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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
6
Rhodell merchants and workers spent the week dressing stores for Christmas and expect a record season as business improves. Firecrackers sales already outpace last year and youths have celebrated with street pranks late at night. Magistrate Sam Lilly noted no penalties apply since the town is not incorporated.
Resocco Grover Walker, a Stonecoat school bus driver, was discharged from Raleigh General hospital after seven weeks with stomach ulcers. He has driven a Stonecoat bus seven years and has not missed a shift or had an accident during that time, earning a reputation as one of Raleigh County's most efficient drivers.
Pineville High hosts Amateur Hour at 7:30 pm with 30 to 40 numbers planned including fiddlers dancers harmonica players and singers. Winners chosen by audience vote with first prize inviting radio broadcast on WHIS Bluefield. Prizes totaling about 50 dollars donated by Mullens Pineville and Wyoming merchants will fund books for the Pineville High library.
Rhodell barber Rhodell Fred Baker has moved into his new home a three room stone building by Leonard Foley on the Tommy Creek side of town. Foley plans to move in as soon as completion. He lives with his father L A Foley. Charley Lane of East Gulf is involved.
Besoco Mr and Mrs Ted Cook and their family have moved to a new home in Beckley. Cook was formerly store manager for the Price grocery store here and now holds a position with the Dickerson store at Sophia.
More than a dozen dwelling houses have been built in the past month around Stonecoal as Peace area residents lease buy real estate and construct homes rapidly to settle for the winter.
Mrs Rosa Bell Gorby owns a nearby grist mill that still grinds grain into bread material by gasoline unlike the old water powered mills. The mill can convert four to five bushels of corn into meal every three to four minutes, with corn and buckwheat as the chief grains processed.
John D. Farmer principal of Mullens high school spoke at a Rotary luncheon on whether personality is innate or acquired. He cited Dr Henry C. Link noting that personality quotient can be developed independently of intelligence quotient and that social interaction boosts a child’s P Q.
Rhodell Miss Tina Farley who had her tonsils removed at the Beckley hospital recently is able to be out again.
Clarence W. Meadows, Raleigh County prosecutor for four years, closes his last case as he prepares to relocate to Charleston. Judge Harley M. Kilgore set tomorrow for motions and sentences as W. A. Thornhill Jr. prepares to assume office on January 1. The afternoon session also covered a case against Kenneth Calvin Wyatt, a 15 year old confessed slayer.
The Raleigh County soil conservation program reports 1 848.9 acres improved with USDA help. Achievements include 85.72 acres legumes seeded, 565.7 cover crops plowed, 426.5 acres perennial grasses seeded, and erosion control measures. County officers are M L Scott Table Rock president Kelly Farmer Bolt secretary R C Skaggs Shady Spring treasurer.
Ruedell O D Compton and B C Minter have returned from a hunting trip in Virginia and Tennessee. During their travels they visited Tennessee resident Lynn Minter, brother of Minter, in Kingsport.
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