Farmers Discuss On Cover Crops
Fayetteville reporters recap a Triple-A meeting where members and guests debated cover crops. Mrs Allie Amick W M Young H C Mc Clung and R N Fox led on what cover crops are while E L Clower H F Shaffer and N W Shorter described uses. D A Griffin Ed Anderson and James E T Conrad spoke on lime. Minnie Wiseman and County Agent J Haynes Miller warned about soil robbing.
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Register
Fayetteville
Triple-A
Allie Amick
W. M. Young
H. C. McClung
R. N. Fox
E L. Clower
H. F. Shaffer
N. W
Poffs All Out In War Effort
Fayetteville family shows strong wartime service with four children in the armed forces. Pvt. Harry L. Poff returns to Washington after two furloughs with parents Mr. and Mrs. Norman Poff. Sister Mildred serves as yeoman second class in the Waves and brother Charles is in the Marines in the South Pacific. Another brother Buren died after joining post Pearl Harbor while stationed at Fort Williams Maine.
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Register
Wesler Fayetteville -- Marine Pvt
Harry L. Poff
Washington, D. C
Norman Poff
Harry
Armed Services
Mildred
Charles
Marines
South Pacific
Buren
Pearl Harbor
Fort Williams
Maine
Fayette county Four-H camp to open August 6
Fayetteville area notes that the Fayette county Four-H camp at Beckwith starts August 6 and runs through August 12. Miss Clifton Dotson appoints a dining room committee to ensure ample meals for attending youths. The panel includes T. R. Wilson of Quinnimont as chairman and members Mrs. Joe McClung Rainelle, Mrs. John Thompson Smithers, Mrs. Mabel Perdue Beards Fork.
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Register
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Beckwith
Clifton Dotson
T. R. Wilson
Quinnimont
Joe McClung
Rainelle
John Thompson
Smithers
Mabel Perdue
Beards
Twins Born At Canvas Home Of McClungs
Twins a boy and a girl were born to Mr and Mrs John McClung at their Canvas home on Monday and were reported to be doing nicely. The family now has 11 children.
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Register
Summersville
John McClung
Three Delegates Selected For State Farmers Meeting
Fayette County Farm Bureau selects B A Wright C O White and S J Amick as delegates to the West Virginia Farm Bureau session at Jacksons Mill August 7 8 9 Wright and Amick chair the membership committee Fayette County reports a 252 member quota reached The bureau organized in 1916 and early leaders funded the first county agent salary
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Payetteville
B. A. Wright
Fayette County
Health officer schedules week of clinics in Fayetteville area
Dr. J. Ue Coleman lists a busy week with venereal disease clinics at Montgomery and Fayetteville, chest clinic in Fayetteville, typhoid immunizations at Spradling's store and Sun School building, and well baby clinics in Fayetteville Lochgelly and Summertee with specific morning and afternoon slots.
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Fayetteville
J. UE Coleman
Montgomery
Spradling
Glen Jean
Sun School
Sun
Lochgelly
Summertee
Heart Disease Fatal To Girl In Pax
Ruthlene C Smallwood ten years and five months daughter of the Rev J C Smallwood and Mrs Smallwood died at home Saturday at 1030 am of heart disease after a brief illness of three weeks. Funeral arrangements await brother Cable at Great Lakes Naval Station before scheduling services by Rev C R Cook Beckley at Long Branch Methodist church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park. She was born in Hendricks and was a Church of God member.
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Pax
Ruthlene C. Smallwood
J. C. Smallwood
C. R. Cook
Beckley
Long Branch Methodist Church
Sunset Memorial Park
Ronald
Columbus
Ohio
Buell
Gene Smallwood
Keith
Delcie Sturms
Hendricks
Tucker County
Ruthlene
Church of God
Rites for Velva Midrowskry Sunday at Mount Hope
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p m at the John Midrowskry home Mount Pete R F D 1 for Velva Midrowskry of Willis Branch who died Friday Burial will be in Humphrey cemetery Willis Branch Survivors include her parents Charley and Velma Lafferty Willis Branch husband and two children Bobby Dean and Melvin Ronald Brothers and sisters Nillard Lafferty Carl Hugart Happy Fiore Willie Lafferty and Roy Tyree Reservations not listed.
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Register
Mount Hope
John Midrowskry
Mount Pete R. F
Velva Midrowskry
Iwha
Harry R. Peston
Hinton
Humphrey Cemetery
Willis Branch
Charley Lafferty
Fenwick-Nettie Road Surface Treatment Planned
Eight and one half miles of state routes 39 20 between Fenwick and Nettie will receive surface treatment. One way traffic will be used during work, with completion anticipated by month end. Route 39 will be closed Richwood to Mill Point until September 1 for crushing stone and sub grade work with no detour available.
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Register
Summersville
Fenwick
Nettie
State Road Commission
Richwood
Mill Point
Gatewood Road Repair Causes Detour Near Fayetteville
State road crews spread tar along a three mile stretch from Oak Hill to Gatewood, causing traffic delays. A Fayetteville detour adds about four miles. Completion is expected by July 1.
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Fayetteville
Register
Oak Hill
Gatewood
State Road Commission
Workers Needed at Washington Navy Yard
Civil service recruitment in Oak Hill seeks workers for the Washington navy yard. Open positions include ordnance men electroplaters electricians boilermakers machinists sheet metal workers instrument makers and clerical staff. Also vacancies for engineering craftsmen and engineers of various types and grades. Further information available from the Oak Hill U S employment office.
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Washington
M. B. Roderick
Civil Service
Oak Hill U. S
Seven District Delegates Headed to State Party Parley
Fayette Democratic delegates from seven districts travel toward Charleston for the state party convention to select ten presidential electors. The list names numerous representatives from Fayette, Kanawha, Mountain Cove, Nuttall, Quinnimont, Sewell Mountain, and surrounding areas, detailing districts and delegates.
Edward Roberts Taken By Death
Edward Roberts, 64, Huntington resident and former Mount Hope businessman, died today in Huntington hospital after a six week illness. Born 1861 at Snow Hall West Virginia, he was a member of the Masonic lodge and Mount Hope commander. Survived by wife Elizabeth Roberts and son Edward B. Roberts, plus two sisters. Funeral plans incomplete.
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C.F. Reber
Dickerson
George Byus
Beach Hill
W. Va
Revercomb Plan to Attend State GOP Convention Outlined
Revercomb plans to attend the New Hampshire Republican convention in Colcord and the Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting in Chicago, continuing to Parkershire for the state convention. The itinerary includes other party events as he travels through August and the West.
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Chapman
Colcord
Chicago
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Parkershire
Coffman Guilty Of Art and Hatred, Not Wounding
A July 12 Raleigh Register article wrongly stated M. G. Coffman was convicted in Fayette County circuit court for wounding FB Platt of Kaymoor. The verdict was actually guilty on art and hattery. The Register apologizes and will publish this correction.
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THON
Weiler
Peville
Raleigh Register
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Fayette County
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Kaysmoor
Coffman
The
Register
Two Nicholas County Soldiers Killed and Wounded in France
Nicholas county soldier Heber Marlow was killed in action June 23 in France. James Halstead, 19, was seriously wounded after serving about a year, and had been a student at Nicholas County High School in Summersville. Both families in Gad received telegram notices Friday.
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Summersville
Nicholas County
France
Gad
Heber Marlow
J. E. Harrow
Ares Halstead
Quentin Halstead
Nicholas County High School
Retired McKell Employe Taken
John Dower 65 a retired mine foreman died at 9 30 a m Saturday after two weeks illness following 12 years of ill health He was born in Ansted son of the late William and Anne Seymour Dower He was a Mount Hope Baptist Temple member Funeral services will be conducted at the Baptist Temple Monday at 230 p m by Rev Clarence Figgatt burial at Hawinede the Hight Memorial Park Quir Hill Surviving Effie Baker Power two sons John at home Robert in U S Army stationed in New York Mrs A A Oschlager and Mrs P M Marchio both of Mount Hope A sister and two brothers Mrs Mike Kraus of Hinton Richard Dower of Pittsburgh and Edward Dower Mount Hope A grandchild also survives
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Mount Hope
John Dower
McKell
Ansted
William and
Anne Seymour Dower
Freedom of News as National Goal Promoted by Parties
The Associated Press reports that both Democrats and Republicans in 1944 platforms back free, treaty-protected news flow to promote peace. Kent Cooper John Wright and Ralph McGill urged eliminating government and private monopoly barriers to ensure open channels of information worldwide.
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Chicago
Democratic Convention
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John S. Wright
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Ralph McGill
McGill
Atlante Constitution
Knight
Detroit Free Press
Longtime West Virginia magistrate seeks ninth reelection
Summersville resident Michael Jefferson Maloney, the state’s oldest magistrate, first elected in 1912, plans to run again in November for a ninth consecutive term. He recalls a hard earlier era, touts Nicholas county’s coal oil and gas prospects, and notes the era’s changes in travel and convenience. He lives on his birth farm and is active in church and fraternal groups.
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Keeney’s Creek
Fayette County
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Ed Carwile
Oak Hill
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Ramsey
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Liverpool
England
Pat Maloney
United States
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James R. Dyer
Pat Maloneys
Laurie Maloney
Nancy Jane Reynolds
Pat. Maloney
Martha Jane Bailes
Mark
Johns
Jims
Mikes
Squire Mike Maloney
Florida
James P. Maloneys
Beckley
Nicholas County
West Virginia
H. Lee Herold
Route 41
Walker Brothers
Michael Jefferson Maloney
Register
Wife of Marine Goes to See Him
Mrs Albert Lunter and her small son David travel from Summersville to Clarksburg to meet Private Albert Lunter of the U S Marine Corps on a leave from Parris Island South Carolina He will visit relatives in Clarksburg before returning to duty Most migrating birds travel at night in the Canadian north region alignment
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5. C
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