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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
5
A Grafton visit outlines industrial needs, urging public schools to tailor part time and cooperative programs with employers. Emphasizes学校 adaptation to employed youths, employer-school partnerships, and practical curricula spanning shop work, drawing, math, and commerce.
A portrait and autobiography on the Who's Who page of the Evening Post feature Alosd W Parsons a former Grafton boy whose rise from forager crafter to coal and mining executive and editor is recounted. He describes Lehigh University Virginia Michigan Denver and West Virginia paths and notes his role at Coal Age and eventual posting with the Daily Evening Post.
Pittsburgh October 17 Sheriff William Haddock of Allegheny County sent a letter to Senate Investigating Committee Chairman Kenyon asserting that the body of United Mine Workers organizer Fannie Sellins, shot August 26 near West Natrona during a miners strike, was allegedly mutilated to hide a back wound. The sheriff's missive accuses official autopsy and urges inquiry into alleged revolutions and propaganda tied to the case, while urging caution against labor agitators and Bolshevik influence in the steel strike era.
Crank H Bethel, president of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company and head of the East group of Bell System lines serving the Mid Atlantic, will resign to become vice president in charge of finances at White Oil Corporation, a new NY bankers formed oil interests group. He led service for over 2.5 million subscribers across Maryland Virginia West Virginia Ohio DC Delaware and New York and oversaw expenditures above $100,000,000 annually. Bethel began as a messenger in 1890 with New York and New Jersey Telephone, rose through ranks, joined Chesapeake and Potomac in 1904 as general manager, and was elected president of Chesapeake and Potomac and allied companies on January 1, 1912.
The jury found the defendants responsible after deliberation over unsafe highways for children traveling to and from the schoolhouse. Each defendant was fined the statutory minimum. State's Attorney W Merle Watkins prosecuted, C E Wyckoff defended.
Cumberland Maryland October 17 Lutherans raise 2000 tons of clothing for Poland and Finland amid Bolshevik terror reports. St Pauls Church seeks 1000 pounds of cast off or new clothing with donations today and next week. Committee includes Mrs Harry R Donnelly Miss Margaret Somerville Mrs Harry W Floto and Miss Lucy Dreyer.
In Sand Lick and Wendel, a joint schoolhouse dispute led to civil actions in Justice Tuff's court. Parents allege dangerous travel on county roads and rail paths to the distant school, seeking a Sand Lick schoolhouse as truancy rises. Proceedings were begun by a truant officer with Clarksbury District involvement.
Dark mornings prompt daylight saving change as clocks fall back one hour Sunday October 26. Railroad timetables shift exactly one hour and plants beginning at 7 am adjust work hours accordingly due to earlier darkness.
Local contractors report no difficulty securing unskilled labor in Clarksburg. Pittsburgh district steel workers being laid off are employed here at four dollars a day on a West Pike Street project.
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