Yale Cantata Set For Sunday in Mullens
The First Methodist Choir presents a cantata with mona Christian songs and a film strip showing The Christmas Song. Soloists include Pat Neal and Woodrow Houck, with Mrs. Houck and Mrs. Shutt among the soloists and choir members listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mudlens First Methodist Church
Lee Jodson
Walt Carr
Marold Pendurff
Pat Neal
Arvid Robertson
Woodrow Houck
A. G. Backus
E. Claude
Sue Me
Cook
Graw
Harold Aliss
Lucille Burcham
M. M. Shumate
Fred Shutt Jr
G. B. McGraw
Howard Pritchard
Conrad Shutt
Lee Hodson
Harry Houck
A.A. Cooper
Glenn McKinney
Eugene Winzenrith
Fred Shui Jr
Five Couples Apply For Marriage Permits
The county clerk in Pineville issued licenses to five couples. Names include Robert Blankenship and Mildred Combs. Herbert Lewis Ingram and Clara Mae Carbaugh. David Lester and Martha Brown. Bobby Gene Gilliam and Yvonne Daniels. Curtis England Carter and Lucy Ann Morgan.
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Pineville
ANS
Robert Blankenship
New Richmond
Mildred Combs
Hatcher
Herbert Lewis Ingram
Clara Mae Carbaugh
Baileysville
David Lester
Hanover
Martha Brown
Guyan
Bobby Gene Gilliam
Midkiff
Yvonne Daniels
Cyclone
Curtis England Carter
D Justice
Lucy Ann Morgan
New Land Deeds Listed by Clerk in Pineville
Pineville reports new land deeds admitted to record at the county clerk’s office. Items include Kelly Development Company transfers in Kopperston and surrounding districts to individuals, and multiple lots in Brenton, Mullens, Amigo, and Slab Fork. A separate birth notice in Hern don notes the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Patterson at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch.
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Pineville
RNS
Kelly Development Company
Elba Gillenwater
Beulah Gillenwater
Kopperston
Oceana District
Glenn
Estelle L. Keys
Herold Z
Edna M. Dilton
Oceana
Nayman Maynor
Wie
Bernard Morgan
Brenton
Baileysville
Burl Conley
Annie Rutherford
Frantz and
Deegans
Mullens
Slab Fork
Ralph and
Thelma Forrester
Helen V
John P. Campbell
Jet
Whitlock
al Amigo
Barkers Ridge
Herndon
Thomas Patterson
Dee
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Anounce
Two Parents Fined for School Attendance Violation
In Glen Fork Wyoming County, Vilel Farrow and Iopal Douglas of Glen Rogers were fined eight dollars each for failing to send their children to school. The fines followed a complaint by C. L. Moody, assistant attendance director. A birth is announced in Hatcher.
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Pineville
RNS
Jack Pizzino
Glen Fork
Vilel Farrow
Lopal Douglas
Glen Rogers
C. L. Moody
Wyoming County
Rural Development Program forms committees in Fayette County
Fayetteville county committees named for Rural Development Program with 16 groups covering Industrial Development Education Natural Resources Public Assistance Tourist and Trade Development Credit Health Transportation Land Use Arts Labor Public Facilities Water Resources Agriculture and Publicity. Associate agents will implement the plan after January as chairman selection proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Richard Glass Jr
Carl B. Vickers
H.R. Varney
Agricultural College of
West Virginia University
Glass
Hico
Earl M. Seay
E. M. Darnall
Fayetteville
T. E. Miles
Robert H. Kent
Credit and Loan
R. E. Crouse
Frank Patton
Becklevy
A. Lee Davis
Oak Hill
Health and Recreation
J. W. Ayers
John Holliday
Henry Watkins
Jula Morris
Fayle Kevill
J. Walter
Legg
Ansted
A. D. Walker
Rainelle
Loretta McCutcheon
Lookout
L. B. Upon
Alley
Nadine Buckholt
Montgomery
Wesley Lynch
Cufflton
Transportation and Communication
Iva Rule
E. R. Morris
Paul Cole
Danese
A. J. McCutcheon
Ethel Bennett
Are
George G. Ratcliff
A. E. Whanger
Fayette
Donald R. Wilson
C. L. Spradlin Jr
Robert H. Woollard
Eugene Foster
A. K. LaFon
Fayeteville
George D. Blizzard
George W. Blizzard
Werbert E. Shumate
R. R. Griffith
E. D. Eager
Beckley
Water Resources
E. Gilkerson
Arnold B. Cook
N. A. Fitzwater
Florence Fitzwater
Bertie Fitzwater
Wanda Jones
L. E. Holliday
R. 0. Blume
Mis
Okey Foster
Lookowl
Gordon Billheimer
Harry W. Miller
Fayettevile
J. H. Ball
Glen Ferris
Sam Crouse
Willis W. Welman
Argil
Babe of Bethlehem set Sunday at Oak Hill church
Christmas play by Lucile R Green at Oak Hill Gospel Tabernacle 7 45 p m Sunday features Aaron played by Freddie Drennen a shepherd who misses the heavenly visitation and turns away Mary and Joseph. Other roles include Eunice Garten Esther Irene Garten Naomi Poff Jennings Poff George Coulter P D James Rev Thomas Akester Jack Lagan Evelyn Nugen.
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Oak Hill
BNS
Bethlehem
Lucile R. Green
Oak Hill Gospel Tabernacle
Aaron
Freddie Drennen
Mary
Joseph
Egypt
Herod
Eunice Garten
Esther
Irene Garten
Birthday Listings From Fayetteville and Nearby Towns
A community birthday notice lists residents and relatives including Evelyn Beasley Pax Mrs Joe Stone Fayetteville Carl Bowling Oak Hill Estelle Hall Oak Hill Rufus Hurt Oak Hill Elma Daniel Fayetteville Margaret Keith Oak Hill Pearl Diamond Mt Hope Marie Bolton Mt Hope Emma White Mt Hope William Dunlap Fayetteville Jeanette Tyler Fayetteville Alice Ballard Dixie Catherine Huddleston Crab Orchard Sallie Hughes Ina Mae Hodge Nora Franks Anne Springer Dee Edith Bell Fayetteville Barbey Bennett Belva Ernest Burgess Oak Hill Harry Poff Fayetteville William Calvin Cole Oak Hill Elmer Bowman Edith Cousins Zelda Skaggs George Ward Mt Hope Loretta Newt Price Williams Fayetteville Wilbur Asbury Page Virginia Bass Glen Jean Carol Benson 21 Grove Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn B. Beasley
Pax
Joe Stone
Fayetteville
Carl Elmer Bowling
Oak Hill
Estelle Hall
Oak Hil
Rufus C. Hurt
Elma Daniel
Margaret F. Keith
Pearl Diamond
Mt. Hope
Marie Bolton
Emma Jane White
William L. Dunlap
Jeanette E. Tyler
Alice Anne Ballard
Dixie
Catherine P
George Alderson Ward
Loretta Mae
Newt
Price H. Williams
Wilbur Hansford Asbury
Page
Virginia Bass
Glen Jean
Carol S. Benson
Grove
Tyler Consolidates Dixie School District in Texas
Tyler wins a recent vote to consolidate the Dixie school district with its own, bringing all Dixie territory under Tyler oversight in Texas. The move marks a major reorganization affecting local students and communities served by both districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Tex
Dixie
Bowles Funeral Set Sunday in Packsville
Wiley Bowles aged 74 of Sylvester will lie in state at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Freewill Baptist Church in Packsville with Rev. Kenna French presiding. Burial will follow in Adkins Cemetery. Bowles died at 12:45 a.m. Thursday in a Charleston hospital. Survivors include two daughters Elizabeth Stillwell and Bertha Belle Bowles, two sons Edward Eugene and Frank Dayton, two sisters Altha Martin and Annie Middeton, one half-brother Rose Cooper, and 16 grandchildren with 16 great grandchildren. Body will be moved from Armstrong Funeral Home to the residence at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Sylvester
RNS
Wiley Bowles
Kenna French
Freewill Baptist Church
Packsville
Adkins
Bowles
Charleston
Elizabeth Stillwell
Marfork i
Bertha Belle Bowles
Tivo
Edward
Eugene
Frank Dayton
Altha Martin
Chariton Heights
Annie Middeton
Eagle
Rose Cooper
Dry Branch
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Baptist Group Installs Officers at Calvary Church
The Women's Missionary Society of Calvary Baptist Church in Oak Hill installed 1956 officers during a Christmas program by the Ann Judson-Sallie Peck Guild Girls. The service featured a candlelighting ceremony, musical selections, and a theme of Shield of Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
BNS
Women's Missionary Society
Calvary Baptist Church
Ann Judson-Sallie Peck Guild
Barbara Pleasant
Sue Young
Wirt Phillips
J. D. Young
Hicks
Dennis Richardson
James Cummings
Ernest Bradberry
White Cross
Charles Ballard
Goldie Bailey
John Daniels
Earl Hall
Fred Treadway
Leslie Burgess
Kathy Ballard
Susie Sutphin
Richard Hicks
Bobby Matherly
W.S. Brown
Presbyterian Women Install New Officers
Officers elected for 1957 58 by the Women of the Presbyterian Church were installed at a meeting at the Fayet teville church. Rev B B Breitenhirt conducted the service naming H H Dillon Wade Mahood Hodgson P G Hoye Rosser Long W L Pully C E Mahan and Circle chairmen. Joy Gift program led by Louise Toler included Christmas readings and carols as candles were lit and gifts given. Social hour followed, sponsored by Circle 4 led by Mrs Harry W Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Katherine Hambrick
Bobby Spath
Juanda Ann Clay
Circle 4
Harry W. Miller
Last Rites Set For Mrs. Nunley
Eva Nunley 39 former Oak Hill resident dies in Miami hospital after two weeks illness. Services at St Andrew s Episcopal Church in Oak Hill with burial at High Lawn Memorial Park. Survived by husband Chester C two sons James and Robert daughter Carol Sue and brother Wilson Lindley. Body at Thomas Funeral Home for viewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Eva Nunley
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Kelly Ave
Donald
Duncan
High Lawn Memorial Park
Nunley
Miami
Fla
James Lindley
Minden
Episcopal Church
Logan
Chester C
James
Robert
Carol Sue
Wilson Lindley
Long Branch
N. J
Thomas Funeral
Syner Funeral Set Saturday
Edmond obituary for James Syner 82 retired coal miner who died Wednesday in Beckley Hospital. Funeral at 2 p m Saturday at Edmond Methodist Church with burial in Nuttall Cemetery. Survivors include widow Violet two daughters Annie Sedlock and Mabel Ramsey a son James W. two sisters Enna Seelinger Kizah White two brothers Albert and Tom and 31 grandchildren.
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Edmond
RNS
James Syner
Edmond Methodist Church
Nuttall Cemetery
Syner
Beckley
Violet
Annie Sedlock
Lansing
Mabel Ramsey
James W
Enna Seelinger
Kizah White
Raleigh
Oak Hill Post Office Break-In Reported
The Oak Hill main street post office was entered through a right rear window between 9 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday. Mail was opened and scattered, with about 99 cents taken, according to State Trooper J R Lilly. Postmaster J H B Davis deferred comment pending postal authorities investigation.
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Oak Hill
BNS
United States
J. R. Lilly
Main Street
JH. B. Davis
Postall
Fayette Men Held To Grand Jury On Robbery Case
Two Fayette men Kenneth James and Ralph Settle were bound to the grand jury on misdemeanor robbery charges after allegedly taking Mrs. Lillie May Cole s shopping bag containing 118 34. They face 1500 bonds each and already serve jail terms on other misdemeanors. The incident followed a ride toward Pax and the bag s recovery by Shirley Williams of Pax. In a separate report federal and state inspectors probed a coal mine blast at Pocahontas Fuel Co Deerfield mine that killed 56 year old Ed Farley of Matoaka during a fire boss inspection. Two other workers escaped injury as investigators described a local gas ignition and backup rescue efforts. Farley s death marked the mine s first fatality in three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Cole
Pax
Shirley Williams
Mullens
Deerfield
Ed Farley
Maloaka
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Farley
V"phis
American Coal Co
Beesley
J. L. Bailey
Howard Thompson
Fred Deal
Virgil Cooks
Floyd Houck
Bernice Booker
Porterfield Lawn Has Yule Decorations
Whitesville report notes the Clay Porterfield home in Sylvester displays a carved plywood Christmas scene. One panel features Santa in a sleigh with reindeer, the other shows the manger with Mary Joseph Baby Jesus shepherds and wise men.
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Whitesville
RNS
Porterfield
Sylvester
Santa
Mary
Joseph
Jesus
Porterfields
Pineville Personal News Notes Visitors Over Holidays
Pineville society page lists Harry W. Cooke from Pittsburgh visiting his parents Dell and wife during travel to southern counties. Neal Cook and Ion Stevie from Jacksonville Florida spend holidays with her mother Mrs. Calvin Green and Mrs. Joe Cook at Rockview. Leroy Basham of Richmond Virginia visits relatives. Grandparents G K Basham accompany him home for Christmas. C C Basham family plans Richmond visit for Christmas. Falkenstein family of Beckley joins Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ellison in Pineville for Sunday visit during Christmas.
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Pineville
RNS
Harry W. Cooke
Pittsburgh
Dell Cooke
Neal Cook
Ion
Stevie
Jacksonville
Fla
Calvin Green
Joe Cook
Rockview
Leroy Basham
Richmond
G. K. Basham
Athel Basham
C. C. Basham
Barney
R. E. Falkenstein
Beckley
Carl Ellison
Oceana High School Journalism Winners Named
Four first year journalism students at Oceana High School earned cub pins at a Thursday assembly. Cub pins went to Robert Stewart Gale Farren and Gene Childers. Second year journeyman pins went to Jimmy Toney Eugene Dillo and Harold Miller.
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Oceana
ANS
Oceana High School
Cub
Rebert Stewart
Minnie Stewart
Matheny
William Chafin
Hayes Chafin
Gale Farren
Orlie Farren
Dr Hresan Rules Death By Own Action in Fayetteville
Dr M G Hresan Fayetteville physician ruled that William P Smith age about 30 of Fayetteville shot himself through the heart with a German Luger pistol he brought back as a souvenir. Smith was found at 10 30 a m in his mother's Wiseman Addition home Mrs Lillian Smith. The body is at Dodds Payne Mortuary Fayetteville with funeral arrangements incomplete pending out of town relatives arrival.
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Payetteville
RNS
M. G. Hresan
Fayetteville
William P. Smith
Aboust
Smith
Lillian Smith
Wiseman
Dodds Payne Mortuary
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Ronard Pritchard
Conrad Shalt
Arnold Coopers
Lucille Surdham
Ramona Christian
Yale
Sucas
Robert Richie
C. R. Bright
Myron R. Renick
Rosser Long
Earl
Snider
Lacy Wells
Clyde T. Wood
Victor
J. W. Miles
Co. H. Crawford
Ernest Holliday
Robert Tolley
Icie Tolley
Thekna Adams
G. Sicele Caltison
Pat R. Hamilton
Monroe Worthington
Jack Lloyd
R. D. Cruik- Shanks
Robert W. Brooks
E. 0. Wiseman
E. B. Eskew
Holly M. Kessier
Gene O. Bowling
Dollie Griner
Natural Resources
Elmer Harpell
Kathleen Rule
Jacticus
Prage
Uriah Bagley
Winona
Warda Ashford
G. A. Riner
Walter L. Bowling
Universal
Becklay
Presbyterian
Mrs. Nunley
King Coal Hotel
Fost Roinelle
W. Vo
Roddery Lnarges
Matoaka
Martin Farley
Virginia Childress
Springton
Don
Daryl
Princeton
Martin
Junior
Walter Evans
Edison Brehm
Agnes Farley
Chicago
Bailey Funeral Home
Porterfield Lawn
Fepperidge Farm Stuffing
ALL Brands Biscuits
L &B
L&b
Florida
Joy Boc
Dor
Doi
Dr. Hresan
Canada
West Virginia
Ceoler
Muntelpat Parking
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