Stahl to Retire After 50 Years in Coal Industry
MT. HOPE C R Stahl labor relations manager for Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates will retire June 30 after 50 years in the industry most of which were in West Virginia. He joined EG&F in 1944 after a long career starting in 1898 with Glen Alden Coal and later rising to division superintendent and assistant general manager roles.
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C. R. Stahl
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Eg&f
Shirley Mayes
Powellton
Philip P. Reece
Mt. Hope
John C. Newman
Power House
Edward BR. Shaw
Kimball
Stahl
Glen Alden Coal Company
Wilkes-Barre
West Virginia
Pennsylvania State College
Maryd Coal Company
Easton Pa
E. E. White Coal Company
Castner, Curran and Bullitt Smokeless Coal Company
Glen White
Stotesbury
Raleigh County
Eastern
CC & B
Fayette County
Installation Scheduled Tonight for OES Chapter MT HOPE
Mount Hope will host the installation of new officers for Winolia Chapter Order of the Eastern Star at 8 tonight in the Mt. Hope Masonic Temple. Mrs L D Clark, sister of the new worthy matron Agnes Ward, will preside. Invitations were issued to 200 guests with special music and past officers taking part. Local Rainbow Girls, sponsored by the chapter, will participate. Refreshments will follow. About 409 people are expected to attend the jamboree.
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MT. Hope
Naoma Methodist Youths Picnic Meeting Report
Naoma Naoma Methodist Youth group held a Friday night picnic with attendees listed including Ressa Annetta Peanut Walker Hose Doris Adams Phyllis Sue Tabor Shelba Lonker Rose Gail Tabor Carol Jean Kuhn Paul Wills Louella Danny Anderson Freddie Goble Junior Miller Scotty Hunter Raymond Lloyd Jarrell David Kuhn Gary Tabor and youth leader Mrs Stellie Kuhn. Also noted are return from Ohio and revival and all day church meetings with named pastors and participants. Public invited. Birth of a daughter to Arnold Hager Kopperston born at 11 13 p m Sunday.
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NAOMA
Naoma Methodist Church
Ressa
Annetta
Peanut Walker
Hose
Doris Adams
Phyllis
Sue Tabor
Shelba Lonker
Rose
Gail Tabor
Carol Jean Kuhn
Paul Wills
Louella
Danny Anderson
Freddie Goble
Junior Miller
Scotty Hunter
Raymond
Lloyd Jarrell
David Kuhn
Gary Tabor
Stellie Kuhn
Oceana Women Plan September Club Meeting
Oceana Woman's Club will hold its next business meeting in September at First Baptist Church after voting to skip July and August sessions. President Mrs. L. W. Beane presided, hostesses included Mrs. Betty Lilly and others, readings and songs featured, two new members welcomed, and guests and a stork shower honoring Mrs. James P. Thompson noted.
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Oceana
Oceana Woman's Club
First Baptist Church
Rs. L. W. Beane
Betty "Rae Lilly
Thomas Evans
Glen Crozier
Pear Tipper
Ruby Meadows
Beane
America
C. T.upchurch
Model Club
Elane i Halt
Jack Francis
Thomas Long
Upchurch
Lucille Enoch
Loretta Harper
Second Diesel Test Slated on Branch Line
Rainelle selected Meadow Creek Rainelle Branch Line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway will host a second diesel test Thursday. A spokesman said three 1,600 horsepower units will be tried following last Thursday's test with three 1,500 horsepower diesels. No conclusions have been reached yet from the first test.
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Rainelle
Meadow Creek
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Okey Homer Wilson Dies At 40 In Grundy Va
Fayetteville funeral services planned for Okey Homer Wilson 40 of Grundy Virginia son of Mr and Mrs A B Wilson Garden will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Ky moor Community Church Gar ten with Rev B B Breitenhirt and Rev Marshal Pilkenton officiating Burial will be in Huse Memorial Park with graveside rites by LaFayette Lodge 57 Angelent Free and Accepted Masons Survived by wife Dorothy Wilson three daughters Nancy at Falls Views Patricia Ann and Margaret all of Smithers one sister Mrs Robert Blosser of Montgomery and paternal grandmother Mrs Mary Wilson of Fayetteville
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Fayetteville
Okey Homer Il
Grundy
A. B. Wilson
Garden
Kymoor
Garten
B. B. Breitenhirt
Marshal Pilkenton
Montgomery
Huse Memorial Park
LaFayette Lodge 57
Ang Elent Free
Dorothy Wilson
Smithers
Nancy “At
Falls Views
Patricia Ann
Margaret
Robert Blosser
Mary Wilson
Kerr Succeeds Gates As Otsego Official
I Norman Kerr of St Clairsville Ohio appointed mine superintendent at Otsego Brule Smokeless Coal Co to replace Olen Gates who resigned Kerr brings over 45 years mining experience in PA and OH He comes from Oglebay Norton and will move with his family to Otsego Kerr also names Jesse Armentrout as assistant superintendent Armentrout is a former special field representative for Oglebay Norton
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Otsego
Brule Smokeless Coal Co
I. Norman Kerr
St. Clairsville
Olen G. Gates
Kerr
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Oglebay-North Company
Brule Smokeless
Mary Margaret
Jimmy
Gate
Jesse Armentrout
Oglebay-Norton
Armentrout
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Melcroft, Pa
Rites Wednesday For Pete Legg
Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Clifty Methodist Church for Pete Vincent Legg a 17 year old drowning victim. He fell from a rock into Meadow River near Shawver's Crossing while fishing with twin brother Paul and a friend who could not swim. Sgt Callaghan investigated. body recovered by diver Andy Sterritt of Montgomery Fire Department. Legg was a student at Nuttall High School Lookout and son of Pete and Gladys Legg with several siblings and grandfather listed as survivors.
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W. R. Callaghan
Cannelton State Police
Andy Sterritt
Montgomery Fire Department
Callaghan
Legg
Nuttall High School
Lookout
Pete
Gladys Crist Legg
Ada Katheryn
Washington, D. C
Mary Ann
Alma
Nancy
Marilyn Kay
Paul
Steve
Jerry
Wilson Legg
Rogers Funeral Services for Mrs Agnes Propps Propps
Services were held today at Fayetteville Baptist Church for Mrs Agnes Propps Rogers 77 who died from injuries after a fall in a South Charleston hospital. Burial followed at High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill with Dr J F Frame officiating. Survived by five sons two daughters two brothers one sister and a large number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Active pallbearers listed.
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Fayetteville
Agnes Propps Rogers
South Charleston
Fayeyetteville Baptist Church
J. F. Frame
Buria
High Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Ransher
Bernard
Edmond
Sam
Jmy
James
Beckley
Worthington
Winona
Drema Pettit
Lovelot Holliday
Walter
Owen Propps
Summersville
Elizabeth, Propps
Mt. Hope
Weston Skaggs
Dennis Shockey
L Z. Hundley
M. L. Lovely
Ernes Darnall
H. F. Frazier
Pineville Personal News Roundup Mixed Visits
Pineville residents report travels and visits across cities including New York City Charleston Welch and Covington plus plans to move in Ashland Kentucky. A birth is announced in Round Hill Virginia Eleanor Jean Elsea born at Leesburg Hospital to Tom Elsea and former Sar aetta Small.
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Pineville
George H. Kkeatley
Robert M. Worrell
New York City
Billie Layman
W. F. Rose, Jr
Rose
Charleston
W. J. Davidson
Scome
Latha Cook
Montgomery
Don Reed
Ashland
Sherman Tessner
R. J. Linkous
Norma Jean
Cheryl Linn
Welch
C. S. Worrell
Robert Bailey
Bobby
C. W. Shufflebarger
Frances Bailey
Thurmond
Tom Elsea
Round Hill
Eleanor Jean
Leesburg Hospital
Elsea
Saraetta Small
F. R. Small
Quinnimont
Funeral rites set for James L. Heslop in Fayetteville
Funeral services for James L. Heslop 84 will be held at 4 p m Wednesday in Dodd Funeral Home chapel with Rev C R Bright and Rev B B Breitenhirt officiating. Burial follows in Huse Memorial Park. Heslop a painter carpenter and former legislative attaché died from a house fire that destroyed his one room home early Monday. He is survived by daughter Mrs Morris four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Active pallbearers include Dr M G Hresan C M Nickell Maurice Reynolds Bill Burgess E K Hesse Jr and Bill Jeffries.
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Fayetteville
James L. Heslop
Dodd Funeral Home
CR. Bright
B. B. Breitenhirt
Burdal
Huse
F. J. Morris
Maurice Reynolds
Bill Burgess
E. K. Hesse Jr
Bill Jeffries
Mullens Man Narrowly Escapes Drowning at Lake Shaw
Earnest Lefler Jr. a Mullens Virginian Railway trainmaster, nearly drowned when he went under the water twice in about six feet at Lake Shaw. David Farmer led the rescue from a Mullens picnic group. Lefler was revived in minutes and returned to work.
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Mullens
Lake
Shawnee
Earnest Lefler Jr
Virginian Railway
David Farmer
Lefler
Mulens
Major's Son Dies In Tokyo Accident
In Tokyo Japan 12 year old John Wesley Gwinn Jr son of Major and Mrs John Wesley Gwinn died Saturday the telegram states he died instantly as the result of an accident while playing at home on June 21 service and temporary interment Tokyo Chapel Center June 24 details in letter later He is survived by his parents a sister and grandparents Major Gwinn an Air Force member was formerly principal at Talcott High School and has been stationed in Tokyo for over a year.
Funeral services held for James F. Wimmer in Princeton
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today for James F. Wimmer 82 of Princeton retired Mercer County farmer who died Sunday at his son's home. Rev John Dunn officiated. Burial followed in the family cemetery on the Bluefield Princeton road. He was born April 4 1870 near Glennwood Park and married Nannie Roland in 1890. Survivors include his widow son and multiple daughters and grandchildren.
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Princeton
James F. Wimmer
Mercer County
R. H. Wimmer
John Dunn
Bluefield
Glennwood Park
the Wimmer
Nannie Roland
Christian Church
Princeton-Bluefield Road
R. H, BR
Jr C
A. FP. Wimmer
H. L. Coburn
Ernest Coburn
R. A. Coburn
Princeton Road
Mike Spinell
L. C. Wimmer
W. R. Wimmer
Charles Wimmer
Glenwood Park
Carrie Dillon
Logan
S. W. Wimmer
Emma Kiges
Della Hurt
Rebecca Jane Hubbard Smith Funeral in Lashmeet
Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca Jane Hubbard Smith 72 of Lashmeet were set for 2 p.m. today at Mt. Olivet Church with Rev. Roger McCormick officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Survivors include daughters Mrs. Lucy Morgan and Mrs. Henry Gillespie, a son Raymond Smith, a brother Mack Belcher and three sisters. A separate item notes a song convention at Miller Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Princeton
Rebecca Jane Hubbard Smith
Lashmeet
Memorial Hospital
Mt. Olivet
Roger McCormick
Lucy Morgan
Beckley
Henry Gillespie
Matoaka
Aulbert Hubbard
Raymond Smith
Mack Belcher
Rosa Holston
Laverda Basham
R. C. Shuutt
Speaker addresses Men at Pineville Presbyterian meeting
Tom Young of Northfork was the guest speaker at the Men of the Pineville Presbyterian Church gathering on Saturday night. The event opened with a dinner prepared by the Women of the Church.
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Pineville
Tom Young
Northfork
Penny Scoop Yard Goods Sale Opens Wednesday
A vivid alert promotes the largest assortment of yard fabrics at low prices. It urges readers to attend Wednesday morning, even if needing a babysitter, with emphasis on first quality fabric and dramatic reductions.
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OES
Naoma Methodist
Whitesville First
Friendly View
Friendly View Church of God
Isaac Kitchen
Ot Madison
W. H. A. Lester
Lewisburg
Whitesville
Connie Stanley
Patty
David Shelia Lymn
Stephen
Roscoe Clay
Kopperston
Arnold Hager
Thompson
James Pj . Thompson
J. R. Gibson
Tess
Gibson Hotel
Curtis Gibson
Gibson
Joe Simpson
Louetta McKown
Oscar Jones
Dora Hurst
Stella Rippeth
Myrtle Hash
James Haynes
James Carr
Andrew Stump
John Gibson, Jr
E. J. Simpson
Wheeler
Chris Fisher
J. Rush Cook
James Roberts
Darrell Lamb
Katherine Justice
Minerva Snider
Lama Beana
Jess Conley
Wariet Hubbard Atig
Ayer
Wwew
Cohen
Neville Sy
H. Wilson
Gates
Pete Legg
Rogers Funeral Services
Major
Tokyo
Smith
Nallen
Miller Baptist Church
Chambrays
Packard
Proctor
Packard Easamatic
M4n
Ward-Evans Motor Co., Inc
S. Oakwood Beckley, W.va
White Wall
Pineville Packard, Inc
OUTE
W. VA
Bachley
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Chenilles
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