Rites Held For V C Perkins Fire Creek official
Funeral services for V C Perkins retired superintendent of the Fire Creek Coal Company near Thurmond were held at Oak Hill Presbyterian Church with Rev Robert Ray presiding. Burial followed at Hightawn Memorial Park. Perkins served as mine superintendent for about ten years and was active as a church elder and Masonic Lodge member. He left a wife Elizabeth, a daughter Pete, and sons Harry P Thomas Jr, plus a granddaughter Carol Ann Thomas, all of Oak Hill. Pallbearers included George Lowry W R Herndon W Hummick Fred Smith Jack Higgins and E E Straughan.
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V. C
Perkins
Qak
Oak Hill
Masonic Lodge
Thurmond
Elizabeth C. Perkins
Pete
Harry
P. Thomas, Jr
Carol Ann Thomas
George Lowry
W. R. Herndon
W. Hummick
Fred Smith
Jack Higgens
E. E. Straughan
Two Divorce Suits Filed In Fayette
Fayetteville dispatch: Two divorce actions filed in the Circuit Clerk's office. Juda Sanders sues James Saunders with S W Price as attorney. Arctie Bell Bivins sues James Bivins with Capehart Miller of Welch West Virginia as attorneys.
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Fayette
Register
Fayetteville
Circuit Clerk’s Office
Tey
Juda Sanders
James Saunders
S. W. Price
Arctie Bell Bivins
James Bivins
Capehart & Miller
Welch
W. Va
Oak Hill Chamber Seeks To Join National Group
Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce seeks national membership. Secretary Rickard reports submission of by laws constitution and member list two weeks ago and awaiting board action. The National Chamber of Commerce cites over 4860 member communities nationwide.
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Oak Hill Chamber
Iy Register
Oak Hill
Oak _. Hill
Rickard
National Chamber of Commerce
North-South Football Game Tickets On Sale
Tickets for the North-South Football game go on sale at the Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce after August 5. Secretary Owen Dickard announced the plan. Mr Rickard will receive 190 tickets from Dewey, the ticket chairman. Mail orders only until August 5. The game is set for Friday night August 16.
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Register
OAK Hill
Oak Hill Chamber of Commerce
Owen Dickard J
Rickard
Re &. Dewey
Dewey
Legion Auxiliary To Meet Friday in Fayetteville
Lafayette Unit 149 of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet in the Circuit Court Room on Friday night August 2 at 7 30. Officers will be elected for the coming year with Miss Georgia Dummitt presiding. About 25 members signed up at the first meeting and wives mothers sisters and daughters of servicemen are urged to join.
Former Jap Prisoner To Relate Experiences
Captain S. A. Newman, prisoner of the Japanese for three years and eight months and now Gulf Oil district manager, will address the Mount Hope Lions Club at 7 30 tonight. He will show pictures taken when returned to Japan for war trials. Guests are invited to attend the meeting.
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Register
Mount Hope
S. A. Newman
Gulf Oil Company
Mount Hope Lions! Club
Newman
Yapan
Bacon Slices Baked With Charonade Dressing Recipe
A fragmented cooking note describes baking bacon on a rack in a shallow pan at 424 F for about 20 minutes then turn, with variations for broth and longer times. It mentions serving four and using bacon scraps for flavoring green bears and butter saving. For the chironade dressing add chopped baked Clear Brook Egg grated onion and minced green pepper with French dressing.
Fayetteville Legion Post Schedules August Meeting and Elections
Fayetteville Post 149 of the American Legion will meet Monday August 5 at 7 30 PM in the Circuit Court Room to elect officers for 1947 and select delegates and alternates for the Wheeling Legion Convention from August 31 to September. The post has 170 members with Fayetteville No 2 led by J C Blime in the membership drive. five teams are tied for second place in recruitment.
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Fayetteville Legion Post
Register
Fayetteville
Lafayette Post 149
The
American Legion
Circuit Court Room
Legion
Wheeling
Walter Caldwell
Fayetteville Team No. 2
J. C. Blime
Dempsey Area
R. M. Cottle
Beckwith
W. M. Cottle
Garten Area
A. A. Peterson
Fayetteville No. 3
Ermel Wilson
Vayietteville No. 1
W. H Haynes
Pineville
Charles W. Cook
Varney Cline American Legion
Robert E. Kuhn
Byron Rose
J. Phillips
W. C. Bailey, Jr
Naional
Bruno Pats
Tony Cline
Evidence Completed In Furniture Suit
Fayetteville court adjourned after a day of testimony in the Pace versus Jones furniture damage case. The jury will reconvene in the morning to begin deliberations on damages for storage of Pace’s furniture with Jones.
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Mareen Sail
Mrs Porterfield Feted By Mullens Legion Auxiliary
Mrs Harry Porterfield was honored by American Legion Auxiliary Unit 108 in Mullens with a Monday night shower at Moran Avenue home before moving Friday to Roanoke Virginia. Attendees included Mrs Gene Atkins Mrs F S Caffee Mrs C V Feller Mrs W E Tibbs Mrs J R Parsons Miss Mabel Culline Mrs Joe M Williams Mrs R L Hart Mrs B B West and the honoree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porterfield
Legion Auxiliary
Register
Weller Mullens
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 108
Harry Porterfield
Mullens
Roanoke
Virginia
Moran Avenue
Gene Atkins
F. S. Caffee
C. Vv. Feller
W. EB. Tibbs
J. R. Parsons
Mabel Culline
Joe M. Wiliams
R. L. Hart
B. B. West
R. E. Woods
O H Martin Returns Home After Operation
O H Martin Sr returned to his South Mullens home from University Hospital Charlottesville Virginia where he recently had surgery He is confined but rapidly recovering Mrs Martin visited over the weekend and accompanied him home after his release from hospital Monday
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O. H. Martin
Register
Mullens
O. H. Martin, Sr
South Mullens
University Hospital
Charlottesville
Virginia
Court House Janitor Charles Scott Improves
Fayetteville janitor Charles Scott, who suffered a slight stroke and was taken ill weeks ago, is reported to be improving and able to be up about the house.
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Court House
Register
Fayetteville
Charles Scott
Beckley News Papers office moves to Oak Hill location
The Beckley News Papers Corporation office in Oak Hill relocates from Hotel Hill to the O Neal building on Park Avenue opposite City Hall. Richard Olzer replaces J David Moore as Oak Hill representative. Returning Home: Mullens couple J S Hale and son Sherman depart for Pittsburgh after visiting at Norman Williams Advocate Apartments. Rachel Crothers wrote a five act melodrama at age 12.
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Heeister
Oak Hill
Beckley News Papers Corporation
Hotel Hill
O'Neal
Par Avenue
City Hall
Richard Olzer
J .David Moore
Newspapers
Mullens
J. S. Hale
Sherman
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Norman Williams
Advocate
Rachel Crothers
Miss Sadie Sandoval Admitted for Appendectomy at Raleigh General
Miss Sadie Sandoval, employee of Steele Drug Co, was admitted to Raleigh General Hospital Beckley on Wednesday for an appendectomy planned Thursday morning. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Sandoval of Alpeca, report her condition not serious at entry. Nearby, visitors from Arizona and Virginia arrived for a brief stay with relatives, then planned to continue home. The Mullens Woman's Club will meet tonight at 8 with a watermelon feast, hosted by Mrs. L. G. Bolen and assisted by three members.
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Sadie Sandoval
Register
Mullens
Steele /Drug company
Raleigh General Hospital
Beckiey
Alfonso Sandoval
Alpeca
Lucy
Virginia
Rend
Wil
Arizona
West
Woman's Club
Nesister
Mullens Woman’s Club
L. G. Bolen
Highland
aAveniue
B. B. Brown
M. E. Griffen
J. French Damewood
John Lauchlin
Dingack
Michigan
E. A. Coffee
Corinne Bottom
Member of School Board Succumbs
John Lewis Sizemore Sizemore 3 of Ravencliff died in a local hospital Wednesday. Funeral at Pine Grove Church Saturday Aug 3 with Rev Alvin J Cook Beckley in charge. Burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife three sons two daughters two brothers and one sister.
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Ravencliff
John Lewis Sizemore
Pine Grove
Alvin J. Cook
Beckley
Sizemore
Raleigh and Wyoming Mining Company
Glen Rogers
Wyoming County
Board of Education
Tottie Sizemore
Kelly
Soulsville
Carl
Gillard
Charleston
Viola Jenkins
Helen Halsey
Joe
Tipple
Bill
Myrtle Adkins
Jesse
Mullens American Legion Auxiliary Dues Boost Membership
Mullens American Legion Auxiliary earned a unit citation and a $1 Savings Stamp from Rose Specht for reaching the 1946 membership quota by April. The group shouldered a goal of 67 members by August but exceeded it with 109 members, an all time high, as officers prepare to be elected at the August meeting.
Outings at Bud Alpoca Baptist Sunday School
Fifty members attended the summer outing at the Boy Scout Camp on Cabin Creek with classes taught by Corbett Perdue and others. Visitors included Army furlough personnel and local residents.
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Sunday School Register
Alpoca
Bud-Alpoca Baptist
Cabin Creek
Corbett Perdue
Thomas Brogan
Sec'y-Treas
T. W. Brogan
Julia Lester
iManda Belcher
Mary [Lee McAllister
Kermit Eastridge
Shadow Lucento
Elk Refining Plans New Mullens Plant and Local Legion Officers
Elk Refining Co. announced a planned Wilens expansion to build a new one story modern plant in Mullens with tank storage and dispensing facilities. In Pineville Charles W. Cook was named post commander of Varney Cline Post No. 133 and delegates were named for the Wheeling convention.
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Elk Refining Co
Mullens
Ly Register
Wyoming County
Elk
Lowell
Charleston
Petroleum
Lowe
Harry Schmidt
Focal Distributing
West Mullens
C.P.A
Refining Company
Schmid
J. JH. de Venter
George Chambers
Beckley
Mrs. Frances Cook Visits Family in Ohio Trip
Mrs. Frances Cook, formerly Miss Frances Cook of Pinesville, is visiting her sister Mrs. George Marrow in Point Pleasant and her brother A. O. Cook Jr. of the Veterans Hospital in Chillicothe Ohio. She has returned home this week to New Richmond with her husband Mr. Fred Blankenship.
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Register
New Richmond
Fred Blankenship
George Marrow
Point Pleasant
A. O. Cook, Jr
Veterans Hospital
Chilticothe Ohio
Singing Convention Set for Sunday in Itmann
Wyoming County Singing Convention attendees gather Sunday afternoon in Itmann for a mid-summer program expected to draw large congregations. Officials plan a watermelon feast for quartets and singers after the final song, with guest quartets from Logan and Raleigh counties joining local groups.
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Register
Itmann
Wyoming County
Jare
Wyoming
Mallory
Logan County
Kidd
Raleigh
Simon Man Loses Right Arm In Cliff Collision
Roy Cline a 37 year old resident of Simton Wyoming county lost his right arm at the elbow in an automobile accident near Baileysville while riding with driver Bud Talbert of Simon. He was treated at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welcn.
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Register
Pineville
Roy Cline
Simton
Wyoming
Cline
Bud ‘Talbert
Simon
Baileysville
Stevens Clinic
Welcn
Denver Halls Buy Church Street Home
A four room Church Street house formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. O W Perrow and later Abe Smiley was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Denver Ball of the American Cafe for 7000 dollars. The Halls plan to occupy the home in the future.
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Register
Mullens
Church Street
O. W. Perrow
C. H. Terry
Denver Ball
American Cafe
Abe Smiley
Perrow
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Lacy Neely
Leo Belcher
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dyva-Ray Jordan
Alley
John Peter Duda
Scarbra
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Salem
David Alpha Jarrah
Christine Rose Simms
Ansted
Carl Keith Kinder
Mary Ann George
Powell
Wilson’s Weekly
Wilton & Co
Eib
Tectpe
Cetire
George Rector
Higinio Moriniga
Paraguay
Moriniga
International
ST. Clair Theatre
Beaver
Tom Brown
Joan Fontaine
Bette Davis
Harry Fuqua
Casa Grande
Helen Luck
Bedford
H. D. Fuqua
Howard Avenue
A. G. Backus
Bob
Benny
Backus
A. C. Backus
Summersville
W. Backus
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Clyde Backus
Caven
Webster Country
Music Conservatory
W. M. Holroyd
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Ohio
Marco Polo
Erney
Iadress
Alcroniny
Raymond's
Main St
Nix
Nixon
Neville Street
Prince Sereet
Lasca
Berman
Kredit Jewelry
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Wild Ridge
Cook
Goldcraft Studios
Beckley Hotel
Denver Halls
Church St
Jack A. Nuckols
A&b Stores Nt
Elberta
Red
Malaga
Tenderteaf Tea
Kelloggs
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Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Crisco
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