Municipal election mandamus case in Athens court
Witnesses testified before Judge M. Essiey in circuit court on a mandamus case to force recognition of convention nominees as legal candidates for the municipal election. Nominees listed include John M. Bailey for mayor and Frank Cutright Sr. among council nominees.
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M. Essiey
Frank Cutright
Giles J. Fink
J. H. Crawford
R. R. Sage
P. C. Bibbee
Champ Clark
Frank Parker
Rachel Myers
D. J. Thompson
C. W. Holdren
Athens
A. A. Hartman
T. A. Barbery
Frank Alvis
B. H. Reed
W. H. Caldwell
J. 4. Smith
Hassey
City Hell
Masonic Hall
City Hall
John M. Bailey
Giles Parker
Giles Fink
Sam G. Williamson
M. S. Cushman
Dave Thompson
Frank Outright
James Holroyd
Rush Eisler
Aileen Bailey
Ben H. Reed
R. G. Oxley
James Smith
John Peck
A. J. Shumate
Fred Gautier
Quinney White
Hobart Alvis
Elmer White
B. W. Kanodeki
H. Martin
Clyde White
Lilly
Phillip T. Lilly
Nina Lucille Bailey
Chester Bailey
Betty Jo Adkins Kiwanis entertainer at noon meet
Betty Jo Adkins performed at the Kiwanis club meeting with her mother Mia at the piano while Basil Adkins sang My Wild Irish Rose and UmBrella Man. The Narrows club sponsors tonight's Kiwanis gathering at Mountain Lake and a June 16 Memorial Building dance will benefit the underprivileged children fund.
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Betty Jo Adkins
Mia
Basil Adkins
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanians
Kiwanis
Narrows
Mountain Lake
Memorial Building
L. W. Swisher
Narhiaris Kiwanien
Sues
Torch y Blane in Chinatown and Fast and Loose at two theaters
Glenda Farrell and Barton MacZane lead Torchy Blane in Chinatown at the Royal theater while Roberts Montgomery and Rosalind Russell co star in Fast and Loose at the Mercer. The Kiwanis honors Wilbert Sowers as outstanding Thespian with Margaret Hare receiving senior award. Fiduciary orders assign matrimony rites to Rev. Ray C. Tindall and appoint bond and appraisers in Fannie L. Wagner estate case. Civil suits and grand jury actions involve Helen Cooper Dawson v Thurman Dawson and Crane Creek break ins against J W Sox Harold Dehovens and Ross Rallins.
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Glenda Farrell
Barton’ McZane
Torchy Blane
Chinatown
Royal Theater Today
Mercer Theater
Roberts Montgomery
Rosalind Russell
Miss Farrell
Kiwanis Club
Wilbert Sowers
Margaret Hare
Sowers
Crane Creek
Robert Phillips
Junior Preston Simpkins
R. J. Nelson
Montcalm
Phillips
Simpkins
J. B. Bond
J. W. Sox
Harold Dehovens
Ross Rallins
Summer school classes begin at Princeton High
Summer school in Princeton high school will begin at 9 o'clock next Monday morning. Courses in English commercial arithmetic algebra geometry and plane trigonometry will be offered if a sufficient number of students enroll to form a class. Miss Willie Marie Shumate and Clifton Cole of the Princeton High School faculty will be the instructors.
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Princeton High School
Willie Marie Shumate
Clifton Cole
Princeton High Behagl
Princeton Girl Scouts Camp at Lake Shawnee This Week
Members of the Princeton Girl Scouts' troop are staying in cottages for three days at Lake Shawnee. The group traveled to the lake Tuesday afternoon and will return home Friday. Miss Buford Tindar Miss Evelyn Susong and Miss Helen Ball supervise the troop.
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Princeton Girl Scouts
Tronp
Lake Shawnee
Buford Tindar
Evelyn Susong
Helen Ball
Mother Cabi Tint Catholic Girl’s Club
Irene Bero
Magistrate remands two young men to jail
Magistrate Nelson remanded the two young men to jail. Royal Arch chapter plans its regular meeting tonight at 7 30 with election and installation of officers. Watterson lodge meets Friday at 2 30 in Walker hall.
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Nelson
Royal Arch
Watterson Lodge
Walker Hall
Mrs Lura Pettry Dies in Kingsport
Mrs Laura Pettry aged about, wife of Garfield Pettry of Route 3 near Princeton, died yesterday at 3 18 PM at her sister Mrs C R Jewell's home in Kingsport Tennessee after a lingering illness. She was born in Mercer county daughter of Mr and Mrs A B White of Athens and sister of G White of Princeton. Survived by husband and two sons Emmett of Kingsport and Harold in US Navy. Funeral at Fisgan church in the county Friday at 1 PM conducted by Rev 2 M F Maybeury and Rev L D Yost.
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Laura Pettry
Garfield Pettry
Route No. 3
Princeton
C. R. Jewell
Kingsport
Tenn
Pettry
Mercer County
Mra
A. B. White
Athens
G. White
Emmett
Harold
U. S. Navy
Fisgan Church
F. Maybeury
L. D. Yost
Princeton Personal News From a Va. Park Visit
Rev and Mrs Prank L Stuck and three daughters spent Tuesday at Hungry Mother Park near Marion Virginia and picnic ed. They stayed Tuesday night in Abington with Rev and Mrs Paul Martin and returned home Wednesday morning. D R Day improving after weeks at home on Highland Avenue Mrs H L Glenn in Memorial Hospital. Bill Roney observed baseball games in Cincinnati with Merlin Miller E C Ballard and Walter Hampton as wolves no longer roam national parks.
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Prank L. Stuck
Hungry Mother Park
Marion
Abington
Paul Martin
D. R. Day
Highland Avenue
H. L. Glenn
Center Street
Memorial Hospital
Bill Roney
Walnut Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Merlin Miller
8. C. Ballard
Walter Hampton
U S Presbyterian Assembly Calls End to War Material Sales
The 151st general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA declares the United States a partner with Japan in the Sino-Japanese conflict and urges Congress to pass legislation immediately to stop selling munitions and war materials to Japan. Los Angeles opens an $11,000,000 union station.
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Cleveland
United States
Japan
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
Congress
Los Angeles
Union Station
Forgery arrests dominate Welch county news
McDowell County officers net another WPA check forgery case. Bill Phillips 17 and Melvin Frazier 32, both of War, jailed on bond awaiting federal grand jury action after pleading guilty. Checks payable to Ella R. Crockett were cashed by forging the recipient's name. Arrests led by Constable Lee Altizer and Deputy Sheriff Hubert Bellamy, with Trooper T. A. Mauvin. The couple to reside on Mapes Terrace, Welch. Community notices include church guild meetings, a sisterhood gathering, and a Catholic girls club event. A Welch couple welcomed a son, Nolan Hilmo Isom Jr., with mother and child reported well.
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McDowell County
Bill Phillips
Melvin Frazier
Ella R. Crockett
U. S. Treasury
War
Phillips
Frazier
Phillias
U. S
Hoaxiend
French
Phillins
Prazier
Lee Altizer
Hubert Bellamy
Resolution honors ex GOP chief Blakely of Mc Dowell WV
Resolutions from the Mc Dowell County Republican Committee note the resignation of John W. Blakely as county chairman due to business demands. The committee accepts the resignation with reluctance, thanks him for his service, expresses belief he can aid the party in the future, and directs minutes, a copy to Blakely, and publication in Welch Daily News.
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Republican Committee
McDowell County
John W. Blakely
J. W. Blakely
Republican Executive Committee
West Virginia
Republican Party
Republic Party
Thia
Blakely
Welch Daily News
McTowell
Marytown Man Reunited With Father After 47 Years
Felix Thompson, 64, of Marytown, located his father after 47 years by spotting an obituary in a neighboring notice. The father, once from a North Corona farm, had remarried in Georgia and fathered several children. A reunion is planned June 10 in Marytown with Thompson’s six children and extended family attending. Local relatives in Wytheville, Bristol, and Welch will join, with others traveling from Illinois and North Carolina. Australia has roughly the same area as the United States.
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North Corona Farmy
Thompson
McDowell County
Georgia
Marytown
Felix Thompson
Minnie Newman
Wytheville
Mettie Nelson
Welch Paraphrased Marriage Statement Reported
An unclear excerpt notes Welch and Sarouneeda, with references to a bride and a graduate, mentioning Bristol and a representation by a Johnson Cornett Blec entity. The readable fragment hints at a marriage notice or society item.
McDowell Republican Executive Committee Members Named
Hobart E. Payne secretary and Ot eILBURN chairman of Mc Dowell County West Virginia Republican Executive Committee were named. Johnson resides in Vivian. Two brothers Dan Bailey and Leroy Witcher live in Jersey City New Jersey. Funeral and burial plans have not been completed.
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Times
Bluefield Daily
OT Eilburn
Chaiman
Republican Executive Committee
McDowell County
West Virginia
Hobart E. Payne
Vivian Negro Woman Dies in Vivian Hospital
Mrs. Anna Bell McKinnon, 35, a Vivian resident and member of Lovely Zion Baptist Church, died Tuesday night after a two week illness. She is survived by her husband Charles and nine children all of Vivian, plus her mother Mrs. Patric McKinnon.
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Anna Bell McKinnon
Vivian
Lovely Zion Baptist Church
Charles McKinnon
Charles
William
Clarence
Redmond
Roosevelt McKinnon
Estelle
Billy June
Victoria McKinnon
Vivien
Patric
Welch Personal: Nurses Stalwart Mabel Baker Leaves
Miss Mabel Baker, longtime Grace hospital nursing staff member, departs Welch for Pittsburgh to begin a government hospital role. Mr and Mrs Williams return to Welch after visiting Martinsville and Roanoke. Estella and Rosalyn Mutzen of Welch visit friends and attend the World’s Italy exhibit in New York City this week. Mrs. Fred Stwear returns to Welch after a trip.
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Mabel Baker
Grace Hospital Nursing Staf
Pittsburgh
Government Hospital
Willams
Welch
Martinsville
Roanoke
Estella
Rosalyn ‘Mutzen
Italy
New York City
Fred Stwear
Welch area couple returns home after visit to Washington
Mr and Mrs Bender and their party, including Mr and Mrs Tut Pisver, traveled from Welch Kentucky to Washington D C. and back. They returned to their home with memories of the nation’s capital and the sights seen during their trip.
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Washington
DD. C
Tut Pisver
Bender
Ana Aie
Suet
Ceugister
Welch Sarc Seeet
Ir Toulsa, Ky
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Frances Griffith
Mae Anburgey
Elizabeth Artin Stafford
Patty Louw Lily
Joe Lilly
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Mary Egbert
Randolph White
Mary Katherine Gott
Naomi Biggs
Nancy Shrewsbury
Mildred Dixon
Frances Williams
Jimmy Spangler
Orville Martin
Sarah Kirby
Sarah McConnell
American Cafe
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Knoxville
A. D. Anderson
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W. Brooks
Emma Langford
City
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Radford
Great Smoky Mountains
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Carl Jones
Foreset Street
Barbara Thompson
Bully
Margie Prichard
Dotty
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Lawrence Sneed
Faye Ann Wood
Caroline We
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Tommy Pandleton
Barbara Pond
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Pat Neal
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Pattie
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Dickie Cook
Phyllis Tynn Bivans
Bluefield
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E. T. Evans
Margaret Evans
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Blake Avenue
Kee Street
W. O. Noble
W. A. Candler
Kirk Street
Bert Karnes
Maggie Clemons
Ruth Byrd
Tenight
B. ¥. Repass
Myrtle Bane
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Silver Springs
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M. B. Church
Wilford McCutcheon
Riley Griffith
Joe Lawson
South Avenue
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Virginian
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Ray C. Tindall
J. B. Pearson
F. Morton Wagner
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J. B. Wagner, Jr
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Thurman Dawson
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Mga
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Pocahontas Fuel Company
ONE Broadway
the Company
Mapis Terrace
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
L. A. Osborn
J. F. Strother
Sisterhood
Hyman Bell
Emanuel Sisterhood
Woodlawn Court
Nolen E. Isom
Nolan Hilmo Isom Jr
Isom
H. B. Stafford
Wilbert
Mike Delyal
Filbert
Alexander Soltesz
Sie
Soltese
U. Coal and Coke Comp Iethers
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Father
E. W. Lucas
Terry
Charleston
Lynchburg, Va
B. G. Butler
Australia
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Chi Iphet
Orchard Beach
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