Birthday ball plans continue in Bluefield
Bluefield residents rush to arrange transport for the annual President's birthday ball with two dances at the West Virginian hotel and the Elks club. Open house for new Army recruits and Tag Day follow, as funds for the Infantile Paralysis drive show a growing treasury and ongoing events to boost donations.
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American Legion Hall
Annie D. Woolwine
W. FE. McDougle
Mercer County
National Infantile Paralysis Fund
Yesteray
Iron Lung Fund
Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
Bank of Athens
Treasury
Bluefield
Radio Program Fights Infantile Paralysis With Noted Speakers
This afternoon at 4 15 an appeal for the Infantile Paralysis Grive will be aired on WHIS featuring The Dream Notes of B S T C Mrs Othello M Jefferson of Bluefield State Teachers College Dr W M Wright chairman and Philip G Jefferson as announcer Also listed are workers for Monday and Tuesday with donations from Mrs Mamie Dixon and groceries Bishop T J Cox dies at Lakin State hospital funeral arrangements to be announced later church meetings today include Blake Chapel A M E Zion Scott Street Usher Board Mount Zion choir Graham P A and more Colored personals note Mrs Alice Pleasants of Bluefield Va homebound after a broken hip and visitors during the weekend listed.
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WHIS
Othello M. Jefferson
Bluefield State Teachers College
W M. Wright
Philip G. Jefferson
Bishop Cox
T. J. Cox
Lakin State Hospital
Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of
Blake Chapel
A. M. E. Zion Church
Elnora Stevens
Melcher Street
Alice Pleasants
Bluefield
Eva French
Wayne Street
Blanch Russell
Doris
Bernice
Virginia Side News Briefs Reflect Local Events
Community notes cover new rector Rev. O Ferrell Thompson moving to Bluefield with wife Mary Terry, library needs Cooper and Irving books, distantly referenced Casablanca conference impressions, and local notices on election talk by Carlisse Reese, cold spell, and local club meetings plus a Nostalgia item on old steam locomotive 65 and a Bryan excursion memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. Ferrell Thompson
Episcopal Church
Thompson
Mary Terry
Wytheville
Victory or Veal at the Calf with a V Head
A Bluefield dairyman seeks meaning in a calf marked with a V on its head. If female, the V stands for victory. if male, for both victory and veal. The note references camouflage as used in World War I and mentions Camp Forrest and winter conditions in Michigan. Farmers prepare for spring ploughing and corn-land work as April moves toward May.
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J. Sheppard
Bluefield
West Virginia
Mr. Sheppard
O. T
New York Times
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Murray
Comet sighting amid wartime notes and local fund drive
Glenn Bowling, brother of Mrs. R. C. Anderson and a Columbia Law graduate, serves as an army sergeant. A stray comet tail note brushes wartime chatter. Bluefield Virginia pledges support for the March of Dimes as physicians suffer heart disease more than other causes.
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Glenn Bowling
R. C. Anderson
Columbia University
One Case Heard Yesterday In Federal Court
In yesterday's federal court session only one case was disposed of, a group of three men and a woman who had pleaded not guilty on January 21 and changed to guilty on a conspiracy to violate internal revenue laws charge. The woman Dot Lykens had her case nolled, while the three men Clemons Lane and Fleshman had judgment deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dot Lykens
Nolle
Percy D. Clemons
Kermit Lane
Acie Edward Fleshman
McGhee
Floyd Hall
John Mullett, Sr
John Mullett, Jr
Williamson
Sugar Stamp No 11 Valid Feb 1 Mar 15
War price rationing board No 413 announces Sugar Stamp No 11 in War Ration Book No 1 will be valid for three pounds of sugar from February 1 to March 15. Stamp 10 expires January 31 and coffee stamp No 28 covers one pound of coffee until February 7. No next coffee stamp details yet. Linseed oil absorption note included.
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News of the Colored People
C. W. Tiffany
Alverta Hamilton
Elizabeth Robinson
Lois Leftwich
Elaine Holloway
Elsadia Ross
Polly Drewry
Caroll Tonsler
Elizabeth Richardson
Odessa McKay
Violet Justice
Vernon Justice
Arbathia Robinson
Dorothy Hawkins
Mamie Dixon
Ysroceries
Scott Street
Ethel Jones
Blanch Gray
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Goodykoontz Drug
Virginia Side
Casablanca
Graham High School
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
Slemp
Greenbrier Hotel
C. B. Slemp
Ninth District
Virginia
Calvin Coolidge
House of Delegates
Carlisse T. Reese
Reese
Tazewell County
Mr. Reese
Walter Sanders
Sanders
Elk Garden
Harry Stuart
J. T. Wilson
Graham Presbyterian Church
A. E. Kay
Virginia Avenue
Masons
Benj. E. Bates
Harman Lodge No
A. F
A. M
Masonic Hall
L. E. Anderson
North Tazewell
Bramwell
Simmons
Mr. Anderson
Miss May Callaway
Pinnacle Rock
Huntington
W. J. Bryan
J. S. Jones, Jr
Michigan
J.S. Jones
Blufield
Bowen Royall
Tazewell
Wartien
Warlick Furniture Store
RITZ
Manville
Towne
Princeton Ave
Bluefield, W, VA
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