Junior Cotillion Dance Last Evening Highlights
Miss Betty Wellford and Guy Lawhead led the Junior Cotillion program event with Ken Greiser Miss Ann St Clair Joe Sanders and Miss Jane Wagner assisting. The hall showed yuletide colors and evergreens while Mrs Wade accompanied. dancing ran from 8 to 10 after a dinner for 32 at Dr and Mrs J E Blaydes home. The newly organized club meets weekly under Frances Merricks of Floyd Ward School of Dancing in Oke Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Wellford
Guy Lawhead
Ken Greiser
Ann St. Clair
Joe Sanders
Jane Wagner
Wade
J. E. Blaydes
Mountain View Avenue
Junior Cotillion
Frances Merricks
Floyd Ward
Annual University Club Dance Tonight at Bluefield Country Club
Plans are complete for the annual Christmas dance of the University club to be held this evening at the Bluefield Country club from 10 until 2 with Wilmer Hester and his orchestra. An open house for members and guests precedes the dance from 6 to 10 at the club rooms on Mercer street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Club
Bluefield Country Club
Wilmer Hester
Mercer Street
St Luke's Association Dance Tonight At Virginian Hotel
He and his orchestra from Newcastle Va will play for the St Luke's Hospital association dance this evening in the Virginian hotel from 10 until.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
St. Luke's Hospital Association
Oo Virginian
Local residents plan holiday visits and travels
Mrs G O Tucker of Union Street and Mrs G T Leslie of Oakhurst Avenue travel to Hollins Virginia to spend the holidays with relatives. Welch and Pearisburg shoppers visit the city while Salomco Raleigh and two other students plan holiday trips. Families from Bluefield Norfolk and Alexandria arrive or depart for Christmas visits as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Tucker
Union Street
Charleston
G. T. Leslie
Oakhurst Avenue
Hollins
A. T. Henderson
Welch
Bernard Mason
Pearisburg
Betty Wade Belcher
M O'Keefee
Ace
Salom Co
Raleigh, Co
Gertrude Hickey
The
Coal Commission
Elkhart
N. C
James F. Matteson
Ric . Va
A. Baylor
Lake Junaluska, C
Tazewell
Jon Campbell
Nashville
Tenn
Ruth Longworth
Harrisonburg
Madison College
S . R. L. Longworth
Blue
Geraldine Kerley
Marshall College
Marshall College, Will Arrive Morning To Spend the Holi With Her Cats, Mr
L. M. Kerley
Bluefield
G. C. Brant, Jr
Alexandria
Bituminous Coal to Be Used at Army Camps
Congressman Lena Neely reported to the War Department that bituminous coal will be used at Camps Eustis and Lee in Virginia after discussions with procurement officials. She noted concerns that switching from anthracite could raise costs by about two dollars per ton and shipping by fifty cents per ton, with an estimated need around 4,000 tons next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lena Neely
D-W. Va
Eustis and
Lee
Virginia
Neely
Hancock Pupils Present Yuletide Program
Students of Hancock school performed a yuletide program at the Hancock F T A meeting with Miss Gladys Udy delivering a devotional and reading. Various pupils presented poems musical readings and Christmas stories including Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Silent Night and Santa Claus Lived in a Shoe. Attendance honors were won by Pauline Newland's third grade and Russel Owens' fifth grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock School
Hancock F.T. A
E. K. Bibb
Gladys Udy
Miss Udy
Kathleen Norris
Christ
Hester Goad
Phyliss Morris
Dorothy Belcher
Darell
Jackqueline Taylor
Santa Claus and the
Annaie Mattox
Iris Pennington
Goodnight
Harold Linkous
Pauline Newland
Russel Owens
Lodge 44 Ladies to Meet at Moose Hall
Bluefield lodge No. 44 announces a 2:30 PM meeting at Moose Hall for the Ladies to the B L F and E . A luncheon and Pollyanna party precede the meeting at 12:30 PM all members urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Lodge
Moose Hall
Concord College Choir Presents Annual Christmas Concert
The Concord College choir directed by Miss Ella Holroyd performed the annual Christmas concert Wednesday evening in the college auditorium. Soloist Ella Nash featured in the Christmas Chorologue with Paul Rainey narrating the pageant program, as choirs and pages listed their participating members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord College
Ella Holroyd
Ella Nash
Paul Rainey
Akters
Teresa Dunkley
Fern McGraw
Sally Harris
Betty Ballard
Janice Akers
Maxine Basham
Juanita Baker
Lois Thomas
Mariel Wooddell
Frances Cooper
Vertie Walker
Miss Wolford
J. B. Armentrout
Dana White
Carl Davis
Sam Meron
Ralph Novicki
Michael Zulick
David Wiseman
Jimmie Moorefield
William Caruth
Prank Small
Kathleen Pullen
Joyce Penchenton
Lois Curry
Jeanne Foster
Frances Poston
Janis Wall Leola Hoke
Josephine Richards
Mildred Tomlinson
Alpha Wooddell
Fred Lanton
Randolph White
Harold Elkins
Virgil Wynne
Andrew Kozak
Ezra Ballard
William Lilly
Willis Triplett
Virginia Kinzer
Anna 'S
Elizabeth Copelo
Mildred Unn
Aging West Virginia Women Mark 85 Joint Birthdays
Middlebourne, W V December 19 two elderly residents Marie Crumrine Courtney and Nancy Huth celebrated their 85th birthdays together their last 15 birthdays shared at the Huth home. Courtney the last surviving child in a Crumrine family of 11 children helped establish a Middlebourne home over a century ago. Huths father Christian Engle once Tyler County circuit clerk from 1862 to 1896. her husband William H Huth died a decade ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlebourne
W. Va
Marie Crumrine Courtney
Nancy Huth
Huth
Courtney
Riverman Denies Counterfeit Charge In Kentucky Hearing
Earl Webster aged 59 from Pittsburgh owner of several river towboats posted 1000 dollars bond for a removal hearing before a US commissioner on a charge of passing a counterfeit ten dollar note at Prospect Kentucky last month. Webster denied the charge saying he had never been in Prospect. He was traced there through Ohio license plates reported stolen and recovered by police. Secret Service agents arrested Webster today on a Kentucky warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Earl Webster
United States
Prospect
Oldham County
Webster
Ohio
Secret Service
Kentucky
Speed Defense Loans Meetings Proposed Across Ohio
A plan to speed defense loans to business was recommended by 29 officers of the Fourth Federal Reserve District. The Ohio Bankers Association should arrange January meetings for nine banking districts, with the Pittsburgh Clearing House Association to hold similar meetings in eastern Pennsylvania. Other Fourth District areas include eastern Kentucky and the West Virginia panhandle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Federal Reserve District
Ohio Bankers’ Association
Gue
Pittsburgh Clearing House Association
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
West Virginia Panhandle
Gable and Davis Top Actors in Annual Poll
Kansas City December poll by Box office trade journal places Clark Gable as top male actor and Bette Davis as top actress for the year 19. Temporary London bridges over bomb craters aid traffic flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winning Contract in Bridge Crime Puzzle
The article presents a bridge hand where South wins with the ace of diamonds and ruffs a diamond, then misplays by ruffing diamonds. It declares South the criminal for ruffing diamonds when discards were available from hearts. Correct play would be drawing trumps before a heart finesse and using dummy’s heart honors to discard.
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West
South
East
Bid Two Hearts in Bridge Play
Hand fragment shows a bidding sequence where Jacoby Maler responds You Schenken Paes Pass 19 Pass la Pass and the answer is Bid two hearts. You
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacoby Maler
Bidding Dilemmas in Hearts and Diamonds
A reader asks about optimal bids with a balanced hand and weak partner support. The article suggests avoiding jumping, weighing two hearts at 100 percent, two diamonds at 70 percent, and one no trump at 20 percent, with other bids scoring zero. It presents a specific hand: Mater Tou Pass Pass 19 ln Pass 29 2NT Pass.
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St. Luke’s Association
Marvel
Federal Street
Yacttsie
Liberty Store
Princeton Ave
Concord Choir
Riverman
Kay Leslie
Ies Drugs, Convenient Stores
Aes St
Mercer St
Princeton
Prince Albert
GEO
Small
Ardus
Widlar
Staley’s Syrup
Sir Walter Raleigh
Hinds
Tury
Rinso
Lux
K. Soap
Vitalis
Vick
Noxze Ie
Razor Me
Woodbury's
Paris
Yardley
Tion
Angelus Lipstich
Lous Philippe
Drene
Woodbury’s Lady's Or Men's
la Palma
OATIT
Oswald Jacoby
Ter
Jacoby
Achenken Pass
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Royal Oak
Hiram Wilber
Hiram Walker & Sons Inc
Peoria, AL
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