Roanoke

Named 3,318 times. These are the 400 blocks the place was read from (the first 400 kept), in the order the paper printed them.

Nov 3, 1949 The Campbell Commission, a by-partizan group consisting of distinguished ...a by-partizan group consisting of distinguished members including ? Dr. Charles Smith of Roanoke college and Judge. John Paul of Harrisonburg appointed to study . the abolition of the poll tax in. Virginia, recommended Certain changes in the Constitution. The...
Nov 17, 1949 Keyser. V. H. Keeler. » Mis* Bda Finks end ...V. H. Keeler. » Mis* Bda Finks end Edward Coates visited relatives in Roanoke over the week end. - Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kay of Vienna were Sunday guests of Mr. -and'-Mrs, John S; Browning at Flint Hill. Comdr. and...
Dec 1, 1949 County NewsNotes ...and Mrs. Williamyonry - «nd their guests attended the V.M.I.-V.*P.I. football game in Roanoke. Sunday gues at} ^Rockw1 Villa” were Dr. , and Mrs. Jamies 0. Quaintance and Mrs., Mary: Thornhill. Elder and Mrs. J. Harvey Daily spent Sunday in...
Dec 1, 1949 Mr. and Mr*. Ed%ard Coates 5. of Roanoke were Mr. and Mr*. Ed%ard Coates 5. of Roanoke were dinner guests Thursday of Miss Eda Finks at Peola Mills. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Paulaon and son of Hampton spent several days last week at the home of Mr. and...
Dec 1, 1949 operation at University hospital. ...hospital. Mr. and Mrs. John R. DdBergti attended the V.M.UV.P.L. football same in Roanoke on .Thanksgiving Day. , Uuests Tuesday at the home •£ Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Turner were Mrs. Henry Anderson, Mrs. N. P, Ward III, Mrs....
Dec 8, 1949 Hog Weighs over 600 ...70 head will be sold at Suffolk, 60 *t Winchestlf, and 40 at Roanoke. t < ** a,-. • .
Dec 8, 1949 1 *•* County News Notes Edward Coates spent the ...County News Notes Edward Coates spent the week end with Mrs. Coates in Roanoke. Rev. A. Paul Thompson was the supper guest Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Yowell. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Warwick of Silver Spring, Md.,...
Dec 22, 1949 C R. Wood, 77 ...the son of Ashford and Lucy Smith Wood* of . Rappahannock. He attended Roanoke College, Salem, and Eastman Business School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In his early years he was in partnership in. farming with his father. He was in...
Dec 22, 1949 (Funeral services will be held ...of the •*. church, and a former pastor, Rev. P. Harris Chelf of Roanoke, of* ficiating. Interment wiU be in the - Masonic cemetery at Washington. Active pallbearers will be R< M. Menefee, C. J. Miller, W. JO* Wood, Jr.,...
Dec 22, 1949 Williams—Hudson ...o’clock at the. home 'of the officiating- minister, .Rev. P. Harrii Chelf, in Roanoke. •' The bride was attired in a navy blue wool gabardine suit with . matching accessories and she wore a corsage of red roses. Her sister,...
Dec 22, 1949 Burton Orange, who works in Charlottesville, spent t&e -week ...Beach, Fort' Lauderdale, and St. Augustine. - - ' Miss Belle -Strother of Roanoke college, Salem, is visiting at the homes of Mrs. J. W. Price and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Miller this week. Culpeper visitors Tuesday were Mr....
Dec 29, 1949 Conference Will Discuss ...discussed at the 54th annual meeting of tha Virginia State Horticultural Society in Roanoke, January 23-25. John F. Watson of Staunton, secretary-treasurer of the society, says that highlights of the meeting' will include addresses by Miss Mary I. Barber, food...
Dec 29, 1949 ‘ Mrs. Tenie Gaunt spent Christ* mas day with ...Capt H. C. Warwick, and ' Mrs. Warwick at “Rockbottom.” Lawson Pankey of Roanoke and the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky., is visiting in the home of Mrs. Luther Rudasill. 7 . Mr. and Mrs. John M. Barber, Miss...
Jan 5, 1950 Carl Bikins of Tabb spent the ...George Elkins and Miss Arizona Elkins. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Eubank of Roanoke were guests for s^Veral days this week of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Turner. They were accompanied home Wednesday by Mrs. J. Frank Jones, who will...
Jan 5, 1950 Mr. and .Mrs. Ned Hopkins, who ...J. CL Revenomb, at Peola Mills. Rev. and Mrs. R. <L Pullen, of Roanoke, spent Wednesday at the home of the latter’s sister, Mrs. .Fannie EaiLham of Flint Hill. Mrs. M. M. Hill, of Monkton, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank...
Jan 26, 1950 County News Notes ...and their daughter and son Tisn and Tim are spending this week in Roanoke, where Mr. Kilby is attending a horticultural meeting. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Yowell attended the inauguration of Governor John S. Battle in Ridhmond last week,...
Jan 26, 1950 I nose Trom v\ oouville who at. ...and Mrs. C. E. Johnson Jr., are spending several days this week in Roanoke, where Mr. Johnson ami Mr. Lyne are attending a horticultural meeting. Mrs. Johnson’s mother, Mrs. - C. H. H. Branch is staying in the Johnson home...
Jan 26, 1950 New Insecticides For ...Hammond, Newton and Son Company, Bridgeville, Del.; Dr. R. T. Parkhurst, Lindsey-Robinson C’o., Roanoke; Dr. Victor lleiman, Kasco Mills, Waverly, N. Y.; and Professor Holdaway, Dr. Clayton Holmes, George C. Herring, X. R. Thompson, Glen Pursley, and Reaves, of the...
Feb 2, 1950 Eastham—W right ...was performed on Saturday, January 28, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon in Roanoke, at the home of The officiating njinister, Rev. R. G. Pullen, uncle of the bridegroom. After a short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Eastham will make...
Feb 2, 1950 County News Notes ...Miss Annie Stephenson on Wednesday. Mr. J. Hill O’Bannon spent several days in Roanoke last week. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Browning of Culpeper were guests at “Cedar Cottage’’ on Sunday. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. Lyle Miller were...
Feb 9, 1950 Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Payne and Mr. and ...mother. Mrs. Ertha Hawk i ns. Mr. and Mrs. B. N". Eubank of Roanoke wore overnight guests Friday at the home of Mrs. J. Frank .Jone.-. Rev. and Mrs. N’orman J. Flythe ami their daughters, Sarah and Mary, were dinner...
Mar 2, 1950 Rev. P. H. Chelf Sends ...a letter and a check from Rev. and ^lrs. P. Harris Chelf of Roanoke, former pastor of the Baptist churches in the county for a period of Id years. Mr. and Mrs. Chelf sent a donation to he applied to...
Mar 2, 1950 Farmers planning to seed Ladino ...assistant county agent of Madison and Rappahannock, who went to veterans hospital near Roanoke several weeks ago for a spinal operation supposed to correct trouble diagnosed as a ruptured disc, proved to have an inflamed ne»Ve. Madison farmers who visited...
Mar 2, 1950 Mrs. T. C. Lea returned home ...Mr. an^ Mrs. J. A. Mason. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Eubank of Roanoke, were guests for several days this week at the home of Mrs. J. Frank Jones. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Wood were dinner guests Sunday of...
Mar 9, 1950 Cpl. Harold Raffer, Cpl. John ...having been ill. Edward Coates of Peola Mills, spent the week end in Roanoke. Mrs. Elizabeth DeBergh visited her son, Lieut. James DeBergh and family in Washington, D. C., Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Pullen, daughters Ruby, Charlotte, and Audrey,...
Mar 16, 1950 Washington W. M. U._ ...State W.M.U. pieeting, held Tuesday, March 14, at the First Baptist church in Roanoke. Trinity Auxiliary To Sponsor Show The Woman’s Auxiliary of Trinity church held its regular regular monthly meeting at the church Thursday afternoon, at this time the...
Mar 16, 1950 County News Notes ...at Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. J. Rodes Brown are spending several days,in Roanoke this week where Mr. Brown is attending a meeting of the Angue Stock Club. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Judd of Luray were guests Sunday of...
Mar 16, 1950 rente Murphy of Arlington were ...of Slate .Mills visited Mrs. Rosa Burton on Monday. B. M. Eubank of Roanoke spent Sunday and Monday at the- home of Mrs. J. Frank Jones. He was accompanied back home by Mrs. Jones w'ho is spending several weeks there...
Mar 23, 1950 Mrs. Huff, 43, daughter of the ...New Market; two brothers, John Manuel of Fiont Royal and Frank Manuel of Roanoke; and four sisters, Mrs. J. M. Lillard and Mrs. H. J. Racer of Washington, Miss Nellie Manuel of Glendale, Md., and Mrs. Luther Coppage of Marshall....
Mar 30, 1950 Miss Mattie Rector was a Boston visitor Tuesday. Mr. ...J. Frank Jones returned home Sinday after spending the past two weeks in Roanoke. She was accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Eubank who were her guests for several days this week.
Apr 6, 1950 Culpeper Flower Show ...by the public. A special •exhibit will be made by Waltz Blethers of Roanoke, commercial growers of daffodils. The public is cordially invited. There will be a silver offering at the door. MRS. J. H. AYLOR HOSTESS TO MISSIONARY SOCIETY...
Apr 13, 1950 On a death-per-\ehicle-mil« ba*- ' i.«. Surry county with ...than 1948’s score; Richmond was next with 18, two more than in 1948; Roanoke was third with 10, a 50 per cent increase, and Portsmouth fourth with an increase of from four to five. The only city with a population...
Apr 20, 1950 County News Notes ...mot’ er Mrs. R. L. Rudasill. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Ejbank of Roanoke, spent Sunday and Monday a tthe home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Campbell. Miss Mary Updike anjl Mrs. Essie Fox were Sunday afternoon callers of...
Apr 27, 1950 Francesco Foti, Musical ...Black stem was generally widespread, but not yet serious. Other counties visited were Roanoke, Botetourt, Henrico, New Kent and James City.
Apr 27, 1950 lltmtllHilllllllllHHIHHIIIIIIIIHIHimiHINIHIININMIlHIli .... .Farm Credit and Service Dept, of the First National Exchange Bank of Roanoke. I consider Farm Flashes to be very pertinent to our thinking and planning, how ever I would appreciate comments from Rappahannock News readers as to whether...
May 4, 1950 OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS ...Holden Henshaw of Madison. REV. CHELF IS VISITOR Rev. P. H. Chelf of Roanoke, spent the week end with friends in Woodville, and held services at the Woodpile Baptist church Sunday.
May 11, 1950 Prize Beef Goes On Side ...begin on Christmas gifts for the gift shop in the veterans hospital in Roanoke. Materials will be available for stenciling doth and painting trays. There will also be a portable sewing machine. All members are urged to bring with them...
May 25, 1950 Mr. William By water*, Mm Anne LAura By water* ...Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Reid. Edward Coates spent the week end in Roanoke.
May 25, 1950 .Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. ...Sibert’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Butler. Farm Safety Experts To Speak in Roanoke Eight experts on farm safety, from all parts of Virginia, will speak to the delegates of the farm section df the Virginia State-Wide Safety Conference in...
Jun 8, 1950 Virginia Wins Awards ...by Governor Battle at the 16th Annual Virginia Statewide Safety Conference held in Roanoke June 1, 2, and 3.