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Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 08, 1947

Page

4

Rhodell Builds Budget as Mine Airshaft Work Advances

Rhodell plans a 3 964 dollar annual budget with 918 from taxes and 1300 from licenses. John Kalasky says Stotesbury No 8 mine will begin a 14 foot intake shaft 538 feet deep to drop rock and waste into mine cars, with a second small drainage shaft and eventual use of the old bore as exhaust.

Rhodell Sam Lilly Raleigh County Pbuilding Stotesbury No. 8 Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates John C. Kalasky Kalasky Stotesbury West Virginia Raleigh Municipality of T.G. McConnell O. C. Conner E. H. Barker Walter Gentry Oe Ees

Potato arrival at Virginia disputed by historians

Traditionally Raleigh is credited with bringing the potato to Virginia in 1585 but new investigations suggest the imite potato did not reach Virginia until more than a century later.

Sir Walter Raleigh Virginia

Post 15 Opposes Capitol Memorial

Parkersburg Post No 15 protested two World War I memorial flag poles planned for the West Virginia Capitol grounds. The protest reached the state convention but was not acted on as plans moved forward with $50,000 funding per memorial. The report notes the protest arrived too late to halt erection. Sir Christopher Wren is mentioned in a brief contextual aside.

Associated Press Parkersburg Charleston American Legion Clarksburg Paul T. Starr Department Convention Resolutions Committee Starr West Virginia State Board of Public Works

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