Best of Show Arrangements Highlight West Virginia State Fair Judging
At the 34th annual State Fair of West Virginia first flower show judges included Mrs May Puckett of Oak Hill and Mrs WW Vines of Beckley. Mrs Larry Little of Lewisburg House and Garden Club designed the class 59 entry Summer Meets Fall. Best of Show in horticulture went to Mrs Jack Killoran of Lewisburg of Valley Trails Garden Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Puckett
Oak Hill
Vines
den Club
Coreus
Jack Killoran
Lewisburg
Valley Trails Garden Club
13 Year Old Drives Car On Wild Mullens Ride
A 13 year old Mullens girl named Donna Lewis secretly drove Eugene Reaves’s car in West Mullens. She started the car on Johnson Avenue, veered onto Moran Avenue, hit a rock wall and railing, then a gate and a parked car. Damages were minor. no charges were filed as Reaves and his insurerless car faced potential recovery from parents or car owner.
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Johnson
Moran Ave
Oscar England
J. B. Gray
Si Cline
Loomer Sisk
Reaves
Head
Hernshaw Rises Set Wednesday
Mrs Elzene Stewart Perdue 78 of Hernshaw died Sunday at daughter S F Hartles home in Hinton after complications Born October 6 1879 in Wyoming County daughter of James and Amanda Cook Stewart Her husband John L died in 1952 Survived by two sons Hobart and James L two daughters Mrs Hartley and Mrs W Al Farley Springfield Ul 14 grandchildren 15 great grandchildren one great great grandchild Funeral services set for Wednesday 11 am at Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlor Hinton burial in Grave land Memorial Park near Charleston Body at funeral home
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Hinton
Elzene Stewart Perdue
Hernshaw
S. F. Hartles
Wyoming County
James
Amanda Cook Stewart
John, L
Hobart
James L
Hartley
W. al Farley
Springfield
Ronald Meadows
H. A. Thompson
Graveland Memorial Park
Charleston
VFW Auxiliary Post Plans Fayette County Fair Parade Float
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Club will host a meeting of the VFW Auxiliary Post 3110 in Oak Hill on Wednesday Plans include preparing a float for the Fayette County Fair parade Oak Hill fire department responded to a false alarm at 1130 p m Monday near 23d High Lawn Park Addition similar call was reported about a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNS
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
VEW
Fayette County
High Lawn Park
FASTEETH Keeps False Teeth Firmly Set
FASTEETH is an alkaline powder to sprinkle on denture plates to keep them more firmly in place. It promises confident sealing and added comfort with no gummy taste or feel. Available at drug counters today.
Herndon Man Stabbed In Tussle At Tavern
Shrewsbury resident 23, Herndon, reregumerating at Wyoming General Hospital after a Sunday stab wound in a tavern tussle over a jukebox record. He wrestled with a man named Bill Burkes to retrieve a knife, suffered a left chest injury collapsing a lung, and underwent surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrewsbury
Herndon
Wyoming General Hospital
Ellison
Bud
Bill Burkes
Rabies Vaccination Clinic for Dogs at Mullens Fire Station
The Mullens Fire Station hosts a dog rabies vaccination clinic on Wednesday from 9 to 11 am. Pineville technician G. F. Brown leads the clinic with a $1.50 per dog charge.
Fayette Court Budget Released
Fayette County unveils proposed budget totaling $592,134 in current expenses with receipts of $129,893 and a tax levy of $486,564 after deductions. Key allocations cover sheriff, circuit and county courts, prosecuting attorney, health unit, courts, jail, county agents, and various departments including elections and public assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
RNS
Lacy Neely
Fayette County
Justice's Court
Department of Public Assistance
Soldier-Sailors
Fire Department
New Officers Elected At UCYM Conference
At the Fayette County 4-H Camp Beckwith the state United Christian Youth Movement elected Mary Beth Alber t president Donna Duncan vice president Janie Sharp corresponding secretary and Mary Jo Donahue recording secretary Bill Daniels treasurer. Commission chairs named Irene Tregoning Barbara Pauley Janie Prymer Glen Runions Janice Muse. Rev Carl Williams advised. Conference trained youth 15 to 24 and advisers in ecumenical leadership with commissions on Faith Witness Citizenship Fellowship and Outreach. A fund drive supported an international youth camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
RNS
State United Christian Youth Movement
Fayette County
Beckwith
Mary Beth Albert
St. Albans
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Maltens
Donna Duncan
Janie Sharp
Marlinton
Mary
Jo Donahue
Disciple
Nitro
Bill Daniels
Huntington
Marshall College
UCYM
Disciple Church
Irene Tregoning
Ravenswood
Barbara Pauley
Baptist of
Madison
Dist
Janice Muse
National Baptist of
Oak Hill
Carl Williams
Charleston Church of God
Outreach Commission
Whitesville Fire Dept helps on Sherman High booster plans
The Whitesville Fire Department met at 7 30 am with 23 members present. They reviewed the 1958 Sherman Boosters Club plan outline for Sherman High School at Seth, presented by Avery Brown and Hevins Snodgrass, and were asked to aid the plans and assign delegates to booster meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Boosters Club
Sherman High School
Seth
Avery Brown
Hevins Snodgrass
Boosters Club
Fire Department
District Rotary Governor to Speak in Oak Hill Tonight
Grady Carper of Princeton district governor of Rotary International will address the Oak Hill Rotary Club at 6 15 p m today The club will play a baseball game with the Oak Hill Lions Club at City Park at 3 20 p m Wednesday Oak Hill visitors include Mrs Ann Teoplen of Rochester Penn and her mother in law Mrs FN Teoplen who met several local clergy members
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Oak Hill
Grady Carper
Princeton
Rotary International
Oak Will
Rns
Ann Teoplen
Rochester
Penn
FN. Teoplen
J. B. Robinson
C. T. Baker
Bessie MacAlmore
Imogene Coca Signed for The Girls in 309 Broadway
Imogene Coca is set as one of the two female leads in The Girls in 309 a Broadway offering by Howard Teichmann. Alfred de Liagre Jr produced the play after securing Miss Coca from her 1956 success in Janus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Liberty
Commedienne
Imogene Coca
Howard Teichmann
Alfred de Liagre Jr
YMCA Press Delivers Paperback Religious Titles Nationwide
The YMCA publishing arm Association Press announces a new book program releasing major religious works in low priced paperback editions. Over 3 percent of churches aid distribution and more than 300000 copies of the first 18 titles have sold so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York i
YMCA
Association Press
Colette Novels to be Combined for Broadway Drama
New York reports two of Colette’s best known works Cheri and The End of Cheri are set for adaptation into a Broadway drama by the Producers Theatre. The tales follow a dashing fortune hunter’s escapades as they move toward the stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Colette
Cheri
Producers Theatre
Man Fined In Seven Charges For Motorcycle Incident
A 39 year old motorcyclist described as a total loss lead drew police attention when a noisy bystander attracted the arresting officer. Judge Frank Grogorski fined Leach one dollar and costs on seven charges after finding the man operating with nothing.
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WALCO
Frank Grogorski
Leach
Indictments in Pineville grand jury span manslaughter to burglary
Wyoming County grand jury returned a large slate of indictments led by Albert Hal Yeager for manslaughter in a fatal vehicle strike. Other cases include Paul Brewster charged with raping his 13 year old stepdaughter, Fred Walker for slashing his wife, and numerous felonies involving thefts, assaults, and break-ins across Pineville and nearby towns. This marks the largest indictment count in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Rns
Albert Hal Yeager
Wyoming
Yeager
Edwin G. Toler
Paul Edward Brewster
Lynch
Fred Walker
New Richmond
Jesse M. Bentley
Oma
W. R. Haga Jr
Mullens
Charles Bower
Roger Elswick
Arment
Ruth Brammer
Mallens Legion Hall
William Edward Mallens
Okey Griffith
Nathan Toler
Tom Daniels
Kopperston
Veilin
Lowell Hall
Herman Toler
Aaron Delong
David Daniels
Dee Stratton
Donald Hodgess
Semet Solvey Co
Virgil. Rutherford
Tuomass Dewey
Alfred J. Justice
Hirlam K. Justice
Wayne Armcham
Roy Alift
Teddy Shumate
Jimmy Aakins
Reeds
Oceana
Bennie Cook
Delmer Gene Cozort
Johnny Cook
William Sisk
Herman Lee Sharp
John Dowell
Grand Wry
Funeral services set for Clifford Smith in Holden
Clifford Smith, 40, an Island Creek Coal Co. electrician, burned to death in a Holden fire that destroyed his four room frame home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Harris Funeral Home with Rev. Jeff Curry presiding. Burial follows in Logan Cemetery. Survived by wife Blanch Bartram Smith, mother Minnie Smith, two children Dianne and Tommy, three sisters and two brothers. State fire marshal investigates. Body at Harris Funeral Home.
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Holden
RNS
Clifford Smith
Harris
Jeff Curry
Logan
Smith
Island Creek Coal Co
D. J. Dizon
Dianne
Tommy
Milton Starling
Crownsville
Joe Hughes
Ernest Runyon
Kenova
Clinton Smith Chapmansville
Russell
Harris Funeral Home
Rites Incomplete For Jessie Thomas
Funeral arrangements for Jessie Thomas 63 Carlisle remain incomplete. Thomas died in a Beckley hospital at 6 15 p m Monday. The body is at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor Beckley.
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Carlisle
Jessie Thomas
Thomas
Beckley
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor
Fayette Church Pastor Resigns After Eight Years
The Rev. C. C. Landrum, pastor of White Oak and Summerlee Presbyterian Churches in Fayette County, will resign in September to assume a pastorate in Selma Alabama. He has led the churches since 1950, during which both were rebuilt and new organ and piano installed. His wife Genevieve has served in education and music roles. the couple has two children, Joy Jacaruso and Edward McDonald Jr. No successor has been named.
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Oak Hill
C. C. Landrum
White Oak Presbyterian Church
Scarbro
Summerlee Presbyterian Church
Fayette County
Landrum
Selma
Kentucky
North Carolina
Georgia
Ormia Bible School
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
American Red Cross
Genevieve
Fayette
Wiener Roast Fetes Young Peoples Class
The Young Peoples Class of the First Baptist Church Whitesville, about 70 members, enjoyed a wiener roast at 7 p.m. at the scout grounds in White Oak hollow. They returned to Whitesville by 9 30 p.m after a group sing. Church meet set Oak Hill Harlem Heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitesville
IRNS
First Baptist Church
Wwhitesville
White Oak Hollow
Mullens Band Students Return From Camp
Mullens High School bandsmen Jo Ann Short Joyce Akers Wayne Bond Diane Akers and Judy Minter attended a two week Ogtebay Institute Drum Major Camp in Wheeling. Wayne Bond to assume drum major duties next year with Don na Sue Graham stepping down. Warne earned the crown King for the Drum Major Camp for a talent night reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
RNS
Wheeling
Ogtebay Institute
Jo Ann Short
Joyce Akers
Wayne Bond
Donna Sue Graham
Diane Akers
Judy Minter
Warne
Mullen
Ambulance In Collision Near Lake Shawnee
An ambulance driven by Stanley Harvey of Mullens collided with an approaching car near Lake Shawnee Mercer County at 2 30 p m Monday. No one seriously injured. Harvey and Ester Lester sustained minor injuries. An assisting Bailey Funeral Home ambulance was dispatched to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
ANS
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Stanley Harvey
Lake Shawnee
Mercer County
Harvey
Ester Lester
Bud
Bluefield
Lester
Mae
Lee
Calvin
Dristan Decongestant Tablets Offer Hay Fever Relief
A three layer tablet named Dristan debuts as a nonprescription hay fever remedy promising rapid nasal decongestion and relief from sneezing itching and watery eyes. The product claims to act systemically to clear congested passages and support daily resistance to infection.
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Chicago
Nose-Sinua
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Appalachian Region Judges Council
Spade and Trowel Garden Club of Oaks
Ben F. Ennis
Ennis Insurance Agency
Heber - CL
Percale
Rockford
Denier
Dacron
VFW
Johnny Sizemore
Matheny
Elizabeth Underwood
Rhodell
Sheridan Layman
Itmann
Dickie Fitch
Keyrock
Dog Clinic
Fayette Court
District Rotary Guv
Imogene
Broadway
Reyes
Royaltie Portable
Office Service
Roy McKinney
Ralph Howerton
G. A. Keatley
Omes Russell
Howard Phillips
Raymond Ira Gilmore
Felony
Garland Sisk
Ida
Clarence Mills
Sid Sisk
Frank Bailey
Sidney Bailey
Bailey
Bobby Robinson
Jimmy Adkins
Allied Enterprises
Ray Sisk
Lowell Green
Earnest Berger
Greely McMillion
Donald Griggs
Sigmons
Glen Fork
Ottis Grant
Robert Earl Daniels
Geraldine Walls
Treaty Tom Burchette
Robert Harrison Sturgill
J. Thomas
Young Peoples
Mullens Band
Rambler's
Rambler
RAMEY
S. Oakwood Ave
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