Fayette Vote Canvass Complete Tops Beckelheimer Sheriff
Fayette County canvass shows Beckelheimer with the highest votes on the Democratic ticket for sheriff in the November General Election. The report lists total counts for state and local offices, including Canvass results for president electors, US Senate, Congress, governor, and county officials across Kanawha and Fayette districts with party tallies and names such as Skaggs Beckelheimer Spade Taylor Carson and Lacy Neely among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Fayette County
H.skaggs
R. Beckelheimer
H. R. Beck
Elheimer
Warret R. Spade
Corliss
Cleveland M. Bailey
Frank Lave
Lave Vin, Jr
Myron R. Renick
Ith
J. Alfred Taylor Jr
Joseph R
Backache Relief Ad Targets Kidney Health
An old advertisement touts Dean's Pills as a mild diuretic to support kidney function. It claims backache relief and general health benefits, noting stress and diet can slow kidneys and cause discomfort. It emphasizes widespread use for over 50 years and urges readers to get the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Damage Case Appealed From Summers by SAC
In Summers County a damage suit appeal involves the State Road Commission contesting a jury verdict that awarded James O. Ball Jr. 35780 for a Big Creek bridge collapse after Ball drove a truck across. The commission claims Ball overloaded without a required permit and failed to post signs indicating maximum load. Separate report from Coal Mountain notes a store robbery at Red Jacket Coal Corp. in Mullens where guns, ammunition, and hundreds of cigarette cartons were stolen. entry through a window and no safe breached. Investigation led by State Police Trooper William Gosnell and Sheriff John Miller.
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Mullens
Coal Mountain
Red Jacket Coal Corp
William Gosnell
John Miller
Hinton
Summers County
James O. Ball Jr
The
Road Commission
Ball F
Big Creek
Rt. 13
Ball
Ball Lumber Co
Jpost
Pineville Chief's 17monthold Son Fractured Shoulder
William Balt, 17 month old son of Pineville Police Chief and Mrs W W Balt, was released from Stevens Clinic Welch after treatment for a fractured right shoulder. He sustained the injury in a fat (fatally unclear) incident.
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Pineville
William Balt
W W. Balt
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Marlinton Rites For Prince Woman In Methodist Church
Funeral services for Myrtle Alice Auldridge, 63, of Prince, were held at 2 p.m. in Marlinton Methodist Church with Rev. Donald Lowe and Rev. Don Taylor officiating. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery in Marlinton. She died Sunday evening in a Beckley hospital.
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Marlinton
Prince
Marlinton Methodist Church
Myrtle Alice Auldridge
Beckley Hospital
Donald Lowe
Don Taylor
Mountain View Cemetery
Rites for Brenton couple fail to Madison
Brenton residents Mr and Mrs Howard C Robey were summoned to Madison by the death of Mrs Ollie Bosley. Williams announce birth of daughter weighing nine pounds five ounces at Hinton hospital. baby unnamed. Former Rainelle residents Mr and Mrs Melvin Williams listed as parents.
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Madison
Brenton
Howard C. Robey
Ollie Bosley
Miss Melva Akers Weds Airman Woodrow Houck in Mullens
Miss Melva Agnes Akers daughter of Mr and Mrs W D Akers of Guyandotte Ave became the bride of Airman Second Class Woodrow Wiley Houck son of Mr and Mrs N C Houck of Frantz Ave at the First Methodist Church Mullens Saturday afternoon. The ceremony was officiated by Rev Max Thompson assisted by Rev O H Dorsey. Bridesmaids wore beige faille pink gladioli adorned decor. After a reception in Friendship Hall the couple left for a honeymoon of several days and will reside near Travis Air Force Base California.
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Max Thompson
Welch
O. H. Dorsey
G.D. Conner
Alice Houck
Joyce
Friendship Hall
Jack Houck
Otis Houck
Mullens High School
Miss Akers
Kingdon and
Kingdon
Chanute Air Force Base
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Pineville High School
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Mrs. Thelma Via Dies at 48 Rites Thursday
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday for Mrs Thelma Beatrice Via 48 of Princeton who died Monday evening at home after a heart attack. Burial in Elgood Cemetery follows at Elgood Church. She was born April 21 1904 to David A and Mattie Wiley of Elgood. Survived by husband O J Via daughter Patsy Via three sisters Fred Cheatwood Byron Atkins I W Dunn and two brothers Audry and Eugene Wiley.
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Princeton
Thelma Beatrice Via
O. J. Via
Athens Road
EL Good
Elgood
David A
Mattie ‘Monroe Wiley
Via
Imine
Man
Arista
Pisgah Farm Woman's Club
Patsy Via
Fred Cheatwood
Byron Atkins
I. W. Dunn
Mullens
Audry
Eugene Wiley
Lovern
B B Bragg Dies Rites Set Today
B B Bragg 75 died at the home of his son Clarence Bragg in Whipple at 7 15 am Monday Survivors include two sons Clarence of Whipple and Bernard of Indianapolis two daughters Miss Clara Bragg and Mrs C H Tipton Adrian Mich and a grandson Funeral services were to be held at 2 30 pm today in the Thomas Funeral Home chapel with Rev Allen J M Kenney officiating Burial followed in Hilltop Cemetery Sheppard Air Force Base Wichita Falls Tex
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Oak Hill
B. B. Bragg
Clarence Bragg
Whipple
Clarence
Bernard
Indianapolis
Ind
Clara Bragg
C. H. Tipton
Adrian
Mich
Thomas Funeral i
Allen J M. Kenney
Scariire
Youth held on malicious wounding charge after Ranger Club incident
A 20-year-old Meadow Bridge resident, Norman Kenney, is held in Fayette County Jail as the grand jury weighs five counts. He faces a malicious wounding charge linked to a knife attack on Estel Goad, operator of the Ranger Club near Rainelle. Kenney also faces charges for property destruction and multiple traffic offenses resulting in jail terms and fines. He was arraigned with details of the confrontation and subsequent flight from police.
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Fayetteville
Meadow Bridge
Fayette County
Norman Kenney
Estel Goad
Ranger Club
Rainelle
Goad
W. A. Harrah
Col. C. R. Dawson
Kenney
Dawson
East Rainelle
Arnold Lewis
Big Bend
Oceana Area Personal Notices Highlights Benches and Visits
Mr and Mrs Wayne C Hatfield and son Carlos Mrs Vida Chambers Mrs Charles Hatfield and Arlie L Chambers left Friday for a month long vacation in the Hatfield home at Montverde Florida Russell Bane a petty officer third class visiting his parents will return to Bainbridge Md today Mrs Ina Dempsey of Lenora visited her mother Mrs Armanda Cook and sister Miss Mirta Cook over the weekend Mr and Mrs French Manning and daughter Martha visited relatives in Huntington this past weekend Mrs Leonard Foster and smasons returned home from a week long visit in Oak Hill and Beckley Mr and Mrs R N Wheeler of Chelyan were guests of their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Leo Chambers over the Mr and Mrs L A Critzer of Compton Calif have returned home after visiting here with sister Mrs A G Lugar and family Pvt James R Fisher stationed at Ft Belvoir Va visited here last week with his mother Mrs James F Thompson Mr and Mrs A G Lugar and son Freddie visited the past weekend with their son Billie in Durham NC where he is a student at Duke University Mrs Sam Sloan was called to Len White Saturday by the death of her sister Mrs Madge Bailey who was killed in an auto accident Friday evening in Ohio and the subsequent death of her mother Mrs Floyd Bailey who died in her Glen White home of shock.
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Russell Bane
Leland Bane
Bainbridge
Ina Dempsey
Lenora
Armanda Cook
Mirta Cook
French Manning
Martha
Huntington
Leonard Foster and
Smasons
Oak Hill
Beckley
R. N. Wheeler
Chelyan
Leo Chambers
L. A. Critzer
Compton
Calif
A. G. Lugar
James R. Fisher
Ft. Belvoir
James F. Thompson
Freddie
Billie
Durham
N. C
Duke University
Sam Sloan
Len White
Madge Bailey
Ack
Ohio
Mirs
Floyd Bailey
Glen White
Glen Rogers Man Dies In Bluefield Sanatorium
Glen Rogers Harriston of Glen Rogers died Tuesday night in a Bluefield sanatorium. His body is at Trent Funeral Home Beckley where final rites are not yet set.
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Glen Rogers
Harriston Harriston
Bluefield Sanitarium
Trent Funeral Home
Beckley
Infant dies. graveside rites set in Nallen
Graveside services today for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Martin of Nallen who died shortly after birth in a Beckley hospital. The child, only offspring, is survived by the parents and grandparents Mrs. Ora Martin of Russellville and Mrs. J Strickland of Nallen.
Home from Hospital to Mt Hope for Mrs Puckett
Mrs Charles Puckett who had been hospitalized in Beckley has been moved to her Mt Hope home. Her daughters Betty and Lois Puckett have returned to Washington DC where they work after being recalled home because of her illness.
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MT. Hope
Charles Puckett
Beckley
Betty
Lois Puckett
Washington, D. C
Young Hunter Wounded in Rural Shooting Accident
A 15 year old Iroquois hunter, Buford Collins, son of a Trailéa mine foreman, was shot in Welch while another hunter fled after the incident. He suffered a "pretty nasty hole" in the thigh and is hospitalized at Grace Hospital. Police and medical staff described the event as an accidental shooting possibly aimed at a squirrel.
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Mullens
Welch
Buford Collins
Traléa
Paul Collins
Grace Hospital
Robertson and Foglesong
William Withrow Taken by Death
William Withrow 89 died at his son Millard Withrow's Lochgelly home at 2 45 pm Tuesday after pneumonia. A retired miner born March 13 1863 at Gatewood he is survived by brother George of White Sulphur Springs six sons Millard Alfred Allen Albert and James all of Lochgelly Russell of Red Star two daughters Mrs Maggie Buffarano of Miami Fla and Mrs Nancy Codak of Taylorsville Funeral will be at Bethel Baptist Church Friday at 2 pm officiated by Rev Mont Carr with burial in Pleasant View Cemetery Fayetteville Route 1. Body to be moved to James Withrow home Thursday at 2 pm and to church an hour prior to service.
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Oak Hill
William Withrow
Lochgelly
Millard Withrow
Gatewood
George
White Sulphur Springs
Millard
Alfred
Allen
Albert
James
Russell
Red Star
Maggie Buffariano
Miami
Nancy Codak
Taylorsville
Bethel Baptist Church
Mont Carr
Kincaid
Buriial
Pleasant View
Fayetteville
James Withrow
Tyree
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Howard W. Carson
Kenneth H. Martin
Pride H. Williams
W. Paul Cole
Lacy Neely
J. W. Chapman
Carl B. Vickers
Hayden FE. Shawver
Fayette
Beckelheimer
T. M. Jones
Edward L. Mayes
Kanawha
Montgomery
Hancock
J. E. Soulsby
Ira F. Armstrong
Thomas C. Sheppard
Woodrow Kinser
Troy Painter
J. C. Tamplin
Kenneth Tayllor
Mountain Cave District
J. Mack Linkenhaker
W. B. Mullens
C. H. Darnall
Frantier
Burton
A. R. Light
H. A. Hendrick
Nuttall
A. D. Brown
Seth S. Sandige
W. O."mcclelland
Cleome Morris
Lewis P.’ Jones
Orby M. Jones
H. H. Caldwell
Charles H. Pettit
Quinnimont
F. R. Small
C. L. Wiseman
Leslie T. Shawver
Constable
Jerry Goheen
A. W. Hizer
W. E. Haynes
Adam Harmon
Sewell Mountain District
Don C. Cole
Joe McClung
J. Burton Thomas
George N. Woodyard
Clyde Adkins
Woodrow W. Parsley
J. B. Lambert
Gillis Miller
Fred L. McMullen
Don Marchand
Dr. G.steel Callison
John F. Throckmorton
Walter Vir
Bil Ross
Joe L. Smith
Mary Gee Carper
Fanny Reilds
Repub Tlicans
Frank A. O’brien
Emeé
Erat
Frank Love
William C. Marland
Hush D. Holt
D. Pitt O'Brien
J. Holt Byrne
W. W. Trent
Kenneth W. Shaffer
Edgar B. Sims
Brad Sayre
William H. Ansel Jr
Hal F. Morris
John G. Fox
John L. McIntire
J. B. McLaughlin
Wm. B. Rhodes
Supreme Court of Appeals
Frank C. Haymond
W.T. Lovins
Frank Eaton
Charles Ritchie
Chauncey Browning
Robert B. McDougle
Iaeth Judicial
Charles L. Gar
House of Delegates
Hobart Booth Jr
BP. H. Kelly
J. Alex Tinsley
Neil W. Walker
J. W. Ayres
M. E. Hamblin
C. F. Newman
Dave Tamplin
Wallace R. Bennett
W. O. Walkup
Fayetteville Dirict
Bob Godsey
Virgil Lyons
William Bellew
W. T. Price
Sid Allen
Roger Howell
Basil Armstrong
William Ellison
Falls District
Charles R. Bess
W. B. Cabell
E. T. Faulkner
B. H. Youell
Owen Burton
Bryant Crouse
Summers
SAC
Piedmont Airlines
Cincinnati
Lexington
Louisville
Richmond
Norfolk - Charleston
Chicago
Soo Tilford
Tilford
Kentucky
Park & Tilford Distillers OF Kentucky, Inc
Louisville, KY
Woodrow Wiley Houck
Pete
Ben
Melva Agnes Akers
W. W. Houck
Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls, Tex
Chessie
Chesapeake and Ohio
C&o
C& O
Chassie
Washington
New York
Norfolk
Cincinnnati
Louis Wikle
Louis Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
WILS
Tris Coffin
Beckley Motel
Sewell Mountain
Route 60
Fay-1ete County
Oceana Personals
Oceana
Wayne C. Hatfield
Carlos
Vida Chambers
Charles Hatfield
Hatfield
Montverde
Fla
Ileg
Foley
Toley's
Aeeey Red Hey
Couem
LD En
Siamae le Meh
Luke
Veterinarians
Sporting Goods
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company OF
West Virginia
Ato
Studebaker
Mobilgas
Ltudebaker
Beckley Motor Company
First Avenue
Beckley, W. Va
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