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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1958
Page
2
A list of merchants across West Virginia offering top value stamps with multiple stations in Beckley Crab Orchard East Rainelle Hinton Mount Hope Russellville Sophia Anstead Beckley Pineville Oceana Caldwell Pickaway Frankford Lewisburg and other towns. Readable entries include Esso Texaco Amoco Gulf and related service stations along with associated stores and shops.
Three traffic crashes in the Mullens area early Sunday left four people injured none seriously. Joseph Blackwell 21 Corinne serviceman left home on weekend leave dozed off his 1958 model car into a rock wall near Black Eagle. Nora Davis 19 Covel a passenger sustained chest injuries. Blackwell faced a fine for losing control. Verland Cecil 22 Covel and Howard Kelly 20 Tralee injured after their 1955 sedan went off a curve at Tralee and overturned in Barkers Creek. Pauline Joynes 4 Stephenson admitted with leg injuries after her car left State Route 16 on Tams Mountain while she reportedly slept at the wheel.
Mrs Eve lyn Smithson superintendent of Woman's State Prison and Miss Mary Ruth Andrews worker in the Federal prison for Women will be guests of the Pineville Woman's Club at a dinner meeting Tuesday at 7 pm in the Cow Shed Pineville The program is run by the club Public Affairs Department with Mrs Clair L Cook as chairman and Miss Margaret Lewis as co chairman The club president is Mrs Darrell V McGraw Hostesses include Mrs W C Bailey Jr and others
Lions District Governor Hiram King and Mrs King visited Pineville Fifth Charter Anniversary and Ladies Night at the Cow Shed. Guests included former District Governor Dick Ruff and Mrs Ruff and Lion President Charles Bailey and Mrs Bailey. Entertainment by Pineville High School students. The Pineville Lions chartered in November 1953 and were sponsored by Mullens Lions.
A banquet honoring Pineville High School football team band coach es and cheerleaders will be held Tuesday in the high school dining room. Speakers include Joseph Friedl and W B Caruth. Coach Sante Boninsegna will award letters to Buck Waggoner Ray Beymer Randall Bennett Fred Garrett Fred Grove Butch Cline Jerry Thomas Dale Ogle Gene Ellison Harold Cook Jerry Tilley Thomas Tilley Scot Ogle Buzzy Mullens David Blankenship Joe Wright Sam Bowers Lloyd Adams Bill Manning. Letters also to some band members by Director Joseph Bragg.
Thomas W. Williams 88 died at home after a heart condition. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. at Long Branch Methodist Church with Rev. Gale Stewart. Burial in Dock Lively Cemetery. Survivors include wife Clara, two sisters, four sons, five daughters, 30 grandchildren, 35 great grandchildren. Tyree Funeral Home Mt Hope in charge.
Services for Jerry Wayne Jewell were held at 2 p.m. in Map le Fork Freewill Baptist Church with Rev F C Calhoun of Midway presiding. Burial followed in the family cemetery on Route 1 Moon Hope. The infant son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Jewell died Thursday in a Chicago hospital from leukemia. born December 23 1957 at Maple Fork. Tyree Funeral Home Moon Hope arranged the funeral.
Mr and Mrs William Benton Sowers Jr announce the birth of their son William Benton Sowers III weighing seven pounds six and three fourths ounces. He was born October 31 at 10 a.m. at Pineville Maternity Hospital to Mrs Sowers the former Connie Sue Martin daughter of J W Martin Pineville. Her husband’s parents reside in Princeton.
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