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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1957
Page
3
May 27 calendar notes Loyal Class of St Pauls Lutheran Church meets at the Abel home hosted by Mrs Abel and Mrs Wittman. Rebekah Lodge No 22 holds a covered dish supper for members in the I O O F Hall at 6 30 with birthday committee posting plans.
May meetings fill the social calendar with Delta Nu Tau Phi Publican Woman's Club gathering at 7 30 p.m. in the courthouse followed by Forest Supreme units at Friendship Temple No 1 and Pythian Sisters meet at Graf Hotel. Alpha Mu Beta Sigma Phi hosts at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Joan Hawkins home Brownlow Park with Helen Hussion noted.
Mrs James Parkhill and Mrs Elsie Parkhill toured Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co with a group, viewing painting ideas and color schemes then attended a sales meeting and color film. Memorial services are set for May 26 at First Presbyterian Church with post and auxiliary members urged to attend. The third district meeting appears May 26 at 2 p.m. in Belington, and the auxiliary flag was loaned for a Boots and Saddle Club parade on May 25. The auxiliary plans to display colors for Memorial Day and Madaline Pier Branton will be present at the event. A covered dish dinner occurred Friday with many members listed, and the next meeting is scheduled for June 14.
Delta Nu Chapter DAR holds candlelight initiation before a business meeting led by president Doris Corio with members named as muses. May activities include a May 28 meeting at Allie Chammins home, a May 30 banquet, and June 2 memorial services with new officers to be installed. Thirteen new initiates listed along with hostesses and refreshments.
Bryan Wine attended a dinner sales meeting in Clarksburg. Mrs J A Stine of Maple Ave left today for Flora Illinois to visit relatives. Joseph M Madera arrived Friday from a Beckley hospital where he has been stationed for several months.
Admissions and discharges dated May 25 26 list multiple residents and routes including Lottle Walter Brownlow Virgin Duck worth Kasson Mattie Satterfield Nancy Ehrin Ronald Wiant and Mabel Brown Chevyl Dugan Ruth Smith Nancy Devers with addresses on Rt 1 Rt 2 W Main St Tunnelton Maple Ave Beech St Be CH.
Mr and Mrs Donald Wills of West Main Street announce the birth of a son at Grafton City Hospital on May 26 at 4 35 am weighing five pounds eight ounces Mr and Mrs James A Waller of Brownlow Park announce the birth of a daughter at Grafton City Hospital on May 28 at 9 30 pm weighing eight pounds nine ounces
The Wickwire Farm Women's Club gathered at 1:30 p.m. with Mrs. Walter Wood leading devotion titled Behold the Flowers while Mrs. Luther Besse taught Grow Flowers Through the Season. President Mrs. George Colebank chaired a business session, reports were read, and plans were made for Craft Day at Camp Towers June 18. New member Lula Carruthers was welcomed. Attendees included Mrs. Ed Kuebns Joyce, Mrs. S. C. Colebank, Mrs. Bill Kiger, Mrs. Orval Devers, Mrs. Theo Poling, Mrs. Willis Devers, and Mrs. Luther Reese. The next meeting is set for June 27 at 1:30 p.m. at Mrs. Luther Reese’s home. Honey bees yield about 200 million pounds of honey and four million pounds of beeswax annually in the U.S.
The Webster-Simpson Methodist churches held their fourth quarterly conference at Webster Church with Dr. A A Angle of Fairmont in charge. Lora Post of Simpson was chosen as delegate to the annual Buckham conference beginning May 29 with Tracey Felton as alternate. Various officers and committee members were named across church boards and missions, and several local residents were noted as guests or visitors.
In a reflective note from Jerez Spain two famous Americans Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving are imagined as living on wheels. The piece mentions mobile home parks nationwide, including a visit to Clarksburg and a visit by Mrs Hattie Kellar. It also references Mrs Coar Yates returning to Mr and Mrs Leroy Poling and relatives in Knottsville after visiting Fairmont.
A brief item notes a dinner at Moht Country Club, followed by the party returning to Grafton in the evening. The entry records a social routine event with no further details on attendees or outcomes.
The Elizabeth Cummins Jackson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution changes its meeting location from Mrs. Alice Chamberlain’s home to Mrs. Clay Bolyard’s home due to illness. The item notes there are over 12 000 trailer parks nationwide serving more than two million mobile home dwellers.
Mrs. Russell Bartlett and Mary Kuhnes hosted a special dinner at Mrs Bartletts home to honor her husband Russell and Kuhnes son Junior on their birthdays. Two large cakes bore the names Happy Birthday Russell and Junior. An informal afternoon followed with gifts opened and displayed. Attendees included Harold and Collette Williams, Harold and Albert Kuhenes, Bobby and David Riggleman, Keretic Kay Boice, Nancy Getz, and several Kuhnes relatives.
Announcement says Miss Sue Moore daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Moore Parkview wed John Dean of Monongah. The ceremony occurred Sunday at 2 p m at Nazarene Church Parkview with Miss Moore a Grafton High School graduate and Mr Dean educated in Monongah and a three year Armed Forces veteran. Cutworm note mentions caterpillar form of moths.
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