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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1954
Page
6
The Oak Hill Council will meet at 7 30 p m in City Hall. The session was postponed from last Tuesday due to the general election.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Goode Hawley will be held at 2 p.m. today at the First Methodist Church Mullens with Rev. R. J. Chenoweth officiating. Burial is in Jackson Cemetery near New Richmond. Mrs. Hawley died Friday night in a Birmingham hospital after an emergency appendectomy. She had been a fountain manager at the Mullens G. C. Murphy Co. store before resigning earlier this year and had been living with her sister Mrs. Hazel Stamper in Alabama since August. Born September 8, 1903, in Pineville, she was the daughter of George and Lena Halsey Goode. Surviving are six brothers Walter and Theodore of Pineville, Hillary and Scot of Beckley, Leland of Page, Oscar of Hatcher, and sister Mrs. Harry Williams of Ocala, Florida.
MULLENS RNS Three people were injured when a pickup truck with failed brakes plunged down a mountain road on Saturday. Driver James Haynes escaped unhurt by ditching the runaway vehicle, which was heavily damaged. Injured were his wife Elsie 49 daughter Janet 9 and Will Dickerson 63 all residents of Bud Mountain. Hospitalized with facial and scalp lacerations bruises and a shoulder dislocation, they were treated at Wyoming General Hospital. The driver said brakes tested at the hilltop were fine but the truck reached about 65 mph on the descent before veering into a ditch and stopping against a bank.
Funeral service is held at Robertson and Fogle Chapel with arrangements pending. The service time is announced and family members are notified to gather at the chapel for the event.
Funeral services for Nancy Puckett Lester 78 of Ikes Fork postponed to 11 a.m. at Regular Baptist Church Ikes Fork with Elders B Blaine England Nelson Lester and Taylor Blankenship officiating. Buried in Lester Cemetery. survivors include five daughters and three sons.
William Adkins five month old son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Adkins of Hatcher died at 8 am Sunday in a Welch hospital Born June 11 1954 at Hatcher he is survived by one sister Edith at home The body will be moved from Evans Funeral Home Oceana to the maternal grandparents home of Mr and Mrs William Sias Ranger Monday afternoon Burial will follow in the Family Cemetery
Fred Reece, 40, of Allen Junction, was admitted to Wyoming General Hospital after being struck by falling slate at the Black Eagle mine. He underwent X-ray examination and treatment Thursday.
Mrs John Lopez of Price Hill has come home after a two week stay at Beckley Hospital for treatment of a diabetic condition.
T Sgt and Mrs James Curtis Stoneman announce the birth of their first child James Curtis Stoneman Jr born Oct 18 at the Army Hospital San Antonio Texas. He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces. The father is the son of Mrs H C Stoneman Corinne. The mother is the former Fern Henley niece of Mr and Mrs Dan Henley Otsego. The family will arrive Dec 1 in Corinne and plan to leave in January for a three year stay in Japan.
Miss Mara Moses and Mrs Emmett Stanley of Oak Hill have returned from a March of Dimes workers meeting in Washington D C.
Two deer in Wyoming County collided with vehicles on Pineville Welc road. A doe weighing about 175 pounds was killed after its hind leg got entangled in a bumper. The carcass was skinned disemboweled and given to Mullens Elementary hot lunch. A second deer, described as a small doe, was fatally injured in a collision with a car owned by C H Saddler. Deputies salvaged the deer and Saddler reported damage to his radiator estimated at 70 dollars.
Herbert Raines age 43 of Glen Jean received treatment Tuesday at Oak Hill Hospital for cuts to his forehead after an incident at Oak Hill.
Mrs Nina May Lewis aged 44 of Glen Jean died at 7 p m Sunday after a long illness in Oak Hill Hospital Funeral arrangements are complete at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill RNS by West Virginia news service
Melvin L. Biggs, 23, of Mount Hope West Virginia, was sentenced to three months in jail after slugging Patrolman Melvin Stapf in Baltimore. Stapf testified he was in his personal car when another vehicle struck it from behind near police headquarters. Biggs reportedly replied with a punch when asked to pay for the damage.
Two persons treated at Oak Hill Hospital for minor injuries over the weekend. Clifford Shockley thirty from Harvey sustained cuts to his right hand and thigh. William Darlington three from Kincaid injured his right shoulder.
Candidates for membership in the Oak Hill Business and Professional Women's Club will attend a dinner meeting at 6:30 PM tonight at Hotel Hill.
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