Church Hosts Convention With Thankful To Him
A church convention opens Friday at 6 90 p m with Columbus Harris giving welcome remarks for the church and district leaders Louise Robinson and Elizabeth Baker delivering greetings and responses. Sessions feature music by district choirs, a memorial service, Sunday school, a workshop by Mrs. M Z Luster, sermons by Rev A L Simms and Rev T Sykes, and final reports with banner awards.
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Columbus Harris
Louise Robinson
Elizabeth Baker
O. H. Jase
Cunard
Price HU
Ae Cares
Bes
Harvey, Page, Whipple
Benjamin Fleshman
M. Z. Luster
A. L. Simms
T. Sykes
M. H. Holloway
F. L.robinson
Federal Official To Address Young Dems in Fayetteville
Fayette County Young Democratic Club names Howard Bertsch federal official to speak at its third annual victory dinner. Bertsch heads an agency that provides federal aid to farmers for operation development and improvement, and to community groups for water treatment and flood control projects. Jack Thom, club president, announces event on November 20 at the Memorial Building in Fayetteville. Local, state, and Virginia youth officials are expected to attend.
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Fayetteville
Fayette County
Young Democratic Club
Howard Bertsch
Wyoming County Opens Fund Drive in Pineville
The Wyoming County drive plans a series of events over the next days including a pes at Oceana Grade School and a road block solicitation in Oceana. Local campaigns urge donations to the American Red Cross and USO with coordinators in Pineville Mullens and surrounding areas. Checks may be mailed to United Fund, Mullens, as volunteers solicit door to door and in businesses.
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Pineville
Wyoming
Poe Drover
Oceana
American Red Cross
USO
John E. Tice
T. J . Nichols
W. D. Emmons
Woodrow Cook
Mullens
Wirt (Mae) Belcher
Pinevill
Byron Schilling
E. Charles Johnson
Fronzo Phil. Yaw
Ont
Wanda Lester
Baileysville
Tony Lamp Coal
Fayette
Raleigh
Raleigh Register
Wyoming educators attend Region 7 conference at Concord College
Three Wyoming County educators joined regional education leaders at Concord College in Athens for the Region 7 conference on education on Wednesday. Superintendent George Nolley and assistants Jesse Morgan and Jesse Houck attended the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pineville
Wyoming County
Concord College
Athens
George Nolley
Jesse Morgan
Jesse Houck
Wyoming
Home Economist Visits Glen Rogers High School
Miss Frances Smith of Appalachian Power Co. spoke to Glen Rogers High School home economics classes in demonstrations. Mrs. Mary Moc er assisted. Ginette Veughe watched as a senior observer. Missionary Society officers at Sweet Home Baptist Church named new officers and planned service projects including a money making event. Five Nations were Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca, historic Iroquois tribes of upper New York State.
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Glen Roger
Frances Smith
Appalachian Power Co
Glen Rogers High School
Mary Oacer
Ginette Veughe
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Clay
Five Nations
Upper
New York State
Tickled to Death Phrase Traced to Torture Custom
The expression tickled to death traces to a brutal Chinese practice where merciless tickling was used to suffocate a victim. Historical notes describe the severe method and its fatal result, explaining the origin of the phrase.
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Demos
Cratic Club
Michial Audin
C. Donald Robertson
The
Missionary Society of the Sweet Home Baptist Church
Maben- Ganlewiila
Ssulsvit
Cers
Vegeta
Raleigh Y Register
Marge Rhodes Rowe
Fairdale
Glen Daniel
Dawson
Patty) Lucas
Nancy McClung
Ghent
Cordie Nugen
Glen White
Donnie Nuckols
Herndon - Covel - Garwood
David Marsh
MacArthur
Maple Fork
Nancy Bowyer
Mahecott
Elizabeth Robinson
Mount Hope
Margaret Marchio
Jack Martin
Area Fork
Soulsville
Elizabeth Williams
Mullens Rhodell
Edith Flinchum
Rock Creek
Maude Pi
Whitesville
Sophia
Russell Pegram
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