Courthouse cornerstone laid in Raleigh County
Raleigh County celebrates 220000 dollar courthouse cornerstone as 150 spectators watch. County Court President J F Bolen and Dr Ritchie Ware praise the project as a lasting beacon, noting federal funds help and local bond approval. Stone men set the core, inserting items from county history and daily life, including flags, Bibles, scrip, and historic documents.
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West Main Street
Raleigh County
Beckley
J. F. Bolen
Ritchie Ware
First Christian Church
Pete Peraldo
Angelo Gevina
Vic Montélero
Raleigh Register
Post-Herald
Charleston Gazette
Charleston Daily Mail
Independent Observer
Fugitt Advises Teachers on Cooperation and Leadership
Assistant Superintendent W R Fugitt told twelve new high school teachers that cooperation between parents and teachers underpins a successful system and that principals are the bosses. He spoke on discipline and administration as the teachers begin their county careers, while Assistant Superintendent John B Elliott met beginning Negro teachers at Stratton High School.
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W. R. Fugitt
John B. Elliott
Stratton High School
Needle in Child's Head Found After Fall
In Great Cacapon on September 5 a three year old girl Fay Spring was brought home with a forehead bump and pain. The needle embedded in her head emerged days later from her burp following a fall. Doctors identified the object and removed it, sparing more harm.
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Associated Press
Examinations set for Raleigh county citizenship papers
Eleven foreign born Raleigh county residents were listed for final citizenship examinations September 17 in the circuit clerk’s office with an examiner from Cincinnati to preside. Names include Mrs Veturia Zanella Helen Beckley and others. A note on late candidate Earl Bruno Seles cited his death before depositions could verify five years residence.
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Raleigh County
John C. Ward
W. A. Keifer
District Naturalization Director
Cincinnati
Circuit
Veturia Zanella
Helen
Eliza Jenkins
Beckley
Frank Lotti
Lester
Angelo Scarafino
Jozef Wantulok
Raleigh
Mike Johnson
William Chingle
Glen White
Giacomo Scariot
James Scott
Cranberry
Andy Haresar
Price Hill
Gladys Mary Lyndon
Bruno Seles
Beckley Hospital
Ward
Seles
United States
Selen
Spanish Rebels Lose One Town
Madrid Sept 5 The ministry of war announced socialist government troops marched into the rebel stronghold of Huesca and occupied it last night. An entire company of rebels joined government forces before the town was taken. A rebel column near Luarca in Oviedo province was routed. Bilbao coast raids by rebel planes were repelled by anti aircraft guns and pursuing aircraft. Madrid tightened air raid precautions and rationing. In Barcelona a Catalan peoples court sentenced three Fascist officers to death, one to prison for life and another to an asylum, the first of 25 rebels to be court martialed aboard the prison ship Uruguay.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Ministry of War
Huesca
Zaragoza
Luarca
Oviedo
Bilbao
Barcelona
New Peoples Court of Catalonia
Sttp
Uruguay
William Cawley Dies at 80 in Ferndale Funeral Held
Ferndale mourns William Cawley 80 who died Tuesday in a Charleston hospital. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. W. Winston with burial in Mordue cemetery. He leaves a brother James Cawley of Glasspool PA and nine sons and four daughters including James John Charles George Samuel Cline Penton all Ferndale Willie Huntington Thomas Whitesville and daughters Elizabeth Airheart Polly Walker Nellie Ball Sadie Patton. California coast lines noted in unrelated text. Johnson notes ongoing mine explosion investigation and uncertain resumption timing with focal damage near the blast and slate falls in surrounding areas.
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Ferndale
William Cawley
Charleston
G. W. Winston
Mordue
James Cawley
Glasspool
James
John
Charles
George
Samuel
Cline
Penton Cawley
Willie
Huntington
Thomas
Whitesville
Elizabeth ‘Airheart
Polly Walker
Nellie Ball
Highcoal
Sadie Patton
Fredericksburg
Governor Kump Grants Pardons and Paroles in West Virginia
Gov. Kump pardoned Roscoe Cross who faced life imprisonment for the 1923 slaying of James Powell, noting he was 18 at sentencing. The governor also granted four paroles and one commutation, with parole board and court officials backing the actions. Other beneficiaries included Frank Pierson for breaking and entering and Miles B. McClung for operating a still. Parolee Alvan Lyall, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1934, received a parole, and Mack Fuller’s life sentence for Emma Fuller’s murder was commuted to 18 years.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Roscoe Cross
Kump
Doddridge
Cross
James Powell
Frank Pierson
Raleigh County
Miles B. McClung
Green-~ Brier County
Alvan Lyall
Greenbrier County
Mack Fuller
McDowell County
Emma Fuller
Neely to Speak In Every County in West Virginia
Campaign plans by Senator Neely aim to deliver over 55 addresses across West Virginia before November. He intends to speak in every county, with dates to be announced in advance once the state speakers bureau starts functioning from Charleston.
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Fairmont
M.om
Neely
West Virginia
Charleston
Adrance
Ex Beckley Brothers Heroic Cincinnati Fire Victims
Two former Beckley youths, Jack Cole and Billy Cole, became local heroes in Cincinnati after rescuing Laurel Adkins and Frank Austin from a fatal three story tenement fire. The brothers, aged 17 and 19, were credited by The Cincinnati Enquirer for entering the smoke filled building to save others before a patrolman intervened. Henry Chalfont Sample, former publisher of the Fairmont Free Press, died of a heart attack at 83.
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Beckley
E. W. Wilburn
West Street
Cincinnati
Jack Cole
Billy
Cincinnati Enquirer
Laurel Adkins
Frank Austin
H Thomas Hooker
Hartford
Connecticut
Associated Press
Fairmont
Henry Chalfont Sample
The
Fairmont Free Press
Pneumonia Claims James Lee Gray at 50 in Local Hospital
James Lee Gray, 50, died at 10 a.m. Friday after a two week illness with pneumonia. He was a former carpenter at Winding Gulf. Survived by widow Minta Gray of Winding Gulf, brother William Gray of Ashland Kentucky, half brother Pay Bunter of Ashland, half sister Mrs Ray Jackson of Mount Sterling Kentucky, son John Paul Gray of Ashland, and daughter Mrs Ray Lancaster of Lexington. Funeral services will be held in Omega Kentucky, his birthplace, Sunday.
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James Lee Gray
Winding Gulf
Minta Gray
William Gray
Ashland
Pay Bunter
Ray Jackson
Mount Sterling
Library first circulated in Philadelphia in 1731
A note records that the first circulating library in America was established in Philadelphia in 1731, marking an early development in colonial literacy and access to books.
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America
Philadelphia
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John Bolen
Ware
Indiana
Fred Barr
Fugitt
MacBeth
Logan
Mine Department
Elisha Watts
Bill Reffett
Tom Tiller
Chattaroy
Mingo County
J. F. White
Young Lawson
Walter Damron
T. E. Johnson
Hutchinson Coal Company
W. H. Meyers
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Preeg
Parkersburg
Suzana Foster
Wolfe Summit
Iwilliam Cawley
California
Pacific Coast Line
Johnson
Frigidaire
Brigidant
Frigidaires
Beckley Hardware & Supply Co
Heber St
Foot of
Main
Beckley, W. Va
Beckley Boys
Heroes of Fatal
Pekoe
Don
North Kanawha ST
Weiners
Dickso
Welch’s
Canada Dry
Brillo
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