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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1937

Page

3

OAL MEN DRAW BIGGEST PAY IN SOUTHERN W VA

Treasury figures released in Washington show coal company leaders in Southern West Virginia earning large salaries in 1935. Names include C. M. Wright of Raleigh Coal and Coke, William J. Clothier of Boone County Coal, S. A. Scott of New River Company, and many others across West Virginia firms and utilities.

W. VA Washington Treasury ‘Department C. M. Wright Raleigh Coal and Coke Company Raleigh A. A. Liggett William J. Clothier Sharples Boone County Coal Corporation J. H. Gross Mount Hope Irman New River Company S. A. Scott Edward Graff Nicholls The Oak Coal Company Congress Secretary of the Treasury West Vicans Rthur M. Hill At- Greyhound Lines Charles Es J. Riley Bari“Reduction Corporation South Ieston James B. Ce Jri Mashall Bond Treas Bond-Rider-Jackson Commy Charleston falter. E._ Clark Iton Mail Association Karles A. Robinson Chesapeake and Potomac Phone Company West Viria E. Chilton Jr Eaiily Gazette Company M. Crawford Ershure Rig and Reelcom- Parkersburg da Crawford Lockhart Standard Ultra- Inc. Company Huntington Car Nelson United OH Company Ritz Unitéd: Fuel Gas Company Charmy FLA Wallace Sident Uants Davis Universal Products Company Parkers- A Ensurer M. Deyerle Flat Top Fuel Company, Inc Bluefield Frankenberer Kenberger and Company Henry Kleenanses L. Goodman Gpecubrter Valley Hospital Ronce“verte Raymond Hoy Hoy and, Company H-B. McJunkin McJunkin Supply Company Samworth Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company C. C. Schonthal West Virginia Rail Company H. A. Zeller L Epperly Winding Gulf Collieries

Reformatory at 7 Without Walls Gives Children A New Start

A private institution named Children’s Village at Dobbs Ferry New York houses 350 children ages 6 to 16 without bars or guards, offering a fresh start through courts committing youths for offenses or unfit guardians. Education uses psychiatry. stays range six months to five years with graduation and return or placement. about 85 percent become upright citizens. counties pay minimum rates per child.

Dobbs Ferry New York

Church Announcements From Multiple Local Congregations

Readable church notices from First Baptist First Methodist First Christian St Stephen's Gospel Healing School and others include Sunday school times morning prayers sermons and upcoming events. Details feature pastors Rev. James A Hayes Rev. Ress Culpepper Dr Henry L Clay Rev C W Sydnor Jr Rev F L Shannon Rev F E M Dick and organizations like the Young People and Gleaners with various weekday meetings revivals and holiday observances across several churches in the area.

ST. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church C. W. Sydnor Oth Angarmon Goa Uda. Om

Auxiliary Circle In Inspirational Meet

The number 1 Circle of the Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church met at Mrs. C. C. Ruebush home on Thursday afternoon for an inspirational service. Mrs. E. S. Hamilton supervised the program with Mrs. W. H. Level leading discussions on foreign missions. Members present included Mrs. Ruebush Lane Hamilton Marshner Wood Daniel Level Duvall Lowry Thompson. Falconry expert James Steyn adds a trained South African eagle for talks.

S Register Dak Hill The Presbyterian Church C. C. Ruebush E. S. Hamilton W. H. Level Ars. Ruebush Lane Fish United States James Steyn

Colored Churches SMITH CHAF SMITH CHAF cL A M E CHURCH

The text outlines services at an African American church with Rev George L Bennett as pastor. Sunday school led by Mr Superintendent, and a sermon at 138 p.m titled What a friendship for a name with scripture Psalm 41:9. An afternoon sermon is listed as The Open Door G.

Geo. L. Bennett Sam Sunday School WLM Wawn

Religious notices and church events in Beckley and surrounding areas

The page lists multiple church notices from Ebenezer Baptist to Church of God of America in Beckley and Minden, detailing pastors, service times, Sunday schools, and sermons. It also includes a government calendar note about an official meeting and Missionary Circle gathering, plus a brief economic figure predicting cotton income for Russian collective farms in 1936 at 3.6 billion rubles, down to a single line.

Fairness to Fish California Issue

California considers a voter initiative to curb or abolish seven floating sardine reduction plants offshore. Backers accuse the boats of depleting fisheries. opponents say the plan protects old shore-based monopolies. The industry uses purse seiners to supply vast fish meals and oil, with operations partly outside three miles and a fleet of 1,200 fishermen.

Associaten San Francisco California Pacific Coast Fisheries Institute Stanley Hiller Lake Miraflores Tion Northwest Petiton State Fish and Game Department

Becklevites Artwork 10 Benefit State

Former Judge A D Prestons pledge to donate his wifes art collection to the state if properly cared for may influence approval of a statehouse annex in Charleston. The bill by Delegate T E Dibbs seeks space for a West Virginia Museum of Arts and Sciences amid capitol crowding. Prestons wife Blanche left miniatures landscapes and animal and still life paintings, some exhibited in Cincinnati and Charleston, with works scattered from New York to Richmond and Charleston.

A. D. Preston Charleston T. £. Dibb Capitol West Virginia Museum of Arts and Sciences Preston Blanche Preston West Virginia Lewis Publishing Company Chicago Covington Lindsay Thomas Lindsay Museum of Art Cincinnati Wolf Creek Fayetteville Greenbrier Home Museum of the Department of Archives and History Delgado Museum of Art New Orleans New York Richmond Claiborne Cox The Society of Colonial Dames Byrd Warwick Collis P. Huntington Huntington William A McCorkle George W. Atikins Ruth Cleveland Cleveland Mystic Krews Art Students’ League New York City West Virginia Encyclopedi Phil Conley

Summerlee miner suffers leg fracture in mine incident

Miner K Hill James Lowey, working at Summerlee mine near here, fractured his right leg after being struck by falling coal last week. He was admitted to Oak Hill hospital in favorable condition and is recovering.

Register K Hill James Lowey Summerlee Mine Here Oak Hill Hospital

Glen Jean Youth Recovers After Appendectomy

OAK HILL Dewey Matthews 14 of Glen Jean is in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy. Hospital workers report his condition as very satisfactory.

Roedster Star OAK Hill Dewey Matthews Glen Jean

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Treasury Department First Baptist Church James al. Hayes E. E S. S am—Mesage First Methodist Church Heder Street Ress Culpepper Gifford Waterman Mre. Waterman Tanne Pesto Wordnetday Pipe Methodist Temple Methodist Episcopal Church South So Kanawha Church Street Henry L. Clay S—Church Echo Ferman Momusie Wy Che Fihb Vonne People’ Meeting Feeman Spe Eda Tebokah Hihle Gass Trayer Bitte Mour Boy Scouts Young People's Choir Perlot Perindt Ruthie Ware Ware Sian Tir Ware Wo Shotter Canetral Chetttianchur Mirtiie Gospel Healing School Sam Amate Pemberton Fev. T. HH Parke Orater Carnally Beckley Presbyterian J. L. Linentaver D. DL Wan. MacTaggart S. S. Tres William Taylor Mrz T. S. Williams Aching Weaper Christian F. L. Shannon Mary Davis Harper Sprague Dick Will Preart An Aiman Dick Will Presch Dave Young Peante Cranberry Suptay Schoaly Teoop Young Peonte M. Diely Circle In Inspirational SMITH M. E. Church Rafeind Mundas Missionary Circle Reve AL J. Smee Shesener Ebenezer Baptist Church Sorickley Philip F. King Church OF Gon Afostolic Weckley M. Gravely J. Th. Simoat United Holy Church Beckley G. W. Harrison AooSonidas Sehont Lewis Howards SaMerning Worshy New Hope Sapt'st Mest Mark J. A. Divers Bo L. Divers Rey Dlom Dizer Ho Fie Finance Wetam Uiark Inehasen Church OF God OF America Minden James Bailey Si Hos Fairness To Fish Missouri Becklevite Bibb Summerlee
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