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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1953
Page
2
Nancy agrees to marriage but questions her loyalty to her people as Linda Van Vliet schemes to derail the engagement. Linda debates theft and blackmail, ponders gambling profits, and plots to leverage Phil’s fortune and his mother’s pride, while Nancy and Phil navigate doubt and cultural pressure. Linda’s encounter with Nancy’s shop widens the intrigue.
Miss Norma Jean Widener and Harry Prince wedding held at Oak Hill Methodist Parsonage on Christmas Eve at 7 30 pm with Rev C G Eastwood officiating A double ring ceremony The bride daughter of Mrs A Crouch Oak Hill and her groom son of Mr and Mrs W T Price Oak Hill The maid of honor Miss Jean Waldron and best man Pvt Charles William Prince stationed at Fort Bragg NC The new Mrs Price is a 1950 Oak Hill High School graduate and works for Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co A reception and New Year Eve watch service planned at Missionary Baptist Church with guest speakers and refreshments at Cory and Fuller Auto Supply Oak Hill residence 336 Central Ave Oak Hill
Slab Fork Coal Co at its No 1 mine modernizes haulage to boost efficiency by adding 125 new mine cars from F Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp Huntington. The four and a half ton cars replace 2.25 ton units, cutting trips and increasing tonnage, with 4 new 15 ton Jeffrey electric locomotives. Sixty five aid units remain for miscellaneous tasks while No 8 mine also received modernization earlier.
Funeral services for Mrs. Holle Belle Eastridge 47 will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Bud Mountain home of a daughter Mrs. Vince Dominick. Burial will be in Hickory Ridge Cemetery. She died at her Bud Mountain home Sunday and is believed to have suffered no heart attack. A native of Buena Vista Virginia she was born Sept. 11 1906. Surviving are four sons Harold Carl Pte. Robert and Ralph and four daughters Dewey McKinney Vince Dominick John Stanley and Paris Lane all of Bud Alpoca vicinity. A brother Howard Warren of Glasgow Virginia one sister Mrs Alec Lane Welch and 12 grandchildren. The burial is at Robertsong and Fuglesong Funeral Home.
Oak Hill Junior Woman's Club hosts the annual Christmas dance at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ballroom tonight from 9 pm. Warren Richards and his orchestra supply music. Tickets are $2.50 per couple in advance or $3 per couple at the door, tax included.
Rev. Jeff Harrison Pugh 65, retired Backus minister, dies in Bluefield after months of illness. Born Raleigh County Nov 9 1888, he leaves wife Nadine Goins Pugh and 5 children at home plus 10 more in step and former marriage. Rites Wednesday at Millboro Baptist Church Crickmer with Rev. J. E. Brown. burial Walker Cemetery Crickmer. Body to be moved to Wallace and Wallace Mortuary today.
William Adams 29 of West Mullens, a Virginian Railway brakeman, was admitted to Wyoming General Hospital with injuries after an air jack he stood on shot upward then dropped him. His wife’s trip to California was postponed. He had planned to see the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Hospital also treated W W Archer 36 for scalp wounds and other injuries. Carl Lester 28 of Mullens had head injuries with a perforated ear drum from a Christmas Day fall.
Funeral services for Carl Farrish 45 were to be held at 2 p.m. with Rev C G Eastwood presiding. Burial followed at High Rint Memorial Park Oak Hill. Farrish died Saturday at Pine Crest Sanitarium Beckley, a Scarbro resident born in Oak Hill on April 8 1908, son of John Franklin and Emma Lou Farrish. He was a truck driver. Surviving are his wife Helen four brothers Walter John James and Herman all of Oak Hill two sisters Mrs Blanch Stone Kilsyth and Mrs Mary A Hornsby Orgas six children Carl Allen John Lee Billy Carol Emma Lou Patsy.
Fayetteville delegates Eleanor Phillips Eleanor Godsey and Jodey Breitenhirt will represent the Presbyterian church at the Quadrennial Youth Convention in Auburn Alabama this week. Miss Phillips and Miss Godsey are seniors at Fayetteville High School and will join about 200 delegates from the southeastern states attending the four year event at Auburn University.
Mullens churches will observe January 3 through 10 as the Universal Week of Prayer with nightly union services at 7:30 p.m. The Mullens Ministerial Association scheduled preaching by pastors from Presbyterians First Baptist First Methodist Pentecostal Holiness Church Church of God and St Andrew's Episcopal Church from January 4 to 7.
Faulty chimney construction blamed for a fire that damaged Pierpoint Community Church during the noon hour Sunday. A passerby child’s quick discovery and Raymond Cook's rapid action pushing the chimney away from the flue helped limit damage. Mullens volunteers aided the response. Services had ended 20 minutes earlier.
Miss Iona Feazell 23 of Killarney was injured in a Saturday night crash near Glen Jean while riding with Billy R. Rakes of Harvey. Mason Bibb of Garten drove the other car. Feazell taken to Oak Hill hospital. Bibb to be arraigned for reckless driving before Justice Virgil Lyons. Investigating officers were Deputy Sheriffs Doug Epperly and Earl Dempsey.
Mullens Wyoming General Hospital records show 35 patients admitted during the week ending Saturday. Daily admissions include names and towns such as Mrs Marika George Mullens Wilkie Billings Otsego Barbara Fralin Alpeca Louise Crews Rhodell Frank Moore Otsego Joe Powers Amigo Mrs Jerry Shannon Oceana Darrell Gene Reed Amigo Mrs Jean Mc Callister Mullens Friday William Elkins Stephens on Mrs Emily Elkins Stephen son Mrs Ruby Wynne Mullens Helen Cox Amigo Mrs Margie Shirley Mullens Mrs Ella Harris Lewisburg Thursday Juanita Barton Stephenson Ben Brown Covel Wednesday H E Young Allen Junction Mrs Ruie Quesenbury Stephenson Mrs Loma Combs Calorie Mrs Bessie Pierce Sullivan Tuesday Mrs Ida Norman Amigo Otis Harmon Killarney J Floyd Bailey Oceana Mrs Maudie Summers Odd Dorothy Burton Mullens Jackie Smith Marianna Richard Brown Mullens Mrs Violet Adkins Killarne y Mrs Annie Hill Jesse Monday John Houck Mullens Calvin Dale Goodwin Hatcher Mrs Louise Lester Stephenson Mrs Bertha Farley Mullens Sunday John Ramsey of Hern don.
Preaching prayer and singing form the program for the watch service at South Mullens Pentecostal Holiness Church from 9 p m to midnight on New Year s Eve. The public is invited.
Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Dameron 63 were set for 2 p.m. at Sutton Kentucky with burial in Drafton. She died at her Ikes Fork home Sunday born April 19 1890 in Pike County. Survived by husband Dan Damron three sons Leon Homer and Frank all of Ikes Fork five daughters Gladys Fleming Kingsport Tennessee Darthea Graham Huntington Opal Tucker Marie Paynter Ruby Damron of Ikes Fork three sisters Myra Martin Asco Florence Newsome Elkhorn City Laura Coleman Sutton and three brothers Joel Shelby Gap Lawrence War and Bill Damron Marrowbone Ky.
Calvin E. Jones 37 a machine man at the Alpeca mine of Gaston Coal Co was killed by a slate fall at about 11 p m Monday just before his first shift since Christmas He is survived by his wife and three children The body is at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home where arrangements are incomplete.
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