Fayette Flower Show Awards Announced at Memorial Auditorium
Fayetteville hosts the Miracle of Flowers flower show with about 80 visitors. Oak Hill Garden Club wins sweepstakes. Oak Hill residents take multiple first prizes in horticulture and artistic arrangements. Judges from Charleston Beckley and other clubs oversee awards across dozens of classes including roses irises and table arrangements.
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Fayetteville
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Oak Hill
Shaw
Cook's
Lou Ellen Blake
Ansted
Payette County
Moual
Ant’ Nope Garden Club
Mount Hope Club
Rosemont
Rosemont Flowers of
F. A. Guffey
George Longhenry
Oak Fall
Garden Study Club of
Glen Falls Club
Ie Burgess Seed and Plant Co
Garden Study Club
Fayetteville Garden Club
Fenny Morse Seed Co
Garden Club
Oak Hill Garden Club
Judy Burgess
Susanne Noyes
Heather Collins
Eddie Avis
Seco Place
Vandalla Garden Club
R. G. Grady
Belle
Ernest P._ Jenson
Jack Miller
A. E. Stacey
Glen Falls
A. J. Bishop
G. A. Hatfield
Vandalia
H. A. Dawson
Clyde Dancy
Marion Brown
Lookout Club
H. L. McCoy
Oak Hill Club
Haven Shuck
H. R. Beckelheimer
Alex Doris
Scarbro Club
Rpse
Maven Shuck
Arden Study Club
J. N. Jobe
Glen Jean Club
Marion Miller
Guy Daylor
C. P. White
Spade and Trowel Club
George Lonzhenry
Ruth Hamilton
Fayetteville Club
Ralph Taylor
William Moore
E. M. Darnall
May Puckett
Lewis Boyle
John Frisk
Spade
Trowel Club
A. W. Burdette
W. BP. Bitlenger
P. I. Wallace
Spade and
White
Ann Hatcher
Agalogia
Red Bud Club
Lewis Caprich
William Jone
Lewis Boyles
George Evans
Jhlue
John Gwinn
Bud
Montana
Hemerocallis
Louise Hoover
Pynetheum
Dianthus
Garden Pink
Oak Hilt Club
J. W. Dougherty
C. Hodges
Scarbrook
Heuchera
John Kincaid
Gak Win Garden Club
R. Bi. Critllo
Z. Legg
Emma Nenter
Arg
Trowel
May Pucket
Goode
Cc. P. White
Out of the Earth
BD. P. Lively
Xelow
J. H. Shelton
Bright Promise
Ronald Atkins
G. A. Owens
Thelma Burgess
Red Bu Club
Oak Hi Club
Walter Kominsky
Kiue
Clifford Allen
Alexander Doris
Lottie Johnson
Spade and ‘Frawel Club
Golly Griener
Lookout
L. van Camp
Lotlie Johnson
Spade ‘and
Forest Smith
F. A. Gulfey
May Puckell
Vivian Bock
Fred Dickinson
Margaret Atkins
Cass
H.R. Beckheimer
A. Guffey
J. W. Jones
Oak Hill Ube
Sarden
Glen Jean
Ann Sydnor
Martha Jane Garvin
Diana Collins
Martha Thomas
Ann Lee
Snow White
Rose Hed
Suzanne Noyes
Sandra Jarrett
Rebecca Snead
Nan Low Gabri
Diana Dickerson
Louw Eden Blake
Joanne Shelton
Cynthia Maddy
Falls View
Oak Hi
Judy’ Burgess
Beverly McCoy
Elaine Croft
Kathie Ramsey
Death of Mabel OConnor ruled homicidal assault
Mabel O Connor 38 whose body arrived at Calling Funeral Home in Glen Jean was classified by the New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as homicidal assault. She was found dead May 14 at her Claremont home. Survived by son Warren Brown and others. Funeral at Claremont Baptist Church with burial in Claremont Cemetery.
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OAK HI
Mabel O'Connor
Calling Funeral Home
Glen Jean
New York City
Claremont Sent
George Diggs
Thayer
Miss Johnson to Get BS Degree
The Rev. and Mrs. Randolph F. Johnson will be in Philippi this weekend for their daughter Carolyn Price Johnson to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education at Alderson-Broaddus College commencement on Monday. She is a music teacher at Oak Hill Elementary and studied at Marietta College Concord College and Alderson-Broaddus.
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Oak Hilas
Randolph F. Johnson
Philippi
Carolyn Price Johnson
Alderson - Broadgus College
Johnsons
Oak Hill
Oak Hil Baptist Church
Johnson
Marietta College
Marietta
Ohio
Alderson-Broaddus
Concord College
Athens
Philippi College
Meadows Rites Slated Sunday
Funeral services for Miss Retha Mae Meadows will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Winona Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Billsonaier and Rev. Robert Campbell officiating. Burial follows at Charlie White Cemetery, Clifftop. Meadows 40, died at home in Lookout from a heart attack yesterday morning. She was the daughter of the late Melvin and Dora Gipson Meadows, survived by her mother and four sisters Edna Cheney Lena Smith Frances Holstein Freida Reed, plus three brothers Lawrence Junior and Delbert, all of Lookout. The body was moved from Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home East Rainelle to Clara Meadows’ residence in Winona Saturday afternoon.
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Lookout
Retha Mae Meadows
Winona
Area Supervisor Will Visit Fayette County
Roy Mundee area supervisor of the U S Department of Commerce will tour Fayette County Friday accompanied by county agent Richard Glass to assess industrial development potential across all sections of the county.
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Roy Mundee
U.S. Department of Commerce
Fayette County
Richard Glass
Family Night at Pineville Church Highlights Mission Work
Pineville Presbyterian Church hosted a family night dinner on Tuesday at 6 30 with guest speaker Mrs J W Witherspoon of Berkley. She spoke about her Mexico tour visiting mission fields, described needs and Christian progress, and showed slides. Mrs Witherspoon chairs World Missions for the Presbytery and teaches a 192 member women’s Bible class. she is married to Rev J W Witherspoon of Becke ley Presbyterian Church.
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Pineville
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Pineville Presbyterian Church
J. W. Witherspoon
Berkley
Fayette County Names New Agent Raymond Fox of Sandstone
Fayette County will gain a new associate county agent, Raymond Fox of Sandstone, to start June 1. He will work with Richard Glass on the pilot program and rural extension work, after a career as a vocational agriculture instructor, elementary teacher, and farmer, and he is married with five children.
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Payetteville
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Fayette County
Wil
Raymond Fox
Sandstone
Richard Glass
Fox
Sandstone High School
Town Election Officials Named At Special Meeting
FAYETTVILLE officials for the town election on June 4 were appointed at a special town council meeting. Named were Dorothy Jones Louise Toler William Craig L E Bullion and Thomas Boone. Polls open 630 am to 630 pm EST to meet town ordinance. Dodd replaced on the ticket by A K LaFon. Dodd and Mrs Brow were nominated from the floor but defeated.
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Fayeterville
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Dorothy Jones
Louise Toler
William Craig
L. E. Bullion
Thomas Boone
C. H. Dodd
A. K. LaFon
Dodd
D. E. Brow
Suit Filed in Fayette Court Over Auto Crash Injuries
A $50,000 suit was filed in Fayette Circuit Court by Hinton resident Julian G. Fredeking. He seeks damages from Col Canterbury of Fayette County, driver of the other car, for injuries sustained in an automobile accident on August 18, 1956.
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Fayette
Hinton
Julian G. Fredeking
Col. Canterbury
Fayette County
Fredeking
Stillwell Conner Taken By Death
Stillwell J. Conner, 95, of Scarbro died at a hospital after a short illness from a heart condition. A retired mining promoter and Methodist, he was born December 2 1890 in Baskabel Wisconsin. Survived by wife Harriet Eeler Conner and two sons Grover and Russell, both of Detroit. Funeral at Collins Funeral Home Chapel Glen Jean Sunday at 2 pm EST. Burial at High-Lawn Memorial Park Oak Hill.
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Stillwell J. Conner
Hill
Methodist Church
Conner
Baskabel
Wis
Stevivors
Harriet Eeler Conner
Grover
Russell
Detroit
Mich
Collins Funeral Home
Glen Jean
G. Eastwood
High-Lawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Funeral
Brabbin Funeral Set Sunday
Miss Mary Kathleen Brabbin dies in Fayetteville nursing home after months ill ness native of Kanawha County daughter of the late William and Mary Alice Brabbin charter member Mullens First Presbyterian Church past matron of Mullens Chapter Order of Eastern Star charter member of Macedonia White Shrine of Blue Ridge Survivors include four sisters Pallbearers named Jack Feller Arch Adams Carl Russell Harry McNutt Bernard Shannon and Bernard Rasnake Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home with entombment at Monta Vista Cemetery Bluefield
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Mary
Kathleen Brabbin
Jesse Bratton, Jr
Robertson and Foglesong
Monta Vista
Bluefield
Brabbin
Fayetteville
Kanawha County
William and
Mary Alice Brabbin
Mullens First Presbyterian Church
Mullens Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Macdonia White’ Shrine of
Alpeca
Slab Fork Canal ‘Co
Harry McNutt
Bernard Shannon
Bernard Rasnake
Ambrose Bierce on Admiration in a Raleigh County Tale
In a Raleigh County setting, Mike Wren recounts a chat with a Biercelike spirit about admiration. Ambrose contends admiration is a fleeting vanity, suggesting true insight lies in self admiration and recognizing one’s own reflection in others, ending with a solitary moral on the brooding hills.
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Mike Wren
Ambrose’ Bierce
Old Ambrose
la Rochefoucauld
Emerson
Ambrose
Pierce
Alexander Pope
Mr. Pope
Slanthead
Raleigh County
Fayette Red Cross Sponsors Nursing Class
Fayette County Red Cross sponsors a Home Nursing Class in Pax led by Mrs Charles Painter public health nurse. Pax Farm Women’s Club members attend including Bertie O’Neal Elizabeth Humphrey Dawnie Humphrey Goldie Hyden Piney Shaffer Thelma Stover Aileen Janney Nell Humphrey Wilma Merkham. Classes run May 6 through May 24 two hours weekly with topics on sickness bed care patient grooming food and medicine orders and civil defense. Certificates awarded on satisfactory completion from National Red Cross.
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Fayette Red Cross
Ayettevile
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Fayette County Red Cross
Red Cross
Pax
Charles Painter
Fayette County
Pax Farm Women's Club
Bertie O'Neal
Elizabeth Humphrey
Dawnie Humphrey
Goldie Hyden
Piney M. Shaffer
Thelma Stover
Aileen Janney
Nell Humphrey
Wilma Merkham
National
Trapping Season Rules Across Virginia West Virginia Areas
Public hunting and trapping rules outline season openers for beaver muskrat and mink in state forests and game areas including Bluestone and Capon lands. Special free permits and stamps required for traps and beaver trapping. deer shotguns or bows. limited turkey and grouse seasons. public shooting grounds near Bluestone and Elk River Zones with posted study areas and permit needs.
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Bluestone Reservoir
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Greenbrier
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Tucker
Webster
Cabwaylingo State Forest
Cooper's
Rock State Forest
Hunt- Siam
Panhandle
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Mason County
Huntington
Elk River
Leather-mit
Wood Creek
French Creek
Greens
Clay
Bea Brier State Forest
Horner
Kanawha
Kumbrabow
McClintic Wildlife Station
Merly
Pleasant Game Area
Commission
Nathaniel Mountain
Con Panther State Forest
Forest Head
Price State Forest
Boone, Brooke, Cabell, Fayette
Hanlands
Cock, Jefferson
Kana| Seneca State Forest
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McDowell
Kanan
Yukon
West Virginia
Tatwell
Ohio
Putnam
Short Mountain
Raleigh
Sleepy Creek State Forest
Wayne
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Feyvers
U. S
Cacapon
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Lost River
Tomlinson Run
Watoga State
U.S. Route 35
Ohlo River
Beaver tapping season permits required at state parks
Beaver tapping and trapping may occur on Holly River and Tomlinson Run State Parks during the regular season. A free permit from Park Headquarters is required. Tygart Reservoir Pleasant Creek area allows hunting and tapping as on adjacent lands, with a permit required. Carl J. Johnson, Director Walter H R Mitchell Jr, Executive Secretary.
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Tomlinson Run
Tygart Reservoir
Pleasant Creek
1 Conservation Commission of
West Virginia
Carl J. Johnson
Walter HR. Mitchell Jr
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Halph Taylor
H. A. Shumate
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Gladys Kary
Lofton Tudor
Vandalia Garden Club
George Longherry
A. Wyardette
Mariel Brown
Gladys Bary
Garden
Marie Burgess
L. H. O'Dell
J. W. Daugherty
Cc. E. Mahan
F. A. Gulley
C. E. Mahan
Houston Wendell
W. R. Topham
Foliage
Starbro. Club
Minnie Jones
Spade An Trowel Club
Z. Lege
Coleus
C. E. Ma Han
Alexander Davis
Seacbra Club
Jacob
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Groten
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Mabel O’connor
Miss Johnson
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Tee-Nee
Keatley
Prince ST Beckley Register
Stillwell Conner
Ambrose Bierce
Camp Creek State Forest
Forest Heads
Beckley Ice & Feed Co
Prince
Fireproof Products CO
Charleston
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