Oak Hill Woman Honored With Stork Shower
Mrs James R Clendenin of Oak Hill received a stork shower hosted by her sister in law Mrs Charles Lemaster at the Rock Lick home. pink and blue decorations featured summer flowers. miniature diaper favors and a prize for the oldest mother present highlighted the event.
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Oak Hill
James R. Clendenin
Charles Lemaster
Rock Lick
Lemaster
Angela Price
Virginia Barker
J. N. Johnson
Beatrice Fisher
Louise Clendenin
Genevieve Dodd
James Dodd
Helen Griner
Marjorie Beckelheimer
Elva Beckelheimer
Pauline Evans
Lee Barton
Margaret Nunn
Violet McKinney
Carlton Hundley
Donald Crum
Green Clendenin
Joseph Bald
Forty-One Die In State Industrial Accidents
West Virginia records show forty-one workers killed in industrial accidents in July, with 26 in mining. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner E. R. Pennybacker cited statistics from actuary O. P. Frame reporting 5,883 injuries and noting July fatalities were seven fewer than June but sixteen more than July 1947.
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Register
Charleston
West Virginia
E. 8. Pennybacker
O. P. Frame
Man Mumbles of Love for Slain Wife and Dies Husband
John Tyler Martin 67 of Sophia dies at daughter’s home. survived by wife Lillian and 12 grandchildren. Funeral at First Baptist Church Sophia, burial in Mont Cenl Cemetery.
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John Tyler Martin
Kid" Martin
Emmett Lawrence
Sophia
First Baptist Church
Ronald Kennedy
Dewey Wilson
Mont Cenl
Lillian
Martin
Edwin Coleman
Arlington
Emma Martin
Arkansas
John
Albert J. Martin
Brilliant
Ala
Daude Thompson
Birmingham
Lawrence
Frank Bow
Ers
Bil Lawrence
Jim Lawrence
Robert Yates
Oscar Riddle
Fa Hughes
A. D. Sanders
Leonard Yates
Children’s Day at West Virginia State Fair opens week
The West Virginia State Fair in Lewisburg opened its week-long run drawing about 20 000 people. Judges reviewed shorthorn cattle sheep and dairy cattle while poultry and produce were shown. Harness racing and a seven class horse show complemented the exhibits. A stunt man Buck Mason was knocked unconscious riding a car through a flaming wall but recovered after about 30 minutes.
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Associated Press
Lewisburg
West Virginia
Buck Mason
Alford Couple Vacationing 22 Weeks at Grandmother’s
Nellie and Norman Alford depart for a 22 week vacation staying with their grandmother Mrs. Nellie Alford of Lynchburg Virginia.
Mount Hope WSCS Holds August Meeting
The Mount Hope Methodist Church Women’s Society of Christian Service met Monday night with 13 members. Reports from cirlces, donations to Home and Foreign Missions and Christmas Fund approved, devotions by Mrs. Witt, talks on Puerto Rico by Mrs. Hodges, Danner photographs shown from wartime Navy service. Next meeting set for September 20.
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Register
Mount Hope
Women’s Society’ of Christian Service
Mount Hope Methodist Church
Fred Porter
Cir Oles
O. M. Henson
Harold Witt
Henry Danner
J. M. Wade
Puerto Rico
U. S. Navy
City Children to Be Picnic Guests at Beckley Park
City children are invited to a final picnic today at Beckley City Park as playgrounds close Friday. Paul Vennari, recreation director, will transport regular playground users from their usual sites at 11 30 a.m. If rain, the Field House will host them. Chaperones include Vennari and supervisors Rossi Inle Belva Bowman Mona Wood Edith Lindawood Athalene Rogers.
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Beckley City Park
Paul Vennari
City Recreation Board
Vennari
Rossi Inle
Belva Bowman
Wood‘row Wilson High School
Mona Wood
Lincoln
Edith Lindawood
Institute
Athalene Rogers
Sprague
SC Exam Set For Position in Mr. Hope Office
Mount Hope post office announces a U S Civil Service open competitive examination for substitute clerk with a wage of 1.29 per hour. Applications accepted at the Fourth Civil Service Region in Washington DC until the service needs are met. Eligibility includes eighth grade completion and white applicants only.
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Register
Mount Hope
United States Civil Service Commission
Fourth Civil Service Region
3Rd
Jefferson Drive
S. W
Washington
D. C
Orval C. Hobbs
Officials Still in Dark Over Molotov West Talks
In Moscow observers remain unsure about the outcome of the latest talks with Molotov as Western envoys press for concrete settlements. Gen. Lucius Clay signaled the West would stick to its plan for a West German government amid a sixteenth conference series.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Molotov
London
Flussia
Bertin
Frankfurt
U.S
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
West
Clay
Frankurt
British Seek Return of RAF Jet After Forced Landing Near Schwerin
British authorities said they asked Russia to return an RAF jet that forced landed in the Soviet Occupation Zone near Gadebusen about 12 miles northwest of Schwerin in Mecklenburg. The plane was slightly damaged and the pilot, unhurt, was being held by the Russians six miles inside the Soviet Zone from the British frontier.
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Gadebusen
Schwerin
Meckinenburg
Detected quotes on Soviet kidnap accusation in report
A passage notes that Soviet charges that the teacher was kidnapped are unfounded. It mentions a detictots vegetable plate combination with baked yam sweet potatoes mushrooms sautéed in butter or margarine steamed spinach and creamed small onions.
Oak Hill Woman Jailed On Intoxication Charge
Harlem Heights resident Wesler Douglas, a Negro, was arraigned before Magistrate W A Level and sent to Fayette County Jail. Deputy sheriff P L Filmore filed the charge of intoxication in a public place, with a ten day jail term in default of fine.
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Rooister Star Wesler
Oak Hilt
Flanor Douglas
Harlem Heights
Fayette County
W. A. Level
P. L. Filmore
Property Transfers Mark brisk trading in local area
Elizabeth Woodie buys a lot in Lilly Land Company Addition No 2 for about 4000 from the McDaniels. Homeseekers Land and Building Co. files three cemetery plot sales at Sunset Memorial Park for about 500 each. Dozens of deeds list transfers in Marsh Fork and Beckley districts with prices ranging from 300 to 2000. Tin cans advertised as 98 1 21 to 99 percent steel coated with tin.
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Elizabeth Woodie
Lilly Land ‘Company
Malcolm M. McDaniel
Homeseekers Land and Building Company
Sunset Memorial Park
Tom Plumley
Virgie Plumjles
Ridgelawn
J. P. Williams
May Williams
Greenlawn
H. E. Stover
Vina Stover
Greenflow
S. A. Ford
Peter Condia
Ford Truck Farms
Marsh Fork
Holliday
H. Holliday
W. HH. Holliday
W. D. Holliday
Sprague Ball Park
Giles-Fayette and
Kanawha Turnpike
John Massie
James H. Rowland
Beckley Court
Lacy L. Hatcher
Betty Mills
Tommy's Creek
Stabl Fork
Oppie Hedrick
Bertha D. Beavers
Little Farms
Riley
Joseph Brown
Joe A. Elmore
Victory
Lacy Trump
John Underwood, Jr
Bee Branch
Marsh, Fork
Lilly Land Company
Beckley
D. W. Pruitt
Hailie Thomas
J. A. Barrett
Clear Fork
Coal River
Elizabeth James
W. S. Walters
Sophia
McMillan “Land and Finance
Haman
James C. Painter
Meadows Addition
Presbyterian Circle Four Ice Cream Social Draws 125
Mount Hope Presbyterian Auxiliary Circle Four hosted an ice cream social attended by about 125 people. Rain shifted the event from the church lawn to the Assembly Room with guests from other Mount Hope churches and several out of town visitors.
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Register
MT. Hope
Circle 4
Mount Hope
J. O. Walker
Dorothy Rodgers
Philadelphia
Laura Belle McCauley
Lexington
J. M. McCauley
K. R. Porter
Mary Alma
Robert Porter
Europe
Peter Cooper
Oklahoma City
Okla
Mrs
E. M. Tutwiler
Man Injured as Bus Collide on Harper Road
A Greyhound bus and a car collided on Harper Road injuring one person. Le H. Swain 57 Beckley owner of the car was taken to Raleigh General Hospital in satisfactory condition. Bus driver James Kilbey Winston-Salem N S. 12 passengers uninjured. No charges expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greyhound
Harper Road
Walter Hampton
le H. Swain
Beckley
Raleigh General Hospital
James Kilbey
Winston-Salem
N. S
Hampton
Highland Sidewalks Completed in Oak Hill
Oak Hill announces completion of Highland Avenue sidewalks. City manager C F Waugh says the project is the first under the bond issue and eight more streets including Mahan Duncan Central Avenue Burke Lee Rogers and Harvey will be paved afterward.
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Ay Register
Oak Hill
Highland Avenue
C. F. Waugh
Highland, Mahan
Duncan
Central ‘Avenue
Burke, Lee
Rogers
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