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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1950
Page
10
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The column lists Negro Church activities at East Beckley area venues including Spiritual Harmony 4 at Church of the Living God East Park at 7 30 p m Prayer Band of 2nd Baptist at 11 on Wednesday at Mrs Mattie Fox Smoot Street Welcome Baptist Mission Circle at 10 30 Thursday morning and Mission Chorus practice Friday 6 30 p m at the church Also Burning Bush Royal Arch Masons meet 7 30 p m James Grant High Priest East Beckley School presents two operettas Thursday 11 a m in the school yard Followed by a PTA picnic A Legion note reports Post 70 endorsing Tommy Jones for Second Vice Commander and sending three boys to Boys State The annual worship plan with Welcome Baptist Church moved to June 25 Memorial services at Greenwood Cemetery May 28 and Legion activities including firing squad riflemen and a May 23 social The Auxiliary hosts a meeting May 24 and invites 7th 8th 9th 10th graders Mothers as chaperones A Hilltop Naomi Roebuck rites at Cillins Funeral Home Also marriage license applications for Conart Dalton Jr 18 and Glenora Winstead 16 filed in Raleigh County Clerk's Office
Three Meadow Bridge men await grand jury action on grand larceny charges after waiving a preliminary hearing before Magistrate C. L. Wiseman at Layland. Charged are Arty Goddard 23 Otis Phillips 42 and Junior Surface 29. The trio were arrested by Corp. C. A. Thompson and Trooper C. R. Dawson. three shotguns and $150 valued items were recovered from the Meadow Bridge restaurant operated by Lawrence Lewis after a May 16 break in through a rear window. Phillips previously served felony prison terms including a federal term.
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