Four Towns Elect Officials in Merger County Races
Election day shows varied results across Mercer County towns with Mayor races in Princeton and Athens notable for write in candidates. wards report counts in multiple precincts with shifts toward Republican and Democratic candidates. Other towns like Matoaka Oakvale War Jaeger and Thurmond elect officials, while War residents approve expanding corporate limits for school boundary purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merger County
Oakvale
J. R. Boyd
D. H. Tiller
Folong
J. Hk. Shumate
Blaine Honaker
A. D. Davis
D. F. Boggese
George Wingate
McDowell County
J. A. Brewster
FE. X. Cromer
W. A. Hankine
F. A. Weaver
H. Bailey
A. St. Howell
J. T. Lincoln
Joe Zando
View from the Hudson River path to modern America
Army planes retrace Henry Hudsons route, surveying the Atlantic seaboard from the air. The scene contrasts Hudsons cramped viewpoint with a vast panorama of wooded hills, villages, transcontinental railroads, and steamboats reflecting a generation’s progress that followed the early navigator.
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Hendrik Hudson
Atlantic Seaboard
U.S. Army
Hudson
Irene Everett Plans Quiet City Hall Wedding With Prentiss Gaylord
Irene Everett schemes a quick secret marriage to Prentiss Gaylord after a tense engagement with her half-sister Beryl. They travel to New York via the Queensboro Bridge, shop Fifth Avenue for rings, and consider a private ceremony with two witnesses. Irene calls her mother to save face as the plan unfolds.
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Beryl Borden
Tommy Wilson
Irene Everett
Irene
Beryl
Les
Prentiss Gaylord
Prentiss
Suible
Tommy
Job
Nuiss
Joey
Oakdale
Trene
City Hall
Irene Gaylord
City
Queensboro Bridge
Towers
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Maitre d
Clara Dannigell
North Shore
Alumni program closes Bluefield State Teachers College event
The Bluefield State Teachers College alumni meeting closed exercises with officer elections led by Mrs. Memphis Gartheon Gary. Congressman Hugh Ike Shott will deliver the commencement address on education and government, followed by diploma conferrals and nursing diplomas.
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Bluefield State Teachers’ College
Memphis Gartheon
Gary
W. C. Mitchell
Bluefield
H. L. Dickason
R. P. Sims
U.S. Prunty
Elkhorn High School
Hugh Ike Shott
Shott
Brown's Hospital
Pelton Woodeon Abbott
Fred Douglass Cobb
Isaiah Dollie Daniels
Artis Paria Graves
Mary Lightfoot Hairston
William Albert Holcomb
McLeod Phanelson
Victet Nevata Sattefield
Gladys Ruth Banks
Vivian Adeline Taylor
Brown's Hospital Training School
Demina Cynthia Marshall
Juanita Iris Seama
William Vincent Chappelle
Virginia Rejellain Clark
William Herbert Gray Jr
Bessie Lavanna Watkins
Grace Sue Brown
Virginia Cora Lee Brown
Margaret Santhia Clarke
Mildred Odessa Cousins
William Hildreth Cox
Eva Mae Crawford
Alfred Wayman Ferguson
Fannie Eva Fisher
Eddie Ella Foster
Hazel Marie Freeman
Mildred Howard Gray
Mary Lillian Harris
First father and son naval aviators join the flight line
Ensign John Raby has just qualified as a naval aviator at Pensacola Florida. His father Rear Admiral James J. Raby was similarly qualified in 1926 making them the first father and son to achieve naval aviation status among Uncle Sam’s fighting birds.
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Taare
Sam
Fighting Birds
John Raby
Pensacola
Fla
James J. Raby
Diploma and certificate recipients listed for a local school
The list includes numerous graduates and diploma recipients from the secondary department and certificates among Ada Elizabeth Craft Myrtle Henrietta Davis Anne Harriet Rogers Nettie mena Lewis and others. Names cover multiple girls and boys, reflecting a class cohort and awardees from the school.
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Roma Allen Hagee
Avicia B. Hooper
Alice Elizabeth Hubbard
Ethel Lee Johnson
Florence von Lewis
Elizabeth Bell McDowell
Gertrude Manning
Steavie Millicent Mitchell
Dubois Myers
Lerner Thomas Orey
Anna Mae Patterson
Hettie J. Richardson
Lena Mae Rosa
Lorena C. Simpson
Mary Frances Smith
Hortense Gwendolyn Vaughan
Geraldine Sophronia Washington
Mandella Leatrice White
Hel Marietta Woods
Catrena Young
William Lester Banks
Anna Vivian Brown
Albert Raymon Ford
Florence Edith Freeman
Hattie Elizabeth Foy
Leslie Elizabeth Hill
Amanda Veronica Hubbbard
Murray Jeffries
Anna Mae Nelson
Ruth Aileen Victoria Wright
Philip Painter
Alberta Maria Ross
Helen Virginia Ross
Paul Topson
Dorothy Lee Washington
Geraldine A. Watkins
Annette Elizabeth Whitehead
Willard Wilson
George H. Weoding
Smith Hughes
Ada Elizabeth Craft
Myrtle Henrietta Davis
Anne Harriet
Diplomas Awarded to 26 at Local College
After eight years on the Bluefield college faculty Dean Vernon E. Wood resigns to join Mars Hill college in North Carolina. He will head the chemistry department in the Mars Hill summer session and depart with his wife Mrs. E. B. Witten as the community and church honor his service.
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el Katan
Dramatic Order
Knights of
Bluefield
Princeton
Imperial Palace
Cincinnati
United States
Canada
Arent Order
Khorrasesan
Order Knights of Pythias
John W. Brown
West Virginia
Ean Vernon E. Wood
Bluefield College
Mars Hill
N. C
Mars Hill College
Mr. Wood
Dean Wood
First Baptist Church
East
Wood
Broaddus College
Philippi
W. Va
Cofield Wins Permit to Wed Mrs. Schueter in June Romance
Patrick Henry Cofield, 97, in a blue suit and pearl gray hat, obtained a marriage permit to wed 65-year-old Mrs. Etta Innona Schueter in Los Angeles. He predicted a joyful life ahead and joked about his brother living to 101 and staying nimble.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Patrick Henry Cofield
Etta Innona Schueter
Beaver High School summer session enrollment tops sixty
The Beaver High School summer session opened with about 60 students for seven weeks while the junior high term started with 70 students. Ten courses are offered for credit makeup or acceleration. C. W. Jackson leads the high school program with Rose Lee Cole and Horace Bowen as instructors. The Ramsey School hosts the sessions from 8 a.m. to 1 30 p.m. daily except Sunday, under M. L. Smith and assistants Mary Bailey, Mrs. J. M. England, and Mrs. C. H. Hatcher.
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Ramsey
Beaver Highchool
C. W. Jackson
Beaver High School
Rose Lee Cole
Horace Bowen
M. L. Smith
Therview School
Mary Bailey
J. M. England
C. H. Hatcher
Ramsey School
City Board Tightens Permit Rules Await Prior Approval
City directors announced strict enforcement requiring applicants to await board action before any building work begins. Complaints about motorists testing speed on Jefferson Street prompted police to intervene. Permits approved include J M Lewis Jr remodeling on Bland Street for 250 dollars Nathan Platnick building a residence at College and Copley avenues for 4000 dollars Masonic Trust remodels a store room on Federal Street for 4000 dollars S L Tickle building a garage on Albemarle Street for 200 dollars G T Leslie placing a dining car on Federal and Scott streets for 5000 dollars.
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City Board of Directors
Jh. Lilley
Jefferson Street
J. M. Lewis Jr
Bland Street
Nathan Platnick
College and Copley Avenues
Masonic Trust Association
Masonic Temple
Federal Street
L. Tickle
Éide
Albemarle Street
G. T. Leslie
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Mercer
King
Shrewsbury
Bennett
Bird
Priddy
Johnson
Peck
Fortune
Porter
Noel
Democra
Prrary
Nepublican
Johnnson
Athens
F. B. Cartwright
W. I. Grantier
L. B. Parker
T. C. Houching
R. A. Coffee
D. C. Pettry
J. W. Robinette
R. A. Sage
N. A. Boggess
C. H. Reed
L. E. White
Matoaka
Progressive
Johnson Martin
Taever
J. A. Hatcher
Citizens
Jaeger
F. Lockhart
People’s
W. C. Amos
Shade Belcher
F. A. Sarver
H. L. Batley
A. L. Godfrey
Thurmond Thurmond
Fayette County
George Bullock
E. R. Daniels
George J. Flatz
J. C. Hatcher
J. W. Kelly
Comer Gray
W. C. Parris
Alderson
A.M. McNeer
F. G. Lobban
Marcus Dillon
W. G. Hill
Clarence Crowder
W. Carnes
George Bare
KE. R. Fletcher
Frank Nash
Maitre D’hotel
Monsieur Gaylord
Mama
Barbers and Draggiste
State College
Congressman Shott
R. Anderson
Harvey Amos, Mer
Freckles
BY Blosser
Will
Hanne
Binkles
Farrar
Mr.culler
E. B. Witten
H. H. Rogillio
Lake Charles
Thedford
Ramsey Street
Ray Matz
Edmund Lowe
Lella Hyams
Boy Friends Comedy and News
Constance Bennett
Adolphe Menjou
Crawford
Oklahoma Run
Rialto
Edna Ferber
Marro
Richard DIX
Irene Dunne
Estelle Taylor
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