Fayette Court Sentences Five Men in April Term
Fayetteville reporters note that five men were sentenced at the Fayette Circuit Court opening Tuesday. Four received five years or more in state penitentiary for grand larceny, breaking and entering, unlawful wounding, auto theft, and obstructing an officer, while Essie Hall drew 18 months for assault and battery. Nine others were placed on probation after pleas of guilty in January.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette
William Lanty Sewell
Hico
Roosevelt Craft Davis
Carbondale
Catherine Bradford
Layland
Robert Franklin Clemfenin
Oak Hill
Archie Lee Flint
Essie Hall
Scarbro
Garland Lewis
Meadow Bridge
Thomas Albert Clement
E. L. Clower
John Jeffries
Stella Boswell Fortner
Gilbert
James M. Smith
Levisay
Mildred Crowder
Eagle
Kopperston Choirs Present Easter Program at Church
At Kopperston Community Church on Easter a musical program directed by Mrs. James Shott featured the Cherub Junior and Adult Choirs. Selections included Jesus' Love For Me Lift Up Your Voice Christ The Lord Is Risen I Am The Resurrection I Know My Redeemer Liveth He Lives Nail Scarred Hands and In The Garden.
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Kopperston
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James Shott
Jesus
Darbys Welcome Son Born at Grace Hospital Welch
Mr and Mrs Curtis Darby of Hanover are parents of a son born Thursday at 11 45 am at Grace Hospital in Welch.
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Hanover
Rns
Curtis Darby
Grace Hospital
Welch
Oak Hill Council backs city clean up drive and zoning changes
The Oak Hill City Council approved a two week city wide cleanup sponsored by Civitan Club with city trucks for haulage. It also endorsed zoning map revisions converting several residential areas to industrial zones including Scarbro road, near the sewer plant, and Jones Ave. Other actions included hearings on 62 streets, a fence-line extension for a private landowner, and permits totaling 18 thousand dollars for a warehouse garage and a residence project.
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Oak Hill
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Civitan Club
Collins High School
Zoning and Planning Commission
Scarbro Road
Long Co
Minden Road
Jones Ave
Summersee Road
Wallace Bennett
Bennett
William R. Moore
Kelly Ave
River St
Zoning Commission
Ray Clinebell
H. E. Janney
Janney
Oak Hill Garden Club Color Slides Of Rose Shows
Oak Hill Garden Club members viewed color slides of 1954 55 rose shows in Charleston at a meeting led by Mrs J R McDonald. Hostesses were Mrs George Longhenry and Mrs J T Brooks. club won first place in a Fayette County Garden Council material contest. Plans discussed include West Virginia Garden Clubs state meeting at The Greenbrier April 9 10 and a Charleston flower show school April 17 19. May Day Arbor Day and Farm Hour programs were outlined for local media. The May 19 flower show will be at Collins High School cafeteria with refreshments by hostesses.
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Fayette County
Woay-Tv
Woon
Woay Radio
J. W. Dougherty
Collins High School
Funeral Rites Thursday For Thomas J. Lilly 78
Funeral services for Thomas Jefferson Lilly 78 will be held Thursday at Bluestone Baptist Church Jumping Branch with two ministers and burial at Resthaven Cemetery Hinton. A former attorney and U S Representative Lilly died Monday at Andrew S Rowan Memorial Home Sweet Springs after a cerebral hemorrhage. He served one term in Congress in 1920 and helped locate the Federal Reformatory for Women Alderson and the new post office building at Hinton. He is survived by four sons five daughters a brother 25 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Pallbearers named include Nelson Thompson Henry Harvey John Helenis D K Gilpin Lee Hogan Orace Lilly Gobel Lilly and E B Bennett.
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Hinton
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Thomas Jefferson Lilly
Bluestone Baptist Church
Jumping Branch
Dewey Wilson
Crab
Lilly
Summers County
Joseph A
Bertie Cox Lilly
Ellison
Federal Reformatory For Women
Alderson
Samson
Sandstone
Paul
Zella Taylor
Beckley
Maude Pittman
Chesapeake
Ohio
Lillian Anderson
Hico
J. A
Jodie) Lilly
Glen Morgan
Nelson Thompson
Henry Harvey
John Helenis
D. K. Gilpin
Lee Hogan
Orace Lilly
Gobel Lilly
E. B. Bennett
Honaker and Wagner Engage to Wed in April
Mr and Mrs Birdie Honaker announce the engagement of their daughter Geraldine Honaker to Robert Wagner of Cleveland. Wagner is the son of Mr and Mrs Melvin Wagner of Barnesboro Pa. The couple will marry on April 14 in Cleveland.
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Arnett
Birdie Honaker
Auburn Ave
Cleveland
Ohio
Geraldine Honaker
Robert Wagner
East 86Th St
Melvin Wagner
Barnesboro
Matheny Personal Notices From The Community
Mr and Mrs Hayes Chafin and son William returned Sunday from North Tazewell Virginia after the death of Mrs Chafins brother in law F M Hurt They were joined home by Mr and Mrs A L Booth of Ashland Kentucky who stayed overnight Rev and Mrs S P Cook returned from a visit with Mr and Mrs Troy Halsey of Orlando Florida They were accompanied by the Halseys who left Sunday for home Rev Charles Cooper of Marianna is holding a revival at Matheny Methodist Church Rev A F Clendenin is pastor Kate Brooks and his daughter Mrs Paul Ledford of Detroit Michigan were Easter guests of Mr and Mrs Warner Walker and other relatives
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Fla
Halseys
Charles Cooper
Marianna
Matheny Methodist Church
A. F. Clendenin
Kate Brooks
Paul Ledford
Detroit
Mich
Warner Walker
Garden Club hosts corsage workshop at Oak Hill
Mrs Clar ence Skaggs won first place for a corsage arrangement at a Redbud Garden Club corsage workshop held Monday. Second went to Mrs D P Lively. The meeting at Mrs Ernest Cooks featured co host Mrs Leonard Carter, with plans for a May 19 flower show by Oak Hill Spade and Trowel Redbud clubs at Collins High School cafe teria.
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Oak Hill
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Clarence Skaggs
Redbud Garden Club
D. P. Lively
Ernest Cook
Leonard Carter
Aileen Morris
J. D. Burgess
Spade and Trowel
Redbud
Collins High School
Frank Thomas
John Gwinn
Thelma Burgess
Leftrich Boyles
Louis Ceprich
Clyde Dancy
Edward Duncan
John Harast
Otis Johnson
Hildreth Samples
Frankie Thompson
Wyoming jury commissioners named for four-year term
Pineville Republicans C. H. Stewart and Fred L. Huffman, a Democrat, were appointed by Judge Robert M. Worrell as new jury commissioners for four years starting May 31. They replace Russell Beavers, a Democrat, and Estel Morgan, a Republican, both of Pineville.
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Pineville
C. H. Stewart
Fred L.huffman
Robert M. Worrell
Stewart
Huffman
Russell Beavers
Estel Morgan
Ferguson to Appear at Pineville Open House Tonight
Milton J. Ferguson, Democratic candidate for governor, will attend an open house in Pineville at 7 p.m. in the Cowshed, his first Wyoming County appearance. He will campaign in the lower county Thursday, ending the day at a Mullens home at 7 p.m. The event, in the dining room of the Wyoming Hotel, marks the opening of permanent campaign headquarters, per State Sen. Ward Wylie.
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Milton J. Ferguson
Pineville
Ferguson
Wyoming County
Mullens
Wyoming Hotel
Ward Wylie
Accident Victim Rites Set Thursday In Fanrock
Funeral services for Hiram Mullins Jr. 32 Fanrock will be held at 2 30 p m Thursday at Briar Church of God with Rev Edgar Beverley of Baileysville officiating Burial follows at National Cemetery in Grafton with military rites at 4 30 p m Friday Mullins was killed when the 1954 sedan he rode in plunged 75 feet down a Davy Mountain embankment near Fanrock after leaving a chicken house the driver Thomas Edison Short 25 escaped with minor injuries and was jailed on a manslaughter charge The crash occurred about 11 30 p m Monday as they traveled from Davy where they had spent the evening Short said he lost control in fog at 30 35 mph Mullins who had served in the Marine Corps was unemployed Surviving relatives include his mother and three brothers and three sisters The body was taken to the residence this afternoon from the Douglas Mortuary at Welch
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Fanrock
Hiram Mullins Jr
Briar Church
Fannock
Welch Hospital
State
C. B. Dye
Davy
Dye
Mullins
Short
Marine Corps
Carte Dwelling Contracting Co
Charleston
Kate Mullins
Forest
New Richmond
Howard
Frank
U. S. Army
Ft. Sheridan
Ruby Jackson
Maxine
Joan Mullins
Douglas Mortuary
Welch
Custard Pie Contest Slated at Oak Hill
A custard pie baking contest will be held May 16 at the Appalachian Electric Power Co building in Oak Hill. Sponsors include AEP Fayette County Farm Bureau Farm Women 4-H clubs New River Supply Co and General Department Stores Oak Hill. Entrants should mail applications to Emory Miller AEP Oak Hill and recipes must be given to the committee on May 16. A state contest is planned for June.
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Fayetteville
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Appalachian Electric Power Co
Oak Hill
AEP
Fayette
Miner Injured By Rock In Eastern Gas Mine
Mack Childers of Kopperston, 49, was treated at Stevens Clinic Welch for fractures of the right thumb after being struck by a rock in an Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates mine.
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Kopperston
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Mack Childers
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Easter Visitors Fill Colcord and Area Homes
Colcord residents hosted relatives from Ohio and Delaware over the Easter holiday including Gene Dillon family of Cleveland and Vernie Toney from Dayton. Local servicemen Jack Stover in Germany and Nelson Stover in Cleveland visited home. revival conducted by Rev. Everett Shafer at Packsville Baptist Church.
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Colcord
RNS
Gene Dillon
Cleveland
Ohio
Otey Dillon
Jesse Jarrell
Ameagle
Vernie Toney
Patty
Dayton
Herbert Dillon
Luther Dillon
Thomas Sandford
Jay H. Blake
Wilmington
Del
Doug Hamilton
Boyd C. Jarrell
Zella Jarrell
Everett Shafer
Beckley
Packsville Baptist Church
Lois Wright
Jesse Wright
Charleston
Jack A. Stover
317Th Air Police Squadron
Germany
Howard Stover
Clear Fork High School
John Casteele
Itmann
Snowden Thompson
Harry Kern
Bluefield
Frances Smith
Marshall College
Elbert Smith
Dorothy
Jeff Thompson
Virgil Thompson
Modest Thompson
G. L. Kincaid
George
Huntington
Elmer Harris
Arthur Peters
Nelson Stover
Wanda Stover
Ronald Tredway
The
Navy
Georgia White
Don Howell
Earl
Whitesville
Ray Miller
Fameily
Lawson
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Oak Hill Garden Club
L. C. Allman
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R. E. Bryant
H. B. Dews
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P. D. Ford
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W. R. Moore
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Tom Kelley
Eunice
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Janey
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Kelley
Eddie Harvit
Marland
Judy Dickenson
Prenter
Garden Club
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Pol. Ady
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