Beckley School Ledger Shows Large Expenditures and Transfers
A scanned Beclky County school ledger page lists extensive current expenses across instructional equipment building grounds transportation and auxiliary services. It details salaries, travel, bus repairs, fuel, libraries, cannery costs, public health, and capital outlay with numerous vendor names, dates, and totals reflecting a sprawling year’s operations and funding from state and local sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Service Medical Arts Supply Co
Raleigh County
Sanitarian Vo. B
Ameagle
Amigo
Bacontown
Beaver
Bradley
Blue Jay
Byrd-Prillerman High & Elem
Central
Cirtsville
Clear Creek
Clear Fork High
Coal City
Colcord
Collins
Crab Orchard
Old
New
Cranberry
Crescent
Crow
Daniels
Dorothy
East Beckley
East Killivan
East Park
Eccles Junior High & Elem
Fairdale
L. W. Singer Company, Inc
Eq Publishing Co
Department of Health, Education & Welfare
ABC School Aoe Inc
Sears Roebuck
Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
Campbell and Hall
Creative Playthings
Arthur C. Croft Pubitestions
John Day Company, Inc
Fleet Publishing Ration
Nathaniel Dame & Company
Educators Progress Service
Educators Publishing Service, Inc
Fideler Company
of Western Publishing Co
J. ‘Weston Walch
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc
Educational Reading Service
Escapel Y
McGeans ‘Hill Co., Inc
Aleinde Gmc
Everett R. Shaffer
F. Steiner and
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Fallimar Gmc Sales, Inc
Pera & Industrial Safety
Supply ¢ Co
Universal Corpor Pryco, Incora
Beckley Awning Company
Vectional
Uipment Auto Parts Service, Inc
Beckley Welding Supply Co
Thermo-Fax Sales, Inc
Mabscott Supply Co
Capital Restaurant & Beverageuipment Co., Inc
Otal — Capital
Veterans Training
Sear Chambers
Charles W. Clemens
Wm. B. Connoley
Felix C. Craig
Harry N. Hambrick
John C. Huffman
Paul H. Es
Jimmy L. Pennington
Louis P. Saas
Charlotte Blankenship
Joyce Hidal
Ande F. Akers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Waist Hardware Co
American Playground Device Co
City Auto Repair
Means Lumber Company
Beckley-Cardy Company
Baker Lumber Sales
Beckley Lumber & Supply Company
Wipperman Construction Ompany
Beckley Hardware & Supply Uni Co
Raleigh Roofing & Supply Company
Eqa
Stor-Sterling Company
Hobart Brothers. Company
King Co
Franklin Products Ation
Welch Scientific
Beseler Company
Heath Company
Shaver & Ashley
Allied Radio Corporation
American Art Clay Company
Gray Lumber Company
Lowe Bros.Electric Co
Reynolds Machinery Company
Singer Sewing Machine Co
F. Meador
Jack and
Omer E. Stover
Willis A. Walker
Jes W. Brage
W. Callaway
T. H. Daniel
Tm J. Fourney
C Hewlett
Boyd C. Humphrey
James C. Hutchens
Jesse
Bill R. iv
Jesse R. Lilly, Sr
Fred M. Mancart
Hubert R. Mores
Karl J. Okes
Noel H. Riffe
C. Cc. Ryals
Hubert A. James A. Ht
James H. Wright
Leonard B. Wright
Wiliam W. Brown
James R. Honaker
Harley C. Walker
Maurice C. Walker
Elbert O. Hartsog
Jarrell K. Hartsog
James Hartsog
Howard J. Hurley
James L. Meadows
M. Wesley Reed
Lenox R. Walker
Acme Construction Company
American Glass & Mirror Co., Inc
Beckley Hardware & Supply Co
Beckley Ice & Feed Company
Beckley Lumber & Supply Co
Bluefield Hardware Company
Bluefield Supply, Company
Gray Lumber Company, Inc
HM. Harvey
Lillardware Company
Maseilon Door Check Co
Houching Sonateciring Co
Hallemite Mfg. Co
A. R. Gwinn
Grounds Acme Construction Co
Aeans
Ek Refining Company
Means Lur Company
Price Brothers
Raleigh Hardware Co
Lly Hardware Company, Inc
Avid M. Lilly
Tower Construction Company
Beaver Block Co., Inc
Cook Brothers
New River Company
Pittsburgh Company
D. B. Abshi
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Bluefieldly Company
Land's & Mower Elk Refining Co
Epany
Walker Machinery Company
Racery Pany
Service Auto Parts , Inc
Wescott Supply Company
I. Seers Brothers
Alcom
Jarrell's
Gunter's
Roy Hawley
Pryce Incorporated
Beckley Hardware & Supply Company
Lucas General Tire, Inc
Baldwin Supply Co
Branchland Pipe & Supply Company
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Beckley Hare
Iction
Aipment
Bereta Ee
Uefie
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He Raleigh Hardware Co
Bluefield Hardware
Mluto Parts
Beckley Auto
Ompany
Hinton
Brush Works
Ala , Incorporated
M Supply Co
R. Smith
Service Systems Sware & Supply
Bluefield Supply Company
Mabscott Supply One
Means Lumber Com
Raleigh Hardware
Or Universal Corporation
Thistle Foundry & Machine Company
Henry Conway Hardware
O. Railway Company
Gunter's Electric Shop
G. G. Greene
Beckiey Welding Supply Co
Bec Lumber & Ine Co
Carl Lumber & Supply
Bluehela Hardware Orien
Electric Co
Electronic Distributors
Gunter’s Electric Shop
Mabscott Shoe Shop
Rakes Hardware
West Virginia Belt Repairs, Inc
Angelo Beck
Bob Thomas
Tria Roofing Company
Lillyware, Inc
Ls - Honeywellator Co
Wallace & Tiernan
Incorporated
Loewenstein & Son
St. Clair Fanna Corporation
Bogges
Charles E. Jarrell
Werner Foundry & Machine
Clear Fork High School
Coal City Lumber Company
Maxwell & Keyser
Rman Construction
Henry Conway Hardware Sc
Steel
J. E. Dillon
Mabscott Supply Company
Universal Corporation
Ruralent Company
Walker Machinery Co
Sears Roebuck and Co
Sophia Hardware & Supply
Et Cleaners & Laundry
Hall Chevrolet Inc
Lewis Chevrolet Company An Inc
Mallimar Gmc Sales, Inc
Moos Lumber Company
Motor Car Supply Company
Raleigh Hardware Company
and Wrecking Company
Oil Company
Ios Radiator & Shop
Raleigh Motor Sales, Inc
Inger Machinery Worries
Peopie Brake Company
Pecan Plate Glass Company
Malawi Supply Company
M. V. Okes Juneau - Catron Motor Iainenna Inc
Auto Parts Service, Inc
Groseclose Auto Electrical Servi
Skelton Wrecking Company
Grady Whitlock Ford
Appa Achian Tire Products
Williams Shop
Hall Chrelet, Inc
Jarrell’s Service Station
Raleigh Roofing & Supply Co
Ernest Brown
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Earl River
Verlin H. Walker
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Verett R. Shafer
Albanese
T. Alderman
Robert L. Allen
Basil L. Baldwin
Oscar Bowling
William W. Brown
Winston Brown
W. A. Callahan
David Godbey
Boston
Greene
Rogergate
Cecil “Goers
Gareth T. Hawley
Elbert E. Hendrix
Leonard C. Hewlett
Fred G. Honaker
Charles L. Howell
James E. Howell
John W. Lambert
Robert R. Lilly
Welton C. Lilly
Clyde L. McClure
Oral L. Meadow
Hiram Meadows, Jr
Oma H. Milam, Jr
Gene L. Mills
Hubert R. Moses
George W. Mooney
Lowell E. Mullens
Clyde V. Okes
James A. Pack
James A. E, Jr
Franklin D Pepners
Alfred Pittman
Billy R. Short
Glenn W. Shumate
Henry L. Smiley
Richard V. Snuffer
Norman Stephens
Donally S. Stover
Hobart A. Stover
Newton
Stover
Wiley
Claude L. Sumner
Jarrell
Cecil F. Swaney
Edward E. Tilley
Robert T. Tolliver
Everett E. Underwood
Jack Cree, Jr
American Supply Co. of
Baker Equipment Engineering Co., Inc
Baldwin Supply Ly Co
Barrack’s Wholesale Supply Co
Bearings, Inc
Beckley Auto Supply, Inc
Bluefield Hardware Commconw
Eae Eee Boggess
Paul Boggs Equipment Co
Coppinger Machinery Service
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Duncan-Catron Motor Company, Inc
Epperly Motor Frit, Inc
Groseclose Automctrical Service
Kanawha Valley Motors, Inc
Lewis Chevrolet Company
Tan Ot Ry
Bank of Raleigh Depository
Educator's Mutual Nee - John Hancock
Transpoi
Ardena Basham
Ethel Bennett
Wanda Bennet
Mogene Bennett
Bennett
Judy Bennett
Brenda Blevins
Elmer Blevins
Janet Blevins
Joyce Blevins
Mary Jane Blevins
Donald Bragg
Loretta Bragg
Cecil Bragg
Bragg
Louise Bragg
Wanda Bragg
Wayne Eye
Peggy Fox
Judith Gwinn
Catherine Jones
Archie Lambert
Diana Lambert
Eva Lambert
Faye Lambert
Rosie Lambert
William Lambert
Kathern Markham
Richard Markham
Eloise MacKenzie
Reba MacKenzie
Danny Joe McDaniel
Mary Sue
Billy Ray Meadows
Meadows
Ronald Meadows
Patsy “Meadows
Ruth Meadows
Jimmy Oakes
Ethel O ° O'Neal
Ethel O'Neal
Elsie O'Neal
Joyce O’neal
Pack
Jabim Plumley
Anna Plumley
Ernie L. Phanley
Anna Reed
Avis Reed
Bonnie Reed
Genie Reed
Ray Reed
James Richmond
Leon Richmond
Jerry Lee Richmond
Linda Richmond
John Ruff
Junior Russell
Susie Jones
Delbert Bennet
James Lambert
Linda Lambert
Viols Lambert
Charles W. Bragg
Faye Eudy
Maggie Garretson
Lily Mae Sheets
Hurley D. Thompson
Elk Refining Company
Pure Oil Company
Stout Keystone Service
Sta- Texaco, Inc
Ab's Place
Gene Reed
Jarrell's Service Station
Everett R. Shafer
Barley's Pure Oil
David Ace
Beckley Insurance Agency
R. D. Watts Insurance Agency, Inc
Travel
Tires & Tubes Auto Peris Service, Inc
Pees Tire & Rubber Com
Arthur's Amoco
White’s
U. S. Royal Tire Sales, Inc
Appalachian Tire Products, Inc
Perry Sarrett Garage
Thomas Tire Service
Batteries Motor Car Supply Company
Beckley Tire & Rubber Co
Auto Service, Inc
Baldwin Supply Company
Sees Tire Products
Kucessories Fyr-Furter Sales & Service
Anchor Sales Company
Grose
Ali
Montgomery Ward & Company
Motor Car Supply Co
Pitzers Machine Shop
Point Express, Inc
Premier Fastener Co
Raleigh Roofing & Supply Ca
Roanoke Auto Spring Works, Inc
O. R. Shockley & Son
Smith's Transfer Corporation
Standard Parts Corporation
Superior Coach Corporation
Grady Whitlock Ford, Inc
Wiliams
Chevrolet, Inc
A. C. Electric Company
Bae Aee
Aulomouvee
wWencrawl
Capitol Sales, Inc
Fulmer Arthur
Lose Supply Company
Lawson Products, Inc
Quality Fabrics, Inc
Singer Sewing Machine Com
Gupelier Coach Sales Co
United States Rubber Company
Ace Auto Stores
Beckley Hotel
Beckley Wrecking Company
Oo. J. Wright ‘ Universal Corporation
Jarrell’s
Wiley’s Service Station
Industrial Brake Company
Ab’s Place
Davenport's Welding Service
Fulwell Motor Products Co
Skelton Wrecking Co
Aene’ Amoco
Bell Lines, Inc
Coal River Keystone
Naomi Cole
Clarence J. Wooten
Cannery
van W. Carper
Edith Collier
Sanitarian W. B. Hi
Mary M.tt
Violet Smith
Amigo School
Carrie Burton
Virginia Richmond
Nora Bryant
Coal C School
Mamie Fraley
Clara Johnson
Dorothy School
Viola Smith
Maggie Dickens
Ghent School
Frances Wood
Ivora Worley
Glen White Junior High
Elem
Odd
Vicle McVey
Gladys Winston
Educator’s Mutual
John Hancock
Mabscott
Mark Twain High & Elem
Marsh Fork High
Marsh Fork Junior High
Maxwell Hill
Midway
Miller
Montreal-Stickney
Morton-Reaves
Mount Tabor
Mount View
North Lester
Pemberton
Iee Eae
Piney Oaks
Piney View
Ettimates Mountain
Price
Princewick
Prosperity
Rhodell
High
R.M
Roland Hayes
Shady Spring
Shumate
Slab Fork
Soak Creek
Sophia High
South Glen White
Stanaford
Stoco High
Stoco Junior High
Sylvia
Table Rock
Teel
Terry
Wells
Whitby
Williams
Workman’s Creek
East Helen
Sprague Copeclicate
Atkinson Distributors
Grocery
Laa
Apitol Restaurant & Beverage
Hobart
Es v . Oskamp Notting, Inc
Pagoda Shopping Center
Wm. P. Swartz, Jr. & Company, Inc
Valley Bell Dairy
New River Supply Company
R Seco
Ana Ae Fry M. Scott
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Wilkes Insurance Agency, Inc. Insurance ON
Wilkes Insurance Agency, Inc
R. D. Janes Insurance Agency, Inc
Premium ON Bond Insurance , Inc
R. D. Watts Insurance
Green's Compensation” Remiums Priest Virginia Compensation Commissioner
Social Security Contribution Fund
la Mae Hunter
Garbage & Other Sanitary Board
Municipal Waters School
BOA
M Ool Board Associati' ‘Est Se School Boards Association
Warren L. Crouch
David E. Godbey
Fred M. Hatfield
L. McClure
John E. Richmond
Lace I. Richmond
F. Thomas
Trap Hill
Jhn E. Richmond
Earl E. Bennett
Howard R. Billups
Hershall D. Cox
G. Lilly
L.A. Kiser
Lacy Pet
Withho
Raleigh
Leckley Hardware & Supply Co
Jab Orchard Planing Mil
Spare Oil Company
Quality Lumber & Supply Company
Wipperman Construction
Gene Construction
Jeaver Block Company
Manufacturing Compas Beckley Redi - Mix Company
Ily Hardware Company, Inc
Ae Lumber Company
Chase OF Land
Earlie K. Lester
Eunice Lester
Improvement OF Land Raleigh Hardware Co
Beckley Te Mix Compa
Perdue Fareneter & Storage Company
K-B Asphalt Co
Pure 1 Company
Tower
Sport Mart, Inc
Keatley's, Inc
Are & Company
Lowe & Campbell Arhistic Goods
Roreign Hardware
Baker ‘Tower Sales
Beckley Hardware & Supply Ual
Beckley Lumber & Supply
Raleigh Register
Beck
Ley
W. Va
Loewenstein & Sons
Coronet Films
Edmunds Scientific Company
King Photo Supply Company
National Biological Supply On, Inc
Olson Radio Corporation
Williams & Company, Inc
A. C. McClurg & Co
Craver Sign Company
Denoyer-Geppert Company
Carl Fischer, Inc
Fisher Scientific Company
Mrs. Elmer Flower
A. H. Gunnee
Harvey Cabinet Co
P. Johnson Sons
J. S. Latta, Inc
G. C. Murphy Company
Prentice-Hall, Inc
Rand McNally & Company
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Stansi Scientific Company
Virginia State Lines, Inc
West Virginia
Cook's Music Shop Gales 'S
Bluefield Co
Atlantic
Atlantic Ee Ee 157.30 Bluefield State College
Field Enterprizes Corp. Ssseries
Graf-Apsco Company
le & Company
Archant Division
Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co
Frederick Post Company
Quesenberry No. 2 Lines, Inc
Radio Shack
E. H. Sheldon Equipment Company
Jan Campbell Music Co., Inc
Encyclopedia Brittanica Films, Inc
Eye Gate House
Judy Company
Miles Kimball Company
J. .B. Lippincott Company
Lovett Company
Lyons Band Instrument Co., Inc
Magnetic Recording Industries
Melody Shop
Paine Publishing Company
Phonovisual Products, Inc
Pryco, Incorporated
Remington Rand
Scott, An & Company
Thrift Press
John C. Winston Company
National Council of Teachers
Hayes School Publishing
Belles, Inc
Central Scientific Company
Children’s Reading Service
Educational Supply Company, Inc
Falwell Fast Freight
Gorby's Music House, Inc
Graves-Humphreys, Inc
Informative i
Picture Publishers
Macalaster Bicknell Dean Company
W. H. Martin
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc
Nd Meisel Machinery Company
Ostwald, Incorporated
Smith’s ‘Transfer Corporation
Benj. Allen & Co., Inc
Bank of Rees
Albert Constant Son, Inc
Creative Playthings, Inc
Lorraine Music Co
National Presto Industries,Inc
Houghton Mifflin Company
Banks Upshaw and Company
Brodhead-Garrett Co
J. L. Hammett Co
Donald R. Honz
Lafayette Radio Corporation
J. Weston Walch
Wenger Music Equipment Company Wible Language Institute
Mark Twain High School
Marsh Fork High School
Southeastern Greyhound Lines University of Colorado
Visual Education Service
Michigan State University
Richmond Cleaners & Laundry
Christabelle Caffee
Educational Services
H. M. Harvey
Philco Corporation
Southeastern Music
Nash Campbell
D. C. Heath Company
James & Law Company
Science Research Associates
Inc. Affiliated Publishers Inc
Ponmedey © Company, Inc
Delmas
C. V. Mosby Company
National Ucation Association I of the
United States
U. S. Government Printing
Simon and Schuster, Inc
Wilcox & Follett Company
MacMillan Company
Field Enterprises Educational Prp
Amen Heritage
Bob Brown
T. S. Denison and Company, Inc
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Bank of Raleigh Oe
Auto Parts
Ge Inc
Bluefield Su
General Motors Corporation
Duro-Test Corporation
Oravisual Company, Inc
Themcity Electronic Distributors
Sherif
Ross Wallatilon
Sheriff's Commission
Heriff
Cit Ec Cutmand Aurren Ee
Coperia
Maxwell Hill School
Oscar W. Bowers
Edward L. Daniel
Wayne Peters
Es Pettry
Sweeney
Thomas S. Deasiway
Occar
W Bowers
Carl H. Burdiss
James B. Hutchison
L. A. Kiser
Archie G. Lilly
Lacy FE
Richmond
Orville F. Thomas
Thomas S. Treadway
Lindell Walker
Roy Lee Walton
Bank of Raleightory
Educator's Mutual
Acme Construction Co
Lumber & Supply
Houching Manufacturing Company, Inc
Larry B. Stone
West Virginia Brick Oe Ees
Virginia Steel Corporation
Fireproof Products Company
Martina Tile Company
Beckley Glass Company, E
Beckley Hardware & Co
Beckley Redi
Company i C
Triangle F Roofing Company
Beckley — & Feeded Toh Story
Standard Parts Corporation, Inc
Social Security Social Security Contribution Fund
Beckley Redi-Mix Company
Herbert Gunnee
H. E. McRoberts
Beckley Laabee & Supply Co., Inc
Gray’ Lumber Company, Inc
K-B Sphalt Co
Dearing Bros
Ee High
Stco High
Woodrow Wilson High School
Jone
Pine Knob
Carl W. Bangus
Clyde E
Canaday
Clyde B. Dickens
Roger Hamilton
William A. Pettry
James R. Webb
Tolbert C. Workman
William J. Workman
Lams
Bank — of Raleigh Depository
S. H. Bridge
Harper Heights School
Carrie Canada Gwynn
Deo Gwynn
Yg P. Wol
Sta
Board of Education
Free Textbooks Education Foundation, Inc
American Book Company
James and Law Company
World Book Company
Row
Peterson & Company
CTAL
Eriff
State King Fund
Financial
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