Princeton Adapts To Furniture Factory prospects
Princeton’s industrial committee reports furniture manufacture can be most profitable here. They analyzed local lumber from West Virginia, labor costs, and costs of similar furniture in North Carolina Ohio and Indiana, comparing with regional centers to show advantage and invite local investment.
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Princeton
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
L. G. Pene
J. N. Lilly
F. R. Wilson
M. Callaway
Perry J. Cook
F. O. B. Princeton
Planta
North Carolina
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Majle
Ite
Beneft
Princeton Society Delphian Club Meets at Mrs Bird Home
Mrs Ben W Bird hosted the Delphian club on Straley avenue with 16 members present. The program centered on The Merchant of Venice led by Mrs Harry Karnes and included talks on Venice in the Renaissance and Shylock’s portrayal. Refreshments followed and current events were shared.
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Delphian Club
Ben W. Bird
Straley Avenue
G. W. Bruce
W. N. Surface
Norton, Va
Clarence Norris
Venice
Harry Karnes
Lillie Sutton
W. S. Dangerfield
Europe
Shylock
G. B. Halstead
H. H. Ball
L. E. Willyoung
L. C. Porter
Evelyn
Elizabeth Bird
D. C. Rice
Boots and Buddies Scene From Princeton Visit
Local items report numerous Princeton visitors and departures. Names include Mrs G Kesner and two children Catherine and Cliterd Bristol visiting at 903 Highland Avenue, Mrs W R Matheny and son Bob from Lewisburg, Rand Taylor returning from University of Virginia, Bill Day en route to Waynesboro Virginia, and A K White with Mrs White passing through en route to Huntington. Rotary club reps attended Tazewell Rotary ladies night in Tazewell.
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Princeton
Highland Avenue
G. ©. Kesner
Catherine
Cliterd
Bristol
Waynesboro
Day
Blackeburg
A. K. White
Huntington
Leonard Hokes
Hale Avenue
Richmond Medical College
G. N. Wright
Gay Wright
Bluefield
FE. K. Ketron
G. M. Hollandsworth
L. P. Street
Rotary Club
Tazewell
Plan for Street Improvements in Princeton Endorsed
Committees from the chamber of commerce and the city council draft a street paving plan for Princeton with work on Athens road Oakvale road Ingleside road and West Main street prioritized. A bridge over the Virginian Railway yard should receive hard surfacing and bond issues for streets and a sewage plant are to be voted separately at the next election.
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Chamber of Commerce
The
Thorn Street
Honaker Avenue
Mercer Street
Alvis
Scott Streets
Main Street
Princeton
Tri-City Company
City of
Athens Road
Oakvale Road
Cem
Virginian
Straley Avenue
Acts of Legislature
West Virginia
Membership Banquet Planned for Chamber Committees
A chamber of commerce committee plans a membership banquet for all members and their wives, to be held next month or in August. The membership conservation and development committee recommended the event to the board of directors on Tuesday and proposed presenting a membership badge with first dues for the next fiscal year starting September 1, 1928.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Board of
B. K. Deyerle
W. M. Poston
L. G. Bowling
J. W. Lowery
L. E. White
Kiwanis Club to Attend Inter-City Meeting in Bluefield
At yesterday's Kiwanis weekly meeting members planned to travel to Bluefield next Monday for an inter-city event and an all Kiwanis hour across Kiwanis International. The Matoaka club will join, with the gathering set for 7 pm at the West Virginia hotel replacing the next Wednesday luncheon. Guya Ritter entertained Kiwaniana with a burlesque about a defeated political candidate.
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Kiwanis Club
Yeesterday
Bluefield
Kiwanis International
Matoaka Club
West Virginian
Guya Ritter
Kiwaniana
For Rent Two Room Furnished Apartment on Circle Street
Private bath and big closets. Lights and water furnished. On Circle Street. For particulars call 602 J Princeton.
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Circle Street
Leaders Conference Delegates to Represent County in Jacksonville
Four delegates chosen to represent the county at the leaders conference in Jacksonville Missouri travel Tuesday for about ten days. Attending are Mrs L H Barbery Mercer Stickers 4 H club Mrs Nora Gwinn Davidson Live Wires Miss Mary Sampson Athene Bumble Berg and Miss Gwen dolyn Woodson Girl Scouts Princeton.
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Jacksonville
L. H. Barbery
Mercer Stickers
Nora Gwinn Davidson
Live Wires
Mary Sampson
Athene
Virginia Nelms Studio Opens Voice Piano and Organ
The Virginia Nelms studio will open for summer school on July 4 at 1111 East Main Street. The facility offers voice piano and pipe organ instruction with a contact phone 467. after July 2 operations begin.
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Virginia Nelms
East Main Street
Princeton Paragraphs to Open Bids for Lorton's Lick Road
The county court will open bids at its July 9 regular meeting for construction of Lorton's Lick road from Montcalm to the Bluefield Bramwell road. The 3.2 mile project involves grading and drainage and marks the second bidding round.
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Lorton'’s Lick
Montcalm
Bluefield-Bramwell
Court appoints executors for two Mercer County estates
The Mercer County court clerk's office reports the appointment of Georgia Williams as administratrix of Washington Williams's estate with a $50 bond and Polly A. Saunders as administratrix of T. J. Saunders's estate with a $350 bond.
Chamber names new assistant secretary and credit bureau head
Mrs Alonzo Clark is appointed assistant secretary of the chamber of commerce and will lead the retail credit bureau. She succeeds Irene Ramsey who was married that week. The appointment was made by the chamber director at Tuesday’s meeting.
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Alonzo Clark
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Irene Ramsey
Three Men Sentenced For Tree Passing On Virginian Railway
Three more men charged with tree passing on the Virginian railway were arrested Tuesday night and placed on the city chain gang at work on the streets yesterday morning. They were Thomas Hopkine Madison Dye and Clif Snyder. Police Judge B B King gave them seventeen days each on the gang and fined each ten dollars.
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Virginian
Clty
Thomas Hopkine
Madison Dye
Clif Snyder
B. B. King
Princeton Personals Detailing Local Notices and Moves
Mrs. T. J. Carey and daughter Miss Mary Carey returned home in Huntington after a week with Mrs. L. C. Manning on Princeton Avenue. Miss Carey has accepted a position at St. Marys Hospital Huntington as an operating room attendant. J. R. Rich left for Wytheville by motor car after learning his father was critically ill. Levi visited Charleston on business. Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Deyerlear ...
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T. J. Carey
Mary Carey
Hanngton
L. C. Manning
Princeton Avenue
Local Social Notes From Princeton and Nearby
Mrs. Deyerle and Florence spent two weeks in Syracuse visiting events at the university. Mrs. Badee returned home after two weeks at her father J A Turner's bedside in Roanoke. Miss Madge Oxley is back from Harrisonburg attending teachers college. Mr and Mrs H M Strong and three boys came home from a motor trip to Griffin Virginia. Mrs W B Greer from Ashland visited in Princeton with Mrs W L Johnston. Misses Erma Riner and Bernice Ballard visited Bluefield. Mrs B T Hartaway of Bluefield visited Princeton friends. Dr and Mrs T H Elliott have rejoined family notes.
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Rived
College Avennue
Syracuse
N. Y
J. A. Turner
Roanoke
Mr. Strong
W. B. Greer
Ashland
W. Va
W. L. Johnston
Honaker Avenue
Erma Riner
Bernice Ballard
Bluefield
B. T. Hartaway
Princeton
H. M. Strong
Walker Street
T. H. Elliott
For Sale Tomato Early and Late Cabbage Plants
Reeves at 825 North Walker Street Princeton West Virginia advertises for sale tomato varieties early and late cabbage plants and sweet potato plants with reference to page 8.
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Reeves
N. Walker Street
Princeton, W. Va
Welch Motorcade Plans Welch Coney Island Park Opening
Welch community leaders announce a large pre opening motorcade to tour McDowell County on June 21 to promote the June 22 opening of the Coney Island amusement park. The event features band performances, speeches, and countywide invitations led by the Welch high school band.
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Welch
McDowell County
Coney Island Park
Coney Island
Amusement Company
Retail Merchants
Welch Chamber of Commerce
T. Beazely
Mber
Welch High School
R. L. Thompson
Memorial Building
Welch Ecitizen
Beckley Man Heads Drugists of State
Beckley resident S Monroe Bledsoe was elected president of the West Virginia Pharmaceutical Association at its annual convention in White Sulphur Springs. Other officers include Earl Fortney first vice president R R Pierce second vice president Carl Keeling third vice president and J Lester Hayman secretary and treasurer G O Young council member. The group favored a public health bill in the next legislature and Morgantown was named the 1929 convention city. Peggy Joyce says she cant marry every nice man she knows an Asheville Times line.
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Peggy Joyce
Peggy
Asheville Times
Man Wanted on Slaying Charge Apprehended in Richmond
Bob Stone, colored, sought by county officers on a charge of slaying Gene Inge and Lena Brown, both colored, was arrested in Richmond Virginia.
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Bob Stone
Gene Inge
Lena Brown
Richmond
Athein
Stopper Thompson Receives Homecoming Reception in Welch
Welch police officer Lee Thompson returned from his honeymoon in Bluefield where he married Cletus Heyter, a Bramwell high school coach. Friends elevated him on a fire truck ladder for over two hours as about 150 residents celebrated in Welch last night, marking a rare local welcome.
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Lee Thompson
Welch Police Department
Welch
Mr. Thom
Bluefield
Cletus Heyter
Bramwell High School
Welch Yesterow
McDowell County
Pittsburgh Call For National Miners Union Convention
June 13 report from Pittsburgh says the save the union movement wins approval to hold a national convention on September 9 to build a new miners union. John L. Lewis dismisses the Pittsburgh move as communist and unimportant while noting it aims to oust his UMW leadership. Representatives from Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois Indiana West Virginia Kansas Colorado sign the call.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Tonson
Third International
John L. Lewis
Miners’ Union
Robert Mat
Used McKeeny
West Virginia
Lewis
Kansas City
United Mines Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illicois
Indiana
Kansas
Colorado
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Princeton Society
Harriet Woolfolk
Griffin
Misa Odel Griffin
Charlotte
N. C
Helen MacManus
East Boulevard
Odell Griffin
Rock Hill
S. C
Marsden Causey Anderson
Conway
MacManus
O. D. Wheeler
A. D. Brown
Catherine Clegg
Whitan Alexander
Louise Huntley
Zealian Hunter
Eva Griffin
Forum Literary Club
W. H. Foster
Harold Stafford
Ida Vermillion
Harry Barger
Mra Kelly
Helen
Mra. Fiarety
Selvdy
McCoy
Reynolds
Ore
M. G. Harper
U. D. GC
United Daughters of Confederacy
Olds Avenue
A. Bratton
Gapeer
Ipra
J. W. Thorn
L. J. Sheppard
Josephine Hawley
Mesdames
W. D. Pendleton
H. A. Shumate
John Caldwell
L. H. Fry
Joe Barbour
Herbert Brown
L. C. Rogers
Robert McNutt
Tinder
R. N. Vermillion
Ren Fudge
Victoria Carr
Barry Robertson
Allen Bratton
Arthur Barksdale
Misees Bess Barber
Nita Barger
Anice Gott
Bess Barbour
Bess Barber
Park Avenue
Bratton
Early Robertson
Missa Josephine Hawley
W. B. McNutt
Charles
Mary Jane
Mise Roberta Larew
Judith Simpson
Larew
Washington, D. C
Boots
By Martin
C. OF C
J Princeton
Presbyterian Church
Chure
D. T. Carr
Methodist Church
R. B. Thompson
Edwin Odell Thompson
Mayflower Temple
Walker Hall
Bertha Scott
America
Meyers
Maybeury Temple
Elizabeth Wyant
Weet vi
Roberta Scott
Don McClaugherty
Phoebe Cunningham
Goldenrod Soneee
Matoaka
Myrtle Brown
Bluefield Temple
Mollie Cambell
Crumpler Temple
B. K. Ketron
Vera Payne
Montcalm Temple
Goldenrod Temple
Guy A. Ritter
G. H. Crumpecker
Slate
Grand Lodge
Car
Gilmore
Majestic Steam Laundry
Farm Women's Club
Donnie McCalagherty
ROYAL
Norma Talmadge
Lake Shawnee
Mark Goff
Mercer County
Motorcade
Joan Hatreton
Stone
Viviant
Ryder
Beckley
Thompson
Cloverbloom
John Gilbert
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