Fayetteville War Memorial levy plans set for November vote
Fayette County Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Board members met in executive session to formulate levy plans for the November election. Approximately 160000 raised so far will be used to complete the memorial building located in the county seat and accessible to all. The drive is supported by the American Legion VFW auxiliaries organized labor Republican and Democratic county organizations schools and civic groups among others.
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Fayetteville
Fayette County
Memorial Board
War Memorial
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Appropriations Increase For Fayette Farm Credit
Fayetteville West Virginia sees higher farm operating loan funds for the new fiscal year totaling 490000 dollars, a 75 percent rise. The Farmers Home Administration will also guarantee up to 883924 dollars in private real estate loans, with 107213 dollars for direct ownership loans unchanged from last year. Veterans receive preference and supervision of loan use remains. Since program start, 20683 production loans and 542 direct ownership loans have been issued in West Virginia.
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Fayetteville
Ben R. Sharpe
Farmers, Home Administration
West Virginia
Sharpe
Hi-Y Officers Are Installed at Oak Hill Club
Oak Hill Hi Y Club installed Wallace Burgess as president and officers Jerry Bryant vice president Benny Burgess secretary and Charles Flint treasurer during a Sunday ceremony at the Methodist Church led by advisor Ernest Smith Jr The move reinforces the group’s aim to promote clean speech sportsmanship and living with a motto to uphold high Christian character. ON FLORIDA TRIP Mr and Mrs G W Coulter and son Arthur left for Florida and southern states returning in about three weeks Coulter works for the state road commission and his son a timber company in Rupert.
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Oak Hill
Wallace Burgess
Ernest Smith
Jerry Bryant
Benny Burgess
Charles Flint
Hi-Y
Florida
G. W. Coulter
Arthur
Coultner
State Road Commission
Rupert
Fayette Appeal Denied by Court
The supreme court refused an appeal from a Fayette County verdict for 3500 dollars. The case involved New River Company and Ariel Havel Worletge against Marie E. Davis and Anna M. Banks over injuries from a truck collision on U S Route 21 near Mount Hope on December 1 1946.
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Charleston
Supreme Court
Fayette County
New River Company
Ariel Havel -Worletge
Marie E. Davis
Anna M. Banks
Mount Hope
Oak Hill Lot Sold by Elmores
Fayet teville deed reports Mr and Mrs Thomas E Rice bought Lot 9 Block 3 Marberry Park addition Oak Hill from Mr and Mrs John E Elmore for about 7000 dollars Other deeds include Clarence H Buchanan to Ernest H Thorner Lot 8 Block A Montgomery s Heights about 6000 dollars Homeseekers Land and Building Co to Sears Crittendon lots 38 and 80 Washington Heights about 500 dollars Lora M Davis to William Ritchie Lot 12 West Raymoor on Fayetteville Cunard road no consideration Fayette Land Co to Ruth J Hunt Lot 2 South With additional Oak Hill about 500 dollars Lottie Bailey and others lot on Gatewood road about 500 dollars Jasper C Buttrick to James C Buttrick 5 8 acres about 500 dollars Mt Hope Investment Co to Ralph L Hamilton 7 In Kil syth about 2000 dollars Lon Cyrus to Maxine Jones 2 acres Fayetteville District about 1500 dollars J Lawson Martin to Basil A Casten Int near Fayetteville about 1000 dollars Edith Alex to Blackburn Patteson Realty Co lots 19 20 Captain Richards addition Oak Hill about 1000 dollars J A Blackburn to Richard Garvin lots 38 40 41 42 and $3 in Jones Addition Oak Hill about 1000 dollars H A Berry to Thomas E Rice Lot 8 Block 3 Marberry Park addition Oak Hill about 500 dollars Fayette Homes Inc to Irene C Cales lot 147 Glen Jean with improvements about 2000 dollars C A Kidd to C L Dodd part of Lot 30 Maple Drive Fayetteville no consideration Dewey R Woods to E W Corbin 68 acres Sewell Mountain District Bracken s Creek about 1000 dollars.
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Fayetteville
Thomas E. Rice
Marberry Park
Oak Hill
John E. Elmore
Clarence H. Buchanan
Ernest H. Thorner
Montgomery
S Heights
Homeseekers Land and Building Co
Sears Crittendon
Washington ‘Heights
Lora M. Davis
William Ritchie
West Raymoor
Fayetteville-Cunard Road
Fayette Land Co
Ruth J. Hunt
Lottie Bailey
Gatewood Road
Jasper C. Buttrick
James C. Buttrick
Mt. Hope Investment, Co
Ralph L. Hamilton
Kilsyth
Lon Cyrus
Maxine Jones
J. Lawson Martin
Basil A. Casten
Edith Alex
Blackburn-Patteson Realty Co
Captain Richards
Oak Hil
J. A. Blackburn
Richard Garvin
Jones
H. A. Berry
Cax Hill
Fayette Homes, Inc
Irene C. Cales
Glen Jean
C. A. Kidd
C. L. Dodd
Maple Drive
Dewey R. Woods
E. W. Corbin
Sewell Mountain District
Bracken’s Creek
L. FB. Gagby
Real estate sales list with prices across Oak Hill and MacDonald areas
A sequence of transfer notices shows multiple parcels from Mt. Hope Investment Co and Oak Hill Realty Co to various buyers including A A Wingrove, Edward Wills, Andrey Payne, and Minnie Mae Hatches. Properties span Nickelville Oak Hill Sewell Mountain and Glen Jean with prices ranging roughly from 2000 to 4000 dollars and per acre figures noted for several tracts.
Judge Sets Hearing Date For Cashion Ouster Case
At 1 p m Friday October 29 evidence will be heard in the ouster case against J T Cashion member of the Fayette County Board of Education Judge R J Thrift Jr overruled defense motion to quash and set the date The petition accuses Cashion of selling merchandise to the Board through Cushion Appliance Co in Ansted totaling about 200 during the year 1946 1947 filed by a Gauley Bridge group of local officials.
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Fayetteville
J. T. Cashion
Fayette County
Board of Education
Cushion Appliance Company
Ansted
Cooke Named Pineville Chief of Police Return
Pineville announces Jay Cooke is again chief of police after Mayor Vaughan Stewart named him to the post. Cooke previously held the job a year ago before resigning to move to Greenbrier County. James Gibson resigns as police chief to become steward at the Pineville Moose Club. Cooke plans to move to Pineville in the near future.
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Pineville
Jay Cooke
Vaughan Stewart
Cooke
Greenbrier County
Wyoming County
James Gibson
Moose Club
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Jayetteville
Legion Post
Raymond Frazier
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George Everetts
Myron R. Renick
Department
Harry W. Miller
Philip Lilly
Fayette
Elmores
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Reserve Life Ins. CO
Huntington
The
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of
Roy D. Crukshanks
Nickelville
Highlawn Memorial Park Co
Gilbert H. Buttrick
George *L. Coleman
Whipple
Fayette Homes Inc
A. A. Wingrove
Wingrove
Edward Wills
Xife
Aft. Hope Investment Co
Haney L. Lewis
MacDonald
Mt. Hope Investment Co
Andrey Payne
Hill Brown
Wile
Mt. Hope Invvestment Co
E. H. Bennett
Minnie Mae Hatches
Tissues
Wesler
B. D. Tissue
Carol Quinby
W. E. Tissue
Raymond L. Roop
J. E. Roop
O. c. Tinsley
Otis Fugett
C. A. Biggs
W. E. Harless
J. A. Wood
D. B. Robson
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Meadows
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Herbert
Boreman
Road Commission
Herbert S. Boreman
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