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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
2
Christopher Columbus Crow faces a playful trial on a porch as Willy Nilly acts as judge. The jury of ducks, bears, rip the dog decide the crow's fate after a mischievous act of stealing silver to satisfy his fondness for shiny things.
Rip exclaims that Christopher Columbus Crow faces punishment if he refuses to surrender the reward. The proposed penalty would keep him prisoner in Top Notch's General Store for one full summer week and feed him only to sustain life. Crow shakes his head, preferring the loss of the reward to the punishment.
Mr and Mrs W A Warren of near Lost Run announce the marriage of their daughter Ellen Ada to Lloyd Thompson son of Mr and Mrs Waverly Thompson of Pennsboro The ceremony took place at Oakland Maryland on Saturday June 3 with the Rev S C Smith pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church officiating The couple will reside in Pennsboro where Thompson works at a filling station
A find employment campaign secured nearly two million dollars in pledges to renovate homes and buildings in Salt Lake City. The effort targets job creation through rehabilitation work, with participants promising construction and related trades employment.
A playful baseball scene unfolds with bat sounds and exclamations. The batter protests a pitch while the umpire calls strike one. Puff jokes about warming up and promising to show more, adding a lighthearted tone.
Oakland Calif June 23 A cooperative industrial group known as the Unemployed Exchange of Oakland or the U X A has grown to about 3000 members using moneyless economics. It runs an iron foundry portable saw mill stores commissaries dental and medical offices fruit dehydration and more with a barter currency based on points tied to gasoline wheat and alfalfa. An hour of labor equals 100 points and commodities are used as currency. The organization operates across Alaska to California and has sent emissaries to Mexico and Central America to trade reconditioned autos for coffee and dehydrated fruit.
The Eldership of the Church of God in North America voted to hold the quadrennial convention in Fort Wayne Indiana and to establish permanent headquarters in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Rev H R Donahan president of Findlay College appealed for 50000 dollars to pay the mortgage during the college fifty fifth anniversary year.
Charleston June 23 UP A series of probable changes in administering relief in the state was disclosed by acting public welfare director Francis W Turner. He said meetings of the state unemployment relief administration at the capitol will discuss plans and future policies and county welfare agents will meet in Clarksburg. Turner announced the state will receive federal relief funds as an outright gift starting July 1 with quarterly grants, and distributions to counties will proceed without altering county setups.
After three days of intense work on a code of fair competition the Smokeless Coal Operators Association adjourned. William G. Caperton of Charleston, president, said the code will be ready shortly for submission to President Roosevelt and his associates.
A fragment from a column reflects mothers who admit strong feelings for their children while noting the strain of constant togetherness. The piece hints at parental honesty about preference for space and independence within family life.
The passage reflects on the strain between a mother and child in modern city living. It argues cramped quarters and traffic heighten friction, forcing the mother to keep the child close and magnifying faults in both, worsening the emotional dynamic between them.
Urbana, June 23. The shy planet Mercury can be seen for a few evenings in early July low in the northwest at nightfall, a bright star near Venus. Mercury, the solar system’s fastest traveler, completes an 88 day orbit and appears at the eastern end of its swing, setting after the sun and remaining above the horizon until dark. It is the smallest bright planet, about 3100 miles in diameter, an airless lifeless world with extreme heat and cold.
A fragment discusses nursery schools offering a three hour daily program to recreate natural play and neighborhood companionship. It argues such environments protect children from spoiling and dependence on mothers, benefiting both child and parent by relieving friction and shaping personalities.
Charleston June 23 The attorney general’s office ruled that any expenses of the house of delegates investigating committee since adjournment of the legislature are invalid The house had appropriated 5250 from its contingent fund to support two more years of the committee headed by Delegate Rush D Holt The ruling said a joint resolution would have avoided questions but since it was not joint the appropriation is invalid The opinion concurred by Attorney General Homer A Holt notes the house could not appoint a committee to operate after adjournment and thus could not fund its expenses
Francis W. Turner, acting director of public welfare, announced that work relief payments in the state will be made in cash rather than by checks. The remark followed the arrest of five men on charges of conspiring to obtain Kanawha county relief funds illegally. The case reportedly concerns almost $10,000,000 in relief funds and involved forged relief requisitions cashed in a Charleston store. Ringleaders Russell Griffith, Reece Phillips, William Hamilton and Burgin Lattimer were ordered jailed for grand jury indictment. C. H. Crawford was released on bond.
Salem college release lists seventy nine students on the honor roll for the second semester ending in June. The report notes eighteen incomplete reclamation projects and references Western States. Two entries from Wyoming are mentioned.
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