Beckley Notes on Local Drilling Firms and Weather Signs
The column recalls the West Virginia Engineering and Drilling company later renamed Matt Core Drilling of Huntington and the Mott brothers. It also mentions a two-ton sandstone core display, a 12-inch bore hole at Stanaford number six mine, and the Wooly Worm weather omen observed by Miss Gloria Hilda Goldstein’s family connection to the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Raleigh County
West Virginia Engineering and Prilling Company
Bair Brothers
South Oakwood Avenue
Burgess Street
Armory Building
Grafton
Matt Core Drilling Company
Huntington
West Virginia Engineering and Drilling Company
W. Va
Mott Brothers
B. H
W. J
Blair
Jo Perrine
L. F. Morehouse
A. T
London
England
Morehouse
Dr. Perrine
Ashton File
P. M. Snyder
Joe L. Smith
T. Stromp
Margaret Rappold
Winnie Cox
Beckley Exchange
Miss Rappold
Miss Cox
America
Leon H. Hoffman
Hoffman Brothers Drilling Company
Punxsutawney
Stanaford Number Six
Phone Girl Slain and Double Damson Noted
A slain Phone Girl is linked to her habit of spotting the unusual as she reportedly found a double damson and had previously noted double bananas and apples. Friends say she possessed brains and would make a good newspaper woman. Taxi line moves stand near Crescent Grocery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodlawn Avenue
Crescent Grocery
Joe L. Smith
Neville Street
McAlpin Community P T A Opens New Term
The first McAlpin Parent-Teacher Association meeting of the term will be held at the school Friday evening at 7:00. Principal Prof. J. W. Grimes expects a year of active school and association work led by President Troy Claytor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAlpin P. T. A
McAlpin Parent-Teacher Association
J. W. Grimes
Troy Claytor
Auinity P, T. A
Affinity Parent-Teacher Association
J. W. McClanahan
Isabella Wilburn
Claud Hall
Knighthood of Youth Clab
Affinity School
Minnie Young
Melvin Bright
Vivian Colvin
Kenneth McClanahan
Y. Z. Lawson
Arthur Reavish
P.T. A
Local Social News From East Beckley And Surrounding
East Beckley residents welcome guests from Ohio and Tennessee including Pat Crowne of New Straitsville and Clem Kerr with family of Zanesville. Visitors travel to Charleston Nitro and St Albans while others return from Montgomery and Mount Airy. Rev W S Overstreet begins work in East Gulf after serving here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kerr
Pat Crowne
New Straitsvile
Ohio
Clem Kerr
Zanesville
Avrel Ellison
John Beaver
Bristol
Nitro
St. Albans
Everette Shrewsberry
P.O. Martin
Montgomery
Edna Guess
Lou Handy
Mt. Airy
N. C
Ross Evans
Barbara Kay
F. E. Hill
W. S. Overstreet
East Gulf
P.M. Bailey
Rev. Overstreet
Methodist Church
C. B. Johnson
Hearing Next Friday For Two Colored Men
A hearing will be held next Friday for Margaret Marlin and Ray Washington, both colored, accused of stealing a $175 diamond ring from the home of C. V. Cottle. Deputy Sheriff Tracy Williams arrested them after a warrant was issued by Squire H. P. Blan cock charging grand larceny. The ring belonged to Mrs. Cottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minden
Baptist Church
S. W. Williams
Glen Rogers
Williams
W.H. Neighbors
Missionary Union of
Mt. Verasa Baptist Church
J. C. Brown
Harry Wright
James Cousins
Stamford
Wright
Ebenezer
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Beckley
Eddie Lowe
Sun
W. F. Nowlin
Elkhorn
Margaret Marlin
Ray Washington
C. V. Cottle
Tracy Williams
Cottle
Squire H. PF. Blancock
Lions Club Fall Style Show At Beckley Memorial
The Lions Club styles show at the Memorial building in Beckley begins 7:30 PM with a parade of new fashions for men and women. The event features frocks, suits, coats, millinery, footwear, and accessories, plus music. Proceeds aid blind work across the Smokeless Coal Region, funding operations, hospital care, and glasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Memorial Building
Beckley
Lions
Gilbert Company
Princeton
West Virginia
J. E. Wilder
Negro Arrested For Wounding Patrolman in Gun Battle
Police in Wheeling West Virginia questioned Unrest McBrigans a Black man from Jacksonville Florida about the wounding of Patrolman Manley Core in a gun battle after an attempted holdup. Core was severely wounded and had indicated Elijah Haywood of Anderson City North Carolina might be the attacker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trusg
Wheeling
W. Va
McBrigans
Manley Core
Parkersburg
Jacksonville
Fla
Core
Elijah Haywood
Anderson City
N.C
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gloria Hilda Goldstein
Irving Goldstein
Alice Rasp
Buffalo
N. Y
Telephone Company
Phoenix
Ariz
Lillian F. Hartnett
Associated Press
Whippie Pattern Sewing Circle
Nellie Frazier
Speed
Brown
Muse
Preston
Callins
McMorris
West
J. C. Muff
Frazier
W. L. Brown
Skelton
Second District
First Baptist Church
North Beckley
Ella White
Jake White
Big Stick
N. Clayborn
Nell, Adell
Lillian Dickerson
Haley Dickerson
James Thompson
Horace Porter
James Henry Bassett
Alice Holley
L. P. Coles
Redman
Mary Berger
C. W. Wiley
Junior League
Elsie Hil
Mary Young
Elmira Freeman
Viola Moss
Nannie Price
Wilma Wright
Ethelia Scott
Grace Lyle
Maggie Williams
Haze Garland
Grace Clark
Elsie Hill
East Beckley, W. Va
Beckley Loan CO
Fayette St
M. We Powers
Mer
Jack London
Joseph M. Schenck
Darryl Zanuck
Dickson
Dolly Madison
Prince Albert
Percan
Model Tobacco
Colpen
U2le
Shorts
Ravencliff
Sophia-Pemberton Road
Allen Junction
Stanaford
N. Kanawha Street
Rhodell
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