Plans Drafted To Hold June Dance By Business Girls
Final plans for a June dance by the Business Girls club were made at Cony Rest during a regular dinner meeting. Rodie Rodeheaver will bring his Kingwood orchestra to play from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monthly meetings will continue through the summer, with Miss Nelle Tucker and Miss Mary Catherine Walter named July hostesses for a butterfly sisters selection. Attendees included Ruth Dean and many named members and hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moose Home
Business Girls Club
Cony Rest
Rodie Rodeheaver
Kingwood
Nelle Tucker
Mary Catherine Walter
Butterfly
Ruth Dean
Atendance
Doris Alkire
Mary Virginia Carder
Helen Chenoweth
Imogene Dever
Barbita DeMoss
Margaret Felton
Angela Gerkin
Helen Gerkin
Benyce Hall
Geneva Hilkey
Naomi Knotts
Helen Constance Lowe
Joan Limbers
Mrs. Rusel Mathews
Catherine Madden
Josephine Manley
Ruth Mays
Helen Menear
Hugh McPhail
Lucille Payne
Ada Poling
Ruby Ramsey
Mary Jo Rauscher
Eileen Robison
Helen Shaw
Mary Stanley
Beatrice Tucker
Mason Tucker
Pauline Utsinger
Briefly Told Sutton Packman Plans Move to Sutton
Mrs. John Packman of Baltimore plans to join her husband in Sutton after her visit to her mother Mrs. Guy Bennett in Dewey avenue. Mr. Packman was recently transferred there and they will establish a residence together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
John Packman
Baltimore
Guy Bennett
Dewey Avenue
Mr. Packman
Community Club and Society Notices Update
Various local clubs and organizations announce meetings at homes and public venues in June. Grafton Junior 4-H plans a post office departure for Tygart dam, while the Fisher class and Jr. O U A M hold gatherings and officer nominations are listed for Morgantown Wellsville and other nearby towns. Recent visitors and princess selections tied to Buckhannon strawberry festival are noted along with hospital dismissals and a major surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Simmons
Francis Street
Grafton
Tygart Dam
Betty Purinton
W. S.C
St. John’s Methodist Church
D. H. Elis
West Boyd Street
B, and O. Veterans and Clara
Welhall
Farewell Party Given for Betty and Bob Taylor
A farewell gathering honoring Betty and Bob Taylor and their parents B and O took place last evening at Olive Belle and Doris Price home in Blueville Addition. The hamburger fry featured games and dancing with many young friends in attendance including Viv Newcome Kathryn Watkins and Tris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Bob Taylor
Robert Taylor
Heirloom Crocheted Popcorn Square Pattern 6837
Instructions for a crocheted popcorn stitch square with illustrations and materials. Send ten cents to Grafton Sentinel Household Arts Dept. to obtain pattern 6837. Include name address and pattern number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Square
Grafton Sentinel
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th Street
New York
N. Y
Local names in reported roster scramble noted
The article lists players Price, Bill Allender, Dick Dempsey, Kenny Foster, Wade Parlow, Bud Pawceett and Dick Shaffer among a basketball or team roster. It appears as a fragment indicating team members or participants in a late edition summary.
Benefit Party by Naomi Chapter Eastern Star
Nearly one hundred attended a charity event at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beavers on McGraw avenue hosted by Naomi Chapter No. 12 Order of Eastern Star to raise funds for the international temple fund. Games at twenty four tables yielded two high score prizes for Mrs. Archie Bartlett and Arthur Yates with a consolation award to Mrs. L. O. Dotson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banco
Naomi
Order of Eastern Star
W. A. Beavers
McGraw Avenue
International Temple Fund
Archie Bartlett
Arthur Yates
L. O. Dotson
L. J. Loar
Virgil Rohrbough
Limit to draft age approved by Senate committee
Washington June 6 The Senate Military Affairs Committee approved an amendment to the selective service act authorizing the president to defer induction of draftees who have reached their twenty eighth birthday. The 6 to 3 vote backed the proposal with support from Gurney Johnson Holman Thomas and Bridges. Army officials cited younger men as preferred, but stressed no exemption for older draftees if crisis arose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Reynolds
D-N.c
Hill
D.-Ala
Kilgore
D.-W.va
Selective Service Bureau
Gurney
D.-N.d
Johnson
D.cole
Holman
R.-Ore
Thomas
R.-Idaho
Bridges
R.N.H
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Army
D.M.C
Retired B&O Employee Zalmon West Dies at 69
Zalmon Zed West aged 69, a retired Baltimore and Ohio railroad car repairman, died at his daughter Mrs. J. Vandercrift’s home in Grafton after a brief illness. He was a Garrett County native with five children, a brother and a sister surviving. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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Zalmon Zed West
Balmore and Ohio Railroad
Vandercrift
High Street
Garrett County
West
Charles A West
Mary V.hogan West
W. E. Argil
Moorefield
Harry West
Keyser
Myra West
Mountain Lake Park
Robert West
Vandergrift
Grafton
William West
Washington, D. C
Charles Jewell
G. T. Bartlett
Charleston Lawyer Named University Alumni Head
Morgantown June 6 Robert G. Kelly a Charleston attorney year 1923 was elected president of the West Virginia University Alumni association succeeding Raymond E. Salvati 1922 of Holden J French Robinson 715 of Cleveland Ohio was named first vice president Charles P Mead 1921 of Wheeling second vice president and Salvati James M Gusher of Clarksburg and William P Lehman of Fairmont as members of the executive board Salvati in the president s address spoke of the university s mineral industries building nearing completion and said it would provide the university with the finest equipment of its kind to be found anywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
Robert G. Kelly
Charleston
West Virginia University Alumni Association Today
Raymond E. Salvati
Holden
J. French Robinson
Cleveland, C
Charles P. Mead
Wheeling
Salvati
James M. Gusher
Clarksburg
William P. Lehman
Fairmont
Enrolled in Sheet Metal Course Under Defense Plan
Taylor County Board of Education reposts 27 students in a sheet metal training program to aid national defense. Located in the former I C McCue shop on East Main Street, the class is taught by Thomas Bolyard of Grafton High School industrial arts, with federal funds supporting the work. Sessions run 6 to 9 five nights weekly through June 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County Board of Education
I. C. McCue
East Main Street
Sept
E. G. Kuhn
Thomas Bolyard
Grafton High School Industrial Arts Department
Three Youths Escape Death In Auto Smash
Three Rowlesburg youths escaped a fatal crash on Route 72 near the C. M. Shaffer farm two miles south of Rowlesburg. The car, owned by E. A. Shatzer, left the highway, struck fence posts and a telephone pole, overturned, and burned. Riders were Wallace Shatzer, Charles Strawser, and Benny Shaffer. Strawser and Shaffer sustained head injuries and burns. Shatzer was uninjured. Police and local responders aided, with injuries not fully determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowlesburg
C. M. Shaffer
E. A. Shatzer
Shatzer
Wallace
Charles Strawser
Earl Strawser
Benny Shaffer
F. L. Shaffer
Geveral
Strawser
Bonny Shaffer
Shafzer
Communists Plan Offensive Against U S Defense Drive
Former national secretary Benjamin Gitlow testifies in New York City before the Rapp-Coudert committee. He says the Communist Party plans an offensive in the United States to thwart defense programs and is aiding Britain’s defeat, as the panel probes Communist influence in New York schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Party
Benjamin Gitlow
Rapp-Coudert Committee
New York City
U.S
Britain
New York
Hore Belisha Pushes Common Citizenship Across Anglophone Powers
Former war secretary Hore Belisha urged recognition of common citizenship by Great Britain the British empire and the United States as the core of a new democratic order. He called for a unified allied council to direct industrial and military effort, criticized Britain's Crete defense, and warned of repeated defeats and flawed explanations.
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Edinburg
Scotland
Hore- Belisha
Great Britain
British Empire
United States
Hore-Belisha
France
Britain
Natonal Association
Crete
Barboursville Road Contractor Passes
Huntington dispatch reports Harry Hatfield, 53, of Barboursville, a longtime road contractor in West Virginia, died from injuries after being crushed beneath a truck while supervising a Davis Creek project near Melissa. He sustained pelvic fractures and internal injuries en route to hospital.
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Huntington
Harry Hatfield
Barboursville
West Virginia
Melissa
Davis Creek
Dave Bailey Named Manager at Pure Oil Station
David J. Bailey, longtime Standard Garage salesman, becomes manager of the downtown Pure Oil station and storage garage. He will offer a full line of oil and gas, a large accessories stock, and continue selling new and used cars. The Pure Oil service and merchandise policy will be upheld by Bailey and his staff, inviting both old and new customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J. Bailey
Standard Garage
Pure Oil
Bailey
Mr. Bailey
Southern coal operators say they are up a tree
In White Sulphur Springs on June 6, Southern West Virginia coal operators told a district board they are up a tree over the mediation board's recommendation. The board urged a flat $7 basic wage for the Appalachian eight-state field and removal of a 40 cent wage differential. John L. Lewis was described as determined to close mines if demands fail. L. T. Putman of Beckley attended the session to discuss the coal situation.
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White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia
National Defense Mediation Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Mediation Board
Washington
Appalachian
L. T. Putman
Beckley
New York
UMWA
Producers Board
District 8
Louis Chevrolet Dies After Poor Health Years
DETROIT June 6 Louis Chevrolet pioneer motorcar designer and famed racing driver died at his home after years of ill health and a decade in retirement. He was born in Switzerland December 25 1878 and set a 52.8 second world record for a measured mile at Sheepshead Bay in 1905. His greatest achievement was designing two consecutive Indianapolis speedway winners in 1920 and 1921, the first driven by his brother Gaston and the second by Tommy Milton.
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Detroit
Louis Chevrolet
Chevrolet
Switzerland
Sheepshead Bay
New York
Indianapolis Speedway
Gaston
Tommy Milton
Unemployment Figures Prompt Manager Skepticism Over Pitcher Roles
Despite falling unemployment, Zadok Dumbkopf questions why many big league managers label their hurlers as relief pitchers. He notes confusion over roster usage amid broader economic signals.
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Zadok Dumbkopf
Plea to raise home canning plantings in Talgor county
County Agent Carroll R. Hawkins announces a plea to increase vegetable plantings in Talgor County to prevent shortages of canned goods due to the war. He cites Washington’s signals that tomatoes beans corn and peas may be scarce this year and urges home canning to keep families supplied amid a possible England need and rising health costs. Hawkins also notes the West Virginia Extension's Feed the Family First program and urges homemakers to boost canning to maintain balanced diets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talgor County
Carroll R. Hawkins
Washington
Hawkins
West Virginia’ Extension Organization
United States
England
Insects Dust Used On Vegetables Per County Agent
County agent endorses talkein i insects dust for all vegetables and says it is easy to apply and purchasable at most stores in Grafton. Grafton merchants offer cuprocide with rotenone to fight insects and disease on potatoes tomatoes and melons, effective against leaf hoppers potato beetles and other pests reducing yields. For more information visit the county agent at the federal building for gardening bulletins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Federal
Taylor Co. Boys Attend Jackson's Milk Six at Boys State
Six Taylor county youths participate this week in Boys State at Jackson's Mill Four-2 camp. Reported as enjoyable and educational, with Wayne Daugherty of Grafton a member of the supreme court of the state and others including Paul Edward Hunt William Borneman Lewis W. Jones James Turper and John D. Vogel from the county taking part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Jackson's Mill
Wayne Daugherty
Grafton
Paul Edward Hunt
William Borneman
Lewis W. Jones
James Turper
John D. Vogel
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Business Girls
W. C. Raddant
Pittsburgh, Pa
H. Humphries
H. H. Hefners
Thayer Street
Raddant
Mrs. Hefner
Helen G. Fawcett
Park View
Ethel Messenger
Salem
Ohio
Tillie Bennington
Lisbon
Ohi
R. H. Johns
Faimont
P. A. Elliott
Akron
Joe Jones
William Jones
Chester
J. F. Brinkley
Weston
Prank | Lake
Genevieve Britton
Lucille Lake
Griff Wells
Lawrence Newton
Blanche Defenbaugh
Kenneth Defenbaugh
Wellsville
Frank Exline
Edna Exline
Ova Lake
Agen Veith
Fall Mills
Daisy Nye
Connellsville
Eugene Worth
Newark
Sheman Rice
Wharton
Mary Walls
Frank Tumley
Cumberland
Lulu Crow
Independence
E. M. Heaton
David L. Provance
Dale Provance
Richard Provance
Violet James
Youngstown
Alvey Jacobs
Walnut Street
Mildred Graham
Mary Currey
Christine Hufford
Mary Elizabeth Shafer
Martha Bartlett
Tillie Deegan
LaVerne Headley
Buckhannon
Anna Garrett
Washington Street
City Hospital
Kenneth Godwin
East Bluemont Street
Marsh
Leonard Street
Arts
Alice Brooks
Party of
Eastern Star
Beavers Home
Z. Z. West
Diamonds
Skaggs & Company
Bares Red
U. S
Dave Bailey
C.C. Richman General Insurance Room
Grafton Banking and ‘Trost Company
Pure Oil Station
West Main Street
Evans Hardware Company
Primrose
Bert Utsinger
Ethel Street
Francescole Permanents
Taylor Co
Jackson's Milk
Dal
California
Chuck
Pest
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