Seven Women Enroll In First Home Service Class
Mrs P RB Earwood announces Raleigh county's first Home service class with seven women enrolled. The program runs M W F 10 am to 12 pm until eleven lectures are completed. Graduates will make home service calls and compile case histories for armed forces families.
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P. RB. Earwood
Home Service
Raleigh County
Barwood
Alexandria
Theresa White
Abby Brent
Red Cross
T. C. Moorefield
C. A. Smith
George Bright
Johns
Vet
Boxleys Return From Louisa Visit Over Holidays
Mr and Mrs St George Boxley return from Louisa Virginia after visiting relatives over the holidays in a brief social note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George Boxley
Louisa
Virginia
Church fund gets $100 gift from Hollywood Missionary Society
The Hollywood Missionary Society of MacArthur Baptist Church voted to donate 100 dollars to the church fund. Mrs. Wesley Hedrick of Beckley spoke on Temperance. After business, 15 members and two guests shared a pot luck supper. The society plans to meet February 6 at Mrs. C. F. Price’s home.
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Hollywood Missionary Society
MacArthur Baptist Church
Wesley Hedrick
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Beckley
Society
C. F. Price
Special Red Cross Program Tonight
Mrs. S. H. Bridge announces Raleigh county Red Cross chapter will air a half hour on CBS due to Major Bowles illness. Chrysler turns over 9 to 9 30 FEWT tonight to The Man Behind the Gun with no commercials. Next Thursday We the People will air with American Red Cross guests.
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S. H. Bridge
Raleigh County
Red Cross
Major Bowles
Chrysler Corporation
American Red Cross
CBS
W.T. Tonight
We the People
Willing Workers Form Two Circles in Mullens
Willing Workers in Mullens decide to split the circle of 40 into two groups, forming an afternoon and an evening circle. Mrs. O W Andrews Jr will chair the afternoon circle, Mrs Gilbert Cook the night group. officers to be elected for the night circle while the afternoon officers remain. The group will study the New Testament in story form.
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Register
Mullens
J. S. Gravely
South Mullens
O. W. Andrews
Harry Layton
Gilbert P Cook
Andrews
Gilbret Cook
Wyoming Board Of Education To Meet For Snow Day Pay Decision
The Wyoming county board of education will meet Monday January 15 to decide payments to teachers for school days lost to the snow storm. Harley Christian, chief clerk, says the discussion will determine how lost days are compensated.
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Register
Pineville
Wyoming County Board of Education
Harley Christian
Death Valley Seen as Lowest Point in United States
Death Valley in Inyo County California sits 276 feet below sea level and is the nation’s deepest land point.
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Death Valley
Inyo County
California
United States
Pattern for a unisex toddler dress and overalls
Pattern No. 8725 offers a gay bibbed dress with puffed sleeves and matching overalls for ages 1 to 5. Size 2 dress needs 12 yards of fabric, panties, and overalls, with 1 1/2 yards for straps. Send 20 cents in coins with name, address, size, and pattern number to Sue Burnett at The Raleigh Register, New York.
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Fry
Sue Burnett
Raleigh Register
Sixth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Rutherford Named Wyoming Game Protector
Pineville Wyoming county game protector appointment announced by Conservation Director Jack K. Shipman. William Rutherford a former deputy sheriff and school board employee succeeds L. A. Anderson who has served as game protector for twenty years.
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Register
Pineville
William Rutherford
Wyoming County
Jack K. Shipman
Rutherford
School Board
L. A. Anderson
Pine- Ville
Local residents greet service members on leave in Beckley
Several service members and relatives visit Beckley for holidays and leaves. Thomas F Garrett Jr a pharmacist's mate second class tied to the Third Marine Division returns from the South Pacific to spend time with his parents Dr and Mrs T F Garrett of Sprague. Others travel from Detroit SunRise Ave Norfolk and Glen White to reunite with family as Private First Class Ralph Marquis and Hunter R Lowe return to camps while Mae Jenkins Gooley Miller and Carole Pierson visit.
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Thomas F. Garrett, Jr
T. F. Garrett
Sprague
Garrett
South Pacific
Third Marine Division
Marie Garrett
Medical College
Richmond
Virginia
A. G. Bowles
Glen White
Huntington
Ada Bowles
Ralph Marquis
Camp Stewart
Georgia
Manuel Marquis
Sunrise Avenue
F. T. Lowe
Hunter R. Lowe
Camp Rucker
Alabama
Beckley
United States Coast Guard
Inlaw
Garland Martin
T. M. Boxley
K. D
Louisa
Augusta Military Academy
Julia Craft
C. L. Allen
South Kanawha Street
Gooley Miller
Army Air Corps
Pampa
Texas
Bill B. Richmond
Carlisle Barracks
Pennsylvania
Army Medical Corps
Washington, D. C
B. B. Richmond
North Kanawha Street
Weather Eases Fuel Gas Shortage In West Virginia
Rising temperatures eased a critical fuel gas shortage in Central and Northern West Virginia. Hope Natural Gas of Clarksburg lifted a 50 percent curtailment, allowing industrial plants like Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Hazel Atlas Glass to resume output as heated homes drew less gas.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Hope Natural Gas Company
Clarksburg
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Hazel Atlas Glass
War Production Board
Hope
Pilot Lieutenant Fisher Missing In Action Over Germany
Lieutenant Marshall Fisher, Mustang pilot and son of the late Dr R M Fisher of McAlpin and Mrs Fisher of Oriental North Carolina, has been missing in action over Germany since December 13 according to Dr George W Johnson of McAlpin.
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Marshall Fisher
R. M. Fisher
McAlpin
Fisher
Oriental
North Carolina
Germany
George W. Johnson
Beckley Sailor Graduates From Norman Training Center
Elija Durham Armstrong Jr son of Mr and Mrs EF D Armstrong 112 College Avenue was graduated December 23 from the naval air technical training center in Norman Oklahoma He is now rated as seaman first class.
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Beckley
Elija Durham Armstrong, Jr
EF. D. Armstrong
College Avenue
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Norman
Oklahoma
Armstrong
Reedstar Officer Promoted to First Lieutenant
Robert Worth Stanly of Reedstar receives a promotion from second to first lieutenant while serving with the infantry, according to a War Department dispatch.
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Register
Redstar
Robert Worth Stanly
Reedstar
Infantry
War Department
Swifts and Swallows as Aerial Acrobats
A compact note highlights swifts and swallows as agile aerial performers of the bird world. It notes their swift maneuvers, looping flights, and role in insect control, illustrating the natural spectacle they provide in the skies.
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Crosse Point
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Chilson Avenue
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Greenbrier College
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Salem
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