Fifteenth Birthday Party of Quotarians Held at Cozy Rest
A large Quota club birthday celebration at Cozy Rest featured spring floral arrangements, a crystal cake display, and 15 candles. Guests included Grace Austin of Charleston and Blanch Thiesing of Clarksburg with local officers and multiple out of town attendees. The event honored three members with miniature birthday cakes and highlighted a varied program of songs and talks led by Mary Williams Duffy and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Peters
Grafton
Boutonnieres
Mary Williams Duffy
Grafe Toh
Mary Forcello
Verdi
Lake Rose
Nevin
Sarah Smith
William Knox
John Evang
Enrico Togellin
Culver
Fairmont
Blanche Thessing
Geraldine Fanus
Clarksburg
T. ‘M. Deegan
Woman’s Club
Dorothy Sapp
Business Girl's Club
John W. McCafferty
Rotary Club
J. Lee Evans, Jr
Kiwanis Club
Do‘Jores Peters
Mary Catherine Walter
Anna L. Garrett
Mrs.c. Bonafede
Marguerite Thayer
Mr. Knox
Mr. Evans
Alan Staten
Local May Meetings Highlight Women Club Activities
Community pages list May programs across clubs and churches. Ladies Auxiliaries at K of C and Blueville M E hold meetings. Woman's Benefit, Music Department, and Public Welfare group schedule events. district institute notes, Mothers Day dinner at First Presbyterian, and Junior class party at Tygart Dam with cast of You Cant Take It With You.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. O. H. Lodge
K. of C. Hall
Woman's Benefit Association
Redmen's Hall
Woman's Club
Elks Club
Judson Missionary Society
The
W. R. Showacre
Fairmont
John Paul Floyd
Tygart Dam
Martha Hopkins
Mary Ellen Sinclair
Virginia Lee Ridenour
Virginia Stout
Mildred Gall
Ruth Copp
Gertrude Sommerville
Dorsis Jean Bolyard
Evelyn Isner
List of ladies attending event and guest
A group of women named Sr. Elizabeth Handley Ada Strauss F S Suddarth Charles Wells Bess Powell F B Cather Dana Barker F S Smith Ed Newton Mary Brown Nell Haslup were listed as attendees with Mrs G A Walters noted as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Miller
T. W. Heirronimus, Sr
T.W. Heironimus, Jr
Russell Ridenour
Elizabeth Mahaffey
P. 8. Smith
Dana Barker
P. B. Cather
F. J. Turvander
Pred Haymond
Julius Hansen
Rex Kincaid
Esther McBee
Nell Haslup
Wilbur Fauley
Dorothy Gerkins
Melba Hamilton
Community Notices From Weekend Social Roundup
Kenneth DeMoss Robert Cas sell and Michael Nuzum fished on Stony Creek Grant county reporting a good catch. Hugh Moon and daughter Diane of Wellsburg visited Mrs Moons parents H R Coole Mackinstreet. Claude Goodwin family left for a San Francisco vacation likely World’s Fair. John Putman stayed with parents Frederick Md. Margaret Ann Curry WVU student visited home. Robert Davisson from Pittsburgh visited parents Pearl street. Virginia Southworth admitted City Hospital for minor operation. Leroy Teets major operation City Hospital. Discharged: Millie Morrison Thorn ton Dorothy Nestor West Main Street Marie Boyard Tunnelton. Edmund DeMoss discharged. Ernest Simpson NB returned home after City Hospital stay. Earl H Davis visited Cumberland Md with Ace Smith. Grafton Elks attended Clarksburg lodge 40th anniversary dinner. William Hopke Jr and daughter Washington weekend visitors to W T Hopke Sr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth DeMoss
Robert Cassell
Michael Nuzum
Stony Creek
Grant County
Hugh Moon
Diane
Wellsburg
John Putman
J. A. Putman
Frederick
Margaret Ann Cury
West Virginia University
Burl Curry
Virginia Avenue
Robert Davisson
Pittsburgh
B. F. Davisson
Pearl Street
Virginia Southworth
Lafayette Street
City Hospital
Leroy Teets
Route 5
Millie Morrison
Thornton
Dorothy Nestor
West Main Street
Marie Bolyard
Tunnelton
Edmund DeMoss
Ona
Cecil Mylone
Grafton ' Elks
Clarksburg
William Hopke, Jr
Washington
W.T. Hopke
Miner J B Brail Found Dead After four days missing
PARSONS May 1 J B Brail Sr 66 year old miner found Saturday with throat and wrists cut in a Kempton woods died today in an Elkins hospital He had been missing for four days before a search party located him in the woods near his home indicating death by his own action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons
J. B. Brail
Kempton
Elkins
Supreme Court to adjourn May twenty ninth for summer
The Supreme Court announced it will adjourn for the summer on May 29 barring unexpected developments. No decisions were delivered today as the justices heard the final three cases and were expected to finish late today or tomorrow. The next session with opinions will come on May 15 and the court agreed to rule on the national bituminous coal act of 1937 as applied to coal bought by the city of Atlanta Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Atlanta
State aid split between Monongalia and Marion counties
Charleston May 1 state allotted 49952 to Monongalia and Marion counties to keep schools open as long as possible. The 1939 legislature had set aside 50000 for the two aided counties whose schools closed early last year. Allocation based on average daily attendance 1937 38 and per capita pupil cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Monongalia
Marion
Three Preston Youths Nabbed For Car Theft
State Trooper W C Davis said three youths admitted stealing and burning an automobile owned by Helen Nixon, Morgantown beauty shop proprietor. Identified as John Belledino 19 Charles Carroll 18 and William Matlick 18 all of Masontown. They claimed they stole the car in March and burned it near Pennsboro March 30. Taken into custody last night.
Suspect Shot by Officers in Fire Rescue Standoff
Webster Springs May 1. State Police Corporal G P Parsons said John Gunn 58 of Dyer was shot in the leg while fleeing after starting a fire at H F Givens Upper Clade store. The blaze caused little damage and Gunn will face arson charges after he recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster Springs
G. P. Parsons
John Gunn
Dyer
Buckhannon
H. F. Givens
Upper Clade
Parsons
Givens
E. L. Rousch
Dock Cutlip
Wayne Powers
Gunn
Robbery Suspects Flee After Hot Pistol Duel
Three robbery suspects who shot it out with Huntington police and outdistanced a cruiser in a 12 mile chase were sought in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Ohio
Kentucky
Three Motorists Hurt In Collision On Highway 50
Three motorists were injured in a crash on Highway 50 involving a Clarksburg Pittsburgh Blue Ridge bus. Eight bus passengers were uninjured. Injured were Thomas P. Greco 28 Lumberport and Mr and Mrs Albert DeFrance also of Lumberport. They are hospitalized with head and face lacerations. Hospital attaches expect recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
Pittsburgh
Blue Ridge
J. B. Said
Thomas P. Greco
Lumberport
Albert DeFrance
Greco
Woman Wounded in Welch Shooting Incident
Mrs Lisaie Pony 41 of Justice is hospitalized in serious condition from shotgun wounds to the back and right leg. State Sgt C S Wilson was cleaning the firearm when the incident occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welch
Lisaie Pony
Justice
C. 5
Wilson
Palide Ques
Also Mentioned on This Page
Annabel P. Swisher
Society
Quota
Taylor Preston
Woman's Christian Temperance
Waian
Pruntytown Methodist Church
B. L. Lowery
Mae Darby
Byrnceton’s Mills
Evangelistic Deartment
Martha Flesher
Eleanor Jacobs
Caral Whitesell
Loyal Temperance Legion
el- Jen M. Cheuvrant
Cheuvront
Hazel Bartlett
Pruntytown Union
Durward Brown
B. F. Robinson
Frances Willard
Temperance Legion
Pruntytown Legion
Kings Wood
First Presbyterian Church
Cee ‘Phere
Janice Hansen
Patty Sue Barker
Janet Turvander
Nancy Smith
Betty Hoffman
Terting Heironimus
Reading
Ruth Miller
Nancy Fauley
Janie Miller
Martha Mahaffey
Janie Ridenour
Betty Mac Kincaid
West St. Charles Street
Thomas Love
Bruce Willhide
F. J. Tufyander
John Milter
Insurancy Company of America
Newark, New Jersey
Preston
Cooking
G. H
Tappan
Pittsburgh and
V. Va
Mixmaster
Loar Jewelry Store
J. C. Penney Co
Detecto Bath Room Scales Roberts
Taylor County Hardware Co
J. Lee Evans Furniture Store
Premier Goods
O. R. Thomas
Reznor
Hamburg Brothers
Archer Hose
C. V. Miller
C. J. Morrison Stores
Grafton Baking Company
Sayer’s
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