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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1929
Page
1
Today in Beckley narrator Harold M. Riffe digresses on human foibles from a watermelon theft to doctors dentists preachers and barbers observing how patients often diagnose their own ailments. The column also notes church Sunday school acts local visits and upcoming school events inviting attendance at 8 o clock tonight.
Former J R Reaky and successor The Kalesh lumber firms announce their third annual Lumberman's Reunion and Picnic on Sunday September 1 at Pine Grove Park Shady Spring road. A basket dinner is planned weather permitting an all day event for past and present employees of the two companies and their operations.
A local note reports that 38 percent of Warsaw University students are women and only a small portion graduate. It suggests many women marry before completing their studies, reflecting a trend of leaving college for matrimony.
Kev John Pant Pack of Kenneth Missouri will lead the morning services at the Christian church in Beckley today. He is a Beckley native and Bethany College graduate visiting with relatives, staying with his uncle EP Ewart on Harper road. He previously led Kenneth church duties and has accepted a position at Beagan's Falls Connecticut near New Haven, pursuing studies at Yale Divinity School alongside his ministry.
Paris Marace Ashton of the American Academy of Sciences reports evidence linking Sahara cave dwelling tribes to the Cells. He theorizes a migration from Asia through the Sudan and Sahara to the Basque country of Spain and then to Scotland and Ireland.
Local colored churches report Sunday school and sermon plans at Matthews A.M.E. Zion, Central Street Baptist, Ebenezer Baptist, New Hope Baptist and others. A Maury Tolbert anniversary program at New Hope, enlistment day for men, a mass meeting at Stratton High, and wedding announcements plus social club and study club activities fill the community notice with religious services, meetings, entertainments, and local engagements.
A list of names appears as residents and visitors in and around town. Mentions include Mrs Nora Brown of Green Lantern Tea team and Mrs Pannell in town, with several relatives traveling from Charleston, Hinton, Lynchburg and Pocahontas to visit family and friends.
A stream of visitors and residents from Charleston and nearby towns were recorded Friday and Saturday. Names include Bekind, Armstead, Parrish, Jeffries, Reid, Cullins, Simms, Morton, and Thurston among others. Several trips spanned Roanoke, Indiantapolis, Alderson, Hinton and Beckley with hospital mentions and a note on Mrs Belton and Arethst Keaton recovering at Providence Bluefield hospital.
James Pugh a Smokeless Coal Co. employee at Stotesbury lost a foot in a fall while laying track. He was brought to Beckley Hospital and is reported to be getting along fairly well. The accident occurred when his foot was caught by slate on a rail, crushing his ankle.
A photo gallery blaze injures five people, three of them children, during a group photograph session. The photographer is detained for questioning by authorities and held until the provincial assizes term in the fall.
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