Junior Stockman Wins Beef Cattle Honors at Richlands Fair
Jimmy Barnett, 4-H member from Tazewell and Leatherwood Co., led a sweep of beef cattle wins at the 1965 Richlands Fair and Stock Show. He earned grand and reserve champion bull titles with Keifer, while Leatherwood Co. took top dairy honors with a grand champion Holstein. Other locals, including Rita Neel and Jim Neel, also earned multiple firsts in junior and open divisions across Holstein and Guernsey cattle. Judges Ard en Huff and Earl Baylor presided. Jim McDonald led the livestock section. events ran Thursday to Saturday with a fireworks opening and a pony show closing.
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Jimmy Barnett
Tazewell
Leatherwood Co
Bluefield
Richlands
Young Barnett
Keifer
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
Arden Huff
Fred Cox
Stuart Land and Cattle Co
Rosedale Va
Jimmy Neel
Rita Neel
Clear Fork
FFA
Orville Sayers
Cedar Bluff
Barnett
J. Benson
Jim Michael
Pounding Mill
Lincoln Watson
Leatherwood
Judy Musick
Bristol
Stuart Land
Eddie Neel
Debbie Campbell
Lebanon
Bill Joe Pruett
Jim Neel
Barry Neel
Guernsey
Ed Neel
Earl Baylor
VPI
Jim McDonald
National Guard
Reg Full
Steve Booth
Booth
Max Wilson
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Classifieds Snippet
Fragmentary readable text from a Bluefield Daily Telegraph page shows publication branding and subscription rates. Mentions Daily Telegraph prints, service to West Virginia readers, and a list of advertising representatives.
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Soar Reed
Telegra Prints Co
Aid
Dlosheld
Associa
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Advertising
Kau
Train strikes man near Williamson killing J. T. Southers
A Norfolk and Western train struck 37-year-old J. T. Southers as he walked across tracks to reach his Falls Branch home about two miles west of Williamson. The incident occurred Thursday. Southers, age 37, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Williamson
Norfolk & Western
J. T. Southers
Southers
Falls Branch
Mrs Iva Diehl Bluefield educator dies in Lexington
Mrs Iva Shafer Diehl longtime Bluefield area educator died at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington Virginia at 230 pm after a short illness She was born August 18 1890 in Rockbridge County VA and was active in Oxford Presbyterian Church DAR UDC Colonial Dames A A U W and AACD Survivors include three sisters and a foster son Funeral services will be held Sunday at 4 pm at Oxford Presbyterian Church Lexington with burial in Oxford Cemetery The family requests memorials to the Oxford Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund
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Iva Shafer Diehl
Bluefield
Stonewall Jackson Hospital
Lexington
George West Diehl
Concord College
Athens
Rockbridge County
John A
Mary Elizabeth D. Shafer
Oxford Presbyterian Church
Daughters of the American Revolution
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Colonial Dames of America
American Association of University Women
American Association of College
Lora S. Johnston
Lillian D. Shafer
Dora S. Ackerly
Buchanan
C. E. Zink
Sheldon
Iowa
Oxford Cemetery
Frank Price
C. F. Frith
Oxford Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund
Levi Addair
Roderfield
McDowell County
Lex
Jimmy
Laura Rowe Addair
Nannie Mullins Addair
Eddie Jones
Violet Helton
Avondale
Margaret Dawson
Baileysville
Nora Johnson
Addie L. Muncy
Bland
Giles Memorial Hospital
Pearisburg
Bland Methodist Church
Bland County
Jesse
Josie G. Muncy
Harold M. Kirk
Narrows
Leona Newton
Newport News
Jessie Bounds
Cleveland
Charlottesville
John G. Muncy
Dayton
Thomas P .Muncy
Peterstown
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
Neal Williams
Newberry Funeral Home
Ogee
Charlie Kelly Bundy
Belfast
Richlands
Belfast Methodist Church
Charlie Krisp
Biloxi
P. E. Settle
Sweet Springs
Laura Hariet Hawley
Bluewell
Miss Hawley
Bluefield Sanitarium
Tampa
Fla
Brushfork
Mercer County
J. W
Elmira Jane Prunty Hawley
Josephine Hawley
R. C. Ragan
Gap Mills
W. Va
J. M. Hawley
Rt. 3
W. G. Hawley
Stanley
N. C
Bluewell Methodist Church
J. F. Harold
John Mendez
Woodlawn
Cravens Funeral Home
David
Shorty) Robertson
William St
Bryant Memorial Cemetery
Pocahontas
Bradford
S. C
Robert
Nancy Robertson
Welch Adopts Sewage Rates
Welch City Council adopted an ordinance to finance a new sewage system and sent it to the West Virginia Public Service Commission for final approval. The ordinance passed unanimously after no opposition. Sewage bills will follow the same volume tiers as current water rates with set per 100 cubic feet costs.
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Welch City
West Virginia Public Service Commission
Trim Jack Dempsey Celebrates Birthday
New York AP reports former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, now 70, celebrated his birthday at his restaurant in a seersucker jacket and dark slacks. The famous Mauler appeared in good spirits during the Thursday observance.
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Jack Dempsey
New York
Manassa Mauler
Deaths toll in Tazewell area claims Bottimore and others
Obituary notices report the death of John Strother Bottimore Jr formerly of Tazewell Virginia died June 18 in his Los Angeles apartment. Survivors include daughter Susan Bottimore of Norfolk and siblings in Virginia Washington D C Huntington and Richmond. Funeral services in Tazewell at 2 30 p m Saturday at the Bottimore residence with burial in Maple Wood Cemetery. Also listed are Levi Addair Isaiah Watkins infant deaths and Addie L Muncy with funeral plans in Bland and Pearisburg respectively.
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John Strother Bottimore Jr
Tazewell
Los Angeles
Calif
John S
Susan Belew Bottimore Sr
Bottimore
Susan Bottimore
Norfolk
William G. Bottimore
Richmond
Robert R. Bettimore
Casey M. Jones
Washington, D. C
Elizabeth Belew
Emily D. Frampton
R. J. Tresnon
Huntington
Battimore
W. E. Mustard
Russell Asbury
Maple Wood
Albert G. Peery
Foster Vance
Robert Bailey
W. D. Bundy Jr
G. R. Brittain
Peery-St. Clair Funeral Home
Funeral Notices from Mullens and Surrounding Towns
Obituaries list services for Tom Reese 8 Mullens Ken Adams 69 Jaeger Evelyn Dudley Johnston 60 Beryl Eaton 33 Stella Kahle 2023 Jefferson St with services at First Baptist Church Church of God Hawkins Funeral Chapel Mercer Funeral Home burial at Restlawn Memorial Estates Jaeger Memorial Cemetery Monte Vista Park Cemetery and Vance Cemetery Pallbearers named for each service and calling hours noted at Mullens funeral home and local chapels.
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Reese
Tom
Mullens
First Baptist Church
Virginia Street
David L Smith
Sam McClure
Henry Parham
Restlawn Memorial Estates
Princeton
James L. McDougle
Two Men Hurt in McDowell County Crash
Two McDowell County men were injured in a Thursday morning crash on U S 16 one and a half miles north of Welch. Leonard Green 58 Welch drove a truck struck by a 1964 car driven by Mike Delgrande 27 Kimball. Green listed fair condition. Delgrande good condition with scalp laceration. Police Trooper W A Wysocki investigated.
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McDowell County
Welch
Mike Delgrande
Kimball
Leonard Green
U. S. 16
Green
Stevens Clinic
Delgrande
W. A. Wysocki
Three Wyoming Countians Fined in Magistrates Court
Miles Rise of Coal Mountain was fined 25 dollars and costs and 60 days in jail for selling stolen property. Vida M. Berta and Elzia Warner, both of Wyoming, were each fined 100 dollars and costs for interfering with an officer in line of duty and posted bond for appeal to Wyom ing County Circuit Court in Pineville next month.
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Wyoming
Wyoming County
Pineville
Hatcher
Squire Gilbert Goode
Nine Mercer County Girls Enter Job Corps Training
Assistant County Prosecuting Attorney David Burton administers the first Mercer County group to enter Job Corps. Nine girls split to St. Petersburg Florida and Cleveland Ohio centers, two years of training in offices hospitals beauty shops and home skills. They will receive room board clothing and $30 monthly spending money with $50 monthly upon satisfactory completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Burton
Mercer County
St. Petersburg
Fla
Cleveland
Sandra Tinsley
Bluefield
Virgie Lambert
Beeson
Juanita
Judith Barbour
Rock
Carol Tracy
Princeton
Florence Seal
Freda Bragg
Frances Bartfai
Marsha Goal
Charleston
Funeral Today for Infant Boy Johnny Mitchem
Funeral services are held today for 13 day old Johnny Mitchem who died Tuesday from malnutrition. His unwed mother Shirley Mae Mitchem 17 of Eckman faces child neglect charges and will appear in juvenile court later. Burial is at Jarrett Cemetery Eckman with Bennett Funeral Home Northfork handling arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Mitchem
McDowell County
Shirley Mae Mitchem
Eckman
Squire A. M. St. Clair
H. A. McGinnis
Welch Emergency Hospital
Eckman Church of God
Ted Black
Jarrett Cemetery
Bennett Funeral Home
Northfork
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Bluefield, Va
Donald Ball
Rosedale
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Iva Diehl
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Great Ba
Sin Region
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Northern Plains
Upper
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John S. Bottimore JR
Isaiah M. Watkins
Isaiah Mark Watkins
Isaiah Watkins
Worth
St. Luke’s Hospital
Herman Watkins
Judy
Elizabeth Watkins
Charles Millirones
Gillie Watkins
Eddie Blankenship
Algoma
James Millirons
James M. Millirons
Howard P
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Freeman
Howard Lee
Richard Allen Millicons
Charlie K. Bundy
Laura Hawley
David Robertson
Oscar L. Austin
Lucy Frances Austin
Oak Grove Cemetery
Binewell
Leonard Lipscomb
Linkford - Richardson Funeral Home
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