Upbeat Oak Hill Rotary Talk and Beckley Water Work
A Tuesday evening visit to the Oak Hill Rotary Club yields a lively talk with after-dinner humor and a promised church appearance by Homer Rodeheaver and B D Ackley. In Beckley, copper piping replaces an old service line, replacing iron pipe since 1908, with copper tubing laid under South Kanawha Street to the Summerfield home.
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Oak Hill
H. B. Clower
Quinnimont
Mr. Hope
Clower
Oak Hill Club
Clarence Shirley Donnelly
Main Street
South Kanawha
Beckley Hotel
Beckley Water Company
Summerfield
Rome
A. C. Harvey
Harvey
Play by Heber Street Methodists at Methodist Temple
The Ladies of Heber Street Methodist church sponsor a performance of the Old Maid's Convention tomorrow at 8 pm at the Methodist Temple. Twenty actresses will portray old maids with Professor Pinkerton in the cast, though the roles are impersonations rather than real widowed singles.
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Ist Church
Methodist Temple
Heber Street Methodist Church
Pinkerton
Illinois House Increases Tax To Three Percent
The Illinois House and Senate approved a sales tax rise from two to three percent to fund relief operations. Gov Horner foresees federal aid via a Hopkins meeting, aiming to ensure $9 million monthly from Washington while relief agencies prepare to resume work as funds arrive. Thousands on relief face hunger as the state awaits federal funding.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Ill
Washington
Senate
House
Henry Horner
Harry L. Hopkins
FERA
Cleveland
Illinois
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
Commission
Hopkins
Elkins Street Extension Settled in Beclky Deed Dispute
A tri party deed settled a long running dispute over Elkins Street extension in Beckley. George W Bair and R T Bair along with R J Ashworth and D D Ashworth deeded a 30 by 88 foot strip plus an angled 244 by 25 foot strip to the city for the street extension. The second strip may extend the street further. Other property transfers were recorded including Lilly Land Company to Roxie Sweeney and multiple parcels involving Ashworths and local properties. A small herd damaged W L Veazey’s plum orchard and many young trees in C H Baird's orchard.
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Elkins Street
Beckley
George W. Bair
R. T. Bair
R. J. Ashworth
D. D. Ashworth
S. A. Worley
Bairs
Ashworths
Lilly Land Company
Roxie H. Sweeney
Third Avenue
Sarah Clay
J. P. Clay
Beckley-Surveyor Road
Town
Martha Ashworth
Virginia Ashworth
Dana A. Suttle Dunn
Kyle E. Bahr
North Kanawha
Callaway Street
R. T. Cook
Emma Cook
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Lilly
Pemberton
Velva Vivian Shannon
Rodney B. Shannon
West Virginia Board of Control
Lilly Land Company Truck Farms
W. L. Bolen
Dollie A. Bolen
Eva M. Lilly
Beaver Coal Company
W. A. Hinchee
Jessie Hinchee
J. C. Ayers
W. L. Veazey
C. H. Baird
Doan's Pills Promoted For Kidney Health In 1934 Ad
An old Foster Milburn Co advertisement urges readers to ensure kidneys pass 3 pints daily to avoid acid poisoning and backache. It touts Doan's Pills as a trusted remedy used by millions for over four decades.
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Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Deer Menace Expands in Fort Davis Orchards
Deer populations worsen in Fort Davis Texas amid drought and scarce grazing threatening orchards gardens and other planted areas as farmers report increasing crop damage and security concerns continue through May 23.
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Associated Press
Fort Davis
Tex
Tulips Farm Memorial in Lattimore Honors Son Killed in Action
Gideon Price, a retired mail carrier from Tulips Farm Memorial in Lattimore North Carolina, unveils a monument of tulips memorializing his son who was killed in action.
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Associated Press
Lattimore, N. C
Gideon Price
French WWI Figure Cultivates 100000 Plants Refuses Sales
In wartime France a gardener tends a vast garden planting 100000 bulbs and blooms, steadfastly declining any sale of bulbs or flowers. This act of noncommercial cultivation stands as a quiet, symbolic stand amid global conflict.
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France
Scout Meeting Off Indefinitely Postponed at Church
The Boy Scouts conference and leaders session planned for today at First Christian church has been indefinitely postponed per a telegram from scout executive M. H. F. Kinsey.
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Boy Scouts and Leaders
First Christian Church
M. H. F. Kinsey
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Harold M., Biffe
West Virginia
G.M. Powers Beckley
Beckley Loan CO
Fayette St
M. W. Powers
Mer
Dodge
America
R. T. Hall
Ballinger
Texas
Chrysler
Detroit
Dodge Division
Chrysler Motors
Tors Commercial Credit Plan
Prince Street
Beckley, W. Va
Judge McGinnis
Skelton
K. A. Locke
A. J. Moye
Blue Jay Railroad
Waddell Chapel Road
Almeda Dickens
Marvin F. Dickens
Rowland Land Company
Peachtree Creek
A. B. Clay
J. L. Bradford
Opal M. Bradford
Route 3
Mount View High School
C. C. Griffith
Myrtle Griffith
Sue Bowling
Glade Creek
J. E. Lilly
E. M. Lilly
F. J. Moore
Burgess Street
Ora
Henry
Ruth Smith
Surveyor Creek
Trap Hill
J. W. Clark
John Clark
H. A. Stansbury
Charles Stansbury
Equitable Holding Company
Warter J. Dunn
M. R. Jennings
D. C. Wade
G. C. Hedrick
Wildwood
I. H. Pittman
Sarah A. Pittman
Lilly Heights
W. A. Thornhill, Jr
David
Lilly Jr
W. V. Nugen
Roxana Nugen
Ernie Cox
Blanche Cox
Coal City
Lynchn Road
S. W. Miller
Iva Kate Miller
Lacy Trump
Beaver City
Jim
Sy Sl
Tulips Farm Memorial
SRG
Esso
Essolene
Essolube
ATLAS
Petroleum Organization
Standard Oil Company
Esso, Inc
Jersey
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