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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1951

Page

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Christmas Carol Sing Set Thursday in Oak Hill

Oak Hill hosts its annual Christmas carol sing on Thursday at the elementary school playground at School Street and Kelly Avenue. The event features lighting of the Christmas tree, carols, and a prayer for world peace with Rev. Peter Vroom as MC and a prayer by a minister from the Oak Hill Ministerial Association. Residents are asked to light home decorations from 6 p.m. Thursday through Christmas Day.

Ry Register Oak Hill School Street Kelly Avenue Peter Vroom Oak Hill Baptist Church Oak Hill Ministerial Association Mae Puckett Spade and Trowel Garden Club Paul Mackey Collins Hal B. Shaw Kingston Mary E. Carr D. D. Whitney Edith Robinson Haiti T. F. Lively

Oak Hill Volunteer Fire Ladies Hold Christmas Party

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Oak Hill Volunteer Fire Department met at the Weatherford home for a Christmas party and covered dish dinner with fourteen members and a guest, Miss Norma Jean Brooks. The article also notes club meeting dates, baby sitter club poems, and a Lions Club annual party planned for December 20 to aid needy families, plus multiple births and local notices.

BPW YALE Register Oak Hill American Legion T. R. Weatherford Ladies Auxiliary Volunteer Fire Department Norma Jean Brooks Oak Hill Lions Club Hotel Hill R. P. Hanna Lions Club Rotary Club Collins High Callins High School

January Fayette Circuit Court Criminal Trial Docket

Fayette Circuit Court sets January term criminal cases for trial. Listings include multiple defendants across armed robbery, felonious assault, breaking and entering, murder, burglary, rape, grand larceny, bad checks, drunken public, bastardy, driving while intoxicated, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor with dates Tuesday January 8 and Wednesday January 9 and names such as Daniel Kremens, John Sawyer, Dewey Miller, Jack Walters, Ches ter Twiggs, Elvin Kints ler, and J. D. Treadway among others.

Register Fayette Fayette Circuit Court Daniel Kremens John Sawyer John Smith Dewey Miller Kenneth Fred Bowling Jack David Walters William Robert Price Ed’ Bradshaw Craig Glen Bowden Hughie MclMillion Edward Wilkinson Ernie Jones Chester Twiggs James Darrell Wolfe J. B. Hackett Leonard Thomas Albert Payne J.H Payne J. H. Payne Waymon Adkins Marcellus Robinson Lynwood Frazier Bernard J. D. Treadway L. P. Sorenson W. I. Sperry Harry McGuire Samuel Legg Lyle Buster Lennell Brown Robert Coleman Pete Teel Walter Sigman Miles Davis William Pritt Tobn Conley Arbetta Steele Walter Parker

Grand Petit Jurors Selected in Fayette

Fayetteville reports selection of grand and petit jurors for the January term at the circuit court. Grand jurors must appear January 2 with sessions planned for two days. petit jurors report January 7. Arraignments Friday January 4. trials begin January 7 for criminal costs and January 14 for civil cases. Names of jurors include numerous residents from Oak Hill Ansted Carmichael and other communities.

Register Fayetteville Grand Fayette R. J. Thrift, Jr H. E. Dillon W. R. Laird Chancery Grand Jury Thrift Justice of the Peace Courts Kirk Burner Charlton Heights Paul A. Brown Oak Hill C. F. Bowling Ansted Elbert Christian Powellton C. O. Darlington Hilltop George T. Fine Landisburg N. L. Fitzwater Carlisle D. E. Huffman Nallen Donald Hodge Milburn Hursa Kaylor Ramsey M. B. Morrison Lundy O'Dell Amos Price Hico Henry Stevens Montgomery Ivan Steele Victor William A. Wilson Kincaid Tom

Whitesville Eastern Star initiates seven into Charleston Shrine

Seven Whitesville Chapter 14 Eastern Star members were inducted into Charleston White Shrine No. 7 in Charleston on Wednesday. The initiates were Mrs. Addie Hall, Mrs. Crystal Otto, Mrs. Audrey Cooper, Mrs. Macie Clay, Mrs. Jewell Priestley, Mrs. Ruby Martin and Mrs. Billie Hottle, with Mrs. Virginia Daw absent due to her father’s illness.

GES Register Whitesville Order of the Eastern Star Charleston Addie Hall Crystal Otto Audrey Cooper Macie Clay Jewell Priestley Ruby Martin Billie Hottle Virginia Daw Susan Scholl Maude Calfe

Home on furlough Ameagle Thomas Stover

Thomas Stover has returned from Korea and is spending a furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Luther Stover of Harper.

Register Ameagle Thomas Stover Korea Land Luther Stover Harper

Football squads prepare for Wednesday December event

Episcopal groups meet at St Anne's Altar Guild and the Woman's Auxiliary of St Andrews Episcopal Church. The gathering included Christmas carols and a devotion by Rev John Wilson. Members planned a kitchen addition, donated toward the parish house, and sent presents to Old Sweet Springs Virginia. The group also raised 70 dollars from a bazaar and scheduled a covered dish on December 20 to decorate the church for Christmas.

Register OAK Hill St Anne's Altar Guild Woman's Auxiliary St Andrews Episcopal Church R. E. Kelley John Wilson Episcopal Church Kenneth Carroll Old Sweet Springs St. Anne’s

Harmco Man Hurt When Hit by Car

Mullens Lige Green a 12 year old retired Harmco miner was treated after a collision Friday at a shooting match site in a bottom opposite Harmco. The driver remains unidentified. William Noon 26 of Allen Junction is hospitalized with a fractured left leg after a street scuffle Saturday night. Lorwanzy Sargent 10 patient for a stomach disorder possibly linked to a swallowed metal piece from four years ago.

Register Mullens Lige Green Harmco Mullens Hospital Green Harmeo William Noon Allen Junction Lorwanzy Sargent Agnes Sargent Bud

Wyco Men Complete Roof Fall Training Course

Thirteen employees of E. C. Minter Coal Company's Wyco No 1 mine finished a roof fall accident course offered by the State Department of Mines. Attendees included Richard Faucett, Harvey Clayton Jr, Oscar Black, Thuran Meadows, William Richardson, G L Talleres, Thomas Morse, Willie Coleman, Lee Wiscox, M Borinse Gno, J W Dowell, C C Kester, and William A McKendree.

Register WYCO E. C. Minter Coal Company State Department of Mines Richard E. Faucett Harvey Clayton Jrc Loader Oscar Blalock Thuran Meadows William Richardson G. L. Talleres Thomas Morse Willie Coleman Load

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