Knife Thrower Highlight Oak Hill Style Show Friday
The Oak Hill Lions Club presents the Ortons as the featured act at the Oak Hill Elementary School Auditorium Friday night at 8. Alyce Orton performs a dangerous wheel and knife act while partner demonstrates precision shooting. Proceeds aid sight conservation including eye care for the needy. Master of Ceremonies is John Frisk.
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Orton
Oak Hil Lions Club
Oak Hill
Alyce
Oak Hill Lions Club
Milton Berle
Ortons
Lions Club
George's
Pegg Y’s
Wanda’s
G. C. Murphy’ Co
Gale Hill Dress Shop
Oak Bill Floral
Irene’s
Lions
John Frisk
Barton Funeral Rises Incomplete
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Lewis G. Barton 69 who died at his Hinton home Monday afternoon after a heart attack. He was born January 6 1883 near Forest Hill son of the late Rev Henderson T and Armanda Ballard Barton. He lived in Summers County most of his life and in Hinton the last three years. He had been ill ten years but farmed when health allowed. Survived by wife Bessie B Barton two sons Mason of Union and Fred of Pineville three brothers W H and J M of Princeton and R Barton of Narva Va one sister Mrs W H Sims of Forest Hill another sister Mrs Clyde Young of Bellepoint died March.
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Register
Bessie B. Barton
Mason
Union
Fred
Pineville
W. H
J. M
Princeton
Narvs, Va
W. H. Sims
Forest Hill
Clyde Young
Belle~ Point
Wednesday Rites Set for Infant
Margaret L Sowards two month old daughter of Venus and Mannie Sowards of Simon died Monday afternoon born November 11 1950. She leaves a brother Bobby and two sisters Pegry and Patty at home. The body will be moved to the Evans Funeral Home Oceana and to the residence Tuesday evening. Funeral services are scheduled 1 p m Wednesday at the residence with Rev Albert Morgan of Simon officiating. Burial will be in the family cemetery.
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Ry Register
Oceana
Margaret L. Sowards
Venus Sowards
Simon
Venus
Mannie Trent -Sowards
Bobby
Pegry
Patty
Leah the Evans
Albert Morgan
Taken by Death in Oceana Sizemore at 42
Ocean Oceana J W Sizemore 42 died at home in Clear Fork Sunday night. He was the son of John and America Milan Sizemore and is survived by wife Lessie two sons Weaver and Paul a daughter Gracie a brother Weaver of Pineville and two sisters Lillie and Lizzie of Vivian. Funeral at Freewill Baptist Church Oceana with Rev Stokie Parsons officiating burial in family cemetery.
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Register
Ocean A—Jpshua W. Sizemore
Clear Fork
Horn
John
America
Milan Sizemore
Lessie Sizemore
Weaver
Paul
Gracie
Pineville
Lillie
Lizzie Sizemore
Vivian
Evans Funeral Home
Freewill Baptist Church
Oceana
Stokie Parsons
Pridemore Rites Scheduled Today
Funeral services for J. W. Pridemore 176 died Sunday at his Ansted home will be held at 230 p m Tuesday in Hopewell Baptist Church with the Rev. Theodore Carte of Winona officiating. Burial will follow in Terry Cemetery. A retired miner and United Mine Workers member, he was born April 2 1875 in Greenup County Kentucky. Surviving are his wife Minnie Pridemore of Ansted three sons Shirley Walter Ralph and four daughters Madge Neal Goldie Fitzgerald Bessie Osborne Josephine Cameron 50 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
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Register
Oak Hill
J. W. Pridemore
Ansted
Theodore Carte
Winona
Hopewell Baptist Church
Terry
United Mine Workers
Greenup County
Kentucky
The
Baptist Church
Minnie Pridemore
Shirely
Walter
Edmound
Ralph
Waneta
Madge Neal
Victor
Goldie Fitzgerald
Huntington
Bessie Osborne
Shinniston
Josephine Cameron
Manslaughter Charge Filed Against Driver in Fatal Leslie Crash
Veronica Taylor five died when a car struck her as she ran from a Leslie home. Gilbert Britton 24 Quinwood miner will be arraigned on a manslaughter charge at East Rainelle. The driver was shaken but uninjured. Dr L B Todd had just treated the girl’s ill brother. Surviving family includes mother Mrs Dorothy Mullins and several siblings.
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Register
Leslie
Veronica Taylor
Dorothy Mullins
Rainelle
C R. Dawson
Gilbert Britton
Quinwood
L. B. Todd
Veronica
Todd
Britton
Reantte Ees
Kher‘cer
Dr. Khorozian Rites Scheduled Wednesday
Pineville prepares for funeral services for Dr. Krikor George Khorozian who died Saturday night at his home, believed to be a heart attack. The service will be held at Pineville First Methodist Church with a Huntington Greek Orthodox minister presiding, followed by interment at Sunset Memorial Park mausoleum in Beckley.
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Register
Pineville
Pinsvie
Krikor
George Khorozian
Huntington Greek Orthodox Church
Pineville First Methodist Church
Sunset Memorial Park
Beckley
Khoroian
Mark Twain Society
Armanda
W W Little 43 Dies After Heart Attack
Vernon W Little 43 of Princeton died Monday morning at home after a heart attack. He worked as a boilermaker at the Virginian shops and was born July 19 1908 in Lynchburg Virginia. He married Mable Hunter September 30 1952 and is survived by his widow two sons and a daughter in Princeton and Bluefield one grandchild. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Register
Princeton
Vernon W. Little
Virginian
Lynchburg
John Nelson Little
Mable Hunter
Thomas L
Elvin and
Roger All
Georgenia
Walter Sudduth Jr
University of Penn- Bluefield
Samsylvania
Sudduth
Bluefield
Local Physician Pioneered Pineville Medical and Pharmacy
The article profiles a physician born in Detroit who studied at Twan University and pursued post graduate training in eye, ear, nose and throat. He served in the U S Army Chemical Warfare Division during World War I and belonged to Wyoming County American Legion Post 106 Mullens. He licensed to practice in Michigan in 1920, then moved to West Virginia locating in Thurmond and passing the state medical board. He was Pineville’s first town physician and surgeon and once ran Pineville’s first drug store. He adhered to the Orthodox faith.
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Tvapares
Aeesauel
Amulol
Twan University
Detroit
Mich
Chemical Warfare Division
U. S. Army
Wyoming County American Legion
Michigan
West Virginia
Camp Creek Man Dies by Own Action at Camp Creek
Funeral services are set for S. Clarence Ellison 66 of Camp Creek who died Sunday from bullet wounds fired into his temple with a .22 rifle. He is survived by wife Jennie Cooper three sons Alfred Ira B Abraham two daughters Syble Doughton and Peggy Kegson and five grandchildren. Relatives attributed his death to despondency.
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Register
Princeton
S. Clarence Ellison
Camp Creek
Jennie Cooper
Alfred
Ira B
Abraham
Navy
Norfolk, Va
Syble Doughton
St. Petersburg
Fla
H. H. Ellison
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Summerlee Church
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Whoming
Lois Jean Winters
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Stevens Clinic
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Missouri
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Highland Avenue
Kansas City
L. H. Gibson
C. C. Young
Sadie’s
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Brown & Every
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Khorozian
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Mutlens
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Ellison
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