The Charleston Daily Mail
March 5, 1945

Pax Physician
Held in Killing

    Fayetteville (AP)  Dr. A. L. Hunter, 64-year-old Koppers Coal Co. physician, was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Raymond Williams, 54, of Pax, after an argument during an early Sunday morning poker game at Willis Branch, Deputy Sheriff G. T. Davis reported.
     Wounded twice in the shooting affray was Aubrey Canterbury, 36, also of Pax, Davis said.
     The doctor, who is employed at Pax and Long Branch operations of the coal firm, was released under $5,000 bond to await preliminary hearing Wednesday before Justice of the Peace R. C. Godsey at Fayetteville.

The Charleston Daily Mail
August 1, 1944

West Virginians on
War Fronts

    Washington (AP)  Fifty-nine West Virginians, serving in three war theaters, were listed as wounded by the war department in casualty list today; They were: Pvt. Floyd J. Donell, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Donell, mother, Willis Branch

The Charleston Daily Mail
August 28, 1944

West Virginians on
War Fronts

    Washington (UP)  The war department announced today the names of additional West Virginia soldier in action.
    European:  Pvt. Preston T. Compton, mother, Mrs. Rebecca Campton, Pax

The Charleston Daily Mail
January 29, 1945

West Virginians on
War Fronts

    Washington (UP)  The war department announced last night that 67 West Virginias have been wounded in action.
    In all cases next of kin have been previously notified and have been kept informed directly by the war department of any change in status.
    Pfc. Elmer E. Foster, Mrs. Addie Foster, mother, Pax

The Charleston Daily Mail
August 9, 1944

West Virginians on
War Fronts

    Washington (UP)  The war department announced today the names of additional West Virginia soldiers missing in action.
    European:  Pvt. Ear Trent, mother, Mrs Viola B. Trent, Pax.

The Charleston Daily Mail
March 10, 1945

West Virginians on
War Fronts

    Washington (UP)  Forty-one  West Virginia Soldier were included last night in a war department report of Army personnel wounded in action.
    In all cases next of kin have been previously notified and have been kept informed directly by the war department of any change in status.
    Pvt.  George A. Williams, Mrs. Sadie Ollie Williams, mother, Pax.

The Charleston Daily Mail
April 26, 1944

Pax Girl Gives Real
Proof of Enlistment

  Elkton, Md. (AP)  Marie E. Elswick, 21, of Pax, W. Va., wanted to join the WAVES but the war manpower commission office here told her first she must furnish proof she would be accepted before leaving her job at Triumph Explosives.  Two Navy recruiting officers came back with her a few days later and she was sworn into service right in the WMC office.

The Charleston Daily Mail
February 27, 1945

Army Promotions

  Washington, (AP) West Virginias have been promoted four Army nurses from second to first Lieutenants, the war department said today.

Corable Lobertha Abshire, ANC, Pax

The Charleston Daily Mail
September 27, 1943

    Pvt. Robie B. Humphrey scored 186 to make a rating of expert in rifle marksmanship during his basic training at the infantry replacement center at Camp Fannin, Texas.  The rating is awarded to men making 180 or better out of a possible 210 points.  Pvt. Humphrey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Humphrey of Pax. announced last night that 47 West Virginias have been wounded in action.

The Charleston Daily Mail
June 2, 1945

    Sanford NcNeely, s-1-c. is station on
active duty in the Pacific. according to
word received by Mrs. I. E. McNeely
of Pax.  He is the brother of Mrs. Elmer
Wade of 502 Glover St., and is a gunner
on a merchant ship.

The Charleston Daily Mail
August 10, 1914

Let School Building contracts.

   Fayetteville - Board of Education will expend $3500 to erect building at Pax:  T-shaped: 24 x 60 ft.;  ordinary construction: Carey's roof;  Thos. Synder, Archt., Mt. Hope, W. Va: contract let to O'Neal Construction co., Pax, W. Va.

The Charleston Daily Mail
September 17, 1916

Cases Are Reported By C. & O.
and N. & W. Officials

   The commission also was notified today of the discovery of the remains of Mike Humphrey, near the C & O railroad tracks, just east of Derryhale, who was believed to have been struck by an early morning train.  Hew was about 23 years old.  His home was reported to be at Pax.

The Charleston Daily Mail
July 26, 1932

Fayette Court To
  Build New Bridge

  Fayetteville -   July 25  -  L. P. Berry and A. W. Martin, of Weirwood, are in charge of the construction of a bridge to span Maple Fork creek at Weirwood which was washed out by high waters some time ago.  The project is being financed by the Fayette County Court. 
  J. W. Warden installed the original bridge after buying 22 houses at Weirwood when the coal operations shut down there in 1921.  Although he no longer owns property there.  He explained to the county court that this bridge was the only convenient way citizens of the town had to reach the Maple Fork road. 
  The state road commission would not replace the bridge so work began Monday financed by Fayette county court. 

The Charleston Daily Mail
November 13, 1920

    State Compensation Commissioner, Leo Ott, has awarded compensation in following cases:
    H. S. Kincaid, of Long Branch, $12 a week for 100 weeks, for a sprained back, injured when he was employed by the Long Branch Coal Co.

The Charleston Daily Mail
January 3, 1946

Kingston Man Survives
           Stab Wound in Heart

  Oak Hill (AP)  Rex Williams, a Kingston electrician who was stabbed in the heart last Dec. 23, is recovering in an Oak Hill hospital where three stitches were taken in his heart.
   Williams was repoorted in an excellent condition following the unusual operation which required one and one-half hours.
   Berg Bingham of Kingston, who is charged with the cutting, is being held for grand jury action.

The Charleston Daily Mail
September 18, 1916

KILLED BY FALL OF SLATE

     The accidental death of Frank sicker, of Pax, an employee of the New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co., which was caused by a fall of slate Aug. 25th, was reported today to the workmen's compensation commission.  sicker was an Italian, was 40 years old, and is survived by a widow and three small children, for whom application for compensation was made.

The Charleston Daily Mail
June 2, 1937

Pax

     Pax, June 2 (AP)  E. E. Woolwine People party, mayor of Pax, Fayette county, since 1928, defeated R. C. Mitcheil, Citizens party, 129 to 109.
    J. C. Shorter, Peoples, won over R. T. Ringfield for recorder.  The Peoples party council slate won also. It included H. B. Davis, G. E. Blake, Sam Stone, James R. Dickenson, Sr., and Scott Aliff.

The Charleston Daily Mail
April 2, 1935

    Miss Hazel Lively, faculty program director, has announced that the Pax Parent-Teacher association will meet Tuesday evening at he high school.  Will Stark, Oak Hill musician and Emmett Humphrey, prominent Pax citizen will feature the program.  Principal R. A. Lee will preside over a discussion of community and school problems.
    Miss Dorothy Tissue, Pax high school instructor, spent Saturday morning at the board of education office in Fayetteville where she is assisting in editing a newspaper sponsored by the county unit and published monthly

The Charleston Daily Mail
November 13, 1931

Raised Pax Power Rates

    Increases in the power rates of the Mount Hope Electric and water company of Mount Hope were authorized yesterday by the public service commission.
    The new lighting rates, effective November 1st, range from 8 1-2 cents per K. W. H., for the first 50 K. W. H. to 6 1-2 cents per K. W. H. for amounts over  400 K. W. H.   The emergency charge ranges form 2.42 for the first 1,000 K.W.H to 1.1 cents per K.W.H for amovunt over 500,000 K.W.H.
    The old rates ranged from 7 cents down ot 4 cents in Mount Hope and and from 8 cents down ot 4 cents at Pax.

The Charleston Daily Mail
July 19, 1922

    Charters Granted

    Seven firms were granted charters of incorporation by the secretary of state as follows.
    The Lively coal company, Charleston, $25,000: Frank Kerns, St. Albans; Oatis Lively, Pax; P. R. Cameron, Grippe and J. H. Cain, Charleston

The Charleston Daily Mail
September 11, 1932

The Charleston Daily Mail
October 28, 1932

Four Masked Men Hold
       Up Farmer, Loot House

   Beckley, Oct. 28 (AP)  Four masked robbers held the family of Richard Tyree, a farmer living near  Pax, at bay with pistols early today, and ransacked his house for two hours.  The escaped with $346 in cash and several pieces of jewelry.
    Officers said they believed the robbers were after $300 which Tyree had received from the sale of a team of horses.  Tyree had paid his taxes with the money.
    After entering the house the robbers rounded up Tyree, his wife, two daughters and a hired man.  They were held in one room at the point of pistols by two of the robbers while the other two ransacked the house.

The Charleston Daily Mail
August 25, 1933

     Funeral services for J C Tyree, 50 years old, Pax grocer, were held Monday at the home at Pax.  Rev. George Dever, of Ansted was in charge.  Burial was in Tyree cemetery, with Masonic ceremonies.
     He is survived by his widow, Mrs Bella Tyree; four sons, Lewis, Lawrence, Ross and Frank;  three daughter; Helen, Mary and Blanch; two brother, Milton of Huntington and Richard Tyree of Pomeroy, Ohio; one sister, Miss Icie Tyree of Pax, and his father, Richard Tyree, of Plum Orchard.

August 27, 1933

     Mrs. Della Tyree, of Pax, was appointed administratrix of the estate of the late J. C. Tyree, Rose Tyree, Blanche Tyree, Lawrence Tyree, Mary Tyree, Lewis Tyree and Howard Tyree all of Pax.

The Charleston Daily Mail
November 1, 1938

Chancery Actions Filed
In Fayette Circuit Court

    Fayetteville, Nov. 1  The following suits have been filed in the office of the circuit clerk:
    Della Shucket  vs. (in chancery) Charles Shuckett; E. L. Morrison, receiver of the Bank of Pax vs. (in chancery) L. C. Lively, Nancy Lively and Nelson Williams; E. L. Morrison, receiver, vs. (in chancery) W. I. Sweeney, C. B. Sweeney and Silvia Sweeney; E. L. Morrision, Receiver, vs. (in chancery) Charles Tyree, Mannie Tyree and Lena Niemann and Louis Niemann; D. L. Huddleston vs. (in chancery) Lola Huddleston; Nora Corbert vs. (in chancery) J. W. Corbett.

The Charleston Daily Mail
October 11, 1943

Pax Residents
Rebel Against
Fayette County

     Pax (AP)  A mass meeting of residents of this Fayette county community will be held tonight for the announced purpose of formulate plans for preliminary procedure for adding this section onto Raleigh county.

    Announcement of the meeting which wille be presided over by former Maynor Frank Tyree, said: "This move is the outgrowth of a protest of Pax people against Mount Hope's extending their school bus lines taking about 90 pupils from Pax schools."

     A committee of Pax businessmen called on the Fayette county board of education a few weeks ago to protest pransporting of Pax high school students to Mount Hope.  The board was asked to extablish a line on Sugar Creek mountain separating Pax from Mount Hope.

    County School Supt. Otway Gunnoe said the board yielded to the Pax residents, but that later Mount Hope protested and the matter would again come before the board.   

The Charleston Daily Mail
October 12, 1943

100 Pax Residents
Decide to Secede
To Raleigh County

    Pax  (AP)  With a "legal advisor" in attendance inhabitants of the Paint creek Section and Pax will meet for the second time tomorrow night of consider the question of seceding from Fayette and joining Raleigh County former Mayor Frank L. Tyree reported.

    Discounting reports that the "secession bubble has burst" Tyree said if the Fayette county court denied its petition to appoint a surveyor for the area affected, then a request would be tendered the Raleigh county court.  If both fail, Tyree added that the next step would be appeal to the legislature.

The Charleston Daily Mail
November 8, 1943

Pax Group Still
Wants To Secede

    Pax  (AP)  Former Mayor Frank Tyree reported that 100 residents of Pax and surrounding Paint Creek section voted unanimous approval last night to proceed with plans to secede this area from Fayette county and joind Raleigh County.

     A second meeting will be called within two weeks and legal advice will be sough on the proposed action, Tyree declared.  The meeting was in protest against Mounty Hope's extending bus lines and diverting about 90 students away from Pax schools, he added.