Wisconsin farm wife sees Virgin Mary at crowded shrine
Mrs. Mary Anna Van Hoof of Necedah announced a message from the Blessed Virgin to a vast audience near 100000 at her dooryard shrine. She urged universal prayer to avert danger to Pope Pius XII and warned of Korea as crowds gathered for the seventh vision with priests and nuns present.
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Wisconsin
Necedah
Wis
Mary Anna van Hoof
Virgin Mary
Mother of Christ
America
Pope Pius XII
Dioresan
Preston McEvoy
Wisconsin State Police
Deaths and Funerals in Local Area
Mrs. Dona Ann Ross of Lashmeet dies en route to Cleveland Clinic after heart attack while going for goiter surgery. Born 1887 in Tazewell County, she leaves a large family and will be buried in the Ross family cemetery near Kegley. Also listed are services for Hubert O. McDowell and Paul Glover McMillan with funeral details and survivors.
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Lafe Ross
Dona Ann Ross
Lashmeet
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
The
Baptist Church
Bud
Wyoming County
Lee Farmer
Wallace Farmer
Ross Family
Kegley
Mrs Lula Christian Rites Planned at Ballard Church
Mrs Lula Christian 68 of Red Sulphur Springs died Monday at Hin ton hospital after several weeks hospitalization. She lived in Summers and Monroe counties and is survived by son Daisy W. Christian of Ridge Creek and brothers John A. Mann and Rufus Mann. Her funeral, at Ballard church, will be conducted at 2 30 by Rev L D Candler with burial to follow.
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Lula Christian
Red Sulphur Springs
Hinton
Ballard Church
L. D. Candler
Peterstown
Funeral Service for George Joseph Roth
Funeral service for George Joseph Roth aged 62 of Ream will be held at 9 am at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church Gary with Rev Father Robert Goshorn. The body will be taken by hearse to Cleveland Ohio for a Thursday service at Calvary Cemetery with Rev Father Carpel.
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George Joseph Roth
Ream
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church
Gary
Robert Goshorn
Cleveland, O
Calvary Cemetery
Father Carpel
Obituary notices for Louise Alvis and Hobart Estep
The body of 64 year old Louise Alvis, sister of Mrs. H. H. St. Clair, will arrive in Bluefield from Columbus. Rites are set for 2:30 PM at Hawkins funeral chapel with Rev. A. A. Angle officiating and Monte Vista cemetery burial. Also, Hobart Estep, 39, of Big Rock, Ky., died from injuries in an automobile crash and services are at 1 PM in Shelbyiana with interment in Ford's Branch cemetery. Jacob Bryant, 84, a retired timberman, dies in Panther. funeral Thursday at 10 AM from his son's home, with burial in a nearby cemetery. Bryant is survived by two sons and two daughters. Fanning funeral home, Saeger, in charge.
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Midway Christian Church
Hubert O. McDowell
Bramwell Road
St. Luke’s Hospital
Baldo Cook
H. H. Mauch
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bradley McDowell
Charles Nowlin
Richard Richardson
Junior Hunt
E. V. Donnelly
Charles Shelton
Mercer Funeral Home
Louise Alvis
H. H. St. Clair
Princeton Avenue
Columbus
Bluefield
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
A. A. Angle
Trinity Methodist Church
Monte Vista Cemetery
Shelbyiana
Hobart Estep
Big Rock
Grundy
Roy Hall
Harold, Ky
Ford
Jacob Bryant
Ellis Bryant
Panther
Charlie Richards
Ross Peters
Bryant
Kentucky
McDowell County
Ellis
Eph
Horsecreek
William W. Hypes
Princeton
William Walker Hypes
Memorial Hospital
Conley
Rhody
Belcher
Littlesburg
Fredeking-Seaver
Ernest Belvin Lewellyn
Stadium Drive
Lewellyn
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Norman
Della Lewellyn
G. L. Kellam
Detroit
Mich
J. M. Baldwin
Ocala
Fla
Margaret Lewellyn
Samuel J
Lydia Newman Lewellyn
Virginia
Mercer Funeral Chapel
J. B. F. Yoak, Jr
Grace Methodist Church
Central Cemetery
Radford
Coal Show Parade Set for Bluefield Exhibition Week
William Walker Hypes funeral service set for 2:30 PM at the Princeton Route 1 home with burial in Belcher Cemetery. The coal show parade and events in Bluefield include Queen Glenna’s court, N and W band, Pioneer Miners, gadget contest, and many films at the freight depot exhibition site.
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N. and W
American Legion
Pocahontas High School
John Dishman
Pioneer Miners Club
Federal Street
Princeton Avenue
Bluefield Avenue
C. N. Wilson
Last rites for L Grover Crain mining engineer dies
L Grover Crain 60 a mining engineer for the Poca hontas Fuel company died Monday at Bluefield Sanitarium. Funeral services are at 3 this afternoon from Mercer funeral chapel with Rev C H Patterson officiating. Interment is in Woodlawn Cemetery with Harman Lodge No 222 AF and AM Bluefield Va conducting committal rites. Pallbearers listed include A R.
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L. Grover Crain
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Bluefield Sanitarium
Mercer Funeral Chapel
C. H. Patterson
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Woodlawn
Harman Lodge No
Bluefield
A. R
Britain Stands Alone Over Schuman Pact In Strasbourg
In Strasbourg Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan to pool western Europe's steel and coal output faces broad European support. British Laborites and Conservatives push counter plans to curb the pool and defend sovereignty as 14 nations study the proposal. West Germany backs Schuman with calls for equal rights in the new authority and relief from production limits.
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Strasbourg
France
Britain
Europe
Schuman
European Council
Consultative Assembly
West Germany
Robert Schuman
Germany
International Coal and Steel Authority
Eastern Star members named as flowerbearers
Fox W D Compton Walter Shupe William McKinley Macom H Hurley and J Horace Rawlings are listed as flowerbearers for Bluefield Chapter No 66 Order of Eastern Star.
Third McDowell Draft Call Out
Welch West Virginia August 15. McDowell county selects 42 more men for pre induction exams on August 23 at Beckley. IA married men must report for change in classification with several name changes and new addresses noted.
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Welch
W. Va
McDowell County
Selective Service Board
Beckley
McDowell Selective Service Board
William Thomas, Jr
Panther
Marianna
Ervin Wiars
War
Harman
Ben White
Luther Whitt
Saeger
Wiley Graham
Anawalt
James Hagerman
Bartley
Charles Edward Jones
Worth
Pittsburgh
Penn
Frank Atkins
Floria Duvall
Thomas Gordon Fowler, Jr
Squire
Bill Lester
Paynesville
Robert Andrew Marcum
Hemphill
Lin Tuitty
Six
Nathaniel Kent
Bishop
Edward Clarence Mitchem
Eckman
North Tazewell
William Howard Brown
Claude Edgar Church
Kimball Edward Lee Jamison
Coalwood
James Kennedy
Jol
Floyd Edward Pennington
Vivian
Edsel Woodrow Steele
Berwind
Charles W. Callaway
Jenkin Jones
Welch IOOF Holds Instruction School Evening Meeting
Welch West Virginia Aug 15 a school of instruction will be held Wednesday night with the regular meeting of Welch Lodge No 158 IOOF. The meeting will begin at 7 30 o clock in the IOOF hall.
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Knights of the Grip
Pete’s Grill
Bluefield Country Club
Welch
W. Va
Welch Lodge No. 158
IOOF
Hallanan Sees Uncertainty Slowing Tidelands Oil Output
Washington reports oil industry leaders say ownership disputes over marginal sea lands curb offshore drilling. Walter S. Hallanan of Plymouth Oil Co. told the Senate Interior Committee that state federal contention has slashed Gulf operations from 40 crews to four and reduced rigs from 23 to 14, threatening a full halt without clarification.
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Washington
Walter S. Hallanan
Charleston
W. Va
National Petroleum Council
Plymouth Oil Co
Senate Interior Committee
Hallanan
Interior Department
Tidelands
Texas
Louisiana
Hallonan
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Fire damages N and W camp car in Hemphill
In Welch West Virginia on August 15 a Norfolk and Western Railway camp car was nearly destroyed by fire in the Slick Rock area of Hemphill. Fire Chief H B Hartinger said kerosene used to start a stove caused the blaze. A second car holding gasoline was saved after firefighters extinguished the fire. No injuries reported.
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Assam
India
Roberts
Burma-China
Auckland
New Zealand
Rotura
Boston College
Harvard University
Daniel Linehan
Weston
Mass
Boston
Turkey
Caspian Sea
L. Don Leet
East Indies
Harvard
Father Linehan
Joseph Carroll
S. J
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Wis
Pacific
Japan
Central Meteorological Observatory
Tokyo
London
H. V. Shaw
Dorking
England
E. W. Pollard
Seattle
University of Washington
South Pacific Ocean
University
Welch
W. Va
Norfolk & Western Railway
Slick Rock
Hemphill
H. B. Hartinger
Welch Man Fined For Illegal Liquor Sales
Welch W Va August 15 Howard Clayton arrested during a raid on the Vets club in Woodmont was fined 200 dollars plus costs in city police court. Clayton got 100 dollars plus costs for illegal liquor sales and 100 dollars plus costs for operating gambling slot machines. Officers said the club had no beer or cigarette license. Disposition of seized liquor and machines was not announced.
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Welch
W. Va
Howard Clayton
Vets Club
Woodmont
Clayton
City And Coalfield Blanche Miller's Kindergarten Reopens
The Blanche Miller kindergarten and continuation school in Bluefield WV reopens on Wednesday September 6 1705 at 170 S Bland street. Dana's Beauty Salon advertises specials on permanents from 7 50 to 10 00. Harman Lodge No 222 AF and AM Bluefield Va holds a memorial at 1 30 for Brother Larry G Crain with lodges from Bluefield and Pocahontas invited. For sale a grandfather hall clock can be viewed at the Raleigh hotel.
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City and Coalfield
Blanche Miller
S. Bland Street
Dana
Harman Lodge No
Bluefield
Larry G. Crain
W. Va
Pocahontas
J Frank Anderson
Grandfather Hall
Raleigh Hotel
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Garner Printing Company
Princeton Observer
John and
Laura Morrow McMillan
Midway
Tenn
Bethel Cemetery
George J. Roth
N. W. Pugh Company
Roanoke
Happy” Vereuian
Ayds
Veronica Lake
Cendy
COHEN
Federal
O. C. Young
Doug Ford
Bandwagon of Musical
Hobart
ESTEP
E. B. Lewellyn
M. L. Workman
Koppers Coal Company
Glenna
Bluefields
Bugle Corps
Fred J. Bailey
Cardox Corp
Chicago
Oldsters
Norton Clagett
Pocahontas Land Corporation
Shirley Brown
Norfolk and Western Railway
Ted Luther
B. B. Houseman
Luther
E. H. Easley
Ins. Ag
LAW & Coma
Aerce Bldg
McDowell
St. Joseph
Hamden Wholesale
Princeton, W. Va
Poland
Honolulu
Hawaii
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
South China Sea
Philippines
Loyola University
Aleutian Islands
North Pacific Ocean
Alaska
Alphone Schmitt
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Bluefield, W. Va
Purity Maid
Bakers
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