Oak Hill Civic League Sponsors School Art Exhibit
Oak Hill High School hosts an art exhibit on May 12 sponsored by the Oak Hill Civic League with two awards for progress in senior and junior high school art. The May meeting will feature Mrs. J E McKenzie of Beckley speaking on Europe, with hostesses Mrs Hal Shaw and Mrs Leroy Sheets assisting.
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Oak Hilg
Oak Hill High School
Oak Hill Civil League
Hotel Hill
W. P. Bittinger
A. Cne
Christ
Oak Hill Methodist Church
J. E., McKenzie
Beckley
Europe
Hal Shaw
Leroy
Sheets
Bittinger
Jennings Moses
Fayetteville Dog Owners Urged to Confine Pets
Mayor T A Myles warns Fayetteville residents to keep dogs on their premises or face fines up to ten dollars per offense. Public complaints cite depredations, fear of sending children to school, damaged flowers, overturned trash, and rabies quarantines in nearby counties. Warrants may be issued for ordinance violators.
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Register
Fayetteville
T. A. Myles
Myles
File Sells Bend Branch Tract to Coalfield Firm
Fayetteville quot deed shows Dwight A. File sold Bend Branch tract in Fayetteville District to Coalfield Land Company for about $6,000. Numerous other transfers and right of way agreements listed, with many parcels in Fayette County and surrounding areas changing hands or under lease with prices noted.
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File
Bend
Register
Fayetteville
Dwight A. File
Bend Branch
Coalfield Land Company
Fayette County
Addie L. File
Carrie File Spender
Annie File Hanes
Shirley File Powers
Frances W. Fife
H. N. Miller
W. K. Miller
Hedwicks Creek
Blackburn
Patteson Fealty Co
Howard Smith
Scarbro
D. W. Scott
Raymond
Sam's Taxi Company
Oak Hill
Fannie Ramsey
Sarah Ramsey
Camp Fork
Bell Creek
Highlawn Memorial Park
Lucinda Belle Tilley
ML Hope Investment Co
Alexander Gillies, Jr
Kilsyth
Loup Creek Really Company
Fred Thompson
Dunioup
Stella Persinger
Henry Lester
Hghlawn Memorial Park Co
Frank Skaggs
Highlawn Memorial Park Co
Fred B. Mann
Mabel C. Mann
Ray Stover
Virgie May Blethen
Martha Subdivision
Philip S. Douglass
F. W. Dickinson
Joe Sokoch
L. E. Holliday
Oak Hull Truck Farms
Fayette Land Co
John E. Elmore
Wile
South Hills
Coalfield Land Co
Domiick R. Ferri
Glen Jean
Alaska Coal Company
State Road Commission
Sewell Mountain
John Woholelz
Ernest Thewes
Arbuckle Creek
H. F. Teel
Margaret C. Beverly
Trump
Lee IL. McGuire
Laurel Branch
Meadow Creek
Guy D. Brown
Lena Brackland
Gauley Bridge
Vinton R. Carpenter
Ethel Flanagan
Mountain Cove
W. T. Nelson
Wyatt Treadway
Sunrise
Hansford Marly
Ross Behrens
Dickinson
Mary Elizabeth Spearen Brooks
J. D. Spearen, Jr
Laurel Creek
H. S. Clench
J. W. Simpson
Belva
Falls District
Loup Creek Company
Juno
N. Tredway
Loup Creek
Minale Martin
W. W. Teets
Mossy Creek
J. Eagle
Harry Lambert
Florence Ellison
R. A. Emerson
Hubert Stover
Clara B. Coffman
Red Spring Road
Quinnimont District
New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Linda Louise Gwinn
Everette Gwinn
Quinniment
Gordon Carr
Lottie McGuire
Kidd
Springdale
New River Company
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Homeseekers Lands& Building Co
Fayette Homes
Ihe
Babcock Coal & Coke Company Ld
B. Hager
Howard Hager
F. E. Watkins
L B. Morgan
Wyatt Hayes
L W. Dotson
Hersa Milam
Janey Neal
Mac Legg
William D. Nichols
Robert Fields
Charlton Heights
William D Nichols
Eugene Mullens
T. G. Kincaid
Po Hamer Bomber Company
H. E. Stinnett
Elo Mussetto
Deepwater
Mary M. Boothe
C. F. Jones
Meadow Fork Road
H. A. Berry
Mary Buskus
Teeberry Park
J. T. Bays
Tom Boshell
Charlee L. Garvin, Jr
J. D. Shultz
Ira Lieht
Highlawn Park
Oak [Lill
Dave Ragland
Edgar D. Saunders
Mont- 1
Elsie Lee Thomas
Homeseekers Land & Building Co
John Q. Hendrick
M. B. Levy
Elmer D. Garten
Meadow Bridge
Im. B. Levy
Carl Taylor
Haynes
Robson
Janice M. Champe
H. Montgomery
Montgomery Presbyterian Church
Montgomery Street
Smithers
Edward Radford
Windsor
Fay
Etteville
Goldie Vivian James
Eugene Martin
Cherry Lane
Prince Land Company
M. W. Luck
Robert Ankney
Edna L. Hardy
Long Branch
Mary E. Franklin
Charles Shaffner
Winona
Lacy Trump
Helen Frisby
Boley
Oaks Hill
Jess Rhodes
Joe M. Trail
Price Hill
Amerigo Giannini
Charlie Abbott
W. P. Huddleston
Angelo Argento
Joe Saccone
R. L. Shepherd
James E. Atha
Thomas Snodwen Cochran
James E. Clouser
Tully Court
Mt. Hope
Montgomery National Bank
Bert W. Evans
Oak Hill Youth Rally Hosts to Sub-District Meet
About 275 youths attended the Oak Hill Sub-District Youth Rally at Oak Hill Methodist Church with a talk by Miss Dorothy Garten on The Last Week of Christ's Life and music by the host church youth choir. The next meeting will be in Fayetteville with officer elections.
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Oak Hill
Oak Hill Methodist Church
A. A. Angle
Dorothy Garten
Fayetteville
Oak Hill Jaycees to cast in Charley's Aunt comedy
Oak Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce plans to stage Charley's Aunt with Jaycee members cast in key roles. President John Copachy announced the production after last night’s meeting and discussions continue on arrangements for the Oak Hill comedy.
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Jaycee
Oak Hill
Register
Weller Oak Hill
Funeral arrangements incomplete for Mrs Elmyra Ellis
Mrs Elmyra Ellis of Greentown, a Fayette County retired schoolteacher, died yesterday at Oak Hill Hospital after a brief illness. She is survived by her husband J M Ellis Oak Hill attorney a sister Mrs Ida Grandison of Greentown and an adopted daughter Kathleen at Institute. Her body remains at Trent-Lawson Funeral Home pending arrangements.
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Qak Hill
Elmyra
Ellis
Greentown
Fayette County
Oak Hill Hospital
J. M. Ellis
Oak Hill
Ida Grandison
Kathleen
Institute
Trent-Lawson
Glen Jean Man's Rites Thursday
Funeral services are set for 1 p m Thursday for James Gray 71 of Glen Jean found dead in a backer shop Saturday coroner jury rules death by own action Services at Collins Funeral Home with Rev R D Ferry Hilltop officiating burial in Hilltop Cemetery Born Rocky Mount Va he is survived by brother George Montgomery and sister Mary Columbus Ohio
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Register
Glen Jean
James Gray
Inis
Collins Funeral Home
R. D. Ferry
Hilltop
Rocky Mount
George
Montgomery
Mary
Columbus, Ohio
Clifftop Group Plans WSCS Organization
Clifftop Woman's Society of Christian Service to be organized at 1 p m Thursday at Clifftop Community Church. Ansted district president Mrs J A Martindale will speak and help elect officers. Acting chairman is Mrs Adam Amick. Plan formed at the church women's second meeting held Wednesday night before services.
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Register
Clifftop
Lot 12 Gauley Mountain addition to Jodie auctioned
Lot 12 in Gauley Mountain addition to Jodie is offered with an approximate price of 1500 dollars.
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Gauley Mountain
Jodie
Roof Fall Kills 1 at Black Eagle Mine
Officials of Jones and Laughlin Steel at Black Eagle seek relatives of Thomas R. Newsome 38 who died in a roof fall at 9 55 p m yesterday. Newsome unmarried lived at the club house machinist helper since January 1945 previously with Pound Va company records show. Brother John W. Newsome of Norfolk Va named as next of kin. Body sent to Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home.
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Register
Mullens
Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
Black Eagle
Thomas R. Newsome
Newsome
Pound
John W. Newsome
Norfolk
Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home
Rockview Man Hurt in Fall at Pool Room Entrance
A 57 year old Rockview man suffers three skull fractures after a fall down stairs at the Holroyd Avenue pool room entrance yesterday afternoon. He is semi conscious at Mullens General Hospital under treatment, Mullens Police Chief Wendell W. Cook says. The man tripped on the stairs and fell about 10 feet, hitting his head on the concrete floor.
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Register
Mullens
Sterling Briscoe Cook
Rockview
Mullens General Hospital
Wendell W. Cook
Holroyd Avenue
Cook
Timberman Henry Skaggs Dies After Attack
Funeral services are set for Henry Clay Skaggs 41 of Ansted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at his home. The timberman died Monday at 3:30 p.m. of a heart attack while working. Born Rosemont July 4 1908 he is survived by his mother two brothers two sisters and three half sisters with burial in Steele Cemetery.
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Dak Hill
Henry Clay Skaggs
Ansted
Theodore Carle
Winona
Steele
Donald
William Jennings
Virginia Louise Wood
Cassie Irene Skaggs
Save the Children Federation Expands Work in Wyoming
Dr EB George Payne of New York University outlined plans to broaden Save the Children Federation services beyond the southern states, praising Wyoming County for development. The meeting in the Wyoming County Board of Education offices included county officials, educators, and federation representatives as Payne toured and described local schools like the Wyoming County Trade School as models of progress.
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Pineville
Save the Children Federation
EB. George Payne
iSchool of Education
New York University
Wyoming
Federation
Maz. Belcher
Wyoming County Trade School
American Rural Child Service Division
Europe
Goodwin Jarvis
Six Wyoming couples receive marriage permits in county clerk list
Six Wyoming couples have received wedding licenses from the county clerk. Names include Emmett Sizemore and Mary Arlene Combs, both aged in the early twenties, with partners listed and additional couples: Dave Kinsley and Mary Houck, and Tom March with an unnamed partner.
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Pineville
Wyoming
Emmett Sizemore
Bud
Mary Arlene Combs
Atullens
Dave Kinsley
Allen Junction
Mary Houck
Amullens
Tom March
Mullens
Halsey Funeral Set Wednesday
Funeral services are set for 2 p m Wednesday for Fields Lee Halsey 82 of Bearhold who died of pneumonia Monday at his home. Rites at Newfound School with Rev O A Sparks. burial in family plot. Survived by wife Mary Goode Halsey four sons and five daughters, plus 2 brothers, 36 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Body to be removed to residence today. Other names listed in notice.
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Register
Mullens
Fields Lee Halsey
Bearhold
Newfound School
O. A. Sparks
Wyoming County
Drewery
Nancy Busie Halsey
Mary Goode Halsey
Cay
Princeton
Lavey
Fineville
George
Soulsville
Harry
Baileysville
Hattie Tilley
Fairdale
Vadie Byrd
Laula Gunter
Pineville
Eftief Cook
Keystone
Mullens People Attend Cambria Golden Wedding
Mullens residents Mrs H W Moe Mamara and son Robert visited Cambria Virginia for the golden wedding anniversary of Rev R H Summers and his wife. Attending from Mullens were Mr and Mrs D W Mee Namerd and children Milajean Melvin and Loretta.
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Ty Register
Mullens
H.W. Moe Mamara
Robert
Cambria
R. H. Summers
D. W. Mee Namerd
Milajean
Melvin
Loretta
Montcoal Man Fined After Assault Case Arraignment
Wylie Henderson of Montcoal was arraigned before Magistrate E A Large and fined five dollars with costs for assault and battery.
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Pettus
E. A. Large
Wylie Henderson
Montcoal
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