Shower Honors Anne Gail Sclater at Mullens church
A bridal shower for Anne Gail Sclater of Mullens was held at Friendship Hall of First Methodist Church with a crystal tea table and arrangements of pink gladioli, daisies, and lilies. Hostesses listed include numerous Mullens residents. The couple plans an open church wedding at First Methodist on August 2 at 6 00 p.m.
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Ella McCraw
First Methodist Church
Mullens
ANS
Friendship Hall
Anne Gail Sclater
Darrel Campbell
Bryson City
N. C
L. C. Sclater
Church St
Glen Hudgins
Paul Ritchie
Charles Coffey
Edna Parsons
Gerald Snyder
Paul Martin
Arvid Robertson
W. D. Emmons
Orlan McNeely
Blake Castle
E. S Jennings
Board Accepts Resignation from Mulllens Band Instructor Gene Allen
The Wyoming County Board of Education accepted the resignation of Gene Allen, Mullens High School band instructor, after he said family and education plans motivated his move. The board extended bus staff and revised driver education, and approved park and land-use changes in Pineville and Oceana.
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Pineville
Wyoming County Board of Education
Gene Allen
Mullens High School
Allen
Palisade Park
Board of Education
Oceana Town Council
Oceana
Point Pleasant High School
Marshall University
Point Pleasant
Don Ellis
Bernard Whitt
Wyoming County
25 Patients Admitted To Mullens Hospital
Mullens hospital reports 25 patients admitted and discharged during the period. Details include patient counts by day and department, with no further identifiers provided in the accessible text.
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Mullens Hospital
Recent Bride Feted At Shower In Pineville
Mrs. David Risinger formerly Patty Parks was guest of honor at a bridal shower in the American Legion Hall Pineville hosted by Mrs. Paul Phillips Mrs. Carmel Hill and Mrs. Don Fuller. The bride daughter of Mrs. Bessie Parks wed July 6 in Pineville by Rev R J Chenoweth Jr. Attendees included numerous named guests and hospital admission and discharge notices from Wyoming General Hospital Mullens and surrounding areas.
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Pineville
RNS
David Risinger
Patty Parks
American Legion Hall
Paul Phillips
Carmel Hill
Don Fuller
Bessie Parks
R. J. Chenoweth Jr
Frank Norman
Sonja Graybeal
Bob Williams
James Cook
Ronnie Sizemore
Lonnie Simmons
Marshall Sabines
Jack D. Martin
Marvin Brooks
C. B. Beckelhimer
Hershel Hall
Wanda Edwards
Ella Fuller
Woodrow’ Edwards
Bob Allen
Ruth Browning
Loyd Baldridge
Louise Lester
Hoyt Greear
C. C. Holloway
David Mullens
Howard Younce
Charlie Green
Jack Phillips
Paige Hinzeman
Eddie Crews
Ray Bailey
Richard Evans
John Elison
Eugene Bishop
Eugene Neal
Ida Mae Ratliff
Carl Parks
Katie Neal
Sheila
Guests In Eller Home RAVENCLIFF
Mr and Mrs Leonard Eller and son Muky and daughter Cathy of Baltimore Maryland have been guests for several days of his parents Mr and Mrs Lee Eller and her parents Mr and Mrs Sam Pauley in Bob They were joined by Ellers sister Miss Sherry Eller who plans weeks of visit Ellers relatives Rufus Tolliver and family Eddie Eller and spouses returned Saturday from Deep Gap North Carolina where they visited Mrs Bess Eller and Mr and Mrs Fred Cox
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Rufus Tolliver
Sherry
Eddie Eller
Deep Gap
N. C
Bess Eller
Fred Cox
Glen Rogers
Elden Belcher
Jimmy Belcher
Cleveland
Ohio
Junior Belcher
Kenny
Moonachie
N. J
Johnny
Alene Janney
Virginia
Tennessee
Stephena Blume
Dayton
Frank Winston
Covington
Roger
Ayne Williams
Gary Shorter
Gary Williams
Charley Humphrey
Willis Branch
Eldridge Smith
Jim
Oregon
Norton Community Hospital
Aubrey Cruise
Chicago
Luther Cruise
Weirwood
Bernice Mowell
Joy Sue
Frankie Lee
Rosella Sutton
Clyde Mowell
Stella Robertson, Sprague
Gladys Taylor
Beaver
Billy Harmon
Maybeury
Shirley Mullins
Ten Fined On Traffic Charges In Pineville Hearings
Ten residents appeared before Magistrate Gilbert Goode in Pineville for traffic offense fines. Names include David L. Tucker and James A. Hargis of Pineville, Albert Crabtree of Panther, Carl Graybeal of Wolf Pen, Wilbert Robertson, Walter Cox, William R. Roberts, Auldie McComas, and David Tucker. Fines ranged from 5 to 10 dollars plus costs. arrests by State Police and local deputies.
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Pineville
Gilbert Goode
David L. Tucker
Fred Deal
James A. Hargis
William R. Roberts
Wilbert Robertson
Carl Graybeal
Wolf Pen
Welch
Walter Cox
David Tucker
Albert Crabtree
Panther
Auldie McComas
Enon
Poce
Auto firms boom and bust reshape U S car industry
In 1923 there were 108 auto makers in the United States. By four years later only 44 remained. At the peak, independents held 25 percent of the market while five firms controlled 75 percent. Small firms, though, spurred innovation more than larger players.
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United States
Panama Lesson Heard At Auxiliary Meeting
The Kilsyth Free Will Baptist Auxiliary met in the Auxiliary Hall with Mrs. H B Godbey hosting. Members discussed Panama The Land Between and related topics including Our Missionary Families and Missionary Witness. Plans were made to clean the hall before July 23 Gospel Singers Crusaders visit and to observe Church Homecoming on August 7.
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Lena Rierson
Wanda Collins
Patricia Pino
JoAnn Boyd
Edith Sneed
Hattie Bennett
Loraine Milton
Gospel Singers
Crusaders
Roger James
Kathy Coleman
Jack James
Lilly Godbey
Myrtle Meadows
Opal Wall
Barbara James
Pat Pino
Evelyn Lawson
Second Summer School Term To Begin July 19
Concord College announces the second five week term of the 1966 Summer Session planned to run from July 19 with registration July 18 morning to noon and the last registration day July 21 at 4 p.m. A full summer bulletin lists elective and required courses across many fields and a concert by the Dutton Per cussion Trio is slated for July 27 at 8 p.m.
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Athens
Concord College
Edward C. Lowe
College Center
Dutton Percussion
Virginia ironworks founder and Revolutionary War supplier
Col. Fielding Lewis, brother in law of George Washington, a Virginia iron manufacturer, built an arms factory in 1775 that supplied the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
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Fielding Lewis
George Washington
Virginia
Continental Army
Poisonous mushroom the destroying angel and danger
The destroying angel is among the most deadly mushrooms with over half of known cases ending fatally. It appears solitary or in small groups, commonly in aspen woods and hazel brush environments.
Why March 17 Is St Patrick's Day
The text explains that March 17 is the traditional feast day of St Patrick, not his birth date. It notes many people wrongly claim it marks his birth anniversary, while the date commemorates his death.
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Apostle of
Ireland
St. Patrick
Ravencliff Visitors and Family News
Sunday guests of the Rev. and Mrs. Robert E. Duty included her sisters Mrs. Curtis Estep and Mrs. Charles Garrett of Logan and brother Tracy Kinser. Mrs. Davis, a niece of the D duties, and Ed Chafin also of Logan accompanied Mrs. Estep and Mrs. Garrett. Frank Acord and sons Frankie and Jay left for Alderson to vacation on the Greenbrier River area. The Acord daughters Kim Adair and Kevin, joining aunt Mrs. William Totten, spent the weekend in New York and visited Niagara Falls in Buffalo. Howard Glasscock returned Sunday from a fishing trip to Narrows, Virginia.
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Ravencliff
RNS
Robert E. Duty
Curtis Estep
Charles Garrett
Logan
Tracy Kinser
Beckley
Estep
Garrett
Charles Davis
Ed Chafin
Davis
Duty
Frank Acord
Frankie
Jay
Alderson
Greenbrier River
Acords
Kim Adair
Kevin
William Totten
Flushing, Mich
New York
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Howard Glasscock
Narrows
First US national anthem poem linked to drinking song tune
Judge J H Nicholson proposed singing The Star Spangled Banner to the tune of To Anacreon in Heaven, the old English drinking song. Nicholson was Francis Scott Key’s brother in law, linking the poem’s early adaptation to Key.
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United States
J. H. Nicholson
Francis Scott Key
Anacreon
Tyler's Firsts in US Presidency Change
John Tyler made history as the first vice president to assume the presidency after a president died, the first to marry while in office, and the first target of impeachment resolutions.
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Tyler
John Tyler
First Bible Printed in Our Country in 1663
The Eliot Indian Bible, printed in 1663, rendered in the language of the Massachusetts or Algonquian Indians, marking the first Bible translation and printing in the region.
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Massachusetts
Youth Workshop Set by Pineville Baptist Youths
A Rockcastle Baptist Youth Association workshop will occur in July 2021 at Cook Memorial Baptist Church in Pineville. Paul Patton from Clarksburg leads sessions, with the Rockcastle Youth Choir and The Sunlighters quartet performing. The event includes a business session, an August camp plan for Rockcastle and Raleigh associations, a BYF banner win by Toneda, a $25 donation to Wyoming County Cancer Society, and a Memorial Park outing with Paul Patton as guest speaker.
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Pineville
Rockcastle
Cook Memorial Baptist Church
Paul Patton
Clarksburg
Rockcastle Baptist Church
The
Sunlighters
Sandy McKinney
Andy McKinney
Betty Phillips
Linda Lilly
Diane Dodd
Raleigh
Toneda Byf
Wyoming County Cancer Society
Memorial Park
Oceana
Brenda Cook
Debby Withrow
Byron Burgess
Brenda Phillips
Jack Phillips
Margie Brooks
Brenda Lemon
Robert Wheeler
Larry Morgan
Debby Allen
David Phillips
Belcher Family Returns Home After Visit
Glen Rogers reports extended family trip as Mr and Mrs Elden Belcher host relatives from Moonachie New Jersey and Cleveland Ohio. others depart for Silver Springs Maryland and Silver Springs Maryland after visiting Moonachie.
Origin of name America linked to Vespucci
The continent was named for Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer credited with multiple voyages to the New World for Spain. German geographer Martin Waldseemüller first employed the name in a book published in 1507 to honor Vespucci.
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America
Amerigo Vespucci
New World
Spain
Martin Waldseemuller
Vespucci
Community Visitors and Family Travel Highlights
Residents and relatives frequent Weirwood area visitations, with many traveling to and from Beckley Baltimore Indianapolis Covington and other towns. Names include Fonda Paschal Elvin Whitlow Larry Tyree Stephena Blume and Billy Harmon, among others, as summer visits and returns home are noted.
Now You Know By United Press International
About 20,000 private firms are engaged in work involving Appolo, the U.S. project to land itwo astronauts on the moon.
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United Press International
Appolo
U.S
Itwo
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