Director Calls School the Best in Its History
Mount Hope July 17 Certificates for successful completion of the six weeks short course in mining methods were to be presented to 48 men this afternoon with 74 enrolled. D L McElroy director said the school was the best ever from a numerical view, noting better papers and higher certificate requirements. Prizes and awards will be announced after grading. Of the class 60 plan to take mine foremen exams next week in Charleston. 12 were promised immediate jobs if they pass. Baxter Gaither, 40, who lost three fingers in a mine accident, learned to write with his left hand to finish the course. The program is hosted by West Virginia University School of Mines extension department, with instructors Hobart Watson, G R Spindler, and E M White.
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Mount Hope
D. L. McElroy
S. C. Higgins
New River Operators Association
New River and Winding Gulf Mining Institute
Robert Lilly
New River Company
New River
Edgar Graff
Charleston
McElroy
Baxter Gaither
Calloway
Gaither
West Virginia University School of Mines
Hobart Watson
G. R. Spindler
Beckley
E. M. White
Madison
Powellton Farm Women's Club to Meet July 21
Fayetteville July 17 The regular monthly meeting of the Powellton Farm Women's club will be held at the clubrooms July 21, it was announced here today.
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Fayetteville
Powellton Farm Women's Club
Lady in Waiting Licensed to Wed in Fayetteville
A list of July 17 marriage licenses shows Olive Legg of Ansted to Marion McVey and four other couples securing licenses the same day after two couples already wed under the 13th jinx. also noting Carrie Thomas with attendants Evelyn Dixon and Olive Legg and visits by Ansted royalty.
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Lady In Waiting
Fayetteville
Olive Legg
H. O. Legg
Ansted
Carrie Thomas
Oak Hill
Marion McVey
Rensley McVey
Thomas
Evelyn Dixon
Ruth Clark
John Robert Sampson
Gertrude Irene Withrow
Lansing
Homer Myers
Smithers
Pearl Sebers
Longacre
M. Homer Cummings
Donald Lively
Long Branch
Cunard
Opal Mae Perry
Howard Dick
Margaret Coleman
Carlisle
Two youths held in jail after Fayette county barroom fight
Glen Jones of Winona suffers a fractured skull and nose after a hit with a cuestick in a Winona beer garden. George Callaway and Ray Pugh, both negroes, are accused of felonious assault on Jones and Parker Reynolds. Each is bound over to the grand jury on $1,000 bond. Jones relapsed after initial hospital care. Reynolds not badly hurt.
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Lookout
Fayette County
Glen Jones
Winona
Coal Valley Hospital
Montgomery
Jones
Winona Beer Garden
George Callaway
Ray Pugh
Parker Reynolds
Beer Garden
R. O. Tully
Raynolds
North Carolina Rugs Sell Well to Tourists in W Va
A North Carolina rug business operates a roadside market at Chimney Corner West Virginia selling home made hooked rugs. G W Chandler and aides run the operation started in Swiss NC seven years ago with Chicago supplied materials. Rugs produced in a day and a half, mostly sold to outstate tourists now. local employment about ten.
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West Virginia
North Carolina
G. W. Chandler
Chandler
Swiss
Blue Ridge Mountains
Asheville
Burnsville
Chicago
West
J Morrison Once A Winter Oak Hill July 17
In Oak Hill on July 17, Rev C B Donnelly recalls O J Morrison merchant prince of southern West Virginia starting with a literary work titled The Slaughter of the Prost-Greene Family. Donnelly owns a copy detailing West Virginia's last public hanging in 1894 in Jackson County. John Morgan was executed for hatchet murders he planned to rob, according to the era’s theory of the crime.
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Oak Hill
O. J. Morrison
West Virginia
Prost-Greene
C. 8. Donnelly
Donnelly
Jackson County
John Morgan
John Oyler to Clear His Lots at Eastview
Oak Hill July 17 John Oyler known as the mayor of Eastview a district in northwest part of the community will begin clearing ten lots purchased this week in the rear of his old holdings along the streets of the area
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Oak Hill
John Oyler
Eastview
Plans to Bring Back Evidence Plans to Bring Back Evidence
Oak Hill reports Miss Nell Brewer, a drug clerk, left for annual vacation to Virginia Beach. She plans to bring back a shark if she catches one, after last year’s tale of a big fish being left there led friends to doubt the story.
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Oak Hill
Nell Brewer
Virginia Beach
Canadian Royal Mounted
Lonely Daughter Follows Mother in Oak Hill
Mrs. Shirley Plumley moved to Oak Hill after her husband’s death seeking a livelier area for her and her children. On Thursday morning her daughter Kathleen left the Toney Hollow section for the same reason, saying the loneliness of the place “got her” like her mother.
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Oak Hill
Shirley Plumley
Toney Hollow
Kathleen
Rachel Beckelheimer
Contracts set for road work Gauley Bridge
Contracts for the seal coat on the Midland Trail between Hico and Mt Lookout and between this community and Belva up Gauley river will probably be awarded about July 27. Patching for the seal coat is complete on the Hico to Mt Lookout stretch and is being pushed on Route 19.
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Gauley Bridge
Hico
Mt. Lookout
Belva
Gauley River
Hico-Mt. Lookout
Fayetteville road site eyed for drying business plan
The Fayetteville road area hosts a dry-cleaning establishment with plans to develop houses on some lots. The owner says he will decide what to do with the remaining parcels once the brush is cleared.
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Fayetteville Road
Elevated Walk Injures Noses In Oak Hill
Renewed agitation for lowering and repairing the west side sidewalk along Chestnut street. An pedestrian slipped striking nose on the elevated concrete pathway where no escalators exist. Cross streets left the path with shelving stones to bridge street grade, prompting lawsuits and wary residents to avoid the improvised crossing.
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Oak Hill
Chestnut Street
Four Mile Road to Help Trucks on Mount Way
Lookout reports the four mile highway from Route 60 into Nallen will ease truck climbs over the mountain. Clarence Church, former state road foreman, is expected to ensure progress as the state road department provides a grader tractor and steam shovel for construction.
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Clarence Church
State Road Department
Bidders Close On Postoffice Oak Hill
July 17 close bidding on the proposed new post office here delayed contract award. Three bids ranged from 68,800 to 70,000 with the second bidder quoting lower than the others.
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Oak Hill
Construction bids reveal Hill Bros. as low bidder
The bid figures show 68 875 dollars as the proposed total with Hill Bros. Construction Company of this city submitting the low bid. Firms from Virginia and Washington D. C. submitted higher offers, indicating Hill Bros. edged out the competition by submitting the most economical proposal.
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Hill Bros. Construction Company
Virginia
Washington, D. A
Mormon Monument Sparks 10 Percent Growth in Palmyra Branch
Since the erection of a Mormon monument a year ago on the Hill of Cumorah near Palmyra N Y Mormon membership has increased 10 percent in the Palmyra branch.
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Cumorah
Palmyra
N. Y
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Ant Petty
SLOE
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Edward Killy
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Powellton Club
TOM Walker Inc
Rom
Sherbrook Distributing CO
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sherbrook Products
J. Morrison
Merchant
Plumleys
Rosedale
Hillsdale
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Heinz Fresh
Welch
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Nallen
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Neville St
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