Pattern 138 Youthful Dress Featured For Beginners
Young readers are urged to try Pattern 138 a simple dress with seven pieces and no waistline seams. Clare Tilden touts a carefree style with a full skirt, optional white pique yoke, and ribbon trims. Junior miss sizes 11 to 17 require specific fabric amounts, and orders cost fifteen cents to Pattern Department, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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Clare Tilden
Grafton Sentinel
Pattern Department
Fifth Avenue
New York
Evacuation and Surrender Mark Nordic Front
Reports from Norway describe a withdrawal of Allied forces from Namsos and a Norwegian surrender as German troops advanced. Col. O B Getz, acting commander, denounced British and French actions, claiming isolation and lack of ammunition while Norwegians fought on in the mountains.
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Telegrapn
Namsos
England
Stockholm
Roros
Ené
Dahl
Steinkjer
Trondheim
O. B. Getz
Mosjosen
British
War Office
Getz
Injebief
Hind
The Amazing Mr Williams at Grafton Weekend Show
Amusing comedy plan previews a weekend in Grafton featuring The Amazing Mr Williams with Joan Blondell and Douglas. Melvyn is a clever suitor solving murders on the run while racing to the altar, in a merry blend of thrills and romance.
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Mr. Williams
Joan Blondel
Melvyn
Dixit
Feng
Miss Blondell
Douglas
Tina
Exch
Columbia
Rogbermiro
Paris
Ryling
Pepe
Alexan Hall
Pia Francee
Maxine Carroll
Kenny
Fiams
County Teachers Hear Frasure At Animal Banquet
The Taylor County Teachers Association and Board of Education held their annual banquet at Andrews Methodist church. More than 160 attendees enjoyed a meal, musical numbers, and a keynote address by Dr. Carl M. Frasure on European politics. Distinguished guests included L. L. Shriver and State Senator William J. Hussion.
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Taylor County Teachers Association
Board of Education
Andrews Methodist Church
Hi. M
Torlock Rasmussen
Carl M. Fprasure
West Virginia University
E. G. Kuhn
John T. Evans
Alan Staton
Norman Brown
L. L. Shriver
House of Delegates
William J. Hussion
Dolores Curry
Teachers Association
Movie Will Be Subject BYPU Sunday Program
The Senior Baptist Young People's Union will host a Sunday evening program titled How True to Life Are wet Movies. It begins at 6:30 in the church lower rooms with Betty Lou Curry as devotional leader. New officers were elected last Sunday and the group, all senior youths, aims for 50 in attendance. Dorothy Deane Proudfoot is president with Marjorie Bennet as vice president and Frances Jones as secretary-treasurer. Other officers include Betty Lou Curry in devotional life, Frances Proudfoot in fellowship, Warne Dougherty as vice, and steward.
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Baptist
Young People's Union
Betty Lou Curry
Dorothy Deane Proudfoot
Marjorie Bennet
Frances Jones
Frances Proudfoot
Vic
Warne Dougherty
Local club meetings and notices for May week
May 6 8 p m A C H lodge meets at R of C hall and Quota club gathers 6 15 p m at Cozy Rest. May 7 Ladies Aid at 7 30 p m for West Main Street Methodist church at Nina Nelson home. Lindy club moves to Edna Poling home. Women s Division Republican club Taylor County 8 p m K P hall with Mary Tidwell guest. May 8 Weekley Sewing club dinner 6 p m Emma Rockwell Route 50. May Day program at First Baptist 2 30 p m moved from May 10.
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A. C. H. Lodge
C. Hall
Quota Club
Ladies Aid Society
West Main Street Methodist Church
Nina Nelson
Lindy Club
Edna Poling
Zada Ridenour
United Republican Club
Taylor County
P, Hall
Mary Tidwell
Fairmont
State Federation of Republican Clubs
Weekley Sewing Club
Emma Rockwell
Local Poetess Florence Kimmel Fleming Wins Verse Honor
Mrs Florence Kimmel Fleming of Walnut Street has a poem Abraham Lincoln accepted by Exposition Press for the 1940 World's Fair anthology of verse and is a prize poetry contest contender. Her prior publications include Pirates Press Know Thyself and The Skyscraper.
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Exposition Press of
New York
Abraham Lincoln
Florence Kimmel
Fleming
Walnut Street
O. Jay Fleming
First National Bank
Cehildren
Harry Carrington Fleming
Fairmont
Carrie
Barclay on Bridge The Authority uies
Article discusses opposing odd bidders and bidding conventions in bridge. It explains club bid usage to deny major cards, force majors, and reveal four hearts or spades. Example deals illustrate misread responses and the impact on declarer play. Tomorrow’s problem follows with a new scenario.
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Booth
R. H
New York
North
South
West
Declarer
Local Poet Spotlight From Wheeling Exposition Press
Kathryn Fleming, English instructor at Wheeling High School, and Dr. T W Heironimus are noted in the Exposition Press press for sponsoring gifted American poets. The prize poetry contest results will be announced soon.
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Kathryn Fleming
Wheeling
T. W. Heironimus
Exposition Press
Jume 7 Meeting Held in King's Daughters Room
Lugader and members with Doris Jean Bolyard Mildred Hefner Laura Mae Hoffman and Rosemary Cut right will attend a church gathering. The Jume 7 meeting is scheduled in the King's Daughters room of the church.
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Lugader
Doris Jean Bolyard
Mildred Hefner
Laura Mae Hoffman
Rosemary Cutright
King's Daughters Room
United Brethren Ladies Aid Held Monthly Meeting
The United Brethren church Ladies Aid met at 8 o clock last night led by Mrs Charles Warder. Activities included hymns scripture readings by Mrs Flora Stilwell and prayers by Mrs Lois Luzader with Doris Jean Bolyard guest organist. Mrs Ruth Crouser presided as business session welcomed new member Mrs Birdie Thompson. Refreshments served by multiple members.
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King’s Daughters
Ladies' Aid Society
The
United Brethren Church
Charles ‘Warder
Flora Stilwell
Lois Luzader
Doris Jean Bolyard
Daisy Dotson
Mary ‘Hoffman
Ruth Crouser
Birdie Thompson
C. A. Jenkins
Simmie Camden
Victor Rockwell
Adam Powell
Shr in Wheeling Reunion Attendance and Local Births
Goes To Wheeling W E Hart attends Shrine reunion in progress in Wheeling. Birth announced for Brooks B Fitgwater and Elizabeth Sloane’s son Carl Brooks born April 28 at 115 West Wilford Street. Also reports people returning home and surgeries in local area.
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Wheeling
W. E. Hart
Brooks B. Fitgwater
West Wilford Street
Carl Brooks
Pittwater F
Elizabeth Sloane
Two Doily Pattern With Oblong And Round Motifs
Pattern 6396 offers two sizes of oblong and round doilies with complete charts and directions. Includes illustrations, stitches, and material lists for varied doily projects. Send ten cents to Sentinel Household Arts Dept. in New York with name and address and pattern number.
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Oratton Sentinel
Household Arts Dept
W. 4Th Street
New York
McKenna Case Seeks Verdict Amid Political Focus
Testimony centered on a secretary Marie Chafin stamping envelopes in February 1938 and an aide Dickinson noting stamps on a March letter. The judge urged the jury to consider routine office mail and possible animosity between Lane and McKenna as the trial weighs claims of mailing political content to benefit employees during a 1938 election year.
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Marie Chafin
McKenna
Key Dickinson
Lane
U. S
L. R. Via
R. S. Spilman, Sr
Via
McClintic
Opera House Directors Chase Perilous One Shot Set
Directors work under pressure for a single take on a massive one shot set to film a hillside destruction for Universal’s Green Hell. Douglas Fairbanks Jr Jo an Bennett star as production rushes a 800 ton rock demolition to reveal a giant idol within a 55 ft Inca tower.
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Hollywood
James Whalen
Green Hell
Famous Productions
Universal
Opera House
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Joan Bennett
Green ‘ Hell
Jack Oterson
Fairbanks
John Howard
Alan Hale
George Bancrott
George Sanders
Vincent Price
Gene Garrick
Scene Foreshadows Narrow Escape from Roaming Threat
In a tense opening, characters glimpse their fate as a looming roar of rogi approaches. They rush to safety, hoping to outrun the advancing danger and preserve their lives amid the unseen peril.
Broadway Melody of 1940 dances at Strand Theatre
Strand Theatre opens Broadway Melody of 1940 starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Audiences are promised rapid taps exotic rhythm waltz and Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine with a 60 foot mirror background. The production blends ensemble numbers solos and duets in a colorful, fast moving story with novelty staging and vocal turns by the Andrews Sisters.
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Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell
Strand Theatre
Cole Porter
Astaire
Powell
Andrew Sisters
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United Brethren Ladies Aid
John J. Hussion
St. George
Staten Island
Glen Duncan
J. H. Hill
Jennie Southworth
Hooksville
Kansas
John A Holt
Liberal
William H. Holt
Ellsworth
A. A. Holt
William T. Holt
Evelyn Campbell
Beech Street
City Hospital
Dorsey Trimblé
East Knotts Avenue
Ars Me
M’kenna
Grafton
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Jones Fairmont, W. VA
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