Beulah’s Beadboard Banter and Local Quips
A collage of humorous notes and anecdotes from Beckley West Virginia and Denver Colorado. Includes a proverbs prize tale, plumbing inventor Crockett Mullens hot water on tap, dining room antics at the Eatwell, political push by Luther R. Jones for J Alfred Taylor, a hot day report from Albany Ohio, and a hot dog tale with Bob Lilly and Harry Witcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
W. Va
Keith Clark
East Gulf
Albany
Ohio
Bob Lilly
Mt. Hope
Harry Witcher
McKell Coal and Coke Company
Lilly and Witcher
Montgomery
Harry
Mr. Lilly
Weekend Visits and Local Social Notes From Lester Va
A list of residents and visitors in and around Lester Virginia includes Mr. and Mrs. George Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Lawson and Mr. Stephen Smith in Hillsville and several cross-town trips to Whitesville Sophia and Beckley. Carying reports of host families and social calls, plus a Negro minstrel project under Ladies Aid supervision and dog bite treatment for Buddy Oram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Smith
John Lawson
Stephen Smith
Hillsville
Howard Thompson
Floyd McKinney
Berwin
W. Va
Clyde Webb
Whitesville
Harold Holt
Eccles
Bill Trail
Thomas Trail
Phloip Cochran
Sophia
Herman Hatcher
Rhodell
Victor Augustine
Lester
Ruby Speir
Georgia
Robert
James
Racelia Speir
Lester M. E. Ladies Aid
Edward Birch
Buddy Oram
Ivan Canaday
Beckley
M. A. Grimm
Bill Kirby
Jane Kirby
Princeton
James Kirby
Raymond Owens
Pensgrove
N. J
Ruth Fleshman
Wade Riffe
Molly Clay
Stotesbury
Nora Hawley
J. B. Grubbs
Charleston
John Birch
Pauline Johnson
Haseltine Howell
Tom Hazelwood
Ben Carver
Betty
Oak Hill
F. M. Morris
A. M. MccMullin
E. E. Watkins
Billy Watkins
Fred Yates
Veterans Hospital of
G. C. Brown
Ruth Morris
Cecil Williams
Will Spangler
Leslie Bowling
North Carolina
Jim Bob McMullin
Carl Hutchinson
Alvin Walls
Dee Snuffer
Greenbrier
T. M. Hazelwood
Beckley Collection Agency Details
Beckley Adjustment Company managed by P. H. Bardin at Bus Terminal Room 5 offers services limited to adjustment and collection of accounts in Beckley West Virginia with a dedicated local phone line 918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Adjustment Company
P. H. Bardin
Beckley
W. Va
Court weighs Dunham bid to force ballot placement
The West Virginia Supreme Court is considering Amos Dunham’s mandamus suit to compel Berkeley County ballot commissioner William C. Morton to place Dunham on the county court ballot to fill a vacancy created by a 1932 tie vote between J C McKown and M W Johnson. Governor Kump broke that tie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Amos Dunham
William C. Morton
Berkeley
Dunham
J. C. McKown
M. W. Johnson
Kump
Escaped convict re captured near Logan West Virginia
Paul Glenn thirty an escaped prisoner from the state penitentiary was recaptured yesterday by state police and deputy sheriffs near Logan West Virginia. Glenn life sentence for the killing of Silas Walden Logan county escaped from a prison camp on July third. Trooper J E Childers and Deputy Sheriff Wallace Ferrell and two other officers arrested Glenn after a tip he was hiding on Crawleys creek farm. Childers said Glenn did not resist arrest. Joseph Conrad resigned from London Daily Mail staff after being asked to write about Crippin the famous murderer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Logan
W. Vn
Paul Glenn
State Penitentiary
Here
Silas Walden
Logan County
J. E. Childers
Wallace Ferrell
Glenn
Crawley’s Creek
Childers
London Daily Mail
Crippin
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States
Roosevelt
William H. Sharpe
Denver
Col
R. L. Sadler
Chris Sarandon
Brother Cleon
the Eatwell
Luther R. Jones
Madigan
J. Alfred Taylor
Fayetteville
Jones
United States Senate
Congress
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Ogden Papers
Labor
van Bittner
Holt
Man Under the Sun
Taylor
Mr. Jones
Lilly
Mr. Silly
Mr. Hope Legionnaires
National Guard
Lester, W. Va
James Trail
Clarence Parrish
Lexington
Beulah Brown
Bolt
Grady Miller
Dallas Covey
Sherman Trail
Byrd Trail
Pipestein
Frank Morris
Sherman Grey
A. M. McMullin
Paul O'Neal
Glen White
PERRY
Foster Hdw
Goodyear
Bair Bros., Inc
East Main Street
Beckley, W. Va
Tracy
Thin Man
Cretonnes
Hope Maslin
Brown Maslin
S. Fayette St
Nown
Joseph Conrad
E. M. Griffith
Bluefield, W. Va
Tonnes
Pepperell
Batiste
Et al
Pure Silk
Oxfords
Childrens
Deem Department Store
Beckley Water Co. Bldg
Heber St
Hosie
Coats
High Qualit
Beckley Hotel
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