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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1940
Page
6
The Bluefield Country Club invites all members and their families to an Open House on Christmas Eve from 2 to 7. The clubhouse will be festively decorated in yuletide colors as part of the social calendar.
The Bluefield Quota Club held its annual Christmas party as a reception at the YWCA on Sunday afternoon. Members sang carols and exchanged gifts. The Big Sisters were revealed. A dinner followed at the West Virginia. Tables were decorated with holly and red tinsel spelling Merry Christmas. Miss Helene Grotte presided, with quotarians and guests listed including Miss Martha Smith, Mrs. Mary Sheets of Princeton, Mrs. Tom Haines, Mrs. E. C. Dunning, Mr. T. A. Mitchell, Miss Ruth Rader, Miss Pearl Taylor of Columbus, and many others.
This Christmas Around the World pageant in five tableaux will be staged at Bland Street Methodist Church auditorium at 7 30 tonight. Miss Jo Marie Thompson directs the program presented by the church school to aid the needy with gifts left at the altar for distribution on Christmas morning by a committee led by J T Bundy Harvey and church groups. Special music features solos by Mrs James V Nabors and J B Wooldridge Jr with a Children's Echo choir and a Younge s choir under Beety Burnett and Mrs M Martin.
The Boy's class of Trinity Methodist church hosted a Christmas party at J C Roberts home on Rose Street Prides evening. The decorated house featured games won by Jessa and Jene Colman. Guests included Joe Dunn Billy Counts Ralph Godsey Harry Lee Croye Herbert McClung Arthur Goforth Betty Joe Roberts and Jene Colman.
The People of Trinity Methodist church plan an 8:30 p m carol singing event led by young people. Two children will place lighted candles in their windows as part of the ceremony.
The W C T U announces its December meeting is postponed to December 31 and will be held in Hamilton Hall at 3 o clock.
A reader disputes prior notes on a bridge hand, arguing the play for twelve tricks is safer when cashing high clubs with a trump stiff out. Oswald Jacoby's partner profiles a hand with AKIJ105 on one side and a5 on the other, under neither side vulnerable.
The article details a contract bridge hand where South finesses a diamond, leading to a key play that secures the contract, and concludes with the recommended bid of two notrump. It cites scoring: 100 percent for two notrump, 70 for two diamonds, 60 for two clubs, 20 for three notrump, zero otherwise. It also mentions the Four Aces offer to answer readers.
Dick Hancock of VPI and Ed Hancock of Knoxville Tenn will spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hancock on Sussex Street. Cundiff of Princeton is ill with pneumonia at Lee Street Hospital. Mrs. Harry Leift of Jefferson Street travels to Roanoke Va for her father J. H. Harrison's funeral Tuesday morning.
Charlie Poulos Greene county's only Greek resident issues Christmas greetings in the Herald Journal with a post script asking if Greeks are giving Macaronis hell. The note reflects local ethnic presence and holiday sentiment in Greensboro Georgia.
Dr. Malcolm MacLean announces Hampton Institute has sold its 770 acre Shellbanks farm to the War Department for Langley Field expansion. The $155000 sale funds immediate cantonment construction for the 21st Aviation Engineers, 2200 men, and runway extensions.
Huntington West Virginia December 23 194? The Cavendish family cancelled holiday plans to arrange the funeral of 22 year old James C Cavendish a flying cadet killed in a training plane crash in Alabama The father runs a department store in Huntington.
Charleston officials report the Public Service Commission schedules January 9 for the Cooperative Transit company to seek authority to discontinue street car service between Moundsville and its car barn in McMechen. The plan is to replace street cars with buses.
Gov Keenschiahien refuses executive clemency for four Harlan county miners given life terms after the 1931 Evarts battle. He pledges parole consideration next August and questions labor friendliness while accusing Herbert Mahler of attempting to pressure him.
The Securities and Exchange Commission ruled Cities Service subject to the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The decision could force a breakup of its petroleum and utility interests into two separate firms. Cities Service controls voting power in 110 corporations with over 1.15 billion dollars in assets. exemption from the act was denied, effective January 16.
The Southern Field reported 1,759,000 tons of coal produced in the week ending December 7, leading the Northern Field at 578,000 tons in West Virginia.
The palatial yacht Noparo owned by Barbara Hutton arrived at a Boston ship yard to be refitted as a naval auxiliary. Officials said she was sold to the government for one dollar, a 157 foot craft now slated for military use.
The Towne Club hosts its annual yuletide dance Thursday evening at the West Virginian, featuring Ken Sweets and his orchestra with Ethel Page as soloist. The event highlights a long guest list including Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Thomas, Dr. and Mrs. Alonzo McCue, and many others attending.
The Four Leaf Clover club of Bluefield College held a Christmas party Sunday evening at Mrs. Harry Kammer's Jefferson Street home. Decorations featured holiday colors and a club sponsor received a gift. The club voted to provide a food basket for a needy family. next meeting at Miss Lois Hoops’ Union Street home on January 6 will admit new members.
A pollyanna style surprise shower for Mrs. Austin, oldest Stitching Chatter member, was hosted by the club at Mrs. Conley Smith’s home on the Bluefield Princeton road. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Stafford Jr. Mrs. Webber Mrs. Byrd Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Johnson with second prize to Mrs. T M Dunn. Attendance prizes went to Mrs. Stafford Jr. Mrs. Byrd Mrs. Webber and Mrs. Stafford Sr. A dinner followed with many members and visitors attending.
Mrs Dunn and Mrs Hill join Mrs Raymond Sproles Mrs H T Stanford Jr and Mrs E W Dickens for an evening gathering with guests including Mr. .
Fairfax street announces the birth of a daughter on December 19 named Martha Bright.
Miss Frances Zimmerman returns from Skandella Ark to spend holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson on Washington street. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Billian of Philadelphia visit Mrs. Brillian’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Rhoads, on Cumberland road during the Christmas holiday. Mrs. Brillian, formerly Miss Jane Elizabeth Rhoads, hosts. Miss Mary Hanifan of Duke University and Miss Helen Bell from Bluefield join Miss Hanifan’s mother for the holidays.
Mrs L J Hanifen visited her aunt Mrsudy W B of Ohio was the weekend guest of H E Mattox. Elizabeth Anne Joe, student at Winthrop College, Rock Hill S C, spends season with her parents, Mrs Marvinerson, Highland Avenue. Roy Logger Jr of Knoxville Tenn is spending the yuletide with his parents, Mr and Mrs Roy Thompson, Mountain View Avenue. Mr and Mrs Lill Ewn Greenbrier Street spent the weekend in Beckley.
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