Dr Low Joins Memorial Staff As Chief Surgeon
Memorial hospital announces the recruitment of Dr J R Low of Charlottesville Virginia to serve as chief surgeon starting July 1 He is UVA Class of 1840 and recently completed five years of surgical training at University Hospital He will reside at 1419 Main Street in the home vacated by Dr Gordon Todd who will relocate to Cincinnati to join Cincinnati General Hospital staff
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Main Street
Gordon Todd
Low
Cincinnati
The
Cincinnati General
Princeton Elks Hold Annual Steak Fry
More than 400 members of the Princeton B. P. O. Elks lodge and their ladies attended the steak fry at Mercer Springs Way. Softball, horseshoes and conversation provided entertainment before and after the meal. Clyde Bourne of General Auto Stores was named a Norge appliance dealer, after ending his Western Auto Store tie and operating stores in town and Marlington.
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Princeton B. P. O. Elks Lodge
Mercer Springs
Clyde Bourne
General Auto Btores
Norge
Bourne
Western Auto Store Association
Marlington
Presbytery Pioneer Camp Opens Monday at Beckwith
Bluestone presbytery Pioneer camp opens Monday June 28 for a week at Camp Beckwith near Fayetteville West Virginia. Rev. Charles McNutt directs a program of religious study and recreation for Pioneer youths aged 11 to 15. Attending from Princeton Presbyterian are Peggy Douglas Ernest Fortner Miriam Hogan Bobby Lambert Charles Lambert Nancy Price Patsy Ann Spangler Alice Taylor. From Melrose Chapel attend Evelyn Crotty Karen Cransfield Betty Goodall Roberta Pennington Shirley Rice and Shirley Wade.
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Bluestone Presbytery Pioneer Camp
Camp Beckwith
Fayetteville
W. Va
Charles McNutt
Princeton Presbyterian Church
Peggy Douglas
Ernest Fortner
Miriam Hogan
Bobby Lambert
Charles Lambert
Nancy Price
Patsy Ann Spangler
Alice Taylor
Melrose Chapel
Evelyn Crotty
Karen Cransfield
Betty Goodall
Roberta Pennington
Shirley Rice
Shirley Wade
Princeton Personal News and Local Travels
Princeton society notes list Mr and Mrs W A Weiss and two children at Babcock Park Fayette county for a week. Barbara Thompson leaves for Hartford Conn to spend summer with an uncle. Mrs R B McNutt returns home from Bluefield sanitarium where she was a patient. her husband recuperates from a broken leg. Col and Mrs William Watters visit Washington DC for the week end with Watters brothers. B Borinsky returns from a trip to Los Angeles. accompanied home by Irving Selig from Indianapolis. At the Mercer theatre the film Unconquered stars Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard about Pontiac’s 1763 war. At the Royal theatre I Wouldnt Be In Your Shoes stars Don Castle and Elyse Knox. Cucumbers originate from southern Asia and have a 4000 year history.
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W. A. Weiss
Highland Avenue
Babcock Park
Fayette County
Barbara Thompson
Blake Avenue
Hartford
Conn
R. B. McNutt
Straley Avenue
Bluefield Sanitarium
Mr. McNutt
William Watters
Washington, D. C
Col
Irving Selig
For Sale Items Include Bedroom Suite and Stove
Maple bedroom suite gas stove two gas heaters studio couch one big easy chair kitchen cabinet kitchen table and chairs Caldwell head of 9th Street Princeton West Virginia offers seen in community sale notice.
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B. Caldwell
9Th. Street
Princeton
W. Va
Dry Kindling Offered by Cox and Hall in Princeton WV
Dry kindling sold for 3.66 dollars per load for one horse wagon or available by truck load. Contact Cox and Hall at Lifly Highway Addition in Princeton West Virginia for purchase details.
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Cox & Hall
Lifly Highway
Princeton
W. Va
Moonshine Seizures In Two County Patrols
State and county officers halted two moonshine shipments in separate county areas. A 1946 Ford truck owned by John A. Short of Floyd Virginia and with Alton W. West of Floyd aboard carried sixty gallons of liquor and an automatic pistol. They were arrested Wednesday morning for liquor transport and West faces weapon charges. In Windmill Gap officers pursued a 1947 Ford coupe containing sixty gallons of moonshine and a suspected deserter. the car, a hot rod with a high speed motor, was left on a Cherokee road. The driver remains at large pending federal action.
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Hale’s Gap
John A. Short
Floyd
Short
Alton W. West
West
M. C. York
Windmill Gap
Cherokee
Friendship Garden Club meets at Circle Drive hostesses
Mrs Perry Morrow hosted the June Friendship Garden club meeting at her Circle Drive home with co host Mrs Dover Jackson. President Mrs Cyrus Gadd chaired the evening. reports on the Federation of Garden clubs state meeting at White Sulphur Springs were given by Mrs Herbert Boaling Mrs Frank McKenzie and Mrs Gadd. Junior club reports followed by social hour with refreshments for twenty members. Attendees at Vermillion rites included numerous relatives and friends from Beckley Oakvale Radford Athens Welch Morgantown Norfolk and Kingsport among others.
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Friendship Garden Club
Perry Morrow
Circle Drive
Dover Jackson
Cyrus Gadd
Herbert Boaling
Frank McKenzie
Gadd
Federation of Garden Clubs
Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs
Lee Montgomery
Suits Filed in Circuit Court by Collins Against Daltons
Suits were filed in circuit court in chancery July rules by James M Collins against Gladys Mae Collins and Leola Randolph Dalton against Willie M Dalton. AT OUR
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Circuit Court In Chancery
James M. Collins
Gladys Mae Collins
Leola Randolph Dalton
Willie M. Dalton
Vesper Services and Local Church Notices
Activities at the Carolina Community Home feature Bertha Mitchell directing the vesper service and Pauletta Mitchell performing. Mary Hellen Ryans funeral arrangements announced for Abingdon. survivors listed. National Youth Conference closes with Women In The New Church topic and state officer elections. Various church events and speakers noted for Mount Zion, Church of God In Christ, and John Stewart Methodist Church.
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Carolina Community Home
Bertha Mitchell
R. E. Keeling
Pauletta Mitchell
Garrett Holland
Robert Ferguson
Church of Christ
Mercer Street
R. C. Lawson
The
Mount: Zion Baptist Church
Mary Sue Graverly
Fairfax Street
Womans Society of Christian Service
John Stewart Methodist Church
Nora Young
War
Alma Collins
Bluefield State College
Lightning bolt kills golfer in Hot Springs
John Lorrissey a 68 year old Cleveland Ohio businessman was killed when struck by lightning while playing golf near 3 pm in Hot Springs Virginia. He was vice president of the Ferry Cap and Set Screw Company and was accompanied by his wife on the visit.
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Hot Springs
John Lorrissey
Cleveland
Ohio
Homestead Hotel
Morrissey
Ferry Cap
Derailed coal cars in Hinton yards cause damage
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad officials said 13 loaded coal cars derailed during shifting in Hinton West Virginia yards. Three cars telescope and demolished in the incident.
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Hinton
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Wayne Coal Firm Gets Charter From State
The Spruce Point Coal company based in Wayne with works on Camp Creek, Stonewall district, Wayne county, obtained a charter. Capitalized at 5000 dollars, incorporators are Horace Tabor and Harrod Tabor of Wayne and Marcus White of East Lynne. Also chartered was the 8 P and P employees' credit union of Standard Printing and Publishing in Huntington, capitalized at 25000 dollars, with incorporators Jewell S. Becklah, Marjorie S. Martufi Ena Harry Martin of Huntington.
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Charleston
W. Va
Spruce Point Coal Company
Wayne
Camp Creek
Stonewall
Wayne County
Horace Tabor
Harrod Tabor
Marcus White
East Lynne
Standard Printing and Publishing Company of
Huntington
Man Hangs Self Near Moundsville
Acting Coroner S F Yoho rules death by own action in the hanging of Ross Huntsman 35 found near the outskirts of Moundsville West Virginia on June 24 in a fresh case of suicide with no immediate explanation given.
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Moundsville
W. Va
S. F. Yoho
Ross Huntsman
Jolly Recital Aids Baptist Church In Amonate West Virginia
Mrs B O Jolly gave a June 20 recital at Amonate West Virginia to benefit the local Baptist Church with sponsor Mrs W M Young and Rev W H Mays. The Jolly family plans July 9 departure for Gospel singing in Memphis Chicago and Dallas as part of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses Inc led by Thomas A Dorsey of Chicago.
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B. O. Jolly
Amonate
West Virginia
Baptist Church
W. M. Young
W.H. Mays
Lilly of the Valley
Dallas
Texas
National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc
Thomas A. Dorsey
Chicago
Illinois
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el Ryde
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Mercer
Mercer Theatre
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Paulette Goddard
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Pontiac
the Royal
Don Castle
Elyse’ Knox
Royal Theatre
Regis Toomey
Charles Brown
East
Asia
Fair Hotel
Ritchie Street
McDowell County
C. N. Kirby
Welch
Riverside Drive
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Princeton, W. VA
Piedmont Store
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First Baptist Church
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Norfolk
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Jimmy
Henry Roberts
Morgantown
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Kingsport
Tenn
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Wolfe
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Moss French
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C. E. Kinzer
T. Stotesberry
Beckley
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Rock
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Oakvale
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PTR OS Ta
Art Es Cooper Lames Goddard
Technicolor
Keynoter
Green
Dwight H. Green Ofllinois
Convention Hall
Philadelphia
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Vesper Services
Edward
Smalls, Sr
America Smalls
Mary Hellen Ryans
Abingdon
Robert Ryans
Elizabeth Clark
Margarett Carter
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Harriet Ryans
Jonata Ryans
Hazel Henderson
Sam Ryans
Freddie Ryans
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Gay Catherine Rosby
Pulaski
J. H. Easley
Church of God In Christ
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Queen Esther
Easton Star
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Jackson L. Harris
Bluefield
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Ezra Lee Bailey
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C.B. Martin
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