Decorators and hosts in spring porch and lounge feature
The article lists the decor and furnishing committee members including Mr and Mrs Pete Ferretti and Mr and Mrs Mirto Corte, with others such as Mr and Mrs Edward McQuail and Frank Hancock. A second porch scene shows Bruce Miller and Mrs Thomas Baer with Dr Baer and Mrs Miller, highlighting an informal lounge and bar connected by a bamboo stairway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Ferretti
Mirto Corte
Edward McQuail
Frank Hancock
George Walker
Bruce Miller
Thomas Baer
Baer
May Installation Led by Rev Ralph Thompson at Matoaka
The Ashworth Memorial Methodist Woman's Society held its May meeting in Matoaka with Rev Ralph Thompson presiding. New officers include President Mrs R L Carrico and Recording Secretary Mrs John Jones. Secretaries cover promotion spiritual life social relations missionary education children's work youth student and supply. Retiring president Mrs Elmer Shrewsbury led a brief business meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Davis
R. R. Fizer
C. C. Brown
Flora Bowman
Elmer Shrewsbury
Community Group Meetings at Y Center This Monday
Various local organizations schedule activities at the Y Center including YWCA bridge classes at 10 00 a m Bluefield Woman s club 2 00 p m and the Virginia Asher Bible Council 3 30 p m Executive board 1 00 p m plus Bluefield Assembly No 48 ORFG 7 00 p m and American Legion Auxiliary Riley West Post No 9 7 30 p m Also Bluefield Country Club Ladies Day 9 30 a m and YWCA golf lessons 10 00 a m with a note of time change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
Y Center
Bluefield Woman's Club
Virginia Asher Bible Council
Bluefield Assembly No. 48
ORFG
Masonic Temple
Diane Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Riley-West Post No
H. W. Graham
Rockbridge Street
East River
Community Club Calendar Local Chapter Meetings Set
A dense schedule lists 6 to 8 different church and civic group gatherings in Bluefield area venues. Events include Louise Bruce Wesleyan Service Guild, Trinity Methodist WSCS, Blue Triangle club, Republican Woman's Club lunch, and Daughters of Colonial Wars luncheon at Bluefield Country Club, plus church group meetings and carry-in picnics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Gun Club
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Trinity Methodist
Louise Bruce Wesleyan Service Guild
Margaret Harman
Cumberland Road
O. E. Pafford
Blue Triangle Club
Y Center
Trinity Methodist Stella Armbrister Wesleyan Service Guild
J. N. Roberts
Augusta Street
Bluefield Republican Woman's Club
West Virginian Hotel
Sponge Mop Your Basement Window Washes
A simple method to clean hard to reach basement windows uses a cellulose sponge mop. It works well even over oil storage tanks and makes the chore easy and effective.
Prize Dishes Through Centuries Highlight Peafowl
The article notes peacocks and peahens as prized foods for centuries. Phoenicians introduced peafowl to Europe about 3,000 years ago and Alexander the Great brought peacocks to Greece after campaigns in India. Today at Caribbean Gardens in Naples Florida free roaming peafowl feed on peanut scraps and perform courtship displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Greece
India
Caribbean Gardens
Naples
Fla
Grunsty Woman’s Club May Meeting Highlights
Grundy Virginia club members outlined beautification projects for the courthouse and library. The scholarship committee awarded the Virgie Raines Memorial Scholarship to Miss Juanita Rose. An illustrated program on Dr. Frank Laubach's literacy system was presented, with music and floral gifts noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy
Frank Laubach
Saryl Horne
A. N. Horne
C. C. Clarke
F. W. Spraker
Clarke
Federation
B. E. Cook
E. L. Smith
F. B. Fowler
Spraker
Earl Dillinger
Fowler
Smith
Mary Jennifer Johnson graduates cum laude at Carson-Newman
Miss Mary Jennifer Johnson of St Paul Virginia earns cum laude from Carson-Newman College Jefferson City Tennessee. She is among Panathenaea Honor Society seven and serves as president. Johnson held multiple campus offices and plans summer work at the New York World's Fair before graduate studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St, Paul
Mary Jennifer Johnson
Fred W. Johnson
St. Paul
Carson- Newman College
Jefferson City
Tenn
Panathenees Honor Society
Hypatian Society
Epsilon Alpha Gamma
Woman's
Legislative Council
Pi Kappa Delta
National Forensic Fraternity
Personal guests visit area families this weekend
Mrs. Ben Draper of Sebring Florida is hosted by Mrs. I N Fuqua on Parkway. Mrs. Everett Byrd of Washington DC spent a weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs M C McNeal on College avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Draper
Sebring, Fla
I. N. Fuqua
Parkway
Everett Byrd
Washington, D. C
M. C. McNeals
College Avenue
Miss Wooldridge Earns B S Degree From Morris Harvey
Miss Elizabeth Wooldridge of Bluefield graduates from Morris Harvey College Charleston with a bachelor of science degree in music education. She completed the program Sunday and studied music education at the Charleston campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Elizabeth Wooldridge
Valley View Avenue
Bluefield
Morris Harvey College
Wooldridge
Charleston College
Burke Couple Welcome Son Gregory Keller in Oakland
Mr and Mrs John Burke of Oakland California announce the birth of their first child a son named Gregory Keller born Saturday May 30 at Kiser hospital in Oakland weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces The father is the son of Mrs L H Burke of College Avenue apartments Bluefield and the late Mr Burke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burke
Oakland
Calif
Gergory Keller
Kiser Hospital
L. H. Burke
College Avenue Apartments
Bluefield
Mr. Burke
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Bluefield Country Club
Upshur Higginbotham
Joe
Paige Wooldidge
James Perkins
Golf
Ralph McCue
Joe Hindsley
Alex Mahood Sr
J. Taylor Frazier
James Cowan
N. S. Bovenizer
Mahood
Simmerman
Frazier
Tyler Greene
Tennessee
WSCS
Matoaka
First Christian Church Group No. 2
Melvin Harris
First Presbyterian White Cross Group
Christ Episcopal Churchwomen
Hobson Library
M. T. Meachum
Trinity Methodist Wscs
Ben Black
Westminster Presbyterian Woc Bible Teachers
WOC
Rowley
Westminster Presbyterian Church
B&p Girls Club
Bud Johnson's
Double Gates
West Virginia Society of Daughters of Colonial Wars
Grundy WC
Norte
Southern Gas & Oil, Inc
J. K. Porterfield
Goodykoontz Rexall Store
Bland and
South Streets
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Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Fraternity
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