Pearl Buck Birthplace Museum to host 1976 summer events
The Pearl S Buck Birthplace Museum announces a third annual Birthday celebration on June 26 with a lecture by Lucille Zinn and honors for supporters. A July 6 to 8 chautauqua tents activities include music shows lectures and a Seneca District Boy Scouts exhibit. Hillsboro crafts demonstrations close the event with contact details for Ms Susan Hefner.
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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Buck
Birhday
Lucille Zinn
Buckhannon
Miss Buck
West Virginia
Boy Scouts
Hillsboro
Susan Hefner
P. O. Box
W. V
Club Calendar Highlights Busy Day of Meetings and Rummage Sale
A full schedule lists a 9:00 a.m. rummage sale at the former Maytag location on Bland Street by Bluefield Assembly 48 Rainbow Girls. Various church groups meet through afternoon with luncheons, councils, and circles at Trinity United Methodist, Greenview and other churches, plus WOC and WMU events and a Bloodmobile visit.
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Maytag
Bland St
Bluefield Assembly
Order of the Rainbow
Old Guard
Trinity United Methodic Church
WOC
College Avenue Baptist Church
WMU
Bluefield Quota Club
West Virginian
Trinity United Methodist
Greenview United
Ridgecrest Duplicate Club
R.a Shumate
Ridgecrest Roa
Ocefield Garden Club
Robert Nelson
Heatherwood Road
Rhododendron Garden Club
Frankie’s
Bloodmobile
Bland Street United
Graham Mn
Graham Cwf
Smoot
Program On Use Of Herbs Is Presented
Bluefield Extension Homemakers Club met at Edith Baldwin's home with Sue Carter co hosting. Eloise Crews led a herbs program covering indoor growing uses harvesting drying and freezing with a list of hardy West Virginia herbs and herbal insect repellents. A historical report on James Buchanan was given and eight members attended the old fashioned homecoming at the 4 H camp.
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Bluefield Extension Homemakers Club
Edith Baldwin
Sue Carter
Daisy Mingo
Eloise Crews
James Buchanan
Grace Alsabrooks
Beatrice Montgomery
Bluefield Extension Club
Beta Sigma Phi Chapters Elect Committees and Plan Bicentennial Events
Xi Omicron Chapter meets with Mrs Henry McClung and President Mrs Frank Johnson appointing committees for Social service program ways and means gifts publicity historian yearbook and more A year end financial report is given and invites and events for Charleston Ball Mark Bailey concert and Heritage house tour are announced Mrs McClung decorates her home with Bicentennial theme and serves refreshments with flag motifs
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Frank Johnson
Xi Omicron
Beta Sigma Phi
Bluefield
Henry McClung
Groveland Drive
Marjorie Holmes
Social
Pauline Colabro
Mary McGlamery
Marija Pascuzzi
Maxine Bailey
Helen Smith
Katie Gonano
Virginia McClung
Shirley Crockett
Phyllis Wolfe
Meri Louise Sutton
Carrie Humphreys
Carolyn Coppinger
Mary F Elizabeth Ewing
Betty Johnson
Lucille Winzenrith
Eva Easley
Juanita Gray
Margaret Ann Murphy
Sutton
Winzenrith
Charleston
Mark Bailey
Bland Street United Methodist Church
McClung
Hungry Mother Arts and Crafts Festival set for July
The third annual Hungry Mother Arts and Crafts Festival will be held July 16 to 18 at Hungry Mother State Park in Marion Virginia. Sponsored by the Art League of Marion and the Smyth Family YMCA with the Virginia Division of Parks, the event runs 11 am to 7 pm on July 16 and 10 am to 6 pm on July 17 and 18 with exhibits demonstrations of crafts and mountain music. Further information is available from the Art League of Marion at 1128 N Main St Marion VA or by calling 703-783-2922.
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Hungry Mother
Hungry Mother State Park
Marion
Art League of Marion
Smyth Family Ymca
Virginia Division of Parks
N. Main St
Egg size usage in consumer test kitchens
Many test kitchens developing consumer recipes rely on U S graded large eggs for cakes and cookies. The practice reflects standard culinary guidance and affects texture and consistency across baked goods.
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U.S
Polly's Pointers on Frugal Living and Quick Upgrades
Readers share money saving tips from keeping coffee fresh by refrigerating a full pot and reheating small portions, to repurposing an old suitcase with adhesive paper, using rubbing alcohol as a bathroom cleaner, halving fabric softener sheets, recycling fish as garden fertilizer, drying garments on a wire center table, cutting a plastic kitchen tablecloth to shelf coverings, and freezing leftover coffee for iced drinks.
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Polly
Rose
Betty
Alice
Mabel M
Elizabeth
M.M. Polly
Birth Announcements for Three Newborns in Bluefield Area
A son Eric Cecil was born May 23 at Bluefield Sanitarium to Mr and Mrs Cecil Norvell Smith Boissevain Va. Weighing 7 pound 10 ounces. The mother is Connie Delphine Mason. A daughter April Dawn born May 23 at Bluefield Sanitarium to Mr and Mrs Larry Lee Johnson 1207 Princeton Ave city. Weighing 7 pound 11 ounces. The couple has a son Chad Allen. Grandparents Glen Allen Underwood and William Leon Johnson. A daughter Kimberly Hope born May 24 at Bluefield Paul Vane Kemp Crumpler. Weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces. Former Lola Darlene Poe. Texas voted for annexation July 4 1845 and became the 28th state December 29.
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Eric Cecil
Bluefield Sanitarium
Cecil Norvell Smith
Boissevain
Connie Delphine Mason
April Dawn
Larry Lee Johnson
Princeton Ave
City
Chad Allen
Kimberly Hope
Paul Vane Kemp, Crumpler
Lola Darlene Poe
Nutrition Aide Susie Johnson Receives EFNEP Award
Susie Johnson a Mercer County nutrition aide received a five year certificate in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program at the EFNEP Conference at Jacksons Mill State 4 H Camp. The federally funded program from USDA and WVU Extension educates families with limited incomes on canning labeling drying and nutrition to improve living standards.
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Susie Johnson
Mercer County
Margaret Meador
Jackson’s Mill State
Johnson
United States Department of Agriculture
West Virginia University Center For Extension and Continuing Education
USDA
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Franklin Road
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Princeton
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Marian Martin
Partiers Dept
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Westloth St
New York
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William Leon Johnson
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