Northfork Hosts Talented Musicians This Thursday
Northfork residents will enjoy a concert by four visiting women from Bluefield Roanoke and two local performers. The program features Goldie Kahn reading and Floyd Cunningham performing at least one piece. Tickets are available at Northfork Drug Store and Clark Pharmacy with door admission. The event starts at 8 15 PM in the high school auditorium.
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Northfork
Community Service
Bluefield
Roanoke
United States
Floyd Cunningham
Goldie Kahn
Northfork Drug Store
Clark Pharmacy
Legion Banquet Promises Big Time At Eckman Hall
McDowell County Post No 8 American Legion meets at Eckman community hall tonight to view The Man Without a Country and hold the year's second banquet. Membership drives push toward 600 with new recruits Ernesto Alimpierre Herbert Hicks Guy L Thomas Gaston Brown S B Collier and Harley Thurman. Bronze tablet dedication plans advance for Sunday at 7 pm with national figures tentatively set to speak though some cannot attend. Dan Sowers, state department sergeant at arms, is expected at the meeting.
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McDowell County Post No. 8
American Legion
Eckman Community Hall
Bluefield Post
Post No
Ernesto Alimpierre
Premier
Herbt Hicks
Coalwood
Guy L. Thomas
Gaston Brown
Gray
S. B. Collier
Harley Thurman
Welch
Dan Sowers
The
State Department
Welch Ball Team Set for Stone and Williamson Games
The Welch baseball squad travels to Stone Kentucky on Saturday then to Williamson Sunday after recent losses. Bayard Taylor and Camper return to the lineup at shortstop and first base to boost offense, with Falk from Pocahontas joining as second baseman and a crack shortstop to accompany.
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Welch
Stone
Williamson
Bayard
Taylor
Camper
Falk
Pocahontas
Lima
Ohio
Rouse
Coal Companies Seek 75000 Damages Against Rail Line
Marine Smokeless Coal Company sues Norfolk and Western Railway in circuit court for 75000 alleging the railroad used spurs built at a 60000 cost on its main line, claiming discrimination. Attorneys Thomas W. Shelton and Harman and Harman represent the plaintiff with plans for the case to reach the supreme court.
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Marine Smokeless Coal Company
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Thomas W. Shelton
Harman & Harman
Davy Creek
Marine Smokeless Company
Supreme Court
Elgood News Notes Local Picnic and Visits
A Glen Lyn church picnic drew many from Elgood with reports calling it enjoyable. R S White visited his father C A White over the weekend. Vocal training continues at Elgood Church led by Prof Williams. Mrs G H Steele and daughters Kathleen and Hope spent the week with F M Steele’s family. Luther White, Elgood postmaster, left Saturday for Greenbriar county. G H Steele visited his sister F M Steele and returned home Sunday night to Princeton. Mr and Mrs P Vest and children stayed with G W Vest last week.
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Glen Lyn
R. S. White
C. A. White
Elgood Church
Prof. Williams
G. H. Steele
Kathleen
Hope
F. M. Steele
Luther White
Elgood
Greenbriar
Princeton
G. W. Vest
Son dies by own hand in Lancaster grief over invalid father
In Lancaster Pennsylvania John Howes aged seventy nine, long an invalid, ends his life in a death by own action while his grieving father mourns the loss of his son.
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Lancaster
John Howes
Long-Life family Kirton Eng Mrs William Dalton aged 101
Mrs William Dalton of Kirton England, widow of a man who lived to 105, is now 101 and in good health. She has three living daughters aged 75 to 83.
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Kirton
Eng
William Dalton
Tom
Queen Anne Hotel to Open in July Under Mrs Queen
The Queen Anne Hotel at Ineger is set to open July 1 with Mrs. Queen as proprietor and her daughter Anne, the name formed from both. Lewis Furniture Company supplied furniture for the twenty two rooms. Real estate transfers include four tracts on Burk's Creek and Clark's Creek sold to the Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company for 487.60 dollars.
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Ineger
Queen
Anne
Lewis Furniture Company
Burk’s Creek
Clark’s Creek
J. P. Crozer L. R. Page
Mary Crozer Page
Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company
Deepening Well Brings Higher City Water Flow
Appalachian Power Company will drill 30 to 40 feet deeper to reach a larger water stream. Current depths at 625 feet, with Superior and Bottom Creek wells at 510 and 530 feet. When completed the new well aims for 300 gallons per minute and total city supply near 275 gpm with three wells in operation.
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Appalachian Power Company
Superior
Bottom Creek
Welch
B. P. Rouse
Southern Refrigeration Company
Mr. Rouse
Welch Personal News Highlights From Memorial Day Crash
John J. Greer, badly hurt in a Memorial Day auto wreck, is improving after a successful operation at Kessler Hatfield Hospital in Huntington. W. C. Gook, county superintendent, attends a Charleston meeting of the state board of education. J. W. Edwards departs Monday for a Cincinnati business trip.
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John J. Greer
Kessler-Hatfield Hospital
Huntington
W. C. Gook
Charleston
State Board of Education
J. W. Edwards
Cincinnati
fined and jailed for removal of flag in Mineral Wells
Virgil Strum received a $75 fine and twenty days in Wood county jail while F B Scott and C A Bryan were fined $50 each for taking down the United States flag in front of Mineral Wells post office the morning after Flag Day. The trio were part of a group seen with two women in an automobile near the post office.
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Parkersburg
Wood County
Virgil Strum
F. B. Scott
C. A. Bryan
United States
Mineral Wells
Strum
Proposed Pythian home sites inspected in West Virginia
The Pythian home and institute commission inspected four proposed sites for the state Pythian home at Pt Pleasent and was later honored with a banquet by local Pythians and Kiwanis Club. They will travel to Parkersburg then inspect northern sites in West Virginia.
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Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Pythian Home and Institute Commission
Pythian Home
Pythians and Kiwanis Club
Parkersburg
West Virginia
New Amendment Woman State Attorney Urges Federal Divorce Law
New York reports Mrs. Edward Franklin White, deputy Indiana attorney general, backs a uniform federal marriage and divorce law. She authored the proposed bill seeking a constitutional amendment to empower Congress to regulate marriage and divorce nationwide. The bill lists five grounds for divorce and outlines provisional decrees, with out of wedlock children potentially legitimated under the law.
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New York
Edward Franklin White
Indiana
Congress
United States
South Carolina
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Tennessee
Ex service man's case recited by American Legion post
A communication from Buchanan Post No. 101 of Coeburn Va. recites the case of James Robinson an ex service man sent to McDowell county state penitentiary for twenty years on a technical assault charge. Robinson served in World War I with company I 28th infantry was wounded aboard the US transport Antilles and later underwent brain surgery. He has been granted U.S. government compensation. The Coeburn post seeks par don and has placed the matter with Joseph M. Crockett, law enforcement committee chairman, for investigation while noting the family and local residents connected to the case.
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McDowell County
American Legion
Buchanan
Coeburn
James Robinson
Robinson
Hemphill
Twenty Eighth Infantry
Antilles
United States
Coeburn Post
Post No. 8
Joseph M. Crockett
Law Enforcement Committee
Local social notes from Edgarton to Bluefield
May and June social news list visits and travels of residents including Mrs Dewey Morehead Mrs Steve Peck Mrs K G Lawrence and families. Mentions of travel to Tazewell Huffsville Bramwell Norfolk Tidewater Welch Northfork and Peterstown with a June Ladies Aid meeting plan at Mrs H A Cassell and a July meeting at Mrs G L Slate. Born to Mr and Mrs T M Price a daughter.
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Dewey Morehead
Edgarton
Steve Peck
Tazewell
K. G. Lawrence
Huffsville
Mr. Lawrence
Josie Peck
Millard Tabor
Bluefield
J. L. Whitworth
Bramwell
Frank Bensey
Panther
T. J. Andrea
Norfolk
Elizabeth Davis
Tidewater
Virginia
Louise Thacker
T. M. Price
John Pearman
Br. W. Pearman
Emory and Henry College
Rupert Farris
Rolfe
Frank Miller
Charles
Peterstown
Thornton Goode
F. D. Padbury
Rock
Roy Payne
Welch
G. O. Via
Maynard Richards
Northfork
Charles Ratcliff
Dalton
Fred Myers
Mabrey Dunnigan
Ladies’ Aid Society
H. A. Cassell
G. L. Slate
Junior Society Meeting and Prayer Services at Northfork
The junior missionary society will meet Thursday at Mrs. F. C. Cook's home and a regular prayer meeting occurs Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Methodist church on the topic Does God Call Men and How. Personal notes list Mr. and Mrs. Parson visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wise Greer, and Alfred Jones returning from Washington.
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Charles Thorn
C. L. Thorn
Bramwell
Presbyterian Church
D. Forrest Wade
Simmons
Junior Society
Junior Missionary Society
F. C. Cook
Methodist Church
Magistrate and Police Chief Die in Auto Crash
Parkersburg June 26 Four Mile Run near Coolville Ohio reports a double fatal crash. W Olenger police chief of Pomeroy and Hance Fish a justice of the peace died when their overturned car felled them at the foot of an embankment on a sharp road turn after leaving Pomeroy about 4 pm.
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Parkersburg
Four Mile Run
Coolville
W. Olenger
Pomeroy, O
Hance Fish
Pomeroy
Harding Addresses Taxation to 12000 at Salt Lake City
President Harding spoke to a full Mormon tabernacle and thousands outside on taxation. He presented figures on taxes and government costs, praised federal tax reductions, the nation’s debt decline, and a debt settlement with Great Britain before concluding his remarks.
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Salt Lake City
Mormon Tabernacle
Harding
Tabernacle
Great Britain
American calls for spiritual ideal and world court of justice
The speaker argued that World War I exposed the American soul and gave the nation ambitions, but now America risks drifting. He urged a spiritual ideal and urged support for an international court of justice to help abolish war and let America play its part.
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America
International Court of Justice
Dawson Named by Kentucky Republicans
Lexington Kentucky June 26 A Charles J Dawson former attorney general was nominated as governor by the Republican state convention in a night session George Colvin withdrew his name after nomination A plank to repeal a state pari mutuel betting law was forecast as certain due to Colvin supporters push
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Lexington
Charles J. Dawson
Kentucky
George Colvin
Colvin
Mrs Paddie Drouillard Dies of Heat Induced Heart Trouble
Mrs Paddie Drouillard aged seventy five, a descendant of a pioneer West Virginia family, died today from heart trouble aggravated by the heat. Her body was found by family members in Charleston.
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Charleston
W. Va
Paddie Drouillard
West Virginia
Drouillard Linked to Kanawha Salt Industry Legacy
The obituary notes Mrs. Drouillard resided at 1204 Washington Street and mentions her father, the late William D. Shrewsbury, once a prominent salt industry figure in Kanawha County with extensive Malden district real estate holdings.
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Washington Street
Boy Thief Steals Diamonds Worth 10000 in Chicago
A youth under sixteen smashed a jeweler’s window in Chicago and snatched diamonds valued at $10,000 before escaping.
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Chicago
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Eli Combs
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Harrisburg
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H. Einsohn
Marion Hale
Lucy
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Tom Calloway
Jefferson
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William Wray
Martinsville
A. R. Thompson
Allen Thompson
Avondale
F. Thompson
Graham
J. P. Dyer
Elizabeth
Price
T. C. Weeks
Ashland
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