Miners Celebrate Labor Day with Parade and Talks in Mount Hope
Thousands of miners and families filled Mount Hope Stadium for Labor Day events led by Tidler Titler of UMW District 29. He stressed a distant future contract, defended the welfare fund, attacked operator profits, and urged workers to share in gains while praising John L. Lewis. Parade included 45 locals, schools bands, and a large turnout amid calls for political accountability.
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Momp Hoph
United Mine Woters of America
George J Titter
District 29
UMW Disttrict
United Mine
John L. Lewis
Tiller
Lewis
Titler
Mount Hope Stadium
Wie United Mine Workers
Ous
Congress
Okey Patteson
State Department of Mines
UMW
Tom Twaddle
Gay Mintles
Safety First
Mike Tillingham
Lee
Mike
Mount Hope
DuBois
Sophia
Kilsyth
Eccles
L. Carter
Important Meet Set for Council
Fayetteville council convenes tonight to discuss police protection election for continuation of a special levy directing police to issue warrants for violators of parking regulations who do not pay fines appointment of sanitary board trustees and park board members reappointment of perpetual care fund trustees for Huse Memorial Cemetery sale of the old fire truck additional parking meters in front of Handley Store paving Maple Avenue to the Old Fort.
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Stait
Fayetteville
Ben D. Keller
Huse Memorial Cemetery
Hues Memorial Park
Oak Hill Gets First Assigned School Bus
Fayette County schools transportation chief F G Vawter reports the first of six buses purchased last spring has been delivered and assigned to Virgil Lively of Oak Hill. Bodies are being fitted to remaining buses and they will be in service soon. Brown Motor Co of Montgomery supplies 950 models with extra $336 per bus 1950 model costs borne by the company. A new Meadow Bridge route will be added while other schedules remain unchanged.
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F. G. Vawter
Fayette County
Board of Education
Virgil Lively
Chasses
L. J. Orndorff
Brown Motor Company
Montgomery
Orntloff
Meadow Bridge
Vawter
Farm Groups Set Thursday for Meet
Fayette County Farm Bureau schedules its quarterly meeting for September 8 at the Fayetteville courthouse. An all day program includes separate Farm Bureau and Farm Women sessions in the morning and a joint meeting after lunch. President Amick praises last year’s program and urges progress through fall and winter. The Older Youth Group topic and the October West Virginia Farm Bureau district meeting in Beckley will be arranged.
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Fayetteville
Fayette
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Mobley Funeral Rites Wednesday
Funeral services are set for 2 p m Wednesday for Mrs Elsie Mobley 50 of Kilsyth who died Sunday night at home of a heart attack The Kilsyth Freewill Baptist Church will host with Rev R H Doane officiating Burial will be at Hightown Memorial Park Oak Hill She is survived by her mother spouse six children and several siblings with services at Collins Funeral Home Glen Rean pending removal details
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Elsie Mobley
Kilsyth
Kilsyth Freewill Baptist Church
R. H. Doane
Headley
Hightown Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Kilsyth Freewill Baptist
Mount Hope
Harry Mebley
Willan
Fred
Newark
N. J
Louise Mobley
Dorothy Ann Mobley
Patty Mobley
Replater
Mallens
Curstine
Catherine
Doris Gore
Agnes Gore
Hayes Apartments
Holroyd Avenue
St. Cammillus Academy
Corbin
A. M. Sprathing
George
Guyandotte Avenue
Mullens Hill
Glenna Jean Staton
Black Eagle
Virginian Railway
Louis King
Cliffside Apartments
Leonard Miller
Guyandolte Avenue
Excelsior Iharings
Sam Foglesong
Moran “Avenue
Wheeling
Harry Caldlebaugh
Wendell W. Cook
Collier Avenue
Mullens’ Hill
Pembroke
J. W. Myers
Grover C. Workell
Highland Avenue
Camp
Ben F. Fennings
Virginia
South Mullens
George Kestner
Edward G. Dinns
Baltimore
Ald
John Shirley
Carol Ruth
Washington, D. C
Roanoke
Driver fined and jailed for white intoxicated driving
James Adams 33 of Premier Melowell County formerly Hmann pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. He was fined 78 dollars and costs and sentenced to 30 days in Wyoming County Jail after arraignment before Magistrate R M Stovally yesterday following state police arrest.
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Mullens
James Adams
Melowell County
Hmann
Wyoming County
R. M. Stovall
Stale Nower of Florida the orange blossom
A brief fragment notes Florida and orange blossom references without clear event or names, offering no definite action or outcome for a full news item.
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Back to College Dinner Honors Oak Hill Baptist Students
Oak Hill Baptist Church held a back to college dinner in the Fellowship Halls. Rus J E Whre supervised with Mrs Erskine Warden assisting. Rev Gilmer Cross spoke and Ellis Xuiller sang with Jean Brooks on piano. Attendees included Jean Bishop Mary Lee Bishop J W Mahoney Jean Anne Warden Elizabeth Ann Mahoney Bil Brown C R Brown West Virginia Univ Houston Rogers Beckley College Kenneth Hudson Charles J McGintie Tommy Toombs Grady Legg Yale Univ Claude Hill Sr Cincinnati College of Music Jennie Lee Mason Stephens College Frank Lucas West Point etc. Guests from Oak Hill and surrounding towns attended the gathering along with extended family and out-of-town visitors.
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Oak Hill
Oak Hall Baptist Church
Rus. J. E Whre
Young People's Department
Erskine Warden
Gilmer Cross
Ars. Kelly Williams
Ellis Xuiller
Jean Brooks
Yale University
Nornya
Kellis Miller
Cincinnati College of Music
Jennie Lee Mason
Stephens College
Frank Lucas
W.army
Delores
Jones
Sue Howard
Aubrey Allen
Betty Jo Bennett
Lois Mundy
Scarbro
Charles Willson
Clarksburg
Walter Goode
Clifton Forge
Cynthia
Atin Goldsmith
Booth Funeral Services Today for Brenton Boy Ernest Booth
Funeral services were held at 1 pm for Ernest Eugene Booth nine year old of Brenton who died Sunday from a brain blood clot. Rites were at his maternal grandmother Mrs A M Cook home with Rev J H Blankenship officiating. Burial was in Cook Cemetery Brenton. He is survived by his parents Alvin and Mrs Booth and a brother Kenneth.
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Mullens
Ernest Eugene Booth
Brenton
A. M. Cook
J. H. Blankenship
Hoy
Johnson Meadows
Cook Cemetery
Couple Honored At Farewell Party Before Moving
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Ramey of Cassinelli Apartments were honored at a farewell shower by the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church. They depart for Philippi to enroll in Alderson-Broaddus College. he studies for the ministry and she plans duties as a minister’s wife.
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Mullens
Buster Ramey
Cassinelli
Second Street
First Baptist Church
Woman's Missionary Society
Ramey
Virginian Railway
Tlee
Chesapeake, and Potomac Telephone ‘Company
Philippi
Alderson-Broaddus College
Wiile
Raney
Kincaid Baby Boy Born in Oak Hill Hospital
Mr and Mrs Elmer R Kincaid announce the birth of a son named John William on September at Oak Hill Hospital.
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Oak Will
Elmer R. Kincaid
John William
Oak Hill Hospital
Funeral Rites Held For Kopperston Woman’s Mother
Funeral services were conducted at 10:30 a m for Mrs R D Armstrong mother of Mrs CoV Upchurch of Kopperston from Klinger Carpenter Funeral Home Huntington. Burial followed in the Woordsmere Cemetery. Mrs Armstrong resided in Huntington but spent most of the summer with her daughter in Kopperston.
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Kopperston
R. D. Armstrong
Cov. Upchurch
Klinger-Carpenter
Huntington
Woordsmere
Mullens Beagles Dominate Blacksburg Meet Results
Mullens beagles owned by Dr. B. W. Steele and George W. Biggs won top places in the 13 inch all age class at a Shenandoah Valley Beagle Club trial on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg. Steele's Miss Glory took first, Tilley second, Slab Creek Lad third, with Roleap Sulace fourth and Hustler Elle as reserve hunter. Mullens entrants included Dr. Steele Biggs and others.
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Mullens—Beagles
Mullens
Blacksburg
Dr. B. WV
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Miss Glory
Tilley
Slab Creek
George WW. Biggs
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Roleap Sulace
S. E. Amato
Norfolk
Sleee
Elle
Shenandoah Valley Beagle Club
Roanoke
Virginia ‘Polytechnic Institute
Biggs
Ray
Toler
Dinssore Steele
Clowers Rose
Safe Holiday Weekend Reported in Wyoming
Mullens reports a quiet Labor Day weekend with one highway mishap near Cabin Creek. Police say Kenneth Mal-smith escaped injury when his truck left the road and was damaged. three arrests were made for drunkenness and public profanity during the period.
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Kenneth Most
Mal-smith
Beus
Cabin Creek
Jly
Mullens Eily
Community News Roundup From Oceana Highlights Visits and Travel
Mr and Mrs Raymond Cook returned home after visiting their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Harry Cook for a week. Numerous residents including Atlie Chambers Earl Cook Jr Hubert Drake and Wayne Hatfield vacationed at Bluestone Dam on New River. Nearby families traveled to Washington Blacksburg and Huntington for visits and rest.
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Oceana
Raymond Cook
Harry Cook
Atlie L. Chambers
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Hubert Drake
Wayne Hat Geld
Bluestone Dam
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David
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Perry Bailey
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Huntington
J. Rush Cook
Elizabeth Laxton
Emmett
Merle
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