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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1930
Page
8
On Wednesday evening students of St Augustine's high school presented an excellent program of special features and a short comedy. The school auditorium was well filled and participants were heavily applauded. Rev Father M J Hannon gave a brief address complimenting their work.
Seven men walked in seeking Salvation Army aid and ten were involved in a mixed outcome. Three rode trains without tickets and slept in county jail for ten days. seven traveled on foot and received meals beds and clothing from the Salvation Army locally. A 14 year old boy received a hot bath and a shaved face plus new underwear after Captain Arnold offered help. A local merchant supplied garments.
The article notes that graduation exercises will be held Tuesday at 9 o clock with Rev Father Hannon presiding. Eighth graders receiving diplomas include James Robert Conley Bernadetta Ford Charles Richard Gerkin John Francis Kunst Kathryn Margaret McManamie Ruth Julia Moran Bernardine Ann Morasco Eleanor Conallia Tierny Ann Mary Warder Mary Helen Whelan and Arthur Aloysius Shields. Earlier program participants named Curtis Mahaffey Alberta Hoskins Mildred Flanagan Helena Broderick Norman Mahaffey Kathryn McManamie Mary Whelan Helen Flanagan Martha Jane Deegan Jean Murray Richard Gerkin John Kunst Arthur Shields James Flanagan Robert Conley Frederick Flanagan Bernadetta Ford Eleanor Tierny Julia Moran Anna Mary Warder Bernadine Morasco Joan Limbers.
Judge Warren Big Kitte presided as the May term recessed to Monday morning June second. The jury acquitted Sroy Mayle in a birth case. Arthur Mayle’s theft case against his ex wife was continued until next term. Gordon Blake Manslaughter case continued as court schedules indicate further proceedings Monday morning.
The New York Paris styles urge a practical spring wardrobe with a printed dress and matching jacket or skirt and jacket paired with a contrasting blouse. A duo tone all rayon jacquard crepe fabric features a black jacquard pattern and tiny floral designs. A short bolero jacket with three quarter sleeves matches a sleated skirt in red and yellow, white rayon crepe blouse tucks into the skirt, gauntlet cuffs flare over jacket sleeves and the fabric resists wrinkling.
Delegates at the seventy second assembly in Des Moines consider merging the Northern, Southern, United German Reformed and Dutch Reformed Presbyterian churches. The move would create a 3,000,000 member body, seen by leaders as economical, with Rev. Thomas Atchison elected moderator from Lawrence, Mass to succeed Rev. John McNaugher of Pitts DUTCH.
Pasadena May 29 a tall blonde masked robber boarded a Santa Fe Los Angeles Chicago train in motion and battered into a Pullman car. Marion Nixon film star her husband Edward Hillman and Robert G. Lehman were robbed of jewelry and cash totaling about 7500 and 575. Ruby Keeler witnessed from a adjacent compartment. Nixon pleaded to save her wedding ring which the robber returned. Lehman a banker and Hillman were targeted. two rings including a 4 1/2 carat solitaire valued at 6500 were taken.
The Pure Milk Association reports a notable decline in milk consumption in large cities. Job losses are blamed with Chicago showing the smallest drop at three percent. New York eight percent. Philadelphia six. Detroit sixteen. Cleveland seven. Pittsburgh eight. and western cities seven to fifteen percent.
In New London Connecticut on May 29 a fishing boat laden with liquor reportedly valued at no less than 50 000 dollars was seized last midnight by authorities bootleg liquor, authorities said.
A coast guard patrol boat found the ship near Block Island and seized nine hundred cases of rye and whiskey. Five men aboard, described as seamen, were arrested as officials investigated the incident.
Memorial Day program announced for Sunday in Simpson with Rev. J. W. Kirby preaching at Union Baptist and Rev. W. R. Moyer delivering memorial sermon at 2 PM. Graves will be decorated, a tradition supervised by local officers and area residents. Community gathering and dinner features noted, with ties to local industries and nearby towns.
Charleston May 29 The state supreme court granted a writ of prohibition stopping C G Cook justice of the peace of Ohio county from acting on an attachment order against the property of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company to settle a Naseif Candy Company claim.
Amere Gas Utilities Company purchased Charleston, West Virginia, announced at United Fuel Gas offices. The affiliation involves a Columbia Corporation of New York deal, with financial terms not fully disclosed in the fragment.
A deed transferring about 12 000 acres of Winifrede Coal Company lands in Kanawha and Boone counties to Ralph Beaton of Columbus Ohio was filed with the Kanawha county clerk. The properties were bought at a special commissioner’s sale for 448 000.
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