Meet Central Girls They Render Real Service in Grafton
In Grafton the local Bell Telephone exchange shows how twenty seven Centrals handle about 12 324 calls daily with peak periods morning noon and evening. It highlights top staff including Miss Kate Huss ion supervisor Miss Helena Gerkin and long serving Katherine Gerkin. Delegates to a national convention are noted with Eunice Carroll Anna Greer Opes McCune Birdie Thompson Esta Walker Carrie Zinn Sallie Simpkins Lillian WilkInson Morgantown chosen as hosts for 1924 spring events.
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Central
Grafton
Bell Telephone Company
Chesapeake & Tel Pounce Company
Is & Pall
Job
Clarksburg
Cheeaperke & Potonine Telephone Company
FD. Petty
Digtrict
Kingwood
Buckhanhop
Hay
Kelly
Peronnel
Kate Huss Ion
Helena C. Gerkin
Lillie Bolinger
Bernadine Frush
Anna Whelan
Mildred Lansbury
Lena Marquess
Lollie Bunner
Mary Cornwell
Alice Drake
Katherine Gerkin
Gladys Hickman
Mildred Igner
Rita Knight
Lory McCafferty
Ethel Menear
Frances Pendergast
Mary Pendergast
Ruth Rogers
Beatrice Shaw
Virginia
Shome Vera Tackel
Ola Lee Vandergrift
Regina Waters
Felows
Eunice Carroll
Anna Greer
Wheeling
Opes -McCune
Moundsville
Birdie Thompson
Esta Walker
Bila Lewis
Milwaukee
Carrie Zinn
Sallie Simpkins
Morgantown
Lillian Wilkingon
Russia and Britain face a possible policy shift on trade willey
A Bol shevist reply to Lord Curzon signals a potential change in Britain's stance toward Russia. The trade agreement brokered by former Prime Minister Lloyd George remains popular with Labour and Liberal factions but divides Conservatives. A Bonar Law ministry could break with Russia, yet abrogating the economic treaty is not required.
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Lord Curzon
Lloyd George
Russia
United States
M. Weinstein
Moscow
Lloyd Coorg
Bonar Law
Psychology of success through failure and lifelong growth
The text argues that real achievement comes from embracing failure as a learning tool. A person with the right mindset seeks challenging tasks, accepts defeats against stronger opponents, and gains moral power and skill from each setback. Growth follows deliberate exposure to larger, tougher problems.
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Exer
Postponed Week for Ruska New Trial in Ohio County
In Wheeling West Virginia a motion for a new trial for John Ruska, secretary of the Workers Party, Yorkville Ohio, convicted in Ohio County Criminal Court on a sedition distribution charge, was postponed at the defendant's attorney request.
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Wheersang
W. Va
John
Ruska
Grafton Wins Honors At State Convention
Grafton delegates returned early Saturday from the state convention of the Grand Army of the Republic in Charleston. The local circle won the 10 gold prize for securing the largest number of members during the year. Delegates praised the convention as among the largest and most enjoyable. Officers elected for the ensuing year included President Conneh Merrow, Senior Vice President Call He Long Morgain, View President Lulu Pol2 ville, Chaplain Cane Yee Santown, Secretary Winnie Williamson Parkersburg, Treasurer Salle Rector Clarkaburg. An administrative council was formed with Grafton delegates.
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Utes
Grand Army of the Reopublic
Charleston
Thc
Conneh
Merrow
Pairmont
Vce
Call He Long
Morgain View
Lulu Pol 2"Ville
Cane the
Grafton High Seniors Stage Miss Somebody Else Comedy
Grafton high school senior class presented the four act comedy Miss Somebody Else in the auditorium to a crowd of 500 to 600. The cast, led by Gail Evans and Paul Mason, delivered strong performances with Miss G Minnette Watkins guiding two months of rehearsal. Scenic work by the senior dramatic club enhanced the production and earned high praise for direction and effort.
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Grafton High School
G. Minnette Watkins
Gail Evans
Celeste
Constance Carey
Atmillionaire
Alice Wilfong
Paul Mason
Ralph Hastings
Miss Wilfong
Elizabeth Stafford
Mildred’ Delavan
Pearl Scrarage
Mrs. Delavan
Tuxedobrook
G. Minette Watkins
Balt Birder Shop Employes Get 3 Cent Raise
Baltimore, May 19. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad reached a deal with shop crafts union workers granting a flat increase of three cents an hour. No rules or working conditions changed. Wages range from 45 to 70 cents.
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Baltimore, Md
iThe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Shop Crafts Union
Grafton of Yesterday Recalled in Rotary Talk
Mr. H C Compton of Grafton delivered a humorous yet sober reminiscence at the Grafton Rotary Club luncheon at Hotel Grafton. He traced early town life from 1865, recalling pioneer settlers, local roads and river life, while neighbors Abbott Haymond Sawyer Kopp added playful songs and poems.
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Grafton
H.C. Compton
Grafton Rotary Club
Wela
Abbott
Foxy” Haymond
Rufus Sawyer
Baron” Kopp
Mr. Abbott
Tom Bartlett
Foxy Haymond
Mr. Sawyer
States
Equatorial Zone
Kopp
Haymond
Sawyer Iso
Mr. Compton
Garden of Eden
Jed
Fetterman
Main Street
St. John
Washington Street
McGraw
Yates
Karly Grafton
Compton
Tygarts Valley
Valley Falls
Compton's
Josh Hinis
George ‘Himus
Josh
Grafton Remembered Leaders and Local Craft in Blaine Era
A fragmented reminiscence recalls Grafton artisans and their families forming tin cups from sheet metal, tin can torches, and a community that backed political figures like Blaine. The narrative recounts marching club roles, crowd scenes at Latrobe Street, and a tribute speech praising early pioneer citizens who built the town’s foundations and structures.
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Mg ‘Machin- Josh
Grafton
Blaine
Blaine and Loxan
Blaine Cleveland
Latrobe Street
Mr. Blaine
St. John
Main Streets
Traine Carly
Dharr
Main
Larobe
Funeral Marked End Of Cleveland Schoolhouse Fire
The Cleveland schoolhouse disaster killed 73 during commencement. Community mourners filled Beulah Methodist churchyard as 62 victims were laid to a mass grave. only three identified amid widespread destruction. Governor McLeod joined thousands at the open air burial as dusk fell over the ruins.
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Camden
Cleveland
Beulah Methodist Church
McLeod
South Carolina
Blind Newsman Goes Quiet After Uneven Fight
In Wheeling West Virginia on May 19 AP reports mourners gather at the funeral of Max Goetz a blind news vendor found hanging in his bedroom Thursday morning. The scene shows tears among local paper sellers and elders as the town grapples with the tragedy.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Mfe
Max Goetz
Newsy
Wolf
Erection Planned for Main Street Brick Building
A group led by Jack Riffee W Archdeacon and Dr D Peck plans a two story brick structure on Main Street adjoining the Board's Partner shop at the passenger depot. The lot was bought from Philippe Deferrin for about 20000 dollars with rear extension and large storeroom. Offices apartments and a front frontage are expected with blueprints yet to be drawn. Negotiations to rent the Mul storeroom to a business are in progress to gauge size and layout before final plans.
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Jack Riffee
Union Drug Company
W. Archdeacon
Merant
D. ©. Peck
Philipe Deferrin
Chain Street
Mat Street
Mul
New angle to mount cash New angle to mount cash
Two brothers of Doris Fuchs, a friend of Leigh ton Mount, Northwestern City freshman who vanished twenty months ago, subpoenaed as investigators pursue a new angle. Miss Fuchs testified Mount spoke of disappearing during a boxing match and wrote an unsigned note about death by self action. Assistant prosecutors and grand jury probes intensified after questioning Mrs. Sweeney who overheard Northwestern students discuss the case at a dinner.
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Chicago
Leighton Mount
Northwestern
Doris Fuchs
Fuchs
Mount
Grand Jury
Charles F. Wharton
John
Barbara
John Sweeney
Saranac Lake
Sweeney
Lenine and Trotzky Put In Right Place At Socialist Parley
New York dispatch reports Abram Cabap editor of the Jewish Daily Award denouncing Lenin as a moral and physical failure and Trotzky as a great windbag at the Socialist Party convention. The gathering vows to push liberation for hundreds of imprisoned Russians and to build an American Labor Party uniting Socialist, Non Partisan League, Farmer Labor, and allied unions. Also notes a convict escape in Atlanta and a disturbed case involving a girl.
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New York
Nicolai Lenine
Soviet
Russia
Leon Trotzky
Abraham Cabap
Jewish Daily Award
Socialist Party
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Grafton Sentinel Publishing Company
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Latrobe St
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Bell Telephone
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John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller Foundation
Europe
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins
France
Peking
London
Pri
Simulus 10 Pub
New York Globe
G. A. R. Ofrcle
Hobb
South Carol
Brothers Waylald
Lenine and
Trotzky
Atlanta
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