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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
3
Article argues strikes are dangerous and wasteful and endorses compulsory arbitration to settle labor disputes. It foresees limited public employee bans expanding to utilities and other industries, while affirming unions and ballot-driven redress without undermining rights to quit or change jobs.
Herbert Martin, an express messenger on the Virginian railway, was shot in the hip Sunday night in his room above the C and O freight house. He was taken to Beckley hospital with a flesh wound. friends were present as a revolver was inspected and accidentally discharged.
Grover Cleveland Trail 26 Beckley and Wilma Virginia Deihl 19 Raleigh are among names listed along with Eldridge Palmer 22 and Ruby Smith 20 of East Gulf McKinley Runions 23 and Bertha Bell 18 Beckley Elbert Lee Tabor 26 McAlpin and Nora Henderson 25 Stotesbury Simeon Lilly Thompson 25 Glen White Piney Mae McKinney 18 Maple Meadow Wm Wallace Graham 24 and Margaret Isabelle Dover 19 Stotesbury Jesse Freeman Canaday 25 and Srilda Lawson 16 Hotkiss Lacy Meadows 23 and tstarx
A partial OCR fragment lists multiple individuals with ages and hometowns including Matherly of Oxley, Booker Adams of Hot Coal, Nettie Harrah of Backus, Singleton Morris of Charleston, Lula Stover of Beckley, John Byset of Thurmond, trace fight resident 21 of Sketon, Olison Randolph and Vicovia Ward of Hot Coal, and Kyle Plumley with Ethel May Plumley of Pear.
Wm. Harris, 31, and Fionia Gray, 23, both residents of Sullivan, were identified in the report as involved in the incident. No further details available in the readable text.
A Beckley grapevine reports Col. T. G. Mann will buy a car load of fresh meats and candy to sell at cost, aiming to lower living costs. Rumor says John Quincy Adams Hutchinson will ship coal from Raleigh at 3.00 per ton to offset Mann’s generosity in the Republican circuit judge race. Hinton Herald notes this could spark more Republican candidates to ease expenses before snow. H. J. Stovall leaves Mullens for Beckley to lead the junior high school department.
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