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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1934
Page
6
An advertising feature praises Kruschen Salts for fat loss and renewed vitality. A testimonial from Edna Hunn claims weight loss of 30 pounds after using the product for a month. The ad touts a four week jar at low cost and urges readers to take half a teaspoon in hot water each morning.
Funeral services were held in Bartlett Funeral home for Mary E Kirk three month old daughter of William and Dolly Randall Kirk who died after a three week illness. Rev Perry J Null officiated and burial followed at Bethel cemetery near Maple Run Preston county. In Rosemont Flavius Baxter Haller 19 merchant and farmer died of a heart attack. Final rites at his home were led by Rev Herbert Bowen with Odd Fellows Masonic lodges assisting and pallbearers named Fred Kelley Brant Bailey Holbert Frum Ro.
Honorary pallbearers listed for Virginia Hazel Maley include Chesteen Frum W M Reed and Albert Frum. Services held at Riverside Methodist Church for Maley of 36 who died at home after intestinal cancer with burial at Pritchard cemetery Barbour county. Elsworth L Powell 67 funeral at his Thornton home. stroke on prior Saturday. He was a longtime Thornton Fire Brick Company employee with burial at Payne cemetery.
Directors of the organization listed include Charles Bolyard Michael Murray J Walters Jr Curtis Lambert E O Waugh Lee Bennett Jr E Bailey Wyckoff the present president F M Hollis Joseph L Evans Jr Crawford Compton C W and others continued from page one.
The seller promotes a full range of tackle for bass fishing including flies rods nets lures and related equipment. The catalog emphasizes variety and readiness for anglers seeking all necessary gear in one source.
Phillips and Abe Tackett preside as a committee to audit the trade association accounts named by President Wyckoff, with S. J. Walters Jr and Lee Bennett to report at the next meeting. Officers for 1934 35 will be elected July 11 at a directors meeting. Wyckoff will announce the venue. Sheriff Bennett jokes about a small state grant and Taylor county tax collection records.
The article notes a provision from the last legislature allowing payment of a premium of one and a half percent on delinquent tax amounts. It discusses how much should be paid and the timing before delinquency dates.
The appeal of Circuit Judge Herbert W. Dent's ruling in Taylor county circuit court to dismiss Rosa B. Poe's bill to set aside a deed to Herbert, Harrison and Ollie Wolfe on fraud grounds was noted by plaintiff's counsel J. Guy Allender. Judge Dent's decision was handed down this morning and Allender indicated plans to appeal. Jed W. Robinson represented the defendants.
Robert C. Sutherland 52 of 310 Barrett Street South Side died at City hospital at 9:50 PM yesterday after a four year illness. A Baltimore & Ohio Railroad locomotive engineer on the Monongah division he previously served as fireman. Survived by wife Florence Blake and children Andrew Herbert William and Mrs H L Goodwin plus siblings Sherman Fanny and Jennie. Funeral Saturday at Bartlett Funeral Home with Rev Samuel C. Jones officiating. burial Bluemont Cemetery.
James Walker 61 of Barbour county is jailed here on assault and battery charges involving Mrs. Martha Mayle 63 of near Philippi. Mayle says Walker, a boarder at her Flatwoods home, visited Minnard last weekend, drank moonshine and beat her. The warrant was issued in Barbour county. Walker is to have a hearing time set. Downtown Atlanta buildings overlie a creek that runs underground.
The West Main Street Methodist Vacation Bible School closes Friday at 8 pm with an inviting program. The school held a picnic at Evans Grove and reports total enrollment of 43 with profitable work accomplished.
Parents invited to attend a Vacation Bible School exhibit and program at St Pauls Methodist Episcopal church Thayer Street tomorrow at 8 pm. Handiwork by students to be shown and a short address planned. Sponsored jointly by St Pauls and First Church of Christ. Cumberland June 28.
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