Fayette Board To Consider Special Tax Levy For Schools
Fayetteville voters may approve a $900,000 bond plan to fund six to eight new rooms in Fayetteville and new facilities at Mount Hope Oak Hill Pax Minden Scarbro and Mt Hope. The plan includes a June or July election with a tax impact averaging about 24,450 dollars over twenty years as detailed by FE R Vander superintendent of schools.
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Mt. Hope
Fayetteville
Oak Hill
Mount Hope
Pax
Minden
Vander
Scarbro
Dubois
Fayette County
Murder charge filed in Fayetteville slaying case
John Raine, a Black man, held for the July grand jury on a murder charge after the body of John Harriston was found near Brown on May 17. Witnesses testified Harriston carried about $74. Raine reportedly had about $20. Raine pleaded innocence as officers consider motive and setup. Taxes may rise with a proposed school levy, affecting first to fourth class property, with polls to be placed at school houses after educational board approval.
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Fayetteville
John Raine
John Harriston
Brown
Harriston
Fayette
R. C. Godsey
Raine
Department of Education
Board of Education
Fayette County
June Flops as Marriage Month
Fayetteville register notes first week of June 1937 sees few marriage applications due to a three day lag between applying and issuance. The county clerk says June 11 is the effective date and lists issued applications including Moss and Honaker, Martin and Sarver, Smith and Webb, Swartz and Jarrell, Steele and Deitz.
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Register
Fayetteville
William Moss
Charleston
Rhoda Honaker
Oak Hill
Elbert Martin
Gauley Bridge
Laura Sarver
Dewark Smith
Powellton
Eloise Webb
James Swartz
Montgomery
Priscilla Jarrell
Pratt
Lowell Steele
Jodie
Marjorie Deitz
Ramsey
Fitzwater Rites Held for Civil War Veteran John G Fitzwater
Funeral services were held today for John G Fitzwater 93 a Civil War home guard veteran He is survived by a brother a daughter and two granddaughters
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Register
Montgomery
John G. Fitzwater
Home Guard
Doctor pleased with result of health clinics in Fayetteville
Dr C E Watkins of the county health department said May preschool clinics yielded the best response in department history with 679 children examined by physicians dentists and nurses. Clinics were held in Oak Hill Minden Scarbro Oakland and Summerlee with June and July plans.
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Register
Fayetteville
C. E. Watkins
County Health Department
Oak Hill
Minden
Scarbie
Oakland
Summerlee
Drs. H. A. Duncan
B. F. Puckett
J. E. van Pelt
W. E. Bundy
Scarbro
Fayetteville Magistrate Walker Faces New Court Action
Fayetteville magistrate H S Walker ordered to Ansted tonight to answer a drunken driving charge. A 1936 grand jury indictment for defacing public property may lead to new proceedings this year. Attorney T A Myles says a petition will seek Craft’s release from jail, dismissal of charges, and Walker’s accountability for a $6 check scheme tied to a Cranberry mine office.
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Register
Fayetteville
H. S. Walker
Ansted
Walker
T. A. Myles
Young Craft
Craft
Cole
Myles
Nicholas County
Winona
Cranberry
H. E. Dillon
Circuit Court
Four young men charged with drunkenness face payroll collection
The court reportedly filled out a check to collect costs from the four arrestees who stated they had no money. Craft claims Magistrate Walker refused an appeal. An indictment from a 1936 grand jury to be tried by the circuit court cites Harry Walker for unlawfully defacing property not his own, a 1929 item.
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Craft
Walker
Harry Walker
Hunt for Gunfire Suspect After Auto Shot Incident
Brief report notes a man named Walker charged after an auto was shot with a gun. The piece mentions widespread hoarding of gold in India across social classes as a famine reserve and for marriage dowry purposes.
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Walker
India
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