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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1932
Page
4
The column notes Harold M. Biffe and Metre A. Lilly with a porch collapse scare at a Bell Oil station display. It highlights a Yo Yo bed spread by Mrs. Fannie Wheatley featuring 2060 rosettes, and profiles Olie Carden, Mullens music store manager and legislative hopeful, plus local anecdotes on filling stations and civic life in Beckley.
Enrollment in state institutions reached 8272 in March, up 84 from 1931. The Board of Control lists gains at West Virginia University 2483 and others such as Potomar 608, Fairmont 870, Shepherd 248, Concord 500, and Glenville 440, with declines at West Virginia State College 650 and New River 02. Schools for the deaf and blind counted 435, down 49. colored deaf and blind totaled 02, down one.
Ebenezer Baptist Church holds Sunday services with Rev. W M Glenn and Rev P F King. A birthday party for J O Payne by Central Street Baptist Junior Choir draws guests and prizes. A Stratton Glee Club recital features Indian songs and Negro-influenced numbers with regional attendees noted.
Mr. Eschenbach of Norwood Ohio says a flame treatment healed his stomach trouble after eight years of suffering and costly surgeries. He urges others with dyspepsia gastritis belching and related symptoms to send their name and address for a 15 day trial and a free booklet from View New P1258 Port Schulze Bldy St Paul Minnesota.
The state penitentiary at Moundsville held 236 inmates in March, up 48 from a year earlier, with 600 in road camps and 29 in other institutions. Other facilities reported varied changes in March, including hospitals, industrial schools, and homes for children and the aged.
W M Lilly is bedfast with kidney trouble in Pemberton West Virginia. Various families hosted visits and weekend guests including W M Turner and family B W Ward and family YT He Parke Elsie Williams and daughter L Bennett Greathouse and family R G Jones Canady Wickline Parker and their children Juliv McVey from Glen Morgan and others. A baby boy Charles Lee born Saturday April to Mr and Mrs C Bennett.
Calloway Heights notes include Rev Wesley McKinney confined with pneumonia. Visitors: Mrs C D Ray, Mrs CG Gorkie and children, Mrs J Mary and He Warden to Mrs Joe Tyree. Various residents host and visit families in Cirtsville, Charleston, Skelton, Whitby, Athens, East Beckley, Prosperity, Sprague, and Whitby areas.
Waterton resident A. J. Caudil visits sisters Mrs. Gamble and Mrs. Milrouse. Mrs. Wanks visits Mrs. Mize on Johnstown road. Kyle Thompson recovered from mumps and improves at home. Mr and Mrs Wilson Smith and Mazel visit L. J. Harvey in Kiley. Mrs. Wade Thompson ill at home. Mrs. J. W. Legg and son Chalmer visit Mrs. S. Nickels. Guy Warden visits his aunt Mrs. Matt Radford.
James J. Warden filed his nomination for the office of Justice of the Peace in Town district. Born and raised in Town district and now a resident of Callaway Heights, he is a 31 year old carpenter contractor making his first political bid for Democratic voters.
A costume musicale titled In A Little Spanish Town will be performed Thursday evening April 21 at 8 o clock in the Presbyterian church. The event is sponsored by the Business Girls Circle and directed by Baxter Wird. A silver offering will be collected.
Commander Kinsey announced George Stevens will arrive tonight to begin rehearsals for the 1932 Legion Springtime Frolics in Beckley. Rehearsals start Monday at 7 00 pm. The show runs May 3 and 4 in the Memorial building auditorium with seals and scenery on order.
J. M. Bowman, Sprague P T A president, leads a yard tidy up with patrons including Chick Mann Frank Caffee Lee Meadows Bob Meadows Luther Fuller Bill Fuller Joe Fuller H D Mande a She ar Vale Garnet Pennington and Molly McMahon among volunteers. Principal Mason Bragg and several pupils aid in grading and fencing as divorce terms were recently granted.
In a brief community note authorities recorded collecting over 12 000 small stones in buckets. The list of stone pickers includes Dan cy Plimley Vernie Sydenstricker Lawrence Hawks Louise Hawks Frances Lucas Helen Philips Alma Vancy Belva Bowman Robert Bragg Harold Bragg Mandeville Eber Bragg Garrett Bragg Harry Meadows Mae Meadows Kenneth Armstrong Frieda Martha Mary Shultz Jack Shultz Dewey Holdren Ronald Holdren Freda Buckland Doris Arnold and Gladys Adkins.
Lieutenants Clarence Bibb and Robert Thomson and other guard unit officers plan to attend a dinner at the Ruffner hotel tomorrow evening honoring Major General Hugh A. Drum, corps area commander. Governor William G. Conley and other state officials are invited guests to meet the visitor. All guard officers are invited.
Fack Mayne a seventeen year old Ironton youth formerly of Beckley will broadcast with his orchestra the Five Aces of Iron ton in a Sunday seven thirty program of popular dance hits from WSAZ Huntington Vic will welcome comments from friends here
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