Oak Hill Woolworth Store To Double Size In Remodel
Oak Hill plans to enlarge the F W Woolworth store on Main Street with a $90,000 project expected to take four months. About $40,000 will remodel Lewis Street building for expansion and $50,000 will cover new fixtures. The store will stay open during remodeling, and the plan includes using Sam's Army Store space and part of the Hill building for storage and sales floor growth. The project aims to retain local industry and create jobs for about 20 workers from Long Super Mine Car Service relocation efforts.
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Register
Qak Hill
Oak Hill
F. W. Woolworth
Main Street
Bee
C. R. Hill
The
Hill Realty Company
Lewis Street
Long Super Mine Car Service
Sam's Army Store
Hill Building
Hill
McKinnon
Pineville Personal Notes and Local Visits
Pineville area brief recalls Carla A Clingempeel and her son Andy of Roanoke Wa visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Zed C Ball plus other relatives. Mentions visits by Mrs C S Worrell and Mrs Mike Lonker, district WSCS meeting at Beckley, funeral at Matoaka Methodist Church for Hattie Wright, and birth announcement by Raymond Aliff of Clearfork. Baileysville music recital set for May 12.
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Register
Pineville
Carla A. Clingempeel
Andy
Roanoke
Zed C. Ball
Clingempeel
Dorothy Ball
C. S. Worrell
Mike Lonker
Welch
W. M. Lewis
Dell Cooke
J. W. Marlin
Goldin Cook
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Beckley
L. B. Shrewsbury
J. W. Martin
Matoaka Methodist Church
Hattie Wright
Roy T. Wright
Matoaka
Concord College honors eight Beckley area seniors
Concord College announces that all eight high honor graduates in its class of 1949, part of 86 seniors, hail from Beckley area. Among them Roscoe Jackson Alien of Trailerville, magna cum laude Billie Wallingford Roathe of Princeton, and several cum laude graduates in education and arts. The list includes many local names such as Alice Adams Beckley and John Mark Perry For Spring, with May 1 voting for Queen of the May and Maypole selections for the campus festival.
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Paulit Liber
Athen
Concord College
Beckley
Roscoe Jackson Alien
Trailerville
Marine Vele
Ian
Billie Wallingford Roathe
Princeton
Alice Frances Belcher
Thelma Pelltry
Beaver
Margaret Ann Scott
Athens
Anna Madge Shiffier
Marlinson
Thomas Gregors Hambrick
Allens
John Robert Kennedy
Mafoaka
Alice Adams
Bluefield
Donald Stewart Adkins
Anna ‘Mae Burchette Alen
Kenneth ‘Cameron Gross
Sylvia Edythe Harvey
Emmtt Hicks
Belle Hot
Mount Hope
Oren Clyde Jennings
Jolo
Robin Adair Jones
I'Prailerville
George William Kiser
Marion
Rae Logan Lacey
Albert Sidney Lively
Creamery
Joan Detores- Lusk
Williamson
Salvatore Miano
Thorpe
Cynthia Mildred Milam
Glen Daniel
Garltand Davis Manola
Pamella Lucille Trent
Helen Janette Turner
Mount J . Hope
Janice Marie Walters
Leta Charlene Weatherford
Ward Festus Tu
Rrailerville
Orville Ray ‘Wheeler
Witten
Gary
Sweetsie Rubye Carter Cook
Barbara Lou Dunkley
Margaret Jane Lotspeich
Parsons
Eloise Neely
Firestein
Noble Mason Raines, Jr
Ruth Leona Daugherty
iPeterstown
Betty Lou Roncagi
Ligne
Amonate
Mildred
Fashion
Garten
Dan Douglas Gowings
William Meredith Houchins
Nancy Jane Maxey
Spanishburg
Gus Louis Vasnes
Peter Martin
Athiens
Alfred ‘Dudley McNutt
Nell Ruth Purdy
McComas
Walter ‘Hobart Porterfield
William Bowman, Jr
Keystone
Norma Catherine Cregiger
Herbert Wendell iFarr
Francis Eugene Hull
Tyailorville
Jack Richard Owe
May I Day festival at Princeton High tonight
Princeton High School hosts the annual May I Day festival in the auditorium at 8 o clock with Miss Mary Lee Robertson in charge. The event features dances representing four holidays, the traditional May Pole dance, and a Queen selection among eight candidates. May pole dancers and guards are named among the volunteers guiding the proceedings.
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Princeton High School
Peggy Brown
Sallie Fredeking
Clara Lee Fain
June Shortt
Glenna Lucas
Dorothy Morrow
Jeanette Snidow
Pally Farley
Philip Lilly
Hy Register
Princeton
Mary Lee Robertson
Physican
Francis Moody
William Lilly
Jane Shortt
Sally Fredeking
Jeannette Snidow
Patty Farley
Dorothy Morcow
Jean Britchard
Roberta Linkous
Jean Hubbard
Peggy Hunneycut
Patty Ryan
Miriam Heck
Virginia Via
Peggy Hunicutt
Jackie Greaver
Jo Gilpin
Betty Hanks
Jo Anne Meyers
Jo Anne Selvey
Carol Thompson
Lois Reiser
Mary Jo Justice
Patty Belcher
iMay
Oak Hill PTA Adopts Constitution at Meet
Oak Hill Parent-Teacher Association voted to adopt the constitution drafted by the executive committee at a Thursday high school meeting. The article also lists participants in upcoming Easter and other holiday dances and notes this will be the association's last meeting until fall. The executive committee includes Jee Oliver and C. C. Neal among others. The festival centers on the "Happy Holiday" theme with court and flower girl participants named. A separate note reports Athens Town Council will hold a brief meeting tonight at 7:30 to confirm the town nomination convention report, a required formal step.
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Volegimier Stil Wisens Oak Hiill
Oak Hill
Parent-Teacher’s Association
Otway Gunner
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Association
Jee Oliver
C. C.neal
Lottie Jotrson
Clarence Bruffey
P. W. Oden
L John Donachy
Athens
Louise Boone Faces Second Trial Today
Mercer County docket focuses on Lavise Boone of Bluefield who was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in February for the fatal stabbing of her husband Clarence Boone. A new trial was granted after the verdict was set aside due to lack of conclusive evidence. A Middletown physician is summoned to testify as weather delayed attendance at the first trial. In other items, Edgar Craft and Cecil Hutchinson faced probation and bond actions tied to a Princeton Dry Cleaners safe robbery. Ernest Davis and B F Hudgins had probation matters continued. James St Clair and Tibbs had cases continued. and Howard Howerton was found guilty of assault and battery for a shotgun incident near Lamar with a May 19 motion to set aside the verdict.
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Princeton
Lavise Boone
Bluefield
Clarence Boone
Mercer Criminal Court
Morton S. Wagner
Boone
Middletown
Ohio
Princeton Dry Cleaners
Edgar Whitfield Craft, Jr
Cecil Hutchinson
Edgar Craft
Ernest Davis
Davis
B. F. Hudgins
James St. Clair
William
Tibbs
Howard Howerton
Howerton
Lamar
John Ball Buys Wyoming Land
John Ball Jr. purchases about seven acres in Center District. A deed for 6.9 acres was filed in Wyoming County Clerk's office by Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Dunford. Other deeds on file include transfers involving Wl. J. Osborne, J. B. Blankenship, Jesse Jackson, Dewey Mitchell, Pauline Gibson, and John Raby Gibson Jr. in Lilly, Barttex, Baileysville, Oceana districts.
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Pineville
John Ball, Jr
Center District
Ball
Wyoming County
T. E Dunford
Wl. J. Osborne
J. B. Blankenship
Jesse Jackson
Dewey Mitchell
Bart ‘Tex
Baileysville
John Raby Gibson
Pauline Gibson
Lilly
Oceana
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Leola Marcroff
Doris Witten
Norma Cregger
Robin Jones
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Sara White
Anna Mae Fink
Charlene Weatherford
Ann Camper
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Mary K. Stockner
Ida Mae Hodge
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Faculty Hill
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Lewisburg
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Frinceton
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Louisville
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Ilene Smithson
Peace Springs
Lila Greeb
Wyco
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Pashion
Shirley Watkins
Crystal
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Gilbert
Joyce Harvey
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Jane Peters
Eata Bila Fie
William Weaver
West Virginia Academy of Science
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Bill Stover
Harper
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John D. Hartsog
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Robert E. Blake
Ella Hotroyd
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Russell Fair
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Hinton
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Joe Gollehon
Radford
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Landgraff
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William Dick
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R. D. Hampden
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Athens Lions Club
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Eee
Real FM
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Armstrong FM
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WCFC
Beckley Music & Electric
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Mgr
A. J. Adams
Fayette St
Oak Hill Pta
Mary Frances Treadway
Joan Vermillion
Helen Rose
Jenny Lou Carper
Gypsy Hearn
Patty Jelvey
Jo Ann Blankenship
Norma Farley
Merle White
Faye Nelson
Belly Malcolm
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Janet White
Anna Bell
Joyce MecMillion
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Willy Mae Honaker
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Alice Morris
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Ada Rogers
Hetty Robertson
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Frances Salmons
Gay Nell Phillips
Mary Wiley
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June Hatcher
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Ann Boggess
Erma Lee Candler
Lourt of Honor
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Lois Linkous
Flowers
Sue Gau(ier
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Louise Boone
John Ball
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Coman
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Pinkham
Nate
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