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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1959
Page
10
Eighteen people in Boone County face 23 felonies as the circuit court opens its fall term in Madison. Judge K. K. Hall presides with 15 extra jurors summoned. Grand jury foreman O. Reeves leads a panel of 14 others. indictments name numerous individuals for felonies and misdemeanors.
Fayette County Farm Woman's Club hosts Achievement Day at 4-H Camp Beckwith on Thursday with the theme Let's Play Together. Registration starts 10 a.m. led by Gatewood Club, devotional by Arrowhead Club, business meeting led by Mrs. A. C. Richards, reports from club presidents, covered-dish luncheon, group singing and recreation led by Oak Hill Homemakers Club, and installation of county officers Mrs. O. A Tamplin president and others.
Funeral services for James L. McClung will be held at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday in Tyree Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ernest Barley officiating. Burial follows in Hill Top Cemetery. McClung, 980, died after an extended illness at Caldwell nursing home in Minden Sunday night.
Fayetteville region provides names of local board No. 3 inductees for October 12. The list includes Lemuel Lewis Beckwith Stanley Bannister Stanley Bannister Glen Ferris James Miller Boomer Billy Adkins James Brown Henry Blevins Larry Boyd Paul Bishop Harold Wilson Maxwell Miller Millard Miller William Fredericks Roger Bryant Pearl Plumley Freddie Murray Vernon Delung Charles Fitzwater Franklin Sheaves Charles Moore Donald Carpenter.
Sixteen members of the Woman's Society of Christian Service met at St. Paul's Methodist Church. Mrs. Carrie Boley led devotions and introduced There’s a Light Upon the Mountain as this year’s theme. Plans for an October dinner were discussed. A committee including Mrs. Ethel Wills and others will prep. The group will host a spaghetti dinner in Fellowship Hall on Oct. 2 to raise funds for Carolyn Johnson, a candidate for Miss Ansted High School.
A market in Crawley owned by Ellis Crawford burned down around 1 a.m. Monday from an undetermined origin. The Bikas leased the building four years ago. about $12,000 in merchandise was destroyed, partially insured. Scottie Lilly alerted Rupert Volunteer Fire Department and the Bikas after discovering the blaze. The owners left the store around 7 p.m. and report no fires left burning.
Six members of Boy Scout Troop No 119 Kopperston and two from Explorer Post 119 camped at Horse Creek and Marland Lake with Assistant Scout Leader Richard Cassell and Explorer Advisor Cleve Lester. They worked on first and second class merit badge advancements. Participants included Mike Cook David Thomas James Rankin Keith Walker Billy Stafford Ricky Hickman Larry Cook and Edwin Cook.
Charleston AP. The West Virginia Supreme Court granted the Red Parrot Coal Co. appeal unanimously in a $20,000 jury verdict by the widow of Kenneth Jones. Jones, electrocuted on mining property leased by Red Parrot while installing a corrugated pipe under a road, alleged negligent operation and an uninsulated power line. The suit was filed in Boone County Circuit Court by Mrs. Inez Jones as administratrix. Appalachian Power Co. was dismissed from the case earlier.
Wyoming General Hospital admitted forty six patients in the week ending Saturday. Names include Brenda Trump Ravencliff Michael Lambert Mullens and Dr Frank Penn Mullens among others across Mullens Itmann Amigo Otsego Elmore Fanrock and nearby communities.
Annual services at Joseph Baptist Church Lynco will include Sunday School at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. a basket lunch on the church lawn at noon and afternoon services led by Rev. Joe Pizzino McConnell. Members former members and singing groups are invited.
Funeral services for Kenner Barr will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the home of his aunt Mrs. Florence Adkins in Gatewood. Burial follows at Pleasant View Cemetery. Barr, 63, died Monday in a Fayetteville nursing home. He was born May 9 1896 in Greenbrier County, son of the late William and Parthenia Parker Barr. Survivors include a sister Mrs. Irene Allen of Washington, S. As. The body will be taken to the Adkins home at 5 p.m. today from Dodd Payne Funeral Home in Fayetteville.
A Rebels Rec party honored Delana Wood on her 11th birthday. Guests listed include Deane Wood Peggy Andrews Pat Lefler Barbara Bright Mira Andrews Sharon Neeley Brenda Pauley and many more. Activities featured games dancing and refreshments. In other items soybean oil output surpasses cottonseed oil in the U S.
Lee R. Vance of White Oak dies at 73 after three year illness. Graveside rites set for Sept 30 at Family Cemetery Hix led by Rev. Oliver Tedder. Body to White Oak residence of Otis Plumley after removal from Webb and Neal Funeral Home. Jane Dixon Callihan dies in Oak Ridge Tennessee after short illness. Funeral at Calfee Chapel Sept 29 with burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed. Caffee Funeral Home served.
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