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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1928
Page
4
The Grafton Daily Sentinel prints its publication details, rates by carrier and mail, office addresses, and advertising terms including two cents per word for classifieds and late-day composition charges. It notes Associated Press affiliation and submission deadlines for notices and ads.
A mixed column reflects on Easter Bible thoughts and parental heritage, then surveys political events from Kansas City to Houston. It notes Amelia Earhart's historic ocean flight, political conventions upcoming, and state efforts to ensure safe drinking water for travelers, plus a plea for defending sheep farmers against roaming dogs.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher urged University of Kansas graduates to face nerves as a central modern issue. She argued solitude and silence vanished from life and the generation must adapt its nerves to new conditions or risk a disastrous outcome.
The piece contrasts leisure shifts in modern society with a passion for peril. It cites Mount McKinley and Mount Everest as magnets for risk takers, noting a relentless human drive for challenge beyond wealth or comfort and the lure of cold, loneliness, and danger.
Americans head to Canada and Canadians south in a flag dispute that spurred border cities to seek a Dominion flag law. The Prime Minister suggested discussions with Washington may yield results, stressing courtesy in the flag display. In Canada, the Dominion flag should fly at the masthead with the American flag nearby.
A fragment discusses flag display etiquette across borders with a light tone on Dominion and American flags. It then reports the Radium Cases settlement where five dying workers receive $10,000 each by June 11, plus pensions, medical expenses, and legal fees covered, praised as humane. Also includes a poem titled Ode to the Child by W. W. McDaniel urging duty to protect children.
Mexico City June 18 The Excelsior reports the Hague tribunal appointed Professor My Lindball formerly of the University of Copenhagen as arbiter of the Mexican American claims commission. He succeeds Rodrigo Octavio who resigned after the Santa Isabel decision, with Dr C VanVilenhoven also withdrawing. The two governments referred selection to the Hague court. Lindball is former Danish minister of justice and now vice president of the International Law Association.
Coast guards seize the ocean going tug Halcyon and a cargo of champagne valued at about 100000 dollars at bootleg prices as the craft docks. The crew escaped. The report hints at possible presidential considerations amid the crackdown.
Washington June 18 Brice M Mace Jr of Lebanon Tennessee was named trade commissioner at London by Dr Julius Klein head of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce Mace formerly managed the commerce department Kansas City office
William Bruner received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown Conn on June 18. Bruner serves on the Ohio State Commission for the Blind, reflecting interuniversity recognition of his work.
In West Palm Beach, the First American and Citizens banks failed to open today. A Kelsey City State Bank near West Palm Beach also shut its doors. Officials cited state banking actions and measures to prevent a run to protect depositors.
D A Rees of Parkersburg was elected president of the West Virginia conference Seventh Day Adventists encampment. Other officers named include C M Padon as secretary and treasurer, A G Drott as field missionary secretary, and Clary M Schunk of Charleston as secretary of the medical department.
A farmer's son from Wolf Hollow and Constable W Mack were shot and seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire yesterday. Black, hospitalized in Welch, allegedly opened fire when officers went to arrest him for pistol possession.
Altitude Captain St Clair Street, once the personal pilot to Major General Mason M Patrick and long associated with Wright Field Dayton, works on a plane for a bold ascent aiming to break a world altitude record amid uncertain conditions and experimental gear.
Chicago reports Benjamin Black and six associates pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition act for diverting thousands of gallons of government permitted alcohol into bootleg channels. Federal Judge Fred L. Wham deferred sentence pending trial of three other defendants as Black allegedly paid Roy O. Swanson of Shirley Laboratories to withdraw 40,000 gallons of alcohol.
The West Virginia Transportation Company of Clarksburg has filed with the State Road Commission of West Virginia for a certificate of convenience to operate motor vehicles for compensation between Fairmont Grafton and Tay SC counties in Marion and Taylor. A hearing will be held at the State Road Commission office in Charleston on July 11, 1928 at 10:00 A M.
Notice states Monongahela Transport Company of Fairmont West Virginia filed with the State Road Commission for a certificate of convenience to operate motor vehicles for transportation of passengers for compensation from Grafton via U S Highway 50 to the West Virginia Maryland state line east of Aurora in Taylor and Preston counties. A hearing will be held at the State Road Commission office in Charleston West Virginia on July 10 at 10 oclock A M. Applicant. June 18.
In Taylor County by first Monday June 1928 Edyth Hart petitioner seeks divorce from Nathaniel Hart. Defendant not resident of state must appear within one month after first publication to protect interest. Publication ordered in Grafton Sentinel. Clerk FRANK M. HOLLIS Jr. James C. Holt attorney. June 4 11 18 25. Notice of Hear Company of Fairmont seeks certificate to operate motor vehicles between Fairmont and Grafton in Marion and Taylor counties West Virginia for transportation in Monongahela.
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