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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1941
Page
12
Mrs Hammitt and daughter Jill travel from Pocahontas to Berkeley and San Francisco to attend the University of California 78th commencement where Buncie Castagnoli earns a diploma. her father awaits an honorary degree in Alabama as family observes the event amid war years and coastal sightseeing.
R H Bowden pastor. Sunday school at 9 45 a m with Frank Carter superintendent. Morning worship at 11 o clock. Evening worship at 6 30. B Y P U meets at 6 30 p m with Paris Lambert leader.
Edward W Hughes rector leads Sunday school at ten in the morning with Hampton Crawford supervising morning prayers and sermon at eleven.
Pastor J. A. McNulty of St Elizabeth’s Catholic Church leads a morning Mass at 8 30. The brief记 marks the service with the pastor officiating and parish attendance expected.
Pastor Bertok announces morning worship at 10 o clock and evening worship at 7 30. Local congregation urged to attend both services.
J. B. Jones Bramwell West Virginia pastor announces church services at 12 15 p m.
The Pauley family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness shown during the death of their wife and mother Mrs. Whitt Pauley. Special thanks to Rev. R. H. Bowden, Pocahontas Fuel Company employees, and Local No. 60 C. Signed Whitt Pauley and Children.
Mr and Mrs Herbert M Noel and Mr and Mrs B E Ward attended the graduation exercises at Virginia Intermont College Bristol Virginia last week. Miss Nancy Noel and Miss Mary Ward were students at V I this past school session.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for the Pocahontas postmaster position. Applications must be filed in Washington DC or Pocahontas not later than June 10 1941. Salary is 2400 dollars yearly. Mrs Alice Renkin acts as postmistress. The notice also mentions a piano recital at the high school auditorium and honors awarded to Dotty Ellett and Theresa Hramety.
Local chatter promises Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians will perform the sweetest music this side of heaven at Abingdon on Tuesday evening. Jitterbugs and terpsichore devotees are expected to travel to the Princeton road venue for an evening of lively dancing.
The community marks the retirement of H. C. Calloway known as Old Timer after nearly 50 years as a telegrapher with the Norfolk and Western railroad. A June 7 farewell service is planned by friends. a banquet is arranged.
A. B. Buchanan nominates five county observers for civilian aircraft spotters under the Southwest Virginia Regional Defense Council. Pocahontas hosts soft ball games, graduation exercises for 25 graduates, a pre school clinic by Phantas Fuel, and Memorial Day events with American Legion observances. Virginia aircraft warning service plans include 18,000 volunteers and six local posts with June 2 as general registration day. Fourth of July celebration and local social news complete this community digest.
The Bluefield Automobile association awarded medals to patrol members on Miss Mary Helen Caldwell’s recommendation. Recipients include Nick Lotito captain, Sam Pugh, Marvin Dillon, Shupe, Claude Ballard, and James Bo Laughlin.
iel Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hartwell of Matoaka visited Mr. and Mrs. Jennings last Sunday. Jess Matson and P. J. Batley Jr. joined Pocahontas Fuel Company in Jenkins Jones colliery payroll office. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McComas plan a June 7 two week Miami Beach vacation. E V Peery leaves for vacations visiting Washington and Baltimore. Lillie Patrick May beury and Miss Charlotte Jennings visited Annie Jennings. Mrs. W A Davis returns to Charleston after visiting Salt family. Rupert Hurley arrives to visit parents before W P I Blacksburg graduation. Mrs Andrew Geisen arrives from Richmond to visit her sister. Miss Emily Simpson and Miss Clennis Mattox, teachers in Winston-Salem, return to Newcastle and Roanoke after visiting Miss Mary Johnston.
Tip Top Virginia closed its public schools after a year of many changes and strong cooperation from parents. Principal Charles Warden and teacher Miss Louise Whittington led the effort and earned broad support. many hope they return next year.
John Whittaker of this community was treated at Bluefield sanitarium for injuries from a mine accident at Bishop Virginia on Tuesday. He is now recovering at his home. Whittaker works for Pocahontas Fuel Company.
Mr and Mrs George Bowman of Charleston spent last Sunday visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Buster Helman of Tazewell and Mrs Bertie Johnson spent Sunday in Jenkin Jones visiting Mr and Mrs P F Casimo.
Bailey Virginia May 31 report lists visitors to Mrs Dillie Prench including Russell and Bud Prench from Lurich and G R Prench from McCarr Kentucky plus Mary French from Washington DC for Helen French graduation. L H Karr had major operation at Bluefield sanitarium and is now able to receive visitors. Letha Durham visits Gilmore household on Bluefield Princeton road. Corky Durham returns home after visit. Ann King and Guy Cundiff dine with F H Davidson. R Bryant returns from Albain Indiana. Sallie Hill of Martinsville visits brother R Bryant.
In Yards Virginia Raymond Jr Compton a Wade junior high graduate was honored with an award by Post No 9 of the American Legion. Personal notes mention Mrs Ted Williams of Knox ville Tenn visiting her mother Mrs Mattie Fowler and Pvt Howard White home on furlough at Camp Shelby Miss Billie Price recently enlisted in the US army air corps and is stationed at Fort Thomas KY Mrs J J Tickle visits her sister Mrs esa Buck in Belsprings AL.
Paris Mills May 31 Falls Mills Home Demonstration club will gather Tuesday at 10 o clock at Mrs. M. H. Barbour home at Yards Va. Members will serve lunch and demonstrate slip covers and judging canned goods. Corporal James Robert Lucas US Army stationed in Alaska arrived in Welch last Monday to visit his sister Mrs L D Bailey and will return June 23. Mrs Fred Carter remains at St Luke's hospital improving nicely.
Capt. C. M. Jennings of Evergreen Farms buys the Walton Construction brick building, a modern facility. It will become an office for Dr. W. D. Kahle after July 1.
Ingeborg Hubert aged 16 wed Corporal Kurt Berg in a Berlin town hall ceremony by proxy for a German soldier serving in Africa. Berg’s captain held a parallel ceremony in Africa at the same hour.
Tazewell high School will hold its closing exercises Monday night with a devotional and student talks led by seniors. The Glee club will perform and 76 diplomas will be awarded, the largest class in the school's history, after Sunday baccalaureate services. Nearby wool prices and lamb sales were also reported for the area.
The president orders a new registration of 21 year olds since the October 16 draft. Tazewell county is expected to contribute 350 to 400 registrants under boards 1 and 2. Board 1 has 5 726 registrants and 5726, while board 2 mails 1 600 questionnaires to about 2 200 registrants. Classifications show 14 percent in 1-A, about 7 percent deferred on dependency, 8 occupational deferments, 53 in 1-B for minor defects, and 66 in IV-F for severe unfitness.
W D Seebert of Louis County Post and Harold W Renkin of Pocahontas Post named organizers for the civilian aircraft warning service in Tazewell county. American Legion aims for 18 000 volunteers to staff 1 139 posts with 16 men per garrison by June 15. A chief observer will enroll the remaining 16 men. A meeting is set for Memorial hall Tuesday at 8 pm. Posts and chiefs listed include Pounding Mill M F E Thomas Red Ash John J Jewell Big Creek Dan Taylor Cove R W Edwards Burk's Garden L S Edwards Upper Thompson Valley E A Thompson Sayersville Fayette Beavers Thompson Valley Ben Buchanan Tazewell Andrew Witten Cavitts Creek R W Mundy Maxwell Fred W St Clair Freestone James B Neal.
County agent B. M. Phiode plans a Monday trip to the Valley of Virginia to seek lambs for Four-H club projects. Tazewell county is known for Hampshire sheep, hardy and high in mutton market prices, though confinement feeding shows finer points may elapse. Four-H members from Tazewell have shone in show rings in Rich mond and at the Baltimore Fat Stock Shows, with notable work in Southdowns, a less common county breed.
W. H. Harman county director of the Farm Security administration completes negotiations to purchase about five farms for resale to numerous persons under the farm ownership program. Albert H. Phillips assists and seeks TVA unit deeming of properties to include them in the program.
On Sunday afternoon at 2 30 o clock the T A Freedman pastor of Tazewell Presbyterian church will speak in Memorial hall. The general public is invited. MISS HAGER HOSTESS Miss Virginia Hager hosted an informal party at Gratton Saturday evening with friends from Bluefield Grundy Gratton Bishop and Tazewell as well as her home community. The event featured forfeits storytelling and music with refreshments served at the end assisted by her mother Mrs George Hager and sister Mrs Eugeen Burton.
The Garden club meets at Memorial hall on Monday at 2 30 PM. Members should bring flowers and a container. Mrs H G McCall and Mrs G A Pabst will demonstrate arranging cut flowers. Mrs A S Higginbotham will discuss the Charleston gardens.
L. C. Beamer assistant garden specialist from Blacksburg extension station stopped in Tazewell Thursday while traveling to Bluefield to address a women’s group on Home Garden at a meeting that evening at Bluefield College.
The June meeting of the American Legion auxiliary will be held Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. R. E. Kitts on Riverside Drive North Tazewell. Mrs. Joe L. Mason and Mrs. P. J. Bailey will join Mrs. Kitts as hostesses.
Ensign James Hayes Peery of the Naval Academy in Maryland recently visited his parents in Mud Fork after commissioning on May 15. L. B. Pearson spends vacation in Cedar Rapids with brother H. H. Pearson. Miss Rose Allen Higginbotham, Pearisburg High School faculty, is hospitalized in Bluefield after an appendectomy. Mrs. E. R. Boyd visits Orange, Virginia with sister Mrs. Frank Stringfellow. Dr. James M. Peery left Grundy hospital for Army duty at Ft. George, Meade, Maryland, after several months here. Aaron Russ and Rose Sell Painter attended banking meetings in Richmond. Mrs. George W. Litton of Blacksburg visited her parents in town. The Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Freeman welcomed a son born last Saturday. Miss Peggy Vawter, Greenbrier college student, recuperates at home in North Tazewell from measles. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cecil hosted their daughter Frances Cecil and her friend Katherine Jones of Galax, students at National Business College in Roanoke, Virginia. Mrs. Elmer H. Rhody of Burke’s Garden remains treated at Richlands hospital. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Burton and the Misses Burton hosted visitors at Grate Town last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bailey of Kimball, West Virginia.
England note reports H B Gattaway of Clinton Oklahoma has used the same umbrella daily for 39 years noting his long habit and steady routine.
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