Election Set in Princeton Voters Choose Mayor and Council
Princeton voters head to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor and three council members. Democratic candidates include J. C. Ridenour for mayor and council members J. B. Robertson, Omer C Belcher, P. J. Long across wards. Republican contenders are Sam R. Arrington for mayor, with Otho Thompson, Fred Whittaker, and Ernest Pritchett vying for council seats.
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Princeton
Comen
J. C. Ridenour
J. B. Robertson
Omer C Belcher
P. J. Long
Sam R. Arrington
Otho Thompson
Fred Whittaker
Ernest Pritchett
Card of Thanks for Elder Mrs. Glenna Fink’s Loss
The Fink family expresses gratitude to friends for sympathy after the death of Mrs. Glenna Fink. They thank Memorial Hospital staff Memorial Funeral Directory and those who provided cars. Signed by Acie Fink and children.
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Glenna Fink
Memorial Hospital
Memorial Funeral Directory
Princeton area personals note numerous locals away visiting
Miss Joyce Tiller leaves for Staunton Virginia to attend Augusta Military academy event June 5 and stay with Don Wilson. Several Princeton residents announce visits, furloughs, and returns from trips including Angelo Zambito at Fort Bliss convalescent leave, Elva Howell returning from Syracuse, and others visiting relatives in Princeton Radford and Waynesboro.
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Joyce Tiller
Staunton
Augusta Military Academy
Miss Tiller
Don Wilson
Cpl
Angelo Zambito
Princeton Avenue
Fort Bliss
Texas
L. C. Pennington
Thorn Street
Elva Howell
Syracuse
N. Y
Soreelem
Princeton
Radford
Martin L. Howell, Jr
George Meade
Shirley Ann Dobbins
Henry Stret
Memorial Hospital
Virginia Callaway
Agnes Scott College
Macon
S. L. Callaway
Honaker Avenue
Harriet Spangler
Fairfax Hall
Waynesboro
Hale Avenue
Crickett Hambrick
Clifton Forge
Theresa Brown
Eastern Airlines
George Brown
Main Street
Kyle McCormick
Charleston
G. Cargill
Straley Avenue
S. O. Fredeking
Hinton
J. L. Fredeking
Center Street
C. C. Sarver
Bluefield Avenue
Washington, D. C
Frank Hutchison
Harrison Street
Cauley G. Harvey
Page
Margaret Booker
Devehter
Eleanor Booker
J. W. McNutt
North Walker Street
W. O. Sowers
Walter Sowers
Officers Of Legion Post To Be Nominated
The Princeton American Legion post will nominate officers at its meeting next Tuesday night June 5 due to a date change from September to August. The election will be held at the July meeting announced by post commander J. C. Mangus.
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Princeton American Legion
J. C. Mangus
Thanking Friends for Kindness After Mother's Passing
The family of Mrs. Emma Williams extends thanks to friends neighbors and shop and yard workers for acts of kindness during illness and death. Special thanks to Rev Angalo Kessinger and Robert Croy for comforting words and to those who brought flowers and provided cars.
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Emma Williams
Angalo Kessinger
Robert Croy
B. F. Williams
Funeral Services For Miss Fannie Dagostin
Funeral services for Miss Fannie Mae Dagostin age 50 will be held at Predetking Seaver Funeral Home Princeton this afternoon at 2 o clock. Rev Z F Mayberry of Matoaka will officiate and burial will be in Montevista Park Cemetery. Dagostin was found dead by hanging with rope looped around her neck tied to a stair rail. officers say she apparently jumped from the second floor to break her neck.
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Puneral
Fannie Mae Dagostin
Essie P. White
Ingleside
Predeking Seaver Puneral
Princeton
Z. F. Mayberry
Matoaka
MontecVsta Park
Knights Of Pythias District Convention At Crumpler
The thirteenth district Knights of Pythias meet with Burkes Garden Lodge No. 57 this afternoon at Crumpler starting at 2 o clock. It is the final district meeting of the year with officers to be elected and a district grand chancellor candidate recommended. Grand Master at arms B Earl Kester of the Grand Lodge will attend. A banquet is scheduled for 5 o'clock.
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Knights of Pythias
Burkes Garden Lodge
Crumpler
B. Earl Kester
Grand Lodge
K. of P
Pineville Soldier Liberated After German Capture
S/Sgt. Paul Ritchie son of Mr and Mrs C C Ritchie of Oceana and husband of Margarite Pack Ritchie Mullens was freed by the Russians after months as a prisoner of war. He served on a B 17 crew shot down over Berlin March 8 1944 and later moved by Germans. He left Germany May 14 and reported liberation April 30. He taught in Wyoming county schools before serving.
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Pineville
Paul Ritchie
C. C. Ritchie
Oceana
Margarite Pack Ritchie
Mullens
Ritchie
Berlin
Paris
Paul Ritchie, Jr
Germany
Wyoming County
Mule-Foot Deer Sighted on Pinnacle Creek
Game protector W. M. Rutherford reports a partial mule-foot deer on Pinnacle Creek with two mule feet and two divided hoofs. He notes two deer killed recently by dogs and an automobile, and a very large buck with a deformed hoof nicknamed Old Crip is seen nearby.
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The
Conservation Commission
W. M. Rutherford
Rutherford
Summer School Opens at Local High School Program
Mrs. Robert E. Kuhn will open a summer school program at the local high school with plans to provide extra instruction and activities for students during the break.
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Robert E. Kuhn
Property for sale 200 acre farm near Princeton with outbuildings
No 21 east river district offers 200 acre farm with 100 acres tillable or pasture, balance grazing and woodland, watered by springs and a well. includes 6 room house, 2 barns and other outbuildings. located 3/2 miles from Princeton on a secondary road near a grade school. price 9000 or terms or trade for other property.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Bluewell
Mercer
McDowell
East River District
Bluefield-Princeton
Princeton Bank & Trust Company
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Bland County
Mercer CO
Athens
Macadam Road
Summer girls' classes begin at local high school
A girls high school program opens for ages eight to twelve with two weekly classes on Tuesday and Thursday. The course starts Tuesday June 5 at 2 30 PM. The first session meets inside the school room, second outdoors. For enrollment contact Mrs. Kuhn or Mary K Bowman.
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Crop loan applications set for June 16 in Wyoming county
Emergency crop and feed loan program proceeds with another county visit to Wyoming on June 16. Applicants will file at the county clerk's office starting 9 a.m. Field supervisor D. J. Hovatter announced the plan to assist farmers seeking late season loans.
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Wyoming County
D. J. Hovatter
Lightning strikes and wrecks Bailey home in Baileysville
A severe storm struck Baileysville early Monday destroying the residence of Mr and Mrs Ray Bailey while they were away. Bailey a civil engineer is ex-
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Ray Bailey
Baileysville
Bailey
Home Torn Apart by Severe Storm at Kopperston
The family had left the day before the storm and moved to Kopperston for weekends. The bolt caused furniture inside to be torn to pieces and scattered across the lawn, indicating the force of the storm.
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Kopperston
Veteran division infantry routs enemy, claims heavy losses
Held in reserve, a veteran division’s infantry company in four days killed 131 enemy fighters and seized 10 Nambu machine guns, four knee mortars, 22 pistols, four sabres, and one light machine gun, with many more wounded.
Soldier James W. Terry Earns Combat Prowess in Pacific War
Pfc. James W. Terry son of Lon C. and Mrs. Terry Hatcher, machine gunner with infantry in the Philippines and Solomon Islands fought Jap paratroopers. He accounts for several enemy dead, including one of the two killed on the first night. A former coal steerer, he joined the army October 20, 1942 and is in his fifteenth month overseas.
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Pfc
James W. Terry
Lon C. Terry
Hatcher
Koppers Coal Company
Terry
Gan
Vella la Vella
Solomon Islands
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