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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1951
Page
1
The article details a fundraising variety show in Payette County with merged efforts by a husband and wife singing duo. Funds raised support infantile paralysis research, featuring prizes and a planned banquet with community leaders and sponsors coordinating efforts.
Funeral services Tuesday for Mrs. Rouen Frances Miller 70 will be held at Bethel Church Cream with Rev. Mont Carr and Rev. Eugene Zickafoose presiding. Burial follows Marvin Grove Cemetery. Born in Monroe County to Isaac Campbell and Cynthia Fleshman Campbell she was a Baptist and widow of C. B. Miller. Survivors include W. A. Campbell Lindside sister Elizabeth Broyles Union and children Cyrus A. Miller Akron Charles K. Miller Alderson Glenna Bowyer Mayetteville Geraldine Nureher Akron Gladys M. Davis Washington D C.
Mrs Perry Bailey was celebrated at her 79th birthday with a Sunday dinner hosted by her daughters Mrs Arlie L Chambers and Mrs Minnie Has at Has home. Assistants included Mrs Wayne Hatfield and Miss Catherine Hawkins. Family members from Mullens attended.
Afex Year of Pineville is treated at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch for a fractured ankle and leg after a tractor ran over him. He works for Belcher Lumber Company.
Oak Hill civic leaders choose Mrs C P Anderson to serve a two year term as president succeeding Mrs Gorton Scott. New officers include Mrs H L Akers first vice president, Mrs G J Thomas second vice president, Mrs Ro Noyes secretary, Miss Carolyn Jasper treasurer, and Mrs Leroy Sheets historian. Members approved support for March of Dimes drive and planned open house events and bloodmobile sponsorship.
J Roy Price an executive at Union Carbide and Carbon will speak to college students in Buckhannon He is a West Virginia Wesleyan graduate class of 1921 with chemistry and physics majors He helped develop the Winslite plastics and serves on Buckhannon college board of trustees and several industry societies.
Oak Hill resident Mark Miller was accepted into the Oak Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce at a Monday night City Diner dinner meeting. The notice also reports the birth of the Lusk family's third child, a 9 pound 1 ounce son born Feb 8 at 10 p.m. at Shame.
Mullens church members and visitors attended a buffer dinner at Mullens High School Library for the Second Anniversary. J. E. Orr served as toastmaster while Mullens High School principal CL WL Sthe spoke. Pastor D. B. Seal recounted the church history since its organization with 15 original members. The program noted total membership, average attendance, and 47 in the Sunday attendance. Mrs. Conrad Cook sang solo with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Fatis We. Benediction by DC Fancy. Also: Opal Mathney and Charles Haga of Oak Hill visited Pinecrest Sanitarium Beckley.
About 20 Wyoming County men were ordered to report at 9 am on Tuesday for examinations before induction into the armed forces. The list includes residents from Elk Creek, Coal Mountain, Clear Fork, Oceana, Pineville, Mullens, and nearby areas, with names such as Moxley Bland, Donald Bowes, James Hartwell, and Theodore Roosevelt Whitt. The Wyoming County Selective Service Board organized the proceedings at the Jennelli Building.
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