City Regulates 27 Licenses Including Fortune Tellers
Raleigh Register reports Beckley WV plans to license nearly all businesses with 27 licenses total. Fees range from 2 dollars for stores to 200 dollars for fortune tellers and employment agencies. Delinquency can incur monthly penalties, fines, or jail, and dogs and bicycles require tags and fees. The program aims to centralize and regulate commerce, with licenses renewing every June 20.
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Beckley
Willian Laren
Ryan Dog
Stotesbury UMW Local Gives $100 to TB Seal Drive
Stotesbury United Mine Workers Local 577F presented a $100 check to Raleigh County Tuberculosis and Treatments Association for the 1949 Christmas Seal Sale. Larkin S. Philpott accepted the gift in Memorial Building offices, noting the union will distribute 100 seals to members. The drive aims for a $10,000 goal, with total receipts reaching $4,280.89 after yesterday.
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Raleigh Gounty “Tuberculosis Mid Treatifs Association
Acin
Stotesbury United Mine Workers
Alex Fralin
William FE
Dennis &. Saunders
Larkin S. Philpott
Uniion
Herndon Students Mark Christmas at High School
Herndon High School celebrated Christmas with student council decorating a center hall tree, homeroom programs with vittles, and treats for grade school pupils. Miss Bernice Green led the Tri-Hi-Y–V groups in a Christmas assembly featuring a Silent Night pantomime, a devotional by Rev. Charles Austin, saxophone solos, a piano piece by Joy Coffee, and a seventh grade Christmas Joke skit. The audience joined in carols.
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Herndon
Herndon High School
PF. K. Blankenship
Bernice Green
Charles Austin
Joy Coffee
Christias
Three Couples File For Marriage Permits in Raleigh County
Three marriage license applications were filed in Raleigh County. Andrew Dillon 22 and Eva Lee Darrell 19 of Ameagie Brack McKee Darnell Jr 20 and Mary Elizabeth Coleman 18 of Winding Gulf Edward Weaver 23 and Helen Eanes 18 of Sophia are the couples listed by the county clerk.
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Raleigh County Clerk's Office
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Luther Dillon
Colcord
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Boyd Darrell
Ameagie
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MacAlpin
Mary Elizabeth Coleman
Robert Coleman
Winding Gulf
Edward Weaver
Robey Weaver
Sophia
Helen Eanes
Waller Eanes
Powell Funeral Services Today Observed for Mrs Amner Powell
Powell Funeral Services were held at Hoone Memorial Park today at 11 for Mrs Amner Powell 54 Ridge View who died Tuesday in a Charleston hospital Survivors include husband Pete Ridgeview three sons Paris and Larry Wharton Clyde Powell Phoenixville Pay a daughter Bonnie Carpenter Gordon two brothers Marshall Langston Dallas and Alvert Langston Oklahoma six sisters Mrs Cave Powell Baughman Mrs Mattie Ketron Mrs Halth Wood Mrs Ruth Gregor and Myrtle Tully all of Oklahoma City and Mrs Eunice Barber Riverside California
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Amner Powell
Ridgeview
Charleston
Ipete
Parishand
Larry
Clyde Powel
Phoenixville
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Gordon
Marshall Langston
Dallas
Texas
Alvert Langston
Oklahoma
Cave Powell
Baughman
Mattie Ketron
Ialth Wood
Ruth Gregor
Myrtle Tully
Oklahoma City
Eunice Barber
Riverside
Calif
Building Permit Issued For Business Structure
Ward Invin has been issued a permit to construct a business building on South Oakwood Avenue at an estimated cost of 6000 dollars. Reynolds Funari received a permit to build a single car limestone block garage below ground on Central Avenue with an estimated cost of 600 dollars.
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South Oakwood
City Recorder’s
Reynolds Funari
Central Avenue
Four Area Highway Deaths Reported in November
West Virginia Department of Public Safety data for November shows four highway fatalities in the Beckley area. Raleigh County was death-free for the month, Mercer County had two deaths, Greenbrier and Summers counties one each, while Boone Fayette Monroe Nicholas and Wyoming counties each reported two deaths.
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Beckley
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Veterans Group aids Raleigh County food basket drive
Six members of Raleigh County 20 8 Locale 743 will aid Raleigh County American Legion Post 32 in distributing food baskets to county veterans later this week. Hazelwood urged other local groups to contact William Houchins at Post 32 to volunteer. Arthur Cundy Al Goldstein C. C. Crawford Harry Dunkley Frank Halstead and Sam Tucker offer to help. Nearly all of the 919 membership had signed for 1950. Sullivan man held for driving while intoxicated.
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Raleigh County 20 & 8
Raleigh County
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Hazilwood
William Houchins
Post 32
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Arthur Cundy
al Goldstein
C. C.crawford
Harry Dunkley
Frank ‘Halstead
Sam ‘Tucker
Rebel de Gare
Tocale
Sullivan
Wilbur Spencer Ritter
Christmas Bird Price Is Up Two to Ten Cents
Becl ley grocery outlets show turkey prices rising by two to ten cents per pound across large toms and smaller hens. Despite higher holiday meals costs, Beckley households may save 20 to 25 cents on turkeys compared to last year. Cranberries hold at 20 cents per pound. oranges and tangerines drop about 10 cents per dozen.
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Atone PD
Beckley Howe
Lotal
Court Reverses Compensation Rule
West Virginia Supreme Court reversed a June 11 ruling of the Workman’s Compensation Appeal Board that voided the commissioner’s award of compensation to Beatrice Adkins of Meadow Creek Summers County and her two minor children after her husband died from silicosis. The high court found no facts in the record to prove the companies’ willful self exposure claim under the Silicosis Act. One fourth of the standing saw timber in the U. S. is Douglas Fic.
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State Supreme Court
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