Birthday Surprise and Social Gatherings in Grafton
In Grafton on June 11 1937 groups hosted celebrations for local residents. Mr H L Potts estate hosted a birthday party with bridge prizes won by Mrs J S Palmer and J Casseday and a buffet lunch served by Mrs Potts and aides. The Longacre kitchen shower honored Mr and Mrs Donald Longacre with gifts, movies, music, and refreshments at East Main street. Bankers from Group 6 attended a Clearing House banquet at Hotel Morgan with toastmaster C Jay Fleming and speaker Avery Chisler. Junior Presbyterian classes were entertained at Loretta Browns Beech street home with games, a spelling match and a talent show won by Betty Ridenous.
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Walnut Street
H.L. Potts
J. 8. Palmer
J. ¥. Casseday
A. A. Holt
Harold L. Noble
Charles M. Wells
John S. Palmer
Potts
H. L. Potts
First Church of Christ
Donald Longacre
Kathleen Gatrell
J. Lee Evans, Jr
Albert Veyon
Arthur Veyon
Charles Wilson
Bruce Brown
Beryl
J. Lee Evans
Ben, Wilson
P. H. Gull
James Gull
Arnold Robinson
Myrtle Jennings
Bankers Banquet
The
Clearing House Association of West Virginia
Hotel Morgan
Morgantown
C. Jay Fleming
Avery Chisler
Collumbus
Ohio
Presbyterian Church
Loretta Brown
Beech Street
Miss Brown
Glenn Brown
Betty Ridenous
Social calendar items list club meetings and parties
June 14 schedules include the B and O Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary meeting at the V F W hall with bingo. a D A R meeting at Mrs W N Burdett's West Main Street home at eight p m with flag chairman. Quota club in the Red room with prize details and a plate lunch by Mrs Brown. Modern Girls host Miss Grace Daugherty on Washington Street for music games and refreshments. Good Fellowship club hosts Pruntytown Industrial School staff social with 125 attendees, square dancing and refreshments. B P U program at the Baptist church led by Thomas Shafferman covers Going the Second Mile with speakers and plans for Clarksburg rally June 17. Grafton attendees noted and union banner won by Grafton in April.
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B. and O. Veterans
V. F. W. Hall
West Main Street
W. N. Burdett
Quota Club
Grace Daugherty
Modern Girls Club
Washington Street
Miss Daugherty
Ra Ann Barlow
Mary Catherine Cannon
Valta Daugherty
Jo Clair Lally
Constance Limbers
Catherine Reed
Alice Reed
Rita Jean Sorge
Veronica Turner
Wallace Carr
Wayne Daugherty
John Daugherty
James Sally Clifton Gurd
Frank Stevens
Nicholas Sidrow
George Vogel
Good Fellowship Club
Pruntytown Industrial School
New Barn
Cozy Rest
Grafton
Bridgeport
Fairmont
Clarksburg
The
Baptist Church
Thomas Shafferman
Jesus
Ray Poling
Frances Proudfoot
Cecil Daugherty
Mildred Prickett
Elkins
Joseph Snyder
Grafton Union
Rally Schedules Soon as Attendance Urged
B Y P U rally set for Sunday to plan turnout at the event. The long report details housekeeper Mrs. Kuprianoff’s statements linking Alex Kuprianoff to her 11 year old son Roy and to a missing wife, with police questioning continuing into dawn. A ransom note demanding $25,000 was reported as part of the growing abduction case.
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Anna Kuprianoff
Parsons
Kuprianoff
Para
Henry
Alex Kuprianoff
Match Factory
Arata
Roy
Kupriancof
Kim
New York City
William H. Parsons
Alice
Local residents visit, graduations, and hospital procedures
Mrs. Alice Pickett of Dayton and Mrs. Alice Chamberlain of West Washington are visiting relatives in town while Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lowther attend Baptist Missionary Training School graduation activities in Chicago. Regina Lowther is set to receive a degree on June 15. Children Madge Shingleton, Marion Laulin, Cecil Nicola, Thelma Landon, and James McCracken are listed as patients undergoing or having undergone tonsil or minor operations at City hospital.
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Alice Pickett
Dayton
Ohio
Alice Chamberlain
West Washington Street
E. E. Lowther
Luzadder Street
Chicago
Baptist Missionary Training School
Regina P. Lowther
Madge Lee Shingleton
Fetterman
Jim Shingleton
City Hospital
Marion Laulin
Moatsville
Cecil Nicola
Fred Nicola
East Bluemont Street
Thelma Landon
James McCracken
Irish Volunteers With Franco to Return Home
Six hundred thirty Irish volunteers who have fought for Francisco Franco on the Madrid front will sail back to Dublin next week. They are to depart from Lisbon aboard a Portuguese vessel, according to an authoritative source.
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London
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Dublin
Lisbon
Barclay on Bridge Lessons on Leading Trumps
In Barclay on Bridge for Central, Barclay guides beginners on when to lead trumps versus discarding. The lesson stresses leading trumps early to avoid doom, discarding diamonds from dummy when possible, and planning play to handle a club ruff. A sample deal shows South facing 4 Hearts after a 1C 1H sequence.
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South
Bridge puzzle how to make 4 Spades after 1H bid
East opens 1 Heart and South lands in 4 Spades after West leads the heart queen. To make by South, plan a long spade and heart play, setting up entries and finessing. Use a safe line avoiding immediate loss of tricks while counting and cashing winners.
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West
East
South
Three-Fourths of State Counties Have Fatalities
Charleston June 12 The highway safety division of the State Department of Public Safety reports that over three quarters of West Virginia counties recorded highway fatalities in the first five months of 1937. Forty-two people were killed in May, fewer than in May 1936, and fatalities for January through May were 42 higher than the same period in 1936. Counties with no deaths include Marion Summers Jackson Ritchie Webster Tyler Monroe Calhoun Gilmer Hardy Morgan and Pleasants.
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Charleston
State Department of Public Safety
West Virginia
Marion
Summers
Jackson
Ritchie
Webster
Tyler
Monroe
Calhoun
Gilmer Hardy
Morgan
Pleasants
Tugboats Attempt to Free Battleship on Shoals in Bay
In San Francisco Bay a flotilla of about a dozen tugboats crowded around the 32,300 ton Battleship Tennessee, straining to dislodge her from a shoal during high tide. It marks a second failure in 24 hours, as the warship ground her nose into mud flats off Alameda while maneuvering to anchor near Man O War Row after arriving from Bremerton Navy Yard.
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San Francisco
Tennessee
San Francisco Bay
Alameda
Man
Bremerton
Wash
Navy Yard
Air Afrique Reports Earhart Resting in Africa
Paris dispatch says Air Afrique reports Amelia Earhart resting at Fort Lamy French Equatorial Africa before resuming her round the world flight toward Khartoum in Anglo Egyptian Sudan. No word yet on a morning take off as her equatorial route across Africa continues.
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Paris
Air Afrique
Amelia Earhart
Fort Lamy
French Equatorial Africa
Khartoum
Sudan
Air Company
Equator
Africa
Ex Deputy Hawkins Dies in Fairmont Funeral Rites
Funeral services were held today for Edward L. Hawkins 55 former deputy sheriff of Marion county and former federal prohibition agent before repeal.
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Fairmont
Edward L. Hawkins
Marion County
Sea Devils Drama Shows Coast Guard Rescue Heroic Duty
In the RKO Radio romantic drama Sea Devils Victor McLaglen Preston Foster and Ida Lupino lead a cast that follows courageous Coast Guard crews rescuing passengers from a burning ship and later saving those aboard a hurricane battered vessel Donald Woods supports as the key cast.
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Victor McLaglen
Preston Foster
Tha Lupino
RKO Radio
Courageous Coast Guard
Charleston Man Robbed in Pittsburgh After Restaurant Meeting
James Beard of Charleston West Virginia told police two men beat him at a Pittsburgh location and robbed him of 78 dollars after being lured there by a woman from a restaurant. He was taken to a hospital for head injuries.
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Pittsburg
James Beard
Crescent St
Charleston
W. Va
Beard
Fathers and Daughters and a Sailor in a Western Style Tale
Ida Lupino becomes entangled with Preston Foster a brash sailor as Bo’sun McLaglen pushes for his daughter to wed Coast Guardsman Donald Woods. Their feud sparks wild feuds and lively melodrama. McLaglen and Foster previously starred together in The Informer earning McLaglen an Oscar for best male performance in 1935.
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Ida Lupino
Preston Foster
Bo'sun McLaglen
Donald Woods
Foster
McLaglen
RKO
McLaglen Ganning
Honor Boughner Retires After 30 Years at United Supply
Welch June 12 Friends and business associates attended a dinner honoring Claude Boughner who retires after three decades as general superintendent of United Supply company.
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Welch
Claude Boughner
United Supply Company
Miss Kissick Resigns as Wheeling YWCA Secretary
Miss Mary Kissick, who moved from Long Island to Wheeling eight years ago, resigned as secretary of the Y W C A. Her departure ends an eight year tenure at the Wheeling branch.
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Wheeling
Mary Kissick
Long Island
The
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Charlotte Rendle
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Ruth Love
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Arthur Yates
Francis Garrell
Ed. Grayson
Brown
Dorothy Frey
Betty Mac Kincaid
Virginia Debendarfer
Helen Virginia Miller
Jean Hansen
Dorothy Hoban
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Ann Newham
F. J. ‘Ovander
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Central
Shepard
Ags
North
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Hearts
Opera House
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Grafton Crucal Company
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