Warm Weather Boosts Crops and Local Industry in Tazewell Virginia
Heatwaves lift crop growth with corn and wheat thriving while strawberries and cherries come to market though sour cherry trees suffer a disease. Milk supplies improve at Kraft Phoenix Cheese plant and high test cows gain value. A 62 foot steel observation tower is planned on Chestnut Ridge to survey timber tracts as highway bids for 1.4 miles of Route 112 near the West Virginia line move forward. Daily Vacation Bible School plans begin at local churches.
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Tazewell
Kraft Phoenix
Mustard Pruett
Tazewell County
Chestnut Ridge
Bland County
Burke Garden
Department of Highways
West Virginia State Line
McDowell
Local Tazewell Society Notes Highlight Travels and Visitors
Residents and visitors are profiled with frequent travel plans and greetings. Elizabeth Steele heads to Round Lake New York. Hazel Wall plans a western vacation. Miss Sallie Mahood to Charlottesville for summer study. Dr. J H Merin and Mrs Merin visit Pounding Mill then Boston. Community members attend courts, conferences, and family visits across Virginia and nearby states.
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Elizabeth Steele
Fred R. Siosle
Round Lake
N. Y
Hollins
J. Tom Smith
Rosedale
Charles T. Smith
Gardner
Hazel Wall
Far West
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite Falla
John Bane
Pulaski
Bobby Peery
North Tazewell
Donald Day
Blackaburg
Robert W. Harman
Norton
Evelyn Ruse
Honaker
A. C. Buchanan
Pearisburg
Buchanan
Sarah Buchanan
Garland Peery
Sarah
Sallie Mahood
Charlottesville
Marvin Gillespie
Ben Johnson
G. Dunlap
Glenna
Concord
Tenn
Robert Mose
Medical College of Virginia
State Board
Dorothy Scott
W. W. Arrowood
Old Point
Bankers’ Convention
Richmond
J. E. Woodward
Mise Felice
New York
A. J. Higginbotham
Jeff
Sidney
A. S. Higginbotham
Negro Girl Hit By Auto Hospitalized With Injuries
Five year old Hattie May Kent, a Negro girl, living with her parents at Elkhorn, is a Lomax hospital patient after being struck by a car in front of her home. Her left leg is fractured and other injuries were sustained.
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Hattie May Kent
Elkhorn
Lomax Hospital
Girl Scouts Plan Grave Marker Fundraiser in McComas
McComas West Virginia June 22 A Girl Scouts meeting led by captain Mrs Jack Smith included seven scouts and three committee members They discussed buying a grave marker for Francesa Perrys grave Each section will hold a candy sale to raise funds plus a bazaar before September 1 to cover national dues.
Kimball Negro Hurt As Elevator Falls in Kimball
Raymond Prillaman a Negro of Kimball is hospitalized with fractures in both wrists after a reel elevator at a local company fell about fifteen feet and was stopped by a safety device. He was moved from Bluefield sanitarium to Lomax hospital for treatment.
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Raymond Prillaman
Kimball
The
Lomax
Www Pany
Prillaman
Bluefield Sanitarium
Lomax Hospital
Retell Merchants’ Association
Bluefield
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Vacation Bible School
Christian and Presbyterian Churches
Terian
Tazewell Personals
Porge K. Arthur
Granada Theatre
Elizabeth Adama
the Plains
Hortense Higginbotham
Marion Avenue
Victor Reese Gilbe‘pie
A. G. Ruesell
Fincastle Turnpike
Margaret Kelley
Bill
Iowa
W. E. Peery
Nannie Crockett
W. T. Thompson
F. M. Buhrman
Wallace
C. W. Greever
Main Street
Jim Rob Laird
Tazewell Hi
Claude Petty
Jewel
Ieee
W. Greever
Arenes
Toledo
Ohio
HE Knight
Willys- Knight
Willys-Knight
Motor Sales Company
Bluefield Avenue
Girl Scouts
McComas Troop
Frances Perry
McComas R
Mercer
Jack Smith
Crane Creek
Pinnacle
Welch
Charleston
Boy Scouts
Saycees
Mora Theater
Sam Scott
George Williams
Crystal
A- McComas
Mildred Hughes
Stickney
John Holston
Mies
C. Bird
John Sanders
J. FE. Boane
Mileta
Eugene
Washington, D. C
Maude Smith
Kyle
Princeton
W. R. Sheets
Edna Kennedy
Matoaka
Owen Davis
Tame
J. W. Jones
Evelyn All
W. Givens
Hilda Norton
Shanks
John Fox Jr
James Hall
Keystone
R. 8. Kennedy
Jesse Mangus
Bernard Mangus
Albert Goodwin
Evelyn Hall
Renegs Wert
Besa Fitzhugh
W. D
David
Staunton
Fitzhugh
F. E. Fender
W. C. Edwards
Pocahontas
Kenedy
F. Garrett
Duhring
England
F. P. Smith
Frank Moses
C. C. Bird
Doris Scott
Brush Fork
James Evans
Elizabeth
F. Barry
Joe Hion Moeres
Blacksburg
Sunda
Sam Cooper
Nard Mangus
Veda Kenedy
Mack Lowe
Helen Sutherland
Flann Scott
Gertrude Nicewander
Irvin Fowler
Margaret Birdie
Montcalm
Henry Warden
Tazewell Fair Grounds
Dodge
Essex
Chrysler
National Capitol
Bluefield, W. VA
Basc Taseing
W. Va
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