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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1956
Page
1
The Seth Post Office seeks applicants for the postmaster job with a $4190 yearly salary. Exams until January 2, 1957, require one year residency, written testing, and demonstrations of public courtesy and reliable recordkeeping. Applicants aged 18 to 70 may obtain complete information at the Seth Post Office.
Mack Duffy Scott 72 Mullens died at 6 am Sunday in Mountain State Hospital Charleston after a month of confinement at Wyoming General Hospital. Cancer is listed as the cause. He was a retired Virginian Railway machinist helper of about 25 years. Born September 4, 1904 in Alabama, he was a deacon and member of First Baptist Virginia St. Martens. Surviving: widow Patty Scott Mallens, son James Lee Scott Dayton Ohio, and brothers Alfred and Penny Scott, Alabama. Body at Trent Funeral Home Beckley.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baughan departs Mount Hope for Bad Kronznach Germany for a six month visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Machsworth. Since arriving in the United States in 1956 she has lived with Mr and Mrs Tom Warren on Brown S White in Mount Hope. She worked three years for the Army PX in Bad Kronznach near Fort Frankfort and is familiar with American customs from that time. She says Mount Hope friends are warm and generous and notes Americans spend more on clothing and luxury items.
Mr and Mrs Warren Cook of Crowley Worrell Addition Pineville returned from a two week bus trip to Orlando Florida Daytona Beach and other points. They visited his brother and sister in law Estel and the trip included Mr and Mrs Hugh Campbell of Resoco as guests of E A Blankenship East Pineville Saturday night.
Mrs Estella Keyes led the Kopperston Church Women meeting in Kopperston Community Church on Tuesday. Helen Estep, Katherine Bowes and Ruth Rankin performed the skit Forward in Family Life, Mary Lou Kirby led Bible study, and plans were made to have the group aid the Kopperston Men's Fellowship in collecting Christmas toys and clothing for Davis-Stewart School in Lewisburg. Attendees numbered 14, with hostesses Miss Mary Zittman and Miss Gladys Dillo. A birth in Clear Fork and a birth in Pineville were announced.
Lacy Holly 34 of Sun dies after nine month illness cancer. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Painter Smith and Chenowith officiating. Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill. Survivors include Wanda Perry Holley wife Cleve and Ola Holly parents, brothers Joseph and Bobby, sisters Thelma Warren and Tootsie Holly, and children Ldoyne Cyrus E and Susan Kay. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today.
The Varney Cline Auxiliary Unit 133 met at the Cow Shed with 15 members and one guest. Plans were set to deliver a Christmas basket and gifts to a nine person family and to travel to the Veteran's Hospital in Bockley on Dec 1. Members also prepared skits and songs and urged participation for Dec 10 and 12 meetings at the Legion Hall.
The Conley High School Parent-Teacher Association schedules a 6:30 p.m. meeting Thursday at the school. A business session will precede a pre-sale party.
Oak Hill Chapter No. 107 Order of Eastern Star hosted a visitation by Worthy Grand Matron Mrs Lela K Ball Grantsville and Worthy Grand Patron Wheeler McFadden St Albans with a premeeting dinner at Hotel Hill. The event honored officials, new members, and featured recognitions and decorations.
Fayetteville January term docket released by circuit clerk lists crimes including embezzlement breaking and entering and malicious wounding and a long slate of civil suits beginning January 21 with several cross claims among Blankenship Skaggs Richmond and others plus multiple motor and property cases through January 30.
Mullens West Virginia police held Lewis Buddy Gillespie 21 after a door warrant found him unarmed with a beer opener taped to his hand. Investigators linked him to three thefts including a Pineville service station burglary, a Parkersburg jeep theft, and a truck theft in New Richmond. He was jailed in Wyoming County pending further investigation.
In MULLENS Wyo ming Prosecuting Atty Rob ert Bailey ordered an autopsy in the death of Iroquois man Edgar G Byrd 38 a miner from Tralee who died after a fist fight with Leroy Barker 30 of Helen at the scene Barker is jailed on open charges as medical ruling is sought The altercation began after a hunting trip in Greenbrier County and involved four men with the fatal blows landing as Byrd lay on the ground The incident culminated amid a rowdy ATV truck stop near Alpoca and Traleck with no knives used according to reports and Byrd pronounced dead on arrival at Wyoming General Hospital.
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