Three New Members Join Oak Hill WCTU Meeting
Oak Hill WCTU welcomed three new members at a First Church of God gathering. Guest speaker Mrs. Charley Elgin from Gypsum Kansas spoke on the Meeting of the WCTU and Temperance in Kansas. Visitors included Mrs. Charles Albert and the Treadways. Next meeting set for Calvary Baptist Church East End.
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Oak Hill
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Church of God
J. S. McClain
Leld
Estil Fisher
O. B. Legg
W. H. Level
H. A. Adams
Charley Elgin
M. F
Kincaid Funeral Services Today in Mount Lookout
Funeral services for Thomas Perry Kincaid of Mount Lookout will be held at 2 30 p m today at Mount Pleasant Church with Rev Bruce C Cooper officiating. Burial follows in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife Martha Stull Kincaid four sons James Allen A Kincaid Loren Kincaid and Walter C Kincaid a daughter Ray McClelland a brother James W Kincaid and a sister Betty Myers plus several extended relatives.
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Reelater
Mount Lookout
Thomas Perry Kincaid
Birs
Ray McCelland
Fayetteville
Mount Pleasant Church
Bruce C. Cooper
Martha Stull Kincaid
James
Allen A. Kincaid
Mt.Lookout
Loren Kincaid
Gilboa
Walter C._ Kincaid
Chesapeake
Ray “McClelland
James W. Kincaid
Mt. Lookout
Betty Myers
Hopewe
W H Barton 59 dies at Mount Hope home
William Henry Barton age 59 died at 1 a m in his Main Street Apartments home after seven months of serious illness. A painting and paper hanging contractor, he leaves wife, son William Barton Jr, three brothers Emory of Richmond Virginia Guy of Minden and Walter of Rand and sister Mrs Allen Garrett Jr Mount Hope. Body at Lindamood Funeral Home with funeral arrangements incomplete.
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Piginiee Bratt Weller
Mount Hope
William Henry “Barton
Main Street
Barton
Willam Barton, Jr
Emory
Richmond
Guy
Minden
Walter
Rand
Allen Garrett, Jr
Lindamood Funeral Home
Surprise Shower Honors Mrs W D Fitzgerald at Beckley
Mrs W D Fitzgerald, a recent bride, was honored at a Friday night surprise shower hosted by Mrs Mae Dillon and Miss Mary ane Dilley at the Beckley Hospital Nurses Home. Pink and white decor set the scene as guests enjoyed games and refreshments.
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W. D. Fitzgerald
Mae Dillon
Maryane Dilley
Beckley Hospital
Ruth Glenn
Lee Persinger
M. M. McGuigan
O'Dell Stover
Ethel Hil
D.c.haugh
Hattie Scoll
Jack Pollock
Hope Berman
Harry Bowers
Marie Meadows
Ola Hinte
Selma-Ballongee
Mary Sotak
Dorothy Johnson
Martha, Stultz
Dorothea. Toney
Louise Acker
Jean Sweet
Barly
Mrs Thelma Adkins Forren Dies in Sanitarium
Mrs Thelma Adkins Forren age 23 of Boone County died at 11 39 p m yesterday at Pinecrest Sanitarium Heckley following an illness of several years.
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Thelma Forren
Register
Oak Hili
Thelma Adkins Forren
Boone County
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Heckeley
J Duda to Supervise Oak Hill Summer Program
J Duda will supervise the Oak Hill summer recreation program. The recreation committee plans to meet on Tuesday to finalize the summer program, with Jo Ellen Collison serving as supervisor and Wesler Oliver as chair of the municipal recreation committee.
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Register State
Wesler Oliver
Oak Hill
John Duda
Oak Hill High
Jo Ellen Collison
Duda
Joel
Fayette Counsellors Set For Posts at Scout Camp
Fayette Girl Scouts set to open at Camp Beckwith with unit leader Mrs Morris Profitt of Kingston. Counsellors include Nancy Henderson Scarbro Jean Moorefield Oak Hill Jean Kody Mount Hope and Carolyn Dilton Fayetteville. Twenty six Fayette scouts reserved for the two week session.
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Fayette
Scout Camp
Bly Hegister
Oak Hill
Fayette- Raleigh
Camp
Beckwith
P. Lw. Oden
Morris Profitt
Kingston
Nancy Henderson
Scarbro
Jean Moore
Legionnaires to Heid Memorial Program in Fayetteville
A Memorial Day program will be held at the Fayette County Courthouse lawn at 2 p.m. Monday, sponsored by Fayette Post 149 of the American Legion. The Fayetteville High School Band, directed by Alloriso Nicosia, will perform before a short address. Memorial Day Committee chairman Pat R. Hamilton urges Legion members to arrive by 1:35 in Legion or service uniforms, with assistants Walter Caldwell and H. W. Miller aiding.
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Fayetteville
Fayette County
LaFayette Post 149
American Legion
Alloriso Nicosia
Pat R. Hamilton
Legion
Mount Hope Declares Poppy Day To Honor War Dead
Mount Hope Mayor W Bernard Recke proclaims Saturday May 28 Poppy Day urging citizens to wear memorial poppies for those who died in World Wars I and II. The American Legion Post 293 Auxiliary decorates a window display listing fallen servicemen while volunteers plan poppy distribution.
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Mount Hope
W. Bernard Recke
United States of America
J. W. Bernard Pe
City of
American Legion
American Legion Auxilary
American Legion Post 293
Kyle Baker
Lawrence Vicker
Eva Vickers
Rites Saturday For Bragg Child
Funeral services will be held at 2 pm tomorrow for Shirley Ann Bragg one month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Bragg of Whipple who died at Oak Hill Hospital. The Thomas Funeral Home chapel will host Rev Allan S McKinney officiating. Burial follows at Highlawn Memorial Park. Survived by parents and a brother Clarence Robert Bragg Jr.
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Register
Oak Hill
Shirley Ann Bragg
Clarence Bragg
Whipple
Oak Hill Hospital
Thomas
Allan S. McKinney
Highlawn Memorial Park
Clarence Robert Bragg, Jr
District Meet Set For Legionnaires
Fayetteville reports the Eighth District American Legion convention will be hosted at the Edmund Cody Posy home in Gauley Bridge on Sunday. Delegates from La Fayette Post 149 include W. R. Hesse F. J. Morris Charles Hesse Alvin Fink Myron R. Renick and others with alternates listed among Vernon Ellison T. P. Farley Jimmie Morris J. A. Light Russell Gallagher Alden Renick FE. L. Feazell Pat Hamilton C. L. Garvin and more.
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Register
Fayetteville
Eighth District of American Legion
Edmund Cody
Gauley Bridge
la Fayette Post
W. R. Hesse
F. J. Morris
Charles Hesse
Alvin Fink
Myron R. Renick
E. H. Feazell
Delaney Caldwell
Harry W. Miller
Ed Radford
L. E. Bullion
Joe Hodgson
Thomas E. Myles
Don Barksdale
Jerry Murphy
W. W. Shriver
Vernon Ellison
T. P. Farley
Jimmie Morris
J. A. Light
Russell Gallagher
Alden Renick
FE. L. Feazell
Pat Hamilton
C. L. Garvin
D. E. Hes Tep
Roy Cruickshanks
Robert Honaker
Charles Miller
William Cottle
Roy Helliday
Annual Banquet Held by Beckley Ward Store
An annual banquet was held Tuesday night by employees of the Beckley Montgomery Ward Store in the Beckley Moose Club ballroom. Women of the Moose served dinner to local employees and their guests. Arrangements of colored mowers decorated tables. banquet planned by committee including Mrs. Agnes McEwan Happy Evans Mrs. Flora Brennan Tom Diggs and Claude McCormick.
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Beckley Montgomery Ward
Beckley Moose Club
Women of the Moose
Agnes McEwan
Happy Evans
Flora Brennan
Tom Diggs
Claude McCormick
Demonstration At Pennington Farm Aids Mercer County Farms
Princeton Mercer County Rural Planning Council will stage a Farm Face Lifting demonstration at Pete Pennington’s Greasy Ridge Road property in early August. The program covers profitable conservation practices home grounds improvements and farm house remodeling with county agricultural workers including Soil Conservation Service staff county agent home demonstration agent vocational agriculture instructor 4-H club agent and district forester guiding the project. The first project was near Circleville Pendleton County in May. A report on Farm practices for Mercer County farmers is being prepared for distribution by the Rural Planning Council. A further study of dog laws and state legislation will be discussed at the June 10 Rural Planning Council meeting.
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Register
Princeton
Pete Pennington
Greasy Ridge Road
Mercer County Rural Planning Council
Soil Conservation Service
Circleville
Pendleton County
Mercer Coun Iy
Rural Planning Council
Melvin Smith
Surat
High School Seniors Have Annual Picnic
Woodrow Wilson High School hosted its annual senior picnic on Monday with over 150 students attending. Miss Lara Clay led the dance program as general chairwoman while Mrs. Harry Mel Creery directed the program and Ray Martin served as class sponsor among a list of chaperones and teachers.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Lara Clay
Harry Mel Creery
Ray Martin
Jean Porter
Robert Thomson
Frank Vass
Roy Milliron
Co. G. Peregoy
Lee Summers
Teresa Gilmore
Wanda Thackston
Lawrence Wiseman
Victor Peelish
Wiener Roast Held For Club Members
A Monday night wiener roast was hosted at Carolyn Buckland’s lawn for members of the DD Club. Attendees included Peggy Prince Hob Lilly Carolyn Buckland Tom Lilly Juanita Baldwin Pavil Craven Mary Alice Cook Lloyd Kiddy Shirley Morris Jimmy Alfif Mary Elizabeth Ellison Charles Webb and Joe Scott.
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Carolyn Buckland
DD Club
Peggy Prince
Hob Lilly
Tom Lilly
Juanita Baldwin
Pavil Craven
Mary Alice Cook
Lloyd Kiddy
Shirley Morris
Jimmy Aliff
Mary Elizabeth Ellison
Charles Webb
Joe Scott
Ernest Mills Dies at Home of Tuberculosis in Minden
Oak Hill report states Ernest Mills aged 69 died at his Minden home at 8 20 p m yesterday after a lengthy illness with tuberculosis listed as the cause. Regster staff writer notes the death occurred amid local observances and records.
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Ernest Mills
Regster
Oak Hill
Minden
Hart Family Heads to Morgantown for Graduation
Mr and Mrs R L Hart of Highland Avenue will leave tomorrow for Morgantown to attend their son Robert Lee Hart Jr s graduation from a bachelor of arts program Monday. They plan to return Tuesday.
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Morgantown
Ens
R. L. Hart
Highland Avenue
Robert Lee Hart, Jr
Man Charged in Fayette Murder Mental Health Hearing Held
Pearl Collins wife of Willard Collins is declared mentally ill and likely to be committed to Lakin State Hospital after a lunary hearing in Fayette. Collins faces murder charges for fatally shooting Lovell Ford and wounding Angus Sims, allegedly to break voodoo spells cast on his wife. Sims shows improvement from gunshot wounds. the incident occurred Friday night at the Kaymoor hoist landing.
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Fayette County
Lovell Ford
Angus Sims
Collins
Ford
Sims
Smith and Wesson
Joe Thompson 41 Taken by Death
Joe E Thompson 41 a retired Virginian Railway yard brakeman died at 7 20 p m yesterday at his Mul lens home after years of poor health His death was due to a heart condition and asthma He had worked six months as a dispatcher for the Wyoming Taxi Co at Mullens He is survived by widow Effie England Thompson a daughter Mary Rose and a son James Milton all at home his father Jo E Thompson Malden and mother Bessie Thompson South Mullens four brothers William Eu gene Jesse South Mullens Theodore Baileysville two sisters Isobel Logan and Blanche Sproles Pocahontas Va Funeral services incomplete today.
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Associated Prec
Mullens
Joe ‘Edward Thompson, Jr
Otsego
Wyoming Taxi Company
Effie England Thompson
Mary Rose
James Milton
Joé E. Thompson
Malhen
Bessie Thompson
South Mullens
William
Itmann
Eugene
Jesse
Theodore
Baileysville
Isobel Thompson
Logan
Blanche Sproles
Pocahontas
Burgess Fined For Disorderly Conduct In Court
John Burgess a Fairmont Construction Company worker pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in the early session of the Tralee court. Judge G B McGraw imposed a $25 fine after a night patrolman booked him for driving while intoxicated. Burgess’s uncle Jesse Burgess was also arraigned for being drunk and paid an $11 fine.
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Seguester Blatt
Mullens
G. B. McGraw
Tralee
John Burgess
Fairmont Construction Company
Jesse Burgess
Inspector Finds Black Eagle Mine Complying with Safety Standards
Federal inspector A L Ulshafer reports near Mullens Wyoming County operation adheres to timbering and roof testing in half the working places at the 820 ton daily Black Eagle mine. He commends dust removal, added first aid supplies, goggles, and improved ventilation while urging further measures including separate explosive storage, dry storage for right section boxes, cleaner coal dust control, locked cutter chains, and a formal personnel identification plan.
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Oy Register
Mullens
Gerenal
Black Eagle
Bureau of Mines
Wyoming County
Twin Branch
Black Eagle Coal Division
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
A. L. Ulshafer
Alshafer
Alsafer
Eva Ingram to be Tried For Failure to Pay Fare
Eva Ingram faces a magistrate hearing today at 2 p.m. charged by T. E. Crawford of Beckley with refusing to pay a $9 taxi fare. Crawford, a White Star Taxi driver, obtained a warrant and Ingram has been jailed in Fayette County for two days. Also note: more than 23 million youngsters aged five to seventeen are enrolled in U S public schools.
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Wroes Oak Hill
Eva Ingram
R. C. Godsey
T. E. Crawford
Beckley
Crawford
White Star Taxi Company
Ingram
Fayette County
U. S
Committees Named for Year at Club Meeting
The Oceana Woman's Club met at the Oceana Methodist Church and named committees for the year. Plans include sponsoring money makers for the clubhouse fund. Officers appoint committees on program yearbook membership fireside parliamentarian historian and more with names of chairmen and members.
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Register
Oceana
Oceana Woman’s Club
Oceana Methodist Church
Glenn E.cobb
Moose Women Plan For Election In June
Mullens Moose Women hold meeting naming candidates for senior and junior regent chaplain recorder and treasurer for the next year. Sixteen to twenty candidates discussed and four new initiates welcomed. Hospital Guild observed Chapter Night with forty members present.
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EBC
Pres Eta Mullens
Mullens Women of the Moose
Ruby Burroughs
Amfes
June Coffey
Maude Cretsinger
Georgia “Frank
Grace Hedrick
Hattie Staton
Marie Cook
Grace Deal
Georgia Anderson
Fone
Mildred Gates
Julia Howery
Golden Biggart
Charles Tabor
Ruth White
Mullens
Nellie Gray Brizendine
Nellie Frances Brizendine
Sabine
Academy of Friendship
Huntington
Georgia Frank
Aarie Cook
Gertie Mays
Montrey Shutt
Waverly Tibbs
Georgia Richardson
Estelle Caudle
Mayme Wade
Mildred Martin
Herold
Muliens Cho
Juanita Atkins
Lila Wade
Carrie Bailey Droppieman
Hospital Guild
Mullens Issues Three Building Permits for Homes and Repairs
Mullens city permits authorize L G Bolen to build two five room cinder block houses on Sixth Street and a seven room one and a half story home near Highland Avenue Circle Drive costing about 17 000 and 7 000 dollars respectively. Remodels are planned for Mrs T B Cooper on Guyandotte Avenue and John Allen on Broadway Street with estimated costs of 1500 and 300 dollars.
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Register
Mullens
Mullens Hill
L. G. Bolen
Sixth Street
Bolen
Highland Avenue
Circle Drive
T. B. Cooper
South Mullens
Guyandotte Avenue
John Allen
Broadway Street
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Legionnaires To Heid
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Hubert Preston
Earl Cook
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Tom Evans
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John Pike
H. E. Hawkins
Jennings Barrett
R.C. Hatfield
A. G. Lugar
O. R. Wallace
Hazel Jamison
Vida Chambers
Moose
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Technicoter
Fred MacMurray
Smokey Mountain Melody
Roy Acuff
Smokey Mountaineers
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