Sharlene Lewis and Henry Douma wed in Kopperston ceremony
Miss Sharlene Lewis and Henry Douma exchanged vows in a double ring ceremony at Kopperston Community Church. The bride, daughter of G. J. Lewis, oceana, and groom, son of Richard Douma, Midland Park, N J, plan to reside in Midland Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharlene Lewis
Henry Douma
Kopperston
Oceana
RNS
Kopperston Community Church
J. R. Shot
G. J. Lewis
Richard Douma
Midland Park
N. J
William Laird
Kopperston Éang
R. E. Wilson
Maxine Lewis
Gayle Pennington
Hise
January Meeting of Junior Woman's Club to Avoid Lions Night
EAST RAINELLE RNS The January meeting of the Junior Woman's Club will be held Jan 38 to avoid conflict with the Lions Club ladies night. Mrs E K Pritchard hosted. Mrs Claude Merton announced a skit on parliamentary procedure in two scenes and Greta Cantrell Evela Griffith Verla Lively Ruth Duckett Janet Johnson will perform songs with piano by Mrs Robert Ripley. Refreshments served by Mrs E L Robinson and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Rainelle
RNS
Lions Club
E. K. Pritchard
East
Rainelle
Claude Merton
Greta Cantrell
Evela Griffith
Verla Lively
Ruth Duckett
Janet Johnson
Robert Ripley
Pritchard
E. L. Robinson
Robert Walls
Robert Wallace
Benny Napier
Burke Cassell
W. W
Home and Family Topic Chosen by Presbyterian Circles
In Fayetteville the Women of the Presbyterian Church select the importance of the home and family as central, with Circle 1 meeting at Mrs. Myles home. Circle 2 and 3 also held meetings with officers named and guests present. Circle 4 organized through Mrs. Miller and Mrs. White with listed attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. 0. Wiseman
C. A. Goddard
Kenneth Wood
J. M. Francesca
H. R. Beckelheimer
Melinda Champe
David Hypes
E. M. Darnall
Houston Wendell
Women’s Organization
Circle 2
W. H. Haynes
Four Candidates File for Pocahontas County Offices
Four candidates filed in Pocahontas County. Alfred G. Dean of Huntersville seeks a seat on the County Board of Education where two posts are open. Dewey Burr currently holds the board post. Mrs. Hildreth T. Meadows of Marlinton runs for county clerk on the Democrat ticket. Arnold Weiford of Marlinton files for the House of Delegates as a Republican. the seat is now held by Frank McLaughlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Dilley
Huntersville
Hal Moore
Minnehaha Springs
Ernest N. Moore
Dunmore
Secessor
Dewey Burr
Hildreth T. Meadows
Marlinton
Arlie McLaughlin
Meadows
Arnold Weiford
Hodges Jr. Survives Car Collision in Mullen
Willam David Hodges Jr., six, escaped injury after a car struck him as he darted in front of it in Mullens. A. S. Lester of Bluefield witnessed the incident as the boy, though checked at Wyoming General Hospital for possible injuries, showed only a lip bruise from an earlier sledding accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Lester
Elm St
Bluefield
Wyoming General Hospital
William
Copenhaver Rites Held in Oklahoma
RNS reports Elmer Copenhaver 74 of Westville Oklahoma died after a long residency there. A Nicholas County native born Sparks he was a retired farmer married to Florence Thomas of Fayetteville. Survived by a sister Mintie Yorty and nephew of 101 year old Estaline Bryant. Funeral services were held in Westville with burial near his home.
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Summersville
Rns
Elmer Copenhaver
Westville
Okla
Nicholas County
Sparks
Alex
Emma Hutchinson Copenhaver
Florence Thomas
Fayetteville
Oklahoma
Copenhaver
West Virginia
Funeral Sunday for Mrs Bailey at Madams Creek Church
Services for Mrs Ella Bailey 61 will be at 2 30 p m Sunday at Madams Creek Methodist Church. Officiants include Rev Ralph Malcolm Rev W M Wills and Dr H P Hackney. Burial in Restwood Memorial Estate near Hinton. She died Thursday at Hinton Hospital after a week of treatment. She lived most of her life in Summers County and is survived by a foster son a brother two sisters and other relatives. The body rests at Ronald Meadows Funeral Home in Hinton.
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Summers County
Hinton
Newton
Alice Young Waddell
Fank #. Bailey
William May
Waynesburg
Edward Waddell
Beckley
Alvah
James Waddell
Nimitz
Mae Lightner
Marlinton
Hazel Cook
Gunnison
Utah
Ronald Meadows
Thomas A Beckett Taken by Death in Athens
Thomas A Beckett 51 of Athens died Thursday at Bluefield Sanitarium after a cerebral hemorrhage at home. Born in Raleigh he was a plastering contractor and married Pauline Roles of Princeton. He leaves two daughters, seven brothers, three sisters, and several nieces and nephews. A Mason and Royal Arch member, he held multiple lodge and grand chapter offices and served as a deacon at Athens Baptist Church.
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Athens
RNS
Thomas A. Beckett
Bluefield Sanitarium
Seaver Mortuary
Princeton
Beckett
Raleigh
George
Gertrude Beckett
Pauline Roles
June Beckett
Ray Eskew
Green Valley
Ira C. Beckett
Beckley
Clair E. Beckett
Crab Orchard
Basil
Roy
Earl
Rich Creek
Virgil M
Pittsburgh
Bob
Ben D. Wiley
J. E. Sweeney
Ghent
Marvell V. Stanley
Concord Lodge
Royal Arch
Bluefield
Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons of
West Virginia
Athens Baptist Church
Jumping Branch Socials Mention Visits and Illness
Jumping Branch notes include visits by Mrs. and Mrs. Isadore Meadows and relatives to Manford Young and Lee Hutchinson families. Anna Mae Hedrick returns to New York after two week vacation with parents. H. B. Meadows improves from illness while Kenneth Crook injures hand at Hinton High practice. J. Wesley Cales ill with influenza. Anna Flippin moved to Hinton Hospital for care. Reverend Gilbert Anders guest speaker at Bluestone Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isadore Meadows
Sophia
Manford Young
Lee Hutchinson
Julian
Lake Crook
Charleston
Anna Mae Hedrick
Nimitz
New York City
Miss Hedrick
Gilbert Anders
Freeze
Dewey A. Wilson
Bluestone Baptist Church
Kenneth Crook
Charles Crook Jr
Hinton High School
Hinton Hospital
J. Wesley Cales
Anna Flippin
George Meadow
Hinson Hospital
Cave Exploration Continues as Four Injured in Two-Car Crash
Exploration party plans March return to a large cave near Cass on Back Mountain road in Pocahontas County. The report notes underground streams, a vast cavern and uneven floors, while a separate two-car crash at the foot of Price Hill on U S Route 21 injured four Oak Hill residents and others, with one man suffering a broken arm.
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Marlinton
RNS
Cass
Colorado
Leatherbark
Greenbrier
Pocahontas County
T Price Hi
U. S
Beckley
Poling
Club Hears Talk On Legal Papers
Summersville club meeting features attorney B P Brown explaining deeds mortgages and other legal papers at the Presbyterian Church. Officer notes executive committee meets first Tuesday monthly and lists committee chairs across programs ways and means membership special entertainment telephone youth conservation publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summersville
RNS
B. P. Brown
R. H. Jacobson
John Flanagan
Tom Atherton
William McIntire
John Bell
John Breckinridge
Harold Davies
John Shalap
Edger Grose
R. O. Blauvelt
T. T. Rees
Ed Mason
Percy Gareener
C. G. McClain
Ray Cote
al Stevens
John Sims
E. C. McDowell
Clinton Brewster
Tom Trent
William Bryant
Robert Kamm
Leonard Mc
Phyllis Crislip
Roland Clapperton
James Gladwell
John Alderson
Hugh Crislip
John Fidler
Dan Swartz
Clyde J Bell
Margaret Alderson
Russell Graham
F. H. Brown, Jr
Herb Sundstrom
Clinton Halstead
Tom Dotson
Wayne Herold
Robert Shaughnessy
Eva Fitzwater
Davis to Represent Tobacco Distributor
Eddie Dari, a ten year employee of Kelly Drug Co, will become a sales representative for a tobacco distributor starting Jan 16. He will represent the Goldsmith Sydor firm of Huntington in Greenbrier Summers and Nicholas counties. Dari is a WWII veteran, VFW Post No 3110 commander, Oak Hill native, Oak Hill High School graduate, and Oak Hill Little League secretary. He is married to Mary Christian and the family will live at 109 Davis Ave Oak Hill.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Eddie Dari
Kelly Drug Co
Davis
Goldsmit Sydor Firm
Huntington
Greenbrier
Summers
Nichollas
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Little League
Mary Christian
Davis Ave
Judge Rejects Bailey Petition in Mercer Court
Mercer Circuit Court Judge F Morton Wagner denied Clifford Bailey's writ of error and granted a six day appeal to the State Supreme Court. Bailey was sentenced in Crimington on a breaking and entering charge to one to nineteen years with a concurrent five year term from a prior July 18, 1945 housebreaking conviction. Sheriff deputy Jack Howell reported the accident occurred about the time of sentencing.
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Princeton
RNS
Mercer
F. Morton Wagner
Clifford Bailey
State Supreme Court
Criminton
Jack Howell
Bailey
Party Held for Mrs. Rogers by Marlinton Eastern Star
Officers of Marlinton Chapter 97 Order of the Eastern Star surprised Mrs. W. H. Rogers Buckeye with a birthday party at the Masonic Lodge hall. She received two gifts, dessert was served to 30 members and guests, and Miss Hazel Jackson was initiated, receiving an Eastern Star apron. Guests included Mary Perry of Brooklyn Chapter Ohio and Robert Sharp Beulah Buzzard of Huntersville Chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlinton
RNS
St Marlinton
Order of the Eastern Star
W. H. Rogers
Buckeye
Hazel Jackson
Mary Perry
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Ohio
Robert Sharp
Beulah Buzzard
Huntersville
Meeting Postponed by Fayette County Board of Education
The Fayette County Board of Education meeting was postponed due to ice and snow on the highways and rescheduled to Wednesday January 18. A birth is announced in Fayetteville as Tunney Morgan Jr. Hunsaker was born Wednesday morning to Mr and Mrs Tunney M Hunsaker weighing seven pounds and one ounce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
RNS
Fayette County
Tunney M. Hunsaker
Tunney Morgan Jr
Best Year Reported By Princeton Bank
Princeton Bank and Trust Co. reported its most prosperous year in its 82 year history at the annual meeting. Stockholders reelected board members Essie B. Bailey BD. J. Bailey E. M. Brown W. Robert Carr W. S. Dangerfield B. C. Edwards R. W. Handley W. Broughton Johnston Ernest D. Lilly Dr J. J. Markell Berkeley Mills C. W. Murphy Ira M. Smith dr L F Snead and Harold Wood. An auditing committee was elected with C. W. Murphy as chairman and Frank McKenzie and W Grady Carper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
RNS
Princeton Bank and Trust Co
Appalachian
Essie B. Bailey
BD. J. Bailey
E. M. Brown
W. Robert Carr
W. S. Dangerfield
B. C. Edwards
R. W. Handley
W. Broughton Johnston
Ernest D. Lilly
Slides Shown To Kiwanis Club In Meadow Bridge
Frank Arrilt Meadow Bridge High School principal presented colored slides of West Virginia scenery to Meadow Bridge Kiwanis Club in the home economics room. Sixteen members attended with Ernest McGraw presiding. Next week an inter club meeting with the Hinton Kiwanis Club is planned at the Diner in Hinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadow Bridge
West Virginia
Frank Arrilt
Meadow Bridge High School
Kiwanis Club
Ernest McGraw
Hinton
Expert reveals hair growth methods in Beckley event
Trichologist J. M. Walker from Bishop Hair Experts will demonstrate home care methods to grow thicker hair and prevent baldness in Beckley West Virginia. Free scalp analysis available at the Hotel Beckley on Saturday January 14 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. with no obligation.
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Newport
Beckley
W. Va
J. M. Walker
Thefamous
Bishop
Walker
New Port
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Oceana High School
Future Homemakers Club
Trenton
Air Force
Hillcrest Avenue
Dale
Frances Kessler
J. H. Lucado
Darrell Penkington
Kenneth Sproles
J. Zane Summerfield
L. S. Tully
Circle 4
Harry W. Miller
J. H. White
M. G. Hresan
White
Treasrer
Louis Wise
Robert Honaker
L. E. McAvoy
Blanche McAvoy
D. G. Hatener
Lillian Smith
Alex Gray
Bland Xk.hesse Jr
Garwood
Neville St
Mrs. Bailey
Thomas Beckett
Coats
Rahall
Industrial Brake Company
Wieners
Bacon
Grimes
iChitterlings
Tag Soc
Rogers
Leach Empire
Baldwin
Jan’s
Princeton Bank
Tom
G. S. Bishop
Pennsylvania
New York
Bishop Trichologists
Leroy Geiger
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