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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
10
Several chancery and law orders were entered in circuit court by Judge D M Easley. Condemnation case orders provided for payments to defendants and waivers of the three day marriage law. A divorce decree was entered as of November 28 1938 in the case.
Virgie E. Cox sues Wade B. Cox seeking custody of three children and permanently alimony of 25 dollars monthly to the plaintiff. The defendant is ordered to provide support for the children.
A long list of out of town mourners attended the funeral of John D. Gott at First Methodist Church on Wednesday. Attendees included families from Charleston Pineville Beckley Mullens Pearisburg Bluefield and other nearby towns. Also noted are upcoming meetings of Daughters of Ruth Circle and Women of Moose plus a Boy Scout themed film at the Royal theatre.
Pvt Maryland P Hurt of Princeton and husband of Mrs Alice P Hurt transfers from field artillery at Camp Mee Arkansas to the 16th armored division effective May 23 He volunteered in 1941 and served with harbor defenses of Chesapeake Bay until March 1944 He earned sharpshooter and first class gunner badges and cites wishing to finish the war quickly to aid three overseas nephews.
Suits were filed in circuit and chancery courts with Citizens Coal and Supply Co against Oliver Smith and others, and Dora Leona Clark against Tommy Gay lor Clark. Donald O'Connor leads a film pairing Susanna Foster Lilian Gish Richard Dix and Peggy Ryan in a drama comedy. The Mercer stage features Top Man with OConnor as a son who runs the family business as his father joins the navy. Music by Borrah Minevitch Rascals Bobby Brooks Count Basie and his orchestra. A motor in a refrigerator for ice cream burned out at Tynes Cash Grocery east Princeton.
A midweek incident reports heavy smoke observed in the afternoon around 2 30 with efforts underway to control the blaze. No injuries described and origin details are unclear in the readable fragment.
Cub Scouts Den No 2 will meet this afternoon at 4 oclock at the home of Mrs. R W Bird in Walnut.
Robert B. McNutt Jr of Lynchburg returns home after visiting his parents on Park Ave due to the critical illness of his aunt Mrs Joe Barber. Mrs Robert Trimble of Clarkesburg spent several days here.
Mrs Bill and Miss Dorothy Brown return to Center Street and West Virginia University graduates Miss Theresa Brown and Miss Freeda Deitz come home. Lt Daniel T Carr Jr leaves for Camp Pendleton after fifteen months in the South Pacific and a fifteen day furlough. Mrs Bill Raney visits Peterstown while Lt Col D Riley and relatives visit from Columbia. Little Pete Helmontoller visits from Bluefield as J S Chambers remains ill with a heart attack.
Allison has returned to Princston after spending the week visiting friends and relatives in Mt. Airy North Carolina.
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