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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
8
Dr C H Murch, a West Virginia State University Memorial director, will arrive in Beckley on Saturday August 21 and stay through August 23. He will deliver a memorial address at the Christian church likely during the usual Sunday morning service.
The pastor B. Lacy Hoge will preach at 11 a.m. on The True Circumcision, explaining its meaning as an Old Testament ordinance and its relation to the New Dispensation. Evening service at 8 p.m. titled What Would Jesus Do as a Church Member.
John W. Davis is named as likely successor to Judge A G Dayton on the Federal Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, following Dayton’s death last week. The report notes the potential appointment impact on the court's composition.
Board of Education of Slab Fork district Raleigh County WV met on the second Tuesday in August 1920 to set levies for the current year. The report itemizes maintenance building fund new building fund and teachers fund expenditures and estimated receipts, detailing amounts due from sheriff, real estate delinquencies, and per cent levies to raise for each fund. Additional levies of 20 cents for new building fund and 20 cents for teachers fund are noted pending voter approval on August 3 1920.
The Trap Hill district board of education in Raleigh County on August 1920 set levy needs for maintenance building fund, new building fund and teachers fund. Amounts include sheriff receivables and detailed disbursements for salaries, repairs, apparatus, and supplies totaling about 50 67 and 20 756 dollars, with levy rates of 15 30 and 60 cents per hundred dollars valuation, plus notes on real and personal property assessments and fund balances.
Victor L. Berger, a socialist who was twice denied his seat from Wisconsin's fifth district after election, has been chosen by his party to run in the November election.
An advertisement touts Argo-Phosphate as a remedy that builds up run-down, emaciated people and transforms thin, pale women into rosy, plump figures. It claims physicians worldwide prescribe it for a range of conditions and promises dramatic cosmetic gains.
The Board of Education of Slab District will meet at Amigo on August 24 between 2 and 4 p m to receive sealed or open bids for building an additional room to the Winding Gulf schoolhouse in Winding Gulf West Virginia. H H Lilly secretary Odd W Va
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