Crupper elected Virginia national committeeman at Chicago meeting
The Roanoke area coalition backed Joseph L. Crupper of Falla Church to succeed C. B. Slemp as Virginia’s national committeeman. Col. Henry W. Anderson polled 11 votes with 16 for Crupper amid a party battle. Mrs. Mary Boocock won the national committeewoman post, seen as a compromise. State Senator George W. Layman announced support for the Byrd plan and the right to vote on the eighteenth amendment.
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Roanoke
Joseph L. Crupper
Falla Church
Chicago
C. B. Slemp
Slemp
Cropper
Col
Henry W. Anderson
Anderson
RK. H. Woods
Giles County
Mary Boocock
Keswick
Virginia
M. M. Caldwell
Boocock
R. H. Angell
George W. Layman
New Castle
Layman
Postmaster General Brown Presses Hoover Line in Chicago
Walter F Brown head of the Hoover forces calls Republican convention delegates from a Chicago hotel. He ran the president's campaign four years ago as conferences on the national platform keep him busy during the event.
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Walter F Brown
Brown
Hoover
Chicago
Miss Virginia Stone Visits Sister Before France Conference
Virginia Stone native of Christiansburg and leading educator visits sister Mrs. C. L. Alexander before sailing from New York to Nice France for an international educational conference. She will address the conference and has long led a group of St. Louis schools.
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Virginia Stone
C. L. Alexander
New York
France
Nice
Miss Stone
St. Louis
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
United States
Masonic Lodge to Honor George Washington in Bluefield
On June 23 the Bluefield Virginia Masonic lodge will pay tribute to George Washington with an appropriate program. Several visiting members of the order are expected to attend.
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Masonic Lodge
Bluefield
George Washington
Order
Vacation Bible School Underway at Bluefield Lutheran Church
A vacation Bible school is in progress at Bluefield Lutheran Church on Virginia Avenue with six instructors in charge. The program runs daily until June 24, from 9 to 11 a.m., led by Mrs. George Miller, Mrs. Pat Roger, Mrs. Claude Petty, Mrs. Lawrence Mahood, Eleanor Anderson, and Elizabeth Kahle.
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Bluefield
Virginia Avenue
George Miller
Pat Roger
Claude Petty
Lawrence Mahood
Eleanor Anderson
Elizabeth Kahle
Local Old Maids Club Stages Entertaining Palmer Hall Show
The Graham Methodist church ladies staged a lively evening in Palmer hall on Monday. Prominent married women and single sisters performed in a playful spinster themed play with a flag drill and a patriotic solo by Sally Litz, backed by Lois Benbow on piano. Vera Wright directed the drill. Mrs Evans Omar as president kept order.
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Old Maids Club
Palmer Hall
Evans Omar
Sally Litz
Lois Benbow
Vera Wright
Graham Methodist Church
Virginia Side Personal Notes Highlight Local Trips
Mrs. M. D. Hinton is spending a few days in Charlottesville for hospital treatment. Mrs. Olia Neikirk returned from Roanoke, and Miss Emily Overstreet, formerly at Chatham Hall, visits with her aunt Mrs. R. B. Williamson. Miss Manny Lee Baldwin returns from Paris Kentucky.
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M. D. Hinton
Charlottesville
Olia Neikirk
Roanoke
Emily Overstreet
Chatham Hall
R. B. Williamson
Manny Lee Baldwin
Paris
Attorney Is Charged With Slaying Mother in Alabama
John R. Boyle a 37 year old Birmingham attorney and scion of a prominent family faces murder charges for allegedly killing his mother Mrs. Jesse A. Boyle 66 while they picked flowers on Shades mountain near Birmingham. A county investigator issued the warrant after Boyle claimed a robber stabbed his mother. Boyle was jailed after being treated for minor injuries saying he tried to rescue her. Mrs. Boyle was the widow of Peter A. Boyle a pioneer engineer in the Birmingham area.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jesse A. Boyle
John R. Boyle
G. M. Evans
Boyle
Shades Mountain
Bid Call Issued For Food to WV National Guard Camps
Major C A Wood announces separate bids for food supplies to two West Virginia National Guard regiments. The 150th Infantry camps at Lane Conley Point Pleasant July 14 to 31 while the 101st at Camp Dawson Kingwood July 31 to August 14.
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Charleston
West Virginia National Guard
C. A. Wood
U. S, Army
West Virginia
150Th Infantry
Lane Conley
Point Pleasant
101St
Camp Dawson
Kingwood
Delegates Arrive for District Methodist Conference
Delegates and others arrived from Clinch valley counties to attend a two day district conference at Graham Methodist church. Dr. D. Long will preside. more than one hundred visitors are expected and sessions are open to the public. The modern Graham church, costing about $90,000, will be shown to visitors.
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Clinch Valley
The
Methodist Church
Graham Methodist Church
8. D. Long
Holston
Farm Bureau Taxes Declared Legal In Virginia Ruling
Circuit Judge A C Buchanan in Tazewell rules the Tazewell Farm Bureau is taxable like other stores. The case arose from Bluefield Richlands and North Tazewell where the bureau runs shops and transacted about half a million dollars last year. The decision follows disputes over non profit status and 1930 act to bring farm organizations under taxation. County treasurer ordered tax notices and sale of goods to satisfy the claim.
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Tazewell
Farm Bureau
General Assembly of Virginia
Tazewell County
Evening Activities At John Stewart Church Schedule
The Y W M S of John Stewart church host a carnival with refreshments tonight in Howard hall at 8. The West Virginia Medical Society meets at John Stewart church Jones street at 8 with a junior choir program and a free chest clinic led by Dr B A Crichlow. Also surgical clinics at Providence hospital by D T KE Jones of Freedmans hospital. Prayer meeting at Bethel A M E church 8 with Rev I Cox speaking. Blake Chapel A M E Zion in concert at 8 with Rev S H Hazzard preaching. Ozella Robinson reports.
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John Stewart Church
Howard Hall
Blake Chapel
A. M. E. Zion Blake
S. H. Hazzard
Bristol
Brother Hazzard
Ozella Robinson
Church Program at North Side United Holy Church
The program for Thursday June 16 at the North Side United Holy Church features opening song Where He Leads Me, scripture by Deacon Otis Phenazee, prayers and addresses by Deacons W D Green and R B Perry, multiple solos and recitations, with Lovely Harden in charge. A separate Missionary Meeting of Bethel A M E Women’s Mite Society is set for Wednesday June 15 at 4 30 p m at the church led by Rev Patterson.
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North Side
United Holy Church
Otis Phenazee
W. D. Green
R. B. Perry
Gazelle Reid
Aurelius Young
Madeline Hairston
Athene Hairston
Margaret Robinson
Maxseer Robinson
Dorothy Craig
Deacon P. M. McGueduet
Floyd Jackson
Rev. Cox
Allize Robinson
Jessie Johnson
Mise M. O. McGue
Lovely Harden
Women's Mite Missionary Society of Bethel A. M. E
Patterson
Huntington candidate reports expenses in state race
Lee of Huntington, an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for state superintendent of schools, filed campaign expenses totaling $146.50.
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Charleston
Lee
Huntington
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News OF the Colored People
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I. Cox
E. L. Patterson
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Coren Reno
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