Town votes today in Princeton and surrounding towns
Princeton voters go to polls from 6 30 AM to 7 30 PM to choose a mayor and four council members for two year terms. Contests exist in Princeton Bramwell and Athens with write ins and multiple candidates for mayor recorder and council seats. Suits were filed in circuit court in chancery July rules by Solar Joyce against Dave Joyce William Turner against Mary Agnes Turner and Broderick Peters against Edith Peters.
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Princeton
Thens
Oakvale
Bramwell
Matoaka
Omer C. Belcher
John B. Robertson
E. E
C. Ed Jones
Merlin Miller
Athens
Citizens
D. W. McCormick
Peoples
W. P. Clark
J. Mitchell
Council
J. C. Newbold
Guy Nicewander
W. C. Johnson
Charlie Williams
Ivan Clark
Clark
C. E. Cumby
L. E. Surface
A. W. Hale
McCormick
L. Parson
Roscoe Dudley
Circuit Court
Chancery
Solar Joyce
Dave Joyce
William Turner
Mary Agnes Turner
Broderick William Peters
Edith Frances Peters
Harry F. Boice Rites Held at Camp Creek Church
Funeral services for Harry F. Boice who died in a sanitarium at Macon Missouri will be held this afternoon at Camp Creek Baptist church at two o clock. The Rev Robert Doane and Rev Isaac Payne will conduct the service. Burial will be in Ep Ling cemetery. The body was taken to the old Boice home reopened for the occasion from Memorial Funeral Directory chapel. Mr Boice was born September 12 1897.
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Harry F. Boice
Macon
Camp Creek Baptist Church
Robert Doane
Isaac Payne
Epling
Boice
Camp Creek
Memorial Funeral Directory
Mr. Boice
Legion Plans Meeting Tonight In Princeton for Convention
The Princeton American Legion post will meet at the Memorial building at eight o clock to arrange hosting the district convention on June 15. Officers will be nominated and members able to join the proposed post band should attend. Band leader James Spangler announces rehearsals begin in September after his Ohio State summer program.
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American Legion
Princeton
Princeton American Legion
Memorial Building
James Spangler
Spangler
Ohio State
Nineteen Initiated and Four Reinstated in DOKK Ceremony
Nineteen candidates were initiated and four members were reinstated in DOKK Shiraz Temple 29 at ceremonies in the Knob school gymnasium Saturday night. About two hundred Dokdies attended with state and national officers taking part in the ritual. Refreshments were served by the Pythian sisters Mayflower Temple.
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Shiraz Temple
Knob School
Mayflower Temple
Princeton Area Personal News Roundup
Local residents and visitors share weekend updates. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cook travel from Phoenix to visit daughter Mrs. Jack McFarland in Princeton before returning to Fairmont. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Moore and daughter Catherine return to Washington after a weekend with Dr. Moore’s parents. Miss Harriet Spangler leaves June 10 for Davidson College. brother Ernest also heads to Davidson for summer. J. E. Shelton and Eva return to Newark Ohio. Mrs. Shelton remains ill. Byron Peck and Henry Peck travel home after visiting their mother Mrs. W. V. Peck who is seriously ill. Mrs. R. L. Dugan learns of sister Mrs. Hugh Rodgers’s death in Troy Alabama. Miss Alice Wallingford goes to Morgantown for West Virginia University summer session. Miss Mildred Hadden returns from Charleston for vacation. Miss Virginia Karnes returns to Charleston after weekend at home. G. B. Halstead heads to Erie to inspect Virginian Railway motors. Mrs. Fred Tinder Jr returns home from surgery in Charlottesville to stay with her parents before returning to Beckley. Mr. and Mrs. Harrington care for their two young sons during Mrs. Tinder’s hospital stay. Mrs. Sallie Winfrey visits daughter Mrs. W. C. Blevins in Montcalm.
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C. L. Cook
Phoenix
Ariz
Jack McFarland
Walker Street
Fairmont
Thomas J. Moore
Catherine
Washington, D. C
Duke University
Hale Avenue
Davidson College
Ernest
J. E. Shelton
Eva
Princeton
Newark
Ohio
Shelton
Ora Winfrey
Byron Peck
Detroit
Henry Peck
Billings
Mont
W. V. Peck
R. L. Dugan
Charleston
Virginia Karnes
Highland Avenue
G. B. Halstead
Erie, Pa
Virginian Railway
Fred Tinder, Jr
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Dennis Harrington
Beckley
Hirst Street May Stay Open
Princeton officials consider keeping First Street open after the overhead bridge project following a state road commission recommendation. Traffic now uses First Street during Straley avenue work, with engineers proposing a small rise at Mercer and level access at Straley near the bridge. The Walford building at First and Straley will be razed to remove a view hazard and influence the decision. Action by the commission on the recommendation is expected soon.
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First Street
Princeton
State Road Commission
Mercer Street
Fifth Street
Railroad Station
City Council
Straley Avenue
Straley
Walford
First
Commission On the Engineers
Pearisburg Man Held In Traffic Violations
Pearisburg Va resident James F Hammond was arrested near Kelleysville late Saturday by Trooper E O Bourners and Constable Walter Fielder on hit and run and drunken driving charges. He posted 300 bond to appear before Magistrate E Dale Bailey. Hammond allegedly caused a motorist to crash into guardrails and then struck a large trailer before the wreck.
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James F. Hammond
Pearisburg
Kelleysville
E. O. Bourners
Walter Fielder
D. T. Carr
E. Dale Bailey
Hammond
Church Of God Opens Vacation Bible School
The Church of God at Oliver Avenue and Thorn Street began a ten day daily vacation Bible school for children aged five to sixteen. On Monday at 9 a.m. a large group gathered, with sessions 9 to 11 30 a.m. and nightly evangelistic services at 7 30 p.m. led by Rev. R. Callahan.
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Church of God
Oliver Avenue
Thorn Street
R. Callahan
Lighthouse and The Man I Love At Local Theaters
A turbulent domestic triangle unfolds in Lighthouse starring Don Castle June Lang and John Litel at the Royal theater today. Ida Lupino headlines The Man I Love melodrama with songs at the Mercer theater alongside Robert Alda Andrew King Bruce Bennett Martha Vickers and others.
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The
Royal Theater Today
Don Castle
June Lang
John Litel
the Mercer
Ida Lupino
Man I Love
Mercer Theater Today
Robert Alda
Andrew King
Bruce Bennett
Martha Vickers
Princeton Society Episcopal Auxiliary Meeting
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church will meet Wednesday night at 5 30 p m. in Princeton. The event aims to support service members with community service and outreach activities through the local church group.
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Princeton Society Episcopal Auxiliary
Woman’s Auxiliary of
The
Episcopal Church
Doris Fletcher Dies and Infant Rites Held
Mrs. Doris Mae Bull Fletcher died at Memorial hospital Princeton at 6 last night. Funeral and committal services for her infant son born at birth Sunday were held at Bethel cemetery. Rev. John A. Womeldorf officiated. She was born Feb 23 1923 in Carterville Missouri to Don R Surviving are her husband Lowell W Fletcher of Princeton and siblings Don Jr Charles W and Mrs Ruth Evans and grandmother Ida Bean of Carterville Grandparents Mr and Mrs Charles D Bull of Carthage also survive. The body remains at Memorial Funeral home with arrangements incomplete.
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Doris Mae Bull Fletcher
Memorial Hospital
Princeton
Bethel Cemetery
John A. Womeldorf
Fletcher
Carterville
Don R
Lowell W. Fletcher
Don R., Jr
Charles W
Ruth Evans
Ida Bean
Charles D. Bull
Carthage
Memorial Funeral Home
Closing Exercises Mark Wilcoe Grade School Graduates
Jenkin Jones West Virginia June 2 The Wilcoe grade school held closing exercises for a class of 34. Rev. Co B Dickenson spoke and Joe Donchatz presented diplomas. Ronnie Atkinson was valedictorian with several classmates participating.
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Jenkin Jones
W. Va
Co. B. Dickenson
Joe Donchatz
Wilcoe School
Ronnie Atkinson
Mary Mahaffey
Randolph Sluss
Buddie Sawyer
Peggie Wolf
Tommy Pressley
Ralph Poszich
Billie Jo Lyal
Denver Jones
Jackie Mathis
Lowell Able
Jeanette Able
Rosie Henley
H. G. Sawyer, Jr
Jimmy McNeil
J. W. Saunders
Donald Petit
Frances Myers
Jaunita Sparks
Pearl Combs
Nancy Yost
Jerry Dalton
Sue Carp
Smith
Shirley Whitt
Maxine Poszich
Bobby Woolridge
Dwight Miller
Claude Keys
Rondie Ferguson
Charles Stover
Paul McCroskey
Junior Cunningham
Harold
Uriel Hundley
Hubert Moore
Musical program by 4 H club aids boy's trip to Jackson's Mill
A Friday evening program in the school auditorium by the 4 H club sponsored by Mrs. Billie Spencer and Mrs. Donald Vance aims to raise funds to defray costs for a boy's summer trip to Jackson's Mill. Rev L J Priestly oversees the West Virginia Anti Saloon League in Charles town.
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Billie Spencer
Donald Vance
Jackson’s Mill
Local social notes and visits across Virginia towns
Sunday visits and health updates from Welch Martinsville and Bluefield area. Mrs Caldwell a Grace hospital patient. families like Bostic Reynolds and Gravely spent Sunday in Rocky Mount and with relatives. Catherine Hunter graduated Bluefield. others traveled to Boissevain and Bluefield for family events and hospital stays.
Birth Announcements from Tazewell Area
In Tazewell two families report new sons born May 22 and May 26 in Washington D C and Jeffersonville hospitals. David Bruce Bailey is son of R B Bailey and Gertrude Keister. J C Lam’s son with wife from Lexington is born while he works at Farmers Bank of Clinch Valley. A Tazewell Lodge AF and AM meeting is set for Monday at 7 30 p m with F C degree work.
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R. B Bailey
Washington, D. C
David Bruce
West Main Street
Bailey
Washington
Jeffersonville Hospital
J. C. Lam
Tazewell
Lexington
Lam
Farmers Bank of
Clinch Valley
Tazewell Lodge
No. 62
AF & AM
F. C
Miss Catherine Peery Visits Tazewell as Four-H Agent
Miss Catherine Peery assistant State Four-H club agent from Blacksburg spent last week in Tazewell en route from Lebanon where she attended a Four-H club workers meeting. She stayed with her sister Mrs. Bob Bailey and was joined by her aunt Mrs. J. G. Jones of Vincennes Indiana who was visiting.
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Catherine Peery
Blacksburg
Tazewell
Lebanon
Bob Bailey
J. G. Jones
Vincennes, Ind
State Auxiliary Elects Officers in Bluefield Session
The State Auxiliary to the West Virginia Osteopathic Society meets in Bluefield for a three day session with officers to be elected and delegates chosen for the July Chicago national convention. Mrs. A. P. Meador of Hinton gave the welcome and Mrs. Guy Morris of Clarksburg replied. Mrs. E. E. Sieg of Holidays Cove, auxiliary president, opened with a message after officers reports. An informal reception and a book review followed.
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Woman’s Auxiliary
West Virginia
C. W. Jackson
Travel Plans And Family Visits Noted In The Region
The narrative lists anticipated travel from Blacksburg to Winchester Tennessee with a visit to sister Mrs Willard R Anderson before returning home. Guests at the North Tazewell home include Dr and Mrs S M Cottrell of Richmond. Mrs Hazel Rife and her daughter plan to depart for Seattle to sail to Japan for a two year assignment with Sergeant Rife.
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Blacksburg
Winchester
Tenn
Willard R. Anderson
Peyton Greear
North Tazewell
Japan
Sergeant Rife
Osteopathic leaders address Bluefield college gathering
Dr. John P. Wood of Birmingham Mich led the program at Bluefield College as guests from the Southern district attended a morning session with a luncheon at Mrs. W H Carr's home. A. W. Easley lectured on buttons, Miss Sue Fortune performed, and Leatherwood farms tours followed.
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Bluefield College
John P. Wood
Birmingham
Mich
American Osteopathic Association
W. H. Carr
North Street
A. W. Easley
Sue Fortune
Leatherwood Farms
Leo's
R. M. Thomas
Huntington
American Osteopath Association
Betty Thabet
Henry Fortune
Charles Cassell
T. H. Lacey
Parkersburg
For Sale: Gas Range Heater and Tricycle in Princeton
For sale listing with a Magic Chef gas range in excellent condition priced at 95 dollars a bathroom heater for 10 dollars and a small tricycle for 5 dollars. Contact Princeton 819 or apply at 1218 North Walker Street Princeton for details.
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Princeton
N. Walker St
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Princeton News
Sam Williamson
Forest Ambrose
Ambrose
U. S. Dickens
Concord College
Arthur Hartman
E. H. Jennings
Jennings Store
Frank Parker
Sam McCulloch
Credit Bureau
Bluefield
James Bradley
Bradley’s Inc
A. A. Hadden
Parker
Meade McNeal
Joe Vachon
Jennings
Frank Outright
U.S
AET
Mentaair
Legion
Dokk
Musgrove
Prin
Princeton Ave
West Virginie
Hirst Street
Church of God Starts Vacation Bible School
Australia
Quired
Princeton Finance CO
National Bank
Princeton, W. Va
Doris Fletcher
Oes
Pageton
Masonhall
Connie Murphy
Iva Eanes
Forrest Moore
Welch Chapter
Ollie Myers
Northfork
Mable Hall
Betty Blankenship
Gertrude Kirk
Mae Rhudy
Eva Kate Fine
Leroy Smith
Cc. A. Murphy
Ferrell’s Diner
ROYAL
Ton
Methodist Church
Charles BE. Caldwell
Grace Hospital
Welch
Marvin Bostic
Ruth Reynolds
Elwood Gravely
Rocky Mount
Bostic
Maybeury
W. E. Gravely
E. W. Alley
Richmond Riggs
Bluefield Sanitarium
Tazewell, VA
Masons
Tion
Blake Avenue
Er Trkshopr
State Auxiliary
Tomchin Furniture Co
Mercer St
W. Ve
Beaver Trio
Sara Helen Udy
Jean Poteceea
Betsy Cloyd
Dr. D
Jayne
J. H. Reynolds
Princeton - Oakvale
Kirby Truck Farms
Mercer County
McDowell County
C. N. Kirby
Riverside Drive
Kirby Brothers
Main St
Cou
Citizens OF
City OF
John W
Jack) Brown JR
Appalachian Power Company
Jones Electric Company
Marshall D. Spangler
Sida Lupino
J Robert Alda
Andrea King - Broce Donmeit
Dhe Man iBone
Nielson
Princeton, W.va
Spangler Hardware Store
McRoberts Tire & Supply Company
G. K
Gartha) White
Virginian Railroad
White
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