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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
6
Recognition day at Grafton High School honored athletes musicians thespians and high achieving students. Certificates and letters were awarded to band choir football track basketball and home economics members among others with plaques rings and honors for leaders and top performers.
West Virginia farmers, facing a dry spell and high heat, await rain as only showers are forecast. Agriculture experts, including USDA statistician H. M. Brewer, say pasture and meadow crops suffer but not yet seriously. Wheat should survive with rain. corn planting and oat sowing are delayed. fear of drought remains from past decades.
Grafton High School awarded honors in the 1938 39 year with certificates in Bookkeeping Typing I and Typewriting. Names include Mildred Nestor Florence Carroll Charlene Haynes Barbara Gerkin Frances Hayhurst Margie Bennett Helen Turner Lucille Rogers and many others among 40 plus recipients. Special certificates and various word pin awards noted for efficiency and skill. Principal Torock Rasmussen announced the honors.
Mabel Wilson Foley, a minor, files for divorce from William D. Foley of 201 Long Street in Taylor County. Attorney E Wayne Talbott of Philippi handles filing. Action returnable at June rules of court. Foley sued through her next best friend Levi J. Wilson.
For sale a 65 acre farm with a completely remodeled one room house. It features an electrical furnace bath electric hot water and hardwood floors. Phone contact 926512.
Memorial services will be held at Simpson Baptist church and Simpson cemetery all day Sunday with a noon dinner on the grounds. Decoration of graves precedes a 10 am Memorial Day service with Sunday school, and at 11 am Miss Regina Lowther of Grafton will speak. An afternoon address at 2 pm will be given by Rev Mrs Lois Luzader. The Webster Baptist church choir will assist with music.
Flemington High holds baccalaureate in the school auditorium at 6 Sunday evening with Rev. William Knox of Andrews Methodist church Graf ton WV delivering the annual sermon to the graduating class. Principal L W Talbott announced the program featuring Miss Hulda Suder leading processional and recessional and students Rosanna Poole Lyla Workman Genevieve Kelley Mildred Cain performing with mixed and girls quartets amid hymns and music.
The article reports pleas from multiple defendants tied to a string of deaths in Philadelphia. Manduuk’s exhumed body shows four poisons. Christina Cerrone, Samuel Sortino, Cesare Valenti, Paul Petrillo, Rafael Posselli, and Amedeo Muscelli face murder and manslaughter charges in various drownings and a related poisoning case. The court notes Italian speakers among the defendants and ongoing indictments.
A group of widows including Mrs Josephine Romauldo faced manslaughter charges for killing their husbands while another prisoner known as Rose of Death endured a three day hunger strike before hospital transfer. Rose Carina, 45, was arrested in New York on murder charges in the poisoning of Pietro Stea whose status as common law husband linked him to the case.
Attorney Gene W. Ford filed a chancery praecipe against Charles J. Tucker and multiple defendants in Taylor county circuit court. Named defendants include Flora Tucker W Lyle Jones trustee Bridgeport bank Dorsey L Brown 3 E Bailey J O Jaco Ray Col Freedom Oil Works and E A Rinehart receiver of the Grafton Banking and Trust company.
Tom Madden of Booths Creek district was ordered by Justice A B Knabenshue to a peace bond. He must keep the peace for one year after a hearing following a recent dispute with a neighbor. The bond amount set at 100 dollars.
A Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. trailer, attached to a car, holds five public phones and travels to events. Attendants handle calls and charges at a desk, with private booths and an intercom to the attendant. The interior includes a holstered seat, fan, heater, and waiting bench.
A description notes the trailer measures 21 feet in length and features a blue exterior with gold lettering. The interior is highlighted by color, while the aluminum roof completes the exterior, and the trailer includes all West Virginia telephone directories plus those of frequently called cities outside the state as accessories.
Double white lines on all curves are being painted by State Road commission employees, which means no passing on dangerous curves will be permitted. Corp. Fred Strader, commandant of the Grafton detachment of state police, warned today that arrests and prosecutions will follow for violations.
Instructs drivers to follow double-line passage rules to avoid creating a road hazard when attempting to pass. Emphasizes penalties or consequences for ignoring lane markings and proceeding unsafely.
Williamson May 25 Injuries from a state fall a week ago caused the death in a hospital of David H. Crogran 49 mine foreman at the Cinderella mine of the Cinderella Coal company. Funeral services will be held Friday.
At the closing session of the West Virginia Bakers association annual meeting Bluefield was chosen to host the 1940 convention. The selection was announced May 25 with Bluefield slated to welcome members and officials for the next gathering.
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