Peculiar Rain Pattern Reported in County Weather
Miss Bess Lilly, Flat Top weather observer, notes a varied past week with heavy showers in some areas and little rain in others. Flat Top recorded .34 inches by 7 PM, while Beckley, Stonecoat, and Winding Gulf valleys saw up to 1.3 inches. Forecasting remains uncertain though farmers expect beneficial crops from this rainfall pattern.
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Miss Bess Lilly
Flat Top
Beckley
Stonecoat
Gulf
Miss Lilly
Raleigh County
Ghent
Reading Flat Top
Odd
Barn
Virginia Hale
Fayette County News Defeated silicosis suit ends in hung jury
In Fayette County Circuit Court Judge J W Eary discharged a 30 hour deliberating jury in the second silicosis case against Hawks Nest to Gauley Bridge contractors. Donald J Shay sought 59000. Lawyers from Townsend Boch Moore Charleston and Brown Jackson Knight Charleston plus Dillon Mahan White Fayetteville argued the case. Fayette County sent 47 men to Camp Knox Kentucky for two weeks of CCC reforestation training. The fourth reforestation contingent included R L Gills Prince John Bays Lookout Raymond Martin Pax Robert Wood Lansing Robert Legg Mt Carbon Grady Sanford Rainelle Carrington Webb Kingston Alderson Boley Lookout Archie Ferren Meadow Bridge Virgil Dempsey Victor Harry El.
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William Braxton
Hilltop
Sarah Johnson
Fayette County
J. W. Eary
Donald J. Shay
Camp Knox
Kentucky
Civilian Conservation Corps
R. L. Gills
Prince
John Bays
Lookout
Raymond Martin
Pax
Robert Wood
Lansing
Robert Legg
Mt. Carbon
Grady Sanford
Rainelle
Carrington Webb
Kingston
Alderson Boley
Archie Ferren
Meadow Bridge
Virgil Dempsey
Victor
Harry el
Miss Morrison To Wed In Fall
A notice lists a marriage plan for Miss Morrison with dates and names of families in multiple towns and counties. The long roster of names includes Morrison, Ellison, Lookout, Hico, Clifftop, Victor, Ansted, Ramsey, Meadow Bridge, Pax, Prince, and Quinnimont among others. The article reads as a community notice of forthcoming nuptials with many relatives and locals named.
Mrs. Mary Alice Davis Burial In Saint Louis
Burial held in St Louis for Mrs Mary Alice Davis nee Gilbert widow of Sidney E Davis former Beckley resident. She died Tuesday July 10 at Kentucky Baptist Hospital Louisville. Body conveyed to Mannings Funeral Home Louisville with services at 8 pm in the chapel.
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St. Louis
Mary Alice Davis
Gilbert
Sidney E. Davis
Beckley
Produce Prices Report From Pittsburgh Market
U S Dept of Agriculture notes moderate demand for produce with apples beans peas and tomatoes showing weakness or dull activity across several states. Potatoes steady with varied price ranges. butter eggs poultry and cheese unchanged. In Chicago grain markets, corn weak, wheat up slightly, oats down, provisions unchanged. Harlan Dykes named head of physical education at University of Santa Clara.
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North Carolina
Virginia
New Jersey
Washington
Ohio
Tennessee
Maryland
Grain Exchange Chicago
Harlan Dykes
University of Santa Clara
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Fayette County News
Hawks Nest
Gauley Bridge
Townsend Boch and Moore
Charleston
W. L. Lee
Fayetteville
George Couch
Brown Jackson and Knight
Dillon, Mahan and White
Miss Morrison
Angelia Lawrence Morrison
U. S&s
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
N. C
James Jackson Harris
Atlanta
Associated Press
Dickson’s Case Stores
Lic
Jar
Women’s
Oxfords
Work Sox
Dickson’s
Ravencliff
Pemberton - Sophia Road
Glen Rogers
VA Chae Than
ACE
Joan
Rawford
Sadie McKee
Saint Louis
Pittsburgh
U.S &Pa
Dept.Agri
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
West Virginia
Morrison
Woile
Patiste
Children’s
Blue
Chambray
Neville ST
O. J. Morrison
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