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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1952
Page
9
Oak Hill stores will close Wednesday afternoons starting May 7 with exceptions for May 28 before Memorial Day and July 2 before the Fourth of July. Most businesses will close on Memorial Day and Independence Day while remaining open on preceding Wednesdays. About 34 shops and offices will be closed, with some noon-hour closings or noon sales continuing through summer.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary E Allen 32 of Prudence will be held Sunday at 2 p m in Harvey Methodist Church with Rev H D Stoan officiating. Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park. Surviving are five sons three brothers two sisters and many grandchildren. Body to be moved to Collins Funeral Home Glen Jean Saturday noon.
Funeral services announced for Mildred Vaught Lawton 22 of Mt Rape at 2 p.m. Sunday in Mt Hope Presbyterian Church with Dr. W W Pharr officiating. Burial in High Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill. She died 8:15 a.m. Thursday in a Beckley hospital. Survivors include husband George W Lawton parents W S and Mrs Vaught siblings Earl Erma and Elizabeth Ann and grandparents. The body remains at Tyree Funeral Home until 5 p.m. Saturday then to family home in Charlton Heights. It will be taken to church at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Eunie Hatfield of Coal Mountain announce the birth of a seven pound two ounce son at 603 am Sunday at Stevens Clinic Hospital Welch.
Ida Wilson Hanks died at 5 30 am Thursday at the Matoaka home of a daughter Mrs Maude West. Born in Elgood she was daughter of the late Allen and Minerva Gore Thompson. Her husband C P Hanks preceded her in death. Survivors include son Charlie Hanks and daughters Maude West Myrtle Hanks and Mrs Matthew White, plus stepson Cecil Hanks.
Funeral services are set for Shirley Ann Lively a 3 year old who died after being struck by a 33 car coal train near Leslie. She followed an older child onto the tracks and sustained a basal skull fracture. Survived by her parents Luther Q Lively and Mildred Woolridge Lively two brothers and a sister. Burial will be at Sewell Valley Baptist Cemetery near East Rainelle.
Rockview resident James D. Cack, 68, sustained a ruptured thumb while chopping wood. He was treated at Stevens Clinic.
Laides Aid Society of the Advent Christian Church met with 21 members present as Mrs. Ethel Short presided. A socially honored birthday shower for Merttha Harvey followed the business, with the next meeting set for May at the church. In marriage news, Ester Puckett to wed Sgt Robert Ruffins with Delilah Mission Chapel to host the ceremony.
H B Fillmer, Beckley Presbyterian Youth Fellowship advisor, spoke at the Bradley Presbyterian Chapel Men of the Church meeting in Mt. Hope. He urged members to involve more men in church activity, support Scouting, missions, and community service, and back church outreach to new communities.
iMaben Youth Group Yo Present Program with MABEN members in charge of the district rally set for May 5 at Mullens Methodist Church. The Océana group performed the program and a covered dish dinner followed a Monday Woman's Society of Christian Service meeting. A short business session led by president Mrs. J C Chambers reported 60 dollars 12 cents raised in a parcel post and bake sale. The group approved paying 5 dollars insurance for the church. May 12 committee chair Mrs. G R Neal will lead the program.
Graveside services for Jimmy Dale Whitt infant son of Mr and Mrs Garrett Whitt of Bad will be held at the family cemetery in Bad. The baby died eight hours after premature birth at Wyoming General Hospital. The group will meet next on May 28 with dinner at 6 39 p.m. The Women of the Church plan to serve a meal during the summer months.
Doctors tests show Lydia Pinkham's Compound and Tablets relieve hot flashes and associated distress in 63 to 80 percent of cases. The ad urges women to try the modern, iron-enhanced tablets and the vegetable compound to ease nervous tension irritability and functional pain during menopause.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p m Saturday for J H Scott 39 year old miner who died Tuesday at his sister s home in Allen Junction where he resided Rites will be at the Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home in Beckley with Rev A A Young officiating and burial in Greenwood Cemetery Beckley
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