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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1932
Page
3
Montgomery society editor’s column lists social news and requests that hosts inform the office after events. Readers are told to telephone society items by 11 pm and informed that the Grafton Sentinel society page carries complete news of women’s activities.
The Knights of Columbus No 49 meeting reviewed initiation plans for the next session. Captain Mrs Stockett urged all officers and Degree team members to attend practice Friday at 1 30 PM. Councilor Mrs Nolan Klepfel presided.
Birth notice from the first ward announces Mr and Mrs B F Landsbury’s son born last Monday named Charles Franklin. The mother, formerly Miss Pearl Bolyard, is noted in the announcement.
Los Angeles on July 29 Li na Basquette, 25, actress, swallowed poison hours after revealing engagement to Teddy Hayes former trainer of Jack Dempsey. Police found her in agony with a note to Jack saying I love you only you I could not help it I couldn't go on without you.
Marie Virginia Blake 21 wife of Elbert L. Blake died in Elkins hospital from typhoid fever. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Protestant church in Flemington with Rev. W. H. Hart in charge. Burial followed in Odd Fellows Cemetery near Baileytown. She is survived by her husband, three children Betty Maxine Raymond Gerald and a four month old, her father Price Williams and a stepmother, a half sister Alice Williams and four half brothers Charles David Lylatha and Lolly Williams.
Dorothy Jordan extols fencing as an international sport that sharpens body and mind. She emphasizes finger to toe training, wrist limberness for foils, and quick footwork to evade opponents, highlighting mental quickness alongside physical discipline.
Mrs. W. E. Robinson wife of a local timer was operated on Wednesday at City Hospital for revival of appendix and is getting along nicely. Miss Anna Laura Craft returned to Wheeling today after two weeks as house guest of Miss Mary Shields of West Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. RE. P. McCall of Clarksburg spent the day in Graf ton as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Shields.
Three Grafton musicians Edward Ewers Frank Williamson and Cecil Daugherty are leaving Sunday to join the 201st West Virginia regimental band for a 15 day camp at Dawson near Kingwood. The band is part of the West Virginia National Guard of about 1 000 members and will travel on three special trains stopping through Grafton on Sunday en route to the camp for play and training.
Washington July 29 President Hoover completed the reorganization of the Reconstruction Corporation with a $3.8 billion budget naming Charles A. Miller of Utica New York as the seventh director. Miller a Republican will be elected ident filling Charles G Dawes post. Also present were Atlee Pomerenes recent appointee whose appointment shifts nominal control to Pomerenes group and Pomerenes will be named chairman.
Thunder and lightning forced spectators to flee as the McKeesport American Legion drum and bugle competition halted mid event. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia organizations entered 19 acts in the contest before the downpour ended the day.
Washington, July 29. Two trans Atlantic fliers, Russell Boardman and John Polando, were awarded the Distinguished Flying Crosses by President Hoover. The men, both Massachusetts natives, had flown over five thousand miles from the United States to Istanbul, Turkey, last year. Hoover praised their daring achievement.
Southampton report says two prize short horn bulls from King George were shown at the Royal Agricultural Show. Russian livestock experts bought them to build up Soviet herds, with the Windsor royal farm origin noted.
Miss Anna Jarvis founder of Mothers Day speaks at the West Virginia state capitol dedication on June 21, praising the $10,000 structure as a monument to mothers. Governor Conley notes mothers’ approval and the capitol symbolizes truth justice and the state’s past present and future greatness.
Melbourne reports Victoria will impose a dollar tax on each bridegroom in addition to the 50 cent notice fee and the $5 marriage certificate. The revenue hunt reaches cigarette papers with each booklet taxed 2 cents, doubling the price.
Report notes that at least 11 Finnish stars would appear in the event, including Paavo Nurmi Lauri Lehtinen Isol Hollo and Akilles Jarvinen.
Columbus July 29 The quality of Ohio s 1932 soft winter wheat crop is said to rival any produced by M R Maney head of the Ohio Farm Bureau Grain department Most receipts rate No 1 with many 61 and 62 bushels in market The harvest in central and southern Ohio is nearly done with farmers holding much wheat and county elevators also storing in expectation of higher prices
Sunday menus include breakfast with cantaloupe ham omelet coffee. dinner features stuffed tomato salads fried chicken buttered potatoes corn on the cob bread grape jelly peach pie coffee. supper offers peanut relish sandwiches iced tea and coconut cookies. The tomato cheese filling recipe covers ingredients and steps for stuffing tomatoes with a cottage cheese blend and dressing, plus a peach pie filling method and peanut relish filling for 12 sandwiches.
Logan July 29. Commissioner Robertson and aide Clarence Stephenson were held for grand jury action on charges tied to the slaying of Mamie Thurman, wife of a Logan policeman. Robertson posted $10,000 bond. Stephenson remained jailed. Grand jury next meets in September. Evidence included stains in Robertson’s car and on Stephenson’s clothing, alleged human blood. Witnesses placed Stephenson near the mountain where Thurman’s body was found, with throat slashed and two head wounds. The two men denied knowledge of the murder.
U S Senators Hatfield and Neely appointed Princesses-at-large for the Mountain State Forest Festival to be held in Elkins October six to eight. Dorothy Lockhart of Parkersburg and Betty Smith of Fairmont were chosen, among about 25 WV entrants, to join coronation and festival events.
Mr and Mrs C E Ned Smith of Fairmont are referenced with Smith noted as editor of the Fairmont Times in this brief item.
Pearley Ellers aged 52 of 810 West Main Street is in Uniontown Pa awaiting return of his brother Emory after a car wreck near Uniontown yesterday evening. His car was completely demolished but the injuries are not described as serious. Ellers, a traveling salesman for an auto accessories firm, is not hospitalized.
Charleston July 29 the state senate adopted a resolution directing its clerk to pay 2000 to the Red Cross for flood victims of the Paint Armstrong creek flood of July 11. A similar measure is pending in the house. The action followed a survey showing 18 drownings and hundreds left with nothing.
A Finnish team will visit Japan after the Los Angeles Olympics to compete against returning Japanese athletes in September at Tokyo and Osaka. The Japan Track and Field Federation announced assurances of the visit and competition schedule.
Clarksville Arkansas July 29 militamen guarded the Johnson county coal fields while operators conferred with residents on how to handle the situation created by efforts of union miners to prevent non union labor from working wage agreements are effective
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