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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1963
Page
5
Newsletter reader tips cover pork chop frying and oven finishing, plant care hacks for preserving moisture, chalk touch-ups for shoes, improvised ironing board covers, stamp removal questions, repurposing sardine tins for pie crusts, plant watering tricks, and revamping a swimming cap with lace for summer wear.
Jaeger Frank Lockhart of Chicago visits relatives due to his mother s illness in Jaeger. Jackie Trail from Welch visits relatives. Dr. and Mrs E K Whitley and sons from Roanoke visit family this week. Jerry Gibson from Washington visits his grandmother in Vance s home. Fred N Bland and Freddy from Nashville visit his mother Hattie Cooper and other relatives. Jean Abbott returns to Indianapolis to take a job. Estil Hatfield vacationing in Tennessee. Clara Mae Willard visits her mother Norma Willard in Cleveland Ohio.
In Paris Audrey Hepburn wears several hairstyles featuring her shoulder length hair with attached pastiches and lacquered additions. The look blends softness and sharpness to suit a formal gown and signals a trend toward daily use of hair pieces and French twists for daywear evolving into evening volume.
Miss Verna Mae Shupe bride elect of Ralph Bowling of Bluefield Virginia was toasted at a miscellaneous shower in the Y Center hosted by Ruth Sage May Talbert Jane Johnson and Mrs. June Hambrick Mrs. Joe Shinault. A corsage of white carnations and pink green decorations with gladioli and summer flowers graced the tables. Crystal candelabra held tall white tapers. Miss Jane Johnson led games won by Mrs. Alice Borden Mrs. Elizabeth Dye Mrs. Louise Rolen Mrs. H C Gills Mrs. Clyde Cooke Miss Susan Fortune and the honoree.
Mrs. Monroe Shumate of De Hart North Carolina visits her nephew Vernon S. Fields in Montcalm. Bluefield guests from Norfolk include Mr and Mrs Jimmy C Roach and daughter Elizabeth Lee at a Turnpike Lookout picnic. They toured Beckley Exhibition Mine and saw Honey in the Rock, then went to Barter Theatre in Abingdon before returning to Martinsville to accompany Mrs. J C Roach Sr to Norfolk.
Brads Bradley's and its Speciality Shop run brisk with a Giant Clearance Sale and new $6.95 Dress rack drawing crowds. Lower prices push near the limit as more dresses, sizes up to 50, and suits coats and wedding dresses enter the sale, with Goodykoontz Drug Store promoting Un-curly Permanent and Revion After Shave Lotion plus Coty Lipstick and Yardley goods.
The Contemporary Cleopatra collection links ancient Egypt glamour to today’s wardrobe. It features empire lines, bias skirts, tunic inspired coats, and dramatic capes with mink linings. Accessories include serpent bracelets, jeweled pins, and a Cleopatra Chapeau.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service at Brushfork Methodist Church held a surprise birthday party for their new pastor Rev. Graham Robertson at the parsonage on Friday evening. Members sang Happy Birthday and presented a gift of a sack of silver money. Mrs. Charles Duncan baked a cake and served refreshments after an hour of fellowship.
The Richlands Home Demonstration club schedules a covered-dish luncheon at 12 noon on Friday August 9 at Mrs Rhea Browns Dalton addition home with a lesson on Informal Table Arrangements by Cedar Bluff Garden club member Mrs L L Thompson. Nearby residents and visitors including the Sheltons Ken and the two families plan a Danville camp trip.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Hedrick of Norfolk Virginia visited relatives in town this past week. Mr and Mrs Paul Turner welcomed as guests Mr and Mrs Kyle Adkins of Kansas City Missouri.
A busy schedule lists rummage sales at 207 Bluefield Avenue and 325 Bluefield Avenue through the day. Meetings include Shelby Heights HDC potluck, Trinity Methodist picnics, Baptist circles, WOC circles, WSCS, and Moose chapter events. Notable speakers and guests are named, with locations on Bluefield and Princeton areas.
A Pocahontas Virginia lawn picnic at the home of Mr and Mrs Louie J Drosick on St Clair Street drew relatives and friends from New Jersey Kentucky Ariz Virginia and West Virginia. Attendees included Montell Pete Moore Robert Johnson Connie and Jaquline Moore J Bernard Carter and others from nearby towns.
A New York special reports a breakthrough healing substance Bio-Dyne leading to rapid relief from itching piles. The Preparation H suppositories and ointment system claim to shrink hemorrhoids without surgery and stop burning and pain with germ killing properties.
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