Richlands Schedules and Tragedy Mark Web Week
Richlands faces a fatal electrocution of C E Clark at Elk Garden while repairing a home lighting system. The article also notes the death of Mrs Harman Wurley, the first Richlands Klan parade since months, the new 12000 pound daily ice plant, Pocahontas Fuel Co expanding near Bandy, and local court actions including two youths on probation and Albert Harless fined for loitering with two pistols.
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Richlands
C. E. Clark
Appalachian Power Company
Elk Garden
Clark
John Henry Smith
Smith
Pulaski
Harman Wurley
Jewell Ridge
Mattie Williams Hospital
Wurley
Brooklyn
Ballard Elswick
Tazewell County
Pearl Day
Trinity Community House
West Richlands
Hawkins Cemetery
Ku Klux Klan
West Main Street
West End
Richlands Ice Company
Archibald Underwood
George Horton
J. T. Altizer
A. R. Underwood
J. B. Boyer
Tazewell
Faraday
Bandy
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Tipples
Pocahontas Fuel Company
J. N. Harman
J. M. Beavers
Etta Hawkins
Jim Harman
Dry Fork
Norfolk and Western Railway
West Virginia
Albert Harless
Southern Pocahontas
Albert
Harless
Windon Kitts
Corporation Court
American Legion
Star Theatre
Jack Hyatt
W. B. Andrews
Charles Rosseau
Henry Barrett
Neil Porter Boggess
John Repass
Jessie F. White
W. B. F. White
Hampden Sidney College
White
Richlands High School
Hampden Sidney
Als
Colege Magazine
Tiger
Card of Thanks to Richlands for kindness shown
I express heartfelt thanks to the people of Richlands for kindness during my wife Charles B. Tucker's illness and death.
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Richlands
Charles B. Tucker
Lost watch found near Richlands Cedar Bluff area
A 21 jewel Waltham watch went missing between Richlands and Cedar Bluff with a reward offered to return it to Robert Horton of Richlands. The piece is touted in a column noting eerie red lights seen in Richlands, a summer ritual at Cedar Bluff dam, and preparations for a swimming area with dressing rooms being installed.
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J. D. Burton
Richlands
Cedar Bluff
Waltham
Robert Horton
Big Mill
Richlands Social Roundup Highlights Local Visitors
Richlands residents welcomed many guests and travelers over the weekend including Jack Hyatt returning from Lynchburg and Mrs. R. M. Richardson with daughters Yva and Fiossie visiting from Marion, plus Ted Spindle of Christiansburg and numerous relatives visiting from Gray Otter and nearby towns. The column notes hospital visits, travels to Roanoke and Bluefield, military and college students, and several local events across the area.
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Richlands
Jack Hyatt
Lynchburg
R. M. Richardson
Yva and
Fiossie
Marion
Ted Spindle
Christiansburg
W. B. Spratt
Washington Square
Boyd Boggess
Drill
Pearl Ratliff
Marvin
M. B
Henry Elswick
Coaldon
W. A. McKee
Floyd Brown
Josph Monk
Grundy
R. B. Ringstaff
Joseph Duff
Lacy Morgan
Lacy Buskill
Saltville
Helen Gillian
Austinville
Victor Fields
Pulaski
Harry West
Putnam
Mattie Williams Hospital
Evelyn Draper
San Bernardino
Calif
Thomas Davis
Cincinnati
Sallie Davis
B. F. Ball
J. K. Faulkner
Five Oaks
Frank Hurt
Bluefield
Meek Booth
Local Notes On Residents and Visitors
Caretta visitors include Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Campbell on Kents Ridge road. Budd Caudill and John Rimmer called on friends in Randy. Margaret Liptford and Mrs. Cliff Suthard returned home from a ten day visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Garden. William Lowe opened a new store in Glass Row. John Brown of Bluefield visited friends in Richlands. Mrs. T. L. Addison, formerly at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, arrived for an extended visit with her brother T. M. Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Altizer spent Thursday in Jewell Ridge with Mrs. W. L. Burke.
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G. R. Smith
Roanoke
K. C. Garland
Thomas
Rich Creek
James Wilson
James Kerry
Jiams
Suffolk Avenue
University of Virginia
C. J. Campbell
Philadelphia
Our City
J. B. Steele
Bluefield
William C. Williams
Richlands
Putnam
Easley Stafford
Peterstown
C. ©. McBrayer
Margaret Marsh
Gr Uar Bluff
Cughes Ascue
A. A. Skeen
Clintwood
Pearisburg
R. F. Harman
Adolphus P. Liptford
Cliff Suthard
Margaret Liptford
Tazewell
John Ireson
J. E. Malcolm
Prince
Tuday
C. E. Howell
John
Laegar
Oleaster Harris
Jackson
C. B. Wallace
George Perry
Cedar Bluff
M. L. Perry
John Hyatt
U. S. Army
Boston
C. C. Hyatt
Stanley Wingo
Williamson
W. P. Boggess
Bowen's Cove
Thomas Spratt
W. R. Bushell
Mendota
George Horton
Clayton Lawson
Lancaster
Oliver A. Terrell
Fairfax Avenue
Holland Davis
New
Louise Johnson
East Radford
Zeb Carter
Willis Boggess
Harlan, Ky
Will Boggess
Main Street
William Helton
Charles Nixon
Helen Hardiman
Juanita Ascue
Everette Campbell
Eckman
A. A. Campbell
St. Luke’s Hospital
Casey Childress
Mattie Williams Hospital
R. W. Liddie
Pineville
James
Robert McGuire
Iaegar
G. W. Rimmer
Princeton
Francis Elgin
Charles Hunter
Virginia Episcopal School
Lyssburg
Poundingill
W. R. Williams
Judge C
Bradshaw
W. Va
Frank Buskell
Homer Keene
Bristol
J. M. Ratliff
Jimmie
Alabama
Z. V. Fox
J. B. Barrett
George Phillips
Baltimore
Thomas Phillips
Welleston
Ohio
A. G. Steele
Belfast
Smith Brown
War
Charles Harris
Ruth Jamison
Ella Baker
Vivian Elkins
Lena Altizer
Eula Johnson
Radford
State Teachers’ College
Nora Warner
Lois Ringstaff
Caretta
Kents Ridge Road
Budd Caudill
John Rimmer
Randy
A. C. Garden
Charleston
William Lowe
Glass Row
John Brown
Env
Behin and Franken Ida Woerzen Admit Bigamy at Trial
Behin Fraken Ida Woerzen admitted at her trial for bigamy that five husbands were living but she declared them all worthless.
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Behin
Franken
Ida Woerzen
Robbed girl in Chicago dies by suicide after robbery
A Chicago girl who was robbed of money saved for a new dress took her own life. Miss Esther Moleen was named in connection with the incident as authorities investigated the sequence of events surrounding the death and the theft.
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Chicago
Esther Moleen
Trust funds theft arrest and divorce testimony
Chicago reports Henry Wrayman a church trustee arrested for theft of trust funds blaming his downfall on fast women and slow horses. In Waukegan Mrs J C Carter testifies in divorce suit that she had never seen her husband sober.
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Chicago
Henry Wrayman
Waukegan, I1
J. C. Carter
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Richland News
Mary Pruett
Victoria Harris
Windom
J. B. Altizer
J. T. Wygal
I. KE. Horton
Laird-Schober
Sullivan
Nunn-Bush
Emerson
Aaron
Slatonis Shoes
F. G. Phillips
Befield
Vie
Wheel & Car Corporation
Bluefield Gas& Power Co
Bland Street
Bradmann
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