Princeton Board Approves Multiple School Contracts and Settlements
The Mercer County Board of Education approved a $37,796.92 settlement with insurers for the Matoaka fire loss plus $4,227.70 for contents. They also directed plans for a new 12 room Matoaka elementary school. Additional settlements covered Grecian Bend and Bramwell school fires. New bids for Bramwell first story and Wade school plumbing and heating were awarded, with Powell Plumbing and Heating securing a base bid and labor rates. The board discussed future principalships but made no announcements.
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Board of Education
Mercer County
Matoaka
Alex Mahood
Grecian Bend
Chaplains Endorse USO Morale Program Endorsement
Two top military chaplains endorse the Uni Service Organization program. Army chaplain William R. Arnold and Navy chaplain Robert D. Workman back the morale building plan, signaling official support for USO activities.
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Uni Service Organization
William R. Arnold
U. S. Army
Robert D. Workman
U. S. Navy
U S O Plan Ofrating 360 Service Clubs Announced
Walter Hoving and another leader praised the U S O plan to rate and develop more than 360 service clubs serving youths near military posts and defense sites. The U S O will construct lease staff and maintain the clubs with six member agencies. Peter F. Cavanaugh heads the gifts committee as the drive begins, with Frank Nelson as general chair for the local group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hoving
Hoving
Peter F. Cavanaugh
Frank Nelson
U. S. Oo
Young People Rally Tonight in So We Va Conference Area
The So We Va conference area churches hold a pre conference rally at First Church of Christ tonight. Delegations from Beckley Bluefield Mount Hope Matoaka and Bristol Virginia will attend with pastors participating. Jimmie Moorefield presides at 6 30 banquet. Speakers include Rev Frank L Stuck Rev Ben Johnson Rev Ralph Valentine and Rev J D Kitchen Jr with devotions and George D West overseeing recreation. Registration begins at 5 PM.
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So-We-Va
Christian Churches
First Church of Christ
Frank L. Stuck
Beckley
Bluefield
Mount Hope
Matoaka
Bristol
Jimmie Moorefield
Ben 8. Johnson
Ralph E. Valentine
J. D. Kitchen, Jr
Christian Church
George D West
ACP Year Ends June 30 for Mercer County Cooperators
The 1941 ACP year ends June 30, requiring completion of all soil building practices for credit. All grant material must be used by that date. Local supervisors begin farm checks July 1, with cooperators to provide records of practices and accurate acreage of pasture and cropland.
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Mercer County
May Term of Court Expected End Today
The May term of circuit court may be adjourned today as Judge D. M. Easley announced. He will hear motions to set aside verdicts demurrers and similar matters. The state road commission seeks 85 acres for the Montcalm McComas road in the condemnation case against Nannie M. Scott and others. Commissioners Thompson Hale Hall Belcher and Parley are to meet June 11 at 10 a.m. to reconsider and set a new award for the Scotts.
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Circuit Court
D. M. Easley
Easley
State Road Commission
Montcalm-McComas Road
Nannie M. Scott
W. E. Thompson
E. M. Hale
George L. Hall
J. D. Belcher
R. L. Parley
Scotts
Funeral Rites for Charles S. Hearn
Funeral services for Charles S. Hearn 78 former Virginian Railway employee who died Wednesday afternoon will be held at his son Harrison Hearn's home Bee Street this afternoon at 2 o clock conducted by Rev Clowers. Burial follows at Resthaven Memorial Park with pallbearers Bill Bonen Dave Martin Luther Blankenship Earl Puller Ed Kitts Bub Fleming.
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Charles S. Hearn
Virginian Railway
Harrison Hearn
Bee Street
Mr. Clowers
Resthaven Memorial Park
Bill Bonen
Dave Martin
Luther Blankenship
Earl Puller
Ed Kitts
Bub Fleming
Truck Collision Claims Two Miners Near Seth Bridge
A crash on a narrow bridge near Seth in Boone County killed two Blooming Rose miners, Dewey Lane age 30 and J. H. Williams age 50, with four others injured, three seriously. The truck driver escaped harm.
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Charleston
W. Va
Seth
Boone County
Dewey Lane
J. H. Williams
Training School Attended By Mrs W R Smith Jr At Bluefield
Mrs W R Smith Jr travels to Bluefield for the annual Synodical Training school at Bluefield College. The session opened last night and continues one week. Mrs Smith is vice president of Bluestone Presbyterian Church. Honoring Miss Buford Tinder bride elect of Mr Fred Robertson Kyle of Norfolk Bluefield social in honor of Miss Tinder at Albermarle Street home followed by a three course breakfast.
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W. R. Smith
Bluefield
Bluefield College
Buford
Fred Robertson Kyle
Norfolk
Sam Rush
Miss Tinder
Albermarle Street
Tinder
Fred Tinder, Jr
George Fanning
William Raney
Louise Beavers
Louise Susong
Eddie Kyle
A. C. Forsythe, Jr
Princeton Personal Notices Highlight Local Visits
Local residents and visitors noted include Mrs Victoria Shumate of Glen Lyn staying at Memorial hospital Miss May Slavan Staunton visiting Mrs W M Preston and friends G A Swope from Gleaves arrives to spend four weeks with his wife on Center street Ms Howe Bailey from Maryland guest of relatives in Princeton and area with son Frederick Bailey Ingram India Williams from Washington DC visiting Mrs W C Huffman Park Avenue Canada 1939 wool production 13615000 pounds up from 13386000 pounds in 1938.
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Victoria Shumate
Glen Lyn
Memorial Hospital
May Slavan
Staunton
W. M. Preston
G. A. Swope
U.S
Gleaves
Center Street
Howe Bailey
Maryland
Princeton
Frederick Bailey
India Williams
Washington, D. C
W. C. Huffman
Park Avenue
Princeton Paragraphs Post To Meet Tonight
The V F W auxiliary Mercer Post 2703 will meet at 7 30 pm at the Memorial building to initiate members and conduct post business Mercer county 4 H leaders will meet next Tuesday at 7 30 pm at the Memorial building Speakers from the Volunteer Leaders conference at Jackson s Mill will relay insights to other leaders Tommy Dorsey and his band are featured in a show and Bela Lugosi stars in The Invisible Ghost at the Royal theatre today Polly Ann Young John McGuire Betty ato and others are in the cast
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Mercer Post
Memorial Building
Mercer County
Jackson's Mill
Tommy Dorsey
Bela Lugosi
Royal Theatre Today
Polly Ann Young
John McGuire
Bettyato
Las Vegas Nights at Mercer Theatre Delights Audiences
Gay laughter and lilting music fill the Mercer theatre as the musical comedy Las Vegas Nights provides an evening of entertainment. Set in Las Vegas Nevada the show features Bert Wheeler Virginia Dale Con stance Moore and Lillian Corner among the cast.
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Las Vegas
Mercer Theatre
Nevada
Bert Wheeler
Virginia Dale
Constance Moore
Lillian Corner
Christiansburg Livestock Market Report Virginia
Market report from the Virginia Department of Agriculture shows 680 head. Lambs total 87 with grade and weights listed. prices range from 6.60 to 12.25 per hundredweight. Breakdown includes 56 good at 84 pounds average and 76 at 11.55, 22 medium at 65 pounds, 8.85, a few common at 58 pounds 6.60, and 42 ungraded lambs priced 8.00 and 11.00. Weight and quality notes include 110 as to weight and quality.
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Virginia Department of Agriculture
Livestock Prices Reported by Grade and Weight
Market notes list buck lambs at $9.40 and 1150 pounds, sheep and fat ewes at $310 and $3.80, thin ewes $1.80 to $2.40, vealers 25 head average 200 pounds at $11.75, 84 at 174 pounds $11.20, 15 at 145 pounds $10.10, 30 at 132 pounds $7.90, few 102 at $7.90. Cattle: cows common and medium $6.00 to $6.85, canner and cutter $4.70 to $5.20. Hogs: 16 head average 206 pounds $9.40, light/heavy weights $7.25 to $8.80, sows $7.50 to $8.10.
Huntington police deploy largest motorcycle fleet yet
Huntington West Virginia on June 5 reports eleven motorcycles seven of them new and radio equipped are being used by patrolmen to cut traffic violations and crashes. The fleet is the largest ever used by the Huntington police.
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Huntington
W. Va
McDowell County urged to obtain 1941 42 licenses
County Clerk Don Renn urged McDowell County businesses to secure their 1941 42 licenses before July 1 with a 31 day grace period in July. Licenses cover hotels tourist homes restaurants billiard parlors bowling alleys pawn brokers junk dealers hawkers peddlers collection agencies aucitoneers taxi stands and tobacco sellers. Taxes range from 500 dollars for itinerant vendors to 1 dollar for grave stone retailers, plus a 50 cent issuance fee.
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Don
Renn
McDowell County
Samy
Tolsmaen
Community notices and hospital admissions reported
The bulletin lists residents admitted to Stevens Clinic and Welch Emergency Hospital for treatment, names several patients by town and surname, and notes a knitting class at the World War Memorial building. It also mentions a music recital by Mrs. J. H Lockwood, a headline about Charles A. Craig being elected grand junior warden, and a geographical note about the Southern Alps on New Zealand's South Island with Mount Cook at 12 349 feet.
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Charles A. Craig
Welch
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Parkersburg
South Island
New Zealand
Mount
Cook
Elkhorn High to Hold 49th Graduation Exercises
Bryson county school officials will deliver the commencement address at Elkhorn High School for 49 graduates. Daniel Frederick will give the valedictory and Ann Cox the salutatory. An evening program, directed by Miss Gertrude Skaggs, starts at 7:30 in the auditorium followed by a Sunday sermon at 11 in the torium.
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Gertrude Skaggs
Torium
Welch Paragraphs Hospital Patients
Grace hospital is treating H. C. Turner of Anawalt Donald Ray Mikies of Roderfield and H. F Welch as patients. The report lists names connected to Grace hospital for treatment.
Quick Growing Annuals Flower From Late Sowing
In warm weather quick germination can occur within five days and flowering in thirty to forty days. Zinnias are essential, offering multiple forms and colors. combine with ageratum centaurea cynoglossum and others for blue tones. All annuals may be sown now and bloom by mid July, provided warmth remains. Burial noted at Saeger Memorial cemetery in Roderfield for Mrs. Baker of War with husband Prazier and two children.
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Saeger
Roderfield
Baker
Prazier Baker
Junior
Jerry
Thos M Nunnally to Receive Degree and Commission
Thomas M Nunnally son of Mr and Mrs W T Nunnally of Wilcoe will graduate from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in mining engineering and oil gas. He earned a Reserve Officers Training Corps commission as second lieutenant and will enter active service in July.
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Wilcoe
Gary High
Virginia Unive
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Accused Hit-and-Run Driver Is Arrested
State trooper T A Maupin reports Ishman Brown of Canebrake Negro is jailed on hit and run charges after a car strike injured Sam Martin near Squire Saturday. Martin remains in critical condition with a skull fracture in a Bluefield hospital. Brown and two others were detained. Martha Jane Smith was released after questioning.
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T. A. Maupin
Ishman Brown
Brown
Proseonc Eer
Sam Martin
Squire
Martin
Bluefield
Little
Zadie Brown
Martha Jane Smith
Funeral Service for Mrs. Ann Baker at Wilcoe Church
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Church of God in Wilcoe for Mrs. Ann Baker 27 of Welch who died Tuesday evening at home after an illness of one. The Rev. H. D. Stadium of Wilcoe presided.
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Church of God At
Wilcoe
Ann Baker
Welch
H. D. Stadium
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Second Street
Bingham
Princeton Ave
Noel and Mary’s
Tomatoes
So-We-Wa
J.C. Ully Kegley
Princeton Society
Marty Karnes
Matthew French
Garth Gunnee
McNeer
Athens
George Hall
W. 8
Cus
Hampton DeJarnette
Alton Stinson
W. 8. Custis
Herbert Bowling
Mary Louise Bell
Elizabeth DeJarnette
Madie McGrothlin
Judy Simpson
Gertie Yearout
Bessie Hale
Bertha Hale
Doris Smith
Gunnoe
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Robert Catherum, Jr
William McNutt
Phylis Lilly
Ruth Wall
Romaine Kanode
Irene Cooper
West Virgin County
Mercer
Towle
W. Q. Swim
Ozella Mae
Q. Swim
John H. Hedrick, Jr
Senn
Ohn H. Hedrick, Jr
Notary Public
I, Saneenieath
Bird Dog
T. R. Jewell
Barbakow’s Store
Princeton, W. Va
Canada
U. S
Stars and Stripes Forever
Zephyr Gingham
Gay Gibson
Lanton’ S
Movie Guide
Melly Pon
Banton
Christiansburg Livestock
Ancient
Kentucky
Schenlet Distillers Corporation
New York City
ROYAL
Victor Jory
Phil Regan
Betty Brewer
Red Donahue
His Mule
America
Dorsey
Syria
World War Memorial
Red Cross
Zelma Greenawalt
J. H Lockwood
Appalachian Community Room
Turkey
Merin
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Mediterranean
Suez (Canal
Palestine
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Iraq
Jordan
Syrie
Syrian
Ikhorn
Thos. M. Nunnally
Thomas M. Nunnally
Mrs. W. T. Nunnally
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Mass
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Rockland Me
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Detroit
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Gronotena
Onie
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