Troopers Prepare For Camp Perry Gun Matches
Troopers at the state police target range drill ahead of Camp Perry to reach a 290 score in national matches. Captain H N Rexroad leads practice as shooters critique sights and wind while targets rise and fall in timed drills. The team includes Sargrant Stout, Emrick, Beckett, Ellis Lee, Hall, Ballard and others from Fairmont Gratton Ripley Charleston Welch and Princeton.
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Tar Associated
Priss
Charleston
Camp Perry
Ohio
Rexrode
H. N. Rexroad
Rexroad
Sargrant EE. Stout
Fairmont
L. W. Emrick
Gratton
Mine Pump Had Weston Origin
Harvey Aug 29 report on a surface operated turbine pump innovating mine drainage. A Weston-origin design shifted from western irrigation to mining use, lifting water up to 1,000 feet to ground level with machinery atop ground. Harvey site bowl 270 feet below surface machinery. pump capacity from 40 gpm to 10,000 gph.
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Register
Harvey
Skaggs Plan To Move Soon From Payette Area
Mr and Mrs Ted Skaggs once of Gauley Bridge reside on a hill side in Payette and plan to move to winter homes in Ansted or Stotesbury after celebrating their first wedding anniversary Mrs Skaggs says Skaggs is employed in the mines at Ansted and the couple has friends in Stotesbury The article also notes the Met Opera once housed the Faust Spielhaus in New York and that $51000 was paid for the only extant signature of Button Gwinnett.
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Register
Ted Skaggs
Gauley Bridge
Ansted
Skaggs
Stotesbury
Skaggs Is the Son of Mr. and Mrs. Watt Skaggs
Jodie
Mrs. Skaggs
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Faust- Spielhaus
Gounod
Faust
Button Gwinnett
Community notices span churches games and meetings in Beckley
A busy slate includes Negro Activities Junior League at Mrs Thelma Dyers home with refreshments for listed members, a New River Giants vs Holden Bear Cats baseball game at Sprague Park, Shady Grove Baptist services led by Rev C H Rawlings and a play by the Missionary society, and a Second District Sunday School executive board meeting at Ebenezer Parsonage Beckley.
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New River Giants
Holden Bear Cats
Sprague Park
Glen White
Shady Grove Baptist Church
C. H. Rawlings
Lester
Jand Sunset Four
Garden of Eden
The
Missionary Society
Second District Sunday School Union
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Beckley
C. §. Brown
Camp Fair Chance transforms underprivileged children at Low Gap
August 29 report from Madison notes nearly 200 boys and girls from poverty stricken West Virginia homes enter Camp Fair Chance a WPA project two years old. Captain Marsh describes nutrition gains and a strict but gentle regime with schooling, sports, and welfare study while a dedicated group of children mourn a buried horse and assist in camp life.
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Madison
West Virginia
Fairchance
Low Gap
Mastor Francis Turner
Marsh
Camp
Mine Drainage System Completed for Pocahontas Mines
In Bluefield on August 29 a 13 mile gravity drainage tunnel for Pocahontas Fuel company mines along the Virginia West Virginia border was finished after starting in 1925. Engineers and workers celebrated proving the system drains Bishop Jenkin Jones Boissevain Big Veln and other mines without pumping.
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Bluefield
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Bishop
Jenkin Jones
Boissevain
Big Veln
Virginia-West Virginia
Pocahontas
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Nantle Price
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Wilmer Wright
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Mary Young
Katie Levels
Hazel Garland
Anna Clark
Stratton High School
Dandridge
Tams
Tams Chapel
A. M. FE
Kazsee
First Baptist Church
Mt. Hope
Samuel A. Abram
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Lillybrook
W. J.garter
J. M. Dean
B. L. Zeigler
E. M. Hannar
W. M. Freeman
C. M. Ellis
Sam Carson
Affinity
J. A. Jackson
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Philip F. King
J.a.divers
Henry DuBois
Price Hill
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Emma Broom
John Burnett
Mabscott
Lucy Mosby
George Lynch
Charles Grear
Carl
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Viola Dickerson
J. C. Williams
Mr. Hope
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Mable Talker
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Robert Jasper
Mount Hope
Agnes and
Alease Lenoir
Aurora Street
East Park
Myrtle Williams
North Carolina
Helen Griffin
Bobby and
Billy
Frances McMillan
Johnny Mae Cotton
Mary Cotton
C. Willans
Walter Turner
Loraine Carter
Sylvia
Frances Price
Juanita
J. L. Tabb
Pearl Shaffer
East Beckley
Grace Moore
Copenhagen Opera
Boone County
WPA Emergency Educational Division
Charle
Sir Gallahad
Marion Talley
Secret Agent X-9
Moon Mullins
Mamie
Kayo
Mullins
Dick Tracy
ARES
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Come
Chie
Pet
Geogi
Martin
QR Meen
Boss
Little Annie Rooney
Town
Charles Flanders
F.b.us
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Darke
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Ira
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