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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
3
Beta Sigmas plan semi monthly meetings with first at the West Virginia hotel and second at members' homes. Miss Eliza DeVault presided with Miss Betty Hartman guiding the program. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments including egg nog and cake were served.
Society news notes a church night program led by Jack W Johnson and Landon Williams. Rev Virgil Lowder of Chicago will speak in the auditorium service with organ music by Miss Bry. Miss Betty Jo will perform with Miss Cheyney. other students and special numbers are planned. The public is invited to attend this mid holiday service.
Bluefield IA Lodge 453 holds a special meeting at 2 PM at the Red Men’s hall to discuss general business and install officers.
The executive board of the C. W. M. A. will convene at the First Church on Friday afternoon for a scheduled session.
Mr and Mrs Richard Scott of Virginia served in the U S army. Mr and Mrs C B Givens of Tazewell Va welcome a son born Tuesday at Bluefield sanitarium. Mrs H F Whit Highland or ue and Mr Givens are veterinarians. Carol Ann arrives Christmas Day at Norton General Hospital Norton Va mother Louise Ball of Norton. Australia is described as the top cod producer worldwide.
Members held a Christmas party and pot luck dinner at Mrs Chester Mustard's Albemarle Street home. A brief business session reported boxes sent to soldiers overseas. Mrs Webber received a gift. Pollyanna gifts were exchanged and names were drawn.
Mrs Clarence Starks of Bluefield Virginia married Mr Starks on November 22 in Wytheville Virginia. A miscellaneous shower hosted by Mrs O B Johnston and Mrs Guy Bruce featured recipe cards gifts in a pink and white wagon. Guests included Mrs E M David Mrs Beauford Compton Mrs Bill Walters and others who helped serve ice cream and cake in bridal colors.
The GIA holds a regular meeting this afternoon at 2 30 at Moose hall. Members will discuss ongoing projects and upcoming events.
Weston residents Mr. and Mrs. John R. Davis visit the Vass home on Edgewood road while Cadet Bob Belcher of Greenbrier Military Academy in Lewisburg travels via Raleigh Terrace to spend vacation with his parents Dr. W. R. Belcher and Mrs. Belcher at Man. Mrs. Malcolm Shumate and Dr. Robert Chambers group visit C. P. Mingo in Beckley as wintering in Miami Fila. Nannie Harman of Bastion Virginia visits daughter Mrs. J. J. McGlen in Frederick street. Louise Compton WAVES clerk returns to Washington D C after a 72 hour leave, accompanied by Mrs. Edith Haster. Cpl. eee of the women’s reserve corps returns to Cherry Point after leave with Josie Page on North street.
Seventy five servicemen plus accompanying wives and a baby were guests at the Service Men’s club. Fourteen states were represented. Bluefield chapter No 66, Order of the Eastern Star financed the event. Mrs Charles Pace chaired with Mrs L D Mattox as co chair. Workers included Mrs W H Pool Mrs Nannie Thompson Miss Betty Pool and Miss Cleon Heller. If a Turkoman wife asks permission to go out and he says go without come back they are divorced.
Dorothy Dix explores a wartime shift as young girls 16 to 18 pursue married men with wife and children. She warns of heartbreak, social ruin, and the danger of romance with men beyond their years and domestic ties, noting inevitable consequences and loss of innocence.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid drinking in excess and to treat constipation with Brandreth Pills. The copy claims the pills cleanse waste buildup in the digestive system and are a trusted family remedy used by millions in 35 countries, priced at 25 cents at druggists.
County officials elected in November were sworn in, including Don Renn as county clerk Alex D Cyphers as circuit clerk L H Harden as assessor Russell R Paynter as sheriff Thos H 8 Curd as circuit judge B H Silcox as justice of the peace Lonnie Mitchell as justice of the peace Browns Creek district and Harvey Cline as justice of the peace.
Lt William Dickterenko son of Mr and Mrs T A Dickterenko of Roderfield was injured in action in Germany on December 6. The war department notified the parents and said further details would follow. He attended V P I at Blacksburg Virginia before entering service.
Mr and Mrs Charles Reed of Coal Mountain Wyoming county were brought to Stevens clinic hospital for treatment after a Christmas day collision near Logan when an automobile was struck by a train. Larkin Browning 30 of Coal Mountain died in a Logan hospital from a skull fracture and other injuries. Mrs Browning broke her ankle and Mrs Reed suffered a broken hip while Mr Reed had crushing injuries to the pelvis.
Thirty five Welch area college students home for the holidays attended a Welch Rotary Club luncheon. Miss Allene Rae Cline and Miss Nancy Dodrill from West Virginia University performed and spoke, joined by guests J. P. Fanning Lt. Hewlett B. Stellar L. A. Osborn and Pvt. Charles Bowles.
Harry Mullins of Paynesville held for federal grand jury action on a charge of breaking and entering a post office and has been transferred to Beckley jail for proceedings.
Readable fragments indicate Mullins was led to Beckley after transfer from McDowell county jail and appeared before U S Commissioner Randolph Tucker for proceedings.
Norwegian legation sources said German light cruisers Koeln and Emden, sometimes with a third cruiser and destroyers, patrolled the Oslo Fjord and Skagerrak to guard Nazi shipping between Norway and Denmark. There is a fairly constant movement of troops and supplies out of Norway, with indications these forces came from Finland and are being sent to Germany for fronts in the west and east.
Daily notes from Bluefield and area reporting service members home on leave or stationed away. Charles F. Mercer Jr., cited by the 6th Armored Infantry battalion in Italy, receives combat infantryman recognition. Donald J. Compton visits family in Venice Florida during Christmas leave before returning to Great Lakes. Bill Compton, apprentice seaman, returns after training at Great Lakes. Sergeant Bill Henderson arrives for a 26 day furlough from the South Pacific to Bluefield to visit family. Earl D. Mullins referenced as a corporal.
One area youth has been enlisted in the U S Navy and two others have applied for enlistment at the Bluefield Navy Recruiting Station, Carl Porath in charge announced yesterday. Enlisted on December 23 was Stacy L Couch of Caretta. Applicants include James M Ramsey of Forrest Hill and Frank J Bignotti of Capels.
A former Richlands High School student in Richlands Virginia and Henry College alumnus entered the army January 28 1943. He trained as a B 24 aerial gunner at Laredo Texas and earned his wings in July 1944 with the Fifteenth Bomber Group based overseas.
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