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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1930
Page
7
The piece contrasts the old ideal of the perfect mother as wholly devoted to home with a modern view. It argues that today’s mother integrates her personality, pursues multiple interests, and values flexible, evolving standards in a world of rapid social and economic change.
On June 17 a deadly bootleg feud left three men dead and a fourth wounded at the Roxy Club owned by Ralph D Amico in Avery Island Louisiana. Joseph Dinato 40 alleged gun wielder Benjamin Deangilin 26 and Frank (unreadable) were killed after Dinato entered the club and fired on D Amico who then returned fire. A modern Garden of Eden on Avery Island La is noted for rare flowers imported from world wide sources by A E Mcllhenny.
Kathryn Crawford is gifted a house built by fifty chorus girls during the production Red Hot Rhythm at the Opera House. The home, lawn, trees, and fence were crafted while the film’s singers performed My Idea of Heaven. Alan Hale stars and Edward Jewell directed the set. Night show runs tonight and Wednesday with comedy and shorts.
Martinsburg auto crashes kill two and injure 12. Morgantown ends Pi Beta Phi convention. Morgantown firefighters quell a central business district blaze. Wheeling Mold and Foundry merges with Duquesne Foundry and Hubbard Steel Foundry. Moundsville prison trials for conspiracy to escape continue to October. Charleston Lucy Newberry defends state women’s singles title. Parkersburg fire causes $25,000 loss. Charleston trials in death of former nurse Mary Farrell set for July 8. Charleston Supreme Court grants appeal in Willamson bank case. Charleston July 1 hearing on tariffs for six eastern panhandle utilities. Webb-Jary Shepherd, 5, dies from gunshot wounds. Bluefield Kathleen Arnold sentenced to two years for post office embezzlement. German housewives promote rye bread to aid crop sales.
In Newburg on June 17 a would be robber trying to enter the Gustkey store at Independence was shot in the leg by C. E. Gustkey as a window was broken. The assailants fled on a freight train after earlier being seen around the area. Also listed are grand and petit jurors for the next Federal court term at Elkins with several Preston county residents among them.
Miss Harriet Annan of Fairmont State Teachers College spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. R. Annan. C Frank Ellis returned from Charleston after several days on business. Albert Frazier and son Richard visited Dr. F. D. Fortney at Hopemont Friday evening. Fred Shatterman of Cumberland visited his aunts Mrs. B. F. Harter and Mrs. C. H. Sharps. Mr. and Mrs. James Frazee of Gassaway were weekend guests of Mrs. Frazee’s parents, the Wrights, of Hierra. Joe Haldeman of Grafton was a business visitor Friday. Lib. B. McGinnis of Reno, Pa., visited Saturday with friends. his brother Late of Reno also here. M. C. Manear of Grafton called on friends Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Streets of Pittsburgh visited Mrs. Street’s parents, the Newcomes, Sunday. Bessie McCrobie returned from Westernport, Md., Saturday. Walter Barker and wife spent Saturday in Cumberland. Jess Shay and Walter Raven of Homestead, Pa., staying with Shay’s parents Zeke and Mrs. Shay in Independence.
Headless body of a man with hands and feet missing was dragged from the sanitary district canal at Lockport southwest of Chicago. Police said the victim may be a gangster who has vanished in recent months. Coroner officials noted the body had been weighted down for at least six months.
Elkins mayor W C Maxwell says about 20 000 acres in Roaring Creek and Middle Fork districts have been leased to gas development agencies after a large well in Upshur county near the Randolph county line yielded a rock cast of 1800 pounds and an explosion blew 250 feet of pipe into the air. Many local landowners have leased land and received rentals from 50 cents to 1 dollar per acre.
A man identified by initials in a hat and a registration card died after leaping or falling from the sixteenth floor of a Chicago hotel. His body was found in a third floor court. the man had no extra clothing or baggage and 38 cents was found in his room. The deceased was believed to be Morgan of New York City.
Officials of the Heinz company notified prohibition authorities that packing cases arriving at their Pittsburgh plant from Newark New Jersey contained liquor. Investigators found 40 cases of liquor believed to have been sent under the Heinz name to shield shipment. Prohibition agents suspect liquor runners intended to divert the liquor before delivery.
In Charleston on June 17, C. M. Beasley resigned as state capitol electrician. He is succeeded by M. F. Hoferer, engineer at the state house. Beasley will join the Riggs-Distler Company of Baltimore, which will install electrical equipment in the final unit of the capitol.
Manager Luther Ford of the National Limiteds announced the same lineup used against Weston last Saturday will play this Saturday against Storck Bread of Parkersburg. Ford noted Weston’s game here forced five players to stay home due to travel, whileStorck Bread, long organized and famed as a top semi pro team from Parkersburg, is expected to draw strong local interest and big crowds in Grafton.
Charleston July 17 announcement by State Superintendent William C. Cook states three judges will officiate Thursday at the West Virginia national contest to select the state's representative. The winner earns a scholarship funded by Thomas A. Edison. Judges named are Dr. Frank A. Gilbert Huntington professor of biology Marshall College C. A. Walworth Charleston and Dr. F. J. Altman Charleston chemists.
Portland Ore June 17 Nomination of a Republican candidate for governor of Oregon to replace George W Joseph who died yesterday was left to the Republican state central committee today Joseph entered the race after accusing Supreme court members of unethical interests in cages before the tribunal and was permanently dis barred by the court from practicing law in the state Joseph as a vindication candidate upset the Republican line up and defeated a field which included Governor A W Norblad
In Jerusalem district, three Arabs convicted of murders during last August’s riots were executed at Acre jail. The Arab executive, with church leaders, failed to secure a reprieve and a Palestine-wide strike was observed in protest. Shops closed and crowds demanded the bodies for private burial. Nearby Tennessee towns Big Sandy and Friendship show population stability since 1920.
Buenos Aires reports no trace of French aft mail pilot Henri Guillaumet after efforts since last Friday to cross the Andes from Santiago to Mendoza. Aero-Postal planes searched five times Monday across the mountain barrier with no result. Other items note larval parasites bred in Philippine laboratories to combat leaf-ming damage.
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