Fayetté Woman's Club Plans Silver Tea and Quilt Display
Fayettéville area notes show the Fayetteville Woman's Club scheduling a Silver Tea Quilt Display for May 1 from 2 to 4 pm to showcase quilts old and new. The club formed a display committee and assigned tasks for invitations publicity guest book and collection of quilts among members including Mrs Charles Shackelford chair Mrs E B Eskew and others. Also reported is Earl Webb age 31 Brenton treated for pelvis fractures after being struck by slate while working for Island Creek Coal Company per brief community notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayeiteville
RNS
Fayettevile Woman's Club
Caoarles Shackelford
E. B. Eskew
DH. Perdue
George
Brenton
Earl Webb
Stevens Clinic
Island Creek Coal Company
Three Couples Apply For Marriage Permits
Pineville county clerk issues licenses to Donley Legg 19 and Joanna Jessie 19 of Coal Mountain, John D Stusher 22 and Lois Musick 18 of Brenton, Lonnie England 19 of Steeles, and Mable Collins 19 of Hanover, among others.
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Pineville
ANP
Donley Legg
Joanna Jessie
Coal Mountain
John D. Stusher
Lois Musick
Brenton
Lonnie England
Steeles
Mable Collins
Hanover
Two Officers Appointed For Fayette Study Club
Two officers were chosen at a Fayette Study Club meeting. Mrs. J.N. Jarrett became secretary and Mrs. C. B. Howard was named treasurer for two-year terms. A special committee was formed to revise the club constitution and by laws. Members include Mrs. M. G. Hresan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hilz
ANS
Fayette Study Club
J.N. Jarrett
C. BE. Howard
M. G. Hresan
Local Club Lists Annual Program Committee and Visitors
J E Howard and Mrs John Scott head the club roster with a long list of committee chairs for 1957 58 including Mrs W C Price Mrs J H White and Mrs Hresan on the program committee for 1958 53. Other chairmen cover fine arts publicity press radio television national defense membership veterans affairs citizenship historian mental health and more. A Summerlee hostess Mrs Bittinger hosted 25 members as Parliament Law was discussed next meeting set for April 17 at Mrs H R Beckelheimer's Fayetteville with a program on Israel to be presented by Mrs Price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Howard
John Scott
W. C. Price
J.H. White
Hresan
Mes. Jarrett
C. Shumate
W. P. Bittinger
Fine Arts
C. P. Anderson
Payetteville
Price
Minden Resident Taken By Death
Roy King aged 50 of Minden died at Beckley Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He passed away at 5:46 a.m. today. The remains were sent to Tyree Funeral Home in Oak Hill for arrangements pending.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Roy King
Minden
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Tyree
Last Rites Set For Mrs Cecil In Mount Hope
Funeral services for Nettie Cecil 59 of Mount Hope Route 1 will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Tyree Funeral Home Chanel with Rev Ernest Barley officiating. Burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Park Beckley. She died at 10 15 a.m. Thursday in an Oak Hill hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born Bluefield Jan 10 1393 she was predeceased by husband William Cecil. Survivors include brother I Gr Neal Athens sister Mrs Jennie Litiz Bluefield daughters Bertha Monk Jelinople Pa Elizabeth Brown and Margaret Cecil Mount Hope Route 1 sons William Cecil Jr Mount Hope Route 1 and L F Cecil Premier nine grandchildren. Body to be taken to residence at 8 00 p.m. Saturday and return to Chanel one hour prior to services.
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Mount Hope
RNS
Nettie Cecil
Tyree
Chanel
Ernest Barley
Bradley
Blue Ridge
Memorial Park
Beckley
Cecil
Oak Hill
Bluefield
William. Cecil
Her
I. Gr.Neal
Athens
Jennie ~Litiz
Bertha Monk
Jelinople
Elizabeth Brown
Margaret J Cecil
William Cecil Jr
L. F. Ceje
Saturlayard
Pineville Personal Notices Reach Miami Vacation
Pineville residents report family visits and travel with Mr and Mrs E A Blankenship of East Pineville guests of son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Haskell Cook and family members in Baileysville Huntington and Welch. They left Friday for a vacation in Miami Florida. Ed Hawley and daughter of Pineville visited relatives in Hinton. Mary K Bowman spent the weekend with kin in Beckley.
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Pineville
Rns
E. A
Blankenship
East Pineville
Haskell Cook
Baileysville
E. A. Anderson
Hugh Edward Clay
Huntington
C. E. Linkous
Welch
Miami
Fila
Ed. Hawley
Relatyes
Hinton
Mary K. Bowman
Beckley
Beri Bai [Ley
Duluth
Minn
Oceana
Welch Comer
Weikle
Howard Cook
Dada Halstead
Grace Hospital
T. F. Brammer of
Maltens
E. G. Shannon
Eleanor Cook
Martha Ann Caldwell
Bluefield Business College
Earl Cook Jr
Norma’ Caldwell
A. M. Hall and Son
Allen
Charleston
L. W. Beane
Minister's Rites Set Sunday
The Rev. Prince Alert Davis, 73, pastoring Lide Rock Baptist Church Thayer, will be honored in funeral services at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. G J Wilson of Mount Hope will lead, with burial in Carter Wood son Cemetery Ingram Branch. Davis died Tuesday night at home from a self inflicted gunshot. The body will lie in Counts Funeral Home Glen Jean then be moved to the church one hour before services.
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Co Uns
Glen Jean
Dragging For Bodies In New River Resumed
Dragging of the New River resumed today in the search for the bodies of two Kanawha County men believed drowned during a fishing trip. Fayette County sheriff's office State Police Fayetteville Volunteer firemen and U S Army Engineers personnel were to join the operation. Kebal Berry and Lowell McCormick both 31 employed by Carbon Fuel Co at Winifrede were last seen a week ago driving to Thurmond and taking a train to a fishing camp along the river. Residents reported seeing them in the river after nightfall and their boat was found overturned.
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Payetteville
Kanawha County
Fayette County
Fayetteville
U.s.army Engineers
Prince
Kebal Berry
Crown Hill
Lowell
McCormick
Hernshaw
Carbon Fuel Co
Winifrede
Thurmond
Mrs Gill Satisfactory After Raleigh Hospital Shooting
Mrs Henry Gill, 49, of 207 Whitestickh St, is reported satisfactory at Raleigh General Hospital after surgery for bullet wounds ruled personal safety related. Police say one bullet hit the chest above the heart and two below. neighbors heard shots at about 2:45 a.m. A .32 caliber pistol with three empty cartridges was found nearby.
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Henry GM
Whitestickh St
Raleigh General Hospital
Gill
Parking Meters Collect $478 At Municipal Lot
A total of 478 dollars and 44 cents was collected from parking meters on the Municipal Parking Lot on Thursday. The exact hours and meters counted were not specified.
Last Rites Set For J Meadows At Seth
Funeral services for Jacob Taylor Meadows 68 will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Healing Stream Baptist Church Seth with burial in Bowne Cemetery. A retired miner and Mason he was a member of O'Dell Lodge 115 AF and AM Madison and Laurel Lodge 198 Knights of Pythias Seth. Surviving are wife Velva White Meadows two daughters Alene Garretson and Nina Blevins a son Leon Meadows a daughter Lorraine Ohio a son Virgil Seth a sister Juple Jarrell Chesapeake two brothers Theodore Eskdale and Font Elyria Ohio seven grandchildren and three step grandchildren Graveside rites will be by Laurel Lodge 198 Seth Body to home at 3 p.m. today from Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville
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Seth
Jacob Taylor Meadows
Healing Stream Baptist Church
D. C. Patchell
Bowne
Atell
Meadows
O'Dell Lodge
A.M. of Madison and Laurel Lodge, No. 199, Knights of Pythies
Shrine Lodge
Velva White Meadows
Alene Garretson
Nina Blevins
Eva Sors
Leon
Loraine
Ohio
Virgil
Juple Jarrell
Chesapeake
Theodore
Eskdale and
Font
Elyria
Laurel Lodge
Armstrong Funeral Home
Whitesville
Infant Rites Planned for Four Month Old in Gauley Bridge
Jo anna Martin four month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Martin of Gauley Bridge died in a Charleston Hospital Thursday. Other survivors include a brother Joseph Jr and paternal grandparents Lesley Martin of Lars ing. Graveside rites set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Montgomery Memorial Park with Rev Billy Reed Wickline officiating. Body at Combs Brothers Funeral Home in Gauley Bridge.
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Gauley Bridge
Rns
Joanna Martin
Joseph Martin
Charleston
Joseph Jr
Len
Lesley Martin
Larsing
Montgomery Memorial
Billy Reed Wickline
Combs Brothers Funeral Home
Sisters Will Continue Sunday Search for Bodies
New Richland RNS reports divers will enter the Guyandotte River this Sunday to search for the bodies of Betty 10 and Dianna Hatfield seven the daughters of Mr and Mrs Bill Hatfield. Bernard Mutchinson of New Richmond leads the effort and appeals for volunteers and diving gear. An oil drum raft built with lumber donated by Bailey Lumber Co Mullens 403 3 will serve as the entry and exit point for divers weather permitting.
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NEW Richmond
RNS
Guyandotte River
Richmond
Bernard Mutchinson
Hutchinson
Lmann
Bailey Lumber Co
Mullers
Mullens
Betty
Dianna Hatfield
Bill Hatfield
Dr Carl J Wolf to Assume Associate Executive Duties
Dr Carl J Wolf, director of the Presbyterian West Virginia Mountain Project, leaves Whitesville to become associate executive for the Synod of New Jersey and work in southern New Jersey. He and his wife with three children have lived in Whitesville since 1951 as unity grew among Mountain Project churches. The Wolfs will relocate to Merchantville Nova Scotia.
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Lucy Thomas Whitesville
ANS
Carl J. Wolf
Presbyterian West Virginia Mountain Project
Whitesville
New Jersey
Will
Whilesville
Chanlyife
Karen
Hosemary
Eric
Mer
Synod of New Jersey
Edna Stevens Circle Meets in Fender Home
The Edna Stevens Circle gathered Thursday at Mrs. Ted Fender’s Fender home in Pineville. Mrs. W R McCoy opened with prayer, devotional by Mrs. Green, and a program on Lent by Mrs. McCoy. Plans were made for a dinner April 9 at 6 30 p.m. in Cook Memorial Baptist Church for a Leadership Training Course by Mrs. Travis Taylor.
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Pineville
Rns
Edna Stevens
Welch
Stacie Mullins
Ea Man
Robert Snyder
Walter Green
E. M. Curry
All-Scout Dinner Marks Fifth Birthday of Girl Scouts
An all Scout family dinner at Calloway Heights Community Church Monday celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Birthday of Girl Scouts. About 325 people attended the event.
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Callowway Heights
Whitesville PTA selects Mrs Shafer as Teacher of the Year
Edith Shafer, fourth grade teacher at Whitesville Junior High in Boone County, named by Whitesville PTA as their Teacher of the Year candidate. A 10th year in education with past Mercer County service, she plans to present her qualifications to the County PTA.
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Whitesville
Barbara Ann
Susan
Loren D. Shafer
Sylvester
Shafers
Shafer
Marshall College
National Education Society
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Morris Harvey College
Huntington
PTA
Boone County Classroom Teachers ' Association
Jackson's Mill
Bluefield
National Educational Association
West Virginia Educational Association
Boone County Educational Assocition
First Baptist Church
Shenandoah 4-H Club
Bve
Oceana Personal Notices and Local Visits in Glen Counties
Community notices list guests visiting Oceana and Pineville families including Beri Bailey of Duluth and Welch Comer family hosts. Also reports a hospital discharge and upcoming NAACP meeting at Pleasant Valley Church in Minden with Rubin Puryear urging attendance.
Navy destroyer crews perform emergency sea appendectomy
Work San Diego unit with USS Spangler and USS Alvin C Cockrell aided by hospital corpsmen in rough seas carried out an emergency appendectomy for patient William R. Brown. Demetreos Halikis, medical officer from USS George, led the operation with ether from two cans. All aboard were transferred safely, and the crew received praise for the success of the surgery.
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San Diego
Califo Gi
USS Spangler
Alvin C. Cockrell
Demetreos Halikis
USS George
William R. Brown
Cockrell
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Fayetté Woman's Club
Q. O. Farmer
W. L. Whitlager
WW. O. Henderson
Ruth Kidd
Loren Wiseman
Fletcher Arritt
George Hatfield
Fayette
Clark
Clark Stores
Neville ST
Mrs. Cecil
Cannon
Westirginia
Kredi Jewelers
Beckley Theatre
Beckley Hotel
Hill
Oak
New River
J. Meadows
Marlin
National Missions
Synod of West Virginia
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Wolfs
Rogers Avenue
Merchantville
Wolf
Presbyterian Church
Colcord
Fender
Whitesville Pta
Westinghouse
Marty
Yellow
Prin
Oceana Personals
NAACP
MBEET
National Association. For the Advancement of Colored
Pleasant Valley Church
Rubin Puryear
Prescott
Ark
Justiss
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