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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1934
Page
4
The Grow family reunion will be held Sunday August 5 at Arnett's Grove on Fairmont Morgantown road with invitations extended to friends and relatives. A general good time is anticipated as part of the annual gathering.
The office in Evansville shows 900 persons have been given work from December 13 to now with 400 securing permanent jobs defined as 30 day positions. Also noted a birth in Park View as Donna Jean Glover to William V. Glover and Roberta Reed, the former Carr China employee.
Rowlesburg July 28 In recognition of the excellent safety record during 1933 the Alpha Portland Cement Company hosted a plant picnic at San Jer s Grove on U S Route 50. All plant workers and Easton office officials attended. Games and events were held and the outing was praised as a model annual gathering. The Manheim plant has Portland Cement Association trophies for no loss time accidents in 1928 1930 and 1933.
Mr and Mrs R M Parrish and daughters Mary and Eleanor of Brownlow Park motor to New Bethlehem Pa for a family reunion visiting Parrish stepmother Carrie Parrish. Harold F Kramer division engineer for the state highway commission and Mrs Kramer return from Gilbert Mingo county after six weeks visit. Billy Wolfe of First Ward visits cousins Ralph Junior and David Bob Brown in Buckhannon. D C Isner and son Herbert and grandson visit Mr Isner's daughter and husband Sidney Brown of Saxman. Miss Helen Marguerite Faulkner of Grafton Clarksburg road stays as house guest in Buckhannon. W X Cleavenger candidate for county court Thornton visits Grafton. Anna Lee Ellers leaves Thursday for Akron to visit aunt and uncle. Mr and Mrs Saylor visit at Holt Prunty town road. Miss Betty Saylor remains ten days with Miss Alice Margaret Holt. both college chums.
Grafton dealers report lemon prices rising from six to eight dollars per case due to heat driven demand for lemonades and cooling drinks. Wholesale price hits eight dollars with recalls of nine dollars earlier in summer. retail lemon cost about 40 cents per dozen. Fresh supply remains abundant. shortages limited to markets. Most fruit comes from California.
Arthur B. Koontz, Democratic US Senate hopeful, claimed Clem Shaver with outside support will need thousands of votes to even reach second place. Koontz, back from northern county campaigning, said he is pleased with progress in that region.
A mattress ignited sending smoke through a home on West Main street. John Robinson and his 14 year old son Earl were forced from the residence by the blaze and seek shelter as firefighters contained the fire.
Smoke from a smouldering mattress spread inside the dwelling as Fire Chief Roy Warne and Police Chief Wallace Henderson arrived to douse the flames. They dragged the mattress outside and threw it from an upstairs window. The cause remains undetermined and damage was slight.
In Chestertown Maryland a multi county posse from Kent Queen Annes and Caroline counties searched for James Johnson a 30 year old Black man who escaped handcuffed from Deputy Lobley Sparks patrol car while being transported for questioning about alleged jewel theft He fled on foot into a nearby marsh after asking to stretch his legs.
Memphis July 28 75 year old lawyer and ginner A Hensley still celebrates as his wife Mrs Hensley gives birth to twin boys in a city hospital The couple already has four other sons aged 15 months and 10 5 and 4 years old The family cherishes the latest addition to their growing brood.
Mrs Mary Louise Jenkins Herron obtained a divorce from Andrew Wilson Herron Jr a Pittsburgh social registerite here yesterday in a private trial The couple were wed in Pittsburgh on April 18 1916 and the wife cited extreme cruelty as the ground for dissolution
Camden seeks two players for a county detention home based baseball team. Mrs Grace A Riggins told Judge Garfield Pan coast that players must be bad to join the detention home but good enough to make the team, reflecting a playful but unusual tryout note from July 28 in 1947.
A judge signals intent to pursue a catcher and a first baseman not considered top stars but promising enough to be successful, stating a plan to evaluate and perhaps recruit them.
Frank Ball of Newburg was jailed on two counts of assault and battery after a hearing before Justice of the Peace Ona Jefferys. He allegedly fractured his sister in law's nose and blacked his wife Geraldine's eyes in a West Main street rooming house during a dispute over their child.
Charles G Corbin offers instruction on all band instruments from studio in Room 310 of Grafton Banking and Trust Co building. Contact numbers 830-3 or 256-1 for lessons and details.
Newburg residents report a 112 degree temperature setting a West Virginia heat record during a two week heat wave. A severe hailstorm followed by rains earlier intensified floods causing wells and sewers to overflow. George B. Mauler, 67, a longtime farmer of McGee, died from illness amid the heat and floods. Survived by wife Hannah Rutherford Mauler and seven children, funeral services are planned at Lawler’s Chapel with burial in Lawler’s Cemetery.
Mullens doctor Ward Wylie was named director of the newly appointed state athletic commission. Fred B. Cochrane remains secretary, with Wylie overseeing southern areas, Kenna Clark covering the eastern region and Cochrane handling the Ohio Valley. The board made the decision at a meeting last night in Parkersburg.
Barbour County officers found a copper wash boiler still and twelve gallons of liquor at the Dan Drasco farm near Carolton on the Buckhannon river. Drasco, 35, was arrested and jailed in Barbour County awaiting a magistrate hearing before M. L. McDaniel.
Mrs. James McCue of Coffman leaves Grafton this evening for Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She will undergo an eye operation Monday to remove a cataract, hoping to restore sight partially after months of vision loss.
Prince Ferdinand, 25, second son of the former German Crown Prince, arrived by liner Albert Ballin to vacation at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. He declined to discuss European politics, praised American reporting, and said Germany is fine though he heard of Austria troubles only that morning.
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