Five Pemberton Boys Arrested Over Bleeding Cars
Five Pemberton youths face charges after a week of C and O railroad and county officers actions over train hopping. Three are sent to the minor court grand jury on felony accusations for tampering with angle cocks to stop trains. A warrant remains for another youth while a younger boy is held in juvenile custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pemberton
Carl Lester
Kenneth Young
Walter Sturgill
Oleg Mills
Imneanor
Howard Lester
Clay
Crouse
Mins
Slater
Hinton
Rusberl Simms
Beckley
Montcal Seniors to Hear Mann and Commencement
Marsh Fork high school’s Montcal senior class sets commencement for Thursday night May 25 at Mt View junior high auditorium. Fletcher Mann of Beckley will give the address. baccalaureate is at Montcal church Sunday night May 21 with Mrs W T Hood delivering the sermon. Betty Lee Rippetoe is valedictorian and Mary Bone is salutatorian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsh Fork High School
Mt. View Junior High School
Fletcher Mann
Beckley
Montceal
W.T. Hood
Betty Lee Rippetoe
E. A. Rippetoe
Edwight
Mary Bone
W. T. Bone
Pineknob
Mary Ella Bone
Glenna Irene Large
Geraldine Rumburg
Irene Fultz
Evelyn Ash
Emogene Jarrell
Jacqueline Sybil Wright
Elizabeth Kristoff
Bonnie Lovely
Kenneth N. Bryant
Eddie Harold Jarrell
James Edward Brown
Eugene R. Eskins
U. S. Navy
Rally At Rhodell Wednesday Donkey Rally
A Democratic rally will be held at the Rhodell theatre Wednesday at 7 30 p m under the Rhodell Democratic club. J Leonard Buer of Beckley will be the main speaker with William Woody of East Gulf announcing refreshments by Mrs Minnie Tee Woody and Mrs Mary Foster. O H Foster is club president and Dave Sheppard is secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodell Theatre
Rhodell Democratic Club
J. Leonard Buer
Beckley
William Woody
East Gulf
Minnie Tee Woody
Mary Foster
O. H. Foster
Dave Sheppard
Meadows Outlines 2-Point Program As His Platform
Judge Clarence W. Meadows, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, released a 12 point program outlining wartime dedication, efficiency, tax fairness, and equal treatment for workers, farmers, teachers, and businesspeople, plus a party unity pledge. He will discuss the platform in radio addresses from Charleston and Wheeling this week. Bennie Spadona, 41, a Mount Hope coal loader, was injured by slate fall Friday afternoon and is recovering in Beckley hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence W. Meadows
Democratic Party
Beckley
Judge Meadows
Charleston
Wheeling
Spodona
Bennie Spadona
Mount Hope
Oswald
Beckley Hospital
Divorce Rulings Handed Down in Latimer County Court
Lonstarady presided as special judge in the absence of Judge Mead. Mrs. Mattie Jarrell received a divorce from Denver Jarrell with custody of their son Charles. Reese Hamm ordered to pay court costs and attorney fees in the ongoing suit brought by Tena Greco Hamm. Johnson Covington granted a divorce from Adia Covington with custody of their child. Patricia Ann Webb custody granted during Roy Webb divorce suit. Green and Whitby granted state wide pistol licenses as night watchman and coal company employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Jarrell
Denver
Jarrell
Charles
Ruth Ald
Reese Hamm
Tena Greco Hamm
Johnson Panl Covington
Adi Ima Covington
Reather Webb
Patricia Ann Webb
Roy Webb
Green
High Coal and Coke‘company
P. Q. Warden
Sterling Smokeless Coal Company
Whitby
Child Receives Toe Injury From Ax At Home
Six year old Thomas Derringer of Itmann severed a toe with an axe at home on Thursday. He received treatment at Raleigh General hospital. The clipping also notes Ireland’s political division and Wales population figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Derringer
Roy Derringer
Itmann
Raleigh General Hospital
Private Eugene Wyatt Killed in Pacific
Private First Class Eugene C. Wyatt son of Mr and Mrs Lee Wyatt of Coal City was killed on Bougainville island March 26 the war department informed his mother He is 19 and was inducted last year He is survived by four brothers including Pvt Floyd Wyatt at Camp Atterbury Ind and Pvt Marvin D Wyatt in New Guinea
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene C. Wyatt
Lee Wyatt
Coal City
Bougainville Island
War Department
Pfc. Wyatt
Floyd Wyatt
Camp
Atterbury
Ind
Marvin D. Wyatt
New Guinea
Local Families Connected by Telegram Details
Lawrence and Billy Wyatt reside at home with three sisters including Helen Wyatt in Coal City. Mrs. Orlan Lully and Mrs. Clyde Vanney are listed in Coal City and Reddies River, N.C. The adjutant general promised more details by telegram and a letter. The Amazon river length note compares to the Nile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Lawrence
Billy Wyatt
Helen Wyatt
Coal City
Orlan Lully
Clyde Vanney
Reddies River
N.C
Adjutant General
Wyatt
Sophia Soldier Leads Counterattack On Long Fifth Army Front
Sergeant Lloyd A. Rakes of Sophia West Virginia and his squad repelled a 50-man German assault in the Cisterna beachhead fight that lasted over 12 hours. The German force infiltrated behind Allied lines and was driven back by artillery and heavy flame, with tanks halted and a successful counterattack by U S infantry. The unit reported over 50 percent enemy casualties and about 60 captured as they secured the line by sundown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Army
Italy
Cisterna
Lloyd A. Rakes
Harry Rakes
Sophia
West Virginia
North Africa
Sicily
Salerno
Rakes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Montccal
Mann
Rhodell
Joan Clyde
Bolen Beckley
United Mine Workers of America
Joseph
Wentworth Williams
Wildwood
Old Beckley
Alfred Beckley
Denita Jackson
George Williams
Statard
Meadows
West
Raleigh County Circuit Court
Lonstarady
George W. Williams
Clarence Meadows
Ireland
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Wales
Clyde McDowell
Raleigh County
Iames
Democratic
Congress
Raleigh, Boone, Logan and Kanawha Counties
Pol
Fayetteville Federal Savings & Loan Association
Fayetteville, W. Va
Pfc
Eugene Wyatt
Pacific
Beckley Federal
Association
Main St
Beckley, W
Amazon River
Nile
Oppie Lee Hedrick
Woods & Ferry's
ICE and Feed CO
Prince St
R. R. Crossing
Dial
I’en
Gillette
Howard
Beatley
The
RED Cross
Raleigh Tire & Rubber Co
Mart W. Griffiths
Republican
Ralfigh County
Pol. Adv
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!