Filmstrip Planned For Africa Study At First Methodist
The First Methodist Church on South Heber Street hosts an Africa filmstrip "Africa is Waiting for Christ and His Church" this Sunday at 5 30 p m with a family supper. The church program includes sermons by Rev J B Dryfield on One World With God and Heaven on Earth, with choir performances and youth choir direction, plus Tuesday Bible class party and midweek Know Your Bible session.
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First Methodist
South Heber Street
Africa
Christ
J. B. Dryfield
God
Ray Spangler
Hamilton Gray
Alan Staton
Choraleer
Mrrs
Paul W. Hinzman
Youth and Children’s Choir School
Crusaders Bible Class
Good Samaritan
Jennings Fast
Two File For Posts On Demo Committee
Two aspirants for the Democratic Executive Committee filed certificates of candidacy in the Raleigh County Circuit Clerk’s office Thursday. Fay Lusk of 405 12 Park Ave seeks a third term from Ward I and Fred Snyder of 203 Earhart St seeks Ward V. Snyder currently serves on the City Executive Committee.
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Democratic Executive Committee
Raleigh County
Fay Lusk
Park Ave
Fred Snyder
Earhart St
Snyder
Area Meetings Continue For CL Leaders
Area meetings for CL leader training will persist with a shift to community specific sessions. Chairman John J. Flanagan urged each community to host its own leader training to supplement the area meetings. A proposal to move the fiscal year end from April to January 31 was not decided. The Raleigh County meeting, led by Flanagan, was in the Raleigh County Courthouse. Attendees included Clay Bogle, E. L. Fitzgerald, Walter James, Harry Headley, C. D. Hatcher, H. B. Thomas, Richard Snuffer, and Louis Gall.
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Country Life Program
John J. Flanagan
Tranagan
Raleigh County Court Room
Clay Bogle
Glen Daniel Home Improvement
E. L. Fitzgerald
Maxwell Hill
Walter James
Dry Hill Prosperity
Harry Headley
C. D. Hatcher
Cabell Heights
Oak Grove
Pleasant Hills
H. B. Thomas
Richard Snuffer
Glen Daniel
Louis Gall
Micellaneous
Coal Firms Fail To Make Reports
West Virginia State Mines director Crawford L. Wilson says several coal companies did not report 1959 production, delaying the annual compilation. He warns delinquent operators to file immediately under Section 74, Article 2, with penalties under Section 78.
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State Department of Mines
West Virginia
Crawford L. Wilson
Wilson
King Hiram Abiff Lodge Meeting Announced
King Hiram Abiff Lodge No 2 F and AM will meet at 11 30 a m Saturday in the Harvey Building on South Fayette Street per secretary M K Austin announcement.
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King Hiram Abiff Lodge No
F and AM
Harvey Building
South Fayette St
M. K. Austin
Saturday Is D Day Prosperity Rally for Fire Victims
Community churches and ministers sponsor a Saturday prosperity rally to aid Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Deaver whose home was destroyed by fire January 11. The couple, ages 78 and 72, and their three-year-old grandson have moved to a daughter’s home in Prosperity and will occupy a house near the post office once essentials are provided.
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Deaver
Clyde Bowman
Prosperity
Eccles No. 5
Deavers
Fisher
Funeral Notices From Burford area Kin Modist style
Multiple local obituaries list Florence Campbell, James T Green, Van Lawrence McCutcheon, Camma Sadie Bailey, Lacy Lee McKinney, and other residents of Crab Orchard Sophia and Harper. services set at Keyser Bryant Rose Quesenberry Caffee Williams Craven funeral homes with dates January 15 16 and 13, burial Blue Ridge Ridgelawn Mt View.
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McCutcheon McCutcheon
van Lawrence
Harper
Caffee Funeral
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church
Charles Plybon
A. F. Clendenin
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Bailey Bailey
Camma Sadie
Roosevelt Street
Memorial Baptist Church
Jack Wood
Rupert Shirley
R. T. Belcher
Lewis Graver
Ernest Wickline
Frankers
Ayeernet McKinney
Lacy Lee
Sophia
Williams and Craven Funeral Home
Sophia Methodist Church
Lawrence H. Greenwood, Jr
Williams and Craven
D. R. Rhinehart
Ross Hutchens
Basil Garretson
Bernard McGraw
James Hornbeck, Jr
Sherman McKinney
James Se Sr
James B. Deck
J. E. Pickle
John Meadows
Walter Meadows
E R. Hartsog
Alvie Lester
W. L. Kidd
Carl Neff
Howard Walker
Russell Davis
A Hinte
Vernon Lawson
C. H. Maynor
Clyde Louder
Ladies of the KinaModist Church
Williams & Craven Funeral Home
Obituary Notice for John Francis Sorensen in Beckley
John Francis Sorensen age 16 of Beaver died at 6 p.m. Tuesday January 12 in his home. Rosary and Mass services planned in Des Moines and burial at Catholic Glebale Cemetery. Funeral notices list local florists and service providers in Beckley for arrangements.
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Sorensen Sorensen
John Francis
Beaver
Keyserant
Johnstown Road
West de Moines
Iowa
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Des Moines
Edwin
110 Summoned As Petit Jurors
Raleigh County Criminal Court issued a January term juror summons list including Beckley residents such as Fred Arnold and JIM B. CHAMBERS, with many others named from Beckley, Rhodell, Piney View, and surrounding areas. The roster spans multiple neighborhoods and includes dozens of individuals across several communities.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
Fred Arnold
Chester Alexander
R. A. Angle
Gaylord Allen
Ronald Allen
M W. Arnold
W. G. Burleson
E. W. Bledsoe
C. O. Boitnott
J. F. Blake
E. Lauren Bigger
H. R. Parker
Alderson R. Burkes
H. R. Brown
W. T. Burgess
Meade
Peter Collins
John Falin
Robert L. Forren
Charlotte Garten
Henry J. Gagnon
George Henley
O. O. Herald
Robert C. Hart
Basil C, Minter
James Mahoney
Minnie McCray
Paul H. McHale
Joseph J. McDonald
Don McCutchen
Clyde McCoy
Edgar Mohler
W. D. Nace
Edith Nugen
William A O'Brien
T. R. Overstreet
Grace Oakes
Olaf Olif
Tom Pate
C. K. Pendleton
Walter Rappold
Ann Redden
Conrad Stowers
Grover C. St. Clair Jr
Omar O. Stover
Carroll D. Simpkins
Lettie Simmons
W. E. Zopp
Beckley
Victor Augustine
Rhodell
Harley R. Bell
Ghent
C. V. Browning
Bol
Emma Clark
Thomas Carter
Lester
Rosalie Cormack
Eccles
Emmett Deck
MacArthur
Patricia Duncan
Alonzo Dickens
Arnett
Elsie Freeman
Edith Garten
Piney View
Martha Lilly
Roy Long
Clear Creek
Beulah Manning
Charlie Miller
Naoma
Wilma Morgan
Ameagie
D. J. Robinett
Surveyor
Bolt
W. T. Walters
Dell
Shady Spring Tri-Hi-Y Names Officers and Sponsor
Officers of the Shady Spring High School Tri-Hi-Y are Elizabeth Ward historian Sandra Okes chaplain Sandra Pennington president Sue Green secretary Alice Elkins sergeant-at-arms Martha Boyd assistant chaplain Connie Griffith vice president and Paulette Bowling treasurer Sponsor is Mrs Ida Belle Harless.
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Shady Spring High School
Tri-Hi-Y
Elizabeth Ward
Sandra Okes
Sandra Pennington
Sue Green
Alice Elkins
Martha Boyd
Connie Griffith
Paul
Ette Bowling
Ida Belle Harless
West Virginia notices mix industrial, public affairs items
The West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission provided the comparison. The West Virginia Sheriffs Assn. adopted a resolution urging the State Constitutional Revision Deadline for entry in the seventh annual state contest to be held by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra on May 15. The event will be June 11 in the West Virginia Education Assn. building. Francis C. Farley, executive director of the West Virginia Petroleum Assn., said state drivers pay about a million dollars weekly in gasoline taxes. He noted motorists turn to economy cars in protest, risking lower revenues. Big league pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds will speak January 29 at the Parkersburg Jaycees' all Day Dinner. Rev. James E. Adkins of Kanawha County led a missionary conference in Brazil during the next four weeks. The drive is to run through February. Dr. Robert L. Godby has become county veterinarian for Harrison County. Teen Town at Hinton lacks a sponsoring organization but will stay active. Wheeling’s municipal wharf parking garage posted higher year totals, with 241,127 cars in 1959 versus 195,446 in 1958.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia
Henry E. Davis
Mary Elizabeth Brown
Willie Brown, JR
Mary Elizabeth Davis
George Holland
Thomas Holland
John Holland
Floyd Holland
Garrett Holland
Minnie Edwards
Nannie Edwards
Raleigh C. Brown
Elex Brown
Benny Brown
Walter Brown
Circuit Court
Elizabeth Brown
Raleigh
Kanawha
Raleigh Co. Brown
Walter
Harold Hanks
Said
Charleston Symphony Orchestra
West Virginia Education Assn. F
Francis C. Farley
The
West Virginia Petroleum Assn
Sociology Courses To Be Offered Locally
West Virginia University Extension Division will offer Sociology 205 Urban Sociology and Sociology 206 Rural Sociology, each worth two credits, taught by James W. Wright. Registration is Tuesday January 26 at 6 30 p m in Beckley Junior High School.
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West Virginia University Extension Division
James W. Wright
Beckley Junior High School
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Dooley
Mt. State Miscellany
West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission
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Parkersburg Jaycees
Kanawha County
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Mual
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Wheeling
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