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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
3
The sermon at the Lutheran church by Rev. P. T. Crickenberger urged a true church of Pentecost era. It called for regeneration of individuals, fidelity to Christ, and action to heal society with prayer, unity, and pure doctrine.
Cleveland May 21 A P J Krotehnitt chairman of the executive committee of the SouthernPacific Railway Company told the fifteenth annual meeting of the International Railway Fuel Association that coal costs will rise due to labor and mining costs. He urged conserving via hydro electric power and turbine engines and proposed a cheap gravity fuel and lighter Diesel engines with a variable speed transmission to couple to driving wheels.
London May 21 AP Great Britain has no premier as of today with Bonar Law in poor health after a throat operation. The Crown has not asked anyone to form a government following Law's resignation yesterday. Earl of Curzon and Stanley Baldwin are considered potential leaders who remain in the country and away until Wednesday.
May term of Taylor county circuit court convened with Judge Kittle presiding. Grand Jury, led by J. Bailey, adjourned after assessing about thirty witnesses. plan to complete investigations and report tomorrow. Includes summary in Hope Natural Gas case and Hawking condemnation finding. Licenses issued to Custer and Haddix as special policemen.
Three people missing after a cloudburst caused six inches of rain in 45 minutes at Ayre Oklahoma. Short Creek overflowed its banks flooding five blocks, forcing rescue of about three hundred farm laborers and families from tents and houses. Damage estimated at sixty thousand dollars as water receded after midnight.
Rev. T. M. Zumbrunnen at St Pauls Methodist denounces carnivals as gambling and cites liquor and houses of ill fame in Grafton. He urges Christians to report vice to authorities, warns of girls 12 to 16 involved, and contrasts carnival profits with city needs such as playgrounds and a new courthouse.
In Germany the Maya Pyven coal mines in Dortmund district closed as 32,000 miners strike and 10,000 more are barred from work. A Dortmund rally of 6,000 Communists vowed to fight for higher wages, criticizing government and industrialists for costs yet urging resilience in the wage dispute.
A schoolroom comedy titled Topsy Turvy in Civeland South Carolina ended in disaster during commencement. A dropped oil lamp ignited kerosene on stage, flames spread through flimsy props, and the crowded hall collapsed the stairs fatally trapping many. Fathers aiding victims perished while attempting rescues as panicked crowds fled.
In New Orleans 1738 a man could not kill himself without punishment and a slave owner faced severe penalties for crimes. Records show executions for murder, flogging and fines for petty theft, and public shaming for various offenses. The piece notes punishment for intoxication of slaves, cases of dog and cat meat served to patients, and debt driven poverty affecting family clothing purchases.
In Leeds on May 19 Walter Hagen, American golf ace, was defeated by H Jolly of Pex Grove, the Dngitch professional, in the final cut of the British Open Championship tournament marking the end of the professional event.
More than five hundred Masons from nearly all parts of West Virginia attend the spring reunion of the Ladies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry in Wheeling. A class of 92 received from the 4th to the 14th degrees this afternoon.
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