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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
8
Legal notices announce trustee sales in Mercer County West Virginia. A four room furnished apartment is offered for rent, with trust deeds detailing sale procedures and locations. Trustee names M. Easley and D. M. Easley will conduct auctions at Princeton courthouse on June 25, 1932, at 11 a.m. with cash terms.
A deed of trust dated November 6 1929 secures payment of money described in the instrument. Mary Sue Lee Clark and Reaburn D Clark her husband executed the trust to secure the obligation. record shown in the office of the trustee, D M Bailey.
The District Court of the Southern District of West Virginia schedules a June 11 1932 creditors meeting for Harry Clark of Bluefield Mercer County to appoint a trustee and address claims. George Winton Stewart seeks discharge and a June 30 1932 hearing is ordered with publication in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
Mrs Philip Lilly soprano one of Bluefield’s top artists will headline the Concord college commencement program in Athens at 10 this morning. She will be accompanied by Ella Horroyd of Bluefield and Athens recently named Concord college faculty. Evangeline Donahue violinist and Dorothy Donahue pianist are also slated to perform. The party will be accompanied to Athens by Mr Lilly.
The mission study, delayed earlier, starts at Grace Methodist Church at 7 45 tonight with Mrs J A Burrow and Mrs BE R Wilson leading the first and third chapters of Methodism and World Needs. Topics include Our Work in the Orient and The Opportunity and Challenge of Home Missions.
Miss Dorothy Carter the pianist and Miss Kathleen Tynes the vocalist will appear on M Marion Smith’s WHIS program from 12 to 1 today. The Musical Cookies trio James Elmer Brown Earl Hurt and Blanche Armentrout will also be heard in this program.
Notice to creditors and the public that Patrick J. Kelley widow’s trust to D M Easley as Trustee will sell at Princeton court house on June 25 1932 at 11 am. Part of Lots Section 30 Bluefield Mercer County described by street intersections and lines with cash terms. Sale by M Ley as Trustee.
The Bluefield Temple No 83 Pythian Sisters will not meet tonight due to commencement exercises. A special meeting is scheduled for next Thursday evening at the regular hour to transact important business.
The Virginia Asher Business Women's Council marks its eleventh anniversary with a birthday dinner next Monday at 6 at the Y quarters. All current and former members and visitors are invited. reservations due by Friday. The annual meeting will include a brief program, garden-decorated setting, and officer installation.
Graduating exercises will be held at Fairview Ratheey and Wade junior high schools at 8 pm. Fairview program includes prose nial welcome, Patty Ann Burgees, class song, M L Smith and Adelaide Bailey. Ramsey program lists Mary Hobson Kathryne O Keefe Florence Weiser and Bruce Walk. Wade program features Rev A L Shumate J Frank Marsh and Clifford Bishop as speakers and diploma awards.
Mr and Mrs Walker Haden Land welcome a son born Sunday morning May 29 at St Luke's Hospital. The baby is named Walker Haden Jr. Mrs Land previously Miss Collie May St Clair of Lynchburg Virginia.
Members of the Bluefield W C T U will hold a 2:30 P M service in Hamilton Hall to support continuance of national prohibition. The local service is part of a nationwide W C T U campaign urging national conventions to oppose repeal of the eighteenth amendment and to nominate pro prohibition presidential candidates.
Visiting artists Miss Thelma Whitehead Miss Mary Lee Draper Mrs. Hampton Crawford and Rev. A C Rudy of Pocahontas performed at the WHIS studio on Wednesday during Miss Marion Smith's noon Delightful radio program. Vocal and piano selections opened the program with titles including Lord you Make the Night Too Long A Moment in the Dark The Night When Love Was Born Save the Last Dance for Me and An Evening in Carolina. Two readings were given in a continued program.
In a varied program Rev. Mr. Rudy delivered My Regular Prayer and Me and Pop and Mother while also singing Absent and All For You. Jack Dishman showcased Shubert’s Serenade on sax with Draper accompanying popular tunes Paradise and Old Jones Love and I’m Sorry Dear. Mrs. Crawford offered engaging blues numbers including My Extraordinary Man and other favorites.
In the West Virginian hotel bridge room Bluefield Quota club met for a weekly luncheon with Mrs. Alice Zimmerran presiding. Miss Ella Holroyd provided piano selections after lunch. Helen Sue Spangler awarded May attendance prizes to winning teams. Arie Neel led first, Bertha Luke second, Nila Frew third. June July attendance records to be managed by Adrian Barnett and Mrs Neal.
Miss Naomi Lee Snead leaves today for Montreat North Carolina to enroll at Montreat Normal school. She was honored with a shower Wednesday evening hosted by Mrs Eli Watkins and received many lovely gifts. Guests enjoyed tempting refreshments.
Graduating exercises set for 7 30 this evening at E of C hall with a charming program arranged by Sacred Heart school observers report the event reflects small town tradition and community involvement.
Bluefield college and university students plan a round of social events during the summer. The annual home coming dance, sponsored by the Bluefield Cotillion club, will be Thursday evening June 16 at the West Virginia hotel. Jack Baxter and his orchestra will headline, well known for playing at several regional schools.
Louis Cometti will return Friday from Georgia Tech after completing his third year to spend summer with his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cometti. Elizabeth McClaugherty has returned from Salem College in North Carolina where she graduated as a violinist. Elizabeth Warlick returned from Davenport College in North Carolina to spend vacation with her parents. Mrs. Dick Saunders and Miss Jeanne BeCraft of Wytheville were visitors in Bluefield. Dorothea White, who underwent surgery at St Luke's hospital, is improving nicely. Mrs. Hugo Holliday has returned from visits at Stamford Connecticut Woodcliffe New Jersey and New York City. Mrs. C. I. Cheyney submitted to an operation at St Luke's hospital yesterday and is recovering.
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