New Judge Takes Over Crowded City Police Court
C Berkley Lilly began his term as police judge in a crowded courtroom with spectators and defendants. The session focused on arrests from the V and S Inn raid on S Fayette Street, yielding multiple convictions and appeals. Notable cases included Alexander Spencer facing fines and jail for operating a house of ill fame and selling tax paid whisky, with a $600 bond posted on appeal. Helen Smith and Velma Watson were fined and jailed for prostitution, with Rowland filing appeals. Several others face trials Thursday. two men remain jailed for loitering. various bonds forfeited for speeding, drunk driving, and related charges.
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C. Berkley Lilly
Bar of Justice
V&s Inn
S. Bayette Street
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Alexander (Whitey) Spencer
S. Fayette Street
Spencer
James H. Rowland
Rowland
Helen Smith
East Beck
Beckley
Charley Smith
North Beckley
William Mitchell
Mabscott
Floyde G. Wynthe
Charles W. Brown
Eric Stover
Guy D. Dunbar
The Well Equipped Husband Card for Gift Exchanges
Clerks in Beckley shops urge wives to give husbands a small in wallet card listing sizes from head to toe. The card aims to simplify shopping for Mother's Day birthdays anniversaries Christmas and other gift occasions.
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Beckley
Negro Activities and Community Notices in Beckley Area
A compilation of church meetings, youth programs, and club gatherings across Beckley and surrounding towns. Activities include Masons executive board, Sunday School unions, Dorcas Society circles, WCTU, New Hope Baptist meeting, Daughters of Iris at Masonic Temple, and PCCP groups with dates and hosts. Funeral service for Charles Harold Cuff scheduled amid community notices.
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Central Street Baptist Church
Mae Akers
Circle
Dorcas Missionary Society
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Welcome Baptist Church
East Park
New Hope Baptist Church
Daughters of Iris Court
Masonic Temple
G Street
Circle No
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Langhorn
Mothers Study Club
Emma Boyden
Hager Street
Eliza Hunter
Florence §. Hall
Novelette Club
Bernice Jones
Deagans Ave
Mabscott P.T.A
Phi Delta Kappa
Charles Harold Cuff
Oak Hill Hospital
Glorious Church of God of
Mt. Hope
W. A. Russell
Rites for Fadskovics Held at Melton Mortuary
Mike Fadskovics 73 of Affinity died after a short illness from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in Hungary in 1880, he was a retired miner with Lillybrook Coal Co. Affinity Local 7086 UMW member. Body at Melton Mortuary until 2 p.m. funeral Wednesday in Melton chapel. Burial in Sunset Memorial Park with UMW graveside rites.
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Mike Fadskovics
Affinity
Andrew S. Rowan
Sweet Springs
Hungary
Lillybrook Coal Co
UMW
Melton Mortuary
Anthony Gargis
Sunset Memorial Park
United Mine Workers
Probe School Break-In At Institute Elementary
City police investigate a break in at Institute Elementary School on Park Avenue. A slide projector was found missing by faculty members on Wednesday as officers probe the burglary.
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Probe
Institute Elementary
Park Avenue
Beckley Man's Auto Burned on BatOff Mountain
State Police report a small 1951 model station wagon owned by Howard Webb burned on BatOff Mountain around 8:30 p.m. Monday. Webb said he was en route to Prince when lights flickered and smoke and fire broke out under the dashboard.
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Batoff Mountain
Howard Webb
Rt. J. Beckley
Prince
Pemberton Man Jailed In Wife's Suspicious Death
Velma Ellen Miller died in a local hospital at 7 p m on December 30 from a head injury. Pemberton resident Cather Miller, 48, is jailed on an open charge in Raleigh County Jail as investigators pursue leads. Sheriff John C Ward said the investigation would wrap up Wednesday. The couple had no children and were reportedly without other immediate relatives.
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Cather Miller
Pemberton
Raleigh
Velma Ellen Miller
John C. Ward
Ward
Miss West Virginia Aids Polio Drive in 1953 Campaign
Patricia Ann Stewart, crowned Miss West Virginia and now Mrs. R J Marrs, tours Beckley and appears in National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis publicity. The Pineville native joins a national effort begun on January 1 to raise funds for polio research and treatment.
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West Virginia
Patricia Ann Stewart
Beckley
R. J. Marrs
National Foundation For
Bastardy Charge Arrest of Lillybrook Man
Alfonzo Larkin twenty of Lillybrook posted a five hundred dollar appearance bond to the grand jury on a charge of bastardy. Larkin was arrested Monday by Constable C A Thompson on a warrant obtained by a Fireco woman.
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Alfonzo Larkin
Lillybrook
Larkin
C. A. Thompson
Fireco
Webber Jailed for $50 Fine and Costs
John Webber of Sundial was jailed at Raleigh County Jail after failing to pay a $50 fine and costs for driving while drunk assessed by Magistrate T. N. Thurman. He faces automatic six month license revocation. Webber was arrested on State Route 3 at Sundial by State Police.
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John Webber
Sundial
Raleigh
T. N. Thurman
Webber
Death of Taylor Boxley in Fisherville Virginia
Becl ey widow Mrs H M McCue received telegram announcing Taylor Boxleys death in Fisherville Va formerly of Beckley Funeral service set for Wednesday Survivors include widow a son T M Boxley III and a daughter
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Beckley
Taylor Boxley
Fisherville
H. M. McCue
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A.Y. Masons Beckley Lodge No
H. F. Brown
W.M
Winding Gulf No. 1
Second Baptist Church of
Maceo Early
Marlene To Burke
Chicago
John C. Burke
Peter Collins
East Beckley
E. H. Jackson
Glen White
Alex Fralin
R. S. Ward
Richardson
Steve Settle
Nadine
Stotesbury
Telford Johnson
Granville Pankey
Robert Jones
John Williams
Woody Brown
Tono White
Edna Joe
Louise Neal
Charlie Salomon
W. T. Grant CO
Neville St
Fadskovics
Ihem
Miss
Pat Stewart Marrs
Murphy
Commodore
Main St
Jarrett Chandler
Huntington
West Virginia Council of Churches
J. W. Witherspoon
Council
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