Quota Clubmarking 30th Year of Service
Principal events mark the Quota Club International 30th anniversary with the theme Young Women Leaders of Tomorrow. More than 200 clubs in the United States Canada Australia and Mexico join observances led by international president Edith M. Glaze. Miss Geraldine Travisano local club president says members may invite high school or college girls. Effie Loudermilk will speak at the birthday event.
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Bluefield
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Princeton church plans 30 thousand dollar building fund
Princeton First Christian Church members target 30 groups to raise ten thousand dollars each to reach a thirty thousand dollar building fund for the new church. April 3 is the deadline with forty thousand dollars raised to date but largely spent on current construction. A copper box will be placed in the cornerstone listing donors of ten dollars or more.
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Miller Funeral Rites Set Today
Funeral services were held at 1 p m for Mrs. Clara Miller 45 of Red Sulphur Springs died Saturday bedfast seven years Rites at Dry Pond Church officiated by Rev L D Chandler burial in Orchard Cemetery She was a Pine Grove Baptist member Survived by husband Bud and four children William Alma June and Harry at home two sisters unknown address
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Methodist Church
Carl A. Kraus
Mildred Beasley
F. L. Brown
Mike Kraus
Logan
R. E. Ward
Ironton
Ohio
W. W. Rader
Clarksburg
Norman Kraus
San Diego
Calif
Ed Dower
Mount Hope
Dick Dower
West Union
Peterstown
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Red Sulphur Springs
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Orchard
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Bud Miller
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June
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Howard A Vickers Dies in Hospital
Howard Arch Vickers 24 of Zela died Saturday evening in a Richwood hospital after a long illness. Funeral services set for 11 a.m. tomorrow at Salem Baptist Church with Rev. Homer C. Piercy officiating. burial in Twenty Mile Cemetery. Survived by father Leslie Vickers, two sisters Lorene Neil and Ania Mae Will, two brothers Charles and George Leslie Jr, two half-brothers Orville Ramsey and Marble Ramsey. Community concert membership drive chairman Lowery G Bowling Jr named for Princeton drive starting February 14.
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Summiersville
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Lorene Neil
Craigsville
Ania Mae Will
Point Pleasant
Charles
George Leslie, Jr
Orville Ramsey
Marble Ramsey
Chicago, WI
Princeton Police arrest totals show January spike
Princeton police arrest reports show 112 people jailed in January up from 59 in December. Intoxication led offenses with 82 suspects. fines last month reached 1129.30 compared with 381.35 in December. Officers Belcher Chewning Crotty and others logged the arrests.
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Route 10 May Be Completed
State Senator W Broughton Johnson said Route 10 from Matoaka to the Wyoming County line has been studied for completion by the State Road Commission. The Matoaka to Springton segment is estimated at 1 500 000 and should be finished before the end of the current administration, with the Springton section due within two years. Completion to Herndon depends on available funds.
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Five Men Enlist For Army Duties In Princeton
Five men enlist at the local Army and Air Force Recruiting station. George A. Smith of Princeton joins the Army Air Force for three years and heads to Lackland Air Base in San Antonio Texas. Woodrow Kahler Howard W Napper both of Princeton and Charles A Kade of McComas enlist for three years and are assigned to the 3rd Armored Division Ft. Knox Ky. Cloyd A Gardner a Negro of Princeton enlists for three years in the regular army and has been sent to Fort Dix New Jersey.
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Youth Officers to Assume Duties At Tonight's Meet
Princeton Youth Inc. officers led by president W Grady Carpenter will take office at 7 30 tonight. Reports cover the youth crusade ending Friday and January recreation activities. All member organizations are urged to attend.
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160 Year Pin To Be Given Fredeking
Fredeking and Morrison to receive long service pins from the Hinton Division 101 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. S. O. Fredeking, age 84, began as a C. and O. car repairman in 1880 and became an engineer in 1886, retiring in 1934 after 48 years of line work. Morrison, age 65, earns a 40 year pin as the youngest recipient from the local division. The presentation will be by Frank A. Cundiff and W. L. Burk.
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Rites Conducted For Mrs. Mamie Wood Young
Funeral services were held at 2 p m for Mamie Wood Young 42 of Craigsville who died Saturday in a Richwood hospital at the Craigsville Methodist Church with Rev I E Cregger officiating Burial followed in Craigsville Cemetery Surviving are her husband John Young Richwood three brothers Fred Woods Bernard and Woodrow of Clarksburg three sisters Mrs Pearl Wolfong of Clarksburg Mrs Zella Keener and Mrs Gladys Hill of Craigsville
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Fred Woods
Bernard
Woodrow
Clarksburg
Pearl Wolfong
Zella Keener
Gladys. Hill
Virginian Railroad January tonnage drops sharply
Approximately 113 percent less tonnage was hauled in January by the Virginian Railroad than in 1948. The January figure fell from 426,000 to 1,287,246 tons, a decline of 197,020 tons, with 1945 normal-year comparisons at 1,276,681 tons. Griffiths announce birth of son Lawrence Edward Griffith, Oceana, January 24.
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FASTEETH Promises Comfort for Dentures
FASTEETH is an alkaline powder claimed to hold false teeth more firmly. It aims to improve eating and talking with a pleasant taste and minimal residue. Sold at drug stores.
Taylor Pleads Guilty To Maiming In Mercer Court
Sam Taylor pleaded guilty to petit larceny in the Mercer Circuit Court after a maiming charge, and was sentenced to one year in the county jail with credit for time served. Other cases disposed or continued include burglaries, assaults, and real estate suits in Princeton and Bluefield.
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Robert Crowder
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Edrie Allen
Pierce E. Stevenson
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Roxie Mae Moore
Benjamin Franklin Moore
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Joseph Trigg
Ruth Annis Mitchell
Robert H. B. Mitchell
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Ray J. Davis
Morey Hylton
A. W. Saunders
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Prungtown
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Preston Richardson
Basil Saunders
Thelma Stokes
Addie Smith
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Miller Purchases Davis Interest Forms Miller Maytag Firm
Marvin Miller longtime Virginian Maytag Store manager in Princeton buys L C Davis interest. The firm becomes Miller Maytag Company staying at Mercer and Bee Streets and retaining the Davis Bluefield Welch outlets. Davis will continue operating his other stores. The store carries Maytag and other household appliances. A brae Hall family announces a son born January 27 at Memorial Hospital Princeton. Ralph Hickman Kopperston announces a daughter born January 27 at Memorial Hospital Princeton.
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Creomulsion Promises Quick Rest with No Narcotics
Ad copy warns chronic bronchitis may follow untreated coughs and promotes Creomulsion as a potent, non narcotic remedy. It claims the product targets the bronchial mucous membranes, combines beechwood creosote with time tested cough medicines, and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
Mercer Students on Newspaper Staff Move to West Virginia Daily Athenaeum
Two Mercer County students now serve on the Daily Athenaeum staff at West Virginia University. Harvey Shuman of Bluefield and Lonnie L. Oakes of Dunns are named news editors while Jeanne M. Marshall of Richwood is society editor.
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Richwood
Nicholas County
Tax Deputy Visits Avista Lamar and McCumas Offices
Notice from Internal Revenue Deputy Collector at Bluefield announces that deputies will assist with income tax returns in Avista on February 15, at Lamar on February 16, and at McCumas at the American Coal Company office on February 17. Birth announcements: Robert Walthall born at Memorial Hospital January 29. Barkers of Athens Star Route announce a son born January 27 at Memorial Hospital.
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Huffman Rites Set for Tuesday
Funeral services for William Jackson Huffman 74 of White Sulphur Springs will be held Tuesday at 1 PM at the First Presbyterian Church White Sulphur Springs with Rev C D Denham officiating. Burial follows at Marvin Chapel Cemetery near Millpoint. Surviving are three daughters, two sons, a stepdaughter, a sister and eight grandchildren.
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Paul Simmons
Millboro Springs
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Sulphur Springs
H. P. Bane
DeLand, Fla
Yanceys Have Son
Princeton writer Fred Yancey reports the birth of a son on February 2 at Memorial Hospital.
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