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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
4
Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes have seen a material price cut as Payne's slashes margins and removes wasteful items. The store invites customers to view the new spring styles and take advantage of the greatest values in town.
The advertisement asserts customers are entitled to proper fit and full value. It claims Walk-Over uses premium leathers linings and fittings and employs staff trained to fit feet intelligently, offering superior service and encouraging customers to try Walk-Over next purchase.
A Chicago era editorial denounces lawlessness tied to press and political figures lending support to unions. It calls for felons to face life in prison or the gallows and urges open shop as America’s standard. The piece references Philadelphia’s Cramp shipyard violence as a sample of rising criminality tied to labor leaders. Also reports marriages licenses issued in Cameron, Sutherland, Sylvia, Tams and surrounding areas with multiple couples listed.
Slab Fork residents Mrs F L Banks and Miss Ethel Warren shopped in Roanoke Friday and Saturday. Miss N W Sexton of Washington DC visited cousin Mrs J H Reid for several days. W G Caperton was a business visitor at Rush Run this week. The Mission Study Class gathered at Mrs J H Reid’s home Wednesday evening for a pleasant session. Dr and Mrs Banks traveled to Beckley on Monday. Miss Violet Ashcraft spent the weekend at home in Moben West Virginia.
A poem of urban lure and natural quiet contrasts with a gossiping election scene. A city man misstates his age on registration while a wife challenges the board. The tale unfolds in a neighborhood registration office as women observers influence outcomes.
A wedding attracted much interest as Mr Albert Williams clerk of the Circuit Court married Mrs Annie Strover of Pax on a recent Wednesday in Princeton. Williams, long a Beckley resident, is well known here. Mrs Williams is sister of Dr W W Watts. They returned to Beckley Tuesday and will reside here.
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