Delegates To Attend Convention Fayette Woman's Auxiliary Meets
Fayetteville ANS delegates and alternates of the American Legion Auxiliary gather in the Chestnut Room to plan the state convention in Huntington July 21 23. Officers and committee chairs announced reports on a Beckley Veterans Hospital event and a high school graduation party. A Clean Up committee was formed for August and Girls State representatives Mary Elizabeth Hash and Tana Sue Toler will speak at the July meeting.
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Fayetteville
ANS
Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion
Chestnut Room
Legion
Maple Avenue
Huntington
John L. Witt Jr
Myron R. Renick
D. E. Brown
Brown
Third District
A. , Gray
Charles Knotts
Harry Miller
Beckley Veterans Hospital
William R. Hesse
Lissie Carte
Hesse
Junior Woman's Club
Cecil Spradlin
Fayetteville High School
A. M. Gray
John Tamplin
Keith Hunt
Oscar Henderson
Perry Selvey
Bartley Hess
Cleo Yeager
Page
Jackson's Mill
Mary Elizabeth Hash
Tana Sue Toler
Gray
Charles Knots
Walter
Fayette Couple Celebrates 47th Anniversary
Mount Hope residents Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bennett marked their 47th wedding anniversary at home. Married June 30 in Fayetteville by Rev. A E O'Dell, they have seven children and eight grandchildren. He has worked 32 years with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and is a Free Will Baptist Church member. She, Eva Peyton, was a former store clerk.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Edgar Bennett
Fayetteville
A. E O'Dell
Elda Carney
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Kenneth Strange
Fort Thomas
Helen Bennett
Lyndell Bennett
Rand
Robert Bennett
Dunbar
Warren Ray Bennett
Hampton
Bennett
Caperton
Frank
Glenna Bennett
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Free Will Baptist Church
Kilsyth
Revival pastor attends seminary and serves three churches
Rev. Willis Bradley of Sylvester Church leaves for Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington to study through July 22. He will pastor Naoma Methodist and Rebecca Chapel at Rock Creek temporarily, with Rock Creek services inviting attendance and a July 3 communion. Bradley plans a later schedule after returning.
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Sylvester
ANS
Willis Bradley
Methodist Church
Wesley Theological Seminary
Washington, D. C
Fairmont
Taylor County
Bradley
Preston County
Naoma Methodist Church
Rock Creek
Washington
Naoma Church
Lester Denies Shooting Count in Grand Jury Case
Harley Mc Fay Lester, 22, is jailed awaiting grand jury action on a felonious wounding charge after arraignment before Magistrate Grant Taylor. He denied the Monday night shooting of 37-year-old Garrett Whitt, father of five, and was recommitted without bond.
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Register
Whitts
Whitt
Katy Lou Lester
Lester
Scouts Complete First Aid Classes
Mount Hope Intermediate Girl Scouts hosted a 10 week first aid course led by nurse Mrs. Max Tolliver to earn First Aid Proficiency Badges. Twenty one girls studied topics from bleeding to fractures and practiced on case studies, with a future mouth to mouth respiration film and poison ivy booklets issued for study.
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Mount Hope
ANS
Max Tolliver
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Malinda Davis
Mary Miller Gwinn
June Humphrey
Kathy McClung
Barbara Boyd
Joan Arthur
Barbara Brown
Annette Evans
Beverly Logan
Alice Mc‘Graw
Karen Mobley
Barbara
Rotarians Hear Astronomer at Oak Hill Meeting
Oak Hill Rotary Club hosted Walter Semerau, astronomer with the government geophysical department, as guest speaker. A film illustrated the talk on astronomy, the science of heavenly bodies. Semerau, formerly from Oak Hill and now of Kennmore New York, noted astronomy’s rising importance in the space age and the need to learn about stars, planets and the moon for future space travel.
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Oak Hill
RNS
West Virginia
Rock Creek Bible School Closes Friday
Vacation Bible School at Rock Creek ended Friday night with a closing program and certificates for about 40 attendees. The event featured theme signals for Christ with readings, songs, and flannel board demonstrations by Primary, Juniors, Intermediates, and Teen groups. The closing included a Wiener roast at Walhonde Park with teachers, parents, and the new pastor Rev. Willis Bradley in attendance.
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Rock Creek
RNS
Christ
Jesus
Peggy Cantley
Walhonde Park
Montroal
Willis Bradley
Boxer Rebellion of 1900 In Northern China
The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 involved a secret society attack in northern China targeting foreigners and their influence amid regional unrest and foreign responses.
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China
Holiday Golf Tourney Set For White Oak
Holiday weekend events at White Oak Country Club include a Hole-In-One Tournament on Sunday July 3 a Scotch foursome on July 4 and a Woman's Handicap Tournament starting July 5 Golf Pro Gene Thompson urged immediate signups Thompson reported local winners from a three way women’s match at Bluefield with White Oak Black Knight Beckley and Bluefield members nine holes were played due to rain Juanda Ann Clay had low gross 49 with Mrs O L Blake and Mrs N M Steen contending for low net Deanie Duncan was low putter with 15 Door prizes were awarded to Mrs Eugene Houchins and Miss Duncan
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Oak Hill
White Oak Country Club
Gene Thompson
Thompson
Bluefield
White Oak
Black Knight
Beckley
Juanda Ann Clay
O. L. Blake
N. M. Steen
Deanie Duncan
Eugene Houchins
Pineville Boy to Attend Church Camp Leadership School
Gary Bowyer son of Mr and Mrs Marvin Bowyer of Pineville will represent Pineville Presbyterian Church at the youth leadership training school at the Presbyterian conference grounds at Massanetta Springs near Harrisburg Va The Rev Norman Morgan pastor of the church will also attend as a staff member of the school
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Pineville
RNS
Gary Bowyer
Marvin Bowyer
Taft as First Civilian Governor General of the Philippines
William Howard Taft served as the first civilian governor general of the Philippines from 1901 to 1904, overseeing early American administration and political reforms in the colony.
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William Howard Taft
Philippines
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