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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
5
A bruncheon blends breakfast and lunch for a flexible party invitation window. The menu features a V-8 based warm drink, crepes with chicken in white wine cream sauce, crab apples with parsley, cafe au lait, Christmas cookies, and a lime garnish. Serves three.
Bluefield Chapter 172 United Daughters of the Confederacy plans a Christmas program this afternoon at the U Center. President Mrs. R. E. Maxwell presiding. Executive board hosts and meets at 1 p.m. Regular chapter meeting follows at 2 p.m.
M. S. Burkett discussed ordering pine tree seedlings for Lebanon Senior 4-H members to plant as a project. Members watched a film Man Enough for the Job at the Appalachian Power Company building in Lebanon Virginia. The meeting, led by president Sandra Jessee, included devotion by Kay Howard and Cathy Smith.
Miss Mary Virginia Fletcher announces a Home Demonstration Club schedule with a December 3 demonstration on Easy Desserts at the Parsonage. Russell County is designated for a national nutrition education program starting in 1969, with training in Blacksburg January 6-7 and new aides to assist low income families. Agent-in-Training Martha Quinn Hillman will join Russell County for experience before serving in another country.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Meachum joined a Peace College program titled Christmas 1968 a medley of Christmas songs by the Dance and Porpoise Clubs. The event took place at the Hermann Student Center swimming pool with Jody Sutlive as dance director and Janice Edwards as swimming director.
A day’s community schedule lists a rummage sale by the Bluefield Band Boosters at 338 Princeton Avenue from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Activities include a Bluewell Pre-School Reading Clinic at Bluewell Methodist Church for a children's Christmas party and gift exchange. Evening gatherings feature the First Presbyterian McClung Class Yale dinner at the church, a Relief Society lesson at Preston Street Church, IOOF Lodge No 144 at IOOF Hall, YWCA board meeting at the Y Center, and Bluefield Virginia Junior Woman’s Club program with Fine Arts at the Municipal clubroom.
The article urges embracing chains as versatile decor for fashion and interiors available from hardware dealers. It suggests brass copper or nickel finishes, spray painting to match color schemes, and using chains to suspend shelves light fixtures or mirrors. A shoe board tied with chain loops offers a six-pair closet solution.
The American Legion Auxiliary Riley-West Unit No. 9 held its annual Christmas dinner at the Golden Age Center with hostesses Mrs. Clayton Stanley and Mrs. Maye Wilds. A brief business session followed led by president Mrs. Frank Weiser on contributions for Christmas funds. Special remembrances were planned for members in hospitals or away, with carols sung by the group during social hour and gifts exchanged.
Children can decorate windows for Christmas with soap outlines of snowmen or Santa on glass. They fill shapes with thick suds, then add felt or fabric pieces for facial features and trim. Fuchsias are lovely flowering house plants for hanging baskets with many colors, blooming in summer and needing cool rest in late fall.
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