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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1926
Page
2
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The docket reveals Milton Budlong and wife Jessie Budlong amid unconfirmed reconciliation talk. Other cases include Bilsworth Bassett and Miss Corliss Palmer in alienation of affections suits. Mrs Brewster won $200,000 for alienation of affections. Also in mortgage and sheriff sale notices, T F Conaway seeks deed to West Rosemont property, with redemption details and costs listed.
Rescue teams struggled through debris in the No 5 mine after a blast entombed 11 workers. Two men escaped the gas by hiding behind a trap door while others remain missing as state inspectors and Red Cross rapid-response units coordinate aid, with a disaster response car arriving from West Virginia and a relief effort planned for families of the deceased.
Department of Mines reports a telephone talk with Chief M. Lambie at the disaster site. Lan Vie denies a published claim that 34 miners are entombed in Mine No. of the Crab Orchard Company.
Clay Lynch of Toledo associated with Willys-Overland visits Grafton with friends before returning to Toledo. W L Moyd of Flemington attends to business in Grafton. Fred B Watkins and Dr Alden Eagle attend a Wesleyan Davis Elking basketball game in Clarksburg. Minnie Moore of Haymond undergoes emergency appendicitis operation at Grafton City Hospital. Philippi attorney Tekpeparts attends to feral business in Crafton. Jet Robinson returns home to Coffman trans Zari sola, Florida after months away. Miss Midna Shingleton undergoes virus operation at Mt Vernon hospital with Mrs Lesley Buser and Willis Sampleton. East Dobus parts noted. Misses Greece and Gearsta visit from The Southern Pines, North Carolina, hosted by Ensene Sommerville family. Wesleyan College game in Clarksburg features Davis Kins and West Virginia. Miss Falith Te ia ill at home on Maple Avenue. Miss Stulla Rees Trayter of Winder, Georgia returns home after visiting Mrs Willan McConkes on Pike Street.
Funeral services for Steven Mazar of Browntown who died from gunshot wounds in Gratton City Hospital will be held Wednesday at Clarksurge. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery.
A dramatic plot centers on Connellema Moore bound by a midnight engagement deadline, a nun disguise, and a road trip to Long Island. Bingham Carrington, Saltonstall Adams, and Aunt Celimena clash over inheritance while a missing woman triggers police contact and a stolen car twist.
In a moonlit ballroom the guests wait as the grand clock tolls twelve and fears rise that Miss Celiznena Connemara has vanished after promising a final puzzle. Poppy and Saltonstall join Bing in an anxious search of the house, while the crowd debates the legality of announcements and the fate of the missing hostess.
The car stops outside the engine room as sickly odors fill the passage. Sister Connemara and Lacy debate escaping their state bounds and seek meaning beyond moving from Connecticut to New York while aboard a vessel. The crew signals readiness and engines strain as the boat moves west toward the Sound. (So be continued)
A dramatic sequence aboard a ferry boat ends with Connemara Moore and David Lacy fleeing toward New York. A mysterious man in a check suit, nicknamed Pooch, joins them after yielding torn notes with a blue anchor and sea serpent engraving, hinting at a caper tied to Lacy’s case and past exploits.
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