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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
3
Society and club activity notes mention Miss Eldora M Bolyard with telephone contact 185. The brief item lists social engagements and community involvement without further details.
Mrs E H Smith announces the marriage of Paula M Smith to Bruce Jennings. They wed June 12 at 7 o'clock in the parsonage of West Main Street Methodist Church with Rev J B Staley officiating. Louise Smith cousin served as attendant. Family notes indicate the couple reside in Arizona.
A community chorus of forty two members from Grafton will present a concert tomorrow night at the First Baptist Church at 8 p m directed by Mrs Howard Lawson Repetition is by request of the performance given at Grafton high school on May 11 Mrs S T Seymour and Mrs Paul P Warden will provide piano accompaniment for the choir members and selections feature Miss Frances Leonard soloist The program includes many named chorus members and helper performers.
Members of the Needlecraft club were entertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Paul P. Warden at her Maple avenue home. A feature was a handkerchief shower for Mrs. A W. Dean ahead of her move to Weston. Hostess served a dessert course to Mrs. A W. Dean, Mrs. W. D. Sergent, Mrs. I. R. Jones, Mrs. Charles Carpenter, Mrs. Ray Withers Foster Schilt, Mrs. H. C John Howard, and an Englishman famed for fighting for prison cleanliness conditions.
Advertises a penetrating liquid treatment for athletes foot requiring strong solutions. Claims undiluted alcohol and a 90 percent alcohol product as the sole effective approach. Promotes a mobile remedy and urges purchase of 35 cents worth at Malone's drug store today.
June 14 meetings include Naomi Chapter 12 Order of Eastern Star at Masonik Temple 8 pm for initiation and officer elections. W C T U at First Baptist church 8 pm for flower mission service. Ladies of First Brethren at Red Cross Rooms 1 to 4 pm to sew for Red Cross. P H C at V F W hall 2 pm. June 15 Mrs L D Delaney hosts Weekly Sewing Club at her Blueville home 8 pm. June 15 Blueville Church of Christ ladies sew at Red Cross 1 to 4 pm.
The Fisher class of St. John's Methodist church met at the home of Mrs. Scott Burge on Market street with co hosts Mrs. Meredith Boylen Mrs. Alan Collins and Mrs. Fred Shaw. A brief business meeting followed and Mrs. Shaw received many gifts. Refreshments were served during the social hour to members and guests including Mrs. E. J. Johnson Mrs. Leon Proudfoot Mrs. C. J. Richman Mrs. John Hoskinson Mrs. Atwell Summers Miss Lillian Mershall and Mrs. Dewey Sloan along with Donald Shaw Robert Hoskinson and Junior Berg.
Members of the Country Club Farm Women's club met at the home of Mrs. J Ray Keener to discuss better breakfasts as the feature of the meet. Present were Mrs. M F Ables Mrs Clarence McDaniel Mrs J B Robinson Mrs E K Hunt Mrs Trixie Kiger Mrs Menear Ercell Knotts Laila Lingamfelter and Mrs Rose Boyce of Parkersburg. The next meeting will be at Mrs Waitman Lough's home.
The Alpha Mu chapter of Beta Sigma sorority will not meet at the First Baptist Church tonight at 7:30. The group will reconvene next Thursday night at the church.
Charles W Courtney of Blueville left this week for Front Royal Virginia to work in a defense plant. Mrs Frank Wolfe of Morgantown returned home after visiting here with her mother Mrs W A Spaur of Kirby Street.
Readable fragments mention Sis Golie Conrad in Winchester and Morgantown residents at City hospital, with notes on minor surgeries and new patients. The text references Opal Loar and a chalk line anecdote about Mark Twain, plus a Halifax Gazette lineage from 1752.
Rationing roundup reports the Office of Price Administration implementing new price changes in Groups 1 and 2 stores across Brooke Doddridge Hancock Harrison Lewis Marion Marshall Monongalia Ohio Taylor Tyler and Wetzel counties. Prices include cantaloupes 11 cents per pound peaches 18 cents watermelons 6 cents and Arizona fruit 13 cents per pound.
Prices listed for field grown cucumbers at twenty one and a half cents per pound and lettuce heads at sixteen cents per head with a one cent increase noted. The figures reflect recent market quotes for fresh produce.
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