Reunion Draws McKinney Family To Basin West Virginia
Basin Wyoming county hosts a family reunion August 2 at Ed Howerton place Barker's Creek. McKinneys form the town core with guests from southern West Virginia and beyond. The day includes devotional exercises, sermons, addresses by Frank E Sloan and Wirt E Hatfield, hymn singing, a basket dinner, and a two hour afternoon program with music by the Rhinehart string band and talks by local figures.
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Register
Basin
Wyoming County
McKinneys
Ed Howerton
Barker’s Creek
West
Mullens
Wirt E. Hatfield
Baileysville
McKinney
Jack McKinney
Akron
Ohio
Rhinehart String Band
Lacy Wood
Lillybrook
Basin String Band
C. S. McKinney
Beckley
Raleigh County
Stinging Bees Evict Firemen in Brush Fire
Volunteers battling a brush fire near Shepherdstown West Virginia gained control until a swarm of bees and yellow jackets driven from their nests by heat attacked. The insect swarm forced crews to retreat as the timber tract burned out.
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Associated Press
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Here
Baptists Hold Annual Meeting in Philippi West Virginia
West Virginia Baptists hold the 27th annual assembly at Alderson Broaddus College from August 4 to 14. More than 100 attendees are expected. Leaders include Rev E Gibson Davis of Asheville NC Rev Phil M Jenkins of Nitro WV and Rev Julius Fischbach of Morgantown. Assembly faculty features Rev J C Jones Williamson and others from Huntington Fairmont Parkersburg and Philadelphia plus Chicago based general secretary Edwin Phelps.
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Associated Press
Philippi
W. Va
West Virginia
Mount Hope
Parkersburg
First Wedding Performed by Lam Shannon in Wyoming County
Pineville reports the first marriage in county records under Clerk Lam Shannon. Isaac Lester and Mary Godfrey wed at Oceana on January 9, 1854, in a large ledger kept for the county. Other entries note a 1850 deed, a 1853 death tally, and the county’s first birth, William Buckhannon.
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Register
Pineville
V. Shannon
Lam Shannon
Isaac B. Lester
Mary
Godfrey
Oceana
Wyoming County
Wyoming
William Hendrix
William Cooke
Catherine
Qeceana
Leroy B
Chambers
Nathaniel
Sarah Perdew
Anna Sizemore
John
Mahalia Baldwin
Sheba Breniger
William Buckhannon
Arthur and
Isabel Buckhannon
Malcolm walks every peak in presidential range in one day
Randolph N H 4 July 25 H L Malcolm of Pompano Fla. completed a 55 mile hike covering 20000 feet in elevation in 19 hours 21 minutes. He started at 6 a m and summited Washington Munroe Franklin Pleasant and Clinton mountains.
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Associated Press
Randolph, N. 4
H. L. Malcolm
Pompano
Fla
White Mountain Presidential Range
Malcolm
Washington
Munroe
Franklin
Pleasant
Clinton Mountains
Fisherman uses soap as bait on Ohio river noted
Pete Morgan, an avid fisherman, returns to Pineville with two catfish and explains he used white soap on his hook after running out of bait. He hooked the fish two miles downstream in the Guyan River, as locals react with surprise.
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Pineville
Pete Morgan
H H Withrow Returns From Shriners Convention
H H Withrow of Glen Morgan returned from the national Shriners convention in Seattle July 14 16 after a 12 day trip that covered 9000 miles by train and 750 by bus. The party traveled from July 4 with 200 Shriners touring Yosemite Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
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H. H. Withrow
Glen Morgan
Seattle
Wash
Withrow
Yosemite Valley
Cal
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Canyon
United States
Old Bell Linked Pineville to county deaths in Oceana lore
In Oceana and Pineville a long unused bell marks fatal news from past days. It tolled for prominent locals as a signal from the courthouse atop the Kanawha river region, swinging once for each year of a life. The bell’s journey began 1907 to Pineville, later moved to a Southern Methodist church, and last tolled for Nellie Reach and Richard A. Shannon in 1906 and 190? respectively.
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Pineville
Wyoming
Oceana
Court House
Dell Cook
Brown's Town
Charleston
Kanawha
Boone County
Southern Methodist Church
William, Roach
Leroy B. Chambers
Wyatt B. Shannon
Wm. T. Sarver
Ike E
McNair Sues County Over Alleged $2500 Salary
Pittsburgh July 25 Mayor William N McNair seeking $2500 by proxy from Allegheny County claims he is owed as city chief magistrate under an 1861 law. County commissioners postponed payment until McNair proves he heard all cases involving drunkenness disorderly conduct and vagrancy and did not delegate them to the five Pittsburgh Magistrates.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
William N. McNair
Europe
Allegheny County
McNair
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A.M. McKinney
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Netop
Ragland’s Electric CO
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McCreery
Oceana Courthouse
Robertson
Nancy Cooke
Beckley National
Beckley National Exchange Bank
Savings, Trust Commercial and Loan
ANSUR
Yembeet
M’nair
A. Fulton
Automobile Life and Fire Insurance
A. J. Britton Lilly Bldg
Vatu
Dr. Scholl
France
H.& M. Family Shoe Store
Nevlila Street
Raleigh Steam Laundr
Scot
Raleigh Steam
COT
Ford
Universal Credit Co
Cleveland
Great Lakes Exposition
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