Roll Call Quota Exceeded in Glen Rogers Drive
Glen Rogers reports 783 members with the county total at 1,122 surpassing the 500 quota. Carl C. Lilly led Glen Rogers, with Black Eagle Coal Co and Alpeca also reporting strong totals. Local schools posted high participation and relief funds amount to 561 for the county, with Thanksgiving donations aiding needy families.
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Roll Call
Lampton
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Carl C. Lilly
Kirby
Quail Ornament Bookends Shine in Local Craft
Register staff writer reports Woodrow Rutherford set a record for bookend design with a quail ornament, made for his cousin Garland Stewart as a Christmas gift. The base features an artificial maple twig. Peter C. Welle, cashier of the National Bank of Toledo, installed an electric train on 40 feet of track atop the safety vault.
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Woodrow Rutherford
Garland Stewart
Peter C. Welle
the National Bank of
Toledo
Castle Rock Climbing Forbidden but Pineville Talks
Historic Castle Rock on the Guyandotte riverbank in Pineville is a 200 foot high landmark. Visitors still climb to the top despite bans. a fatal fall in 1911 and an escape from a fall later are recounted as locals note erosion, overgrowth, and questions about the town’s name.
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Virgil Senter
E. M. Senter
Nellie Swope
J.J. Swope
Narrows
Virginia
Castle Rock
Taxidermy Cabin Project Under NYA Work
In Baileysville twelve boys under county NYA director Robert Beavers are building a community cabin behind Baileysville High School to house a taxidermy department and a general work room. The lot was donated by W C Bailey Jr and completion is expected in about two months.
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Baileysville
Junior Club to Sponsor Dance in Wyoming Hotel
Mullens report says the Junior Community Club will host a charity dance at the Wyoming Hotel on Monday night. A five piece orchestra from WHIS Bluefield with a professional caller will perform. Proceeds fund a county tuberculosis clinic planned for January.
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Wyoming Hotel
Margaret Maynor
WHIS
Bluefield
Itsybae
Christmas Party Celebrated by Maynor Home Club
The Junior Community club held its annual Christmas party at Mrs William Maynor home with seven hostesses coordinating a progressive dinner. Mrs Maynor and Miss Jeffries cohosted the event, guests exchanged gifts after a covered dish supper, and a tuberculosis clinic plan was discussed with Miss Mary Virginia Gill attending. About 45 guests attended the evening with a dance at Miss Toler home featuring Charles Kailing and his orchestra.
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Mullens
William Maynor
Anna Dudley Jeffries
Mary Virginia Gill
West Virginia Tuberculosis and Headth Association
Clinner
Carrie Maynor
Curtis Crotty
Clarence Shufflebarger
Margaret Maynor
Anna Catherine Delp
Iss Beatrice Toler
Roby Green
Toler
Charles Kailing
Orcchestra
Quiet Christmas in Pineville as county reports no arrests
Sheriff Lon F Byrd and Police Chief Ed Mullens praise a peaceful Christmas Eve in Pineville with no offenders taken into custody. City officers note nine arrests for drunkenness the prior night, two released after fines, others to face magistrate court hearings.
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Pineville
Lon F. Byrd
Ed Mullens
Mullens
J. H. Miller
Eight Couples Given Licenses at Pineville
County clerk C V Shannon recorded eight marriage license applications last week. The couples include Douglas Brooks and Willie Mae Asbury of Allen Junction, Fred Avrel Dyke and Luan Etta Acord of Oceana, Absalom Lester and Mae Ellis of Hanover, Fred Burdette and Edith Jarrett of Otsego, Ivan McKinney and Agnes Lafon of Alpeca, Lacy Wyatt of Pineville and Bertie Lester of Hanover, William Milam of Stephenson and Lessie McKinney of Basin, Huston Hurt of Amigo and Marie Wolf of Mullens.
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C. V. Shannon
Douglas Brooks
Corinne
Willie Mae Asbury
Allen Junction
Fred Avrel Dyke
Luan Etta Acord
Oceana
Absalom Lester
Mae Ellis
Hanover
Fred Burdette
Edith Jarrett
Otsego
Ivan McKinney
Agnes Mildred Lafon
Alpeca
Lacy Wyatt
Bertie Lester
William Allen Milam
Stephenson
Lessie McKinney
Basin
Huston Lance Hurt
Amigo
Marie Pauline Wolf
Hindenburg Disaster and May 1937 World Events
A May 1937 overview mixes the Hindenburg tragedy with global happenings. The hydrogen airship disaster claims many lives as Americans debate gas choices and aviation safety. Reports cover Rockefeller’s death, Dawes prosperity prediction, social security court upholding, and wartime tensions in Europe and Spain.
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All America
North Pole
Reds
Amelia Earhart
Goodby
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