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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1948
Page
3
The VFW Auxiliary will host a benefit party Monday at 8 PM to raise funds for the John Farris fund. The event features games and music with public invitation extended.
Bluefield hosts Bluefield College mixed chorus in Ramsy auditorium at 8 p m Thursday December 16 sponsored by the Lions Club. The 55 member group includes 35 boys and 20 girls performing "A Cavalcade of Music" with numbers for all ages plus Christmas selections.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Celia Curry of this city and Mr L C Combs of Mullens. The ceremony occurred Friday December 3 at the home of the officiating minister Rev L D Roe in Princeton with Mrs Georgie Anders present. The couple will reside in Bluefield.
Mr Clyde W Hall returns to New York city to resume studies at Pace college after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs James O Hall of Amonate Virginia for Thanksgiving holidays.
Miss Rita Connor, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph J Connor of Nashville, married Capt Porter Monroe Wassum Jr USAAF at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. The ceremony featured nuptial music, a lavish floral altar, and a procession of attendants in American Beauty velvet. The couple plans a later home in Tacoma Washington after December 15 following a motor honeymoon trip.
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Widener of Dott announce the engagement of their daughter Nellie Love to James David White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus White of Princeton. The wedding is planned for early spring.
The Junior Woman's club will meet Monday at 8 in the Appalachian building assembly room for its annual Christmas cabaret. Members are asked to bring a wrapped gift. Mrs James A Tabor leads the program and decorations with the project committee handling the social hour.
Tazewell Va The Tazewell Garden club will hold its December meeting in the Home Economics rooms at Tazewell High School on Monday afternoon. Members are asked to bring arrangements of Christmas greenery. The Tazewell chapter U D C will meet at Miss Lydia Tynes home on Tazewell Avenue with Mrs L L Dickerson as co host. The American Legion auxiliary will meet at Mrs C P Heldreths home on Tuesday evening with Mrs J C Heldreth and Miss Evelyn Gillesipe as co hosts. Cabbage relish is inexpensive and delicious with meat or fish preparing by finely chopping cabbage and seasoning with salt pepper sugar cider and tarragon vinegar and celery salt.
Miss Susan Burnett daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Burnett and former A Capella member will sing with the Westminster Symphonic choir Princeton New Jersey in a CBS broadcast at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon. The choir will perform in Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walker.
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