Ashworth Outlines Plan for 2-Story Ashworth Building on Heber Street
Judge Ben Ashworth announced plans to build a 2 story brick office and store structure at the corner of Heber and Prince streets. The 108 by 52 foot fireproof building will have a full basement with three rentable floors including street level stores and upstairs office suites. The lot, formerly Raleigh county jail, was acquired from a corporation that bought it from the county after the jail was removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Ashworth
The
Register
Raleigh County
Ashworth
Ten Fined and Jailed in Truancy Cases in Raleigh County
Ten persons were found guilty before Magistrate W. C. Mills of Raleigh County for truancy. Each defendant faced a $5 fine and costs, plus 90 days in Raleigh County jail. Cases involved children kept from Montreal Stickney, Dorothy, Pettus, Mt View, and Pettus schools, with multiple families named across Packsville, Hazy, Birchton, Colcord, and Rock House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil H. Workman
Raleigh County
W. C. Mills
Joe Curry
Hazy
Isaac Massey
Rock House
Curry
Montreal-Stickney
Massey
Dorothy
Steve Stockton
Nina Wills
Arnett
Mt. View
George Lenville
Packsville
Pettus
William Keenan
Ned White
Colcord
Clear Fork
Cecil Green
Birchton
Pettus School
Clarence Adkins
d _Lee White
Eight Couples Obtain Licenses
County records show eight couples granted marriage licenses and three more applications on file by week's end. Granted licenses include Lee Scalf and Dora Bowling. Harvey Toney and Mary Brown. William Edward Adams and Marcella Caudill. Kenneth Sprague Crotty and Lucy Amon. Clarence M. Divine and Mary Honaker. Samuel Scarbro and Elsie Canterbury. Ralph Williams and Gladys Mac Shea. David McBride and Frances Snyder. Applications pending list Christopher Hargrove and Ella McGowan. Charles Poe and Edith Poe. Cecil St. Clair and Gladys Childers.
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Lee Scalf
Harper
Dorothey Jane Bowling
Harvey Toney
Sprague
Mary
Brown
William
Edward Adams
Princewick
Marcella Agnes Caudil
Sophia
Gaylord Kenneth | Crotty
Lucy Rita
Amon
Clarence Maren Divine
Arnett
Mary Elsie Honaker
Samuel Keith Scarbro
Dry Creek
Elsie Jane Canterbury
Ralph Truman Williams
Artie
Gladys Mac Shea
David Oscar McBride
Crab Orchard
Frances Jane Snyder
Christopher Hargrove
Cranberry
Ella McGowan
Charles Blaine Poe
Edith Odessa Poe
Cecil M. St. Clair
Pemberton
Gladys Gay Childers
Rites Set Today For Fire Victim Doris Ann Armstrong
Funeral services for Doris Ann Armstrong four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Armstrong of Bailey avenue will be held at 2 pm at the Caffee funeral home with Rev L R Wingham officiating. Burial will be in Caffee cemetery Mount Hope. A neighbor extinguished the flames after a smaller child set fire to paper which ignited the girl's clothing. Doris Ann born Sprague July 21 1941 is survived by her parents two brothers Kenneth Ray and Larry and four grandparents.
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Doris Ann Armstrong
Kenneth O. Armstrong
Bailey Avenue
Caffee Funeral
L. R. Wingham
Caffee
Mount Hope
Doris Ann
Armstrong
36Th Infantry Division
Dolores Ann
Sprague
Kenneth Ray
Larry
L. C. Armstrong
Shrewsberry Boys Awarded Damages After Truck Crash
Judge Ben H. Ashworth filed two circuit orders approving damages to Claude and Clarence Shrewsberry for injuries from a truck owned by S L Lilly and driven by Johnny Lilly near Besoco on January 29. Clarence 18 received 250 dollars plus 174 dollars hospital bills. Claude 15 received 250 dollars plus 93 dollars hospital bills. Oscar Shrewsberry, guardian, filed the petition.
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Shrewsberry Boys
Ben H. Ashworth
Circuit Clerk
Claude
Clarence Shrewsberry
S. L. Lilly
Johnny Lilly
Clarence
Oscar Shrewsberry
Besoco
Livestock Group Re-Elects M. L. Scott to Board
M. L. Scott of Table Rock was re elected to the board of the Greenbrier Valley livestock association meeting at Lewisburg. County Agent H B Thomas accompanied Scott at the annual gathering.
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M. L. Scott
Table Rock
Lois
Greenbrier
Lewisburg
Livestock Association
Scott
H. B. Thomas
Forty-Five Raleigh Veterans File Discharges Here
Forty five Raleigh county veterans have filed discharge papers with Selective Service boards 1 and 3, per information released by clerks. The list includes William Henry Kenter of Beckley and many others from Beckley, Prosperity, Crab Orchard, and surrounding areas. Firing discharges with boats No 3 include Alfred Henry Slab Fork, Paul Pegram Crab Orchard, and others from Beckley Winding Gulf and nearby towns.
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Raleigh County
Selective Service Boards
Clerks of
Boston
Banana South American Ports Board No. 1
U. S
William Henry Kenter
Roles
South
Oakwood Ave
E E Bibb Named Retailers Head in West Virginia
E E Bibb president of Beckley Hardware and Supply was elected president of the West Virginia Retailers association succeeding Robert M Round of Wheeling. R A Shackelford of Beckley chosen for a two year term on the board of directors and Clarence Earl Underwood Beaver also noted.
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Wm. E. Bibb
Beckley Hardware and Supply Company
West Virginia Retailers Association
Robert M. Round
Wheeling
R. A. Shackelford
E. M. Payne Company
Beckley
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Nue
Garnet Chester Bennett, Jr
Prosperity
Robert B. Gravely
Owen L. Faulkner
South Fayette Street
Charles L. Lewis
Everett F. Perdue
Milton Pickus
First Avenue
Dorsey Charles Sweeney
Kenneth W. McPherson
Heber Street
Clarence P. Matson
Pocahontas
Virginia
Warden T. Paris
Lee Street
Beck
Arthur G. Willams
Warper
Leonard Berginnis
Enid
Oklahoma
Orville Green Hopkins
Joe Horwath
Hamtramack
Michigan
John, W. Cottle
Joseph H. Hamlin
Grant Street
Maurie Douglas
Long Branch
Henry M. Stanley
Buel W. Woodie
Murray Harris
East Beckley
Bruce Cladius Cox
Lonnie Foster
Decan Street
Elwyn A. Briggs
Kearsarge
New Hampshire
Arthur McClacky
Columbus
Ohio
Melvin L. Tate
Quin
E. E. Bibb
Clarence Earl Underwood, Beaver
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Black Knight Country Club
United Mine Workers of America District 29
Raleigh County Bank Bank of Raleigh
Beckley Optical Co
Raymond’s Loyal Order of Moose
Embee’s
Eatwell Cafe
Scouis Music Service 5. & S. Tire Service
Motor Car Supply Co
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Mary Y. Conway, Millinery
Consolidated Bus Lines
Denny Goff Printing Co
Universal Supply Co
R. D. Watts Insurance Agency
the Vogue the Beckley Drug Co
Burns Jewelry Co
Johnny “Paradiddle
Joe” Morris and His Orchestra
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