Cottle Rites Scheduled Monday Near Fayetteville
Minnie Lane Cottle aged 74 died at her home after a month long illness of heart trouble. Born October 9 1869 at Cirtsville she was a Methodist. Survived by husband James W Cottle children C R Cottle Guy Cottle Marcel us Cottle Cornnellus Cottle Mrs Mary Tamplin and Mrs Viola Goodman and siblings John Charlie Lonnie Perry Lud Maynor Mrs Annie Stover and Mrs Grace Crad dock. Funeral Monday at 2 pm at home with Rev J Moyer officiating burial Cassidy cemetery Laurel Creek.
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Fayetteville
Minnie Lane Cottle
Here
Cottle
Cirtsville
James W. Cottle
John Maynor
Charlie Maynor
Lonnie Maynor
Perry May
Viola Goodman
Gauley Bridge
J. Moyer
Cassidy Cemetery
Laurel Creek
Students Lend $24,000 To War Bond Drive Lead
Fayetteville high school commercial instructor Miss Helen Nelson reported that students raised about 24000 in a war bond drive after a week of sales. The drive began with a 2000 goal and exceeded it in under three hours. The initial 2000 funds will buy an ambulance with additional proceeds benefiting the community drive. The junior class led with 27698.80 and the seniors followed with 5500.
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Register
Fayetteville
Liss
Helen Nelson
Fayetteville High School
Fayette Class Is Entertained At Party
The Intermediate class of the local Methodist Sunday School was entertained Friday night by their teacher Nelson Zorio. The party in Friendship Hall of the church included games and refreshments for members and guests Joyce Eubank Cordelia Blume Lela Yon Wilda Gaye Eskey Janice Ritz Margaret Glass Betty Boothe Evelyn Lilly J. J. Sales Gene Shockey Sammy King and Mr Zorio.
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Register
Fayetteville
Methodist Sunday School
Nelson Zorio
Joyce Eubank
Cordelia Blume
Lela Yon
Wilda Gaye Eskey
Janice Ritz
Margaret Glass
Betty Boothe
Evelyn Lilly
J. J. Sales
Gene Shockey
Sammy King
Mr. Zorio
Easter Egg Hunt Held at Victory Elementary
The annual Easter egg hunt at Victory Elementary School was held Friday afternoon on school grounds. In charge were Nelson Zorio and Mrs Irene Hatcher, instructors at the school. Quinnimont D D Barton, 61, was taken to Oak Hill Hospital on April 22 after a stroke and paralysis. condition stated as serious.
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Associated Press
Wayetteville
Victory Elementary School
Nelson Zorio
Irene Hatcher
By_Register
Quinnimont
D. D. Barton
Oak Hill
Readmitted Fayetteville figure to Oak Hill hospital
E H Turner of Garten was readmitted to Oak Hill hospital today for further medical observation and treatment.
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Register
Fayetteville
E. H. Turner
Garten
Oak Hill Hospital
Fayette County Girls Win Four-H Awards in Skills Contest
Constance Dewese of Gauley Bridge becomes Fayette County’s first gold medalist in the national Four-H clothing achievement contest supervised by Extension Agent Clifton Dotson. The county honors 192 participants with state and national awards, including trips to the National Four-H Congress in Chicago and $200 scholarships to six national honorees. Kenneth Salters and Blanche McAvoy also receive gold and embossed medals for home beautification and food preparation, while several Kimberly and Montgomery club members earn silver county dress revue medals.
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Ay Register
Fayetteville
Constance Dewese
Gauley Bridge
Clifton Dottson
Fayette County
Extension Service
Constance
J. Haynes Miller
Kenneth
Blanche McAvoy
Fayette
Servel Home Economic Department
McAvoy
Evelyn Lilly
Dotson
Kimberly Club
Jene Robbins
Peggy Robbins
Mary Long
Montgomery Club
Dennis Brown
Ida Mae Hogshead
Congress
Chicago
Kenneth Salters
Kimmerly
Anstead's Boy Editor Goes To War In Wartime Ansted
Hugh Arthur Dunbar 17 editor owner publisher of the Ansted Weekly has joined the war department in Washington DC as a senior typist. He began the paper at age 11 in 1938 using a mimeograph then a printing press loaned by J Alfred Taylor. The youth built a wide West Virginia circulation with aid from Jack Dale Eades Mrs C R Hall and Ruth McGraw while active in the Boy Scouts Baptist Young People's Union Ansted fire department and Civilian Defense Corps. He plans to stay in DC for the duration unless drafted.
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Register
Ansted
Fayette County
Hugh Arthur Dunbar
War Department
Washington, D.C
Hugh
Capitol
J. Alfred Taylor
State Sentinel
Fayetteville
Mountain Cove
West Virginia
Jack Dale Eades
C. R. Hall
Ruth McGraw
Taylor
Washington
York
Boy Scouts, Baptist’ Young People’s Union
Anited Fire Department
Ant
Civilian Defense Corps
Sanger Couple Wed U S Army Sergeant in Oak Hill Church
Betty Stinnett of Sanger married Technical Sergeant Kenneth J. Burgess of the U S Army at Oak Hill Baptist Church. The ceremony was conducted by Dr A S Kelly with one attendant Mrs Herbert Meador. The couple, both Oak Hill High graduates, plan a 30 day furlough before returning to Panama Canal duty. Betty will keep working for Fayetteville Board of Education.
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Register
Sanger
C. R Stinnett
Betty Stinnett
Kenneth J. Burgess
U.S. Army
Oak Hill Baptist Church
A. S. Kelly
Herbert Meador
Virginia
Burgess
Oak Hill High School
Army
Agriculture Conservation Program
Fayette County
Panama Canal Zone
Lilly Burgess
Fayette
Funeral set for Jess J Goins in Mount Hope
Jess James Goins 42 died early yesterday at his brother G W Goins home Mount Hope after a illness of cartIsana He was born in Winston Salem NC in 1891 a World War One veteran and an auto merchant Survived by wife Ovie Lee two brothers G W and Howard two sisters Fisie Phipps and Lucy Bass and daughter Shirley Louise Goins Services Monday at 2 30 at brother s home Mount Hope Rev George Flynn to officiate Burial Bays Cemetery Oak Hill
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Sy Register
Mount Hope
Jess James Goins
G. W. Goins
Mr. Goins
Winston-Salem
N. C
Free Will Baptist Church
Sun
Ovie Lee Goins
Rand
Howard Goins
Fisie Goins Phipps
Eecles
Lucy G. Bass
Akron
Ohi
Shirley Louise Goins
George Flynn
Bays Cemetery
Oak Hill
Pacific Shipyard Seeks Local Men For Pacific Coast Jobs
B R Stephens, Beckley US employment service manager, says shipyard workers are urgently needed on the Pacific coast. A large Pacific Northwest shipyard representative will visit Beckley May 3 to hire welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, blacksmiths, riggers, and helpers. Transportation and living facilities are provided. Unemployed or underutilized workers should report to the Beckley office May 3 or to Oak Hill May 1.
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B. R. Stephens
Beckley
United States Employment Service
Pacific Coast
Pacific Northwest
Stephens
United States Employment Service Office
Oak Hill
Two Gun Georgie Patton Hero Or Not
The article sketches the life of George Smith Patton in 1924 as aide to the Prince of Wales and later in 1941 to 1942 commanding the 1st Armored Corps moving to India and North Africa. It notes his fearsome reputation and his battlefield death doctrine.
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Patton
Prince of Wales
1St Armored Corps
India
Cal
Eisenhower
Africa
Moroccan
A.P
U. S
George Smith Patton, Jr
Georgie Patton
Haule
Georgie
Prudence James Cheatham Leaves Oak Hill Hospital
James Cheatham Nearo of Prudence, a patient at Oak Hill hospital since April 11 after an injury in the Prudence mines during a state fall, was discharged on April 21.
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Hospital
Register
Prudence
James Cheatham, Nearo
Oak Hill Hospital
Knight Members to Have Meeting at Mount Hope
Mount Hope Knights Templar commander No 22 expect large attendance this morning. Members will meet in full uniform without swords at 10 o clock in the lodge room, then march to the Presbyterian church. New members without uniform should wear Malta jewels. Officers are J H Ballard F N Graff and C L Buckley.
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Register
Mount Hope
Knights Templar
Presbyterian Church
Malta
Bennett Leaves Oak Hill Hospital After Surgery
Bennett of Caperton, who had been a surgical patient at Oak Hill hospital since April 10, was allowed to leave the facility on April 21.
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Bennett
Register
Caperton
C. N. Bennett
Oak Hill Hospital
Bomber-Less Flyers Tried to Buy Seats on Tokyo Planes
An anonymous account from New Delhi recounts the April 18 1942 Doolittle raid by 16 Billy Mitchell bombers. Crews bailed out over China and Japan bombed the East China base repeatedly as American planes escaped.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
Preston Grover
Associated Press
New Delhi
India
Hornet
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo Harbor
Ile
China
Siberia
East China
Chungking
Injured in Slate Fall at Lochgelly Mine
Francis Foster of Oak Hill suffered a right ankle injury on April 22 at the Lochgelly mine of The New River company when drawrock fell while he moved a piece of slate.
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Register
Oak Hull
Francis Foster
Oak Hill
Lochgelly
New River Company
Norman Christian Said Killed on N Atlantic Duty
Norman Lee I Christian 21 is reported killed in action somewhere on the North Atlantic. He was born February 10 1921 near Beckley and lived in Mount Hope. Surviving parents and siblings, with two brothers in the army and a sister at Mount Hope high school. His last home visit was January 9 and a January 29 letter came from New York.
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Register
Mount Hope
Norman Lee I Christian
North Atlantic
Rufus R. Christian
War Department
Christian
Beckley
Sun
Mount Hope High School
Brooklyn
Fort Eustis
Virginia
Camp Miles Standish
Massachus
New York
Chicago Tribune Proposes United States for World Wide Nations
The Chicago Tribune urged that nations like England Canada Australia and others could join the United States as new states for closer association in foreign policy defense trade and other federal areas if they adopt constitutions and apply for membership. The piece suggested England Scotland Wales and Ireland as separate states and Canada Australia New Zealand as others while noting constitutional hurdles and imperial legacies.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
England
Canada
Australia
United States
Col“Ruobert
RT McCormick
British Commonwealth
Western Europe
Texas
Congress
Great Britain
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
New Zealand
Contiguous
Islands
South Africa
Shriners Clinic Shifts to Montgomery May Day Event
Dr. John Royal Moore chief surgeon of the Philadelphia Shrines hospitals will lead a crippled children clinic in Montgomery at the Methodist church near Laird Memorial hospital on Saturday May 1 from 10 a.m. Noble members are urged to identify children in need and arrange attendance as Dr. Manne will examine all attendees, Shrine or not.
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Stall Weiler Powellton
John Royal Moore
Philadelphia
Shriners’ Hospitals
J. Fordham
Montgomery
Laird Memorial Hospital
Manne
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