Pride in West Virginia marks regional garden meeting at Mullens
Mullens hosts the Appalachian Region West Virginia Garden Club as members from over 20 clubs gather under the theme Pride in West Virginia. Mrs. E J McQuail opens the day with encouragement for active participation. Mrs. W Harrell Wilson of Greenville S C heads the afternoon program Design in Good Taste. An exhibit by Mrs John D Farmer highlights state industries through miniatures while fall fashions are shown. About 100 attendees enjoy table decorations and a long luncheon display featuring miner gear and coal symbols.
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West Virginia
R. J. Chenoweth
Buren Toler
Robert L. Amick
Beckley
Raleigh County Garden Council
Gladys Bary
Fayetteville
McQuail
Roy A. Cunningham
Holt Kester
Henry L. Walker
May Puckett
Oak Hill
MecQuain
Garden Club
George Fordham
Herbert Morgan
Catherine Stewart
Carl Moran
James Kuhike
W. A. Davis
John D. Farmer
Laurel Club
Harley Christian
Louis Kaman
Katherine Tickte
Ralph Mays
A. G. Gilreath
Mullens’club
Perry Cook
Guy Yeager
Onnie R Bailey Jr
Lee Hart
Fred Kingdon
Allen Pack
Carrie Thrasher
Ebert Cooke
Mullens
Joe Taylor
Pineville
E. E. Lampton
J. J. Compton
Harry Woods
M. M. Shumate
H. J. Mounts
J. W. Arthur
W. C. Peters
H. T. Bartram
L. G.lail
Herman~ Akers
Ray Bowling
Nower
Charles Thrasher
B. W. Steele
Mitchell
Mra W. Harrell Wilson
Greenville
S.C
New York
Miami
Fla
Wilson
Clear Fork High School band officers elected for term
Collord area brief notes the election of Clear Fork High School band officers Peggy Jim Stover president Maude Williams secretary Sandra Morgan treasurer and Linda Maynor and Patsy Kinder reporters Band Mothers Club officers named Forest Chambers president Mrs Robert E Stover vice president Mrs Woodrow Toney secretary and Mrs Freeman Stover treasurer Mothers manage concession stands in football and basketball seasons.A visit from Mr and Mrs Waller Arthur to Mrs Jarrell who has been under a doctor's care for months Colcord Elementary joined School Has Lunch Week to promote lunch program awareness 179 lunches served during the week with milk sales up 74 over prior week Principal Bashia J Hamilton reports half of enrolled students eat hot lunch daily Nellie Stover Colcord's cook Herbert Dillon of Dayton Ohio visited his parents Luther and Mrs Dillon
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Colcord
RNS
Clear Fork High’ School
Peggy Jim Stover
Maude Williams
Sandra Morgan
Linda Maynor
Patsy Kinder
Forest Chambers
Robert E. Stover
Woodrow Toney
Freeman Stover
Colcord Elementary
Bashia J.‘ Hamilton
Republican Meet In Oak Hill Today
The Oak Hill Republican Woman's Club will meet at 7 30 p m today at City Hall with Mrs Joe McQuade district director of the West Virginia Federated Republican Woman's Club as speaker The Oak Hill Club is the only Republican Woman's Club in Faytte Fayetteville Mount Hope and other towns in the county attend Miss Patty Toney of Offotta County and relatives arrived to Fayetteville The meeting is open to the public The club president is Mrs J R Price of Simmerlee.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Republican Woman's Club
Joe McQuade
Richwood
West Virginia
Federated Republican Woman's Club
L City Hall
Fay-1
Patty Toney
Offette County
Vernié- Toney
Fayetteville
Samuel Jack Settle dies. funeral set at Robson Church
Samuel Jack Settle of Robson, longtime Robson grocer for 32 years, died after a yearlong illness. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today at Robson Church of Christ with Rev. Herman Williams officiating. Burial followed in the family cemetery. Surviving are wife Lena. five daughters including Cora Davis and Blanche Wiseman. five sons including James and Archie. two stepsons, a stepdaughter, a sister, a brother, 28 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. burial in Robson.
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Blanche Wiseman
Hallindale
Fla
Oritha Prater
Huntington
Evelyn Radford
Stanaford
Forest Radford
Kincaid
James
Archie
Robson
S. E
Falling Rock
Harry
Kanawha Falls
Newman
Hollywood
Alonzo Swan
Robert Swan
Pittsburgh
Kathleen Buffington
Columbus
Ghia
Rose Stephenson
Adam
Geldeehy
Colcord Presbyterian Church hosts Rev John Ralfs visit
Area residents burned out at the Colcord Presbyterian Church Thursday night to welcome the Rev John Ralfs of Pennsylvania who arrived Wednesday to visit with the idea of perhaps becoming the pastor. A social hour followed the worship service at the Upper Building.
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Colcord Presbyterian Church
John Ralfs
Pennsylvania
Hospital Patients Admitted Week Ending Saturday Mullens Area
Hospital records list admissions for Wyoming General Hospital spanning the prior week with patient names and places including Mullens Oceana Itmann Rhodell Corinne Beeson Matheny and Amigo. The list features numerous individuals such as Mrs Thelma Brown Mrs Mahala Dugan Clifford Ratliff and Mrs Louise Price among others.
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Mullens
Pitty
Wyoming General “Hospital
Thelma Brown
Wyce
Janet Amar
Glen Rogers
Pamela Evans
McAlpin
Mahala Dugan
Lillian Elkins
Hatcher
Irene Rehn
Oceana
W. P. Horns
Mabel McClure
Helen
Vada Howerton
Bud
Gilsin Sloane
Wyco
Jane Elmore
Winding Gulf
John Solomon
Hairston Walker
Rhodell
Arnold Green
Welch
Buddy Houck
Shirley Campbell
Louise Price
Rachel Haga
Marie Zeboskey
Hazel Cline
Matheny
Mary Osborne
Itann
Annie Scott
Nathan Mills
Beeson
ON King
Itmann
Roberta Graham
Amigo
Irene
Lawson
Rebecca Murphy
Edgarton
Fayette Licenses A Service Station And Garage Sold
Fayette county clerk reports licenses issued at Butch's Store Colcord for six couples and others from Fayetteville Belva Mount Hope Oak Hill and Glen Jean. Couples include Carl Childers and Cora Childers Shirley Humphrey and Della Gill James Higginbotham and Minnie England Basil Pennington and Bessie Manning Dale Woodrum and Ramona Vargo Ernest Williams and Shirley Burnette.
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L. Li. Fitzwater
Colcord
A. J. Estep
Ameagle
Payetteville
Rns
Fitzwater
Butch
Clear Creek
Fayette County
Carl Lewis Childers
Lawson
Cora Childers
Shirley Helen Humphrey
C. R
Carlie Humphrey
Belva
Shirley Cecil Eastman
Fayetteville
M.C
Frances Eastman
Della Joline Gill
Ansted
Ronald
Nadine Gill
James Dayton Higginbotham
Red Star
John and
Oma Higginbotham
Lou England
Glen Jean
James England
Basil
Shirley Pennington
Mount Hope
Oscar
Mona Pennington
Bessie Maxline Manning
Kingston
Clyde
Peat’ Manning
Marshall Gwinn
Quick
Mary Ginn
Susie Annabelle Pritt
Cannelton
Bill
Detta Pritt
Dale Thomas Woodrum
Cleveland,c
Russell
Mae Woodrum
Ramona Carroll Vargo
Mike Jr
Nellie Vargo
Ernest Lee Williams
Nelson
Louise Williams
Shirley
Ann Burnette
James L
Alice Burnette
Oak Hilf
Thefts Reported In Mullens Area Over Weekend
Three thefts were reported around Mullens over the weekend. Coal operator George Jenkins lost 750 dynamite caps and about 100 feet of copper feeder cable from Harmca mine, a loss about 500. Princeton resident Fred Pennington reported burglars took a tan sport coat brown slacks and four ties from his car near South Mullens playground. Cash Sparks of Simann found his 1952 pickup after it had gone missing and ended up overturned at New Richmond.
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Mullens
George Jenkins
Harmca
Fred Pennington
Princeton
South Mullens
Cash Sparks
Simann
New Richmond
Quiet Day Observed By WSCS At Long Branch Church
The Women's Society of Christian Service will observe a Quiet Day on October 25 at Long Branch Methodist Church to mark the Week of Prayer and Self Denial. Services start at 10 a.m. and run into the afternoon. On October 30 a WSCS program at the same church will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Women's Society of Christian Service
Long Branch Methodist Church
WSCS
Miner Hurt At Lynco Mine In Coal Car Accident
Jesse Conley of Oceana, 44, was treated at Wyoming General Hospital after his left foot was caught between two coal cars at the Lynco mine where he works as a motorman.
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Mullens
Jesse Conley
Oceana
Wyoming General Hospital
Lynco
Joint Meet Set By Civitan Club For Cake Sale
Oak Hill Civitan Club discusses annual fruit cake project at dinner meeting. A joint meeting is planned for November 2 at Town'n Country Restaurant in Princeton with Montgomery, Oak Hill, Beckley, Princeton, and Bluefield clubs participating. Fruit cake drive is held at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Civitan Club
Oak Hill
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Oak Hill Civitans
Princeton
Montgomery
Beckley
Bluefield
Infant dies twins born in Mullens hospital
Terry Lynn Howerton, twin son of Mr and Mrs Mack Howerton Bud Mullens, died at 1025 p m Saturday. Surviving: parents a sister Wilma Jean a half sister Patricia Mae a half brother Carson and a brother at home. Body at Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home.
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Mullens
RNS
Terry Lynn Howerton
Mullens Hospital
Mack Howerton
Bud
Wilma Jean
Patricia Mae
Carson
Robertson and Foglesong
Al Meadows Elected District Chairman at WV Convention
Mrs Al Meadows of Rupert was elected district chairman at the fourth annual Southern District Junior Department convention of the West Virginia Federation of Women s Clubs held in Hinton. The event featured a sewing contest won by Mrs Hany T Cooper Beckley and a style show hosted by Beckley’s Mrs William Snyder. J Clair Bigony led the welcome as Hinton Chamber of Commerce president.
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Hinton
RNS
West Virginia
Federation of Woman's Clubs
al Meadows
Rupert
George Warren Hodei
Hany
T. Cooper
Beckley
Bluefield
Jaegar Princeton
Welch
White Sulphur Springs
Funeral Tuesday For E. E. Laxton
Estel E. Laxton 35 of Asco McDowell County died Sunday after admission to Welch Emergency Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage He was born January 9 192? near Pinnacle Creek He is survived by his wife Janie four daughters Sharon Linda Barbara and Margaret a brother Luke Florida and a sister Mrs Clarence Snuffer New Richmond Funeral services set for 10 30 a m Tuesday at New Richmond Chapel Rev Silas Burks Burial in Jackson Cemetery The body was moved from Robertson and Foglesong Funeral Home to the New Richmond Home of his Stepfather Alvis Ball today
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Shirley
Linda
Barbara
Margaret
Luke
Florida
Clarence Snuffer
New
Richmond
New Richmond
Silas Burks
Jackson Cemetery
Robertson and Foglesong
Alvis Ball
PTA Plans Halloween Carnival at Mount View
Mount View PTA held its second meeting at the school with Titian Parotari presiding. Gilbert Pettry led devotionals and the secretary reported 205 members and a recent PTA supper netting $100. Plans were made for a November 1 Halloween carnival and updates on a hard top basketball court project costing $790. The next meeting was scheduled for November 19.
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge meets at Parkersburg
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge held a meeting in Parkersburg to fill the vacancy left by the death of C F Johnson grand chancellor. Grand secretary W T Price of Oak Hill reports district deputies appointed, including H VanCamp for a district covering Greenbrier Summers Raleigh and Fayette Counties. A C F Johnson Class will begin in all thirteen districts before December 31. The next Grand Lodge session is tentatively set for June in Elkins.
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Oak Hill
RNL
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge
Parkersburg
W.T. Price
C. F. Johnson
Gran
H. &. VanCamp
Greenbrier
Summers
Raleigh
Fayette
C.F. Johnson
Grand ‘Lodge
Elkins
Fayette Woman's Funeral Tuesday at Oak Hill
Virginia Frances Dempsey, age 78, dies Sunday at her son’s home after a long illness. Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Home chapel, Rev. G. Eastwood officiating. Burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery Oak Hill. Survived by six sons Larry, W M, W J, Percy, Joseph, Senal. three daughters Virgie Parnell, Donald Hall’s wife, and Hubert McKinney’s wife. one sister Lily Dodes. Burial at Oak Hill.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Virginia Frances Dempsey
Tyree
G. 5
Eastwood
The
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Dempsey
Dkey
Rock Lick
Ansted
Ate Nick
Sarah Neal Parrish
Oke
W. M
Glen Alten
W. J
Scarbro
Percy
Harmonsburg
Seph Dempsey
Lansing
Senal
Richmond, Va
Virgie Parnell
Donald Hall
Summerlee
Hubert. Mckinney
Lily Doses
Minden
Pineville Man Survives 1957 Sedan Crash
State Police said Bill Weaver of Pineville escaped with minor injuries after his 1957 sedan failed a curve on SHH Run, overturned several times, and skidded 83 yards on the road shoulder before overturning, according to Trooper Wiley Hersman.
New Trial Set For Tiz Jones In Monroe County Court
A new trial for Clarence Tiz Jones evangelist was set for Nov. 4 in Monroe County Circuit Court by Judge Nickell Kramer. The court canceled the April conviction and sentence and Jones was released, but charges against him and James Huffman were re indicted by the grand jury. Several other felonies and related cases were docketed, with nine men indicted for escapes from a convict detail at Sweet Springs. A Town of Alderson case yielded a $750 verdict for Smith after police officer Miller struck him. Court adjourned to Oct. 2.
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Lorder
Habeas Corps
Jones
Ray Garrett
Phillip Raymond Rodgers
Eddiericks
Pryor
Marvin Kendricks Adams
E. I. Terry Co
Peterstown
North Carolina
Marshall Edward Lester
Red -Sulphur
Earl Wills
Eugene Campbell
Walter Lee Dent
E. W. Woodson
Samuel Alexander Patterson
Gerald Bowling
Union
Sweet Springs
Ina Ashworth Skidmore
Arthur Lewis
Skidmore
Christine Bates Potter
Edward Lee Potter
Robert Page Dt
Louise White Page
Alderson
J. R.smith
Clyde E. Miller
Cas
Miller
Smith
Acting Principal Named at Whitesville Elementary School
Edith Shafer was named acting principal of Sylvester Elementary by the Boone County Board of Education after transferring Robert Peal from Sylvester to Whitesville Elementary and Junior High. Frank Titlow remains in satisfactory condition at Oak Hill Hospital after a heart attack last Thursday.
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Whitesville
RNS
Sylvester
Edith Shafer
Shafer
Boone County Board of Education
Robert Peal
Syvester School
Oak Hill
Frank Titlow
Summerlee Ave
Oak Hill Hospital
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S. C
E. J. McQuail
Blue Meld
Appalachian
Richmond Cleaners & Laundry
Coal River News
Waller Arthur
Zella Jarrell
Herbert Dillon
Dayton
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Mrs
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S.J. Settle
City
Wendell W. Cook
Cook
Orville Belcher
Barrett
J.W. Hanton
Cincinnati
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Norfolk
Clifford
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Tiz' Jones
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