Beckley Notes and Local Observations from 1920s
A sample of a tropical mango fruit sent by William R. Wheeler of E Street is described as orange-yellow with flavors hinting at several fruits. The piece also details the Yaple home on Johnstown Road with its croquet ground, electric lines, and landscaped grounds, plus reminiscences about a 20 year old Mackinaw coat found in a caboose. The Beckley city directory by R. L. Polk is criticized for selling mailing lists to manufacturers, exposing how consumer data is monetized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Wheeler
E Street
Wheeler
Petersburg
Beckley
R. B. Yaple
Johnstown Road
Crawford Avenue
Elder
Wildwood Avenue
North Carolina
Beckley City
R. L. Polk and Company
Detroit
Polk
United States
West Virginia
R. L. Polk
Kalamazoo
Raies Named Advertising Manager at Koppers Stores
Norman W. Raies of Mount Hope, formerly Pax school principal and Fay ette county newspaper worker, has taken the post of advertising and publicity manager for Koppers Stores Inc. He will operate from the company offices in Huntington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman W. Raies
Mount Hope
Pax School
Fayette County
Koppers Stores, Inc
Huntington
Health queen named by AP from Morgantown WV
Miss Janet Harper, head of her Pendleton County 4-H camp tribe, won West Virginia health queen honors and will travel to Chicago for the national congress November 29 to December 7. She earned the crown at the state encampment held at Jackson's Mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Morgantown
W. Va
Janet Harper
Pendleton County
Chicago
West Virginia
National Congress
Jackson's Mill
Knutson sports tropical helmet in the House style
Congressman Marold Knutson of Minnesota adopts a tropical helmet tropical worsted suit and sandals in a bold new House style. The eye catching outfit signals a casual look during a formal session drawing attention from colleagues and observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marold Knutson
Minnesota
Canal Across Puzzle Notes and Answers
A scanned print puzzle lists across and down clues with partial fills and an instruction to provide the answer to the previous puzzle. The reader is invited to complete the crossword mapping Canal across 22 A whelp Isthmus 23 The self Panama 24 Measure of 6 Thosted length 45 20 Mexican silver dollar 25 A state of the United States abbr 28 From prefix 31 Shaft as of a Babble circular saw 34 A month A2 Transact abbr 3 A bass singer 85 Over poetic 15 Note of the 87 Embankment scale beside a Canal con necting Lake Erie and 41 Canal from Lake Ontario to North Sea Submit Baltic sea 20 Canal congr 42 Cattle roundstructured by ups De Lesseps Pasture Jet Bolt clubs for horses 1 Cape Breton 2 Trouble abbr 5 Negative 3 Negative 8 Goddess of reply dawn 4 A monastery 9 A light rain Unbolted 11 Masculine wheat flour name 6 Metal headed 14 Disregard 10 A membrane To grow old between toes Bustie of certain Can al from birds Buffalo to Albany N. Purchase Large Dees Antiquity Nooks poetic East Indie Pitiless abbr Extort money Depart from To cover with pavement Answer to previous puzzle
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
United U.S
Erie
Lake Ontario
North Sea
Baltic Sea
Ups de Lesseps
Cape Breton
Buffalo
Albany
Sunday to Monday travel and visiting in Lillybrook area
A string of visits and social calls across Fireco Lillybrook Beckley and surrounding towns spans the week end into Monday. Residents like Carl Thoma son Forest Calvert H Cox and families plus many others visit relatives attend church and attend gatherings. Local business visitors include Leo Little and Roy Matherly while rail and road trips bring Miss Ruth Plasters Miss Peggy Bryce Miss Margaret Almond and others to Beckley Mullens and Fayetteville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman Baird
Leonard Shrewsbury
Fireco
C. V. Dillon
Ameda Wickline
Lillybrook
Ritchie
Peggy Bryce
Margaret Almond
Arthur White
J. T. Bedwell
Page Stump
Leo Little
Beckley
Bill Mays
L. V. Basham
Thomas Handy
Zelda
Jimmy
Edward Farley
Speedway
Vincent Sanchez
Carlisle
Mary Barrero
Roy Matherly
Letrel Rylant
Lee Little
Forest Calvert
Sonny Boy
O. G. Dancey
Cunard
Dancey
S. W. Potter
Potter
Edward Marquez
Trini Marquez
Amigo
Ruby
June Baird
Virginia Haislip
R. C. Baird
Garnard Dillon
Thomas Wood
Pineville
Allie
Pauline
Lillian Bedwell
Stump
Mary Evelyn Thomason
Lorraine Calvert
Roy Golden
Lillian
Beulah Golden
Glennie Golden
Wm. J. Long
Mullens
C. L. Meadows
Kent Otey
Baxter Wills
Crab Orchard
Charles
Willie Bryant
Bartley
O. C. Ferguson
Vella Hampton
Rhodell
Fecla Atkins
Earnest Reynolds
Fayetteville
J. R. Craver
Wm. Craver
Mt. Hope
Woodrow Wickline
Frank Short
Athens
K. L. Ballard
Kent
Beckley Hospital
Opal Shrewsbury
Elizabeth Calvert
Bessie Atkinson
Walkertown
John Thomas
Carl Thomason
Manuel Fernandez
Whipple
Resoco
Buster Martin
Zeb Duncan
Whitby
Levi Almond
C. Maid
Morgantown
Arthur Bryce
E. W. Potter
Donald Stockman
C. W. Thomason
W. O. O’dell
Less Davis
J. F. Bedwell
Actress Marietta Bitter Profiles Career and Family
Marietta Bitter, once in Bryn Mawr dramatics, left the stage after marrying Walter Abel. An accomplished harpist who has performed on stage and radio, she also sculpts and likely inherits artistic talent from her father Carl Ritter, ex-director of the San Francisco and Buffalo expositions. Now devoted to her husband and two young sons, she enjoys New York life but moved to Hollywood when Abel played D Artagnan in The Three Musketeers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provincetown
Marietta Bitter
Walter Abel
Bryn Mawr
Abel
Carl Ritter
San Francisco and
Buffalo
New York
Hollywood
D’artagnan
Miss Katherine Sutter Plans Vacation Across Several States
Mead West Virginia Miss Katherine Sutter leaves Mead Saturday night bound for Norfolk Virginia to spend vacation She will travel with Miss Mary Andrews Helen Hope Smith Ana Bee Smith and Margaret Phillips The party plans visits with friends in Lynchburg and Washington during the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Sutter
Norfolk
Mead
Bluefield
Mary Andrews
Helen Hope Smith
Ana Bee Smith
Margaret Phillips
Lynchburg
Washington
Missionary Meeting At Mrs Gentry Home
The Missionary group met at the home of Mrs C B Gentry on Thursday. After the devotional service and business, delicious refreshments were served to members Mrs B C Clark Mrs W T Crawford Mrs E F Miles Mrs E J Miller Mrs G B Steadham Mrs Dave Charles Misses Margaret and Helen West visitors and hostess Mrs C B Gentry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Gentry
B. C. Clark
W. T. Crawford
E. F. Miles
E. J. Miller
G. B. Steadham
Dave Charles
Margaret
Helen West
Local residents host guests and travelers across Beckley area
Roanoke resident Mrs Edna Norvelle visits with Mr and Mrs E M Lewis as multiple families entertain weekend guests. Oak Hill Beckley Mullens and Pineville are frequent trip points with several adults and children visiting relatives and attending shows. Rhinehart’s illness improves and Kathleen Murphy visits G E Wood. fishing trips on New River continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Norvelle
Roanoke, Va
E. M. Lewis
Della England
Mona Wood
Glen Hedrick
G. E
G. E. Wood
Charlie Lowery
Beckley
Visi
F. T. Lowe
Lowe
Jack Hughes
Oak Hill
Mildred Morefield
Killarney
Alma Keatley
Virginia Anderson
Macy Graham
Lego
Andy Carlo
June
Montelle Bishop
Lee Lovern
J. K. Taylor
Hunter Lowe
G. B. Steadham
Audie Taylor
Rita Lowe
Othe
New River
W. E. Straughan
T. E. Hall
D. T. Keatley
C. C. Cox
John Hall
A. B. Kidd
Trene Pike
Irma
Wilma Crawford
Hazel Drumheller
Rhodesl
C. G. Rhinehart
Kathleen Murphy
Taeger
Wood
Mrs. Simmons
Mrs. Riley
Lillybrook
Woman Tailor’s Wife Invents Garters for Bowlegged Men
A unnamed wife of a tailor devised garters to help trousers hang correctly on bowlegged men, presenting a practical wardrobe solution.
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Buc
K. B. Keaton
Chesapeake and Ohio
Mannie Johnson
Thomas Brash
Glen Morgan
Mr. Brash
Keaton
Tom
Koppers
Daily Cross
Ikle
Carl and
John Thomason
Forest Calvert and Son Carrol
Wm. Atkins
H. Cox
Millard Plasters
Lucille Dixon
Welch
Wm. Wickline
Bill Bryant
Annalee Martin
O. Lilly
Mead, W. Va
Missionary Meeting
Corinne
L. W. Stewart
Marvin Cadle
W. T. West
Rita
Basil Lowe
Ann Hudson
Bobby Hudson
Bosvain
G. F. Scarbro
Franklin
Percy
Laura Bailey
C. C. Mathews
Guyandotte-Raleigh
Pine Grove Park
Tommy Creek
J. E. Perkins
P. G. Hoye
E. H. Phipps
Bill Bair
Odd
Basil
Smith
Dick Drumheller
Jess Richmond
Mildred Sayer
Anna Mae
Mildred Keatley
East Gulf
Bill Halstead
Earnest Slater Jr
Keyser Funeral Home Funeral Directors
Oakwood Ave
PTO
Lasagrr
Mmyaas Tosseco Co
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