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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
10
Governor Kump delivers his closing message praising past work and urging stable revenue, permanent sales tax, and tax structure reform. He stresses education guarantees, public school textbooks, university extension courses, and careful welfare care while avoiding industry burdens and government excess.
A narrative brief notes a Senator nicknamed Baby injured Monday night while at work. East Beckley area services at Central Street Baptist Church planned for Sunday by Dorcas Missionary Society with morning and evening preaching. Also mentions a January 9 marriage of Miss Andy Lenoir to Mr Sershll Robinson in East Park and a visit by Oscar Mil lard of Chicago. Ebenezer Baptist Church in Beckley holds Sunday services with Rev J J Nickerson of Hinton delivering afternoon sermon at 2:30, First Baptist Choir of Lillybrook providing music. public invited.
Tony Coston, 29, missing since Christmas Eve, was discovered by a search party in a hand-dug cave ten miles from Rockwood, Tenn. He was in serious condition due to exposure and lack of food.
Mrs. Mamie White and Mrs. Courtney Kemp hosted a birthday reception with chicken salad ice cream and socializing for guests including Mr. and Mrs. Learry Carter Mr. and Mrs. John Shorter Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dobbs and other locals. Concho Activities note Greensboro NC visitor Miss Blanche Reid returned home with relatives. Details of church events and a marriage at Pilgrim Rest Baptist church are summarized with community notices and upcoming Junior Missionary Society event. Mr. Decatur Hereford recovering from a sprained ankle.
Mary Graham Bonner reports Christopher confessing a mischief involving a crying snow man. He admits hiding the doll and making it speak the same word, planning a boast over Top Notch’s discovery. Rip and Willy Nilly judge him harshly as a rogue. Tomorrow Rip's Jaws.
Florida board of health officials warn the malaria carrying anopheles mosquito is more dangerous than snakes. They report malaria caused 205 to 470 deaths annually in Florida from 1923 to 1931, underscoring the threat to public health.
Twenty Summers county boys were enrolled in state CCC camps this week to fill the county quota for the federal program. The enrollees were assigned to Camp Copperhead and Camp Seibert. Names include Leonard M. Morten Watford Asa L. Bailey Hix Harry S. Budd Bellepoint Emmett W. Crook Jumping Branch Harry O. Duncan Green Sulphur Edward F. Hunley Lawn Clifford A. Kincaid Talcott Charles E. Meador True Basil C. Meadows Hinton Sherman H. Ratliff Bellepoint Marvin R. Polk Hinton Emory L. Newcomb Lawn Denver C. Richmond Hinton Albert Serreno Lockbridge R. L. Sims Talcott Cecil D. Smith Pete Springs David A. Smithinton Grover C. Trail Green Sulphur William J. Underwood Pence Springs Wesley B Wingfield Sandstone
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