Flag Day events planned by Grafton Elks lodge
Grafton Lodge No. 308 Elks announce Annual Flag Day exercises on June 15 at Station Plaza. Parade begins 6 30 from West Main beyond the post office with city officials, police, fire, veterans and scouts joining. Program includes band, chorus, drum corps, history, address by Hon. A. E B. Thurnes, taps, and benediction.
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Grafton
Grafton Lodge No
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Kenneth Daugherty
Baltmore and Ohio Railroad Company
Moran
Thomas J. Moran
Grafton High School
Woman’s Music Club
Sons of Amerian Legion
James C. Holt
Boy Scouts
A. E B. Thurnes
William R. Katt
Ben F. Donley
Andrews Methodist Church
West Main Street
Station Square
City Nolice
Fire Department
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Boy Scouts Girl Scouts
Home Defense
the Elks Judge
Kenneth C. Daugherty
O. L. Cook
John Boylen
W. Merle Watkins
Retailers Asked to Aid Nationwide Bond Drive
Retailers are urged to suspend all sales for 15 minutes on July 1 to devote the period to sale of war savings stamps and bonds. Francis N. Warder of the Junior Chamber of Commerce led the request in a telegram from a Treasury official seeking 100 percent local participation. The note asks how many retailers will participate and to report counts promptly. There were 453,909 more men than women in 1940.
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America
Francis N. Warder
Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Treasury
Warder
Treasury
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
FFA Program at Glade Run Stirs Local Farmers Club
In Grafton West Virginia June 3 1942 a letter to the editor corrects a blackout report and confirms no lights showed at McCroiny store during the event. The Grafton chapter of Future Farmers of America then presented a varied program at the Glade Run schoolhouse for the farmers club audience.
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FFA
Glade Run
Grafton
Future Farmers of America
Farmers Club
New Austin
West Virginia
Fred Boyles
Future Farmers Organization For Farm Boys
Forrest Edwards
Voast
FFLA
Junior
Alfred Sunay
Neil Austin
Forrest Edwards, Jr
John Thorn
R. C. Waggoner
Junior Lundy
Junior Edwards
Rosier Thorn
Karley McCartney
Jack Bradley
Smal Boys
Wilda McCartney
Mary Lundy
Ieetine
Flas
Local Pastor Honored By College of Detroit
The Rev. R. L. Rossman newly elected pastor of The First Brethren church West St Charles street was among ten ministers awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by the American Bible College of Detroit Michigan on the committee's recommendation Dr Rossman took the local pastorate on April 1 and previously led the First Brethren church of Altoona Pennsylvania for five years actively involved in evangelistic work
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R. L. Rossman
First Brethren Church
West St. Charles Street
American Bible College of
Detroit
Michigan
American Committee On Bible Evangelism
Rossman
Altoona
Buckhannon Strawberry Festival Draws Thousands for Seventh Year
Buckhannon hosts the seventh annual festival honoring the central West Virginia strawberry, with harness racing horse show and displays drawing thousands from five counties. Governor Neely crowns Miss Barbara Stathers of Clarksburg queen and Roscoe Manley of near Buckhannon is named 1942 strawberry king.
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Buckhannon
West Virginia
Tomorr
Neely
Barbara Stathers
Clarksburg
McLaughlin
Roscoe Manley
Near
Induction Notices For 27 Men On Saturday June 13
Local draft board releases a list of 27 men scheduled for induction on Saturday June 13. They will travel by bus to Clarksburg for final examinations and swearing in, with groups of 30 leaving the prior week for the induction center. Names and addresses span multiple towns, including Cincinnati, Newport News, McKees Rock, and Flemington, detailing each registrant’s home or delivery address.
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Burg
W. A. Beavers
Selective Service
Clarksburg
U. S. Army
Wilbur Cornelius Haddix
Grand Street
Charles Edward Marquess
Newport News
Richard Lansberry
Cincinnati
Ohio
Virgil Farwell McGee
Thornton
Everett Elden Findley, Jr
Simpson
James Raymond Cockrell
McKees Rock
Delbert Ball
General Delivery
Grafton
William Hamilton Annegan
Flemington
Richard Karl Glenn
East Washington Street
Kenneth Vance Huffman
Walter Stemke
Rosemont
Lawrence Jacob Whitehair
John Howard Reynolds
West Main Street
Daniel Glenn Kann
Walnut Street
Samuel Andrew Morasco
Harry Kenneth Latta
George Robinson
Latrobe Street
Willis Debhert Hovatter
Herbert Ross Grimm
Clinton Shingleton
Beech Street
Lewis Earl Peters
William E. Lawler
West Boyd Street
Charles Franklin Huber
Box
James Robert Gilligan
West
Washington Street
Harvey Bennett
Daniel Monroe Goodnow
Pearl Street
Hugh
Clinton Floyd Tygart
Merit System opens 15 state public assistance jobs
Fishr Beatty, director, said the West Virginia Merit System Council announced openings for 15 classes in the State Department of Public Assistance. Salaries range from 90 to 225 dollars monthly. examinations now determine future vacancies. Applications due by 5 p.m. June 19 in Charleston offices or Merit System supervisor.
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Fishr. Beatty
Taylor County Department of Public Assistance
West Virginia Merit System Council
State Department of Pustic Assistance
Merit System
Department of Public Assistance, Health
U. S. Employment Service
Office of the
Atlas Bldg
Charleston
W. V
Honor Pupils Left Off Junior High Roll
The Sentinel corrects an error naming three A honor roll students at Grafton Junior High. Barbara Powell and Thelma Reese, eighth graders, and Terry Heironimus, seventh grade, were omitted in yesterday's article. Principal Torlock Rasmussen confirmed the correction.
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Grafton
Torlock Rasmussen
Barbara Powell
Thelma Reese
Terry Heironimus
Burke Seeks Observance of Flag Day
Major Charles E. Burke, director of civilian defense in Grafton and Taylor county, urged area groups to unite for Flag Day June 14 as a wartime tribute to the United Nations. He called for display of all twenty six national flags, urged local merchants to show windows, libraries to stage nation displays, and ministers to base sermons on honoring the flag. Community parade or ceremony possible. Mayer O. King to issue proclamation.
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John §. Palmer
Grafton Sentinel
Grafton W. Va
McCroiny
FB. F. Sampson
Taylor County
Sampson
Charles E. Burke
Grafton
United Nations
United States
Civilian Defense Organization
Mayer ©. O. King
Giant wartime bus to ease home factory transport
The Office of Defense Transportation inspected a giant trailer bus that uses minimal war materials and seats 141, nearly twice the size of the largest street car. The North Carolina motto is Esse Quam Videri. An old superstition claims a ruby cast in water would heat and boil the liquid.
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Office of Defense Transportation
North Carolina
Call for war duty screening to report June 1 at local board
A large group registered in the third registration February 16 has been called for medical screening by the local selective service board. They must report on Thursday June 1 at the board offices on the fifth floor of the Professional building. Included is Danny Benda, a noted Flemington athlete, among many others listed with addresses across Bridgeport Simpson and Flemington.
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Danny Benda
Flemington High
Marshall College
Jeam Henderson
Michael Daniel Benda
Huntington
James Lakin Flesher
Harry Lynn Reese, Jr
Bridgeport
John Orfants
Willie Mayle
Simpson
William Kirk
West Main Street
Thornton Kenneth Riffee
Clarence Edward Grow
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