Mt Hope Lions Club observes 20th anniversary with toastmaster governor
Governor Okey L. Patteson served as toastmaster at the Mt. Hope Lions Club anniversary marking his 20th year as a member. The event drew 87 of 90 members with wives and guests at the club house, which now features a large dining area, lounge spaces, and a new Boy Scout building funded by the club.
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MT. Hope
Okey L. Patteson
Mt. Hope Lions Club
Harry Able
P. H. Garrett
W. D. Lawton
W. B. Poling
W. G. Porter
B.C. Simpkins
Ronald Snyder
Guv. Patteson
Forrest Hills
Mi. Hope Lions Club
Mollis Robson
Charleston
N. L. Kemp
Dudley Simms
Patteson
Robson
Thomas
Robertson
Kemp
Sale of 59 Guernseys Slated for Wednesday
Fifty nine registered Guernseys will be offered at the West Virginia State Guernsey Sale on the State Fairgrounds Wednesday at 1 p.m. Breeders from five states consign 40 cows and bred heifers 16 open heifers and three bulls from TB and Bang's accredited herds.
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Lewisburg
West Virginia
State Guernsey Cattle Club
Bang
L. B. Crickenbarger
Ronceverte
Shawnee Farms
Rock Acres Farm
Reigerdale Farms
Trion, Ga
Nu-Maid Farm
Harrison, O
Red Cross Farms
Winchester
Angie Brundige
Columbus
Bayville Farms
Lynhaven
Broadway Farms
Broadway
Davisson Farms
Jane Lew
Quincy Dairy Farm
Quincy
Spring Brook Farm
Sycamor
Water Systems Sold by Company to West Virginia Water Co
GAK HILL water systems at Lochgelly and Summerlee were sold to the West Virginia Water Company from the New River Coal Company. Plans include connecting to the Oak Hill line, serving the communities from the Oak Hill plant, laying 7000 feet of six inch main, and installing meters at homes and businesses in Summerlee and Lochgelly. Rights of way and two 50 foot lots for tanks were also purchased.
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Lochgelly
Summerlee
West Virginia Water Company
New River Coal Company
M. H. Martin
Oak Hill
Martin
Summoerlee
Oak Hill Employment Office posts 23 placed in suitable jobs
The Oak Hill office of the Department of Employment Security reports 23 people placed in suitable employment. August visits to the local office totaled 2 771 with 75 new applications. Of referrals to local openings, 96 were sent, including 24 women and 27 veterans. In Pine Knob, Mr and Mrs Arthur Dickens welcome a daughter born Sept 13 at Charleston General Hospital.
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Pine Knob
Arthur Dickens
Charleston General Hospital
Reservations set for Capitol District Convention at Oak Hill
Oak Hill senior women's club hosts meeting announcing Oct. 6 convention with speakers Mrs. Dell Caudill, Mrs. H. G. Muntzing, Mrs. A. H. Van Landingham, and Rev. C. S. Donnelly. Reservations due by Sept. 28. Guests include co hosts Ollie Blake and Tom Brash with devotional by Mrs. Robert Flack.
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Oak Hill
Capitol District
Wanda Farirish
Farrish
Dell Caudill
Neighbor Shot and Suspect Surrenders in Beechwood Incident
Reglater Slats Writer Mullens-all Long of Beechwood fired a 38 revolver at his neighbor Ernest Turner and surrendered to City Police. Turner, wounded with multiple injuries, was listed as fair at a Beckley hospital. Long, 43, says Turner fired at his home earlier. He faces Wyoming Criminal Court on an alleged knife wound case from April involving Robert Scott in an Allen Junction tavern.
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Long
Turner
Wyoming Criminal Court
Robert Scott
Allen Junction
Year’s Meetings of Civic League to Begin Tonight
Oak Hill hosts the first league meeting at 8 o clock with Mrs John Scott presiding Committees will be appointed and Nyta June Kincaid Patty Bavely Ben Jarrell and Phyllis Dawson guest By night there are other civic club meetings and delegates reports planned at City Hall and various halls through Friday including Rotary Pythians VFW Lions and Rebekah Moose chapters.
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Federated Republican Woman's Clubs
City Hall
S. M. Morris
Oak Hill Rotary Club
Hotel Hill
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Hall
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Clarence W. Dickerson
VFW
East Oak Hill
Oak Hill Lions Club
Pyrthian
Laurel Rebekah Lodge
Women of the Moose
Moose
E. Main Street
Nellie Jane Ferguson Van Dyke 34 dies in Stockton
Funeral services for Nellie Jane Ferguson Van Dyke 34 were set for 2 p m today at her Mt Hope home with Rev Leonard Hewitt officiating. Burial followed in Marsteller Cemetery. She was born at Pax Branch and survived by husband David Van Dyke father Ben Ferguson and brother Ernest Ferguson.
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Oak Hill
Nellie Jane Ferguson van Dyke
Stockton
Calif
Ralph Adkins
Mt. Hope
Ernest Ferguson
Funeral services incomplete for James Lang Mt Hope miner
Funeral services remain incomplete for James Lang 46 of Mt Hope who died Thursday morning at Oak Hill Hospital after a weeklong illness. A retired miner and Baptist Church member born in Missouri he is survived by his wife two brothers and five children. The body lies at Collins Funeral Home Glen Jean.
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MT. Hope
James Lang
Oak Hill
The
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Missouri
Collins Funneral Home
Glen Jean
Betty Compton Graduates as Nurse at Lewis Gale Hospital
Miss Betty Compton, daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Compton of Frantz Avenue, earned a nursing diploma from Lewis Gale Hospital in Roanoke Virginia on Wednesday. Her mother and sister Pauline attended the exercises. Pauline, a registered nurse, will work as health nurse at Alderton Broaddus College in Philippi and pursue a bachelor of science degree.
Talbert Returns to Virginia from Fayetteville Visit
Mrs. W. C. Talbert of Winchester Virginia left Fayetteville after visiting her son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Eskew for the summer months to return home.
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Fayetteville
W. C. Talbert
Winchester
Stanley Eskew
Funeral rites set for Nancy Isabelle Cline Poe in Mullens
Nancy Isabelle Cline Poe 69 of Cliffside Apartments Mullens dies Sunday at Bluefield Sanitarium after a heart ailment. Funeral services Tuesday at 11 a.m. from First Methodist Church with three ministers officiating. Burial in Coon Fork Cemetery near Pineville. Survived by son Everette Poe and four daughters. numerous grandchildren and siblings. Body to be moved to daughter’s home in Mullens at 3 p.m. today.
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Nancy Isabelle Cline Poe
Cliffside Apartments
Bluefield Sanitarium
First Methodist Church
O. H. Dorsey
B. E. Underwood
A. M. Long
Athens
West Mullens
le} L Roach
South Mullens
Ruth Richmond
W. A. Cline
Chancellor, Va
Catherine Green
Welch
Neil, Milt
Walter Mullins
Pineville
Two Deeds File In Wyoming County
Two deeds recorded with the Wyoming County Clerk list transactions in the Oceana district and Slab Fork district. The 3 H Lilly Land Company transfers Lot 20 and 122 in Lillyhaven to Mary Johnson. Lucretia Gray and husband transfer Lot 6 in Gray Addition, Mullens, to Reva Marie Jenkins.
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Pineville
Wyoming County
H. Lilly Land Company
Mary Johnson
Lillyhaven
Oceana
Lucretia Gray
Reva Marie Jenkins
Gray
Mullens
Slab i Fork
Mullens Furniture Firm Chartered By State
A charter was issued for the Tomehin Furniture Company, Inc. in Mullens with $100,000 capital. Incorporators are Joe Tomehin and Haareld Tomehin of Princeton and Abe S. Tomchin of Northfork. The same group also received a charter for the Tormchin firm at Northfork.
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Resister
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Wounded in Action Madison Soldier Identified
Pfc. Okey T. Adkins of Madison, ward of Saul Shriver, suffered wounds in Korea per Casualty List 98 released by the Department of Defense. The report confirms he was wounded and not missing in action, correcting earlier status.
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Pfc
Okey T. Adkins
Saul Shriver
Korea
Department of Defense
Adkins
Miss Joyce Brown Weds Jack Mullens in Methodist Church
Joyce Agnes Brown became Mrs Jack D Mullens in a ceremony at the First Methodist Church with Rev O H Dorsey officiating. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Boyd B Brown, wore white satin and carried a blue orchid. The reception followed at the Brown home with out of town guests from Peterstown Stone Prince ton and Pineville among others. The couple will reside with the bride’s parents after a wedding trip through the Southeast and South.
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Joyce Agnes Brown
Jack Darwin Mullens
O. H. Dorsey
First Methodist Church
Boyd B. Brown
South Mullens
William F. Mullens
Still Run
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Bettydune Andrews
Joyce Farley
Carl Mullens
Murry Neil Fowler
Barney Tilley
Boyd B. Brown, Jr
Ted Mullens
Brown
G.V. Duncan
Jake Whorley
Opal Francis
Peterstown
R. L.j.brown
R. W. Brown
Betty
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Prince' Ston
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Claude Hale
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Helen
Ed Morris
Ury
Betty Roe
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Coyne Electroics School
Chicago
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WWYO
Pineville
College Nurse Feted at Shower
Mrs. C. R. Beckel heimer and Mrs. JL. P. Mullins hosted a miscellaneous shower for Pauline Compton a registered nurse starting duties as health nurse at Alderson-Braaddus College Philippi this week. Refreshments were served at the honoree's mother's Frantz Avenue home to a large group of guests.
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C. R. Beckelheimer
JL. P. Mullins
Pauline Compton
Alderson-Braaddus College
Philippi
Frantz Avenue
J. J. Campton
French Damewood
Josephine Damewood
Frank Holland
Hampton Hoge
J. W. Joyce
L. G. Clay
James Roten
Ray £. Davis
W. W. Wells
Lee Brooks
Ray Compton
C. A. Garvison
E. E. Haines
Reida Shrewsbury
Robert Morefield
20 Arrested on Intoxication Counts
Whitesville police jailed 20 people in the Whitesville Jail on a record Saturday night for intoxication. Police Chief M. Weikle said the 20 arrests were all intoxication cases and tied to a three week payday in area mines. He noted roughly 30 additional arrests this month across two prior Saturdays.
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Whitesville
M.be
Weikler
Weikle
Injured in Explosion at Leevale
A. E. Hendricks of Orgas is reported in satisfactory condition at Kanawha Valley Hospital after a drive shaft on his rear exploded in his face at Leevale, injuring his face and eyes around noon Friday.
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A. E. Hendricks
Orgas
Kanawha Valley Hospital
Leevale
R W Doss Dies Of Heart Ailment In Princeton Rites Set Today
Rupert Winston Doss of 308 Walnut Street Princeton died Saturday night at Luke's Hospital Bluefield after a heart attack. Funeral services were to be held at 2 30 p m in Princeton Presbyterian Church with Rev John Womeldorf and Rev G C Currie officiating. Interment at Monte Vista Cemetery. Survived by wife Myrtle and children James C Doss of Richmond Virginia Mrs William Branham and Mrs Jack Preston of Mullens. He was a Wyoming County Board of Education member and an ex Mullens merchant. He belonged to Presbyterian Church Masons Shrine Knights of Pythias and Beni Kedem. One child preceded him in death.
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Rupert Winston Doss
Walnut Street
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G. C. Currie
Mullens
Monte Vista Cemetery
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Wyoming County Board of Education
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Presbyterian Church, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons No. 151
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Charleston
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Richmond
William BE
Branham
Jack Preston
MaHens
Freed Mercy Killer On Honeymoon Today
j On honeymoon with fellow college student jOn Honeymoon Today The Associated Press report from Port Chester New York states that former Caral Ann Paight, acquitted in the mercy killing of her cancer doomed father, is married to 25 year old Robert Anderson in Stamford Connecticut. The ceremony was performed by Rev Frederick W Dearing at his home. The notice also reports the Bailey family of Cyclone announcing the birth of their sixth child, a 5 pound 8 ounce daughter.
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Associated Press
Port Chester
N. Y
Caral Ann Paight
Stamford, Conn
Robert Anderson
Frederick W. Dearing
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
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