Sevenf 1th Anniversary Observance of Boy Scout Week
Nearly 1,000 Boy Scouts in the area will participate in observance of Boy Scout Week starting tomorrow and continuing through February 13 with varied activities. February 9 is Scout Sunday with services at churchs. Troop members will demonstrate Scouting in Parade by exhibitions displays banquets open house for parents and friends. Piney River District will conclude the week with a Court of Honor on February 13 at Beckley Junior High School auditorium.
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Chiveh
Piney River
Beckeley Junior High School
City Firemen Have Busy Day
Four AAA requests due February 15 govern farm program actions. Kelley Farmer, county AAA chair, urges cooperators to file timely requests for payment, sign farm plans, apply for lime allotments for 1947, and submit potato prediction reports. Deeds in Raleigh County transfer land and timber rights to Garrett A. Tabor and to E G Kyle and B Acord, covering 197 774 acres with a four year timber removal window.
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Agriculture Adjustment Agency
Kelley Farmer
AAA
R. H. Kyle and Company
Tne
Jcorn
B. Acord
Long Branch
Sand Lick Creek
Marsh Fork
Raleigh County
Garrett A. Tabor
Rowland Land Company
Tthe Tabor
Kyle
Acord
W. E. Wills
Kyle Firm
Furniture Firm Acquires Marsh Fork Timber Tract
A furniture firm purchased a Marsh Fork timber tract for timbering and haulage from Tabor as recorded in the deed. Other property transfers include W. F. Shrewsbury to James L. Lamb in Crab Orchard and Jewell P. Lawson to Pennon M. Webb in Stamford City. Beckley firefighters battled four fires including damage to a Mabscott post office and a Main Street market building, with causes cited as faulty fuel and a faulty flue. A miner returning from work helped prevent further spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabor
W. BF. Shrewsbury
James L. Lamb
D. A. Riffe
Crab Orchard
Lester’ Road
Toy Wh
Jewell P. Lawson
Il. L. Lawson
Pennon M. Webb
Stamford City
Temple
Davis and
Curtis Streets
Beckley
Bernard Martin
Cranberry
Alt
Mabscott Post
Martin
Ames
Augusta Bowden
Tams
Japan Streamlines Its Lonely Hearts System
AP report describes Japan’s marriage bureau streamlining matchmaking. A repatriated soldier and a 24 year old woman, both clerks, paired by the National Welfare Office. Couples meet, decide after weeks, then wed after sake cups, with marriage often not recorded until a child arrives. The bureau, active since 1939, handles about 70 weekly applicants but only 14 marriages.
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Duane Hen
Tokyo
Bureau
Japan
Marriage Bureau
War Office
National Welfare Office
The
Gas Spokesman Urges Wise Use of Gas Taxes
A W Withrow of the West Virginia Retail Gasoline Dealers Association urged lawmakers to stop pushing new taxes and to spend motorists tax dollars on sound projects. He warned that higher gasoline taxes could push hundreds of dealers out of business and cited cross-border buying as a pressure point amid current tax revenue and federal aid.
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Associated Press
Charleston
A. W. Withrow
West Virginia
Retail Gasoline Dealers’ Association
State Highway Department
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Relief At Last For Your Cough
An old advertisement touts Creomulsion as a superior cough remedy for bronchial trouble. It claims to “go right to the seat of the trouble” and loosen phlegm, with no narcotics, promising quick relief or money back. It warns about chronic bronchitis from untreated symptoms and promotes beechwood creosote blends.
AFL unions form state service trades council in West Virginia
West Virginia workers unite under the Service Trades Council of the AFL with plans to organize hotel and restaurant staff, teamsters, retail clerks, bakers, laundry workers and building service crews. Six organizers will launch the drive on February 24 in a major city, while Beckley already pursues contracts and unionization efforts among 20 local restaurants and 140 employees. The council will be directed by Spencer with an advisory board from each union.
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West Virginia
Charleston
Service Trades Council
American Federation of Labor
Beckley
Zretail Clerks’ International Union
George Camp
Building Service Employes International Union
Paul Tonguette
Laundry Workers’international Union
Spencer
Beckey
Charles Raleigh
Hotel and
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Thomas L.mccreery
Paige Cole
W. C. Mullens
Furniture Firm
Clarence Caudell
J. W. Carson
Beaver Creek
Shady Spring
Wilson
Wilson’s
Hash Furniture Company
Main Street
Shore
Wilson's
Wilson Milk Company
P.O
Indianapolis
Indiana
AFL
State Service Trades Council
Rnile
Paty
Sherwood _ Spenis
St. Joseph
Speier
Sanitary Meat Market
Carter
Beckley 'Central ‘Trade Union
J. J. Warden
United States
Morgantown
Charles Whiston
Charles Casteel
Jesse L. Radoheater
Whiston
Ing
Nellie White
Cheat Mountain
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkh
Pinkham
Mace Wood
South Kanawha Street
W. Va
Ping
General Stores
Nancy Lee
Richelieu
P. L
Stokely
Airetien Fan Trea
Creamery
Carsons
Dor
Abc
Chase and Sanborn Coffee
Staley
Idor
Miracle
Bic
California
Golden Delicious
Oakwood Ave
Kanawha St
Oak Hill
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