West Virginia at 95: State’s birth amid strife and growth
West Virginia marks 95 years as the 35th state with a look back at its murky birth from Wheeling conventions to Congress approval. The piece notes early secession battles, the 1863 admission date, and ongoing industrial expansion shaping its future.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
West Virginia
Union
Charleston
Virginia
John S. Carlile
Waitman T. Willey
Washington
Wheeling
Kanawha
Congress
Lincoln
Lt Lilly Learns Even Cops Forget Their Shirts
Lt Lilly of the Bluefield Police Department left his shirt on Jefferson Street while loading bricks. He forgot the undershirt when he drove off, planning to return about 2:30 p.m., only to find the missing garment not recovered.
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L. H. Lilly
Bluefield
Jefferson Streeet
Old Sol
Deaths And Funerals
Multiple obituaries from Bluefield area list deaths in Sparta Isom Welch Clintwood and Bluefield with services in Sparta Bluefield Isom and Princeton. Notables include Mrs Gracen Lucas Mrs Vergie Ellen Mitchell Rev Sidney H McMillan and Thomas Edward Ryder with details on survivors funeral homes and burial sites.
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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 Hart
D. G. Agnew
Lewisburg
Claude English
Leesville
L. W. Durham
Lynchburg
Nina Lucas
Ruba
Alta Vista
H. W
Registration Open For Swimming Class
The Red Cross chapter offers annual swimming instruction for business men and women from July 7 to July 18. Joe Bowen leads the course with evening sessions 5 30 to 6 30 p m at the City Park pool. Registrations accepted at the Coal and Coke Building office in Bluefield.
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American Red Cross
Edward Frazee
Joe Bowen
Frazee
Red Cross
Coal & Coke
Bluefield
City Park
Virginia Wreck Claims One Life
A 59 year old Unicoi County woman died in a two car crash in Dickenson County Virginia bringing the 1956 highway death toll to 341. Myrtle Chaffin died in a Bristol Virginia hospital from injuries suffered in a collision on State Route 64 near McClure. Police said the driver of the second car Oscar Curtis Silcox was not seriously hurt and the Chaffin driver William McKinley Chaffin was injured lightly.
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Unicoi
Tennessee
Dickenson County
Old Dominion
Myrtle Chaffin
Bristol
McClure
William McKinley Chaffin
Oscar Curtis Silcox
Route 1
Neary Ridge
Multiple Funeral Services Held Across Bluefield Area
A long list of memorials and funeral services for individuals including 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 Julian W Neel James H Duncan Albert W Collins Charles S Bailey Joseph C Harvey are scheduled across churches chapels and cemeteries in Bluefield Radford Bramwell Welch and surrounding towns with service times from today through Saturday and burials at diverse cemeteries.
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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
D. C
Bertha Mullins
Irene Haynes
Elmira Smith
Baltimore
Lorene Corder
Chicago
Ill
Mary
Martha Phipps
Clarence
Labor
John Henry Mullins
Asa Mullins
West Virginia
Eva Stapleton
Nancy Price
Lilly Goodman
Little Hope Church
Conley Funeral Home
Vergie FE. Mitchell
Vergie Ellen Mitchell
Southview Drive
Bluefield
Albert H. Mitchell
First Methodist Church
Bill
Jack Boyd
Curtis Grimm
Charles
James Mitchell
Charles Straley Bailey
Mr. Bailey
Mercer County
East Cumberland Road
Bailey Memorial Baptist Church
Effie Burroughs Bailey
J. R
Donald R
Emmett M. Bailey
Freddy R. Eades
Roanoke
James L. Combs
Elmer L. Morris
E. Carl Bailey
J. Earl Bailey
J. A. Douglas Bailey
Mitchell
Ontario
Canada
Will Gibson
Henderson
Bailey Memorial Chapel
Monte Vista Park
Mercer Funeral Home
Jake B. Bland
Zenith
Monroe County
O. B. Grimmett
Minnie Perry
Gap Mills
Roxie Harless
Newcastle
Stella Harless
Newport
Walter Bland
Willie Bland
Peterstown
Crimson Spring Baptist Church
Carmel Cemetery
Broyles
Army Refuses Local Trial for Soldier in German Girlfriend Murder
The Army rejected requests by Franklin Potter and Thomas Landan to try Pfc. McKinley D. Hill in a German court for the murder of Margarete Lindenthal in Bavaria. They argued local courts would avoid racial bias. the Army promised fair, impartial treatment under U.S. law if tried by court martial.
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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
Installation of Lions Club Officers in Bluefield
The Bluefield Lions Club will install officers for the new fiscal year during their Ladies Night. Kenneth Shrader becomes president, succeeding Kenneth Cole, with Hiram King of the Cross Lanes Lions Club performing the installation and delivering the keynote. The West Virginian Hotel hosts a 6:30 reception, 7:30 banquet, followed by dancing.
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Bluefield Lions Club
Kenneth Shrader
Lion
Kenneth Cole
Shrader
Hiram King
Cross Lanes Lion's Club
West Virginian
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Virginia
The Associated Press reports West Virginia will see showers and thunderstorms Friday with highs 75 to 80 degrees. Saturday will be partly cloudy and milder. Virginia will be mostly cloudy and humid with showers and thunderstorms Friday, near 85, ending Friday night, followed by a clearing Saturday and less humidity.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Trades Council Adjourns Today at West Virginia 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 of the organization and praised three winning apprentices for top honors at Bedell Shops Princeton. Tom Horvath Wheeling Local 33 top plumber apprentice. Charles Smith Huntington Local 521 top pipe fitter. Bill Cornell Charleston Local 625 runner up in pipe fitting.
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West Virginian Hotel
Dan Niggemeyer
W. Va
Ft. Worth
Tex
Charles Smith
Huntington
Bob Edwards
Princeton
B. A. Downey
UAJA
Bill Cornell
Charleston
Fields
W. E. Reed
West Virginia Building and Construction Trades Council
Laborers
Legion of Forgotten Men
The
West Virginia Pipe Trades Association
Reed
Bedell
Tom Horvath
Wheeling
Sheep Sale Day At Tazewell Market
TAZEWELL Va Friday June 27 features a double header at the Tazewell Livestock Market. The Tazewell Ram Sale starts at 1 p.m. with Suffolks Southdowns and Hampshire consignments, followed by the native Ewe Sale at 7 p.m. offering about 1400 head.
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Tazewell
Southwest
Virginia
Suffolks
Southdowns
Harmpshires
Food distribution in Tazewell postponed to July 8
Government surplus food distribution in Tazewell Virginia, originally set for Friday July 4, has been postponed to Tuesday July 8 due to July 4 holiday observance. The announcement comes from the Tazewell County Department of Welfare.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
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