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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1947
Page
7
The American Legion baseball team will begin practice Monday at three o clock on the high school athletic field. Eligible players must be born in 1930 or later and hail from Princeton Glenwood Matoaka Athens or Onakvale. Any team seeking games with the Legion squad may contact organizers.
A brief ad lists pansies for a dozen at 75 cents and snapdragons for a dozen at 50 cents from J. Hale at Glenwood Park. The readable line suggests a nursery offer and location Daisy-like plants.
George Banning box 783 Princeton is asked to inform boys up to fourteen about a Monday 9:30 AM practice. Any boy in Princeton or teams with players under fifteen are invited. If enough boys compete a city league will form. rain shifts to the next day at the same time.
James Nelson Vawter infant son of James and Dorothy Ma thena Vawter died shortly after birth at 2:30 Saturday morning. He leaves parents and grandparents N. C. Vawter Bluefield and G. B. Mathena New Hope road. Body taken to Mathena home Saturday afternoon from Memorial Funeral Directory Chapel. Brief service at Resthaven Memorial Park at 2:30 this afternoon by Rev Denver J. Davis First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Charlie C. Ealy of 209 Third Street reports a cable confirming her husband arrived safely at the U S military cemetery at St. Avold near Metz France He attended services at the grave of his brother in law Lt Dana C White on Memorial Day.
M. B. Whitman invites purchasers to view pigs at Gulf Filling Station near Lake Shawnee across the bridge. The notice emphasizes ready-to-go livestock and a nearby viewing location for potential buyers.
Plans for the Southern States Princeton Co-operative annual meeting will be confirmed when board members and the farm home advisory committee meet at 7 p.m. Monday June 2 at Glenwood Park near Bluefield. H B Barber will preside as nominations for local board and committee vacancies are discussed.
Princeton residents and relatives are noted returning from Atlanta and Oak Ridge while visitors from San Francisco and St Albans travel to spend the summer here. Graduates, family guests, and social visits span Columbia, Detroit, and Chatham with dances and university events.
A University of Washington medical student recently discharged is visiting his mother Mrs. I H Fry on Walnut street. Several local families plan trips or return home soon, including Mr and Mrs Robert B McNutt of Park Avenue who will move to Lynchburg to live with their son and family. Mr and Mrs C B Conner of Roanoke visited Mrs Conner's sister on Walnut street last week. Floyd Augustine of Marietta Ohio, former resident, is visiting Mrs Mattie Spangler Christie Avenue. Ben H Reed Jr, a medical student in Louisville KY, spends the weekend with his father and sister. William Bird and two children from Trenton N J return home after attending the funeral of George H Higginbotham Elgood, staying with Mrs John Bird on Highland Avenue.
Mr and Mrs A C Parker of Appalachia Virginia announce the engagement of their daughter Eve Lynne Louise Parker to Hugh Scott Blankenship son of Mr and Mrs A C Blankenship of 400 Walnut Street Princeton West Virginia The couple plans a June 21 1947 wedding at the First Methodist Church in Appalachia Virginia.
Elder Lowell Lilly of Coal City will preach at the Primitive Baptist church at Seventh and Harrison in Princeton this evening at 7 30. Oakwood Cemetery association urges plot owners to contact G W Lazenby to record deeds and discuss a plan for perpetual upkeep at a future meeting. Brush Creek Farm Women's Club meets Wednesday at 2 at the 4 H camp Glenwood with I B Winfrey hostess and R W Faulkner lesson leader. Fine Arts Club meets Monday at 8 at Mrs H L Glenn’s home Center Street with H K Martin co hostess.
A rental notice states that Howard Hickman will not be responsible for debts incurred by others renting a three room unfurnished apartment. The note specifies couple only and provides contact for the signer.
The Vacation Bible School program at First Methodist Church will start on Monday June 2 and run for a period to be announced. Activities will include lessons crafts and songs for children in the congregation and community.
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