Americanism Essay Contest Set For Fayette High Pupils
Fayette County high school students may enter the Oak Hill VFW Post 3110 essay contest on Americanism. Essays up to 1000 words due to principals by December 1952. grand prize a $1506 television set to the winning school, state prize $50 and district prizes across 19 West Virginia VEW districts. Final judges include West Virginia leaders and college presidents. winners announced February 22, 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Oak Hil
Veterans of Foreign Wars
U. S. Defense
West Virginia
West Virginia University
Marshall
Morris Harvey Colleges
Herbert Walker
10Th District
VFW
Soldiers' and Sailors’ Memorial
Fayetteville
Oak Hills
William B. Johnson
Donald P. Mitchel
Steve Gryzh
Post
Teachers Attend Leadership Conference at Jacksons Mill
The leadership conference of the Classroom Teachers Association at Jackson’s Mill runs Oct 10 to 12 and will be attended by Wyoming County teachers including Mrs. Jennings Barrett president of the Wyoming County CTA from Oceana High School, Miss Mary Francis Davis vice president from Glen Rogers High, Miss Ellen Lawson from Mullens, and Mrs. K. Hatfield from Oceana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mlon Mulns
Classroom Teachers Association
Jackson's Mill
Wyoming County
Jennings Barrett
CTA
Oceana High School
Mary Francis Davis
Wyoming County Cta
Glen Rogers High School
Ellen Lawson
Mullens
K. Hatfield
Oceana
Fayetteville Campaign Meetings Schedule Rallies
Fayetteville reports Democratic party schedule of countywide meetings and rallies through October. Campaign speakers include Charles Garvin, Sid Allen, C. B. Vickers, G. M. Hancock and multiple district candidates. Meetings set for Beards Fork, Beckwith, Long Acre Union Hall, Powellton, and more with arrangements led by party organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Jean
Lewis Capps
Charles Warden
Sid Allen
Howard
Fayette County
W. Carson
Walter 5
Alreany
Virgil Lyons
Nell Walker
Roger Howell
Mrs Watson highlights garden tours and regional plans
Oak Hill Garden Club heard Mrs Hobart Watson describe national show gardens sponsored by Dorsey Tours and showcased Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, Lambert Gardens in Oregon, Middleton Gardens, Magnolia Gardens in South Carolina, Cypress Gardens in Florida and South Carolina, and Butchart Gardens in Canada. A regional meeting will be held February 28 at Richwood Calvary Methodist Church, and Fayetteville Garden Club offers jonquil bulbs for sale. The club also adopted the Oak Hill Lions swimming pool resolution. In Hanover, Jay Cline, 27, was treated at Grace Hospital after a steel fragment was removed from his forehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
United States
Hobart Watson
Oak Hill Garden Club
C. L. Gavin
Woods Ave
C. BR. Hill
aWtson
Dorsey Tours
Longwood Gardens
Dennett Square
Pierre DuPont
Watson
Portland
Ore
Middleton Gardens
Magnolia Gardens
South Carolina
Cypress Gardens
Florida
Butchart Gardens
Victoria
B. C
Canada
H. L. VanCamp
Appalachian
Garden Club
Richwood
Calvary Methodist Church
Third Robbery Suspect Picked Up by Deputies
A third man suspected in last night’s armed robbery of Carter’s Grocery at Mill Creek was picked up for questioning by three Fayette County sheriff’s deputies. The jailer identified the Mt. Hope resident as Charles Bennett. Several others were detained briefly and later taken to the Fayette County Jail in Fayetteville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Hope
Carter
Mill Creek
Fayette County
Charles Bennett
Bufferino
Clay Burford
Virgil
Roy Creed
Cook
Horace Crockett
M. E.of Prosperity
Curtis Leary
Corns
Joe Cote
Calvin Clay
Jess
Elkins
V. C. C. Gabany
Lewis
Mt. Hope Pa
Hudson
Milt Hendrix
M. A. Jatrolman
Claude Williams
Jeobs
Silas Jones
L. C. Lemons
Ernest Layton
Arno Lemon
Nel|Hope
Son Morris
Finley Massey
Herman Shumate
Neil Shu
Alfred Tolliver
Charles Will
Hams
Don Webb
Sharp Named President of Edwight PTA
Andrew Sharp was elected president of the Edwight Parent Teachers Association at the group’s Monday meeting to set officers for the current year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwight
Andrew Sharp
Teachers Association
Dead GI's Korean Son Enters WVU Freshman
Skippy Kwak a 19 year old adopted son of Sgt. Gus Farr enters West Virginia University as a freshman, pursuing a medical or media degree, inspired by Farr who was killed in action in Korea. The story blends his educational goal with the wartime rescue of his adoptive father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dead GI
WVUI
Morgantown
W. Va
Skippy Kwak
Skippy
Korea
Thelon
Gus
West Virginia University
Gus Farr
Cne
Sgt
Farr
Hinton
Fayette County Land Transfers Filed by County Clerk
The Fayette County Clerk lists numerous transfers across Carlisle New River and Oak Hill areas. Deeds show parcels from Holliday to Cordet, Perry to Wood, and other title changes in Fayetteville District with prices ranging from 300 to 9 000 dollars plus various improvements. Names include H Holliday B Stover Snyder Snyder MacMillan Marks Pettry Rider and numerous family associations across Sewell Mountain and Mount Hope additions.
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R ‘ i Isle
Fayetteville
Carlisle
New River
Fay- Seta Eera
Margaret B.elle
Clark
Charlie H Holliday
Aurelia Tiereon
Holliday
Evelyn Cordet
Addie B. Cordell
Perry
Eugene H. Wood
Sewell Mountain District
Yeltapeaves
Oak Hill
oMles
Aa Bante
Witk
Fred Kious
Virginia Kious
Faymoor Heights
Thomas Baker Kious
B. Stover
Lillian Stover
Alicia P
T 'F. Whitlock
Roxie Whitlock
C. Snyder
R. Sny
P. M. Snyder
Jebunee
Jack L. Moore
Vivian Sowder
Cassie Raney
Oe Moore
Enoch Moore
Essie Moore
Long Branch
Ai Canseres
Ray Paul Moore
Hazel Moore
Josie
Lawrence Lewis
May Moore
J. M.elis
Meadow Bridge
Leas
Kathleen Elis Douglas
Edward L.sam J Bays
Douglas
Bessie Matthews
Albert L. Hiser
Greentown
Oakland
Sewell Mountain
W. W. Pettry Carter Marks
Lilian V. Marks
Cora B. Pettry
Pelley
John W. Rider
Athlene Petry
Bers
Oatland
Pax
Coalfield Land Company
Tormer C. Johnson
Carmalee
Mary Flten Johnson
W. C. Robertson Neary
Eliton
Robertson
Emma Arthur
Lori Dell
Arnold Humphrey
Gauley River
Blackburn-Patteson Realty Company
Harry Sullivan
Thayer
Willie E. Fox
Edith M. Fox
Harry E. Hoover
June C. Hoover
Marberry Park
City of Oak Bill
James
Humphrey
Marie Humphrey
Hughart F. Clonch
Helen Clonth
Falls District
New River, Company
Walters. McVey
Dainty A. McVey
New River Company
Kenneth
E. Hudson
Thelma Josephine
Hudson
Funeral Ries Set For Manday
Toler funeral services for three month old Matda Jean Toler daughter of Arthur and Florence Ramsey Toler Cyclone will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the parents home with Rev Kerner Workman officiating. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Lorado. The body will be taken from Evans Funeral Home Oceana to the parents home at 5 p.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyclone
Matda
Jean’ Toler
Arthhur
Florence Ramsey Toler
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Mary
Emily
Beulah Osborne
Russell
Germany
Clarence
Parris Island
N. C
Kerner Workman
Lorado
Evans
Oceana
Scarbro couple announces engagement of Kathleen Hatfield to Woodson
Scarbro couple Mr and Mrs Luither Hatfield announce the engagement of their daughter Kathleen Louise Hatfield to Charles Rodney Woodson Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Woodson of Lochgelly The wedding is planned for late fall Miss Hatfield works for G C Murphy Co Oak Hill and Woodson is employed at Lochgelly No 5 City of Oak Hill Also listed are unrelated real estate transfers and assignments including several lot sales in Beallvue and Belvoir additions Oak Hill and Quinnimont District with various parties and consideration amounts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scarbro
Luither Hatfield
Kathleen Louise
Charles Rodney Woodson Jr
Charles R. Woodson
Lochgelly
Woodson
City of
Oak Hill
Norma Dalporto
Seconda Dalporto
Kermit Y. Anderson
Myrtle M. Anderson
Beallvue
Melvin B.hatcher
Hasley E. Hatcher
A. E. Haneshew
Rheba Hanshew
Quinnimont
Harry Martin
Ida, Martin
Clarence Lee Martin
Joan Martin
Harry Vane Martin
Linda Marie Martin
Belvoir
Fayette Land Company
Robert Ferguson
Virginia Francis Ferguson
Mount Hope
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Raleigh Register
Beckley
Breck Ncys
Fayette High School
BNC Pit
Sons of Italy Hall
Norman Burch
George Simpson
Bob Fields
Joe King
C. B. Vickers
Charles Garvin
Clyde Bunion
H. R. Beckelheimer
Pride Williams
J. Alfred Taylor
John Frisk
Lowell Alift
Columbus
Ohio
Imogene Martin
Paul Berger
Gladys River
Harvey
Melvin Bias Coyer
Lansing
Prushis Deltz
Ansted
Jason Robert Frantz
Springdale
Wilda Frances Farley
Kathryn
Belva
Mary Tawney Dye
Gauley Bridge
William Arrington Huggins
Mr. Hope
Georgia Ellen Craft
Kilsyth
James E. Jeffrey
Logan
Blanche Amos
Powellton
Hansel Lee Mullins
Ella Jean Duff
Junior Allen Mullins
Virginia Baker
Mrs. Watson
Hanover
Jay Cline
Grace Hospital
Edwight Chapter
Holmes Safety Association
Charles
Eddie) Williams
Edwight Rhines of Raleigh Wyoming Mining Company
Jim Farley
United Mine Workers District 1I
William Blizzard
District 17
L. T. Putman
Raleigh Wyoming Mining Company
Harold Hock
William Rachunis
Holmes
del Alderman
Allen Baxter
Emugene Cook
Herbert Cornett
Clyde Daniel
Willie Harris
Ernest Jarrell
Paul Kiye
Estil Layton
Clarence Miller
Raymond Aranjo
Tony
Hurl Lively
Clarence Javins
Mabel Webb
Lively
Ralph Webb
Ruby Javvis
Bungstone Carr
Carrie
Skippy Y Auehter
iThe
Stevens
Hurt Lively
Youngster
Syl Yella Parolari
Wsfake
P. T. A. Fuunds
Mission Circle
Belle Bennett Circle
E. H. VanHoose
Brooklyn
Elsie Allman
Fine Foods
W A
Chuck
Bologna
Franks
Suster
Grimes Golden
Ee Modern
Charmin
Beckley, W. VA
Delib Eed
Fate Pele
Winklers Drug Store
KAY'S _DRUG
Navilla St. Acros
Office of
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Ries
Toler
Quality Lumber & Supply Co
City Ave
the Furniture Center
King Tut’s
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