Preach Mission to Be Conducted Here Wednesday
Ministers and laymen from four counties will attend an all day preaching mission at Beckley Presbyterian Church. Dr J L Lineweaver will host with speeches by Dr Ritchie Ware Dr Herman M Patton Dr Leonard Riggleman Dr B P Taylor Rev J M Knight and Rev Herman M Meyer. An open forum and evening sermon follow with city choirs providing music.
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Beckley Presbyterian Church
J. L. Lineweaver
Ritchie Ware
Ministerial Association
Lula Booker Laws Dies in Hinton
Lula Booker Laws, 49 year old Negro newspaper correspondent for The Hinton Daily News, died unexpectedly at her home Friday. Services set for 2:30 PM Sunday. death attributed to a heart ailment per her husband Dr. C. H. Laws. She collapsed ten minutes after illness began.
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Register
Hinton
Lula Booker Laws
Hinton Daily News
Genera
C. H. Laws
Rites for Mrs Shrewsbury Today at Mid City
Funeral services for 84 year old Elizabeth Shrewsbury will be held today at Mid City where she died at her daughter Reva Worley’s home. Burial is in Meadows cemetery near Glen Morgan. She died of heart failure. She was born January 17, 1853 in Summers County. Survivors include two sons Walter and Henry Shrewsbury and three daughters Reva Worley Lily Radden. Army Cadets edge Harvard 7 6 in Cambridge.
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Elizabeth Shrewsbury
Reva Worley
Mid-City
Meadows
Glen Morgan
Shrewsbury
Summers County
Joshua Bowling
Nancy Halliday Bowling
Walter Shrewsbury
Daniels
Henry Shrewsbury
East Beckley
Reva Worrey
Lousinda Lilly
Nancy Redden
Temporary Mayor Convicts Garrett of Bachelorhood
Mount Hope reports a playful ruling as ex Mayor Pat Garrett was found guilty of bachelorhood by a temporary female mayor Mary McIntyre and a troop of Girl Scouts. The sentence was deferred and firefighters responded to a rubbish fire beyond the city limits. Garrett resumed his duties this morning.
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Register
Mount Hope
Metropolis
Mary’ McIntyre
Pat Garrett
Garrett
Bike Club to Elect Officers at Memorial Building Meeting
Members of the Bicycle Safety club will meet at the Memorial building this afternoon to elect officers and admit new members. O B Harris of the Ral eight County Safety council said merchants sponsoring the Christmas pageant want a convoy of bicyclists in the parade on November 26.
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Bicycle Safety Club
Ap. m
O. B. Harris
Ral‘eight County Safety Council
Harris
New Locks Hamper Wheeling Keymaker’s Trade
In Wheeling Emil Friebertshauser details growing locksmith challenges. He cites tougher lock designs, hidden car keys, and hardened padlocks. He notes numbers inside car locks aid keymaking while calls for investigative work persist on locked out cases.
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Associated Press
Wheeling
Emil Friebertshauser
Preacher Stays in War Zone Amid Sino-Japanese Conflict
Dr. Eugene Davis remains in Shanghai despite bombardment while his children Carol and Win Davis, Salem college students, report he chose to stay with his mission. Mrs. Davis was evacuated to Manila by an American battleship and is currently there. The students have had no word from him for weeks.
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Associated Press
Salem
Eugene Davis
Carol
Winthrow Davis
Salem College
Shanghai
Conferees Plan Tuesday Reassembly On Conference Continuity
Conferees will reconvene Tuesday to review session continuity and future procedures in light of weekend developments.delegates remained guarded about Japan's stance and a cabinet decision in Tokyo next Tuesday could shape the response ahead of the resumed talks.
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Japan
Tokyo
Ashworth and Sanders Form New Law Firm in Beckley
Beckley sees the formation of Ashworth and Sanders as David D. Ashworth leaves McGinnis Ashworth and Mann to partner with Carl C. Sanders. The McGinnis and Mann firm retains key members and offices, with extensive local legal figures moving offices and roles.
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Ashworth and
Sanders
Marrying Parson Conducts New Courthouse Wedding
The first wedding in the new courthouse was performed by Rev. J N Dickens in the county clerk office at 9 30 am. He joined Charles Brown to Mary Magdalene Barnum as court records note. Prosecuting Attorney W A Thornhill Jr filed May 13 to oust the minister, with action postponed indefinitely.
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Beckley
David D. Ashworth
McGinnis, Ashworth and Mann
Carl C. Sanders
McGinnis and Mann
James II, McGinnis
W. H. McGinnis Jr
Fletcher W. Mann
Ashworth and Sanders
James K. Edmundson
Fayetteville
W. W
Raleigh County
Trap Hill
Clay 3. Crouse
United States
West Virginia
McGinnis and
J. S. Edmundson
Wickham Avenue
Beckley High School
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
WVU
WVU Law School
McGinnis
J. M W. McGinnis Jr
James H. McGinnis
Washington and Lee
Washington
Federal ‘Re-Employment Service
National Capital
W. H. McGinnis
Wvii Law School
National Guard
J. N. Dickens
Charles Brown
Mary Magdaline Barnum
Dickens
Ife
W. A.thornhill, Jr
Miner Herbert Turner Dies in Slate Fall at Eccles No 5
Funeral services will be held at 3 PM for Herbert Turner of Warper killed in a slate fall at Eccles No 5 mine Friday. Turner, born March 13 1892 in Raleigh County, worked 17 years in Eccles mines. Survived by wife and four children. services at Mt Tabor Church conducted by Rev Powers and Rev Samuels.
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Herbert Turner
Warper
Eccles No. 5
Mt. Tabor
E. W. Powers
Beckley
A. S. Samuels
Eccles
Turner
Raleigh County
Glenna Woz
Pennsylvania
Edward Turner
Paul Turner
Goldie Pearl Turner
Lee Turner
Harrison Turner
Pax
Susan Newman
Tams
Mary Jarvis
Oak Hill
Ernest Burke
Larry Athey
Pierce Stancey
Carvin Wilson
Robert Stanley
Kramer Huffman
Dedication of Beckley Courthouse Square Honors Past and Present
Memorial ceremony for Beckley courthouse square recalls three prior courthouses and land donor General Alfred Beckley. County leaders John R. Smith and Robert Wriston spoke, with contractor J O Freeman and architect L T Bengtson attending. Roy Lee Harmon's dedication poem was read by Nannie Ellen Gadd. several officials sent congratulations.
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Betty Beckley Campbell
Beckley
Alfred Beckley
Smith
Wriston
John R. Smith
Robert Wriston
J. O. Freeman
L. T. Bengtson
Charleston
Roy Lee Harmon
Nannie Ellen Gadd
M. M. Neely
Rush D. Holt
H. G. Kump
Jennings Randolph
W. W. Trent
Interior
Harold Ickes
D. M. Easley
Bluefield
Broughton W. Johnston
Princeton
Londa Lilly
Child Found Dead At Home In Winding Gulf
Wanda Gay Marrs, four month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Charlies Marrs of Winding Gulf, was found dead in her bed at noon yesterday. Funeral services are set for Coal City at 2 pm today with burial in Coal City cemetery.
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Wanda Gay Marrs
Charlies Marrs
Winding Gulf
Coal City
Radio Speeches Set For National Education Week
Charleston reports a sequence of seven thirty minute radio broadcasts during National Education Week November 7 to 13. Governor Homer A Holt is among speakers along with education and community leaders.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Department of Education
Holt
J. Henry Francis
Kanawha
West Virginia
Francis W. Turner
American Legion
Bulging Clothes Raise Suspicions. Man Held for Chicken Robbery
Bluefield police captain R C Bond questioned John Helmandollar after noticing unusual bulk on a man late at night. He found two live hens with broken necks under the shirt and more in his sleeves. Magistrate W W McNeal ordered Helmandakar held to the grand jury for robbing Sublette's chicken house S3.
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Associated Press
R. C. Bond
John Helmandollar
Helmandallar
W. W. McNeal
Helmandakar
Grand Jury
S. 3
Sublette
Band Bus Shortage Delays Fairmont State Football Trip
At Fairmont State College one of two band buses arrived leaving the band en route while the other bus failed to appear. The football team traveled to the game in private cars as players faced transport challenges.
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Associated Press
Fairmont
Fairmont State College
22nd traffic death shocks Raleigh county crowd
Funeral services were held for 11 year old Josephine Pauley who died after being struck near the Princess Dorothy coal company store in Eunice. Norris Light of Sharon defended the fatality as unavoidable. Burial followed at Estep Cemetery Ameagle with Pauley family survivors listed.
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Sembeley
Dorothy
Raleigh
Josephine Pauley
Estep
Ameagle
Sidney Pauley
Princess Dorothy Coal Company
Eunice
Charleston
Norris Light
Sharon
Light
W. A. Thornhill, Jr
Josephine
Marielle Pauley
Benny
Herbert Lee Pauley
Blume Motor Co Opens RoW Agency on First Avenue
The Blume Motor company forms a new agency to operate Hudson and Terraplane cars. W. E. Bhime, previously a dealer in White Sulphur Springs Mount Hoge and Charleston, will run the business in the former Lewis Chevrolet building. Bhime is active in Masonic groups including MacDonald lodge Sewell Scottish Rite Thurmond and Mount Slope Knights Templar.
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The
Blume Motor Company
Lewis Chevrolet Company
First Avenue
W. EF. Bhime
White Sulphur Springs
Mount Hoge
Charleston
Hudson
Terraplane
Blume
A. F
A. M. MacDonald Lodge
Sewell Scottish Rite
Thurmond
Knights Templar
Mount Slope
Beni Kedem Temple
Market Slips As Steel, Rail Stocks Fall Amid Rate Hopes
Market drift continues with hopes for a flat freight rate boost gaining support. More than 17,000 railroad class 1 employees were laid off between September 15 and October 1. Ford Motor announces a 47,900 ton order while Bethlehem and Midvale receive naval awards over one million dollars each. Bethlehem drops to 45 1/2, while U S Steel, General Electric, Chrysler, General Motors and others retreat on the list of declines.
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Ford Motor Concern
Naval
Bethlehem
Midvale
Loew's
Douglas Aircraft
U.S. Rubber
du Pont
Standard Oil of N. J
Texas Corp
New Weather Station At CCC Camp Raleigh
John A. Breen, forestry clerk at CCC Camp Raleigh, begins weekly weather data collection for the Weather Bureau. He records daily temperatures, precipitation, and humidity from instruments supplied by the weather bureau and submits monthly readings to Washington for comparison with historical data. The station aids camp management by forecasting conditions during fire season.
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John A. Breen
Camp Raleigh
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
CCC
Rileigh
Breen
U. S
Shady Spring Camp
Washington
Weathe Bureau
Murder and theft rise in quarterly police report
The Public Safety report for the three months ending October shows 71 murder arrests versus 72 in 1936. Break ins climbed from 159 to 211 while fingerprints rose to 6,900 cases total. The troopers’ lab processed five handwriting cases and 15 chemical analyses aiding investigations. Total arrests across state troopers reached 3,285.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Department of Public Safety
Funeral services for Mrs Opal Lewis set for today
Funeral services for Mrs Opal Lewis of Cranberry will be held at 2 30 p m today at Mount Tabor Church with Rev James Godpy conducting. An earlier story misstated the service day as Monday.
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Opal Lewis
Cranberry
Mount Tabor
James Godpy
County Funds Rise in October Hunting Licenses Boost
Martinsburg county clerk Paul H. Martin reports October receipts rose to 1036 dollars, driven by a record month for hunting licenses.
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Lula B. Laws
ARMY
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Crimson
Bike Club
China
Cravk
Sungyin
Shanghai-Nanking
Hangchow Bay
Whangpoo River
Sungkiang
Hangchow
Pootung
Whangpoo
Shansi Province
Taiyuanfu
Nanking
Brussels
Governor Holt
New Automobile Agency
Lewis
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