May Concert Big Success at Brinkman Opera House
The Hay Music Festival of the Woman's Music Club attracted a large, stylish crowd at the Brinkman opera house. Vincent's Orchestra opened the program with Strauss and local vocalists and pianists, including Miss Rose Flannery and Miss Lulu Lanham, delivered notable performances. The second act featured a May Queen pantomime and flower dance, with Miss Blanche Watkin as May Queen and Mrs. James B. Moran directing. The finale presented the cantata Hesperus by J Hyatt Brewer with Moran and Byers soloists and a full club chorus, praised for its grandeur and polished orchestra. Uncle Joe Cannon celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday with a jig.
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Baily Sentinel
Woman's Music Club
Tadies
Brinkman Opera House
Vincent
Strauss
Woman's Club
Rhea Heironimus
Minder the Flower
P. Schroeder
William J.willhides
Lulu Lanham
Moszkowski
Rose Flannery
Mobile Bay
Woman’s Club
Anna Dorsey
Rachamaninoff
A. 8. Warder
James B. Moran
Lord Tennyson
A. S. Warder
Blanche Watking
Mary Brydon
Janice Willhide
Susan Brydon
Winifred Hendrickson
Rose Minnie Durbin
Annabel Burns
Jelen Indge
Geneva Wilkinson
Marjorie Moran
Isabel Kimmel
Louise Schroeder
Milfred Wilmoth
Missesanna Dorsey
Orlyle Kimmel
Margaret Tyers
Ruth Tregell
Gail Rogers
Feabeth Coulehan
Lyle Gough
Katherine Holt
Katherine Turner
Marle Foley
Grace M. Natkins
Nellie LaLily
Chiea Heironimus
Steff
H. W. Chadduck
Moran
Claude B . Vincent
Pottery venture in Grafton stalls after failed stock turnout
The Daily Sentinel recalls a proposed Bridgeport pottery relocation to Grafton, where a site was bought and stock raised but stockholders failed to attend the meeting, derailing the West Virginia Clay Pottery Company. Questioning citizen interest, editors note the venture ended in disappointment and the project’s fate remains unresolved.
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Bridge
Grafton
Hardman
Board of Trade
Warner
Ttle
West Virginia Clay, Pottery Company
Goes Glimmering at Bridgeport Politicked Industry
The piece notes a seven year operation at Bridgeport labeled not mammoth but vital though small payrolls. It critiques the Board of Trade and a hustling secretary for neglect, contrasts with B and O shopmen pay, and questions support for small ventures versus large ones and future use of ground and side tracks.
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Bridgeport
Board of Trade
What & Howl
Grafton
Hair Caught in Wheel Injures Forewoman at Pencil Plant
Miss Margaret Walsh, forewoman at the American Lead Pencil Co. in Hoboken, is dying in St. Marys Hospital from injuries after her hair was caught in a tywheel. While shaking her long hair during a lunch hour inspection, the strands wrapped around the shaft, the machine took off her scalp, and she was dragged around the wheel.
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Margaret Walsh
American Lead Pencil Co
St. Marys Hospital
Herompanions
Peter Scolarinas Buys Interest in Crystal Restaurant
Peter Scolarinas, teaming with John Nanakis, has purchased Nanakis interest in the Crystal Restaurant housed in the Dixie theatre building on Main Street. Scolarinas, an experienced restaurateur, will operate the business going forward and continue the high standard of service the Crystal has been known for.
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Peter Scolarinas
Crystal Restaurant
Dixie Theatre
Main Street
John Nanakis
Scolarias
To the Home at Huntington
Daily Sentinel reports Attorney J Guy Allender with Chester Eyler escorted a young man about 20 years old from this city to Huntington to enter a hospital for epilepsy. The man, previously selling fish in front of Inzadder meat market on Main street, is in a pitiable condition and was taken for treatment at the Huntington institution.
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J. Guy Allender
Chester Eyler
Huntington
Main Street
Huntington Institution
Zeck & Son Heating Firm Sees Dull Times Defied
Alex Zeck and Son of this city report a prosperous season with several new contracts in Baltimore Rowlesburg Philipp Fairmont and nearby areas. The firm attributes success to its Zeck patented heating system gaining popularity in new and old buildings.
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Zeck & Son
Baltimore
Rowlesburg
Citizens Bank
Philipp
M. E. Bruch
Fairmont
Madero forms a cabinet in Juarez new capital
Mexico's provisional government under Francisco Madero, seated in Juarez, announced a provisional cabinet led by Dr Vasquez Gomez and Gonzales Garza with Carranza in charge of railways and telegraphs. The rebel city is secured, with guards, restored rail sections, and a tense calm as some federal troops are prisoners.
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Mex
Mexico
Francisco J. Madero
Navarro
Vasquez Gomez
Gustavo Mad War
Venustano Interior
F. Gonzales Garan
Jose M. Pino Siarez
Madero
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Carranza
Gonzales Garza
Treasury
el Paso
Rubago
Chihuahua
Maderos
Diaz
Madre
Son Follows His Mother to Grave in Tragic Double Bereavement
David Phillip Rutherford, 28, of the South Side, died this afternoon after a brief typhoid illness that also claimed his mother. Born in Smith Lake Minnesota, he worked in Grafton with B and C shops and on Woodyard farm. Survived by father, three brothers Enos J H and Glenn, and three sisters Lottie Hattie and Mrs Chas Crowden. Funeral arrangements pending. community offers sympathy in double bereavement.
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Daily Sentinel
David Phillip Rutherford
South Side
Rutherford
Smith Lake
Minn
Grafton
Minnesota
West Virginia
Enos
J. HL
Glenn
Lottie
Hattie
Chas, Crowden
Sentinel
Kentuckian fatally shoots self during Salvation Army meeting
In Los Angeles May 12 Ensign Payton urged penitent to confess when Frank A. Campbell, 24, a Kentuckian, walked forward knelt briefly and then fired a revolver into his chest. He died at a hospital soon after. Campbell had been in town three months and is described as in poor health.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ensign Payton
Salvation Army
Frank A. Campbell
Movement Starts Clean Streets Drive Amid Labor Turmoil
In Pittsburg on May 12 labor leaders announce a broader strike threat against the Pennsylvania system after the railroad’s rejection of men’s demands. A city effort to clean streets co chaired by Mayor McWilliams proposes volunteers and merchants rake streets every Tuesday and Saturday morning with city carting of dirt, and a street sprinkler may be bought when finances improve.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Altoona
American Federation of Labor
Hendricks
Order of Railroad Conductors
Parks
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhoods of
Mcl Williams
Merchants Association
Municipal Folly: Taxpayers Voice Against Repeats
The Sentinel denounces the city administration for repeating costly roadwork during a favorable season. It cites a harsh winter where streets to Pluemont cemetery were nearly impassable and argues the Haslup street project will leave roads loose and unsafe. It urges keeping the street gang off nature to save money and improve thoroughfares.
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Sentinel
Pluemont Cemetery
Haslup Street
Big Circus Crowd Enjoys Grafton Barnum Show
A large Grafton audience at Fairmont Friday afternoon applauded the Barnum and Bailey circus performance. Most spectators returned on train No. 4 last night.
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Grafton
Fairmont
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