King Funeral Rites Saturday
Funeral services for Fred King 43 will be held at 2 p m Saturday in Mt Hope with Rev J G Wilson officiating. Burial follows in Mt Hope Cemetery. Survived by wife Lucille King mother Mattie King daughter Alfred King and sisters Katherine King and Irene Burke of Mt Hope. Body at Trent Funeral Home Mt Hope until service time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Hope
Fred King
Mt. Hop
J. G. Wilson
Lucille King
Mattie King
Alfred King
Katherine ,King
Irene Burke
Mr. Hope
Trent Funeral Home
New Organizational Director Named to Assist Concert Drive
Greta Skoog has been assigned as organizational director for the Wyoming Community Concert Association for 1953 54. She arrives in Mullens January 22 for a three day visit to plan the membership campaign. A meeting of officers for 1953 54 and two year board members will be held January 23 at the Wyoming Hotel.
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Wyoming Hotel
Pineville
Wyoming Boy Scout District
Pineville Personal News and Property Transfers
Pineville social notes report Mrs. Earl Stronacker returning from Ashland Kentucky to visit her daughter and son in law the McHies. Multiple local visits surround Pineville residents including Canterburys from Charleston and the Mitchells, with daughter Saundra returning home. Newly recorded deeds in Wyoming County list transfers among Cook, Simpson, Itmann, Price, and Lambert families plus a fire at the Perdue home attributed to defective wiring. Local residents visit the couple after the blaze and other family gatherings noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Pineville
Lessie Cook
Andy Barney
Oak Grove
Oceana
Oceana District
C. M. Osborne
J. A. Itmann
Setliff
Lester
Fallie Mae Simpson
Moses Orville L. Cook
Pine“Tv
Priceville Land Company
Rockview
Center District
Pineville Land Company, Inc
James E. Rollins
Joe Simpson
Lillydate
Itmann
Fred Ball
Lee Dor
Kent Price
Whiteton
Slab Fork
Ira Perdue
Welch
Ted Walters
Walter Smith
A. G. Cline
Dete ]Cooper
Thurley Cook
Injured Beckley Man Treated After Mt Hope Car Crash
Charles Runyon of Beckley is hospitalized at Oak Hill Hospital with a forehead cut from a Sunday afternoon car accident at Mt Hope. No details of the crash are available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Charles Runyon
Beckley
Oak Hill Hospital
Mt. Hope
Bennie Hall Released After Ankle Injury
Bennie Hall 26 of Coal Mountain Wyom ing County was released from Stevens Clinic hospital in Welch after treatment for a severe sprain of the left ankle suffered in a fall.
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Coal Mountain
Bennie Hall
Wyoming County
Stvens Clinic
Welch
Lightner Rites To Be Held Today
Funeral services for 68 year old Mrs. Maryette Lightner of Meadow Bridge were set for 2 p m today at Highland Church near Layland with Rev. Henry Adkins officiating. Burial followed at High Lawn Memorial Park. Born in Thayer July 6, 1884, daughter of James Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadow Bridge
Maryette Lightner
Highland Church
Layland
Henry Adkins
High Lawn Memorial Park
Thayer
James Smith
Verdict of death by own action in Mrs Thelma Houldsworth case
In Princeton a coroner's jury ruled death by own action in the gunshot death of 39 year old Mrs Thelma Houldsworth. She shot herself at home after an evening in Bluefield with her husband Arthur Houldsworth. The husband, a shoe department head in Bluefield, reported she had slept poorly and would use the radio downstairs.
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Princeton
Thelma Houldsworth
Princeton-Bluefield Road
Perry L. Dye
J. A. Douglas Bailey
Arthur Houldsworth
A. W. Cox
Bluefield
Dye
Houldsworth
Charleston
West Virginia University
Republican Woman's Club of
Murder Trial Opens in Fayette for Preston Coates
Fayetteville—In Fayette Circuit Court the trial of Preston Coates for the murder of Earl Beckner last June began. Witnesses described Beckner driving along a Eagle road when a crowd of Negroes gathered at a party sparked the fatal stabbing by Coates as Beckner stopped. Beckner then drove a short distance before Wesley Treadway took over to a gas station in Kincaid where Beckner was found dead.
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Fayetteville
Fayette
Preston Coates
Earl Beckner
Aton
Eagle
Beckner
Wesley Treadway
Hima Falong
Kincaid
Rhodell Child Injured In Washing Machine Wringer
A four year old Rhodell boy, Harry Craghead, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Craghead, was treated at Wyoming General Hospital for arm injuries after his limb was caught in a washing machine wringer. The incident was the second such case recorded there, with examination showing severe burns and a possible fracture.
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Mullens
Elizabeth Adkins Smith of Caperton Church
Elizabeth Adkins Smith a member of the Free Will Baptist Church of Caperton is noted with survivors including two daughters Roxie Currans Meadow Bridge and Belle Goodman Springdale two brothers Jesse Smith Danese and Wiley Summerlee and two sisters Nellie Mays and Adaline Avis both of Danese
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Adkins Smith
Free Will Baptist Church of
Caperton
Roxie Currans
Meadow Bridge
Belle Goodman
Springdale
Jesse Smith
Danese
Wiley
Summerlee
Nellie Mays
Adaline Avis
University Specialists to Hold Wyoming Garden School
Laurel Garden Club co sponsors a one day school with West Virginia University specialists to be held at Pineville court house on Feb 1 7. The program covers vegetable pathology landscaping soil preparation spraying and conservation with open attendance for farmers and gardeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Wine Iliams
Pineville
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
John D. Farmer
Moran Ave
Pineville Business and Professional Women's Club
Oceana Woman's Club
Mullens Garden Club
Wyoming County
Williams
Barnette Funeral Rites Scheduled Saturday
Funeral services set for 11 a.m. Saturday for Nancy Barnette 82 who died at 4 20 a.m. Thursday in a Welch hospital at Big Jenny Baptist Church Davy with Rev Joseph Woods Mullens and Rev Sol Blank enship Rhodesfield officiating Burial will be in the family cemetery on Belcher Mountain Survivors include husband J J Barnette of Davy three sons Tim Mullens of Davy Lewis Mullens of Baltimore MD and Thurman Mullens of Baltimore MD three daughters Bert Short of Hatcher Arlie Finley of Wilco and Gather Johnson of Lynce also 31 grandchildren Body to be removed to the Evans Funeral Home Oceana at 5 p m today Weekend guests Mr and Mrs Kermit Webb and family of Rock Creek guests of sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Burl Pritt of Charleston.
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Davy
Nancy Barnette
Welch Hospital
Big Jenny Baptist Church
Joseph Woods
Mullens
Sol Blankenship
Rhodesfield
Buriat
Belcher Mountain
Bud
Ediley
Joannah Smith Whitt
Richard Mullens
J. J. Barnette
Timo Mullens
Lewis Mullens
Egan
Thurman
Baltimore
Bert Short
Hatcher
Arlie Finley
Wilco
Gather Johnson
Lynce
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King
DK. Shields
Boy Scout
Earl Stronecker
Ashiland
Stewart McHie
French Canterbury
L. L
Shannon
B.D. Mitchell
Mitchell
Saundra
Mit
Gilbert Austin
Sharon Kay
London
B.C. Nichols
Don E. Williams
Barbara
Bailey- Murphy
Key West
Florida
Vern Conley
Paints ,Sville, Kw
Haven
Maben and
Charles K. Lambert
Lola Jean Lambert Morris
Charley K. Lambert
Mildred Lambert Spears
Worrell
Preston Wilson
Crow_y Worrell
Center
Victor Pais
R. W. McKinney
Robert Eugene Morgan
Bertha Farmer
Hedrick Carter
Barkers Ridge
Gilbert Brooks
Bertha N. Farmer
Corinne
Clark Stores
Neville Sv
Rhodell
Was. Sti
Neville Maytag & Furniture CO
Neville ST
Wyoming Garden School
March of Dimes
Sam White Jr
Dave’ Arnold
Harley Christian
Peter Ferretti
George Fordham
Harry Mounts
BE. E. Lampton
A. T Robertson
W.M. Barnard
Ray Bowling
Coleman Edwards
Paul Markowitz
M.shumate
Games
R. F. Wildey
West Virginia
Highland Save
Barnette
Rock Creek
Kermit Webb
Burl Pritt
Fico Diel
Tussy
Handy Family Carton
Cohen
Neville St. — Beckley
Karpen Group
Karpen
Lawson
Kingsley
Schoonbeck
Fashion Trend
Walnut Group
Hepplewhite Gp
Chippendale Gp
White
Modern Group
Sahara
Tomlinson
Cordovaz
Maddox
Beckley Hardware & Supply Company
Heber St
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