Beckley Post Office survey urged by city planning group
The Planning and Zoning Commission asks the Post Office Department for a complete survey of Beckley and Raleigh County mail handling. They cite cramped space causing two to three day parcel post delays and traffic jams from the highway mail bus, and call for expansion, relocation of highway mail, and added adjacent land to ease operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
City Board
Post Office
Bexley
Planning and Zoning Commission
Post Office Department
West Virginia
Charleston-Fayetteville
Highway Post Office
City of Beckley
City of
E. H. Hedrick
Harley M. Kilgore
M. M. Neely
Raleigh County
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Prince
Raleigh
Fifty Year Masons to Receive Pins in Lodge Night
W Edgar Moore of Mt Hope and E L Hawley of 522 Woodlawn Ave will be presented with pins for 50 years of Masonry at a special communication Thursday at 7 30 p m J Q Hutchinson and R D Watts will make the presentation Moore joined in 1899 at Longdale Lodge Lookout now with Beckley Lodge Hawley is with Bramwell Lodge No 45 The meeting is past masters night per R M Simms master of the local lodge
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Edgar Moore
Mt. Hope
E. L. Hawley
Woodlawn Avenue
Masonic Lodge
J. Q. Hutchinson
R. D. Watts
Moore
Longdale Lodge
Lookout
Beckley Lodge
Hawley
Bramwell Lodge
Amigo 2 Mine Safety Practices Noted
Reinspection report by the U S Bureau of Mines on Amigo No 2 mine at Rhodell endorses safety improvements including air lock doors trolley wire insulation and manway signs. Inspector H Strubeck cites a systematic timbering plan 46 workers and 267 tons daily while urging longer timbers safer on moving cars insulated power feeds bonded switches and over load protection.
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Amigo No. 2
Amigo Smokeless Goal Company
Rhodell
United States Bureau of Mines
H. Strubeck
Deeds on File Reynolds Funari Buys Local Addition Land
Reynolds Funari and wife purchase three fourths undivided interest in Lots 195 196 and 197 in Mid City Addition to Beckley from Helen Braddock Shur and others for about 5500 as recorded in Raleigh County Clerk's office. Other transfers include C M Rogers to Flat Top Lake Association and Lilly Land Company to Rogers, various tracts in Shady Spring District, and several lot sales with prices around 500 to 1000 dollars.
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Reynolds Funari
Mid City
Beckley
Helen Braddock Shur
Mike Brojak
Raleigh
C. M. Rogers
Flat Top Lake Association
Glade Creek
Shady Spring
Lilly Land Company
Lilly Plane
Mary Braddock Funari
A. F. Combs
Fred Shuff
L. S. Elder
Christian Nation Church of
James Cummings
Claude Bailey
Johnstown Road
H. B. Walters
J. W. Walters
Roman
Crab Orchard Heights
Crab Orchard
Texie Miller
Bertha D. Smales
Homeseekers Land and Building Company
George Thompson
Lida Snuffer
Greenlawn
Sunset Memorial Park
Jack Johnson
W. T. Lilly
Davis Truck Farms
John Pawlus
Steve Joseph Pawlus
Park Heights, Inc
Glen L. Bellamy, Jr
Park Heights
Barbara Wilities
Frank William Wilities
Frances Farley
Westwood
M. W. Powers, Jr
Buster Jessup
E. Z. Grubb
Pedro Torrico
Garcia Torrico
Joe Torrico
John Sydenstricker
Charley Richmond
Richmond
Jack Cecil Meade
Emmett Foley
Glade Park
Okey A. Mills
Henry Vines
Shady Grove Farms
Shady Spring District
Five Guilty In Police Court Roster
Two men were convicted of driving while intoxicated, two of speeding, and a fifth for assaulting an officer while intoxicated in City Police Court last night. Thomas Henry of Slab Fork Negro was fined 91 dollars for drunkenness and assaulting an officer. George Hodge of Mabscott and Willie Moore of Slab Fork were fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding. Clinton Kelly of Amigo, billed as Negro, was fined 50 dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Henry
Slab Fork
Amigo
Clerks Oppose New Sportsmen Licenses
Raleigh County Clerk Harry Anderson was named to a three man committee at the 13th Annual Convention of West Virginia county and circuit clerks in Spencer. The group discussed a simpler statewide hunting and fishing license system and urged state officials to study changes. The convention also backed a social security measure for county officials and considered extending candidacy filing from 30 to 60 days.
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Raleigh
Harry Anderson
West Virginia
Spencer
Beckleyan
Legislative Committee
Anderson
Secretary of State
Circuit Clerks
Circuit Clerk’s
Beckley Council Asked to Widen Two Streets
Beckley planning commission urged City Council to widen Third Avenue from Second Street to Central Avenue by eight feet on each side and Neville Street from Third Avenue to Second Avenue by three feet on each side to ease growing traffic congestion. City funds are not available for at least a year, but merchants press for action while officials note widening would involve sidewalks and curbs removal and high costs.
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Third Avenue
Neville Street
Beckley
Planning and Zoning Commission
City Council
E. E. Bibb
W. A. Burke
Beckley’s
Second Street
Central Avenue
Burke
Second Avenue
City Recorder
W. P. Laren
Bibb
Valley Drive
Zoning OK for Lumber Firm Building Faces City Avenue Plans
Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission approved Quality Lumber and Supply's building on City and Central avenues after a 40 foot street establishment motion. The 140 by 30 foot tapering warehouse will store roofing and cement materials. a sidewalk is planned to spur others to sidewalk construction. Also: Mrs. Rhodes' proposed limestone and galvanized steel structure on Second Street Third Avenue faces fire law conflicts. a special meeting will decide. FE A Hall seeks a limestone brick fronted building at Powerline Drive East Prince Street for a beauty parlor and drugstore with a public hearing set for May 31. residents within 300 feet urged to comment and circulate a petition. Clarence Curface arraigned for driving while drunk. bond set at $500. Munson failed to appear and forfeited $50 plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City and
Central Avenues
Okeh
Beckley Planning and Zoning Commission
Commission
City Avenue
Central Avenue
Virginia Street
Dennis Leary
Sam Thomson
Rhodes
FE. E. Bibb
W. P. Laren
Bibb
FE. A. Hall
Powerline Drive
East
Prince Street
Hall
City Hall
Register
Princeton
Clarence Curface
Charles C. McGuire
Fred A. Munson
McGuire
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Masons
Amigo 2
Halstead Refrigeration CO
E. Prince St
Dial
Sprague
North Kanawha Street
Lowell Canaday
John W. Eye
W. Neville
Zoning Commission
Okeh On Lumber Company
ANCA
NORGE
Ule
Love Bros
AOWOL
Appalachian Electric Power Co
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