Soil conservation contestants reflect back to the land trend
George Armstrong reports Raleigh County soil stewards honored for fall and winter conservation efforts. The top winner Raymond Bennett of Abraham leads a group of farmers balancing farm work with other occupations while promoting soil improvement and grazing lands. Judge Max DeBerry highlights a shift toward land ownership as a national aristocracy in a rising rural population.
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George Armstrong
Register City
Slab Fork
Mi948
Earl Cooper
Maple Fork
Beck
Raleigh
West
Inirginia
Max DeBerry
Ritchie County
Raleigh County
De*berry
Raleigh County Bank and
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Raymond Bennett
Abraham
Bennett
Richmond District
Abraham Post Office
Beckleyan Dies Of Heart Ailment
Willard Fink 66 a lifelong Raleigh County resident died at his Beckley home at 238 Mercer Street yesterday at 6 30 p m after a heart attack. Funeral services will be at 2 p m tomorrow at the Caffee Funeral Home with burial in Wildwood Cemetery He was a retired mechanical repairman Survived by his widow six brothers three sisters and three sons. He was born March 12 1882 at Odd.
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Willard Fink
Raleigh County
Mercer Street
Beckley
Wildwood
Caffee
C. H
Eliza Vines Fink
Odd
Nita Fink
Annie Co. Fink
Mabscott
Emmett
Pemberton
A. Ray
Luther D. Fink
Giles J
Athens
Srl H
Kyle N. Fink
C. C. Conner
Rhodell
John W. Douglas
Quinwood
J. I. Ellis
Frinceton
J.C. Woodrow W. and
Paul Fink
Abé Hooper
Missionary Baptist Church
Beacher Garretson
Cleve Young
Sophia
Hanna Cemetery
Business Group To Plan Hospital Funds Campaign
Whitesville area business leaders meet at 8 pm in the Valley Funeral Home Chapel to discuss the Raleigh Boone Hospital project. At Friday’s Raleigh Boone Hospital Association meeting Edward Shibley was elected treasurer, with D Frank Hostetler and T R Mullins as assistant treasurers. Howard Short of Eunice was named temporary chairman of the fundraising committee, joined by Charles Connor Richard D Brown and Robert C Dew. A general meeting is set for Dec 10 to hear Short’s report on a $1,000,000 local fundraising drive to match Federal funds for a Whitesville hospital.
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Register
Whitesville
Coal River Area
Valley Funeral Home
Raleigh-Boone Hospital
Robert C. Dew
Raleigh Boore Hospital Association
Edward Shibley
D. Frank Hostetler
T. R. Mullins
Treas
Urers
Howard Short
Eunice
Charles Connor
Monteeal
Richard D. Brown
Hospital Association
Short
Death Notice for Odd Farmer Ab Hooper
Ab Hooper born January 3 1871 in Polk County Tennessee died at 71 after a long farming life in Odd. Survived by widow Ida Hooper three daughters Belle Garrelson Princewick D A Bolen Odd and J B Harwell Hayne NC two sons 3 B Hooper Odd and S C Hooper Lego 27 grandchildren 18 great grandchildren
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Polk County
Tenn
Hooper
Odd
Ida Hooper
Belle Garrelson
Princewick
D. A. Bolen
J. B. Harwell
Hayne
N. C
B. Hooper
S. C. Hooper
Lego
Better Health Through Nutrition Sought by 4-H Clubs
Health, farm, and school officials and 4-H members will attend a banquet in Leslie's Diner Friday at 6 30 p.m. honoring 22 Raleigh County 4-H clubs winning awards in The Raleigh Register health and attendance contest. Members had an average school attendance last year of 95.29 percent, 3.59 points higher than other students. The banquet follows a nutritional school program at 1 30 p.m. in the courthouse, sponsored by the health department, the school system, the farm bureau, and The Register. Guests include 58 4-H club leaders, school principals, delegates from the winning clubs, the county superintendent of schools staff and board of education, Farm Agent H B Thomas, 4 H Director Clarence Wootten, Extension Forester A B Lyon, AAA and school officials from nearby counties, District Conservationist Floyd F Rophlisberger, County Conservationist Leon Silberberger, Soil Scientist John Corman, and conservation aides Lawrence Miller and Oscar Hutchinson.
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Leslie's
Raleigh County
Raleigh Register
Health Department
The
School System
Farm Bureau
Register
Raleigh County Superintendent of Schools
Board of Education
H. B. Thomas
Clarence Woo
A. B. Lyon
Fayette
Mercer
Summers J
Franklin Lilly
County Agricultural Adjustment Association
Wyoming County
AAA
Floyd F. Rophlisberger
Leon Silberberger
John Corman
Lawrerence Miller
Oscar Hutchinsson
J. M. Coram
Health Dent Nurses
S. A. Ford
Charles Archjer
Mercer County
New River
Friends For the Land
Richard Harbert
MissEthel Keyser
Woodrow Wilson
Rachel Ferguson
Bate Department of Health
Charleston
Basic Seven
Mabel Lewis
Eloise Coler
West Virginia University
Ford
Joseph Williams
Widden
Beckley Banks to Sponsor 1949 Land Use Contest
Beckley's three banks will sponsor a Raleigh County farmers land use and soil conservation contest in 1949. The first annual event featured a Saturday banquet with Rotary and local officials in attendance. Key speakers urged better farming, closer farm to market ties, and healthful food as national wealth.
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Beckley’s Three Banks
Raleigh County
Mabel, where are you
A lone plea from Johnny asks Mabel where she is and why she left him, addressing a paper for answers.
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Mabel
Johnny
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