Wedding Announcements and Social Events Highlight Elkhorn Home
Mrs John H Newton hosted a gathering to announce the engagement of Miss Georgia Bonham to Robert Nowlin of Lynchburg. The pink and white color theme featured white dahlias and pink cosmos with heart design favors bearing the couple’s names and date October 20 1920. Also noted are social gatherings at Mrs Strader’s and a Bluefield Country Club dance in honor of house guests with plans for a large bridge party hosted by Mrs Frank Easley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Newton
Elkhorn
Georgia Bonham
Robert Nowlin
Lynchburz
George §. Strader
Oakhurst Avenue
Harris
Roanoke
Covsin
Bedinger
Strader
Cutler
Durst
Bluefield Country Club
Mabel Baker
Cramwell
Julia Culp
Washington, D. C
Mildred Ragland
Richmond, Va
Catherine Preston
Rinoke
New York
Paul and
Minor Culp
Springfield
Alex Chambers
Newtown
Bluefield YWCA Holds Meeting Plans and Honors
The board met despite heavy rain to discuss a second special meeting and reports from committees. The employment committee placed fourteen girls and found homes for two while schooling. A millinery class grows popular and another is formed. Six calls offered a collie for adoption. Red Cross sewing sessions begin in September. Girls praise the Bluefield YWCA home as a superior, helpful institution. The Girls' Reserve will host a program at the home, and the permanent association headquarters sign is being installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Bluefield
Butt Motor Co. opens in Pocahontas with Stupalsky and Butt
A new business firm Butt Motor Co. launches in Pocahontas by Jos A Stupalsky and Chas W Butt after purchasing the Superior Motor Co. and acquiring a three story building near the depot. Pocahontas Ice & Storage expands with $50,000 capital and adds ice cream and new manager Early W Garrett. Local residents J C Turley and C C Frazier take extended auto trips through Ohio Pennsylvania and New York. Col George C Cabell Jr of Northfork is elected Supreme Vice Chancellor of the Pythians in Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Butt Motor Co
Jos. A. Stupalsky
Chas. W. Butt
Stupalsky
First Nations Bank of
Superior Motor Company
Pocahontas Ice & Storage Co
W. Garrett
Donald Gillie
Julius Goodman
Jellico
Tenn
Goodman
Lucile Hanna
Bluefield
J. C. Turley
C. C. Frazier
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
W. E. Dishmen
St. Luke’s Hospital
W. R. Rickman
B. B. Scott
Broughton
Willard Scott
Lee Brannock
New Lebanon Association
Graham
R. M. Leonard
Boissevain
Sarah Shaw
Geo. C. Cabell, Jr
Northfork
Supreme Lodge of Pythians
Minneapolis
Col. Cabell
W. Edgar Owens
Fiduciary Notice of Estate Administrator Settlement
The account of T J Phelps administrator of the estate of Hmma Mitchell is before me for settlement. Dated August 20, 1920 by C Best, Clair commissioner accounta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Phelps
Hmma Mitchell
C. Best
Clair
Commissioner Accounta
Local Youths Enjoy Evening With Refreshments After Edison Play
Miss Gladys Reese and others attended a weekly youth review. The group played games late and were served cake marshmallows ice cream and grape juice by Mrs Thorn and Miss Franklin. The Edison production of Home Sweet Home preceded the refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Reese
Frank Smith
Myrtle Franklin
Will Blakeley
Morris Hursbrum
Red Barker
Horace Swope
Thorn
Miss Franklin
Edison
Paris Ring Gifted with Hidden Poison Wound Explorer
The article notes a collector in Paris bought an antique ring featuring a lion design. An accidental scratch from the ring nearly proved fatal due to hollowed cans connected to a poison receptacle. It mentions six tables of players at an event and a luncheon, plus earthenware railway ties used on some Japanese lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Japan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mcllwraith & Co., Ltd
Great Marlborough St
London
England
Perrott & Perrott, Ltd
Tenter St
Moorfields
Vestalia
THE
United Woolen?mills Co
Princeton Avenue
Federal St
Hawley’s Dept. Store
Sters
Mrs. Strader
Frank Easley
Rogers Street
Alice Paul
National Woman's Party
Tennessee
Ougial
Columbia Motors Company
Detroit
Bluefield Motor CO
Bluefield, W. Va
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