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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
2
Why Camel cigarettes are presented with unique flavor and blend of Turkish and domestic tobaccos. The ad claims Camels are smoother with no aftertaste or odor and urge smokers to compare puff-for-puff to any cigarette. Ends with R J Reynolds Tobacco Co Winston-Salem NC.
Mrs A C Carroll of Columbus Ohio visits with her daughter at Mrs Bernard Hoffmans while Mr Pittman sails to Shanghai to manage a business for three years. A Red Cross pharmacist moves his family to a summer cottage. Shriners train passes through with ornate cars en route to Portland Oregon for national convention. Many local residents and visitors appear in this society column with theater, church, and school notes.
The American Federation of Labor calls for a congressional probe into alleged outrages by coal interests in West Virginia. Governor Cornwell is condemned for failing to protect citizens as 40,000 miners remain barred from joining unions. Detected gunmen and mobilized Baldwin-Felts agents threaten peace in Mingo and McDowell counties. John L. Lewis urges support for the probe as labor leaders weigh political moves versus the GOP.
Inaptly aged 20 year old Robert Nex Arble drank carbolic acid in a south side home after an apparent struggle with despair. His wife of sixteen and her mother alerted Dr Shafer. Arble died within minutes. Coroner and prosecutor deemed the death a suicide. The couple, married January at Oakland Maryland, had lived with her parents. He had faced job setbacks after a railroad employment rejection due to a speech impairment. Local notes recount a late night scene at the Kehrer home and an ominous warning from the dying man.
The West Virginia State Court of the Daughters of Isabella opened with a high mass at the church of the Immaculate Conception and a series of ceremonies in Clarksburg. Delegates from fifty cities attended, with Mayors and Knights of Columbus members speaking. New state officers were elected, including state regent Mrs. Nagle Lear and state secretary Mrs. Al. L. McGraw, among others, and a delegate to the national convention was named.
Mrs. Fimner Hart and Mrs. Ardis Gardner of Tea county start a pleasure tour this May 11 aboard which is described as The House on Wheels. Fitted with two cots a living room kitchen and an extra cot and tent for a third party they travel toward Wheeling via the National Highway with Elmer Hart, an agriculturist and feature writer for the Lowell Michigan Journal.
At a two day session of the Protected Home Circle of West Virginia in Fairmont, Charles F. Hannon of Grafton was elected grand vice president and Grafton itself was named as the next biennial Grand Circle meeting site in 19. The Grafton circle sent more than forty members to the session, with several taking prominent roles in proceedings. Officers elected include J. Earl Shulver Morgantown as grand president and Ella Stamtya Wheeling as grand secretary, among others.
In Cumberland Maryland on June 10 a traveling craft described as a wooden housing five by six feet with windows and a door like a small shed is mounted on a Ford automobile. The unusual vehicle is said to be en route from Inon County Michigan to Kansas, drawing attention as it moves along the traveling road.
Alumni of St Augustine high school gathered at the Willard hotel for a banquet. About thirty members attended as Mary M Welch presided and Francis Hehnert responded. The program featured Rev William Lee, Miss Clara C Korte, Miss Braty For cello, and Rev J P McKernan, ending with lingering reminiscences of school days.
In Chicago on June 10 the Georgia faction led by Henry Lincoln Atlantanegra and Lowdon supporter announced Johnson had been elected nations committeeman with fourteen of seventeen votes. Pickett followers planned a meeting to challenge Johnson’s reelection claims. Marguerite Thayer returned home after graduating with honors from Oxleyan College.
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