Business Girls Meet At Ronay's For Regular Month Meeting
The Grafton Business Girls gathered last evening at Ronay's Dairy Bar for their monthly business and dinner meeting hosted by Miss Gwendolyn Proudfoot. A new member, Miss Jackie Kemple, joined as Mrs. Joe Haddix led the session. Committees were formed for next year and plans discussed for outdoor summer events.
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Grafton Business Girls
Ronay’s
Gwendolyn Proudfoot
Joe Haddix
Jackie Kemple
Dorothy Douglas
Terry Colon
Tipple DeMoss
Lucille Payne
Thelma DeMoss
Eleanor Weekley
Nellie. Cook
Elizabeth Randolph
Anabel Wilson
Helen Shomo
Ways ‘and Means
Mildred Tucker
Aileen Moore
Barbara Hamilton
Norma Jean Moore
Helen Gerkin
Helen Shaw
Mildred Gall
Margaret Moran
Evelyn Greene
Betty Spree
Mary Lough
Marjorie Newcome
Rita Jean
Gloria Squires
Maxine Cockrell
Nellie Cook
Thoma DeMoss
Eleanor Greene
Mary Jean Grinnan
Josephine Haddix
Mary Louth
Arlene Moore
Marjorie Newcomb
Frances Proudfoot
Elizabeth Rendle
Margaret Jane Payne
Local church and club meetings listed for May evenings
May events include Minnie Cole Sun dey School class gathering at the Evangelical United Brethren church at 6 o clock with Miss Billie Bott as hostess. Mountaineer Council 44 meets at 8 at the IOOF hall in the Grafton Theatre building. Alpha Mu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi convenes at Mrs. D B Fawcett’s Blueville home at 8 30 with Charlotta Selders hosting. Philathea Class of First Baptist meets at 7 30. DAR hosts at Mrs Grace Wolfe’s West Main with Mrs Eleanor Booth co hosting at 7 30. Ladies of First Baptist sew at Red Cross rooms 1 to 4 p m.
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Minnie Cole Sundey
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Billie Bott
Mountaineer Council No. 44
Grafton Theatre
Alpha*Mu
Beta Sigma Phi
D. B. Fawcett
Blueville
Charlotta Selders
Philathea
First Baptist Church
DAR
Grace Wolfe
West Main Street
Eleanor Booth
The
Red Cross
Andrews Prom Crown Recalls Queen Irene and King Kenneth
The Grafton Senior High Fieldhouse hosted the Junior Senior Prom from 8:30 to 11:30 with colorful gowns and a coronation of Queen Irene of 1947 and King Kenneth of 1947. Last year’s queen and king Miss Alice Mae Stephenson and Frank Todd crowned them.
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Grafton Senior High School
Irene
Irene Andrews
Kenneth
Kenneth Mac Orr
Alice Mae Stephenson
Frank Todd
Sally
David Thayer
Johnny Borne
Clarksburg
Rheumatism Arthritis Relief Promised By New Remedy
An advertisement promises relief from rheumatism arthritis neuritis and sciatica with an absolute proven remedy. It claims only one trip is needed and offers overnight accommodations and daily office hours at 188 B Fayette St Uniontown Pa with senior high school noted.
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B. Fayette St
Commercial Club Installs Officers
The Commercial club of Grafton Senior High School held a candlelight service in the school typing room to install new officers for the coming year. Retiring officers included Clara Jean Kines, Frances Newton, Anna Johnson, Mary Vogel, Katharine Ann Gainer, and Ada Jacobs. Incoming officers are Marjorie Robinson, Frances Inn, Mildred Yate, Wilma Poe, Junior Hamilton, and Eloise Gillispie.
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Grafton
Sherman Haselden
Clara Jean Kines
Frances Newton
Anna Johnson
Mary Vogel
Katharine Ann Gainer
Ada Jacobs
Marjorie Robinson
Frances Inn
Mildred Yate
Wilma Poe
Junior Hamilton
Eloise Gillispie
Ruth Bumgardner Hosts Local 4-H Club Gathering
Ruth Marie Bumgardner entertained members of the local 4-H club at her Riverside Drive home. Patty Sue Barker opened with a reading, Lela Haun demonstrated table setting, and Barbara Redinger sang two solos. The program closed with talks by Marcia Malone and Richardean Parkhill, followed by a business meeting planning an outdoor picnic next month.
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Ruth Marie Bumgardner
Riverside Drive
Patty Sue Barker
Lela Haun
Barbara Redinger
Marcia Malone
Richardean Parkhill
Norma Lee Parkhill
Nancy | ‘Smith
Louise Cutright
Vera Alice Klepfel
Marjorie Hebb
Patty Sue
Barker
Janice Haskins
Rosemary Cutright
Oak Grove Club Meeting Highlights Hostess Mrs Fast
Oak Grove Community club held an all day gathering with social conversation and a noon covered dish dinner. Christine Lucas led the business hour in the afternoon, won the club prize, and a list of members attended including Katherine Lemmons Irene Trickett Hannah Sinsel Pearl Sinsel Gladys Ford Léla Ford Christine Lucas Billy Trickett Ronnie Ford Charles Fast and the hostess Mrs Fast Plans were made to hold the June meeting at Mrs P D Davis's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Fast
Oak Grove Community Club
Christine Lucas
Katherine Lemmons
Irene Trickett
Hannah Sinsel
Pearl Sinsel
Gladys Ford
Léla Ford
Billy Trickett
Ronnie Ford
Charles Fast
Mrs. Fast
P. D. Davis
Valedictorian And Salutatorian Of Grafton High In 1947
Terry Heironimus son of Dr and Mrs T W Heironimus Jr and Betty Jean Deets daughter of Mr and Mrs H Deets are valedictorian and salutatorian respectively of the Grafton Senior High 1947 graduating class. Heironimus pursues scholastic excellence serving as National Honor Society president and involved in Quill and Scroll Hi Y and Thespians. he is camera club vice president and junior class former vice president. He participates in band orchestra Betrecat staff stage crew ReEcho staff and has acted in school plays including The Fool. Deets is a National Honor Society member and part of the Girls Glee Club.
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Terry Heironimus
T. W. Heironmus
Betty Jean Deets
H. Deets
West Main Street
Grafton Senior High School
Heironimus
O. Jay Fleming
Seniors Of U B Church To Be Honored Tomorrow
A Special Recognition Day will be held at Evangelical United Brethren Church tomorrow. During the morning worship, graduates of Grafton Senior High School will be honored with Reference Bibles bound in genuine leather and names printed in gold. Bibles will be presented to Delores Bott, Mary Kathryn Boylen, Helen Bragg, Lura Stead, Roy Setler, Patricia Reed, William White, Oscar Kirkpatrick, Crystal Wooddell Howard, Edward Cross, Mariam Morgan, Mary Morgan, Joseph Wonder, and Betty Deets.
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Evangelical United Brethren Church
Grafton
Men’s Brotherhood
Delores Jean Bott
Mary Kathryn Boylen
Helen Louise Bragg
Lura_ Love Stead
Roy Setler
Patricia Jacqueline Reed
William
Amena Sunday School Class Holds Meeting in Pruntytown
Miss Helen McKinney and Mrs Robert McKinney entertained Amena Sunday school class of Beulah Baptist church at the McKinney home. A devotional period and brief business session preceded refreshments for seventeen members. Next meeting planned for June at Mrs Martha Newton’s home 33 West Washington Street.
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Helen McKinney
Robert McKinney
Amena
Buelah Baptist Church
Pruntytown
McKinney
Martha Newton
West Washington Street
Truman Joins Poppies Drive Amid Family Illness
President Truman, at his Kansas City hotel, buys eight Buddy Poppies from local Girl Scouts to support Veterans of Foreign Wars rehabilitation funds. He notes his day’s work and visits his ailing mother, with doctors indicating her condition unchanged. Observers see him visibly despondent as he returns to his hotel to be with Mrs. Truman and Margaret.
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Washington
Wallace H. Graham
Charles G. Ross
Price Trends and Markets Edge Up After Price Furore
The Business section notes a slight improvement in the economy with orderly price adjustments replacing dramatic stunts. Dun and Bradstreet reports a five cent drop in wholesale food prices, the AP index for 35 wholesale commodities falls to 171.46, and the stock market records a strong weekly gain adding over 1.5 billion in market value. The Interstate Commerce Commission approves a fare increase for eastern rail passengers, while the bond market remains cautious as plans emerge for future financing.
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Page le
Dun & Bradstreet
Associated Press
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cumberland seeks cross river pollution fix with Maryland
City officials and state health leaders push a cooperative program for the upper Potomac basin. Doctor R H Riley of Maryland says focus must first be water supply and flood protection before sewage treatment. Watson notes West Virginia towns resist cleanup unless Maryland acts. Cumberland hopes for a future sewage plant but says it is currently economically unfeasible.
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Cumberland
Maryland
R. H. Riley
Maryland State Health Department
Riley
Watson
West Virginia
Martinsburg
Outdoor World War II Films Shown at City Lot Event
Broadcast notes tell of screenings near City Hospital with movies to start at 8:40 p m on the City lot at St John and Main streets. The films are official U S Signal Corps productions depicting armed forces in action during World War II.
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Page One
City Hospital
St. John and
Main Reets
U.S
Signal Corns
Briefly Told Return From Washington D C
Mrs C V Miller and Mrs C F Shafer returned from Washington DC where they attended the Fifty Sixth Congress of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs Miller was the delegate from Elizabeth Cummins Jackson Chapter. Mrs daa Pugh of the Pettrey Apartments is confined to City Hospital with bronchial pneumonia and resting well today. Mr and Mrs J Lee Evans Sr of West Main Street returned from Bradenton Florida where they spent the winter months assisted home by their son Joe Evans who accompanied them after attending the opening of Bob s Cola plant in Atlanta Georgia en route. Miss Laura Mae Hoffman of this city visited Huntington with her sister Mrs Albert Terry. Jim Cassell is home from college for the weekend visiting family in Parkview.
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Washington, D. C
C. V. Miller
C. F. Shafer
Washington, D.C
The
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Miller
Elizabeth Cummins
Jackson
Daa Pugh
Pettrey Apartments
Florida
J. Lee Evans, Sr
West Main Street
Bradenton
Joe Evans
Bob's Cola
Atlanta
Georgia
Laura Mae Hoffman
Huntington
Albert Terry
Northampton Hunt For Suspect In Rape Case Sparks Tension
Northamption county searches for 24-year-old Godwin Buddy Bush after he allegedly tried to rape Mrs. Margaret Bryant in Rich Square. State and local officers, plus 75 SBI patrols, hunt for Bush and the white men who abducted him from Northampton jail before dawn. Gov. Cherry orders investigators to uncover those responsible and prosecute to the full extent.
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Page
Northhampton
Hertford
Halifax
Godwin
Buddy) Bush
Northampton County
State Bureau of Investigation
Raleigh
R. Gregg Cherry
SBI
Bush
Margaret Allen Bryant
Rich Square
Bryant
Frank Outland
Outland
Veterans Anticipate Rally as Peoples Party Forms
At the Republican and Democratic primaries veterans and allies gathered on the grounds. The new Peoples Party, formed in April on a platform promising a more democratic municipal election, pledges to represent all citizens. Nuttall and others gave no comment on current office holders. Other council candidates named are Robert Brewster Grady Higgins and Elton Radford.
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Nuttall
Peoples Party
War
House debate on farm aid cuts and overall tally
Democrats argue for supporting an 83.4 million dollar agriculture cut while Republicans remain about 3.3 billion short of the target. The prior House approved roughly 1.65 billion in cuts plus a 642 million Senate addition to a quarantine bill.
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Ay Weir
House
Senate
Soviet Press Critics Anger Over Wartime Reporting
A Moscow dispatch in a magazine criticizes Anglo American coverage of Soviet losses, arguing observers understate German damage to the Soviet Union. It asserts some correspondents acted as if in an undeclared war rather than impartial observers.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Germany
Ralph Ingersoll
Charges Heard in Trampe Case With Confiscations Reported
The defendant faced charges with no arrest details shared. Authorities revealed nine slot machines seized in VFW and American Legion halls in Franklin, ten in Moorefield Moose Club, and six in the American Legion home in Moorefield. Small quantities of liquor were also taken from clubs in Petersburg Moorefield and Romney.
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VFW
American Legion
Franklin
Moorefield
Moose Club
Bush
Owls Club
Petersburg
Moose Clubs
Romney
Debate Over News Law Sparks Interstate Tension
In a Senate style debate Lomakin warns against restrictive aims claiming a $6.3 billion reduction port plan fosters misunderstanding between states. Zechariah Chafee counters that discussion of the question is of prime importance to the free law of news.
Maryland and Hopkins clash over kidnapped terrapin
In Baltimore on May 24, two hundred police halted a three hour confrontation as about 250 University of Maryland undergraduates raided Johns Hopkins to reclaim a bronze terrapin symbol. Eleven Maryland students were arrested for disorderly conduct. Hopkins students backed by police and radios kept watch as more officers were deployed. Ten Maryland students were detained to decide charges. The bite of the dispute followed Hopkins earlier kidnapping of a 400 pound terrapin from College Park.
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Baltimore
University of Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland University
Hopkins
Maryland
Earl Porter
Northern District
College Park
TJ Porter
Joseph Itzell
Murphy
Canada
De Gasperi Presses New Cabinet Formation
The article notes De Gasperi, facing an uneasy post election coalition, meeting with the provisional chief of state at 9:30 a.m. to discuss forming a new cabinet. Communists and Socialists push for a government based on the big three, while De Gasperi awaits consultations before deciding.
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DE Gasperi
1D Nugla
Alcide de Gasperi
Riots erupt amid creditors notice in West Virginia estate case
The notice to claimants in the Charles G. Tumner estate in Grafton, West Virginia, demands claims be filed by November 6, 1947 with vouchers verified at Taylor County Bank Building. Separately in Bombay, a Hindu-Muslim riot left one dead and 13 injured in a morning of clashes, with police firing to restore order.
Church Announcements From Local Congregations
Continued from page 2 lists services for Rev Stoneking Groves Aornton Haymond Chapel Knottsville Wesley Chapel Mt Pleasant Martin Bellab and others. Details show differing sermon times on first third and fourth Sundays with Sunday school schedules and youth fellowship notes across multiple churches.
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Aornton
Haymond ‘Chapel
Knotts
Wesley Chapel
MT. Pleasant
Martin Bell
Commissioners Notice of Probate Claims in Taylor County
Notices to creditors and beneficiaries of multiple estates in Taylor County West Virginia urge filing verified claims with vouchers by November 12 1947 at the Parrish Building 207 West Main Street Grafton to avoid loss of benefits John K Burdett Commissioner of Accounts warns all to present on the specified day to protect their interests for estates of L M Peters Ellen Kinney William Shaffer Vida V Mills Frank Dorso and others with dates May 10 1947 and June 12 1947 noted in the document
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L. M. Peters
Parrish
Main Street
Grafton
West Virensinia
Qmyi
John
Taylor County
West ‘Virginia
Ibenefi¢Te Aries
Ellen
Eipney
Ellen Kinney
West Main Street
West Virginia
John K. Burdett
Williamrs. Shaffer
William L. Shaffer
Parrish Building
Nes
Virginia
Rand
Taylor County West ‘Virginia
Artenanias
Vida
Millef
Mailler
Ginis
Berom
John K
Frank ‘Dorso
Wee Main Street
Crafton
Wes Spar
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U.S. National Guard
Commercial Club
Ruth Bumgardner
Oak Grove Club
Terry Hedconimus
Betty Deets
U. B. Church
W.ashington Ton
Jim Cassell
Parkview
Hamric Motor CO
Walnut ST
fCanrinnes Trampe
Page Lege Park
Charles G. Tumner
Taylor County Bank
Bombay
Taylor
Lister
Royal Infirmary
Glasgow
Knottsville Circuit
Stoneking Groves
Victor
Conn and
Holto
Gibson
B. Fawley ‘Music CO
Tigh St
Morgantown
DIAL
W. Va
Kodaks
Eastman Kodaks
Roloar & Son
Jack
Jill
City Body
Court House
W. Maint
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