Birthday celebration at West Main home for Mrs Wallace Henderson
Mrs Wallace N Henderson hosted friends at their West Main Street home for her husband Mr Henderson’s birthday observance. A refreshment course was served by Mrs Henderson with help from her daughters. High bridge score went to Shay, and Marty Friedman was low scorer. Other attendees included J M Raley, Francis L Warder, O Junk, Luther T Hodges, Paul B Malone, and J S Palmer. Monday Fidelis club met at Miss Kathryn Shepherd’s Beech Street home for its regular session with routine matters. Mes Hilzebeth Hanley helped serve refreshments. Members listed include Mrs Harold Bebendarfer, Mrs Milzebery Mahaffey, Mrs Rena Goodwin, Mrs TA Bolyard, Mrs Emma Morgan, Mrs J M Hamilton, Mrs Reha Pisher, Mrs P J Smit Vander, Miss Nell Haslup, and Mrs Elizabeth Gilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace N. Henderson
West Main Street
Shay
Marty Friedman
J. M Ralee
Brancis L. Warder
Ds. O. Junk
Luther T. Hodges
Paul B. Malone
J. 8. Palmer
Fidelis Club
Flrat
Presbyterian Church
Kathyrn Shepr Fer
Beech Street
Msg
Hilzebeth Hanley
Bhevler
Harold Bebendarfer
Milzebery, Mahaffey
Social Calendar Highlights From March Church Events
March events from First Baptist First Presbyterian U B and Andrews church communities list meetings at homes and churches. Activities include Young People groups Lady Aid and Garden Project programs plus bake and apron socials and a True Blue Workers anniversary banquet with members and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Missionary Society of the First
Hook
Ladies Aid Society
U. B
O. A. Jenkins
White Street
Woman's Club
Mildred Keefer
Beech Street
Woman's Benefit Association
Redmen’s Hall
Woman's Club Public Welfare Department
Elks Home
G. F. Shafer
Ladies’ ' Gid
Andrews Church
Organization of the True Blue Workers of the First Baptist Church
C. H. Deem
Young People's Department
Leona Rosenshine
Baltimore
Nellie Brown
Bernita Brown
Dorothea Crawford
Charlene Haynes
Virginia Stout
Mary
Virginia Sandsbury
Helen Tumér
Alice Hill
Mildred Jones
Hospital Discharges and Ailments Reported in City
Anné Barlow of Howesville was discharged from City hospital on Wednesday. Mrs Ethel Riinner returned home in Evansville after a hospital confinement. Mrs Margaret Barnes recovering at home in Blueville after months of illness. Marion D Allenders critically ill at his home in Blueville. Anné is a surgery patient at City hospital. Edwin Pratt of route 3 received surgical attention at City hospital after a hip cut from a saw mill accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anné Barlow
Howessville
City Hospital
Ethel Riinner
Evansville
Margaret” Barnes
Blueville
Marion D. Allenders
Bluevile
Anné
Edwin Pratt
Route 3
Earnings Report For Grafton City Hospital February
Corrine Stafford superintendent reported to the city commission that the hospital earned 1092.05 for February with 547.30 from pay patients 166.25 from charity cases and 378.50 from compensation cases. Forty-one patients were admitted during the 28 day period with 38 discharged and 21 remaining as of March 1. Sixteen major sixteen minor and three obstetrical operations were performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton City Hospital
Corrine Stafford
Heeredt
Barclay on Bridge Warns Against Tuck and Bunched Trumps
A 1939 bridge article explains how an opponent’s bidding reveals long suits and warns players to read partner and opponents’ mouths for suit lengths. It covers a specific deal where South and North misread West’s five clubs and four diamonds, leading to a faulty contract and a failed defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pera
Doatér
Went
Thirid
Cuba
North
East
Manhunt For Filling Station Armed Bandits Underway
FAIRMONT March 2 Police conduct an extensive manhunt for two armed bandits who held up James W Allard at a local filling station last night. One entered and threatened him with a revolver while another man on a car running board covered him. About $10 was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
James W. Allard
Allard
Walter Downs
Suspect Gang Slaying In Killing of Two Men
In Bamoko, Pa two men were found shot to death in a car hidden in the woods. State police suspect a gang killing. One victim lay slumped over the steering wheel while the other was in the rumble seat. identities were not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bhamokin
Here
Former Ambassador Fined in Hanover Hit-Run Case
Dr. William S. Dodd former Ambassador to Germany was fined 250 and costs in Hanover Circuit Court after pleading guilty to a hit and run driving causing injury to a Black child. He had changed his plea from innocent to guilty at trial start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover Courthouse
William 8. Dodd
Germany
Hanover Circuit Court
Masquers Play Proves Hit At Court House Evening
An audience laughed and cried as Ten Nights In A Bar Room was staged at the court house auditorium. J Carrol Wyburn of the Federal Theatre project praised the cast led by Sam Mauller and Mary Ellers with notable turns by Ianmund Jacobs Leslie Crawford and Leslie Crawford. The Masquers plan two more plays this season and will initiate new members this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Carrol Wyburn
Federal Theatre Project
Timeis
Sam Mauller
Grunkard
Mary Eilers
Toiamund Jacobs
Haughs
Sample Switchel
T.ppler
Leslie Crawford
J. B. Dryfield
Grafton
Little ‘Theatre
John Rose
Rose
Lobis
Angelia Forcello
Mary Ellers
Edward Manning
Charles Barking
Joe Snider
Helen Lee Mantz
Edmund Jacobs
Last rites held for Maggie Armstrong in Bartley
Funeral services were held today for Maggie Armstrong 63 of Bartley who died at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welch
Maggie Armstrong
Bartley
Get Up Nights Nature's Danger Signal Ad
Four day test claims to stop night urination caused by kidney disorders or excess acids. States the product may soothe irritation leading to frequent or scanty flow and backache. Mentions 25¢ refund with purchase from Grafton Drug & Soy and Red Cross Pharmacy in Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Drug & Soy
Red Cross Pharmacy
Goodyear Zeppelin Bid To Build Navy Dirigible
The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation of Akron offered to build the Navy dirigible for 1,997,482 dollars and was the sole bidder. Detroit Aircraft Company declined to submit a formal bid, leaving Goodyear as the only bidder for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
Akron
Navy
Macon
Detroit Aircraft Corporation
Pittsburgh Rivers Recede After Flood Crest
Pittsburgh rivers receded this morning after a crest of 20 feet five inches at the downtown point where the Allegheny and Monongahela join to form the Ohio. Rain swollen tributaries fed the rise, but the drop began as subfreezing temperatures spread over the watersheds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Monongahela
Ohio
Ten Arrested in Police Raid on Eight Establishments
Bluefield March 2 Ten persons were arrested in a police raid on eight establishments after the city board of directors began a crackdown against lotteries and other gambling. The board threatened to revoke licenses of firms permitting the play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
City Board of Directors
Stranded Delights as Idol Idiots Delight hits Strand Theatre
Norma Shearer and Clark Gable lead a star studded cast in the screen version of Sherwood's Idiot’s Delight arriving for a four day Strand engagement. Cast includes Edward Arnold Charles Coburn Joseph Schildkraut Burgess Meredith Laura Hope Crewe Skeets Gallagher and more with Gable’s Glamour Girls adding musical numbers and dance. Milton and Milland star opposite each other in Men With Wings with Louise Campbell choosing between them in a dramatic aviation tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Shearer
Clark Gable
Robert Sherwood
Strand Theatre
Sherwood
Hunt Stromthers
Clarence Brown
Miss Shearer
Gable
Edward Arnold
Charles Coburn
Joseph Schildkraut
Burgess Meredith
Laura Hope Crewe
Skeets Gallagher
Peter Wiles
Pat Patterson
William Edmonds
Fritz Feld
Virginia Grey
Lorraine Krueger
Paula Stone
Virginia Dale
Joan March
Bernadene Hayes
Gabie
Hooster
The
Ritz
Men With Wings heads Dixie Theatre program
Paramount offers a Technicolor cavalcade of the air featuring Fred MacMurray Ray Milland and Louise Campbell at the Dixie starting next Sunday. The film traces aviation’s progress over thirty years with Campbell as the air minded woman who inspires plane building while MacMurray and Milland play two American pioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred MacMurray
Ray Milland
Louise Campbell
Paramount
Dixie Theatre
MacMurray
Milland
Miss Campbell
Hollywood
Wesley Ruggles
Claudette Colbert
Grafton Elks Sponsor Americanism Gathering
Grafton lodge No. 208 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks sponsors an Americanism meeting tomorrow night at Newsburg High School auditorium with J. Guy Allender as principal speaker. Local Elks meet at the Elks Home at 7 and travel by car to Newburg for the 8 o'clock session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Lodge No
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Newsburg High School
J. Guy Allender
Elks
Newburg
New Pope Pius XII Appears Before Vast Vatican Crowd
The crowd in St. Peter’s Square roared as Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was proclaimed pope and took the name Pius XII. He appeared on the balcony at 6 07 p m and, after blessing the throng, delivered Latin prayers while the faithful answered with “Amen.” The scene followed the official papal election and saw flyovers, guards, and a global radio broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papal
Minion
Order of Cardinal Deacons
Pacelli
Eugenio Pavelli
Pius 7
Order of Deacons
Pius XII
Aten
Pius XI
Vatican City
Pius XT
St. Peter's Square
Vatican
Granito
Pignatelli di Belmonte
Sistine Schapel
Augusto Milani
Consistorial Advocates
Carta
William O'Connell
Archibishop
Boston
Dennis Bobater
Archishop
Philadelphia
George Mundelsein
Chicago
Conclave to Choose Pius XI Successor Begins Voting
The 1922 papal conclave opened with cardinals filing into the Sistine Chapel for the first ballots as black smoke signaled progress. Cardinals O Connell, Bobarter, Mundelstein and others cast early votes amid strict secrecy and guarded entrances within the Vatican.
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Annabel
Swep
Swiisue
Entertains Church
Jimmy
Bluevilla
Association of Blueville School
Gly Allender
Allender
Bruce Willhide
Mary Brown
First Presbyterian
Willhide
West Washington
Ay Ap Miller
Eva. Love
BB. Cather
Elizabeth Handrey
John Miller
F. J. Talvander
Junior
Tutvander
B. J
Eamon
Elizabeth Handley
Ada Strauss
T.ws
Budrile Reinbaud
Dana’ Barker
2Ilier
John Mater
Binith
FB. Cather
Nell. Haslup
Eva “Love
Frank Floyd
John Muter
Tygart Dam
Annie Mogers
Wilds Jacobs
Lena Grob
Edis Fast
Edith Sayre
Mira Carroll Hawkins
Powell
Ephecca Kenner
Evelyn Watkins
Nina Mae Riggleman
Viola Brown
Dorothy Keener
George Loudensinger
Carroll Hawkins
Nora Poe
Emily Poe
Lou Poe
Katherine Lemmon
Nora Luzadder
Elabeth Watkins
Mattie Jacobs
Virgina Henderson
Ruby Thorn
Argyle Lucas
Florence Watkins
Lula Wilson
Lillie Colebank
Ada Jacobs
Lila Brown
Flora Rigeleman
Lula Carruthers
Montgomery
NTV
Haymona Comruseyell
Bertha Montgomery
George Loudenslager
Jackson's Mills
Barclay
Pau
Oblen
Aqaaa
Venier
Tne
Bessie Brown Koon
M&m Bank
Flo Leeds
Stillman
Michael
New York
John Metcalfe
Goodyear-Zeppeling
Bennett & Son
Main Street
Strand
Dixie
Grafton Elks
Aisa Cman
Ieee
Pinkkham
Cha
Yardley
London
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