Newsman Joins Governor's Staff In Virginia
OE Va June 15 Governor Tuck expands staff appointing Pa Jones as executive secretary and liaison to press while Armistead remains Roanoke Times legislative correspondent since 1936. Curtis Publishing requests Jones return to duties. The post restores a prewar role and replaces the former state press secretary.
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OE Va
Cuscoeds Vhreil ‘Pa Jones
Overnor Tuck
Jones
Ea Company
Tuck
Curtis Publishing Company
Ieee
Armistead
Roanoke Times
the Times
General Assembly
Calvary Baptist Bible School in War WV Announces Two-Week Session
War June 15 The Bible school at Calvary Baptist church in War will run for two weeks with Miss Sue Beavers and Charles Pless returning to their retirements after completing terms at Romney Institute. Miss Beavers is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J P Beavers and Pless is the son of Mr and Mrs Ansel Pless. Mrs Joe Mabe and Mrs Marvin and their son Elroy of Roanoke Virginia visited the former’s daughter and family and Mrs S B Walker. Mrs Nott and daughter Con are also noted in attendance.
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Bible School
Calvary Baptist Church
Sue Beavers
Charles Pless
Romney Institute
Rom
Miss Beavers
J. P. Beavers
Ploss
Ansel Ploss
Joe Mabe
Marvin
Elroy
Roanoke
Daugter
S. 8. Walker
Chard Nott
Con
Baptist Daily Vacation Bible School
Clark Brown
Walter Overby
Tims Owens
Peery Smith
Preston Widener
Nelson Baker
Virginia McGlothlin
Ted Jewell
C. C. Selfe
Bristol
Marion
Billie Selfe
Sullins College
Rita Joy Witt
Peggy Brown
Peggy Buskill
Camp Sequoia
N. H. Gilmer
Walter L. Swartz
Feliz A. Sloan
Lebanon
Wink Horton
Mattie Williams Hospital
Curtis Rankin
Dorothy Ann
Betty Jo
Berwind
C. B. Rankin
Marvin Babb
Mickey
Hayes
Babb
Earl Hurt
Local residents attend marriage of Rosa Romeo and William Simpson
A passage mentions Miss Rosa Romeo and Mr William Simpson's marriage with attendees including Mr and Mrs Joe Romeo and children Polly and Butch ma Mary Zondo. William Fox has returned to Camp Campbell Kentucky after visiting his wife Phyllis Fox.
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Nie
Orville Wallace
Bean
Minne Henkle
William Fox
Camp Campbell
Phyllis Fox
Rosa Romeo
William Simpson
Joe Romeo
Dren
Polly
Butch
Mary Zondo
Yarbrough Enrolls In Rutgers Banking School
R A Yarbrough, trust officer of First National, enrolls in Rutgers University Graduate School of Banking. The program, run by the American Bankers Association, draws 275 freshmen this year and 700 total with bankers from 40 states plus DC and Puerto Rico. Yarbrough begins June 17 and plans graduation in 1948 after three two week sessions and two years of extension study plus a thesis.
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R. A. Yarbrough
First National Bank
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Rutgers
American Bankers Association
Graduate School of Banking
American Seinennetin Bankers Associa
Yarbrough
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Vacation Bible School Opens at Richlands Church
Richlands Va Vacation Bible School begins Monday June 17 at 8 30 with Mrs Virginia Yates Miller directing and assistants listed. It invites all children ages four to eighteen. The piece also notes Baptist and Presbyterian activities including camps, picnics, and events at local churches and institutions with several named participants.
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Richlands
Richlands Presbyterian Daily
Vavacation Bible School
Virginia Yates Miller
Millie Jane Taylor
Marion Selfe
Anna Maud Bandy
Shirley Bandy
Rita Joy Witten
Adelaide Jennings
Frinces McGrothlin
Billie Selfe
Mae Martin
Baby Ruth Ellen Born at Bluefield Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. G Morehead announce the birth of Ruth Ellen on June 10 in a Bluefield hospital. The newborn is welcomed by family and friends in Rocky Gap Virginia as relatives note news from the community.
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Rocky
G Morehead
Bluefield
Ruth Ellen
Edwin Watts
James Watts
California
Palmer Carroll
Johnny Mabry
McComas
John Smith
Dunigan
Nor
Bluefield Junior Drum and Bugle Corps To Perform July Fourth
The Bluefield Junior Drum and Bugle Corps accepted an invitation to Greeneville Tennessee on July Fourth for a ceremony that includes a Congressional Medal of Honor presentation. The corps will also perform in Bluefield on June 23 for a film premiere and again during the Moose Convention later in July.
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Bluefield
Greeneville Tenn
Greeneville
Tennessee
American Legion
Ralph Gearhart
Easter Seal Drive Net $1657.39 in Mercer County
William P. Gottlieb reports the 1946 Easter Seal sale in Mercer county raised 1657.39 dollars. George H. Brown of Princeton thanks workers, schools, theatres, radio and newspapers for their cooperation in the campaign’s success.
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Mercer County
William P. Gottlieb
West Virginia Society For Crippled Children
Gottlieb
George H. Brown
Princeton
Services at Lindside Run church led by Billy Sunday
All day services will be held at Lindside Run church with a morning service at 11 o clock and an afternoon service at 2 30. Next Sunday the Billy Sunday Club will be at Iaeger Baptist church in Iaeger.
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Lindside
the Run
Billy Sunday Club
Iaeger Baptist Church
Iaeger
Several Men Enlist For Service In Navy
The Bluefield navy recruiting station reports men sworn in at Huntington on June 11. Names include William Allen Rounion and Joseph Lee Starling of Bluefield, plus Emanuel Andrew Amato Beckley and Floyd Crockett Cox Keyrock, among others listed.
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Bluefield
Huntington
William Allen Rounion
Joseph Lee Starling
Robert Whitley Hedrick
Virgil Mies Arrington
Walter
Carl James Stewart
Rene
William Gray Johnson, Jr
Mabscott
James Donald Blevins
Beckley
George Oswald Cales
Carl Wil Joe Burton
Jerry Smith, Jr
Eccles
Jack Hagar Sallie
Rudolph Joseph
Cimala
Local Man Fined On Wife-Beating Charge
Magistrate M. B. Postlethwaite fined Joseph H. Spencer of Bluefield $25 for assaulting and beating his wife Mrs Mabel Spencer in Bramwell. Spencer appealed the case to the criminal court and was held under $100 bond pending action.
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M. B. Postlethwaite
Joseph H. Spencer
Bluefield
Mabel Spencer
Bramwell Read
Rand
E Carney to Leave Bluefield Telegraph After Long Service
E Carney longtime Telegraph employee in Bluefield resigns after almost twenty years. He came from Charleston with wife, reared three children, aided war effort through Mercer County War Finance, and plans rest with no immediate job. His son Lt. W Carney serves in the Air Corps now stationed in Miami.
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Field Dailylegraph
Hese 4 Saal
Charleston
Carney
Bluefield
W Carney
United States Air Corps
Miami
Fla
Frank B. Pearman
Betty Carney
Mercer County War Finance Committee
E. Carney
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Dayton
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Army
All Forest
Richlands News
Vacation Bible
Richlands Church
Jane Gardner Lipford
Dixie Hotel
Helen Virk Compton
Georgia Lipford
W. R. Williams
Cedar Bluf
Mary Williams
William D. Hart
Lois Hart
William Hart, Jr
Stamford, Conn
Kee Harts
Caste Home
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First Baptist Church
Henry Campbell
Lynchburg College
A. B
H. V
John T. Kelly
J Pinsay
Arlington
Lindsay
Jean York
Gen
John Y. York
Patricia Jessee
Set
Paul Jessee
Clinch Valley Clinic
John Moneymaker
W. E. Steele
Clifton
Monemaker
J. W. Fox
Birmingham
Ala
Millard Harris
Richlands Presbyterian Church
Henry Norman
Anna
Cumberland
Cumberland Heights
South Bluefield
Law & Commerce
Lilly Land Co
Rocky Gap, VA
Drum and Bugle Corps
Greeneville, Tenn
Navy
Telegraph
Pasenal Finance Co
Arsenal
Law & Commerce Bidgtad
Federal At
Raleigh
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Binefeld
Finance
Republican Party
United States
Claude R. Hill
Oak Hill
Omas Sweeney
Wheeling
Hartley Sanders
Carl Herman Brunner
Supreme Court of Appeals
W. Elliott Nefflen
Charleston, W. Va
Lewis H. Miller Ripley
Cassius Cook
House of Delegates
Bluefield, W. Va
Leslie E. Gadd
E. L. Phillips
Matoaka, W. Va
W. Scott Rogersprinceton
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G. E. White
G. E. Va
Princeton , Va
Clifton F. Bailey
P. D. Bratton
Frank Barlow Bluefield
J. Otis
Bowling Bluefield
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Mercer County Board of Education
Walter L. White
W. J. Cole
Sidney J. Kwass
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Morgan
Princeton, W. Va
Mercer
West Virginia
Beaver Pond District
James A. Stevenson
J. C. Crockett
H. H. Ball
Landon T. Reynolds
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