Scout Committee Named Following Lions Picnic
Mount Hope Lions Club held its season’s first picnic on club grounds with about fifty members present. George Williams presided as president. after a business session, horseshoe contests crowned high scorers Fred Frisk Bud Jennings and Bob McIntire. Boy Scout Troop 91 reorganization was announced with Dwight Warnock as chairman and assignments for camping, training, health, and reports, plus plans for Camp Cliftop MecClville. An open meeting June 2 in the Junior High Corral Room invites former scouts and 12 to 15 year olds to join.
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Fred Frisk
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G. Patteson
N. L. Kemp
G. G. Hodges
L. G. Fitzgerald
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Troop 91
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Lewisburg
Miller Gwinn
Albert Ratcliff
Bert Hall
The
Mt Hope Legion Post Memorial Rites Planned
Memorial Day services by Post 104 of the American Legion on the Mount Hope High School campus begin at 2 p.m. with a brief parade, band selections, and a program featuring Reverend speakers, floral tributes, and a firing squad salute to fallen war dead.
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Methodist Church
James A. Rowe
Stores in Mullens To Close Monday
Mullens Chamber of Commerce president Claude Cook says most stores will close Monday for Memorial Day. A minority of merchants will stay open and those closing Monday will operate all day Wednesday instead of closing at noon as usual.
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Claude Cook
Mullens Chamber of Commerce
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Davis Rites Set for Polly Ann Davis 82 in North Spring
Funeral services for Polly Ann Davis 82 of North Spring near Justice will be held Sunday afternoon at the homes of her daughters Mrs Vedin tester in North Spring and Mrs Glanden in Baisden with Reverends Wirt Hatfield Eph Cline officiating. Burial follows in the family cemetery at Baisden. Survived by six children Mrs Vedia Lester Abs Merdia Cline Mrs Glanden Mrs Ella Farrell Ira Perry and Oliver Perry and six brothers Perry Charlie Ward Sherman Harrison and Oliver Cline and one sister Mrs Liza Achison.
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Wirt Hatfield
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Ludith
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Ira Perry
Oliver Perry
Perry
Charlie
Ward
Sherman
Harrison
Oliver Cline
Liza Achison
Amherstdale
Thompson Funeral To Be Held Today for Amazi Thompson
Funeral services for Amazi Chris Thompson, 43, of Mullens, will be held at 1 p m today at Robertson Fogelsong Funeral Home in Mullens with Rev Grover Currie officiating. Burial is expected at Wildwood Cemetery Beckley. He was born in Wellston Ohio to Laura Belle Thompson and the late Edward Thompson. Survivors include his wife Isabel Thompson two sons Gary Edward and Warren Lee two daughters Delores Ann and Linda Rae a brother Edward Thompson of Charleston and two sisters Reda Levich Sophia and Edith Hollingshead Toledo.
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Four Year Old Killed by Automobile Near Beard's Fork
Four-year-old Dorothy Marie Long, daughter of Mr and Mrs Solon Long of Beard's Fork Fayette County, ran in front of a car near her home and died. State Trooper ER K Price reports. The piece notes the number of U S counties named for several presidents.
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Dorothy Marie Long
Solon Long
Beard's Fork
Fayette County
ER. K. Price
West Mullens Residents Sail Aboard Queen Elizabeth Tonight
West Mullens residents Mrs. James F. Hunter and her son Ronald John sail from New York City at midnight aboard the Queen Elizabeth for Scotland. They plan a two month visit to Dunfermline and reunions with Mrs. Hunter's parents, reflecting on Scotland and past wartime memories.
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Ronald John
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Greer Body Returns Home From Warrensville Burial
The 62 year old Gro-Giver Greer was found dead in a W M Ritter Lumber camp near Coal Mountain and died of a suspected heart attack. Friends arranged for burial in Warrensville North Carolina as family stated he had been in poor health and had left town about a week earlier seeking a western destination.
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Saturday Rites Set for Augustus Adkins in Glen Jean
Funeral services for Augustus Adkins 72 will be held at 10 a m tomorrow at his Highland Mountain home with Rev Carl Roseblock officiating. Burial at Highland Cemetery. Adkins a retired miner and United Mine Workers member is survived by wife Jennie two brothers two sisters and several children.
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Cannelton
Elcie Adkins
Lawrence Adkins
Harless Adkins
Casey Adkins
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Prince
May Vaughn
Lillie] Vance
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Mullens Church to Hold Memorial Services Sunday
The Rev C R Bright of First Methodist Church announces special Memorial services this Sunday at 11 am. Two members who died recently will be commemorated, C V Dailey and H F Hartley. The sermon titled Their Works Do Follow Them and a litany will be read, with a white flower placed at the altar for each name.
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H. F. Hartley
Birth of Johnny Ray McCarty in Oceana
Mr and Mrs Vennie McCarty of Oceana announce the birth of a nine and one half pound son, Johnny Ray, born at their home on Saturday.
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