Local social club notes call meeting at YMCA
Editorial notes invite Gratton Bexitinel to a Book Luncheon Club meeting on Wednesday evening May 16 at 7 o clock at the YMCA. Important business to be discussed. all members urged to attend promptly. Other society items cover Lend-a-Hand Circle at First Presbyterian, plans for an Empire Meat Market exchange, gifts for Mrs. F. J. Tufvander, and details of Protective Home Circle events and Brotherhood activities. The WCTU Mothers Day program featured Stansbury Orchestra performances.
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Luheheen Club
First Presbyterian Church
Frank J. Turvander
Harley Sawyer
William Strauss
Ruth Cather
Margaret Cather
Hugh Ellis Dean
Petty Tufvander
Empire
Protective Home Circle
Grafton Circle
Clarksburg
Grafton
Clarksburg Circle
Moose Home
William Hobaugh
Uniontown
Presbyterian Brotherhood
John W. Ault
Paul
J. W. Ault
Frank Collins
Frank Co
Zenas Dean
Robert
Womans’ Christian Temperance Union
First Christian Church
Stansbury
Mother's Day Service and Charity Club Meeting Held
Rev. E L Arnold led a scripture lesson from Proverbs 31 on the ideal wife and mother with prayers and hymns. Soloists Lee Evans and Ralph H Cline performed, Mrs Brooks Gall accompanying. Mrs Henry Kra mer read a poem on mother. Mrs E T Cline spoke on mother. Arnold spoke on Mother home heaven, choir sang Tell Mother I’ll Be There. White ribbon recruits welcomed. 30 present with visitors. Refreshments served. Ada Barnes of Fetterman donated a cake but was ill. Charity Club: Mrs Clyde Gilbert hosted Girls Charity Club gathering.
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E. L. Arnold
Methodist Protestant Church
Arnold
Ochestra
Lee Evans
Ralph H. Cline
Ine
Angela Mio
Brooks Gall
Henry Kramer
Mother
E.T. Cline
Ada Barnes of
Fetterman
Valley Inn hosts big dance with Mack's Orchestra
A Valley Inn roadhouse dance drew about 860 attendees with live music by Mack's Orchestra from Fairmont. Dancing ran from 9 PM to 1 AM, and the event resumes next Tuesday. An earlier social at Walnut Street highlighted club routine business and a May 27 meeting at Miss Rose Hayden's home on Beech Street.
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Walnut Street
Rose Hayden
Beech Street
Valley Inn
Valley Inn Roadhouse
Fairmont
Mack
Mail Order Bride Tried As Murderess in California
In Columbia California a dance pavilion was improvised into a courtroom for the preliminary hearing of Eva Brandon Rablen a Texas mail order bride charged with murdering her husband Sarrall Rablen a Sonora farmer This is the township s first murder case in 18 years Justice J W Pitts presided stating the venue choice due to crowd size Eva Brandon came from Quanah Texas after matrimonial agency negotiations seventeen months ago
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Columbia
Cal
Eva Brandon Rablen
Texas
Sarrall Rablen
Sonora
Justice of the
J. W. Pitts
Dawes Snaps Back at Knicker Question in London Visit
Washington May 15 The newly named ambassador Charles G Dawes responds to reporters about bringing silk knickerbockers to London. He asks if a diplomatic answer or a plain answer is desired and then declares you can go to hell that’s my business while puffing his under slung pipe. Dawes shows cheerful mood as he begins foreign service duties.
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Washington
Charles G-Dawes
Court of St. James Bave
Men Today
London
George
Hoover meets Stimson before sailing to England
President Hoover visits the White House and the State Department to confer with Secretary Stimson about instructions for his voyage to England on June 7. Dawes plans to return to Chicago before departing for his overseas post, and he posed with Stimson for photographers.
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Hoover
Whites ‘House
State Department
Stimson
England
Dawes
Chicago
Glasscock speaks to West Virginia Federation convention
In Charleston on May 16 the West Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs held its silver jubilee convention. Mrs. F. Glasscock of Morgantown gave an address on Where There Is No Vision the People Perish. The assembly sang West Virginia, Sweet Homeland of Mine, written by Mrs. Frances Ritsinger and dedicated to Buckhannon club. Memorial services were held and committee reports read.
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Charleston
W.va
F. Glasscork
Morgantown
General Federation
West Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs
West Virginia
Sweet Homeland of
Frances Hart
Ritsinger
Buckhannon Club
West Virginia Methodist conference set for September
The annual fall conference of all West Virginia Districts of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held here September 25. Rev. A. M. Barlow of Andrews church extended the invitation and will sponsor the meeting. Other local churches including St. Paul’s M. E. and West Main Street M. E. also agreed to send invitations.
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West Virginia
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. M. Barlow
Andrews Church
St. Paul's M. E
West Main Street
M. E
Conference to Accept Graf ton Invitation for Church Meeting
District Superintendent W M Shultz of Fairmont announced that Buckhannon Wheeling Elkins Charleston Clarksburg and Huntington pastors will staff the conference with Bishop Herbert Welch presiding. About 800 delegates will attend the annual meeting as Rev H B Workman of St Pauls M E noted this afternoon.
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Blueville M. B
W. M. Shultz
Fairmont
Buckhannon
Wheeling
Elkins
Charleston
Clarksburg
Huntington
Grafton
Herbert Welch
Barlow
G. D. Smith
H. C. Howard
J. 5
Standard Oil of New Jersey declares extra dividend
New York May 15 Directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey today declared an extra dividend of 26 cents a share on the common and the regular quarterly payment of 25 cents payable June 15 to stock of record May 25. Miss Edythe Clark and Miss Ruby Warner of Fairmont who have been house guests of Mr and Mrs R L Newton Warder Avenue for several days returned to their homes in Fairmont last.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Edythe Clark
Ruby Warner
Fairmont
R. L., Newton
Arenue
Nations urged to aid Near East relief effort
Churches nationwide were asked to contribute during May to a Victory Offering for Near East Relief orphans. A World Sunday School deputation cable urged funding to complete a $2,000,000 overseas campaign, with $731,978 raised by March and $1,268,027 still needed before June 30.
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World Sunday School
Baalbek
Syria
Near East
America
Greece
Egypt
Robert M. Hopkins
World's Sunday School Association
W. Edward Raffety
Unifey
Pk Main
American Baptist Publication Society
Walter W. Howlett
Religius Education
Greater New York
Reese
Fee
Episcopal Church
Near
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