Wild Game Supper Marks First Mercer Association Banquet
The Mercer Hunting and Game Protective Association held its inaugural banquet at the Virginian Hotel with about sixty members. A W Reynolds outlined aims to protect wildlife, promote sportsmanship, and urge state lawmakers to consider safer bird seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer Hunting and Game Protective Association
Virginian Hotel
C. T. Dow
W. J. Elliott
A. W. Reynolds
Association
Mr. Reynolds
Reynolds
Guy Ridder
Graham
B. Ogle
Sam Motroyd
Athens
Mercer County
Holroyd
Lilly Highway Addition Real Estate Investment
A few dollars monthly in real estate proves profitable. Try a lot on the Lilly Highway Addition for potential gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Highway
Marriage Licenses and Local Court Actions Highlight Princeton List
County court issues licenses for multiple couples in Bluefield Princeton and Ashland areas. Road questions and administrator filings set for Plymouth district meeting. Police judge fines Dick Gibson for drunkenness. Tax discounts end today. PTA meets December 4 at East Princeton. Reports of a gunshot wound to James Johnson and a Pilgrims roll call request. Local social events include a Thanksgiving party and a Missionary bazaar plus holiday sales at Santon Brothers with 25 percent reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Martin
Ophelia E. Norton
Bluefield
Adolphus B. Roach
Cecile F. Ward
Edgar G. McGuire
Ashland
Rosalie Cooper
Princeton
Alvert J. Britton
Johanna B Hollander
Hunters Banquet Highlights West Virginia Game Talks
A hunters banquet at the Virginian Hotel featured Dr Holroyd noting deer and turkey declines and Pigeon populations once common. H G Woods shared turkey hunting tales and Roscoe Dudley urged dog owners to enter field trials. John Kee proposed broadening the association to southern West Virginia and called for stricter game protection and possible legal reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Holroyd
Vermillion
Athens
H. G. Woods
Roscoe Dudley
Bramwell
John Kee
Bluefield
West Virginia
Brother Local Pastor Weds Bride in Roanoke Ceremony
Rev R M Sims traveled from Roanoke to Roanoke with his brother Rev Alfred E Sims who has taken a South Salem pastorate. The pair joined the wedding party at Hotel Roanoke for the ceremony of Alfred E Sims and Grace B Firebaugh before the couple left on the Memphis Special visiting eastern Virginia towns Charlottesville and Richmond. Grace B Firebaugh is the niece of C L Firebaugh of South Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Sims
A. E. Sims
The
Christian Church
South Salem
Roanoke
Alfred E. Sims
Grace B. Firebaugh
Hotel Roanoke
Memphis
Virginia
Charlottesville
Richmond
Neice
C. L. Firebaugh
Princeton Church Services Outline for Sunday
In Princeton churches Sunday services include Christian, Methodist, and Baptist gatherings. Christian Endeavor events at 11 am and 6:30 pm, with preaching by the pastor. monthly board meeting at 2:30 pm. Methodist services at 11 am with communion, choir and Thanksgiving anthem. Epworth League 6:45 pm. Baptist Sunday School at 9:45 am with B Y P A groups meeting 6:30 pm. Subject for morning and evening sermons noted with numbers on attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian
R. M. Sims
B. C. Barton
Junior Christian Endeavor
Christian Endeavor
BE. H. Cassidy
KB. B. Bailey
E. L. Robertson
J. W. Herring
Levi Vermilion
Helen Reynols
Mader Oxley
Dorothy Hale
Herring
Epworth League
B. B. Hedrick
Young Peoples’ Chorus
Roy Snead
Princeton Thanksgiving Socials and Arrivals Highlight Local Life
Local Princeton residents hosted and joined Thanksgiving gatherings with families and friends. Notable travels included Rev B H Cassidy from Maryville and J C Carter guests on Parker Avenue. Hunts yielded thirty rabbits and twenty five birds. others visited relatives in Charleston and Bedford. Lilly Highway Addition improvements spur investment interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Herring
Wilford McCutcheon
John H. Nelms
J. Virginia Nelms
Carbo
E. G. Tate
Nelms
Webb Hale
McCutcheon
B. H. Cassidy
Maryville
Moses Nero
Roanoke
Santon Brothers
A. J. Heninger
Charleston
Princeton
Tazewell
H. C. Hadden
Huntington
Stanard Hulme
Hadden
Martha Harman
Harrison Street
W. R. Kidd
Bessie Davis
Daisy Vines
Annie Hopkins
Park Avenue
Pearl Williams
State Auditor's Office
Orlando
Fla
Evening Sermon Announced at Local Presbyterian Church
The church invites the public to a Sunday service with a male quartet singing That Beautiful Land. A Congregational meeting at 11 will consider a call for a new pastor. Christian Endeavor at 6:30. Evening sermon by Rev. Peter Clark of Shawsville, Va., at 7:30. All welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian
Congregational
Christian Endeavor
Peter Clark
Shawsville
Stabbing Death in Welch After Thanksgiving Row
William Williams, a Black man, was fatally stabbed at No. 10 Gary by Well Moore, also Black, who fled. The two men had earlier trouble over a woman and met during a Thanksgiving event at an uninvited gathering. Williams died minutes after the wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Williams
No. 10
Gary
Well Moore
Moore
Wiliams
Williams
Douglas
Welch Personal Notes and Holiday Visits Reported
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Cullen and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Coburn dined with Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Martin in Vivian for Thanksgiving. Elizabeth Preston visits Paintsville. H. L. Bailey tours Welch. J. A. French returns from Huntington meeting. Mrs. J. C. Toyce to Christmas visit in Welch. Summers family guests of Mayor J. C. Mer Pendleton departs for real estate work. George J. Turner visits Kimball. born to Mr. and Mrs. An grove Hemphill twin boys on Thanksgiving afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Cullen
O. C. Coburn
T. A. Martin
Vivian
Elizabeth Preston
Circuit Clerk's Office
Paintsville
H. L. Bailey
Jaeger
Welch
J. A. French
Huntington
F. H. H. Company
Welch Briefs and Community Notices
A meeting of the ladies auxiliary of the American Legion is set for December 6 to elect officers and discuss business. Cecil Henderson, once an officer en route to reform school about two years ago, was paroled by Judge Strother yesterday. An Eastern Star meeting is planned for Monday evening in the Masonic hall. Sunday services at First Presbyterian Church include an 11:00 a.m. worship with a choir anthem A Song of Victory and a solo Just For Today by Miss Nina Hooker. Work on a pipeline by Appalachian Power Co. is described in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Hendreson
Reform School
First Presbyterian Church
Nina Hooker
Salvation Army Begins Work in Welch and McDowell County
The Salvation Army launches active service in Welch and McDowell County with a schedule of events today and tomorrow. Tonight at 7 at the Norfolk and Western depot, Sunday services at 11 in the Presbyterian church with Major D Main of Charleston, Captain and Mrs Bouterse at the Methodist, Captain Grace at the Baptist, a 2:30 open air service and a 3 o’clock mass meeting at City Hall third floor with Mayor Summers presiding, followed by a 7:30 program in City Hall on The Work of the Salvation Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Welch
McDowell County
Norfolk and Western
D. Main
Charleston
Presbyterian Church
Bouterse
Methodist Church
Grace
City Hall
Summers
Major Main
Injuries May Force Murchison to Retire
New York November 30 reports Loren Murchison national sprinting champion and world record holder of Newark Athletic Club sustained back injuries in a recent automobile accident and may be forced into athletic retirement as a vertebra in his spine was displaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Loren Murchison
Newark Athletic Club
Falls plan to move naval oil reserves to interior departs
Washington November 30 proposed transfer of naval oil reserves to interior department was approved by Navy Department council. Admiral Robison testified before the Senate public lands committee about financial questions surrounding former interior secretary Albert B Fall and his Three Rivers New Mexico ranch. He defended the Sinclair lease and outlined storage plans on the Pacific coast with a 47 million barrel capacity and a projected construction cost of 100 thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interior Department
Denby
Navy Department Council
J. K. Robison
Senate Public Lands Committee
Robison
Albert B. Fall
Mr. Fall
Walsh
Carl G. Magee
New Mexico
Fall
Three Rivers
N. M
Magee
J. T. Johnson
Tres Ricos Land and Cattle Company
Pacifi
Wild Women Talk Tales From the Sea
A quirkily told fragment features a shipwrecked narrator and a tribe called Bowsprit discovering a tin of wild women who cannot speak. The maiden asks how they could talk, and the old tale confirms they could not, explaining their wild nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galt
Quantities for Serving Large Events From Practical Rules
Practical rules on planning food quantities for gatherings. Estimates cover cream, desserts, salads, meats, seafood, beverages, and serving sizes for various dishes and occasions, with notes on scaling recipes and cooking larger quantities.
Proceedings in circuit court face slow civil docket
Judge Herndon presided a quiet Friday with many civil cases settled or dismissed. Budding disputes over property lines between Butt and Noel near Pinnacle and Wright and Bailey ended in out of court settlements. Judgments entered include Economy House and Material Co. vs Carter Bros for 563.41. A Worley vs Smith matter settled amicably and a Kirby assault suit led to a late jury verdict. Divorce decree awarded in Killen vs Killen. Lilly Land Company advertises investment in Lilly Highway lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herndon
John Butt
Alex Noel
Pinnacle
Marvin Wright
A. C. Bailey
Economy House and Material Company
Bluefield
Carter Bros
G. F. Worley
Ira M. Smith
Th Plantiff
J. Z. Lawson
Joe Kirl
Kirby
J. R. Killen
Betsie Killen
Shay
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Staty
Pithy
Plymouth
Dick Gibson
C. H Shepherd
Gibson
Dee
Parent-Teacher Association
East Princeton
James Johnson
Memorial Hospital
Johnson
Itmann
Nothng
Margaret McKenzie
A. R
Frederick
Frances Vermillion
E. D. Terry
Woman's Missionary Society of
Princeton Furniture Company
Mercer Street
Irene Castle
Kee
Virginian
N. C. Black
Wal
Bob Ingersoll
Paul
Lilly Land Company
Welch and
Solvay Collieries Company
Rouse
James Harris
Wm. Gravely
Wm. Hairston
E. W. Womack
M. M. Day
L. Watkins
J. B. Harman
R. D. Gibson
H. J. Day
A. A. Jones
I. J. Rhodes
Surety
John Yobas
Casewell Creek Company
Simmons
Welch Hospital
Estelle Stanfield
Preston Stanfield
Superior
Kimball
Ms Electric Shop
Ai Va
Welch Briefs
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the American Légion
Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Appalachian Power Company
Salvation Army Will
Murchison
Falls Financial Status
Navy Council
Ming
Senator Walsh
West Coast
Weights and Measures
NEA Service, Inc
Young Men's Shop
Welch, W. Va
Manhattan
Moses Hyman
Hughes Electric Range
Edison Electrical Appli
Ance Specialists
Bluefield Supply Co
Rusmisell Electric Co
Tommplin
Cernee
Hughes Electric
Hotpoint Hughes Electric
Princeton, W. Va
Bluefield Supply Company
Bluefield, W. Va
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