Mostly Music Opens Grafton Chautauqua Week Program
Opening Sunday afternoon June 28 features a concert and a final Thursday evening production Plantation Days. The program blends music comedy and lectures with many Redpath entertainers traveling by automobile. Featured acts include Hippee Concert Co Betty Booth Co Mc Vicker Symphonic Quartet Jackson Jubilee Singers and Ada Ward in You Americans.
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Redpath! Chautauqua
Grafton
Redpath
Grafton Chan
Tauqua
Hippie Concert Co
Betty Booth Co
Ernest R. Root
Ving
South America
Edward Tomlinson
McVicker Symphonic Quartet
Jackson Jubilee Singers
al Haker
New Yrk
The
Hipple Company
Sidney Langdon
New York Players
Ada Ward
Moonshine Plant Raid In Hepsibah Section Nets Huge Stash
County officers and state police seized a large moonshine operation in Hepsibah, finding a twenty gallon still, coils, a three burner stove, jugs, barrels of mash, and multiple adulterated contents. About 450 gallons of mash was destroyed, and an arrest of the operator is anticipated after the search near Hepsibah Church.
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Ty Taylor County
Hepsibah
Bolyard
Pomeroy
MclClure
Tocat
Taylor County Road Near Impassable On Dirt Pike
A motorist reports the Taylor County segment of the Fulracat Grafton pike is nearly impassable with deep ruts and dragging on the lower portions. Marion County has scraped its side recently and kept that part passable while Taylor's end remains unattended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Grafton
Marion County
Davis and Elkins College Holds June Commencement
The twenty first annual commencement at Davis and Elkins College opens Friday June 5 with a joint recital by music and public speaking departments and ends Wednesday June 10 with diplomas. Rev. James A Kelso delivers baccalaureate and Rev. Frank T. McFaden gives the commencement address. The class is about thirty five. A cornerstone laying for Halliehurst is scheduled Wednesday. Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Ed Gans return from marriage in Morgantown and Pittsburgh. Summer life at Grafton Park grows with swimming and new plantings as alumni banquet draws about 150 at Grafton High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis and Elkins
Davis and Elkins College
James A | Kelso
Western Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh
Frank T. McFaden
Presbyterian Church of
Winchester
Halliehurst
Davis and Flksins College
Ed Gans
J. W. Gans
Loveland
Grafton residents host alumni, visit relatives abroad
Local city notes many residents traveling and visiting. Cephas R. Rogers plans summer home stay in Jane Lew and fall studies at West Virginia University. Several townsfolk, including Miss Mildred Morgan and Mrs. Alberta Lanham, plan short trips to Elkins Fairmont Clarksburg and Newburg, with alumni banquets and business visits noted.
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JR. Morgan
C. R. Morgan
George Kinsey
Fairmont
Elkins
Grafton High School
Arthur Cassell
Grafton
Kesling
Pranz and Burka
Clarksburg
Virginia Miller
Fairmont Normal
Robert Maloney
Gratton Park
C. Lee Reynolds
Bridgeport
C. L. Scranage
Route 5
Alvin Murphy
Hamiliton, Co
J. H. Cornwell
High ‘ Street
Morgantown
Wesley Sinsel
Pruntytown
John Findley
Buck Run
William Spencer
J. V. Spencer
Odis Currey
Route 6
George D. Hardin
Booths Creek
Kenneth Ha
Kansas City
Sweney Automobile School
William Hessen
Jacob Vgasser
West Main Street
Sona Billings
Washington
D. W. Cahill
Cahill
High Street
Alberta Lanham
L. V. Atha
Maple Avenue
P. Judge
Washington Street
Newburg
Roe Hayden
Beech Street
Percy Hyrd
Bily Miyden Byrd
Joseph Barlow
Maple ‘Venue
Philippi
Julia Thorpe
Hunter Poling Arrested For Hunting Without License
Jesse Poling was arraigned before Squire W E Leach on charges of hunting and carrying a shotgun without a license. He was fined $20 and costs after arrest by Deputy State Game Warden BE M Heaton while patrolling woods and streams in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Poling
Squire W. E. Leach
Poling
BE. M. Heaton
Clarksburg
Shriners Open Fifty First Annual Convention in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles California the Shriners opened their fifty first annual convention with a parade in the Coliseum and public sessions. Imperial Potentate James B Chandler of Ararat Temple Kansas City delivered a radio message of thanks and formal opening of a six day radio broadcasting marathon featuring KHJ and the Los Angeles Times as stations broadcasting Shrine music and merriment.
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Los Angeles
Cal
of the Angels
Mystic Shrine
Te Imperial Council
Imperial
James B. Chandler
Ararat Temple
Kansas City
California
KHJ
Los Angeles Times
Class Mates Honor Memory of Calvin Coolidge Jr at Mercersburg
Mercersburg Academy students unveiled a memorial portrait for Calvin Coolidge Jr., the president’s son who died last July. Headmaster William Mann Irvine praised the late boy’s orderly, studious nature and strong moral values, noting he would have received a diploma tomorrow if alive. Mrs. Coolidge and Mr. Coolidge were expected to attend, continuing the family’s ties to the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercersburg Academy
Calvin, Jr
Mercersburg
Tech
Calvin Coolidge Jr
John
Calvin Jr
William Mann Irvine
Calvin Coolidge, Jr
Dr. Irvine
Calvin Coolidge
Nenher
Calvin Coolidee
Jury to Hear Eviction Case in Circuit Court
A circuit court will hear 58 eviction cases including Delmar Coal Company versus three union miners Able Crago George Galgo and Ransome Holleyfeld at Rosemont and Wendel West Virginia firms. The Delmar case opens with three miners as defendants. Warder Robinson and Warder represent coal firms while W P Samples represents defendants. Prior justice court verdicts favored the coal companies but cases were delayed until November term. Judge W R Kittle presided as attorneys and clients took a one day vacation when no cases were ready. Helen Walker was found guilty of Digamy in common pleas court and sentenced to 18 months.
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Delmar Ghal Company
Rosamont
Foxehl] Coal Company
Rosemont
Maryland Coal Company
West Virginia
Wendel
Delmar Coal Company
Able Crago
George Galgo
Ransome Holleyfeld
Warder
W. It. Kittle
Moundsville
Sam EG. Casa
Irving Tai
Earl Ridger
H. W. Cruikshanks
Taylor County
Henderson
State
L. B. Henderson
Beginnings of Lutheranism in the American Nation
A compact historical sketch recounts early Lutheran colonization in the Americas from 1528 through 1716. It notes Venezuelan roots, Hudson Valley activity, the 1643 Manhattan Augsburg group, key pastors like Torkillus Campanius and Gutwasser, and the first churches in Delaware and New Jersey amid colonial conflicts and growth.
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Jens Wmunck
Rasmus Jenssen
Hudson Bay
Rasmus Jensen
Munck
Denmark
Hudson Valley
Delaware River
Wilmington
Unit States
Aeolus Torkillus
John Campanius
America
Tiuseum Island
Delaware
Phildelphia
Crang Hook
Wieako
Ft. Christina
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Sweddsboro
Hackensack
Coal Company Writ Continues In West Virginia Court
The case involves coal firms in West Virginia and Pittsburgh seeking an injunction against the United Mine Workers union. Judge Baker upholds jurisdiction and cites the Hitchman decree, with modifications to restraints on union activity, including anti-picketing and intimidation provisions. Several defendants face bond and future court dates in the ongoing proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Hitchman
Bar
Elkins
Panhadie
West Virginia
Hitchman Coal Company
West Virginia- Pittsburgh Coal Company
Gary Begins Diet at Birmingham Hospital
Elbert H. Gary chairman of United States Steel Corporation arrived in Birmingham to start diet treatment at Employer's Hospital. He traveled on the first train over a new overhead ore line from mountain lines to furnaces, a branch of Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company, a subsidiary, recently completed at a cost of 2.6 million dollars.
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Gary
Alabama
Birmingham
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Tye
Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Ralteroad Company
The
Steel Corporation
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Chautauqua
Coca-Cola Bottling Works
W. VA
Fiel
Mro
Eonard McBee
Pleasant Creek
Blanche Thompson
Minnie Cole
Dora Cole
Rosa Thompson
Hazel Cole
Edna Cole
Opal Woodford
Edith Cole
Rosie Woodford
Mary Dadisman
Ethel Dadisman
Alma Haddix
Mrs. Haddix
Ray Keller
Wilford Keller
Enoch Sayre
Obed Bonner
Ray Wongcott
Roy Cole
Artie Cole
John W. Cole
Merrill Haddix
Earl Robinson
Brooks Kennedy
First Baptist Church
Mace
Grafton Park
Laurel
Guy Allender
C .A. Keefer
Charles Skaggs
Hattie Foreman
Ruth Love
Florence H. Wilkinson
O. Jay Fleming
Frank Hollis
Sam Jenkins
Ray Monroe
Warden
Hazel Zinn
Pauline Burdett
Hugh Warde
H. A. Rice
H. Y. Clark
Amanda Abbott
Mattie Jace
Agnes Warne
J. C. Deck
Lucille
Helen
Copestone
Royal Arch Masons
Masonic Temple
W. C. Barnes
Clyde N. Mays
William Hardin
Chas. W. Steel
S. M. Mas- Payne
Charles FR. Skaggs
Leslie J. Loar
Royal Arch
Glenn S. Callaghan
Grover Harter
Dallas D. Wolfe
John T. Pilson
Shay Patton
Olive Shay
Charles Shay
West St. Charles Street
Theodore Patton
W. Patton
West Washington
Edna Lee Baskett
Sentinel
Knotts Avenue
Hunter
Shriners
Coolidge
Helen Walker
Lutheranisim
Karl Kretzmann
N.S.C. News
Venezuela
Ws Augsburg
von Kroeden
St. Carolina
Florida
Nendez
Joan Ribéacit
Lau Donere
Manhattan Island
New World
Eral
John E. Gutwasagr
Manhatt Island
Gov. Stusant
New York
Gov. al Nichola
Broadway Tor Street
Patil Church Way
United States
Canada
Mr. Lewis
van A. Bittner
William Roy
Frank Ledvinka
Pratt
Eats Pany
West Virgilia-Pittsburgh
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