 4 cents per word initial insertion 39 per word for three or more insertions and 7 cents per word for twenty six or more. Examples include Blueville home listings and a fifty acre farm in Grafton West Virginia with contact Mrs Bruce Barker RFD No 4 Grafton WV. seven room house 901 West Main Street Morgantown. Shale Incorporated office listing 238 Walnut Street Morgantown. help wanted female with waitressing and male dishwasher. a lost item in Billford with a reward. and a notice to creditors and beneficiaries of James O Ferrell estate in Taylor County West Virginia with January 17, 1951 deadline and July 15, 1950 date.
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Esah
The
Sentinel
Blueville
J. P
Bruce Barker
Grafton
W. Va
Shale, Incorporated
Walnut Street
Morgantown
For Sale Automobile Free Oldsmobile Rocket Ride
Oldsmobile Rocket Ride demonstration advertised with phone contact 1741 for appointment by Curry Motor Company. Also listed two other items and multiple rental offers with furnished rooms and apartments, each with phone numbers and dates.
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Curry Motor Company
Commissioner’s Notice to Creditors in Hefner Estate
Creditors and beneficiaries of Dora B. Hefner deceased are warned to file their claims with vouchers, locally verified, at the Court House in Grafton West Virginia by January 17 1981. Failure to do so may exclude them from the estate. Dated July 16 1950 by R B Bord Commissioner of Accounts Taylor County WV.
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James O. Ferrell
Court House
Main St. Grafton
West Virginia
Richard B. Bord
Taylor County
Dora B. Hefner
Grafton
R. B. Bord
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