Editors to headline West Virginia college editors gathering
West Virginia college editors gather in Charleston for a two day Inter Collegi ate Press convention with newspapermen as speakers for the first time. Morris Harvey College hosts with 75 to 100 delegates expected. Speakers include Burke McClanahan and Max Fullerton among others. Governor Kump and Judge Kenna attend. The event ends with officer elections and city selection for 1937.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Jo N. Kenna
Supreme Court
Morris Harvey College
W. G. Shover
Department of Business Administration
Comet
Morris Harvey
Burke McClanahan
Charleston Daily Mail
E. B. Benbert
Concord
MacClanahan
Charles M. Soroka
Max Fullerton
Associated Press
Medora Mason
Fairmont
Sol Pad
Kump
W. H. MacGinnis
Charleston Gazette
Topsy O'Dell
Beckley College
J. Raiford Watkins
Raleigh Register
Beckley
Page Pitt
Marshall College
Funeral rites for DeWitt Eskew at Athens Baptist Church
DeWitt Eskew, World War veteran who served in France, had funeral services in the Athens Baptist church with the Athens American Legion as pallbearers. Burial followed at Oakwood cemetery in Princeton. The Rev. Carl Hemsley officiated. The Athens community noted the last auxiliary meeting of the year of the Methodist group with readings, songs, and a Christmas story led by Mrs. Toothman.
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Athens
W. Va
DeWitt Eskew
The
Baptist Church
Eskew
France
Athens American Legion Post
Oakwood Cemetery
Princeton
Carl Hemsley
Athens Baptist Church
Eleanor Bradley
Pearl Cooper
Hortense Martin
Effie Martin
Attending Meetings and Community Updates
Personal notes report ongoing attendance at afternoon meetings through the year. Several injuries are noted with victims recovering. A series of social visits and trips to sanitarium treatment are described, along with family and church activities and weekend visits from residents of Virginia and nearby towns.
Local Social News From Herndon West Virginia
Mrs E L Shelton and Mrs Co Blevins visited Bluefield recently. Robert Kuhn spent Thanksgiving with his wife's Charleston relatives. Tracy Wyatt visited Beckley relatives with Mrs Wyatt. Claude Lesler stayed with Princeton kin. Olive Reece Marshall College student visited home with cousin Maurine Sudduth. Vaughn Stewart and daughter Patty visited Pineville relatives. W E Tibbs Jr. able to be out.
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Herndon
W. Va
Co. L. Blevins
E. L. Shelton
Bluefield
Robert Kuhn
E. L. Reece
Maurine Sudduth
Vaughn Stewart
Patty
Pineville
W. E. Tibbs Jr
Local Notes on Residents and Visitors Return Home
Illness confines many residents to their rooms while Virginia Bjork infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bjork recovers from double pneumonia. Harold White back from Maben Virginian railway paint gang visits family. Helen Hale of Princeton and Edna McKinney visit, with McKinney at Matoake. Paul McKinney and Roy McKenney escort Misses Olive Reece and Maurine Suddith to Huntington. Families host guests from Pineville and Glen Rogers. A wave of travel and visits includes Lusk and Shrewsbury, Phipps and others returning from Page. Lman Toler and Carl Rutherford of Mullens stop in town for business.
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T. R. Holroyd
Virgil Hardy
Doyle Lytton
Nannie Lusk
Princeton
Missouri
Nellie McComas
Sadie Harding
Albuquerke
N. M
Athens
Woodrow Stowers
Bastian
R. 8. Shaffer
Pulaski
John Dobbins
Virginia Bjork
Raymond Bjork
Harold White
Maben
Virginian Railway
Helen Hale
Edna McKinney
Matoake
George McKinney
Paul McKinney
Roy McKenney
Olive Reece
Maurine Suddith
Huntington
C. R. Woolwine
Narrows
Don Carlos
Robert Kuhn
Bill Bailey
Pineville
Roy Lusk
Glen Rodgers
Malinda Lusk
Elmer Shrewsbury
Matoaka
Marvin Carter
Ww. B. Phipps
BE. L. Shelton
Wimpy
Pedneau
R. H. Brown
L. H. Testerman
John Stacy
Page
Lman Toler
Carl Rutherford
Mullens
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Robert H Horner
Daily Mail
Statehouse
the Gazette
Sol Padlibsky
Robert H. Bull
Ed Mal
Freedom 0 the Press
Betty Lively Holroyd
America
Nad
Fou
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Southern Baking Corporation
Sot Steek
R. E. Clingensmith
R. R. Sage
Maytag
Virginian
Maytag CO
Bland St
Welch
Wytheville, Va
Maytag Company
Monelecterens
Newton, Iowa
MAYTA
Younton
Bluefield, W. VA
Sik
Pullman
Thornton’s
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