Three New Divorce and Damage Suits Filed in Fayetteville
In Fayetteville records three new suits were filed. Elsie E. Boomer seeks divorce from Harry S. Boomer with Vickers & Tariff as counsel. P. H. Adkins sues Beatrice Adkins for divorce with J. M. Ellis as attorney. Maggie Ellen Butcher files a $2000 damage suit against Laird Memorial Hospital of Montgomery, with Louie A. Paterno of Charleston representing the plaintiff.
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Register
Fayetteville
Louie A. Paterno
Charleston
Danese Farm Women’s Club Elects Officers
Danese The Danese Farm Women’s club met at Mrs. Frank Berry’s home and elected officers for the coming year President Mrs Gillis Miller Vice President Mrs Nancy Lively Secretary Mrs Frank Berry Treasurer Mrs Daniel Hanshew.
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Danese
Danese Farm Women's Club
Frank Berry
Gillis Miller
Nancy Lively
Daniel Hanshew
WOMAN GROUP ELECTS OFFICERS AND LOCAL NOTES
Dempsey Farm Warren's club elected 1944 officers: President Mrs W L Ramsey, Vice President Mrs R A Beckelheimer, Secretary-Treasurer Mrs E W Amick. Oak Hill Circle to meet for annual Christmas program led by Mrs G A Baum. Miss Vada Steele confined with a fractured leg near Pea Ridge. Miss Frances Coyner leaves Oak Hill for Huntington. First Lieutenant Rupert Mallory promoted to captain. Pvt Jack Allen killed in action in the Mediterranean. Mrs Ted R Mann visits Charleston. Mrs Allie D Proctor visits Huntington. Miss Nancy Price moves to Baltimore for a new position.
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Register
Oak Hill
G. A.baum
Oak Hil Baptist Church
Stickler Group
Vada Steele
Pea Ridge
Mount Hope
Jack Allen
Pauline Allen
Mediterranean
War Department
Baltimore
Regtster
Nancy Price
Jack Price
Whipple
Maryland
Farm Bureau Meeting Set In Fayette Communities
Oak Hill B Wright and B J Amick announce neighborhood meetings across Fayette county next week for farmers and families to discuss farm problems. Leaders urge surpassing the 300 member quota and expanding new memberships at Oak Hill west and east and Salem sessions with presiding officers listed.
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Farm Bureau Meeting
Fayette
Register
Oak Hill
B. A. Wright
B. J. Amick
Farm Bureau
Fayette County
Oak Hill West
City Hall
WM. Young
J. J. Treadway
Oak Hill East
FB. L. Bush
R. D. Terry
Salem
Linkswiler
D. A. Duncan
R. L. Mullins
Rotarians Hear West Virginia High Schools Face New Role
Fayetteville High School Principal Dan H. Perdue told Rotarians that enrollment in West Virginia high schools has surged over fourfold in 25 years. He warned the high school is no longer a guaranteed college preparatory institution and urged better organization to serve students who drop out, finish high school, or go on to college.
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Fayette
Dan H. Perdue
Fayetteville High School
Rotary Club
West Virginia
Minstrel Show Draws Big Oak Hill Audience
Oak Hill high school auditorium hosted a well attended minstrel show by the Beckley male chorus with piano by Miss Margaret Jasper and singing by Miss Kitty Godby with Oscar Neal. High school band handled student sales for the fund.
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Register
Oak Hill
Beckley
Oak [Hil High School
Margaret Jasper
Kitty Godby
Oscar Neal
Mauck Funeral Is Set Today
J A Mauck 71 dies of heart attack at home on South Kanawha street. Funeral at Keyser Funeral Home chapel at 2 PM with Rev. Glenn W Stewart and Dr Alvin J Cook officiating. Body to Sunset Memorial Park mausoleum. Survived by widow and seven children and seven grandchildren. Becket Ma sonic Lodge to meet at 1 PM to attend service.
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Keyser Funeral Home
J. A. Mauck
South Kanawha Street
Glenn W. Stewart
Methodist Temple
Alvin J. Cook
First Baptist Church
Sunset Memorial Park
W. C. Mu
Beally Lumber Company
Raleigh Lumber Company
Guy Mauck
San Francisco
Claud Mauck
Cincinnati
Willis Mauck
Beckley
Charles R. Keaton
James Bryce
Princewick
Methodist Church
Weekly calendar of service and club activities in Beckley
This week’s calendar lists a busy schedule of Red Cross knitting and sewing groups, memorial building production rooms open for volunteers packing kit bags for service members, and multiple club meetings led by civic groups at Prince street sites. Also noted are Girl Scout patrols, Daughters of the American Revolution gatherings, and church circles with varied meeting times across Wednesday to Sunday.
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Margaret Phipps
Civic Club
Prince Street
Tom Brown
Limaegue
Red Cross
Memorial Building
Singer
Monday Music Club
Lois Edmundson
Croft Street
M. C. Banks
Sophia
Chaminade Music Club
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Leslie Carter
Pauline Johnson
W. J. Habeeb
J. R. Williams
Presbyterian Church
First Christian Church
Captain Janes Allen
Daughters of the American Revolution
Thomas Wickham
Kanawha Street
Tammins
See Mountain School
First Baptist Church
Raleigh County Navy
American Legion
Memorial
Red Cros
Methodist
Dirty Dozen
Heber Street
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Beckley Hole
W. A. Thompson
Fred Canterbury
Garrett Speaks To Lions Club on Economic Development
Mount Hope Mayor P. H. Garrett described the C E D to Oak Hill Lions Club and outlined its private non profit nature financing. Fayetteville speaker A R Long clarified that the organization is not government run, not a profit entity, and works to aid post war employment through private contributions and local cooperation.
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Register
Gak Hill
P. H. Garrett
Mount Hope
Oak Hi Lions Club
Garrett
C.E.D
A. R. Long
Fayetteville
Montgomery
Fayette County
Beckley Boy Named President of District Youth Fellowship
Beckley youth member John Bauguess, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bauguess of East Gulf, was elected president of the District Christian Church Youth Fellowship at a Princeton meeting Friday night. He is a Woodrow Wilson High School senior and grandson of Rev. and Mrs. Paul Smith.
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John Bauguess
W. M. Bauguess
East Gulf
District Christian Church Youth Fellowship
Princeton
Young Bauguess
Paul Smith
Lincoln Street
Woodrow Wilson High School
Phyllis Reed
Straley Avenue
Mabel Doyle
Yaifee's Chapel
Virginia Mae Arms
Irene Harper
Jean Freeland
Gloria Wipperman
Margaret Walker
Maxine Evans
A. H. Wilson
Randolph Norton
Harry Meade
C. M. Doss
Bullet Wound Fatal To Youth
Private First Class Theodore Teddy Noel Thurman Jr an 18 year old Prosperity native died in a local hospital at 12 12 am from a chest wound near the heart. Born Beckley June 29 1925 he graduated Woodrow Wilson High in 1942 and joined the Marine Corps September 19 1943. At death he was stationed at New River North Carolina. Surviving parents four sisters and two grandmothers. Funeral at Prosperity Baptist Church tomorrow 2 pm with Rev James Neal in charge. Burial in Prosperity Cemetery. Active pallbearers named.
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Theodore ‘Teddy’ Noel Thurman, Jr
T. N. Thurman
Prosperity
Beckley
Woodrow Wilson High School
United States Marine Corps
New River
North Carolina
Prosperity Baptist Church
Virgil Meadows
Callaway Heights
Charles Taylor
Patty
Janet Christine Thurman
R.thurman
J. L. Stover
James Neal
Mount Hope
Denval L. Stover
Mellon Marx
Mike Solace
Russ Stover
Bruce Meadestaugh
Chester Vandale Lawrence Hawks
Delbert Hilton
B. B. Stover, Jr
Rites set for Steve Simon in Glassport Pa
Steve Simon 49 found dead in Chillicothe Ohio hotel. Rites set for Tuesday at 11 a m in Glassport home of Anna Pozzi. Burial in Glassport Cemetery. Cash 36 347.82 found in Simon’s car trunk after search by Beckley men. He came to U S 32 years ago, WWI veteran, death due to natural causes while en route to Cleveland clinic. Nieces and nephews listed.
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Glassport
Steve Simon
Chilliscothe
Ohio
Anna Pozzi
Tery
Alex Taraczkozy
Douglas Bryant
Beckley
Simon
Taraczkosy
Bryant
Chillicothe
Taraczkozy
Rose Funeral Home
Pennsylvania
Czechoslovakia
United States
Cleveland Clinic
Anna Bill
Cleveland
Mary Seman
Elizabeth Carr
John Seman
Steve Seman
Clairton
Mike Seman
George Seman
Armed Forces
ILAW BUSINESS REPORTS LITTLE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY IN FAYETTE COUNTY
Officers from state police and the sheriff report very little going on in Fay ette county law enforcement. Deputy Davis comments he went home at nine thirty last night and slept soundly for the first time in many months.
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Register
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Sheriff's Office
Davis
Church Offers Free Bus Service To Oak Hill Members
Beginning today Oak Hill Baptist church provides free transportation for Sunday school and morning worship. The bus will pick up on Virginia avenue at 9 30 a m reach the church by 9 43 a m and return after the service.
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Register
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Bis
Virginia Avenue
44 Airmen Addresses Arrive In One Day Mail
The Register reports 44 Raleigh county airmen addresses delivered in one day, bringing the total over 100 Raleigh soldiers, sailors and marines in the air force. The paper asks readers to submit missing addresses for all county air force members.
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Raleigh County
Raleigh
Air Force
Fifteen More Girls Join WAVES From West Virginia
Fifteen more West Virginia girls have enlisted in the WAVES and were sent to Hunter College for basic training. They will report today at the Bronx Center. Enlistees include Sarah Ann Morrison Hunting ton Margaret Annette Belcher Welch Marjorie Genevieve Riblett Barbourville Beulah Marie McCoy Clarksburg Margaret Bruffey Ann Gribble Nutter Harrisville Molly Brack Damron lager Nellie Dillon Gwinn Kenavaz Allene Smith Carol Fayer Yeater Buckhannon Eva Gay Lacy Williamson Mary Frances Smith Belva Betty Jean Keller Virginia Hene Nelson Lili Miller Meadows Charleston.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Hunter College
Bronx
N. Y
A. J. Carey
Sarah Ann Morrison
Huntingston
Margaret Annette Belcher
Welch
Marjorie Genevieve Riblett
Barbourville
Beaulah Marie McCoy
Clarksburg
Margaret Bruffey
Ann Gribble
Nutter
Harrisville
Molly Brack Damron
Lager
Nellie Dillon Gwinn
Kenavaz Allene Smith
Carol Fayer
Yeater
Buckhannon
Eva Gay Lacy
Williamson
Mary Frances Smith
Belva
Betty Jean Keller
Virginia Hene Nelson
Lili Miller
Newsmen Confer At White House On War News Breaks
Washington officials discussed handling of war news at the White House. Elmer Davis Stephen Early and Byron Price joined two hours of talks about avoiding premature and uneven breaks on reports from major Allied conferences. Davis doubted changes could be made for the current briefing but hoped improvements for future ones. Also notes Moslem University of Cairo in Egypt, founded in 70 A.D.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
North Africa
Teheran
Iran
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Byron Price
Davis
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Laird Memorial Hospital
Danese Club
Huntington
Frances Coyner
Rupert Ramage Mallory
Ted R. Mann
Minden
Allie D. Proctor
Edgar Craff
Helen Graff
Oak Lin
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Air Corps
Armanilo
Texas
Oak Hill High School
Joe L. Vargo
Stadium Terrace
Oakill Hospital
Vargo
Annette Tolli
Morgantown
Quentin R. H
O. AL. Hall
Donnie
Parris Island
Mary Belle, Hill
Charles~ S
Reelster
Bob Murray
Oak Peels
Mauck
Register Social
John Peters
RA. B. Callison
Princetreet
Bessie Woodrum
AU Beckley
Jean Givens
Dimiar Womans’ Club
Group Seven
Trince Street
Lions Club
Beckley Boy
Teddy
Noel Thurman
Zelma Tindilice
Zelma's Beauty Shop
Virginia Zingo
Swan
Beauty Shop
Snuffer Ait
Glade Creek
Sir Beckley Newspapers, Corp
G. B. Hammond
Hammond
Shady Spring
Rites
Michael G. Ossick
U. S. Navy
M. J. Ossick
Oak Mill
Pfe
Carl Wilkerson
A.A.F.F
Mississippi
Ilaw Business
The
Raleigh Register
Beckley, W. Va
Tam
Lender
Spode
China
White Cross Pharmacy
Beckley's Leading Drug Store
E. Main and
North Kanawha Streets
Moslem University of
Cairo
Egypt
Bibi
Étlon
Roy
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