Workmen Install Crane for Bluestone Gates Project
Crews prepare Bluestone Dam crest gate system with an 85 ton crane. The installation, contracted to Lakeside Bridge and Steel Co of Milwaukee, is valued at about 175000 dollars and to be completed in roughly six weeks. The crane will operate from seven tracks atop the dam to raise and position crest gates. Beams and equipment have arrived in Beckley for assembly, with subcontracts awarded to Price Construction of Huntington and Enginetts CUide of Milwaukee.
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Funeral services for John D Burger in Hinton
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday for John D. Burger 82 a retired railway employe who died at 3 a. m. Thursday in Hinton Hospital after a two week illness Rites will be in Hinton Presbyterian Church with Rev James Salango Burial in Greenbrier Burial Park Elks will conduct the burial service He was employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from 1891 and retired in 1941 He would have observed his 54th wedding anniversary with wife Betty Williams married Feb 24 1897 Born Natural Bridge Va June 23 1868 son of Joel and Susan West Burger Survived by wife a brother W B Burger of Nimitz two sisters Mrs O A Garrison and Mrs A A Harford both of Hinton Also four Fayette couples received marriage licenses Dennis B Bailey 24 and Carolyn McGinnis 17 Pax Dallas Maffett 58 and Lude lia Horns 48 Lochgelly Opie Nutter Jr 20 Smithers and Ruth Mae Nutter 18 Deep Water and Robert Nellum 2d and Lorene White 16 Ingram Branch Slugging Ralph Kiner Pirates Navy bomber pilot in World War I.
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Ludelia Horns
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Ruth Mae Nutter
Deep Water
Robert Nellum
Lorene White
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Jumping Branch Personal News and Birth Announcement
Jumping Branch residents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richmond move to Jumping Branch living in a garage apartment owned by Rev. and Mrs. W. Crook. Mr. and Mrs. J Alf Lilly hosted Mr. and Mrs. Sam McClung for Sunday dinner. Mrs. Josie Gray returns home after visiting Price Hill relatives. Mrs. Carl Massy from Oakin visited with her Harvey parents. The Crooks hosted Matt Crook and family and Henry Campbell's kin for Sunday. A daughter, Rebecca Lee, born to W. R. Raney and wife at Bluefield Sanitarium. they also have a son Billy Bail.
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