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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
3
The Grafton Business Girls club enjoyed a social outing with a weiner roast at the Grafton Dam park. Members gathered for a relaxed afternoon, sharing conversation and refreshments in a community club setting.
No regular business session was held as games and social conversation provided the main diversion. Those present were Maxine and a list of attendees not fully visible in the excerpt.
A sequence of names including Thelma DeMoss Cockrell Helen Gerkins Evelyn Greene Mary Jean Grinnan Josephine Haddix Clara Jean Kines Arlean Moore Marjorie Newcome Frances Proudfoot Gwendolyn Proudfoot Elizabeth Rendle Virginia Rosier Helen Shomo Gloria Squires Virginia Stine and Ellen Jane Wiseman listed in a historical notice segment.
Daily program runs June 6 to 17 from 9 30 to 11 30 a m at Andrews and St Johns Methodist churches Monday through Friday with activities for children and youth.
Miss Mary Jane Wagner and Leslie Lowe were married in a double ring ceremony at the Oakland Maryland Methodist church on June 11 at 11 30 a m. The bride wore a white street length dress with a sweehart neckline and white accessories with a pink rosebud corsage. The groom is employed at a steel mill in Weirton and the couple reside at 118 North High Street Steubenville Ohio.
Dorotha Whitman of Fairmont will address the Women’s Missionary Society of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Mrs. R. M. Parrish’s Brownlow Park home Friday at 8 pm. She will report on the Lutheran convention held in Jackson Mill in May. Mrs. Charles Isney will lead the lesson. church ladies are invited to attend.
Rever end and Mrs. W. D. Fitzgerald with family from Swanton Ohio stay with Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Loar at 7 East Knotts avenue. Mrs. R. E. Krucklin Philadelphia Mrs. L. E. Hodges Winston Salem NC and Mrs. John H. Car rico and son Johnny return home after weekend with Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Baker of the Clarksburg Grafton road and their grandmother of Ellenboro who is seriously ill. Jerry Dennison and wife from Santiago California visit Mrs. Casey Jones of 251 West Main Street yesterday. Donald Rogers of Columbus Ohio visits his sister Mrs. Herbert Fornash Jr. of West Main Street yesterday. Homer M. Parsons Sr. of Kingwood hospitalized.
A Grafton resident lies at Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown with a broken back after an accident at home. In Kingwood, Taylor County’s former infirmary superintendent, Mr Parsons, is noted locally. Lt J Franklin Abel Jr. visits Philadelphia relatives during a ten day vacation from the University of Philadelphia.
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