Accused Highway Robbery Held After Mercer Hearing
Arnold Williams, arrested with Bill Dillon on highway robbery charges, was held for Mercer county grand jury after a hearing. Williams faced charges including operating a vehicle under liquor and received a $100 fine and sixty day jail term. Dillon was convicted for drunkenness and remanded for nonpayment. Witnesses identified Williams as the robber who demanded Edith Fine’s watch at the water works dam area.
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Arnold Williams
Mercer County
W. W. McNeal
Bill Dillon
Williams
Coats Land
Williame
Dillon
Walter G. Burton
Edith Fine
Samuel Fine
College Avenue
Miss Fine
Margaret Moore
J. G. Mahan
Oakhuret Avenue
Water Company
Mise Fine
Funeral Rites Sunday for Mrs R P Whittaker in Pearisburg
Funeral services for Mia R P Whittaker 48 of Williamson will be held at 2 p m Sunday in the Methodist church Pearisburg Va with burial at Birchlawn. She died Wednesday at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minn She is survived by her husband three children Payne Roy and Mary all of Williamson her mother Mrs Tom Vaught Blacksburg and siblings Mrs W G Snidow Mrs L B Snidow Mrs Jake Smith and William Vaught Attending relatives include Otto Whittaker and Mrs M F Epling.
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Pearisburg
Mia
R. P. Whittaker
Williamson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Birchlawn
M. F. Epling
Nnaae Otto Whittaker
Blueeld
Leap Year Bride Cherry Dixon Weds Reporter Dan Phillips
Cherry Dixon defies her wealthy parents and marries Dan Phillips of the Wellington News after a night with him. The couple elopes, faces family scorn, and begins a new life in a hotel, planning to move into their own place as Cherry adjusts to married life.
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Cherry Dixon
Dan Phillips
newsaper_ reorter
Dan
Lee
Underworld
MR. Dixon
Dixon
Cherry
Sarah
Sherr
Walter J. Dixon
Sherwood Heights
Daniel Phillips
Retter
Wellington News
Justice of the Peace Cuningham
Eet
News
the Sentinel
Groves
City
Phillips
Maison Madelaine
Marion Madelaine
Stanley's
Miss Lacey
Tony
Lacey
French Pool Removed to Mercer County Jail
French Pool, a Black man, was moved from Bluefield jail to Mercer county jail in Princeton to await a preliminary hearing before Magistrate W. W. McNeal on a stabbing charge against Swanson McCain. McCain, also Black, is a patient at Brown hospital with critical condition.
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French Pool
Bluefield
Mercer County
Princeton
W. W. McNeal
Swanson McCain
McCain
Brown Hospital
Bland Street
McNeal
Pool
Illness of Bailey-Wilson president at Pearl Street
T O J Wilson, presiding figure of Bluefield's Bailey-Wilson real estate firm, is ill at his Pearl Street home after a heart attack earlier this week. Doctors report his condition satisfactory and expect a speedy recovery. He collapsed but quickly regained consciousness and will rest several days before returning to work. He previously suffered a heart attack about a year ago.
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T. O'J. Wilson
Bailey-Wilson Company
Bluefield
Mr. Wilson
Pearl Street
Posse Captures Assailant After Night Search
Waverly Ohio June 3 25 year old Leroy Beard of Hillsboro was captured after wounding two posse members during a hillside search in Pike county. Beard is jailed awaiting further authorities.
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Waverly
Ohio
Pike County
Leroy Beard
Hillsboro
Man named Beard held on assault charge after newspaper run
A 10 year old girl identified Beard as her attacker returning home from a paper route near Latham. Posse capture occurred on a Byington highway as he emerged from woods. Vera Heiser 22 was knifed in the arm and Merle Manger 23 knocked unconscious during the scuffle. Beard jailed under guard amid threats.
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Beard
Latham
Byington
Vera Heiser
Merle Manger
Commencement at West Virginian school for deaf and blind
Evening exercises at the West Virginian school for deaf and blind featured Jennings Randolph of Siena clubs delivering the address. A fund to pay for medical operations to restore sight to students was launched.
Moonshine Confiscated After Car Dismantle Near Rail Camp
Fourteen gallons of moonshine whiskey were seized by Traffic Officer Wilson Patrolman Linkenhaker and Constable Bailey in a Norfolk and Western railway camp near the cattle pony in the northeast city sector. Bootleggers had hidden the liquor in the car awaiting nightfall. Frances Robertson was arrested with a gallon of liquor found in a shoe box as officers approached the scene.
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Wilson
Linkenhaker
Bailey
Norfolk and Western Railway
Frances Robertson
Robertson
Folansbee Mills Restart After Idle Period
After two and a half months idle Folansbee brothers restart three sheet mills and six tin mills at Follansbee and begin employing about 300 workers. Officials are unsure how long demand will sustain the work.
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Wheeling
Follansbee Brothers
Follansbee
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Ada Dam
J. W. Hall
Mer
Brookfield and Cloverbloom
Rounder
Sirloin
Economy Cash Grocery
Bluefield Ave
Superior Supply Co
Emile
The
Restau
Miss Dixon Bride
Mele
POSSE
Sheet Mills
Resaine
Piggly Wiggly
Maxwell House
Arbuckles
Sanflush
Rosedale
Libby
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