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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1936
Page
8
Beckley hardware firm praises a local publishing plant in a 1936 letter commending its foresight and layout. The note lauds the new facility as a credit to the community and expresses pride in Beckley’s local growth and future success.
Mrs Lina Pope Dunn wife of Furman Godwin was sentenced to 15 years for second degree murder in Hart County North Carolina. The defense sought self defense claiming her husband attacked her. she wounded herself to prove it. Her daughter Hor Jackson cried as the judge showed pity and leniency.
The Portuguese man of war is a single animal but a colony of several organisms so integrated that they function as one creature.
The Vanderbilt-Davis wedding takes place aboard the $2.5 million yacht Alva in Miami Beach. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith will wed Henry Gassaway Davis, grandson of a 1904 Democratic VP nominee, on the floating mansion owned by Commodore William K. Vanderbilt. The event highlights the yacht’s luxury and the Vanderbilts’ winter home on Terminal Island Biscayne Bay.
Linden Alabama residents were guests of A K Canter bury as he tended business. Miss Juanita Sterne spends Thanksgiving in Lynchburg Virginia with friends. T E Bibb returns tonight from Kenbridge Virginia after two weeks of hunting with relatives. Mr and Mrs Tony Leiber head home from Huntington after attending the Wesleyan Marshall game. They are joined by Charles Ward and guest Jack La Bay of Wheeling visiting Judge and Mrs C M Ward for the week. Mrs Louetta Thomas and nephew Lloyd Stone spent Thanksgiving in Sophia with her daughter Mrs Wiley Weaver and family.
Thanksgiving music program replaces prayer service at eleven in the morning with Miss Wilda Ganeau and H K Stairs directing. Performers include soloists Miss Ganeau Mrs Ralph Amick and C W Waterman Jr with Mrs H U Sloan at the piano. Public invited.
Officers, technical service men and enrolled personnel of CCC 3551 Camp Raleigh hosted a noon Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner in the camp mess hall for about 175 guests. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Summers and daughter Kathleen of Shady Spring, Mrs. Odell Elkins, Hazel and Mabel Shumaker of Blue Jay, Mr. and Mrs. T. Allen Gatherum, Mrs. Myrtle Arnett of Beckley, Mrs. H. S. Feazelle of Cirtsville, Mrs. F. H. Halstead and sons Jim and Bill of Beaver, Miss Dolores Taylor, Miss Myrtle Scott, Flynn Cochran of Pocahontas Va, Louis Kessling and Roy Taylor of Hollywood California.
MorgantownMiss G Bolden seeks more singers for the county wide festival chorus to perform a concert on December 11. Director urges strong voices to join and help fill the chorus roster for the event.
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