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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1936
Page
5
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at 824 Maple avenue with Rev. Robert Orion Phillips, pastor of St. Paul's, officiating. Interment will be in Woodsdale cemetery with Grafton lodge No. 15 A. F. and A. Masons in charge. A Knights Templar escort will attend. The body will be returned from Bartlett Funeral Home to the residence at 8:30 tomorrow morning.
St Augustine's High School Alumni Association held an executive meeting led by president Kathryn Tucker Tuclor to schedule the annual banquet and reception for graduates. Committees were named for banquet decorations invitations and program with Timed dinner at 7 p.m. Guests of honor include nine graduates Joseph Barlow James Cockrell Bernadine Dougherty Catherine Dougherty Angela Gerkin Mary Margaret Morasco Jean Murphy Mary Jo Rauscher and John Warder.
W P Stewart a retired railroad official from Altoona Pa died after a long career. He was highly active in Masonic circles with memberships in Grafton lodge No 19 A F and A M Copestone Chapter Royal Arch Masons Demolay Commandery Templar and Eastern Star. Survivors include his wife Mrs Louis Doll of Indies Ind and W P Stewart Jr of Charleston plus sisters Mrs Mary Jane Harker New Martinsville and Mrs Isaac Blair Akron Ohio and nine grandchildren.
A newspaper advertisement promotes Old Mohawk Indian Tonic with a $1 bottle reduced to 49 cents, limit three per customer, promising rapid stomach and liver relief and internal cleansing. It claims to purge poisons within 12 hours and touts benefits for rheumatic and neuritic pain, with 15 cents postage for mail orders.
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