Manslaughter Charge in Road Death at Oak Hill
Ralph Settle of Oak Hill is held on a 1000 dollar bond awaiting grand jury action after a crash near the Honey Creek bridge on Route 19 21 that killed Floyd James 22. James cousin Anthony Zamonek 16 remains unconscious at Oak Hill Hospital. Police say Settle claims being forced off the road by another car. no trace of a second vehicle found. Levi Shrewsbury Jr 20 was admitted to Taylor-Dearing Hospital after a log wedge struck his leg during work.
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Register
Oak Hill
Ralph Settle
H. Level
Settle
Fayetteville
F. E. Springer
Floyd James
Honey Creek
Springer
Anthony Zamonek
James
Pital
Mullens
Levi Shrewsbury, Jr
Levi
Shrewsbury
Odd
Taylor-Dearing Hospital
Miner Fined for Carrying Matches in Oak Hill Mine
Oak Hill news records Frank Widay of Carlisle fined $10 and costs for carrying matches at the Oakwood mine on May 16. Trial held Tuesday. Sammy McDaniel of Carlisle fined $15 and costs for assaulting Madge Gunn on May 20. Thomas Llewellen of Minden fined $10 after pleading not guilty to refusing to fight a forest fire. Hardy Dunbar of Kincaid and David W. Law of Spencer found guilty of speeding, each fined $10 and costs. Glenn Ellison of Oak Hill fined $10 and costs after pleading not guilty to speeding.
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Register
Oak Hill
Frank Widay
Carlisle
W. H. Level
Oakwood
Sammy McDaniel
Madge Gunn
Thomas Llewellen
Minden
Hardy Dunbar
Kincaid
David W. Law
Spencer
Glenn Ellison
Farm Women Plan June Camp at 4-H Camp
Farm Women's Camp is scheduled for June 16 at the 4-H camp. A planning committee of Mrs. Roy Cottle Mrs. E W Amick Mrs. Walter Warren Mrs. Henryates Mrs A E Whanger Miss Frances Warren Miss Lucile Hodkins and Miss Clifton Dotson met in the extension offices. The Baptist camp shares study periods and chapel services with joint Bible study 8:30 to 9:20 a m and vesper services in the evening. Planned projects include shell jewelry weaving leather craft and nature study for the Farm Women's Club.
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Register
Fayetteville
Roy Cottle
E. W. Amick
Walter Warren
Arrowhead Telub
Henryates
Dempsey Club
A. E Whanger
Frances Warren
Baptist Training Camp
Lucile Hodkins
Clifton Dotson
Farm Women’s Club
New Third Party Will Seek Ansted Offices
Ansted voters will choose in the June 3 municipal election with three parties nominating candidates. The Progressive party heads Mayor WG Skaggs and lists Nyra Wiseman as recorder and six council hopefuls. The Veterans' Party is led by Eugene R. Vawter with Ballard Smith as recorder and five council nominees. The Peoples' Party ticket is led by J H Keffer with Nyra Wiseman as recorder and six council candidates. Election officials include H H Wills, Marjorie Steele as clerks and Lillian Craige, Hester Skaggs, Robert O'Dell as commissioners.
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Register
Ansted
Progressive Party
WG. Skaggs
Nyra Wiseman
Recorder
Pitt Dotson
Tom Grimmett
Joel Taylor
Sammy Woods
Frank Johnson
Veterans’ Party
Eugene R. Vawter
Ballard Smith
Coroner's Jury Rules Tennant Murdered At Rock Lick Fork
Lovell Tennant a 52 year old Kilsyth miner was found dying on a Rock Lick Fork railroad track and died hours later. A coroner jury ruled death by unknown persons with autopsy showing head blunt force trauma. Investigation ongoing no arrests. Funeral at 2 p m Thursday at his father Joe Tennant's Kilsyth home with Moose Lodge graveside rites.
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Oak Hill
Lovell
Tennant
Kilsyth
G. T. Davis
Rock Lick Fork
Page
Davis
Joe Tennant
W. W. Pharr
Moose Lodge
Elsworth Service Held Thursday for Daniel Barker
Ansted burial rites for Daniel Elsworth Barker 83 will be Thursday at 1 30 p m at his daughter's Ansted home conducted by Rev Charles Stephenson and Rev Stanley Neuinann Surviving are two sons Cecil of Washington DC and Chalmer H of Ansted and two daughters Mrs Robie Hedrick of Orange Cove and Mrs Hurley Bowyer of Mt Hope Burial will be at West Lake Cemetery
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Ansted
Daniel Elsworth Barker
Elizabeth Smith Dietz
Charles Stephenson
Stanley Neuimann
Barker
Robie ‘Hedrick Orange
Chalmer H
West Lake Cemetery
Baby Lynn Gay Stewart is welcomed in Mullens home
A tacit note records the birth of Lynn Gay Stewart to Mrs. L. C. Stewart of West Mullens after returning from Kingsport Tennessee. The naming ceremony was held at Mrs. Effie Delp’s Moran Avenue home with co hosts and a long list of attendees who sent gifts.
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Mullens
L. C. Stewart
West Mullens
Kingsport
Tenn
Lynn Gay Stewart
Effie Delp
Moran Avenue
Perry Evans
Mae Belcher
Carl Gentry
Sam Foglesong
Frances Hamlin
Delp
Eddie Pryor
Carrot Worrell
Clifford Phillips
Roger E. Pritchett
Ray Toler
Harry H. Mounts
Lula Lutas
James A. Peterfish
Woodrow W. Cook
Mac Davis
M. M. Shumate
Eesie White
Flarry McNult
Marian Griffin
Bill Smith
Ray Bowling
Ted Jeffcoate
Elbert Humphrey
Dave Arnold
Bertha Farmer
W. A. Delp
Kay Gentry
Rites Held Sunday for Fayette Woman
Fayetteville report notes the burial of Mrs. Ernie Kosnoski Mullins after funeral services at Chestnut Knob Baptist Church led by Rev. M. J. Miller. Survived by husband James Mullins and four children Paul Alfreda Jake and Freddie, with multiple siblings and pallbearers. Also mentions Virgil Smoot Jr. sustaining a fractured leg delivering newspapers on Park Avenue.
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Fayetteville
Ernie, Kosnoski Mullins
Adam
Mary Kosnoski
Chestnut Knob Bapist Church
M. J
Miller
Beckley
Mullins
James
Paul
Alfreda
Jake
Freddie
Adam Kosnoski
Stonnie Kosnoski
East Hempstead
N. Y
Stella Benett
Roanoke
Mary Atkins
Carbon
Anne Fields
Edna Willis
Oak Hill
Barbara Sheaves
Helen Hall
Melish Gilkerson
Layland Heights
Bill Sheaves
Tom Atkins
Howard Hall
Russell Willis
Vic Gilkerson
Allen Gravely
Virgil Smoot, Jr
Bessie Y. Smoot
Heber Street
Park Avenue
Raleigh General Hospital
Mount Hope High Teacher Will Marry Howard Lynch
Evelyn Duncan, Mount Hope High School teacher for nearly five years, will wed Howard Lynch in a double ring ceremony at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Tuesday June 10 at 6 30 p m Rev Griffin C Callahan will officiate The couple will honeymoon in Pennsylvania and Baltimore after a reception at the bride's home A wedding shower for the bride is planned in White Sulphur Springs on June 6.
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Mount Hope
Evelyn Duncan
Earl Duncan
White Sulphur Springs
Howard Lynch
White Sulphur
Griffin C. Callahan
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Baltimore
Mr. Hope
C. E. Jones
C. W. Neely
P. H. Garrett
Bill Martin
Mack Hess
Virginia Duckworth
Margaret Darnall
Jack Rapp
BE. K. White
Leroy Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Two Girls Receive Perfect Attendance Certificates
Jean Perdue and Marie Mann, third graders at Glen Morrison School in Sabine and Ravencliff respectively, will receive perfect attendance certificates. Jean attended every day. Marie earned two terms with no absences. Both are pupils of Mrs. Darrel V. McGraw.
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Jean Perdue
Wilson Perdue
Glen Morrison School
Sabine
Marie Mann
Donald Mann
Ravencliff
Darrel V. McGraw
Lumberman Ed Gunnoe Dies After Illness in Pineville
Mullens report states Ed Gunnoe a 65 year old Wyoming County lumberman died at his Pineville home at 11 45 am after several weeks of heart illness. He leaves a wife four sons and eight stepchildren. Body sent to Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home for arrangements.
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Mullens
Ed Gunnoe
Wyoming County
Pineville
Robertson and Foglesong
Minstrel Show Will Have All Male Cast
Ansted High School presents its annual minstrel with an all male cast on Thursday May 22 in the school auditorium. Afternoon and evening shows are scheduled with admission at 30 and 50 cents. The program features the one act play Lowsy What A Night with the school band and quartet. Interlocutor Rodney Upton leads. endmen are Joe Johnson Herman Hawger John ny Cashion and Kyle McGraw. Songs include Linda Sweet Georgia Brown April Showers May Mammy By the Light of the Silvery Moon Old Black Joe Old Folks at Home Alexander s Ragtime Band and Tea for Two.
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Register
Ansted
Rodney Upton
Joe ‘Johnson
Herman Hawger
Johnny Cashion
Kyle McGraw
Linda
Alexander
Laundryman Hoy Pleads In Permitting Poker Game
Mullens Chinese laundry operator Adam Hoy and five locals were arrested Sunday night by Patrolman Haynes Davidson. Hoy, advised by Peter Hypes, appeals a charge of permitting a game of chance at his Howard Avenue establishment. The five co defendants forfeited $10 bonds for failing to appear. Local officers identified Ed McCreary J Eddie Lawson Jr Bill Cretisinger C C Gentry and Earl Newsom.
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Mullens
Adam Hoy
Hoy
Arested
Haynes Davidson
Peter Hypes
Howard Avenue
City Hall
Ed McCreary
J. Eddie Lawson, Jr
Bill Cretisinger
C. C. Gentry
Earl Newsom
Permit Issued for Store at Mullens
A one story frame grocery and confectionery store will be built on Lot 8 Center Street Mullens. Mrs Ira Grene received the permit from City Clerk G B Mc Graw. The 16 by 20 foot building, estimated at $1000, has foundation work already started.
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Mullens
Register
Center Street
Ira Grene
G. B. McGraw
Green
Mullens Lad Hurt in Bike Mishap
Kyle Allen Mullens, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blake of South Mullens, received treatment at Taylor-Dearing Hospital for possible skull fracture and minor injuries after his bicycle collided with a moving truck yesterday evening in Mullens. The bicycle was severely damaged. truck driver identified as E Talmin of Beckley.
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Mullens
Kyle Allen
Russell Blake
South Mulens
Taylor-Dearing Fospital
E-Tal
Min
Mullens Adopts Utility Code and Bus Stop Changes
Mullens council introduced the first reading of an ordinance based on the 1947 National Electrical Code. The meeting also reported a bus stop at Mullens Cut-Rate Store on Guyandotte Avenue to be discontinued and a stop moved to Kidd's Place. A South Mullens road enforcement request was raised by Richard Kidd. C A Welch, dismissed by Virginian Railway in 1935 for union activity, won $660.19 in federal court and $1,000 expenses to be deducted from earnings during dismissal, leaving $660.19.
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Register
Mullens
Bernard Stone
City Electrical
F Council
Guyandotte Avenue
South Mullens
Perry Cook
Kidd
C. A. Welch
Virginian Railway Company
Sterling Hutcheson
U. S. District Court
Norfolk
Welch
National Railroad Readjust
Three Hurt When Truck Overturns Near Helen
Former Mullens athletes F. S. Caffee Jr and Harlowe Sheets and Leon Ford of Oak Hill escaped serious injuries when their truck overturned on state route 16 near Helen on Tuesday night. The driver reportedly lost control on rough road on a sharp curve and there was no warning sign. The vehicle was badly damaged and the trio received minor cuts and bruises treated locally.
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Mullens
F. S. Caffee, Jr
Harlowe Sheets
Leon Ford
Oak Hill
Jin
Helen
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