Tea Honoring Girl Reserves at Mrs Baker Home
The home of Mrs Anna Baker at 246 Beech Street hosted a tea for Girl Reserves of Grafton High School organized by the Council Mothers. Guests enjoyed flowers music and a formal tea service with Miss Barbare Baker and Margaret Ridgur among the helpers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Baker
Beech Street
Ives
Grafton High School
Baker
Homer Gatrell
Barbate-Baker
Jane Mahaffey
Margaret Ridenour
Jugnite Gatrell
Margaret Ridgur
Naomi Robinson
Mray Grace Yates
Kelt. Robinson
Anna
Social calendar and school favors at Grafton
June events include Ladies Auxiliary meeting at 8 p m in K of C hall and Fisher Class gathering at Methodist Protestant church naming Fisher friends. Miss Ruth Turner Grafton High physical education director honored with handkerchief and linen showers as her marriage to Lieut W E Potter is planned for summer.
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Friendship Bible Class
First Christian Church
J. W. Norman
W.A. Harrison
4. O. H. Lodge
K. of C. Hall
Fisher
Methodist Protestant Sunday School
Chuch
Miss Turner
Ruth Turner
Grafton High Schol
Grafton High School
Lieut
W.E. Potter
Local residents share visits and travels in Grafton
Mrs Bertie Belle Jones returns to Charleston after ten days with her parents in West Grafton. Guests include Mr and Mrs James Price of New York City visiting the Jones family, and Mrs Isaac Losh of Walnut Street. Mrs M J Kinney and Grace Evelyn Nuzum plan weeks in Terra Haute Indiana with Kinney’s daughter Mrs Smith Ringer. Mr and Mrs J A Kimble host Mr and Mrs Norman Smally of Jersey City. The Smallys recently moved from Paden City and are recalled for friendships in Grafton. Shipley McIntosh and son Bobbie of Millersburg Ohio visit the Bernard Hoffman home on Maple Avenue. Betty Kiger, West Main Street, undergoes tonsil surgery at Grafton City Hospital. Leo Broderick of Rowlesburg admitted for appendectomy.
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Bertie Belle Jones
Charleston
Denver Thompson
West Grafton
James Price
New York City
Grafton
Jones
Isaac ‘Losh
Walnut Street
M. J. Kinney
East Main Street
Little Grace Evelyn Nuzum
Terra Haute
Ind
Kinney
Smith ‘Ringer
J. A. Kimble
Maple Avenue
Norman| Smally
Jersey City
New Jersey
Smally
Dr. Kimble
Newburg
Shipley McIntosh
Bobbie
Millersburg
Ohio
Bernard
Hoffman
Betty Kiger
West Main Street
Grafton City Hospital
Leo Broderick
Rowlesburg
Farmers Sign Up For Soil Conservation Work Sheets
More than 300 Taylor county farmers have filed out work sheets indicating last year’s farm histories and willingness to cooperate with the federal soil conservation program. County Agent James L. Copeman announced that June 13 was the final date.
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Taylor County
Federal Soil Conservation Program
James L. Copeman
Back to Work Nellie Granger Named First Lady of the Air
Nellie Granger returns to aviation after a tragic transcontinental crash near Uniontown Pennsylvania. She leaves Pittsburgh County Airport for Kansas City to become a plane hostess, a role that unofficially grants her the title first lady of the air.
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Nelli Granger
Uniontown
Nellie
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Entral Pre
County Farmers Urged to File Farm History Next Week
Farmers in the county will be given an opportunity to file their farm history next week. The agent emphasizes urgency and wants as many participants as possible to take part.
Dallas Exposition Opens Amid Record Precedent
Dallas crowds, far larger than the city’s 315000, flooded the streets for the Texas Centennial Exposition premiere. Advance ticket sales topped two million with orders for 250000 more unfilled. Gates opened early and the formal main gate ceremony set to feature Secretary Daniel C. Roper and Governor James V. Allred.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Daniel C. Roper
Gov
James V. Allred
Kentucky mountain gun battle fatal to three
A Pike County Kentucky shooting left two women and a child dead and a wounded man in a Williamson hospital. Mrs Charley Mounts aged 69 and Mrs Oscar Mouns aged 25 were killed along with James D Mounts 10. Turner butch Mounts 28 was badly wounded and expected not to survive.
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Williamson
Kentucky
Charley Mounts
Oscar Mouns
Barren-Shea
Pike County
James D. Mounts
Turner
Butch” Mounts
Domenick Charged Over Visa Issue In Grafton
Domenick, a long time tailor in Grafton, was arrested over an improper visa issue at entry to the United States. He consulted attorney Wyckoff and may face deportation, with a possible return to Grafton to resume his business if ordered. His local ties and clean court record are noted.
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Dominick
Italy
Domenick
William Archdeacon
Grafton
E. O Waugh
Pittsburgh
Landon
West
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Correction on Judson Missionary Society meeting guest
A Thursday evening Judson Missionary Society gathering misnamed guest Mrs Lester Linn. The erratum corrects the record to the proper guest and clarifies the attendee list for the historical note.
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Judson Missionary Society
Lester Linn
Green Sorry Over Federation Split On Lewis Drive
Green said the decision thwarted the executive council of the Federation and that the council, dominated by craft unionists, opposes Lewis. He announced the unionization campaign would be carried on by Lewis committee for industrial organization separate from the AFL. He warned the Federation cannot unite its financial and organizing forces behind an immediate organizing drive while calling the Lewis drive experimental and offering others a chance to assess its value and viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Federation
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt to attend funeral services at state capital
Roosevelt will depart by train after lunch for the war memorial building annex where funeral services are to be held. Rev James Shera Montgomery, chaplain, is to conduct the rites as part of the ceremony honoring Andrew Jackson’s sacred dust and lasting sentimental significance.
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Page
Andrew Jackson
War Memorial
James Shera Montgomery
Women’s Page launches in Baltimore American weekly
A new Sunday feature for women covers diets beauty hints and recipes with special activities. Readers encouraged to obtain the issue from their local newsdealer as the Baltimore American expands its women’s section.
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Batimore American
National figures attend Burns tribute in Nashville crowd
Nashville mourns Joseph W Byrns as thousands pour in from Tennessee and adjoining states for the congressman's funeral. A Mount Olivet vault is prepared and a military cortege, infantry and artillery units, and a presidential party escort join the procession toward the cemetery.
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Tennessee
Rich Valley
Robertson County
Burns
Mount Olivet
Congress
Tax conferees plan next steps as recess begins
The tax conferees will labor all next week while the Senate and House recess Monday until June 18. The pause will let Republicans attend their national convention in Cleveland, affecting the withholding of income from stockholders and related fiscal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Cleveland
Tax measure emerges rewritten bill could raise nine hundred million
After three days of debate the senate approved a drastically altered tax bill designed to raise $829 million. The measure would tax corporate net income at 15 to 18 percent, add a 7 percent levy on undistributed earnings, repeal the 4 percent dividend exemption, and raise the individual surtax by one percentage point.
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Senate
House
Braxton County GOP elects Bright as chairman
The Braxton County Republican Executive Committee chose P. W. Bright as chairman at its June meeting. The selection followed a vote that also referenced Barle Morrison in the proceedings.
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Joe Folio
Neil Eddie Thomas
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Paul Israel
Marialvena Malone
Richard Robey
Janie Cline
Bud” Wright
Mary Frances Keener
Hubert Parrish
Mildred Young
Charles Warder
PERS
George's Fountain
Nellie Granger
Dallas Exposition
Women's Page
National House of Fives
W. P. Powell
First Baptist Church
Costen J. Harrell
West End
Nashville
Tenn
Joseph W. Byrmis
June Hee
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Mt Now
Elect Churchman
Charles M. Wells
Wehn
Pennsylvania State College of Optometry
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Asdbee
Kelvinator
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