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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1949
Page
3
Mrs Naomi Lawson serves as club and society reporter, handling notices and reporting community events. Contact by telephone 185 for submissions and updates on local society activities.
Webster WSCS of the Methodist church held its annual Mother's Day gathering at Mrs. J’s home, birthplace of Anna Jarvis founder of Mother’s Day. Miss Pearl Felton presided, Marola Fitzwager led a program of readings and music, with refreshments after business. Attendees included Mesdames Neal Wolfe Preston Getz Cooper Wolfe Felter McWilliams Fitzwater Hess Kincaid Ware Tucker Preston, Miss Felton Preston Tucker, and Mr. Wolverton’s family. Several local residents visited or were listed as guests, with several others noted as spending the weekend away.
Two school plays by St Augustine Junior and Senior High students close the year. Bernadette of Lourdes centers on care of the blind, aided by a varied cast. North of 63 portrays early settler hardships with Joe Kennedy lost and found. Choral numbers accompany the performances.
The Grafton Senior and Junior High School Bands under Paul Shahan will stage a spring concert in the Senior High School auditorium tomorrow at 8 15 p m. The 72 piece band recently ranked superior at the Huntington state band festival and will perform audition pieces Airiander and Janus Overture plus Immortal Legions Connecticut March Trombone Toboggan William Tell Overture Show Boy March Tico Tico American Patrol and other popular marches. The 60 member Junior Band will perform Promotion March Warming Up March Airport March and Vanguard March.
Local brief notes list house guests from Pittsburgh and Cleveland visiting area residents on West Main and Maple avenues. A former local teacher Donna Ryan now teaches in Dunbar visits. hospital admissions include George Cozad and others, with several patients discharged or entering the city hospital on the weekend.
Real estate and business opportunity ads from Parrish Agency detail multiple properties. Lila Loye estate sale covers an eight room home on 1138 W Main with three large lots. Riverside Drive lot with build sites. Parkview block business and home with grocery fixtures. Grand Street properties including an eight room house, a four stall garage, and King's Grocery with a five stall garage. Prices range from 350 to 5500 with options to buy together or separately and contractor sales.
List of Sunday dismissals includes Maxine Delaney Lettie Hoffman Patty Pyle John S Held and Cassie McDaniel all with addresses in West Washington Tunnelton Wilford Street Route 3 Grafton Akron visits involve Mr. and Mrs Christopher C Losh of 320 West Francis Street and grandsons Conrad McFarland and Tykie Hogue traveling from Akron to Indianapolis to see Mrs Pearl Kibble who is ill. Captain Edmond M Jacobs and wife are visiting in town en route to military assignments with planned visits to Washington DC and Biloxi Mississippi before arriving at Keesler Air Force Base.
A long list of May church meetings and social events across Grafton includes Bible classes at the Blueville Methodist EUB and Evangelical United Brethren churches, WSCS gatherings, and a Moose Home dance. The page also reports a Guam rape case with Calvert Dennis on trial and notes a plastics plant opening in Bangalore and a Swiss mountaineering expedition.
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