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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
2
A parent counsels patience in guiding a child through sensational and vulgar paperbacks. The speaker urges keeping proportion and humor, tolerating earlier tastes, and letting a child learn independently while avoiding harsh judgment.
The listing details Saturday June 15 radio programs across New York Newark Cleveland and Atlanta with stations WEAF WJZ WHN WOR and more. Notable items include Phi Sphaing's Music The Cavalcade Nathaniel Shilkret Concert Orchestra and Bela Lugosi? Noted names include Ray A. Monroe, a former First National Bank teller, serving as relief teller for Oral J. Jones vacationing in Los Angeles for a Shriner’s convention.
The First United Brethren Church led by Pastor L. Postlethwait invites all to worship with regular services. Children will perform a Childrens Day program from 9:30 to 11:00 AM featuring recitations drills and a pageant with Junior choir. Evening services follow usual times with prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:45 PM.
The First Brethren announce a revival led by an evangelist starting Monday evening with a series of nightly topics including Man's Greatest Enemy and Pilate's Blunders. Sunday services on June 23 feature morning messages on The Second Coming of Christ. Public welcome.
The Church of Christ in Bluleville hosts 9:30 Bible study and 10:30 worship with the sermon A Zeal But Not According to Knowledge. Communion at 11:30, and 1:30 sermon Some of the Reasons Why I Am a Member. A Sunday welcome to all. Sunday School at 9:30 led by William Morgan Sr. Morning worship continues with songs and praise.
A fragment from a church notice invites the public to attend Sunday worship and Sunday school. It mentions Pastor M E M. Barlow and leader William H. Shaler, with sermon time around 10:30 and Sunday school at 9:15, encouraging those without a church to join.
Pauls M E B Workman pastor, 87, led church services at 209 Thayer Street West Side. The regular session of sun setting 30 Epworth League with Miss Helen Howell as first vice president in charge. Evening worship and prayer meetings Wednesday and Friday, choir to welcome strangers and visitors to worship.
Frank J. Tuvander leads morning worship at 10 30 with special choir music and floral decorations by the Brotherhood for Fathers Day. Sunday school at 9 30 with Robert F ove as senior superintendent and Mrs John W Ault as junior superintendent. Evening worship at 7 10. Vacation Church School sessions run daily except Saturday from 9 to 11 am with Bible reading singing stories games and handcraft. Choir rehearsal Wednesday at 7 30.
Warren M E P T Thomas pastorate announces church school at 9 30 with Mrs Hatlie Beaner as superintendent and Mrs Bertha Lewis as assistant, 7 00 Epworth League topic Who was the first colored man, bring Bible, 8 00 St Luke lessons 15 20 The wise and loving Pathér with choir music. Conference group to convene at Warren M E church from June 20 to July ? ministers and delegates from Parkersburg and others expected.
In New York the Thalian theater burned for the sixth and final time. News spread through Chinatown where stage stars Miss Lenn Po-Hing and Miss Lee Foy-Fong, renowned Chinese opera performers, mourned the loss of priceless costumes and jewels valued at tens of thousands. Police awakened actors in a Brooklyn dormitory as the fire sent shock and despair through the city’s theatrical community.
In New York, Mabel Walker Willebrandt departs amid jokes with Mayor Walker and hints she will return for a new air traffic system. Newport News notes Mrs Muriel Vanderbilt Church driving a coach and four and planning a July 4 public drive. The Thalia theater, once Bowery’s landmark, burned. its Chinese dramas are gaining popularity as the theater shifts toward modern works like Nothing But the Truth and Tang Ming Twong.
James Foy, who sustained a severe arm injury the day before Decoration, underwent surgery and hopes to recover in time for camp. Boy Scouts will assist the Salvation Army drive for funds with Captain Arnold’s collection Tuesday afternoon at 2.
Marion County Historical Society hosts an open meeting at the Capt Booth school near Monongah. Patrons bring historic objects and collectors display powder horns, ceremonial stones, and rare volumes like McWhorter borders works. Notables include Leeper, Hobert, Wadeworth, and McWhorter.
In Stamboul Turkey a beggar’s tattered coat yields nearly eight thousand dollars. The city of five thousand beggars is noted for cries such as May God grant you a pretty husband and May you live forever with the one you say. In Himes France a tipless barber shop run for a year operates for Communist wives and daughters. Newark New Jersey American hoboes plan to send an ambassador to Europe, Nicholas Klein authorized to discuss jungle facilities in European seaports.
Kiwanis troop assisted the state Christian Endeavor convention at the Methodist Protestant Church and joined the American Legion Drum Corps in flag day ceremonies. They are preparing for a July Deep Creek Lake camp near Oakland, with Karl Nazim organizing schedules and a radio installation planned. Woodrow Squires and Leon Werber will accompany the scenemaster to the camp site next week to arrange details. A first aid class is set for Tuesday nights and several scouts aim to qualify before camp. The troop has extended its scout room to Earl Hughes and his group through the hospitality of Hotel Bien Avon Partners.
A scrambled report lists events from Santander to Washington. Highlights include a fuel depleted stowaway on Yellow Bird near L ibre Beach, Berlin barring American films, Hoover congratulating Doubergue on aviator feats, a Bradenton medical student slain in Florida, and a 1929 surplus estimate of over 100 million. Multiple arrests, indictments, and a postal appointment dispute appear in brief items from across the globe.
Fragmentary data shows numerous numbers and month names with several misspellings such as Juary and Getoda. The readable items include June August September November December and several large numeric values likely monetary or volumetric figures. No coherent event or subject emerges.
Spate history notes that Nicholas County bears a name linked to Wilson Gary Nichol a Virginia governor 1414 to 1837 based on a misread. Wheeling is thought to derive from a Native word meaning place of head or from missionary name Whelan. St Marys became a town in 1881 and Pocahontas County is named for the Indian princess who saved John Smith making it the third largest county in the state.
Analysis of fiscal year fuel taxes shows monthly collections from July to June varied, with figures ranging from about 241,744 to 455,105 dollars. Cumulative gasoline consumption rose from 4.875 million gallons in 1924 to about 10 million in 1928, while tax rates per gallon advanced from 2 to 4 cents, yielding higher totals despite monthly fluctuations. The August sales indicated excess demand, making it the peak month for gasoline purchases during 1928.
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