Debaters Win One Lose One Valentines For Crippled ToFs
About 200 Valentines made by Junior Red Cross members at Oswald Teel Beckley Junior High schools were en route to a Valentine party at Morris Memorial hospital Milton. Sponsor Miss Garnette Thompson mailed them yesterday and each child will receive several. Beckley Junior High previously sent two large boxes of Valentine materials for the crippled children friends. Oswald junior Red Cross also sent 30 tray cards to Huntington veterans hospital to decorate meal trays.
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Red Cross
Raleigh County
Morris Memorial Hospital
Milton
Oswald School
Teel School
Beckley Junior High School
Valentine
Veterans’ Hospital
Huntington
Woodrow Wilson Debaters Lose to Bluefield Team
Woodrow Wilson High School debaters Bill Covey and Silea Cappellari fell to Bluefield in a 2 to 1 decision yesterday at WWHS while Edgar Phelps and Sue Boston of Bluefield won the Matoaka contest at 3 p.m. Judges were David D. Ashworth Rev George T. Walters and Rev Burns. Beckley was represented by Betty Conner as chair.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Bill Covey
Silea Cappellari
Bluefield
Matoaka
Edgar Phelps
Sue Boston
David D. Ashworth
George T. Walters
Mr. Burns
East Beckley
Betty Conner
Beckley
J. J. Murphy
George Young
W. B. Caldwell
Ann Jones
Helen Belcher
Ada Whitmore
Miss Virginia
Irvin Maddy
Helen School Rated Model by Raleigh County Official
George M. Parker assistant superintendent of Raleigh County schools assessed Helen Grade School as model today noting no complex scoring for Prosperity but indicating a first class rating is likely. He praised teachers for cooperation maintaining the model rating from last year and cited playground equipment as a potential upgrade while gym facilities offset that need.
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George M. Parker
Raleigh County Schools
Helen
Parker
Modern women seek safe sliming plan with Krus Salts
The ad promotes a gradual safe weight loss method for women using Krus Salts in hot water each morning. It claims health gains for kidneys liver bowels and gall bladder while cutting fat foods. Mrs J Millar of Portsmouth New Hampshire says she lost 11% pounds in a month and dropped from a size 46 to 40.
Red Top Company thanks donors after flood relief
The Beckley Ice and Feed Co local distributors report a message from Red Top Brewing Company of Cincinnati thanking the community for Red Cross donations and clothing and supply gifts for Cincinnati flood sufferers. The company notes it was not affected by the flood, ceased operations to aid others, and released its artesian water to the public while maintaining beer supply from its own wells.
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Beckley Ice & Feed Co
Red ‘Top
Red Top Brewing Company
Cincinnati
Red Cross
Red Top Brewing
Red Top
Stotesbury Man Captures Award in Sales Contest
E. J. Davis of Stotesbury won first place in a seven store Kopper sales contest. Davis, head of the grocery department at the Stotesbury Kopper store, earned a merchandise prize for top performance.
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E. J. Davis
Stotesbury
Koppers
Davis
Ashworth Speaks At Celebration In Ronceverte
Local attorney David D. Ashworth will be the main speaker at a Republican banquet in Ronceverte to celebrate Lincoln's birthday at p. m. today. Reservations are limited to 50 with plans to accommodate more attendees. L. Mark Withrow, candidate for circuit judge, coordinates the dinner at Hotel Greenbrier, with Summers H. Sharp, Republican nominee for governor, invited.
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David D. Ashworth
Ronceverte
Lincoln
L. Mark Withrow
Greenbrier
Summers H. Sharp
Wellman Funeral Set For Tomorrow
Mrs Evelyn Wellman of Huntington, a flood refugee, died here after illness from flood exposure. Funeral services will be held from her Huntington home tomorrow. Surviving are her husband, two children Doris Lee eight and Walker three, two brothers Charles Matheny of Charleston, and a sister Mrs William Lockhart of Huntington.
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Evelyn Wellman
Huntington
Doris Lee
Walker
Charles Matheny
Charleston
William Lockhart
Tuntington
Marine officer to visit Beckley in February 1929
Sergeant Chat Speight of the United States Marine Corps will visit Beckley in February 1929 to acquaint West Virginians with the Marines. He will meet young men interested in the Marine Corps, though enlistments will not be urged. Speight has served over 16 years. The article also notes early 19th century iron-bar burial enclosures in England to deter body snatchers.
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United States Marine Corps
Soldiers of the Sea
Beckley
West Virginia
Military Service
Chat Speight
Marine Corps
Speight
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Valentines
Milton Hospital
WWHS
Silea Cappellerai
Geo. M. Parker
RED Top Company
Ashworth
Wellman
Brown-Forman
CG Sas
Kentucky
Brown Korman Distitlen Company
Treveporater
Lombville
OLD Polk
Campbell
Care 2D
Bez
Kellogg’s
Prunes
Bliss Tea
ROYAL
Libby
Med
Haskins
Cracker
Pack
Pillsbury’s Best
Brown-Forman DistiLlery CO
Louisville
KING
Con Zoe
Chuck
Bologna
Rerem
Strébs
Kale
Florida
Skookum Delicious
BOC
Pineville
Sophia Beckley
Oak Hill
Rhodell Hinton
Marscott
Eccles
Fayetteville
Lester ‘Beaver
Maynard’s
Ted McDowell
R. D. Watts
Kenneth Cunningham
Hedrick
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