Fayetteville Club Names Committees for New Year
Fayetteville Junior Woman's Club held its executive board meeting at Mrs. Cecil Spradlin's home. The group announced committee appointments across programs, finance, social service, membership, publicity, year book, education, international affairs, and more for the upcoming club year and district convention in Madison on Oct. 6. Present were Catherine Paris Evelyn Hilton Frank Henson Edna Janutolo Virginia Radford Louis Rahall Louise Toler James Bowling Janie Phillips and host Mrs. Spradlin.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Bar Scholarship
Edna Janutolo
Claude Adkins
Billy G. Henderson
Mary Margaret Thrift
Richard Forren
Matthew Edwards
Catherine Paris
Virginia Radford
Evelyn Hilton
Frank Henson
Louis Rahall
Louise Toler
James Bowling
Janie Phillips
Spradlin
Fayetteville WSCS Drops 1961 Calendar Project
Fayetteville Methodist Circle No 3 voted to relinquish sponsorship of the 1961 Calendar project for one year and return the project to the society later. The gathering, led by Mrs E M Norford, included a program on Light for Todays Children and a dialogue Let the Children Be Heard with diverse child representatives. Members noted nursery duties, sanctuary flowers, and a $126.42 ice cream social profit reported by treasurer Mrs F G Janutolo.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Circle No
Woman's Society
Christian Service
Friendship Hall
E. M. Norford
E. B. Eskew
Roy Cottle
Circle No. 1
F. G. Janutolo
Russell Hanna
Jack Wendell
Joseph R. Eskridge
John Zorio
H. A. Cottrell
Harry Aliff
George Kettlewell
Harry Richards
Chester Hager
Joseph D. Stone
Howard Mahan
Tommie Pratt
Alfred Bibb
Construction on Hinton's Disposal Plant To Start Soon
Mayor Harold B. Eagle says work on Hinton's proposed sewage disposal plant should begin within about 40 days. Five bids were opened at City Hall. Mountain State Construction Co. of Spring Hill offered the low base bids for plant and lift station at 216,634.89, sewer lines 439,374.35, and an asbestos pipe alternative 447,985.60. Henson Tunneling Co. of Columbus submitted the lowest tunnel bid at 22,900.
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Hinton
Harold B. Eagle
City
Sanitation Commission
Council
Mountain State Construction Co
Spring Hill
Abestos
Henson Tunneling Co
Columbus
Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Sanitary Board
Sanitary Commission
State Water Commission
Charleston
Department of Health Education and Welfare
U. S. Public Service
Charlottesville
Eagle
Mount Hope Visitors and Hospital Notes
Mt Hope community notes list visitors to local residents including Cain family members from Miami and Jacksonville Florida. The piece also mentions Frank Furin of the Bureau of Mines as a Beckley Hospital patient and Earl Lawson recovering at home after kidney surgery. Gaps include several undetermined names and fragmented lines from the original clipping.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Frank Furin
Bureau of Mines
Beckley Hospital
Robert Cain
Cain
Pat Cain
American Airlines Assoc
Miami
Fla
Tom Cain
Bob
Tom
Denise
Jacksonville
Air Force Base
Eddie Souk
Harry R. Dias
Fort Lauderdale
Dias
Mount Hope Baptist Temple
H. W. Miller
E. D. Dorsey
Richwood
Earl Lawson
The
New River Company
Lawson
Charles McGraw
Laura Elise
Morgantown
Mr. and Dunham
Sweeneysburg Church Revival Begins August 28
A two week revival will be held at the Missionary Baptist Church in Sweeneyburg starting Sunday August 28. The speaker will be Rev. Robert Perry of Bolt. All singers are invited to attend and participate in nightly services at 7 30 p.m.
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Missionary Baptist Church
Sweeneysburg
Robert Perry
Bolt
Founding of New Orleans by Jean de Bienville in 1718
New Orleans traces its origin to 1718 when French captain Jean de Bienville established the city on its current site. Bienville, born in Canada, led early exploration and settlement efforts shaping the Gulf Coast metropolis.
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New Orleans
Jean de Bienville
Canada
WVU Professors To Hold Clinic At Mullens High
Three faculty from West Virginia University School of Journalism will run a high school journalism clinic at Mullens High School on September 9 serving Raleigh and Wyoming counties. Dr. Warren K. Agee W. R. Summers and James Young will lead with Mrs. Sally Neal hosting, as part of a statewide program to aid student papers in financing, advertising, writing, editing, and staff organization. Clinics have been offered at Keyser Wheeling Lewisburg and Beckley.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Mullens High School
Raleigh
Wyoming Co
Warren K. Agee
W. R. Summers
James Young
Sally Neal
Hosess
Summers
Keyser
Wheeling
Lewisburg
Beckley
Fayette Couples File For Wedding Permits
Twelve marriage license applications filed in the Fayette County Clerk’s Office show for each couple a groom and bride with ages and parental names. The list includes Franklin Delano Butcher and Ruth Ann Kuhn from Strange Creek and Boomer, plus pairs from Parkersburg Lookout Fayetteville and several other towns. The records name grooms and brides, their ages, and their parents, with addresses in West Virginia communities.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Theette County
Franklin Delano Butcher
Strange Creek
Melza T. and
Ora Butcher
Ruth Ann Kuhn
Oak Hill
Arthur P
Eva M. Gilliam
Carol Jean Epperly
Woodrow
Juanita Epperly
Homer Hedrick Jr
Homer and
Mae Hedrick
Mary Young Brown
Willie
Edith Hawkins
Carol Sue Hess
Jodie
Lovel
Dorothy Hess
Albert Eugene Haskett
Beards Fork
Albert L
Ethel Haskett
Mary Jane Dent
Page
Cather B
Lydia Dent
Matthew P. Jackson
Montgomery
George M
Frankie Jackson
Gwen‘dolyn Jane Smith
Kimberly
Phillip H
Mary Smith
Ellis Holly Mullins
Bentree
Neely
Celia Mullins
Kathy Opal Samples
Raymond
Pearl Samples
Sam Oliverio
Clarksburg
Pete
Constance Oliverio
Aretta Gillespie
Hico
John and
Foey Gillespie
Gerald Lynn Stover
Mount Hope
W. H. and
Thelma Stover
Judith Ann Bolen
A. M
Doris Bolen
William H. Skaggs
Longacre
Earsley Skaggs
Freda Pearl Sperko
Smithers
Preston and
Marie Martin
Ralph Wellman
Willis
Ruby Wellman
Hound Gives Birth to 19 Puppies in North Carolina
Mr and Mrs Percy Shepards hound Crybaby produced 17 puppies then two more the next day confirming a likely record. Local hound experts say it is near or possibly the record for most puppies born to a single hound.
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Silver City
N. C
Percy Sheppard
Lively Tyree Tyree Wedding Read at Dirtsville
The Rev Joseph Rogers home at Sand Branch hosted the August 20 wedding of Miss Malinda Rose Tyree daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Tyree of Dirtsville to a fiancé identified as Lively Tyree in an RNS report from PAX.
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PAX
Joseph Rogers
Sand Branch
Malinda Rose Tyree
Roy Tyree
Dirtsville
W. D. Holdren
H. T. Holdren
Nadine
Betty
Judith
Teddy
Paul
Weirton
Luther Adkins
Charleston
Harold Dean Meador
Earl Harrell
Stanley
Tamara
Elizabethtown
George Treadway
Myra Sue
Sprague
Ray Thompson
Florida
North Carolina
M. C. Thompson
Key West
David Thompson
Orlando
Friends
Bill Badger
Jefferson
Louie Wilson
Noral Stover
Willis Branch
Emmett Craddock
Douglas Jacks
Anniston
Ala
Roy Billups
John Ellison
Ina Stover
Warren Stover
Jimmie
Jean
Clear Creek
Corbitt Bailey
Charlie Weaver
Perry
Cindy
Daisy Pearl Stover
Haven Stover
Weirwood
Dixie van Dyne
Kimberly Ann
Cambridge
Ohio
Dollie Under- Wi
Pax Holdren Couple Wed In Pax High School Pair
The ceremony was at 8 p m conducted by Mr. Rogers. The bride wore beige lace street length dress with blue hat. attendants Nancy Cox Kay Tyree. best man Keith Tyree. Bride a 1956 Pax graduate. husband a 1954 Pax graduate and U S Army enlistee. She resides with her parents at present while he returns to Aberdeen Maryland.
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PFC
Buster Dean Lively
Shan Lively
Chesapeake City
Rogers
Nancy Cox
Crab Orchard
Kay Tyree
Cristville
Miss Tyree
Keith Tyree
Charles Armentrout
Cirtsville
Pax High School
Grace Downs
New York
Eastern Airlines
Washington, D. C
U. S. Army
McGraws 4-H Club Members Attend State Fair
Twenty Willing Workers 4-H Club members from McGraws attended the State Fair in Lewisburg to showcase blue ribbon projects from the past year. Leonard McMillion displayed Entomology and Roscoe Plumley led a Wyoming County tour at 10:30 AM with Naomi Sadler and Vern Clay supervising the group.
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McGraws
ANS
Lewisburg
Leonard McMillion
Sue LaVerne Clay
Francine Brooks
Rose Marie Shumate
Roscoe Plumley
Pineville
Wyoming County
Wyoming County Club
Naomi Sadler
Vern Clay
Rose McGraw
Hersie Shumate
Engine Hits Auto at Sugar Creek Crossing Mount Hope
A 1959 car owned by Jess Lay manager of New River Station No 4 Mount Hope was struck at 9 35 p m Wednesday by a Chesapeake and Ohio engine while shifting coal cars at Sugar Creek crossing. Damages not estimated.
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Mount Hope
ANS
Jess Lay
New River Station No
Chesapeake & Ohio
Sugar Creek
Beckley area births and hospital notes in Ravencliff
Mrs 0 A Lamb enters Beckley Hospital for surgery. Don William Milam born Friday at Beckley Memorial Hospital joining four sisters. Richard Bernard Ownby born Friday, Beckley Memorial Hospital. Geraldine Mann Ownby visiting Ravencliff relatives while husband serves in Germany. Weekend visitors include Margaret Polk Arlington and Ruby Farley of Virginia. Alfred Milam remains hospitalized for injuries from a shop accident in Otsego. More weekend visitors travel from Ohio and New York to see local families.
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Ravencliff
A. Lamb
Beckley Hospital
Willie Milam
Don William
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Pfc
Williard Ownby
Richard Bernard
Ownby
Geraldine Mann
Donald Mann
U. S. Army
Germany
Willard Ownby Sr
Charleston
Margaret Ann Polk
Washington, D. C
Ernest Polk
Ruby Farley
Arlington
Frank Farley
Alfred Milam
Otsego
Vyona Milam
James Milam
Frances Milam
Jimmie Marshal
Little Hocking
Ohio
Masie
Janice Shrewsbury
Buffalo
N. Y
Wilson Mann
Glen Fork
LaFayette Post Plans September Auxiliary Meeting
Miss Cleo Yeager will head the September meeting of the LaFayette Post No. 149 Auxiliary in Fayetteville. Plans were set at the regular meeting in the Legion Home Chestnut Room. The program covered membership drives, rummage and bake sales, comfort donations for Pinecrest Sanatorium, hospital party dates, and a September meeting focused on music.
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Fayetteville
RNS
Cleo Yeager
LaFayette
American Legion of
Chestnut Room
Legion Home
Maple Avenue
Charles Knotts
Harry Marshall
Keith Hunt
John Tamplin
Nannie Beck
Bartley Hess
William Bennett
Perry Selvey
Henderson
W. R. Hesse
William Herold
Joseph Hodgson
Oscar Henderson
Pinecrest Sanitarium
John L. Witt Jr
Beckley Veterans Hospital
Legion Committee
Riley Propps
Alex Gray
Gregory Gray
Knotts
Brown
Hess
Herold
Kenneth Wood
Hodgson
Bennett
Selvey
J. L. Witt Jr
Gray
Yeager
Marshall
Africa rises in world share and land area
The continent of Africa accounts for about 20 percent of the world population and area, highlighting its significant demographic and geographical footprint.
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Africa
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Mt. Hope
WVU
Mullens High
Fayette
Lively-Tyree
Mrs. Buster Lively
Hiso
Neville ST
New Philco
Beckley Music & Electric Co
Prince St
LaFayette Post
Ucky
Eckley
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