Cameos, Pioneers, and Hawks Nest Echoes Across Beckley
A Beckley item recounts a rediscovered ancient cameo traced to a church yard find by Alice Davis and Miss Jess Davis, now back with its Beclkey origin. The piece links to local history, plus notes on Sunday School attendance honors for Julius and LeRoy Boggs and a Lucretia Laird Hawks Nest landscape painting loaned and copied by Mrs. Charles Hodel.
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Encyclopaedia
Beckley
Raleigh County
Jess Davis
California
Alice Davis
Eldorado
Pacific
Robert Winston
Prince and
Kanawha
Our City
Methodist Temple
Julius Boggs
LeRoy Boggs
J. C. Boggs
Royal
Juliis
Lewisburg Methodist Church
LeRoy
Lewisburg
West Virginia
Hawks Nest
New River
India
Lucretia Laird
New River Canyon
Charles Hodel
White Oak and Black Knight Ladies Host Bridge and Golf
White Oak Country Club hosted a gathering of Black Knight members with nine holes of golf in the morning and after lunch, White Oak winning by one point. Luncheon followed and five bridge tables produced honors for the Black Knight group.
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White Oak
White Oak Country Club
Black Knight Country Club
White Oak Club
Black Knight
L.T. Putman
W. C
George Siems
Laura Bell McCauley
A. R. Long
A. B. Abbott
Wolffe
K. C. Humphrey
C. P .Anderson
Circle
Margaret Miller
Branch Ballard
Katherine Ballard
Willia Thompson
Ruth Givens
Dorothy Tissue
Fannie Ballard
Julia Cox
E. O. Snider
Andrew Walker
Maree McMillian
Miriam Circle
J. E. Lowry
Fred Dixon
The
Baptist Temple
Lowry
Roy Light
Lena Hummell
R. H. Carter
A. H. Willis
Residents and Visitors Report From Mount Hope and Nearby Towns
Local notes list residents guests and visitors across Mount Hope Beckley Charleston and Pittsburgh including Mrs Walter Dalrymple visiting her parents in Point Pleasant and Walter Dalrymple in Pittsburgh on business. Several families from Wheeling Brooklyn and Somerset visit for business or relatives.
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S.C. Higgins
N. Pp “Rhineart
W. E. Tissue
Pleasant Finn
Beckley
Jadins
West Virginia Mining Institute
Knight Country Club
Walter Dalrymples
Roush
Point Pleasant
P. C. Thomas
Pittsburgh
Mount Hope
N. P. Rhinehart
Woman’s Club
G. D. Covey
Charleston
Mount Hopes
Rhinehart
J. E. Howard
Columbus
John Morgan
Willia Thompson
Ruth Givens
Paul W. Jones
Somerset
Hinte Heads P T A At Trap Hill School
Charlie Hinte of Eccles was elected president of the Trap Hill High and elementary school Parent Teacher association at a Thursday meeting. Mrs. W. H. Tate of Eccles was named vice president and Miss Mable Routt secretary-treasurer. Principal H. G. Farmer reported improvements around the grounds during vacation. Regular meetings were set for the first Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM.
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Charlie Hinte
Eccles
Trap Hill
W. H. Tate
Mable Routt
H. G. Farmer
Transatlantic correspondence checkers games begin
West Point Nebraska and London England players G U N e ts burg of West Point and Ww Ww Jones engage in postcard chess style games. The series is labeled correspondence checkers and unfolds over weeks and months.
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Associated Press
West Point
Neb
G. U.netsburg
Jones
London
Eng
Postcard
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Mount Hope, W. Va
Mill Creek Road
Girl Scout Movement
New River Operators Association
Mountainair Hotel
Edward Graff
C. Higgins
Temple
Sun Gey School
Aduwa
Haile Seassle
I Hallan
Count Luigi Vinci Gigducel
Ethiopia
Hinte
P.T. A
Berman
Ae Nai
Jady
Geal
Benrus
Beckley National Exchange Bank
Fayette Street
Dickson
Doll MadiSon
Pillsbury’s
Ibs
Onions
Dickson’s
Glen Rogers
Ravencliff
Pemberton-Sophia Roads
Allen Junction
Stanaford
N. Kanawha St. Beckley
W. Va
Rhodell
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