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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1940
Page
6
Jimmy Rantis of Jimmy's Restaurant on Loretto Avenue will provide free Christmas dinners today to needy persons not reached by city charity or welfare groups. He has carried out this policy on Thanksgiving and Christmas for many years, serving those without means to provide a meal.
Decorations and place cards set the mood for the evening as Mrs. Little and Dr. J. Toy Nelson hosted with Miss Gertrude Steele and W. A. Bostian assisting. Honored guests included Mesdames E. R. Beamer, Nannie Thompson, H. B. Kitts, Rosa Baker, W. T. Eiswick, H. V. Troutman, Rosa Marshall, Sue Wells, Corum Cunningham, L. M. Carper, J. W. Helton, and J. B. Harry.
Invitations issued for an open house at the Fuqua home honoring Lieut Charles Fuqua and Mrs Fuqua of Fort Sheridan. The event is hosted by Bob and Isaac Fuqua at the parents I N Fuqua home on Parkway Thursday evening from eight to eleven.
Mrs Larrayne Stowers expected to return to Bland Virginia from Bluefield after a three week stay at the sanitarium. Visitors include Mrs A G Snead and children from Clover Virginia, Gus Knight family, W T Swan from Princeton, M C Cooley from Mulberry apartments, and several Jacksons from Virginia and New York visiting relatives in Washington Street. Sub Deb guests Jane and Bob Barger from Salem and Carter Wade with Dr and Mrs E C Wade on College Row. Lieut and Mrs Charles Puqa of Port Sheridan Illinois join relatives on Parkway as about two hundred guests called during the evening.
Rev Frank L Stuck of First Christian Princeton and wife observe fifteen years with a Highland avenue reception. Guests include local families and church members. A decorated home, cake, gifts, and a musical program mark the festive event with about two hundred attendees.
Betty Anne Holmes will host an open house party this evening from 9 to 12 at the Bluefield Country Club. About 259 invitations have been issued. chaperones include Dr and Mrs Alonzo McCue, Mr and Mrs Moffet McCue, Mr and Mrs Eugene Stowell, Mr and Mrs Robert Prichard, Mrs David Lowman, Mr and Mrs Lloyd Feuchtenberger, and Mr and Mrs James Barton.
Miss Ruby E. Nixon married William W. Ogden Jr on December 23 at Bristol with Rev. W S Baumgardener officiating. The bride, daughter of A. W. Nixon, wore a dusty rose ensemble. witnesses included Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Hart. The couple will live at Nixon apartments on Princeton Avenue.
Mr and Mrs Harry Danner of Bowling Green Ky spend the holidays with Harrys parents on Augusta street Edwin F Fleshman of Wayne W Va will arrive to visit his grandparents on Albremarle street Dawn Absher is ill at her Wythe avenue home with a streptococci throat infection Mr and Mrs A E Davis Jr left to visit relatives in Johnston City Tenn Mr and Mrs William Pritchett and son Billy of War are spending the holidays
Mrs. C. E. Pritchell of Bluefield Virginia and Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Danner on Augusta street are visiting relatives for the holidays. W. H. Thompson, previously a patient at Bluefield sanitarium, returns home on Highland avenue. Bob Fuqua of Duke University spends the holidays with his parents on Parkway.
Dr and Mrs Tra Mason Smith hosted a twenty seventh wedding anniversary reception at their Circle Drive home in Princeton on Monday night from eight to twelve. The event featured evergreen decorations, a receiving line with Doris Smith and Ira Mason Smith Jr, and a wassail service led by Mrs Edward Stubblefield.
Mrs W B Keaton of Orton announces the marriage of her daughter Mamie to Mr T Dwight Dickenson of Princeton on November 28 in Bristol Tennessee with Rev J Randall Parris officiating. Mrs Dickenson teaches in Princeton schools and Mr Dickenson works with the Virginian Maytag Furnes tore company of Princeton.
The Towne club mas dance runs from 10 to 2 at the West Ginian hotel with Ken Harris and Style Tone orchestra providing music and Ethel Page as voice. The event honors the district’s young people on holiday from school and promises to be a top yuletide social event.
The Blue Country club hosts the annual Christmas dance Saturday night December 28 from 9 to 12. Guests will enjoy music by Mer Hester and his orchestra with Dr. and Mrs. W. Hampton St. Clair Jr. as hosts.
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