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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1963
Page
24
Church women meet weekly across Trinity Methodist and Bland Street in numerous circles. Leaders include Mrs W C Ramey and Mrs Stanley Martin. Gatherings feature luncheons dinners potluck and church readings at various addresses in Bluefield and nearby streets.
Local shopper note highlights Al's department store ads in today's paper. It urges readers to stretch Christmas gift dollars with specials featured across three ads.
Keystone Parent-Teacher Association will meet Tuesday evening at 7 30 in the junior high gym. President Don Kirby will lead the business session and present room visitation. Parents are urged to attend.
Poacahontas Elementary School PTA presented its annual Christmas program and donated $50 to the Community Christmas Tree Fund. Mrs. Marvin Trent presided. Carlton Stallard led the pledge. Brenda Golham read scripture. Teachers directed grades one through three and a choral group performed.
About 30 members of the Sandlick Methodist church Young Adult class attended a turkey dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Glen Barnett home. A social hour followed the meal with various relatives visiting from nearby towns.
The Pocahontas Band Mothers met at the high school with 18 members present. Band director Jack Dishman oversaw the election of officers with Mrs. Lee Westmoreland elected president, Mrs. John Drosick vice president, Mrs. Raymond Martin secretary, and Mrs. Roy Moore treasurer. Dues were approved for payment and the next meeting is set for January 2 at the high school.
Community groups in Bluefield schedule a busy week of December events. Relief Society and church councils hold December sessions. YWCA hosts Hanging of the Greens. various clubs plan Christmas dinners, programs, and parties at Y Center, First Methodist, and other venues with member participation and gifts for charity.
Homeroom Mothers of Keystone Junior High met presided by Mrs. John Jackson. Devotion by Mrs. Charles Williams on The Message of Christmas. Minutes read by Mrs. Shirley Wolfe. Treasurer reported. Plans included a Baley Hall church party and a school noon corn sale to raise funds. Water cooler balances to be paid. 16 members attended, cake and coffee served.
The North Key Garden club plans a December meeting Tuesday at 1 30 p m in president Mrs Robert Paxton Jr s home with a Yuletide decoration exchange. Members are asked to bring fruits for a cancer patient basket and co host is Mrs James Dixon. Northfork personals note visits by local residents to St Josephs Seminar and relatives visiting from Courtland and Grayton County Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Ling of Squire announce the birth of a son Ronnie Keith born Saturday November 30 in Bluefield Sanitarium weighing 5 pounds 11 ounces.
Calendar notes for Thursday to Saturday list events at the Y Center West Virginian Hotel and Masonic Temple. Includes AAUW banquet with Mrs. Rutherford Charleston WV as speaker, WMU prayers at First Baptist, Lions Club buffet dance, Gladys Keith circle Christmas party, final WMU Week of Prayer, Macedonia Shrine ceremonial, and YWCA B&P progressive dinner.
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