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Newspaper

Raleigh Register

Location

Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 23, 1959

Page

12

Two Mercer County men face grand jury on rape charge

Kerney Shrewsberry and Mason C Mills, both in their late 20s to 40s, were jailed after a March arrest and Monday hearing. The victim, an 18 year old wife, said she was forced into a car near Matoaka bus station and driven to a country road where the alleged attacks occurred. Officers later found the girl’s glasses and money from her purse in the suspects’ vehicle.

Princeton Mercer County Mercer Criminal Court Kerney Shrewsberry Rock Mason C. Mills Matoaka C. Dean Coffey David Moye Charlottesville Moye Mills and Shrewsberry

Fayette Church Open House Seeks Community Visitors

Open house at Calvary Baptist Church parsonage 112 Wickline St. will run 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The home recently purchased by the church houses the pastor Rev Harold A Huffman and his wife. Board members I S McClung William Shaffer and Lewis Gordon will serve as guides.

Oak Hill RNS Calvary Baptist Church Wickline St Harold A. Huffman I. S. McClung William Shaffer Lewis Gordon

Beckley to Accept Ice Skating Rink Bids

Beckley Recreation Board invites sealed bids for a New River Park Ice Skating Rink project. Plans available from S. H. Bridge at Beckley Water Co. Building. Bids due by 5:00 p.m. October 27, 1959 to S. H. Bridge's office at City Hall.

Recreation Board City of Beckley New River Park S. H. Bridge C. E. Beckley Water Co

Funeral notices from Beckley area obituaries

Several notices list the deaths of Minnie Laticia Lafferty 89 of Eccles Elva Dillard 81 of MacAlpin Joe 31 of Chicago Andrew Jackson Riggle 85 of Shady Springs. Services at Rose & Quesenberry Wright & Anderson and Ritchie & Johnson funeral homes with church and cemetery details and lists of pallbearers and honorary pallbearers.

Lafferty Lafferty Minnie Laticia Eccles Nancy Gillespie Rose and Quesenberry Kanawha Street Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Home Dillard Dillard Elva MacAlpin St. Paul A.M.E Barnie Wright Nelson Staples Greenwood Memorial Park Wright and Anderson Marshall Carter James Hall Andrew Powell Harry Barnhart Herman Anderson Vick Mahan Ardelia Carter Millie Claytor Mary Waddie Elizabeth Evans Maragret Evans Ollie Powell Wright & Anderson Funeral Home Riggle Andrew Jackson Shady Springs Caffee Funeral Caffee Charles E. Walker Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Dorsel Vest Guy Pennington E. M. Starr Stinson Altafair Augusta Myers Avenue Peace Chapel Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home South L. L. Reckart Lockhart Cemetery Honaker Virginia South Kanawha Street

Flowers and Florists Classified Ad

Funeral and cut flowers, pot plants available. Dial foral Co at 345 City Ave. phone C 3-4561. Lovely flowers for all occasions from Snow Thornton Florists at 319 Prince Street. phone CL 3-7371.

Dial Foral CO City Ave Snow Thornton Florists Prince Street

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