Body of W M Walter to arrive in Grafton Sunday
The body of W. M. Walter a former Grafton resident will arrive by No. 3 Sunday morning and lie in state at Bartlett Funeral Home until 2:00 p m Monday when services will be held with Rev F C Herod of the First Baptist Church and interment in Bluermont cemetery Grafton Lodge No 75 A F A M will conduct services Walter died at his daughter Mrs George G McCaskey s Brooklyn home after a period of failing health He was born September 4 1853 near Evansville Preston county son of John Waller and Elizabeth Marquess He married Olive R Baker and had two daughters one died in infancy He built the Walnut street home later occupied by his niece Ruby C Honafield He and a brother once owned Webster woolen mills and later was a salesman He spent his later years with his daughter and two years ago Mrs Walter died He was known as Uncle Mark a Baptist and member of Grafton Lodge 75 A F and A M and Woodmen of the World Surviving are his wife s daughter s family and several nieces and nephews in Grafton
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Walter
Grafton
Bartlett Funeral Home
F. C. Herod
First Baptist Church
Bluermont Cemetery
Grafton Lodge
A. F
A. M
Brooklyn
New York
Walter
Old Farm
Evansville
Preston County
John Waller
Elizabeth Marquess
Olive R. Baker
Walnut Street
Ruby C. Honafield
Vabeter
Webster
McCaskey
Mark
Baptist Church
Grafton Lodge No. 75
Woodmen of the World
George G McCaskey
Olive Ann
Geraldine
Sara
Soviet Russia Bars Clergymen Visit
Soviet Russia has barred at least three clergymen from visiting that country this summer. In New York Rev. Dr. David Williams of Rochester and Rev. Dobemus Scudder, a Congregationalist missionary, failed to obtain visas along with John Hayes Holmes of the Community Church in New York. Williams is a brother of Rhys Williams, a Communist trading and traveling agent in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New? York
Russia
John Hayes Holmes
Community Church
New York
David Williams
Rochester
N. Y
Dobemus Scudder
Williams
Young People Entertain at Rotary Meet
Grafton Rotarians enjoyed a musical evening by local youths led by new member Nicholas Sidrow representing the radio service trade. Vocalists Robert Conley, Robert Gerkins, and Arthur Shields performed as the "Singing Irish" while Mrs Clara Bennett delivered humorous readings and Clara Korte accompanied on piano and violin. Officers for the coming year were elected earlier and will be inducted July 1. President A. R. Warden, Vice President J. W. Ault, Secretary B. W. Alexander, and Treasurer Charles Brinkman, who were re elected. G. R. Kinsey remains at home ill with quinay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Korte
A. R. Warden
J. W. Ault
B. W. Alexander
Charles Brinkman
Court Arranges For Physicians To Examine Fall
Washington June 6. Albert B Fall to be examined by two DC supreme court appointed physicians to decide if he can travel to Washington for a year in prison. Judge Wheat to appoint, exam set in El Paso, but earlier doctors' opinion of his condition led to countermand. Fall convicted of taking a $100000 bribe from Edward L Doheny and sentenced to one year plus $100000 fine. Supreme court refused review and mandate to execute sentence issued.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Wheat
Interior
el Paso
Texas
Felix Miller
R. B. Homan
Harding
Fall
Edward L. Doheny
Supreme Court
Cuban magnate says prohibition will stay in U S
New York June 6 AP Luis J Bacardi of Santiago De Cuba says prohibition is here to stay and Americans will keep voting dry. He notes his company now makes 25,000 gallons of rum daily and could increase production greatly if liquor trade with the U S resumes, though he personally would prefer a different law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Luis J. Bacardi
Bacardi
America
Stillman Ex-Wife Marries Fowler McCormick in Private Ceremony
Mrs. Anne A. Stillman, 52, wed Fowler McCormick, 20 years her junior, in a private Pocantico Hills ceremony attended by her son James and his wife. The couple honeymooned at Easthampton Long Island as ex-husband James A. Stillman left for Europe amid divorce disputes and denial of any remarriage.
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Mrs. Stillman
Fowler McCormick
New York
Anne A. Stillman
John D. Rockefeller
Harold F. McCormick
John B. Mack
Easthampton
Long Island
James A. Stillman
Poughkeepsie
Europe
Casualty Figures Warn of Summer Drownings and Auto Deaths
The American Motoring Association released figures predicting about 3,500 drownings and 9,000 auto fatalities in the next three months based on ten year census averages for June July and August. It notes last year saw 30,000 automobile fatalities with roughly 9,600 in summer. Most drownings involve swimmers unaccustomed to unfamiliar waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ington
American Motorists Association
Decision on Hearing of Mrs Lowther Confession Set
Judge James Oglevee will rule Monday on whether jurors may hear the purported confession by Maude Lowther 23 accused of killing Clara Smith 28 Ashtabula. State witnesses testified to a confession but defense objects claiming inducement. Court adjourned over weekend to resolve admissibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson
Maude Lowther
Hougemald
James Oglevee
Tritby
Plot to kill Mrs Smith on lonely road May 29 1930
Waith husband of the slain woman and Mrs Lowther plotted the shooting on a lonely road with a plan to deceive authorities by claiming the killing was the work of holdup men. Prosecutor Howard M Nazor said he expected to wrap up the case Monday.
Lindberghs Consider Eastern Route to China and Japan
New York June 6 Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh weigh an eastern route to the Orient of about 6500 miles, skirting near the Pole via Greenland and Spitzenverg en, with fuel food and radio gear being studied at North Beach airport. The plan is in formative stage and a summer flight toward China and Japan is contemplated.
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New York
Cornel
Charles JA. Lindbergh
China
Japan
North Pole
Orient
Lindbergh
Greenland
Spitzenvergen
Bering
Pacific
North Beach Airport
Queens
Lockheed
von Gronau
Parker Kramer
Bent Hassell
Rockford
Ill
Sir ‘Hubert Wilkins
Alin Ahrenberg
Amundsen
Italia
I Dontts Shoe Shop Opening Tonight at 8
Nick Idoni announces the reopening of Idoni's Shoe Shop at 42 West Main Street with formal ouverture at 8 pm. The remodeled store now combines a shoe shop with a confectionery, offering John ton's candies cigars sodas and other items. Miss Louise Fazenda Petit of Philadelphia visited the city yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick £. Idont
West Main Street
Mr. Idoni
Grafton
Jon Idoni
Cumberland
Nick Idoni
Louise, Fazenda Petit
Philadelphia
City
Quiet After Coal Strike Shuts Two Flemington Mines
About 300 miners at two Brown Coal Co mines and the Tressler Coal Co in the Flemington Bear Mountain area struck Friday over wage contracts. State police patrol Brownton with no disorders reported. UMWA official Van A. Bittner said any mine not签署ing a union contract by Monday would strike. several area mines had already signed and resumed operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown Coal Co
Tressler Coal Company
Flemington-Bear Mountain
Brownton
van A. Bittner
United Mine Workers of Ausa
Fairmont
Bear Mountain
Bitine
Renwick Fuel Company
Blockly-Fittsburgh Coal Company
R. M. Davs Coal Company
Scott's Run
Bittner
Pursgrove Coal Mining Company
Scotts Run
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Opera House
D. W. Griffith
Soviet
Barrett Street
Dorsey
Mullen
East Grafton
Rotary Meet
G. R. Kinsey
St. Charles St
Quninay
C. V. Miller
Reliable Footwear
W. Va
J.A. Stillman
Guinan “Gang
Associated Proas
Texas Guinan
Paris
Havre
Lindberghs
Strand Theatre
Tibb
Kibbett
Hoboland
Harry
Pollard
Esther Ralston
Roland Young
Cliff Edwards
Metro
Associated Wrest
Hebni
Paul Richards
Bayonne
N. J
Otto Vogel
Be Ven
Conn
Richards
Greenwich, Conn
Dan Meeney
Idonts Shoe
Johnny Christian Baltimore
Hollywood Orchestra
Baltimore, Md
Sponess
R. E. Blaney
Mgr
M. & M. Bank Bldg
Prudential Insurance Company OF America Home Office
Newark, New Jersey
Prudential Man
Liberty Shoe Shop
R.idoni
Grand Monate
Qvett Kventhyes
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