Laurel Gardeners Send Delegates To Convention
Laurel Garden Club members attended the West Virginia Garden Club session in Miami Florida and the national garden convention in session at The Greenbrier. Fourteen members represented the club with two new members welcomed, as officers and hosting duties were noted for the May meeting. Mrs Ralph Mays and co hostesses conducted the regular meeting with refreshments served. Mrs Paul Boland of Oak Hill is listed as hospital patient undergoing observation and treatment in Huntington Hospital.
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Oak Hill
Paullhostesses
Boland
Huntington
Scarbro Man Henry E Jones Dies at 75
Henry E Jones 75 of Scarbro died Monday at Fayetteville Nursing Home. Body is at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home. arrangements incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scarbro
Henry E. Jones
Fayetteville
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Home
Wyoming Courthouse Annex Contract To Be Awarded Soon
Wyoming County Court plans to award the annex contract for the courthouse by July 1 with bids opened May 7. The three story brick paneled structure, $200,000 estimate, will be built across the street and rear of the main building. Construction to proceed in stages, with two stories planned first, and a six percent supervising fee for Frampton and Bowers. The project funds rely on an old district road bond levy converted to general revenue, with $8,973.75 in the building fund and $64,480 expected from the levy this year, plus $75,000 annually for the next five years. The State Police will move to the new annex, which will also house the Health Department and several state and county agencies.
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Pineville
ANS
Wyoming County
Wyoming County Court
Frampton and Bowers
Nares Run
Bower
W. C. Bailey Jr
Wyoming County Detachment of
State Police
Itmann
Wyoming County Health Department
Department of Public Assistance
Department of Mines, Employment, and Social Security
Pat Murphy
Murphy Insurance Agency
Jack Feller
Co. V. Feller Insurance Agency
Mullens
Charleston
Bailey
Barkers Ridge
Luther Blankenship
Ballard Bennett
Slab Fork
H. E. Lily
Full Brown
Oceana
George Conley
Kemp Brown
Clear Fork
Fred Spratt
Fred Hughes
Center
Sem Bowers
Charles Cook
Baileysville
Billy Ray Bailey
R. P. Harmon
Little—Hutt
Forest—bester
Will Morgan
Charles W. Bellew
Ira Edward Jackson
Okehed
Leland Combs Dies In Oklahoma
Leland Jack Combs 36 formerly of Oak Hill died Monday in a Veterans Hospital in Oklahoma City from poisonous fumes after extinguishing a fire on a long distance transport truck he was driving Relatives said his wife Virginia his sister Margaret Hoover Akron and another sister Dor othy Brown Oak Hill plus his mother Elsie Combs and brother Wilford Combs Akron Ohio survive Funeral services were incomplete today in Oak Hill Ohio and a plane trip was taken by three relatives to Oklahoma City for word of his death Also mentioned are horse racing notes about Gi Tio women owners at Hialeah with Calumet Farm and Wheatley Stables winning stakes
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Oak Hill
RNS
Floris Turton
Dorothy Brown
Hico
Oklahoma City
Okla
Leland Jack Combs
Combs
Veteran's Hospital
Elsie Combs
Virginia
Margaret Hoover
Akron
Wilford Combs
Ohio
District Deputy Visits Pythian Sisters Lodge Oak Hill
District deputy Minnie Wallace visited Oak Hill Pythian Sisters Temple No. 1 for an inspection of the lodge. Beckley members Catherine Smith Annie Maggie Yost Kathleen Day Etta Callaway Bill Kincaid announced Kathryn Scott Scarbro will be initiated at the May 13 meeting. Twelve members attended and social hour refreshments were served by Maude James Sallie James and Frank Titlos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythian Sisters Lodge
Oak Hill
RNS
Beckley
Pythian Sisters Temple
Minnie Wallace
Lodge
Beckley Lodge
Catherine Smith
Annie Maggie Yost
Kathleen Day
Etta Callaway
Bill Kincaid
View
Kathryn Scott
Scarbro
Maude James
Sallie James
Frank Titlos
Princeton Garden Club Receives Ritter Cup
The Bud and Blossom Garden Club of Princeton won the Ritter Cup, top WV Garden Club award, for outstanding community program. Charlesto n retiree presided as Mrs J W Hash presented to Mrs J E S Mann at a luncheon during the state club convention attended by over 30 garden clubs. the two day event closed this afternoon.
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S Sulphur Springs
Bud and Blossom Garden Club
Princeton
West Virginia Garden Club
John W. Hash
Charleston
J. E. S. Mann
Princeton Group
Wreck injures Beckley women. driver dies en route
Two Beckley women were injured in a two car collision on US 21 one and a half miles south of Chimney Corner at 5 45 PM Monday. Dennis F Harper 30 of East Beckley died en route to Oak Hill Hospital. Passengers Minnie Myers 33 sustained a broken ankle Mamie David 58 had a scalp cut and fractured right ankle. Tommy Harris 20 of Cunard sustained cuts to leg mouth and eye. Both cars totaled no charges yet pending investigation. Harper's body located at Dood Payne Mortuary Fayetteville. Arrangements incomplete. Officer names Sgt W R Seal and Troopers F W Line and D E Lake on scene.
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Fayetteville
Rns
Beckley
Oak Hill Hospital
Dennis F. Harper
East Beckley
Minnie, Myers
Mamie David
Chimney Corner
U.S. Route 21
Tommy Harris
Cunard
Harris
Harper
W. R. Seal
F. W. Line
D. E. Lake
Dood-Payne Mortuary
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Laurel Gardeners
G. M. Powers
Bourbon
Kennecey
Tlemaan
Leastrille Distributert—s Divisen
Yattow
Deristewe, Boon Comntr
Wyoming
Precany Wines
Jesse W. Morgan
Luther W. Kerns
Kerns
Henry Clay
Robert Bailey
John S. Lambert
Huntington Architects
Roddy Kilowatt
Mrs. Jones
Reddy
Electric Power Company
Leland Combs
Oklahoma
Miami
Fla
Gene Markey
Calumet Farm
Henery
Phipps
Wheatley Stables
Dee
Eritor
Cohen
Neville St. Beckley
P. C. Graney
Venice
Mount Hope
Jim Alipf
Princeton Garden Club
Ritter Cup
Calfee South
Clifford
General Electric
GENERAL @ ELECTRIC
Triangle Roofing Co
Fayette St
Richmond
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