Text Book Committee Submits New List At Wyo Board Meet
Wyoming County Board of Education heard a text book committee present a reading list for purchase. members include Ella Miller Verne Clay John McGraw Vaughn Cozort Verner Morgan and William Worrell. The list covers geography civics and history for grades 4 to 8 from publishers such as John C Winston Laidlaw McMillan Education Institute West Virginia and Houghton Mifflin. The board approved four bus use requests to Concord College and Pineville county court. Two requests were refused for trips to the Cowshed banquet and the Oceana basketball tournament. No new maintenance hire was named. Clarence Snuffer will cover both roles. An automatic signaling device at a Baileysville crossing was urged after a near miss, with Virginia Railway Co. urged to install safety gear.
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Poison Food Planted In West Madison Area
A criminal event in Madison spreads fear as poison taints dog food in private pens and yards. Four dogs died last week, four saved, with origins traced to Bologna and wieners. The outbreak began in Danville in December and now centers on West Madison, threatening children.
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Boone Bar Assn to Meet Today in Madison
The Boone County Bar Association will meet at the Jackson Restaurant in Madison today with dinner at 7 pm. President Clarence Hall announced that new officers for the 1950 year will be elected at the meeting.
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Mullens Firemen Answer False Alarm
Mullens volunteer fire department answered a false alarm at 5 10 p m Monday after a caller claimed a fire opposite the Wyoming General Hospital The crew found a vacant lot and checked the South Mullens neighborhood with nothing to confirm the fire report.
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J Webb Released From Fayette Jail
Fayetteville report says 80 year old Jesse Webb of Stonecliff was freed from Fayette County Jail after a felonious assault charge was dismissed. Webb had been arrested Friday on a warrant alleging he struck Leona Jackson with a poker at her Harvey residence.
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Harvey
State Mines Dept Completes Study Of Nicholas Fatality
The State Department of Mines completes investigation into the fatal accident that killed James Gene Moul, 20, of Nettie at the Lundy G. Amick Coal Co. No. 1 mine in Lemsay Nicholas County at 10 a.m. February 23. Inspectors fault management supervision and worker practices, noting the transfer of mine ownership without department approval.
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Nettie
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Watts Fuel Co
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Lundy G. Amick Coal Co
Leivasy
Carl J Morgan Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Carl Jackson Morgan will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Pierpoint Community Church with burial in Pierpoint Cemetery. The 4-year-old unemployed miner was found dead Sunday in his Pierpoint residence, death believed due to a heart attack. The body was moved from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home to his mother Mrs. Lake Halsey Morgan’s Pierpoint home at 4 p.m. today.
Two Wyoming Miners Injured
A Tralee miner Raymond Ross 36 Lashmeet sustained eye injuries when a pipe wrench fell from a jack at the Tralee mine and was referred to a Bluefield eye specialist after treatment. Claude Blackwell Ury suffered facial fractures and eyelid lacerations from falling slate at the Pocahontas Fuel Co mine Itmann while June Alexander Amigo received facial burn treatment.
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Ury
Claude Blackwell
Pocahontas
Rites for Mrs. Lillie Franklin Incomplete
Oak Hill WV funeral notice reports Mrs. Lillie Mae Franklin age 71 died at home from a heart attack Sunday. Born July 15 1887 she was married to John Lawson Franklin who died about a year ago. Survivors include seven sons five daughters a brother and three sisters plus two grandchildren. Body at Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill.
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Charleston
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Detroit
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Lilly Held To Grand Jury On Felonious Assault Charge
Rus sel Lilly age 18 of Mount Hope was held to grand jury for felonious assault after a hearing before Magistrate R C Godsey. He allegedly assaulted Charles Billings Jr aged 4 from Pea Ridge near Oak Hill. Lilly was returned to Fayette County Jail in default of 500 dollar bond. Deputy Fred O Boyle and Constable T L Elmore arrested him.
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Mount Hope
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Pea Ridge
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Slayer Of Two Persons Surrenders To Police
Edward Kinder 32 of Ashford Boone County surrendered to police after an all night trailer party shooting in Hernshaw 15 miles east of here. The killings of Dave Ellis 42 and Mrs Elmar Dodd 29 occurred at the trailer while Kinder’s estranged wife Dharma 28 and Bill Bruce 25 were present. Kinder telephoned Madison authorities to say he was ready to surrender and was jailed in Kanawha County.
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Here
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Ashford
Boone County
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Kinder
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Chelyan
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Dharma
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Obie Ward Dies In Scarbro At 54
Obie Ward 54 of Scarbro died at 11 a m Monday at Layland after an illness. Born July 2, 1902 in Summers County, he leaves one son Clark and two daughters Judy Kay and Wanda of Scarbro. He also leaves four brothers Tony Cecil of Scarbro Other Florida and Otie of Sandstone and five sisters Delata Shires Nellie Cales Cordelia Burdette Delsie Ball and Anna Hicks. The body is at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill with arrangements incomplete.
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Hinton
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Mich
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Minden
Tyree
Oak Hill
Thompson Fined and Jailed on Drunk Driving Charge
Fayetteville report says William Lewis Thompson, 41, of Garton, was fined 56.50, sentenced to 2% hours in jail, and given a six month license revocation after a drunk driving hearing before Mayor M G Hiesan. He was arrested Sunday night by Police Chief Tunney Hunsaker.
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Wreck Report at Hill Top Involves Pemberton Ford
Oak Hill State Police investigated an 8:30 pm accident at Hill Top. Cecil M. St Clair Pemberton rear ended Harmon Ford, causing Ford to strike the bank and overturn in the road. Damages total 2400 dollars. Ford drove a 1957 model, St Clair a 1959 model. No injuries.
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