West Virginia Marks 95th Birthday As 35th State
West Virginia celebrates 95 years as a state on June 20 1958 reflecting rapid industrial growth and a long turbulent path from western Virginia secession to statehood proclaimed by Lincoln in 1863. The article traces the Wheeling secession, 1861 conventions, and the 1862 ratification leading to admission to the Union.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
West Virginia
Union
Charleston
Virginia
Clifford Dowdey
South
Confederacy
United States
Washington
Ohio
Wheeling
Ohio Company
Walpole Company
King of England
Vandalia
Alleghenies
Congress
Westsylvania
Richmond
Virginia Assembly
Francis H. Pierpont
John S. Carlile
Waitman T. Willey
Kanawha
Lincoln
Lt Lilly Loses Shirt While Off Duty
Blue Field police Lt L H Lilly forgot his shirt while doing off duty chores on Jefferson Street. He left it near bricks and drove away in his undershirt, planning to retrieve it at 2 30 p.m. The episode highlights that even a city cop is not immune to misfortune.
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L. H. Lilly
Bluefield
Jefferson Streeet
Old Sol
Deaths and Funerals Highlight Mercer County Area
A series of obituaries from Bluefield and surrounding towns notes the deaths of Mrs. Gracen Lucas 71 of Sparta North Carolina Mrs. Vergie Ellen Mitchell 80 of Bluefield and other local residents. The notices list surviving spouses children and grandchildren along with funeral arrangements at Sparta Baptist Church Hawkins Funeral Home Wagner Funeral Home and other local houses of worship and cemeteries. The reports name several communities including Bluefield Welch Isom Clintwood and Roanoke with services set across multiple days and locations.
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Gracen Lucas
Sparta
N. C
Bluefield
Sparta Baptist Church
Hawkins Funeral Home
First Baptist Church
Augusta Street
Monte Vista Park
George Woods
Gracen
G. D
Francis Woods
Harry Wood
Roanoke
Mark Woods
Collinsville
Harry Ireson
Alice Halt
D. G. Agnew
Lewisburg
Claude, English
Leesville
L. W. Durham
Lynchburg
Nina Lucas
Ruba
Alta Vista
H. W
Stella Phipps
Lloyd Phipps
Isom
Susan Mullins
Clifford
Lester
Ronald
James
Paul
Sylvester
Clintwood
Avery
Seward A.F.B
Tenn
Chester and Kyle
Fort Jackson
S OC
Bertha Mullins
Irene Haynes
Elmira Smith
Baltimore
Lorene Corder
Chicago
Ill
Mary and
Martha Phipps
Clarence
Labor
John Henry Mullins
Asa. Mullins
West Virginia
Opal Phipps
Eva Stapleton
Nancy Price
Lilly Goodman
Little Hope Church
Isam
Conley Funeral Home
Vergie EF. Mitchell
Vergie Ellen Mitchell
Southview Drive
Albert H. Mitchell
First Methodist Church
Bill
Jack Boyd
Curtis Grimm
Charles
James Mitchell
Golda Dakin
Roderfield
McDowell County
Raymond Dakin
West Virginia Amusement Co
Mildred McCoy
Helen Dakin
W. W. Woods
Willie Mae Ashworth
Welch
Walter Jones
Registration Open For Swimming Class
The local Red Cross chapter offers annual swimming instruction for business men and women from July 7 to July 18. Head instructor Joe Bowen will lead nightly 5 30 to 6 30 p m sessions. Red Cross certificates will be awarded on completion. Registration is at the Red Cross Chapter office in the Coal and Coke Building Bluefield.
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American Red Cross
Edward Frazee
Joe Bowen
Frazee
Red Cross
Coal & Coke Building
Bluefield
Virginia Wreck Claims One Life
A 59-year-old Unicoi County woman, Myrtle Chaffin, died from injuries after a two car crash on State Route 64 near McClure in Dickenson County Virginia. She was a passenger in William McKinley Chaffin’s car. Oscar Curtis Silcox drove the other vehicle. The accident added to Virginia’s 1956 highway death toll, with 341 fatalities reported. The drivers avoided serious injuries.
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Unicoi
Tennessee
Dickenson County
Old Dominion
Myrtle Chaffin
Bristol
McClure
William McKinley Chaffin
Oscar Curtis Silcox
Route 1
Neary Ridge
Obituary notices list multiple local mourners and services
A round of funeral services and burials is listed for Charles E Miller Caroline C Gregory John C Mitchell Margie A French Robert C Altizer Frederick D Evans Flora B McGuver Walter Johnson Albert James Clark infant Julian W Neel James H Duncan Albert W Collins Charles S Bailey Joseph C Harvey across churches including First Baptist Bethany Duhring Crabtree Chapel Radford and Bluefield with interments at Resthaven Compton Maple Hill Roselawn Monte Vista and Roselawn cemeteries.
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William R. Repass
Thorn Street
Princeton
First Methodist Church
Roselawn
Seaver Funeral Home
C. L. Shannon
J. R. Frederick
M. E. Brookman
T. W. Bailey
E. G. Williams
J. G. Waldron
T. R. Grimm
Luther Basham
Glen Francisco
F. M. Whittaker
French
Margie A
Tannersville
Crabtree Chapel
Crabtree Cemetery
Henderson Funeral Home
Saltville
Army Rejects Move to Try Soldier in German Court
The U S Army refused a bid by lawyers Franklin Potter and Thomas Landan to try Pfc. McKinley D Hill in a German court for the murder of Margarete Lindenthal in Bavaria. The defense would appeal to the Defense Department. They argued racial prejudice would taint a U S court martial. Hill could face the death penalty if convicted by a U S court martial though West Germany bans capital punishment.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S
Franklin Potter
Thomas Landan
U. S. Defense Department
Pfc
McKinley D. Hill
Jenkin Jones
W. Va
Hill
United States
Margarete Lindenthal
Bavaria
West Germany
Lions Club Installations Set at Bluefield Tonight
Bluefield Lions Club holds its annual Ladies Night with Kenneth Shrader to assume the presidency, replacing Kenneth Cole. Hiram King, district governor from Cross Lanes, will install officers and serve as principal speaker at the West Virginian Hotel event with a 6 30 reception, 7 30 banquet, and dancing afterward.
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Bluefield Lions Club
Kenneth Shrader
Lion
Kenneth Cole
Shrader
Hiram King
Cross Lanes Lion's Club
West Virginian
West Virginia and Virginia Weather Forecast
The Associated Press reports West Virginia will see showers and thunderstorms Friday with highs 75 to 80. Saturday will be partly cloudy mild and less humid. In Virginia expect mostly cloudy skies warm and humid with Friday showers and storms near 85. Thunder showers end Friday night, with Saturday clearing and less humidity.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Trades Council Adjourns Today After Convention
W E Reed secretary treasurer of the West Virginia Building and Construction Trades Council addressed delegates at the 16th Annual Convention of the West Virginia Pipe Trades Association calling laborers the legion of forgotten men. He noted progress since the 1942 formation and praised three apprentices for top honors at the 1958 Bodell Shops contest in Princeton: Tom Horvath Wheeling Local 83 top plumber, Charles Smith Huntington Local 521 top pipe fitter, Bill Cornell Charleston Local 625 runner up in pipe fitting.
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Dan Niggemeyer
W. Va
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Huntington
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Princeton
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UAJA
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Charleston
Fields
W. E. Reed
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Sheep Sale Day At Tazewell Market
Tazewell Va Friday June 27 features a double header at the Tazewell Livestock Market. The Tazewell Ram Sale includes Suffolks Southdowns and Hamp shires on the block at 1 p m followed by the native Ewe Sale at 7 p m with about 1400 head offered.
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Virginia
Suffolks
Southdowns
Hampshires
Food distribution delayed in Tazewell to July 8
Tazewell County welfare announces surplus food distribution originally set for Friday July 4 has been postponed to Tuesday July 8 due to the July 4 holiday observance. The notice cites the county welfare office as the source of the change and directs residents to plan accordingly.
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Tazewell County
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