Instructed Delegates Count Listed from Beckley and Nearby Areas
A long list details circuit delegates and alternates from Beckley Raleigh Mabscott East Beckley and surrounding towns. Names include J D Lilly Opie Hedrick M L Painter Wesley Wilkes Mildred White G R Hutchinson and many others with alternates also named. The roster spans Beckley Pemberton East Beckley Mabscott Raleigh and related districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Scott
Beckley
Godfrey Taylor
Lanark
T. M. Hamlet
Glen White
C. D. Stroud
Crab Orchard
Fess Pennington
D. W. Callaway
East Beckley
J. D. Lilly
Oppie Lee Hedrick
M. L. Painter
Wesley Wilkes, Jr
Mildred White
G. R. Hutchinson
Sam Motley
Robert Winston
Connie E. Walls
Lacy Trump
Brooks Adair
Henry Greene
A. M. McKinney
W. H. Ford
Harry Watkins
C. N. Ellis
John Peters
J. C. Wright
M. M. French
W. L. Jefferies
R. Q O
Raleigh
J. P. Washington
Sprague
E. N. Hannah
Robert Burks
Stamford
Carl Stover
Cittsville
G. F. Stover
Lee Kidd
Prosperity
Sam Hite
Walter Harrah
Robert Harrah
Edgar Harrah
Skelton
Harry Lovell
T. L. Roberts
Sophia
Bh. R. Gross
Oswald
E. E. Stanley
W. M. Horton
Dewey Ellison
Willard Shrewsbury
Perab Orchard
Mart McVey
Charley Powell
G. P.warner
Cranberry
Floyd
Cobb. McCreery
Slab Fork
Sam Caudell
Yimigo
Burk Battles
Claude vJarrett
Besaco
Lacy Cole
Coal City
Okey Dunn
Tams
George Wolfe
W. T. Tillman
Virgil Shrewsbury
Winding Gulf
J. W. Goins
W. M. Yates
Fast Gulf
Butch Cook
McAlpin
John Lyons
Hotcoat
Fred Mann
Big Stick
Grant Logan
Odd
W. L. Clark
Wes Kearns
East Gulf
Lacy Wood
Lillybrook
Claude Jarrett
Besoco
J. W. Cobb
R. D. Wood
Amigo
James Austin
Mead
Enoch Stover
Oney Akers
John Flynn
Helen
Phillip White
Stotesbury
Stock Market Rally Pushes Prices to New Highs
The Associated Press index of 60 stocks rose 0.4 to 65.2, the highest since July 21, 1931, on 867,180 shares traded. Railroads, industrials and utilities led gains through a two hour session as investors priced in brighter earnings and continued economic vigor despite seasonal trends. Fears of a steel strike faded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Fayette Man Held In Forgery Case
Rexmond Ewing aged 23 was jailed awaiting grand jury action on forging an endorsement on a 874.72 check. He was arrested Friday at Stone Cliff Fayette County by Deputy Sheriff Green and railroad officer Farley. Local jeweler Barker identified Ewing as the man who gave him a counterfeit check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexmond Ewing
Stone Cliff
Fayette County
L. A. Green
G. Farley
F. A. Barker
Ewing
Desk once used in Frick assassination recalled in Wheeling
The Frank H. Thurm desk that Frick used when Alexander Berkman shot him in 1892 is back in the news as Thurm recalls the incident. He notes the desk with 100 pigeon holes remains a draw for visitors, who call it a lucky charm. Frick died years later after helping convict Berkman, who served 19 years in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Wheeling
W. Va
Henry C. Frick
Pittsburgh
Frank H. Thurm
Frick
Alexander Berkman
Homestead
Berkman
France
Thurm
Gates
Stalnaker
Steel Companies Move on Unions Pittsburgh
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee reports 20 Hub Bard and Company workers in Pittsburgh say the plant closed due to union activity and heat suspending operations until Tuesday. C L Pierce accuses Communist agitators of stirring men to attend a party night before last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Hubbard and Company
C. L. Pierce
Peirce
Steel Working Organizing Committee
John Hoffman
Hubbard
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Aliquippa
Watch Forgery Tied to Stolen Check in Railway Payment
H. H. Nichols of Stone Cliff reported a forged endorsement on a $25 watch payment. The check was stolen from his home days earlier and returned to Barker with a payment stopped memo. Nichols had alerted the railway company to stop payment once he discovered the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorsed
H. H. Nichols
Nichols
Stone Cliff
Barker
Greenbrier Valley Fair Hosts Homecoming Week
A sixteenth Greenbrier Valley Fair at Lewisburg August 31 to September 5 will feature a homecoming week for native residents. Mrs. C B E Lewis of Maxwelton heads the homecoming committee seeking names of former residents from Greenbrier Pocahontas Monroe and Summers counties to invite them to participate in the ceremonies. A homecomers headquarters will be set up on the fairgrounds. The fair board says this is West Virginia’s largest fair and has expanded prize lists to cover farm and garden products and many home and craft divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenbrier Valley
Greenbrier Valley Fair
Fair
Lewisburg
C. BE. Lewis
Maxwelton
Greenbrier
Pocahontas
Monroe
Summers
West Virginia
Mt Hope Pastor To Head Meeting At Assembly
The 27th annual session of the West Virginia Baptist assembly opens a 10 day meeting at Alderson-Broaddus College on August 4. The Rev. Clarence Figgatt of Mount Hope will be dean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philippi
West Virginia Baptist Assembly
Alderson-Broaddust College
Clarence Figgatt
Mount Hone
Auto Accident Victims Go Home
Six people injured in two back to back crashes were discharged from Raleigh General Hospital. Mrs G G Lancaster and her four year old son Harrison left for Huntington with the other Lancaster child returning home Tuesday. W J Waddell who had lacerations and bruises was sent home Friday night. Mrs Hazel Griffith and her two year old son Billy left hospital Monday. Harrison had been thought most seriously hurt when the Lancaster vehicle collided at Hinton Princeton road intersection. The Griffith car wreck occurred about a mile away while Waddell hurried Harrison to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh General Hospital
G. G. Lancaster
Harrison
Huntington
Lancaster
W. J. Waddell
Hazel Griffith
Billy
Hinton
Princeton
Waddell
Griffith
Care of Babies Taught at Pre-natal Clinic Event
Supplies for caring for mothers and infants to be shown at Sophia grade school in the afternoon. A midwives clinic will be led by Miss Beulah Ann Graybeal and Dr W W Hume. Doctors assisting include Dr R C Mitchell Dr F J Moore and Dr George W Jliuson. Nurses aiding include Miss Selen Howell Miss Ruth Laxton Miss Graybeal Miss Laura Burrow and Miss Laura Justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Grade School
Beulah Ann Graybeal
W. W. Hume
Nancy Jane
Hume
R. C. Mitchell
Eccles
F. J. Moore
Affinity
George W. Julias0n
McAlpin
Selen Howell
Ruth Laxton
Graybeal
Laura Burrow
Fayette County
Laura Justice
Wyoming County
Logan delegates endorse Judge Naaman Jackson for renomination
Republican magisterial convention delegates in Logan County endorsed Circuit Judge Naaman Jackson for renomination. Logan is the only county in the circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Logan
Naaman Jackson
Officials to Lecture Nurses in Charleston Next Week
Three members of the state health department in Charleston will lecture to five student nurses at the public health department’s junior high school annex next Monday. Dr. Thomas Blake will discuss maternal and child health. Miss Catherine Cox will present laboratory work and sample collection methods. Miss Dorothy Campbell will lecture on educational methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Health Department
Charleston
Public Health Department
Thomas Blake
Division of Maternal and Child Health
Catherine Cox
State Laboratory
Dorothy Campbell
Laurence C. Fisher
State Division of Public Health Nursing
J. H. Crouch
Coal Machines Entering State
Mechanization of coal mines, already rapid in the Middle West, is entering West Virginia in an experimental stage. Operators report slow, gradual adoption with some displacement. unions note 3,500 job losses since January due to mechanization and market conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charleston
Middle West
West Virginia
Browith
Indiana
Illinois
V. Sullivan
West Virginia Coal Association
Carl Scholz
Cc. c. Dickinson
Dickinson Fuel Company
Accidents Kill 31 Workers in June Statewide
The state compensation department reports 31 workers died in June accidents, 27 of them in coal mining. Other items note headless mummies in the southwest, rising amateur aviation in Turkey, 46 000 inmates at Atlanta prison since 1902, and a smokers terrace for a new German library in Leipzig.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Compensation Department
Federal
Atlanta
Leipzig
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. P
Fayette
Raymond Ewing
America
Pennington
S. C
Kansas
Fairfax
Homecomit
MT. Hope
Glamorou
Lasca’s
Union Shop
Main St
Foster HarDwAre
JUDGE
Jackson
American Southwest
Turkey
Raymond
Embee
Raymond’s Beauty and Cosmetic Shoppe
Coca-Cola
Vera-Rose Beauty Shop
Beckley, W, VA
Ogeee
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