Duchess' Places First GOP Women's Meet Rescheduled
The Raleigh County Republican Women's Club meeting was postponed with a new date to be announced. McBaea Duchess First, shown by Paul McGraw Bolt, won Grand Champion Hereford at the 12th Annual New River Hereford Breeders' Association Show and Sale. bid at $240. About 600 attended the sale and a new pavilion dedication near Beckley Farmer's Market. Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, should be occupied about April 1950, about 600 miles inland from Rio de Janeiro.
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Raleigh County
Republican Women’s Club
Harold Hedrick
Paul McGraw
Bolt
New River
Lady Third
Bennett C. Day
Beckley Farmer’s Market
Brasilia
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
James Funeral This Morning
Final rites were conducted for W. A. James at 11 am today at Webb and Neal Funeral Home by Rev. C Worth May. Burial followed in Wildwood Cemetery. He died about 4 pm Saturday in a local hospital after a heart attack at his home on Friday. James had come to Beckley in 1921 and worked for the State Road Commission in Charleston as a bookkeeper for seven years. Pallbearers were William H. Lively L. L. Scherer C. H. Carson James H. Page E. P. Donahue C. E. Little H. P. Meadows and Don Bender.
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W. A. James
Wickham Ave
Webb and Neal
Rev. C. Worth May
Wildwood Cemetery
James
Beckley
State Road Commission
Charleston
William H. Lively
L. L. Scherer
C. H. Carson
James H. Page
E. P. Donahue
C. E. Little
H. P. Meadows
Don Bender
Wanted to Take Over Payments on Used Furniture
Wanted to contact a reliable party to take or payments of $3.00 weekly for a used modern bedroom suite including bed, chest, mattress, springs, pillows, and bedspread. Seeks $1.00 weekly for a used breakfast set and $3.00 weekly for a used living room suite with sofa, chair, end tables, coffee table, and lamps. Contact Mr. West at Tomchin Furniture Company Mullens West Virginia.
Beckley Man's Father Dies
M Meriwether 83 father of W H Meriwether of 114 Meadows Court died Sunday in a Jacksonville Florida hospital after an illness of several years. Survivors include his wife Emma Meriwether of Lakeland Florida and four daughters Helen Martin Tampa Florida W T Earley Jacksonville Florida M L Blaydes Snottsylvania Virginia and Gravat Jones Fredericksburg Virginia. Services will be held Tuesday in Jacksonville.
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M. Meriwether
W. H. Meriwether
Meadows Court
Jacksonville
Fla
Emma Meriwether
Lakeland
Helen Martin
Tampa
W. T. Earley
M. L. Blaydes
Snotsylvania
Mrs. Gravat Jones
Fredricksburg
Math Teachers To Meet Today In Beckley
Mathematics teachers in Raleigh County junior and senior high schools meet at Beckley Junior High School at 7:08 p m. tonight. The group recently organized as a branch of the National Science Foundation to continue the work begun by the school mathematics study group with Fred Roberts of Woodrow Wilson High School as president.
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Raleigh County
Beckley
National Science Foundation
Fred Roberts
Woodrow Wilson High School
William Harvey 23rd Anniversary at New Era District Convention
Special services at Mount Vernon Baptist Lanark mark William Harvey’s 23rd anniversary as president of the New Era District Singing Convention. Meeting opens at 7 p.m. with performances by Mount Vernon Junior and Senior Choirs and New Hope No. 2 Choir. Mrs. O B Ruthledge will deliver the address.
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Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Lanark
William Harvey
New Era District
Mount Vernon
New Hope No. 2
O. B. Ruthledge
Mission to aid the needy rises in Bradley area
Labor and materials donated by area volunteers under Rev. Ernest Barley are building a 24 by 36 foot mission atop Maple Fork Road, named Gods Storehouse for the Needy. The project uses salvaged lumber, donated frame, and volunteer labor to complete by Christmas with plans for a furniture storage building later.
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Ernest Barley
Bradley
Maple Fork
New
Blackburn and Patteson Realty Co
Weirwood
Fayette County
Tom Elder
Summerlee
Realty Company
Oral Lovelace
Riley Defoe
Carlos Painter
Lionel Brewer
Junior Facello
Ted Cain
Tom Hutchison
Charley Hamilton
Johnnie Barley
Ronald Facello
Bobby Facello
Maple Ford Road
Rhodell Police Force Cuts to One Officer
Rhodell Mayor Estle Meadows said no plan to hire a second policeman after the early discharge of William Morgan. The town delayed garbage collection due to an unpurchased land lease for a Pocahontas Land Co. landfill, with the mayor noting the process is taking longer than expected.
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Rhodell
RNL
Estle Meadows
Meadows
William
Bill) Morgan
Failie
Pocahontas Land Co
Dinner Proceeds Support Local Community Building
Approximately 71 in profits from a spaghetti supper by Maxwell Hill Country Life Group will fund the Community Building at Community Park. The 40 by 70 foot structure already has a completed kitchen and is near roofing. completion expected within a year. The group’s finance committee continues to solicit donations from Beckley businesses. Pecans sold by Mrs Kenneth Keatley aid the fund. Local firms will provide free masonry labor. The group envisions a swimming pool archery range and tennis courts beside the building. a Little League baseball diamond is already in use.
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Maxwell Hill Country Life Group
Community Park
Beckley
Kenneth Keatley
Deputy Assessor To Attend Meeting At Oge Bay Park
John Boley Raleigh County deputy assessor will attend the annual Assessor's Meeting and School of Instruction in Wheeling at Oge Bay Park October 25 to 28. Raleigh County Assessor Ira Whitlock may attend. State Tax Department conducts the conference under law. Carman notes assessors must attend and county commissioners have a duty to be present. Major program content includes auditing evaluation public utility assessment equalization and vehicle assessments and related topics.
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Ogebay Park
Wheeling
John Boley
Raleigh
Ira Whitlock
State Tax Department
Donald C. Carman
Carman
Kids Day Winners Named In Wheels Pets Contests
Winners of the wheels contest were Billy Woods and Kyle Allen. Charles Hall and Barbara Lester won the pets contest. During the Orange and Blue football game Jerome Van Meter led half time contests with winners in bicycle race Alice Donald and Patricia Mann, 100 yard dash Walter Williams and Carolyn Kirby, dizzy walk Lucian Lee Richardson and Ingrid Verbofsky, sack race Earnest Campbell and Sherry Miller, three-legged face Lucian Lee Richardson and Michael Mickey, pop drinking Renetta Farris and Patty Sessler, and 50 yard dash Shirley Ferguson.
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Jerome van Meter
Alice‘Donald
Patricia Mann
Walter Williams
Carolyn Kirby
Lucian Lee Richardson
Ingrid Verbofsky
Earnest Campbell
Sherry Miller
Michael Mickey
Renetta Farris
Patty Sessler
Shirley Ferguson
Rally Day Report Sees 4168 Attend Beckley Churches
The Beckley Ministers Association reports Rally Day for Sunday Schools was successful with 4168 attendees from 15 churches led by Rev. C. E. Walker. The goal was 12000 though more reports remain to be tabulated. Attendance figures include First Presbyterian 594 and First Baptist Beckley 783 among others.
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Beckley
C. E. Walker
Methodist Temple
First Baptist of
Calvary Baptist
Mabscott
Assembly of God
Valley Drive
Stamford
Ghent
Coal Marsh
Calloway Heights
Callihan Rites Set On Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Dixon Callihan will be conducted at 2 p m Tuesday by Rev. J W Witherspoon in the chapel of Caffee Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. Mrs Callihan of Oak Ridge Tennessee formerly of Beckley died Friday after a short illness at the home of her son Alfred Callihan with whom she had lived for 14 years. Her husband A D Callihan preceded her in death in 1944. Surviving are four sisters Mrs E S Dugay Beckley Mrs W P St Clair Beckley Mrs H H Pinkney Canyon City Cole and Mrs Ida Rollins Alexandria Va and one brother J W Dixon Mount Hope. The body will arrive today at the Caffee Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be J W Dixon Jr Fred Dixon Fred Hurt Paul Feigley George Bright and John Boley.
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Jane Dixon Callihan
J. W. Witherspoon
Caffee Funeral Home
Sunset Memorial Park
Callihan
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Beckley
Alfred Callihan
A. D. Callihan
E. S. Dugay
Fred Dixon
Fred Hurt
Paul Feigley
George Bright
John Boley
Assault Charge Withdrawn in Crab Orchard Hearing
Er nest Blevins of Crab Orchard saw an assault charge withdrawn at a Sunday hearing before Magistrate Cotton White. Blevins was released at 8 p.m. after paying court costs. Several others faced jailing and bond actions for charges including breach of peace, driving while under the influence, moonshine transport, and felonious assault. outcomes included jail, bonds, and upcoming hearings set by multiple magistrates and deputies.
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Ernest Blevins
Cotton White
Blevins
Marion Macguire
Stanaford
White
Frank Gillispie
Harper
Gillispie
Turnpike
Charley Ayers
Fireco
W. A. Burke
Ayers
Asault
Burke
Boyd C. Hargis
Herbert Banks
Beckley
Richard Clyde Hawley
Judge McCreery Back in Raleigh County Court
Judge Harry L. McCreery returned to his Raleigh County office after a week in Washington. He and Mrs. McCreery visited their son Harry McCreery Jr., who flew to France to visit sister and Lt. O. E. Philpot and wife and their infant son Michael. The Savannah, the United States first atomic merchant vessel, will cruise about 350000 miles versus the current 10000 miles.
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Raleigh County
Harry L. McCreery
Washington, D. C
Savannah
United States
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Kiwanis Club
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