Extension Classes Offered Locally By 4 State Colleges
Local colleges announce term courses from West Virginia University Morris Harvey Marshall and Concord. WVU offerings include Education 221 284 270 384 and History 250 257 with registrations at Beckley Junior High School Sept 6 7. Morris Harvey lists many upper division and English geography math music and sociology courses with an organizational meeting Sept 6. Marshall plans an Sept 12 session at Woodrow Wilson High School to form a larger catalog. Concord sets an Sept 8 meeting at Beckley Junior High School requiring at least 12 registrants and offers a slate of art music English social science and physical education courses for teachers and prospective degree candidates.
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West Virginia University
Morris Harvey, Marshall
Concord Colleges
Raleigh County
Board of Education
WVU
Frank H. McClung
Beckley
Beckley Junior High School
West Virginia
Elizabeth J Goodall
Morris Harvey
Marshall College
Woodrow Wilson High School
Concord College
Concord
E S Brown Named Town For Friend in Sophia
SOPHIA RNS The man who gave Sophia its name, E Steward Brown, celebrated his 90th birthday Friday. A lifelong Soak Creek resident since age seven, Brown named the town after friend Sophia McGinnis during post office bonding with Wilson amid railroad era demand. Brown, first local merchant, built church, served as organist, choir director, and Sunday School clerk for 15 years, and operated a wagon grocery, sawmill, and timbers for the Virginian Railroad. He remains active on the farm at Soak Creek with daughter Mrs George Bragg and son-in-law. Born Monroe County near Ballard.
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Sophia
RNS
E. Steward Brown
Soakao
Brown
Sophia McGinnis
Wilson
Soak Creek
George Bragg
Bragg
Virginian
Sophia Gap
First Baptist
Raleigh County
Raleigh
Mr. Brown
Monroe Counity
Ballard
Beclley Police Court Faces $598 In Forfeitures
Bonds totaling 598 were forfeited by 18 defendants in Beckley Police Court Monday night. Notables include Mary E. Butler of Glen Morgan who forfeited 106.50 for drunk driving after a Saturday 11:30 p.m. arrest. Alfred Lee Tincher of Beaver 108 on drunk driving. Kennie J. Gilkerson of Cranberry 56 for reckless driving. twelve intoxication cases totaling 210. Other fines ranged from 15 to 46.50 for driving without licenses and related offenses.
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Beckley
Mary E. Butler
Glen Morgan
Alfred Lee Tincher
Beaver
Kennie J. Gilkerson
Cranberry
John Steelman
East Park
Jerry R. Allison
Dorcas Ave
Ernest Lee Fekette
Cleveland
Ohio
Thomas E. Wheeler
Fayetteville
Vocational Teacher Accepts Md Position
Seldon Adkins of Prosperity a nine year vocational teacher will join Elliott City Junior High in September. He leaves Beckley with his wife and three children to live in Baltimore and will teach industrial arts at Ellicott City. Adkins previously worked with the State Department of Education in Charleston as Assistant State Supervisor of Trade and taught at Logan High School and Morgantown Junior High. A WV Tech graduate and World War II veteran, he earned a BS in industrial arts and served 39 months as a technical sergeant.
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Seldon Adkins
Elliott City
Adkins
Beckley
Baltimore
Ellicott City
State Department of Education
Charleston
Logan High School
Morgantown
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Failure To Check Mine Brings Fine
Edward J. Shaffer was fined $25 and costs Monday by Magistrate W. A. Burke for failing to make a fire boss check at the No. 1 mine of the Resaco Pocahontas Mining Co on Aug 16. He pleaded guilty to the charge brought by state mine inspector J. W. Hatfield. It was revealed Shaffer did not enter the mine that day, though he logged an entry claiming he examined it while acting as fire boss. Hatfield operates from the New River and Winding Gulf office on Earwood Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Shaffer
W. A. Burke
Resaco Pocahontas Mining Co
Shaffer
J. W. Hatfield
Besoco
Hatfield
New River and
Winding Gulf
Mines Department
Earwood Street
VA Nursing Chief Transfers to Dublin Georgia
Grace E Farley chief of nursing at Beckley VA Hospital is transferring to the VA hospital in Dublin Georgia She was honored with a farewell party featuring gifts from nursing staff and department heads Dr R C Jones led the presentation Farley began Army Nurse Corps service in 1943 with overseas duty in England Later she served in the Army Reserve and held multiple VA nursing posts before moving to Dublin to assume duties August 28 at the 950 bed VA Center in Dublin Georgia
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Grace E. Farley
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Dublin
R. C. Jones
Miss Farley
Army Nurse Corps
Camp Drum
N.Y
Camp Aderberry
Ind
231St Station
Army Hospital
Norwich
England
United
Veterans Administration
Jackson
Miss
Syracuse
Agnes Marshall suffers shoulder injury at Beckley Manufacturing
Agnes Marshall aged 102 and Lilly Sr, both workers at Beckley Manufacturing Co., sustained an injured left shoulder on Monday after lifting trays. They received treatment at Beckley Hospital for the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Marshall
Lilly Sr
Beckley Manufacturing Co
Beckley Hospital
Beckley Youth Treated After Cement Walk Fall
Jerry Jessup, year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Jessup of Route 3 Beckley, was treated at Beckley Hospital Monday evening for injuries to his left arm from a fall on a cement walk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Jessup
William Jessup
Beckley
Beckley Hospital
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Raleigh Register
W. Va
E. S. Brown
S. B. Elkins Estate
E.S.T
Elkins
Randolph
Webster
Sewell
John F. Brown Brown
Elkins, W. Va
John C. Morrison
Morrison
Charleston, W. Va
Mrs. T. V. Tilley
Martha and
Tommy
Princeton, West Virginia
Tilley
Toy Train
T. V. Tilley
Appalachian Power Company
Roanoke
Virginia
W. W. McKinney
Sam Parrish
Dr. McKinney
James Wheeler
Miss Grace E, Farley
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Barehart Rambler Company
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