Thurmond Pair Waives Trial In Magistrate Slaying Case
R L and Mrs R L Bennett of Thurmond waived preliminary murder examination in the killing of Magistrate H C Bennett at the Bennetts home. Grand jury action pending. Sheriff says premeditated. defendants were silent at arraignment. Funeral held for the magistrate.
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Register Staal
Fayetteville
H.C. Bennett
Thermad
R. L. Bennett
Thurmond
R. L. Graves
R. L. Bennetts
H. C. Bennett
C. R. Summerfield
Chesapeake and Ohio
Oak Hill
Highlawn
S. J. Jasper
Bennet
Rros
Jasper
Graves
Fayette Man to Guard Finances
Fayette County road commission appoints Robb Grover to approve all requisitions from district and engineering offices, ensuring each purchase from pencils to five ton trucks meets standards. Commissioner Burr H. Simpson stated Grover’s authority covers the entire system including the commission’s warehouse supplies.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Road Commission
Burr H. Simpson
Robb Grover
Fayette County
Department of Purchases
Grover
Commission
Charleton
Oak Hill Youth Held in Robbery
Fayetteville youth and Oak Hill High senior Kowalsky is jailed on attempted robbery charges at New River company Store in Scature. Clarence Bishop, store manager, said the youth admitted intent to steal cigars and candy and was found sawing bars at a basement window. He was held for grand jury action after arraignment before Magistrate W H Love. The youth denied knowledge of a Scarbro drug store robbery two weeks earlier.
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Register
Fayetteville
Walter Kowalsky
Oak Hill
New Iver Company
Clarence Bishop
Bishop
Himelt
W. H. Love
Oak
Pea Ridge Road to Be Repaired
Assurance from M S McCleney area engineer Fayetteville that Pea Ridge road into Sanger via the right hand hollow will be improved by WPA forces. Start time for the project could not be given.
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Pea Ridge Road
Register Star
Oak Hill
Pea Ridge
Sanger
M.S. McCl:ney
Fayetteville
McCheshey
Oak Hill Rotary Night Hears Humorist Stall Writer
Oak Hill-Ray Evans, Bluefield humorist, was guest speaker at the Oak Hi Rotary club event Tuesday evening. A local talent musical program featured Mrs. Charlotte Cole, Paul Mackey, Mrs. G. B. Bobbitt, Miss Margaret Jaster, Miss Josephine McCoy, and Mrs. Anna Warden. Mrs. Evans attended as honored out-of-town guest with her husband.
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Oak Hill
Ray Evans
Bluefield
Oak Hi
Two Men Await Action By Jury
In Squire H S Walker s court two men were bound over to the grand jury on felony warrants. P A Figgs negro held on assault on wife Tranquilla who had her jaw broken and on stabbing Johnny Brooks in the back with an ice pick. Steve Dock bound over on felonious assault for breaking the jaw of his seven year old stepdaughter Ethel Edwards. Dock also paid a ten dollar fine and costs for hitting his wife Josie Dock.
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Register
Squire H. S. Walker
P. A. Figes
Negro
Tranquilla
Figgs
Johnny Brooks
Steve Dock
Grand Jury
Ethel Edwards
Dock
Josie Dock
Baptist Revival Draws Largest Crowd in Oak Hill
The Oak Hill Baptist church hosted the revival led by Rev. D. M. Dorsey of Welch drawing the week’s biggest attendance so far. Pastor Dorsey opened the series Sunday and will preach at the First Methodist church later today. Rev. Ross Culpepper and Mrs. Culpepper returned from Charleston after a week’s visit.
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Register
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Baptist Church
D. M. Dorsey
Welch
Ross Culpepper
Couple Convicted in Mann Act Case In Washington
Joe Sherman, Mary Sherman, and Joe Marbach were tried in Washington D C on Mann Act charges for transporting a Fayette county girl from Oak Hill to Washington. All three were convicted and face sentencing next week. Local witnesses Floyd Johnson and H G White testified.
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Regieter
Oak Hill
Joe and
Mary Sherman
Joe Marbach
Washington, D. C
Fayette County
Oak Inn
Washington
Shermans
Girhy
Virginia
Floyd Johnson
H. G. White
Hazel Hill
Johnsons
Oak Hill Baptist Cantata "His Natal Day" Dec 20
Oak Hill Baptist church to present its annual Christmas cantata on December 20 with both senior and junior choirs. The Holton work "His Natal Day" will be sung by the senior choir while the junior choir performs anthems. Prof. Caesar Ronconi of Beckley directs both choirs.
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Gy Register
Oak Ilrl
Oak Hill Baptist Church
Holton
Caesar Ronconi
Beckley
Hamilton Shows His Workers How To Build Garage
Oak Hill-Pat Hamilton, local auto dealer, inspires his crew by showing them how to lay concrete for a new garage. Tuesday he operated a wheelbarrow between the mixer and the forms before quitting after one trip. In Tucson, Dr Hawkins of the University of Arizona says no agriculture college graduate in 15 years is unemployed.
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Register Star
Oak Hill
Pat Hamilton
Hamilton
Associated Press
Tucson
Ariz
Hawkins
College of Agriculture
University of Arizona
Building Room Seen Continuing In Oak Hill Boom
The building and real estate boom in Oak Hill is set to continue with two new apartments ready in two weeks. A garage on Summerlee Avenue will be razed under R E Kelly, a local druggist and state equor commission comptroller, to make way for two single homes. Mika Pashton of Kaymoor erects the apartments for rent.
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Ragiater
Oak Hill
Summerlee Avenues
R. E. Kelly
State Equor Commission
Mika Pashton
Kaymoor
Summertee Avenue
Kelly
Engineer Awaits State WPA Help
Fayetteville area engineer M. J. McChesney says state aid for WPA projects is under consideration. Several projects will start once state and federal cooperation is assured including Oak Hill's Bunker Hill paving this fall if aid is secured.
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Register
Fayetteville
WPA
County
M. J. McChesney
The
Works Administration
Oak Hill
Bunker Hill
Octogenarian voter says she stays with GOP fence
Long Branch reports Aunt Eliza Bolling 103, a former slave, registered Republican and asked how she voted she said she is too old to switch sides.
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Jy Reglster
Long Branch
Eliza Bolling
Eliza
Pastors Recalls War Days in France and School Return
Two visiting pastors from Oak Hill and Welch spoke to Nicholas County High School students on preparedness after Armistice Day. Rev. C. D. Donnelly, chaplain of the 38th division, served in Camp Lee and the Meuse campaign while Rev. D. M. Dorsey, an alumnus of the school, recalled his early enrollment and graduation and recent homecoming. The report notes a separate Russian claim of Arctic orchid cultivation.
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Register
Oak Hill
Summersville
Nicholas County High School
C. D. Donnelly
Oak Hill Baptist Church
D. M. Dorsey
First Baptist Church of
Welch
Meuse
Rhine
313Th Field Artillery
80Th
Donnelly
Camp Lee
Dorsey
Nicholas County
Hawks Nest Plant Power Shifts Fueling Furnaces
Four large furnaces at the Electro Metallurgical company subsidiary of Union Carbide in Alloy are now fed by Hawks Nest tunnel electric power. Three other furnaces remain steam operated. Two electric furnaces at Glen Ferris reportedly use power generated at Kanawha Falls. Initial plans assumed Hawks Nest power would run all Alloy furnaces.
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Reglater
Gauley Bridge
Electro- Metallurgical Company
Oof Union Carbide Company
Alloy
Hawks Nest Tunnel
Glen Ferris
Kanawha Falls
Hawk's Nest
New River
Impartial voter defaced ballot at Long Branch vote
In the general election 25 votes were cast with one voter altering his ballot to include Republican, Democratic, Socialist, and Prohibition. Precincts were quiet aside from a single drunken person and two African American singers. The Methodist Church South Ladies Aid served lunch.
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Dy Register
Long Branch
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church South
Mt Hope P T A Hears Thompson On Ob jects Of P T A
W C Thompson of Mt Hope spoke on the responsibilities of parents to curb beer gardens obscene literature and certain motion pictures at a Mt Hope school P T A meeting. Sixty primary pupils with a rhythm band entertained led by Miss Gladys Eary.
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Mt. Hope
W. Cc. Thompson
Parent-Teacher Association
Mt. Hope School
Thompson
Gladys Eary
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