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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1936
Page
8
Sacred Heart P T A schedules Fathers Night for Wednesday at 7 30 pm at the K of C hall. The amateur radio style program will be presented by Sacred Heart church adult choir under Mrs I Phillips who leads the effort. the public is invited.
Thanksgiving day gathering at the old Sallie Lancaster home near Matoaka West Virginia drew the Lancaster family from Bluefield Snowville Springton Hiawatha and Lowe A lavish buffet luncheon followed the reunion with attendees including Sallie Lancaster Tsch Lancaster and sons Fremont and David Bluefield W V. W O Lancaster and children Adelie and Joe Snowville Va. J C Lancaster and children Karl Muriel Gene Eva Mae Dorothy Springton W V. A K Lancaster and two children Hargall and Ruby Hiawatha W V. W Martin and children Garland Betty Mary Lou plus visitors Vernice Shuck Lowe W Va and Orpha Dobbins Snowville Va.
The Blanche White Circle of Memorial Baptist Church Bluefield Virginia will meet tonight at 7 45 at the home of Mrs W B Poe 1516 Highland Avenue All members are urged to be present.
The Junior guild of Christ Episcopal church will meet Wednesday at 3 at the home of Mrs. Albert S Kemper 712 College avenue with Mrs Strother Hoge as joint hostess.
Plans to run the Womans Exchange through the Bluefield Baby Clinic begin December 4 with Friday and Saturday hours in the Bailey building discussed at a Monday meeting at the West Virginian hotel. Those with items to sell should call Mrs. R. R. Stuart at 1577.
WHIS will air an electrical transcription about the Christmas seal sale Wednesday at 1 o clock. The Bluefield sale is sponsored by the Bluefield Woman's Club with Mrs F L Black as president. A birthday party in Wilmington Delaware on December 8 honors Miss Emily P Bissell who started the first seal sale in the United States thirty years ago. A luncheon at noon precedes a radio program involving the tuberculosis associations nationally and locally.
A Delaware luncheon for two hundred guests will feature Dr. Thomas Par Tan surgeon general of the United States Miss Bissell Dr Esmond R Long president and Dr Kendall Emerson managing director of the National Tuberculosis association.
Miss Arlene Geordon presided over the weekly Virginia Asher Business Women's Bible council at the Y. Mrs Helen Parker attended as a welcome visitor and members were welcomed back. Mrs T H Claggett led the Bible lesson with Miss Helen Brewer adding a study tale. Supper was served by Christ Episcopal Church ladies. booklets on Virginia Asher's life are available to interested by local council applications.
The Trinity League program featured Bob Lundy leading a Sunday service for young people with the theme Leavening The Lamp. Miss Dot Lawrence opened at the piano, songs and prayers followed, and talks covered two points of progress and leaven works slowly.
The executive committee of Westminster Presbyterian auxiliary will meet at the church on Wednesday at 2 30 PM instead of 3 PM as previously announced.
Grace Epworth League met Sunday evening in regular session at the church chaired by Sam Snider. The program featured hymns, scripture by the leader and Misses Ruth Bowles and Janice Porterfield, prayers by Miss Edith Young, Miss Bertha Dillon, and Sam Snider, and special music by Mrs James Bell and Miss Kathleen Tynes. Talks included Two Views of Progress by Sam Snider and Leaven Works Slowly by Robert Hensley, Leavening the Whole Lump by Miss Helen Dillon, Jesus as a Trail Blazer by Roy Smith, closing with Wheat A Friend We Have In Jesus and benediction.
The Junior Philathea class of the First Baptist Church will meet this evening at 7 30 at the Y W C A for a business and social session.
Mrs W P Portig circle meets Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs L H Perkins at Fairview apartments. Mrs Keil Alderson circle meets with Mrs Alderson at 2 30 Wednesday. Week of prayer for foreign missions observed at church Wednesday 7 30 and Thursday Friday 2 30. Junior and Intermediate R A and Junior G A will have supper Friday at 5 after class.
The Globe Trotters club will hold a regular session Thursday at 7 30 PM at the Y. Members are expected to attend and discuss upcoming activities.
The W M Grace Methodist church will hold a mission study session this afternoon at 2 30 at the parsonage on Highland Avenue.
Margaret Franklin of Southern Seminary Buena Vista Va visits home for a weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs J H Franklin on Frederick Street. She is accompanied by Miss Florie Ann George of Kansas City Mo as an attractive house guest. The two ladies will return today to the seminary where they are roommates.
The Women of the Moose will meet at 2 o clock in the Moose Hall for an afternoon gathering.
Bluefield Garden club meets Wednesday at 10 30 A M at Mrs P Dick Woods home on Jefferson Street. Members should bring twigs berries milkweed pods dried grasses and other materials for winter bouquets with a prize for the best original artistic arrangement.
Miss Kathryn Smoot hosted a Saturday luncheon at the West Virginian hotel in honor of Miss Jean Ritz bride elect and Miss Margaret Penfield of Delhi New York at the home of Mr and Mrs E C Stone. Miss Ritz wed Mr John Marshall Jr at Westminster Presbyterian Church with Miss Penfield as bridesmaid. Guests included the bride’s attendants.
Students in graded and junior high schools must submit Christmas seal sale papers by Thursday December 3 at the Y W C A. Mrs F L Black president of the Bluefield Woman's club announces the event sponsor the club.
Hankla's Drug Store in Bluefield invites all high blood pressure patients to receive a free sample of ALLIMIN Essence of Garlic Parsley tablets at 634 Bland St. The Chicago produced tablets are tasteless and odorless, with a two weeks' treatment priced at 50e and accompanied by a booklet.
The Triangle club gathers Wednesday evening at the Y quarters for supper at 6 o'clock. Girls join at 7 30 with others for a brief business meeting.
The Business Women's circle of the First Presbyterian church gathers this evening at 7 45. Mrs Briscoe Carlan hosts at Fairview apartments with Miss Edith McNeer as co host for the event.
Mr and Mrs Roy Gills returned after several days in Roanoke Virginia. Dr H H Ballard of Pocahontas and Miss Ethel Puckett of Bluefield visited the former's mother Mrs Lillie Ballard of Peterstown West Virginia for Thanksgiving. Isaac Udy of Hull Long Island New York returned home after visiting his mother and sisters Mrs J H Powell and Mrs Lee Wright. Mrs R K Hampton of Wytheville also mentioned.
Mrs. John Udy hosted Thanksgiving with daughters Misaeline and Leona. Miss LaVerne Litton underwent appendicitis surgery at Bluefield sanitarium and is recovering well. C. V. Foland and wife attended a United Commercial Travelers banquet in Roanoke. S. W. Cundiff and son Billie of Columbus Ohio returned home after visiting Maggie Blankenship and E Carter families in Bluefield and Roanoke. H. M. Saunders and wife joined E P Rairdon in Roanoke to view the VPI V MV game and attend Thanksgiving events.
Evening events include Wade home room mothers at 608 Third Street at 7 30 with Mrs J L Allbright and Fathers Night at Whitehorn PTA with a round table on family success. Preston PTA meets 3 this afternoon. Church auxiliaries host meetings Wednesday and Thursday for quilting and foreign missions prayers. A district council meets Friday at Bland Street Methodist and the Senior Guild serves a turkey dinner Friday 5 30 to 7. Bluefield AAUW plans 3 30 meeting at the Y to discuss a child study course for mothers.
All persons interested are invited to attend today's conference. Mrs Claude W Johnston of 509 Fourth Street is slowly improving after a week of illness. Mis Margaret Loving of Roanoke spent Thanksgiving with Mrs Lee Anderson of 514 College Avenue. Mrs W H Thomas, Mrs W A Pankey and Mrs Lula 8 S Watkins have returned from Dallas after attending the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention. Miss Kathleen Wilson of Union Street operated on for appendicitis at Bluefield Sanitarium and is recovering. Miss Rachel Francis has returned to West Virginia University after Thanksgiving at home. Mr and Mrs Bert Clark of Brazil Indiana return home today with their son Malvern Clark, and are accompanied by their daughter Mrs Kermit Thompson, a patient at Bluefield Sanitarium.
Springfield Missouri. An Army recruiting officer rejected Norman W. Willard a 19 year old at 6 ft 12 in and 191 pounds saying he was too large for the Army. The officer cited shoe size limits and potential future growth as reasons for the veto.
An old advertisement promises Dr David's Sanative Wash as a cure for scabies. It claims itching stops quickly and germs causing skin pain are destroyed. The notice offers the product for 60 cents postpaid through Owens & Minor, Richmond Virginia, with a money-back guarantee.
A physician's prescription style claim promotes Conquerine as a natural laxative that eases habitual constipation, aids digestion, improves appetite, and supports sleep. It is marketed as a vegetable formula claiming quick benefit within forty eight hours and offers money back if not helped. Conquerine Co. Lynchburg Virginia advertises this remedy with drugstore availability.
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