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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1949
Page
6
Cynthia Lowry offers sparing garden advice on building a compost pile. Start small and narrow, keep moist, layer soil and organic matter, and turn as it ferments. Use manure or commercial fertilizer as needed, and cover to control odors while improving soil with time.
Pineville residents share news of relatives traveling to New York City and Philadelphia, visits with family in Bluefield Beckley Mullens and Charleston, and many local social calls. The column notes basketball trips to Morgantown, health updates, and gatherings among the Barnett Morgan Lambert and related families.
Washington readies a national sesquicentennial to honor the capital’s founding. Officials plan parades exhibits and stamps with 57 foreign nations invited and President Truman seeking $1.5 million for the event.
Mrs Adams has returned home at 731 South Fayette Street from Heckley hospital and is doing nicely. Mt Vernon Baptist Church members discuss organizing a Pastor's Aid society with meetings for missionary society, Sunday school program, and church board. Stamford Bulldogs beat Boy Scout Troop 42 56 to 54 at Riley Hill Grace. local visits noted.
USDA market data shows total cattle at 1150 with 22 loads slaughter cattle and 4 loads stock cattle. Slaughter steers active, cows and bulls steady to weaker. calves and hogs mixed with prices varying by weight and grade. Smaller lots and odd head noted across hogs and cattle, with bulk sales trending around established ranges.
A survey by business education classes of Professor Cloyd P Armbrister and Harry G. Shhaefer uses questionnaires and interviews to measure living costs in the Princeton Athens area. Omega Chapter Delta Sigma Epsitor plans a formal installation tomorrow at Concord College, per retiring president Madge Shiffler.
John Pelissier in Montclair transforms an old bus into a mobile luxury home named Sub-Sonic. The eight sleeper travels to Canada, Niagara Falls, Luray Caverns, and sport events, delivering 10 miles per gallon. Locals at bus stops keep trying to board.
The Berlin anti Communist paper cites a German scientist who worked for the Russians and says the Soviets know the atomic secret but cannot yet mass produce bombs. It claims German experts aid Soviet rocket and submarine programs, with new V-2 versions produced near Leningrad at a plant in Tichwan.
Federal highway engineer S. E. Bradley and state officials, J. C. Long and J. C. Cadle, discussed a form q market secondary road plan from Lovern to Figland. Long proposed surface treatments for routes 19 21 Princeton to Flat Top and Athens to Summers County line, plus treatments on old Princeton Bluefield road Ingleside through Augusta and Goodwill Durhing road.
Concord College Veterans Club and Athens Post 98 American Legion will attend the morning worship at Athens Baptists Church on Sunday April 3. Services are moved to the Masonic Hall due to ongoing repairs in the clinic auditorium.
Glen Rogers residents and relatives share guest visits including Glen Rogers son in law Archie Mullens of Charleston and daughter Mims Dorothy Dillon of Norton Virginia. Local residents like Buford Meid of Kentucky and others attend gatherings and hospital updates appear for Billy Graham and Dennis Greer. Notable moves include Mrs. Thomas Bunting’s return home after surgery and Frances Eleanor Mowing ton’s discharge from Haleigh General Hospital Beckley. A Raleigh County divorce suit is published in court notices.
Public notice announces sealed bids for paving a 2501 foot section of Fast Palace Street extension in Beckley. Work includes graded subgrade shoulders and concrete six inch pavement, with preparations, bids due April 12, 1549, and Council to open bids that evening.
Funeral details for Makkovetch Wahkomitch and several others list services at Keyser Funeral Home Chapel and Sunset Memorial Park. Names include Johnnie Rittlejschin, Eden Spangler, and GOAD. notices express thanks to relatives, friends, and local clergy.
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