Dormitory Plans Approved At Hill Top Baptist Property
West Virginia Baptist State Convention executives approved an 80 person L shaped dormitory on Hill Top Baptist property in Beckley. The project includes ground floor assembly space and is funded by member contributions and district donations. A church rally is set for March 2 1959 in the Flat Top Association area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill Top
West Virginia
Missionary Baptist Churches
Abram
Flat Top Association
Smithers Church Women Elect Officers for 1960 61
Officers for the 1960 61 term were elected at a Smithers Presbyterian Church women’s meeting. Elected were Mrs. Robert Foster president Mrs. Bertis Downs vice president Mrs. Everett Ballard secretary Mrs. Robert Melba chairman of church extension Mrs. Lacy Shawver chairman of Christian education and Mrs. Ireland Sutton chairman of annuities and relief. The program on stewardship titled Stars in Their Eyes was presented by Mrs. Norman Burch. Hostesses were Mrs. Joe Marsho and Mrs. Cecil Starcher who served refreshments to a list of attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithers
RNS
The
Smithers Presbyterian Church
Robert Foster
Bertis Downs
Everett Ballard
Robert Melba
Lacy Shawver
Christian Education
Ireland Sutton
Norman Burch
Joe Marsho
Cecil Starcher
Pauline Petry
Eugene Ballard
Burch
J. E. Kegler
Emory White
Reece Boone
William Dean
Lawrence Hawks
Lucille Hayslette
Sam Picarella
Civic League Adopts Care for Mexico Program
The Boone County Civic league adopted the Care for Mexico program at Madison Ho tel Fiesta Room. Mrs. Haley A. Browning led a general Federation review and a cancer workshop followed. The finance committee will finalize plans to implement the program at the first meeting of the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Boone County Civic League
Madison Hotel
Haley A. Browning
Thanksgiving guests travel across towns for family dinners
Glens, Vences, and Stewarts share holiday meals from Brownsville to Ravencliff and Green Sulphur, with relatives visiting from Dayton and Huntington. Several students return to colleges after Thanksgiving visits, while others host relatives in homes across the region.
Honor Society Officers Named at Glen Rogers High
Thomas Pack serves as president of the Glen Rogers High School Junior Chapter National Honor Society for the current year. He is joined by vice president Frances Hall secretary Patty Ann Tilley treasurer Billy Stewart with Sandra Perry as reporter George McClung sergeant at arms and Nancy Richardson file clerk. Additional members include Sandy Sturgill Mary Snead Phyllis Alderman and David Shumate. Initiation ceremonies occur in March with Mrs. Marion Brooks as sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Rogers
RNS
Thomas Pack
National Honor Society
Glen Rogers High School
Frances Hall
Patty Ann Tilley
Billy Stewart
Sandra Perry
George McClung
Nancy Richardson
Sandy Sturgill
Mary Snead
Phyllis Alderman
David Shumate
Marion Brooks
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Rose Jarrett
Mrs Mary Rose Jarrett, 58, of Scarbro Route 1, died Sunday at home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p m Thursday at East End Holiness Church Oak Hill, with Rev Charles Fisher and Rev Charles Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Highlawn Memorial Park Oak Hill. The body will be removed from Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill to the residence at 5 p m today and to the church one hour before services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNS
Mary Rose Jarrett
East End Holiness Church
Charles Fisher
Charles Johnson
Highlawn Memorial Park
Jarrett
Scarbro
Route 1
Tyree
Compressor Fire Extinguished at Construction Site Truck
A fire in a compressor on a truck was put out by the Pineville Volunteer Fire Department around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Damage was estimated in the several hundred dollar range. The vehicle was at Pace-Bowers Construction Co.
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Pineville
RNS
Thanksgiving Day Visitors Across Pax Area Gather
Thanksgiving guests and holiday visitors filled homes across Pax with extended families. Names listed include Humphrey families from Beckley Arlington and Baltimore, and visitors from Norfolk Cincinnati Glen Daniel Charleston Mount Hope Long Branch and Pax.
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Pax
Larry Kelly
Vicki
Johnstown
Wilbur McGown
C. L. Lucas
Glen Daniel
Ralph Humphrey
Jimmy Humphrey
Jimmy
Kathy
Beckley
Paul Humphrey
Danny
Maxwell Hill
Pat Humphrey
Tammy
Mike Gallagher
Norfolk
Buren Davis
Jesse Williams
Fayetteville
N. F. Walkup
Forrest Jr
Welch
Johnnie
Mike
Carolyn
Arlington
Fay Thompson
Cindy
Frances Stout
Homer Cox
Linda
Cincinnati
Ohio
George Shuck
Dennis Keffer
Bobby Nichols
Bobby
Charleston
Ray Thompson
Dennis
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Tommy Thompson
Baltimore
Ray Humphrey
Flavis McNeely
Pat
Gay
Eddie
Randy
Bradley
Darry
McNeely
Rusty
Mount Hope
Oscar Bowyer
Lena
Wanda
Long Branch
Richard McNeely
Lawrence Tyree
James Dickinson
James H Williams
Tyree
Roby Billings
Alice
Roby
Basil Cruse
Clive Holly
Wanda Holly
Cyrus
Susan
Sun
Seibert Warren Jr
Jennifer
Carlos Williams
Pat Humphrey Ter
Humphrey
Roy Hatcher
Baskets Fund Aid For Needy At Christmas In Pineville
In Pineville the general society will fund Christmas food baskets for needy families. An all day bazaar is planned for December 5 at the Appalachian Building, and a family dinner and society meeting are set for December 22 at Cook Memorial Baptist Church. Officers and circle chairs for the coming year were elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
RNS
General Society
Cook Memorial Baptist Church
Appalachian Building
Bruce Howard
C. L. Cook
Myrtle Rose
Harry Slavy
Robert McCoy
Gilbert Goode
White Cross
George Pruitt
Robert Dodd
Charley Shields
Rue Schoolcraft
Dick Cook
Treasury
Thomas Bowles
O. L. Burgess
Shannon and Cooper
Floyd Rose
Edna Stevens
E. M. Curry
Jewell Asbury
Carl Hedenger
Logan Auto Dealer Appeals High Court Over License Reinstatement
Harry Ellis trading as Harry's Used Cars petitions the Supreme Court for an order to reinstate his license and six dealer plates revoked by Deputy MV Commission Philip R. Simms on November 23. Ellis claims three notices and inconsistent charges violated due process after a November 10 hearing. Simms said the revocation followed findings that records on titles and dealer plate use were inadequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Supreme Court
Motor Vehicles Commission
Philip R. Simms
Harry Ellis
Harry
Ellis
Fire destroys Widay garage on Bond Street
A garage on Bond Street owned by John Widay burned. Estimated damage runs around $1500 with car repair tools destroyed. The cause of the fire is undetermined.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Bond Street
John Widay
Widay
Kopperston Lions to Present 1959 Konnerston Kapers
Kopperston Lions Club will stage Kopperston Kapers of 1959 in the grade school gymnasium at 7 30 p m on Thursday and 8 p m on Friday. The show was planned at a Monday club meeting.
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Kopperston
KNS
Kopperston Kapers
Kopperston Lions Club
Truck Plunges Into River In Pineville Accident
Two youths escaped serious injury after a 1959 truck owned by Crews Store drove off a road near Pineville and into the icy Guyandotte River around 5 pm Tuesday. Driver Darrell Green, 18, and Tandall Mann, 19, were treated for scratches and bruises at a local doctor’s office. The vehicle was demolished.
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Pineville
ANS
Guyandotte River
Here
Darrell
Butch) Green
Green
Tandall Mann
Crews Store
Eastern Star Chapter 101 to Meet in Pineville Hall
Members of Eastern Star Chapter No 101 are scheduled for a 7 30 p m meeting Thursday in the Masonic Hall Pineville announced by Mrs Virginia Price worthy matron.
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OES
Kopperston
RNS
Masonic Hall
Pineville
Eastern Star Chapter No
Virginia Price
Farm Woman's Club Hears Rev. Gale Stewart
The Pax Farm Woman's Club met at Mrs. Raymond Kelly's home with Rev. Gale Stewart of Long Branch Methodist Church as guest speaker on Veiled In The Mists of The Past. Devotional reading by Mrs. Sherman Stover preceded a Christmas program and luncheon.
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PAX
RNS
Gale ‘Stewart
Long Branch
Iiva Billings
Sam Hyden
Alfred Humphrey
Cecil Humphrey
Lorene Tyree
J. F. Lively
Larry Kelly
West Virginia
Sherman Stover
Gale Stewart
Alice Stover
Carl ‘Murdock
Iva Billings
Dale
Tommy Stover
School of Mines Chief to Visit 6 Wyo. Schools
Dean G. R. Spindler of West Virginia University School of Mines will visit six Southern West Virginia high schools to advise students on college opportunities. He will speak at Conley Mullens December 9 at 9 a.m. and Herndon at 1 p.m. December 9. December 10 at Baileysville 9 a.m. and Pineville 1 p.m. December 11 at Oceana 9 a.m. and Glen Rogers 1 p.m.
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Morgantown
G. R. Spindler
West Virginia University School of Mines
West Virginia
Conley High School
Mullens
Herndon High
Baileysville High
Pineville High
Spindler
Oceana High School
Glen Rogers High
Fayette Mission Society To Meet At Mount Hope
The Woman's Missionary Society of Mount Hope Baptist Temple will hold a 7 p.m. meeting in the church men's classroom. Mrs. Madge Warden will lead a World Day of Prayer program, Mrs. Helen Darnall will review two foreign mission books, and a filmstrip titled The Awakening Congo will be shown by Mrs. Joan Gwinn, loaned from the Baptist Film Library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Joan Gwinn
The
Baptist Film Library
Oak Hill City Employees to Receive Christmas Bonuses
Oak Hill City Council approved $25 Christmas bonuses for employees. They heard an estimated $10,000 cost to install a sewer line and pump on Bond Street and will circulate a petition to assess resident support. A fluoridation cost estimate will be sent to the West Virginia Water Service Co. for next meeting. The council did not act on a Scarbro Road boundary complaint and voted to install fire plugs on Bond and Rogers Streets.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Wallace Bennett
Bond Street
West Virginia Water Service Co
L. W. Woolwine
Scarbro Road
Bond and
Rogers Street
Garden Club Meeting Set With Husbands Guests
The Flow ermere Garden Club will meet at White's Steak House on Thursday with husbands as special guests. Mrs. Troy Law was chosen hostess for the Christmas party for husbands and announced 42 reservations have been made.
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Madison
RNS
Flowermere Garden Club
White’s Steak House
Troy Law
Local Family News From Lilly Haven Area
Community notes list visits and illnesses including Mrs Roy Elkins family in Beckley and Oceana, Lloyd League on Beckley business, Sharon Jones visiting grandparents, Maynards moving to Lilly Haven, B H Yates ill in Bluefield Hospital, and Thanksgiving guests including the Simmions and Worrley families with travel to Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly Haven
RNS
Roy Elkins
James Jones
Sharon
Judy
Beckley
Russell Lewis
Robert
Brenda Kay
Oceana
Ross Jones
John
Leon
Lloyd League
Sharon Jones
Lillydale
E. F. Trimble
Charleston
Mildred
Burton
Shirley
Quick
Sarah Chitwood
Mullens
James Simmions
Pineville
Harold Simmions
Morgantown
James White
Cleveland
Ohio
Acie Tolor
Daughter Born to Mr and Mrs Suttle in Oak Hill
Mr and Mrs Johnny Suttle of Pax Branch are parents of a baby girl born at Oak Hill Hospital at 11 30 a m on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Johnny Suttle
Pax Branch
Oak Hill Hospital
Christmas Party Set By Sorority Xi Alpha Theta Chapter
A Xi Alpha Theta Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority plans a December 16 Christmas party at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Mitchell Ride’s Sunny Side Drive home. Social chairman Mrs. Earl Bannister announced the event at a Monday meeting at Mrs. James Painter’s home. The group will have one December meeting and will skip gifts, instead collecting a Pine Crest patient’s gift for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNS
Mitchell Ride
Sunny Side Drive
Xi Alpha Theta Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Earl Bannister
James Painter
Pinecrest
Ernest Fazio
Bannister
D. C. Rapp Jr
Marshall College reps to visit Wyoming high schools
Marshall College faculty will continue eighth annual West Virginia College Day visits to more than 100 high schools. Registrar Luther E. Bledsoe announced a Marshall representative will tour Gilbert Man Gary District Elkhorn Conley Herndon High Baileysville Pineville Oceana and Glen Rogers between December 7 and 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Marshall College
West Virginia
Marshall
Luther E. Bledsoe
Gilbert
Man
Gary
Elkhorn
Conley
Herndon High
Baileysville
Pineville
Oceana
Glen Rogers
Weekend Guests Visit Family and Birth Announcement
Oceana and Buckhannon residents joined relatives for holiday visits as several travelers returned from Kentucky and Maryland. The Conley family welcomed news that daughter Mary Elizabeth was born November 19 in Adelanto California, weighing six pounds one ounce.
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Oceana
RNS
Clinton Salyers
Benna Vista
H. K. Meredith
Carl Salyers
Brenda Miracle
Delmas
Louise Miracle
Harlan, Ky
Joel Stevens
Tom Miracle
Ray
Reuble Conley
Buckhannon
Elliott Hatfie'd
Pocomoke
Ernest Conley
Conleys
Grat Adams
Baileysville
Etta Morgan
Donald Adams
Pineville
Sandy Morgan
Jaeger
Ray Conley
Lilydale
Larry Goins
Adelanto
Calif
Mary Elizabeth
Valley Springs to gain water service extension approved
The Public Service Commission authorized Alpoca Water Works Inc to extend service to Valley Springs in Wyoming County. Monthly rates set at 5 for domestic users and 6 for commercial customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Public Service Commission
Alpoca Water Works Inc
Alpoca
Wyoming County
Valley Springs
Methodist Youth Workshop At Cedar Lakes Ripley
A conference wide Citizenship Workshop for Meth odist Youth Fellowship ran Friday through Sunday at Cedar Lakes Ripley. The program focused on Christian Responsibility and addressed alcohol sex and social pressures. Fayetteville youth leaders included Joey Piatto Harold Dodd Bob Bibb Craig Ashford Lorrie Spangler Connie Witt and Ann Bibb led by Rev Charles Thompson.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Cedar Lakes
Ripley
Methodist
Fayetteville
Joey Piatto
Harold Dodd
Bob Bibb
Craig Ashford
Lorrie Spangler
Connie Witt
Ann Bibb
Charles &. Thompson
Fay
Girl Injured In Car Wreck At Sand Branch Road
Beverly Irene Denny sixteen of Shrewsbury Kanawha County was admitted to Oak Hill Hospital for a broken arm and four fractured ribs after the car she rode in with three others crashed into a utility pole on Sand Branch Road and overturned three times. She had skipped school to ride with her Cedar Grove boyfriend Owen Stevens. The other couple in the car were not identified. Also listed as patients in the Oak Hill hospital were Homer Calvert seventy one Thayer George Washington Mullins Summerlee and Arvil Owen Wilson Alloy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Ris
Beverly Irene Denny
Shrewsbury
Kanawha County
Cedar Grove High School
Oak Hill Hospital
Sand Branch
Miss Denny
Owen Stevens
Cedar Grove
Homer
Calvert
Thayer
George Washington Mullins
Summerlee
Arvil Owen Wilson
Alloy
Rotarians Will Meet Thursday at Whitesville Club
Whitesville Rotary Club gathers Thursday to view a film by Dr. Carl Grever of Raleigh Boone Medical Center on post graduate work. Lee Johnson named attendance chairman for March 21 and 22 District 755 Rotary International Convention at White Sulphur Springs.
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Whitesville
RNS
Carl Grever
Raleigh-Boone Medical Center
Rotary Club
Lee Johnson
White Sulphur Springs
Improvement League Anniversary Tea in Greentown
Members of the Woman's Improvement League Greentown marked its 42nd anniversary with a Silver Tea at Mrs Iris Neighbors home. Attending were numerous members and guests from Fayetteville Garten Harlem Heights Mount Hope Hill Top Harvey Glen Jean Scarbro Florence Huff and Pax with gifts sent by several members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greentown
Woman's Improvement League
Iris Neighbors
State
National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
Elsie McDonald
Gertrude Agee
Agnes Branch
Eva Tucker
Lillie Price
Theresa Thornton
Susie Howard
Addie Cannada
Goldie Williams
Mount Hone
Bessie V. Woods
W. O. Denson
Delilah Hughes
Delilah Hannah
Hill Top
Beatrice Frazier
Harvey
Pearl Trice
Willie B. McCain
Glen Jean
Bertha Clark
Scarbro
Kathleen Tabb
Florence Huff
Marie Reid
Emma Dandridge
Lillian Valentine
Jerome
Marion Valentine
Thelma Agee
Ruby McGhee
Eva Christian
Ethel Saunders
Darlene Thomas
Virginia Williams
Adelaide Davis
Louise Hairston
Irene Hairston
Maxine Howard
Laura Hicklin
Lola Davis
Myrtle Ashe
Mount Hope
Flagvella Minor Scarbro
Nora Lee
Harlem Heights
Nannie Wade
Pax
Josephine Tolliver
Bernice Wilborne
Mary Emma Hargrove
Ollie Hargrove
Benefit Supper Aids Whitesville Recreation Field
Proceeds from a ham supper held at Whitesville Junior High School will fund winter planting of grass on the Whitesville recreation field. The Whitesville Park Board Committee directed by Principal Quentin Barrett sponsored the event.
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Whitesville
BNS
Whitesville Park
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Civic League Project
Julius Vince
Eddie Vince
Brownsville
Ravencliff
Vince
Ethel Stewart
Agee Stewart
Tom Chattin
Lewis Lumpkins
Kimball
George Mize
Green Sulphur
Arvil Gentry
Johnny
Billy Jo Cody
Arnold Broyles
Sue
Jim Tolliver
Soulsville
Frankie Farley
David
Sylvia Richardson
Dayton
Adam Richardson
Donnie Nuckols
Bobby Nuckols
Vaughn Michael
Washington, D. C
Hazel Dancy
Charlie Land
Mabscott
Everett Guthrie
Darre! Buttrick
Kim
Glenn Robinson
Pensacola
Fla
Cpl
Bobby Robinson
Roger Stone
Charlottesville
James Stone
Jarvey Brooks
Bert Guest
Canterbury
Belt
Clate Brooks
Honor Society
Mrs. Jarrett
Sandra Bowles
Baptist Church Choir
Guild Girls
Pineville High School
Logan Auto Dealer
Farm Woman’s Club
Rev
Stewart
Christ
Kelly
School of Mines Chief
Fayette Mission Society
Oak Hill City
Ruth Easton
Mitchell Aide
John P. Duda
Wyoming
Altend
MYF
Etteville Methodist Church
Dickie Whanger
Improvement League
Thew
Garten
Coleen Wright
Willie Mae Spencer
Boone
Clalow Gaul
Civitans
Telex Hearing Center
First Ave
W. V
Singer
Ial
Singer Treadle
Singer Portable
Singer Sewing Centers
Teow
Kanawha St
Beckley, W. Va
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