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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
7
In the one day event played Tuesday at Bluefield County Club J M Herndon and Mrs W E B McQuail tied for first place. Both individuals will receive a golf prize.
The event ends in a tie as Rocky's Golf Tourney concludes. Final day is June 5 with the opening matches scheduled for Tuesday June 8.
Mr and Mrs R R Gonano and family celebrate son Robert Gonano’s graduation from Greenbrier Military School Lewisburg where he ranked among three cadets chosen for West Point appointment. He will return for a year of preparatory study as Greenbrier offers War Department honorary status and future 1949 appointments.
The Contoure club held a slumber party at Mrs. Johnny Coleman’s Princeton road home where officers were elected for the year. Irene Wakeland was named president with Phyllis Morris as vice president and Irene Lewis as secretary. Anita Gott becomes treasurer. New members include Marlene Egbert Jeanette Calffee Phyllis Morris Irene Lewis Norma Jean Hale and Marie Farlow. Retiring officers are Patsy Lee Mahoney Dora Margaret Main Sandra Griffith Joan Frances Nancy Peterman and Irene Wakeland.
A new wrinkle finishing method has been successfully applied to all cotton fabrics including piques chambrays prints and denims. The finish is highly durable and retains effectiveness after many wash tests. It is expected to reach consumers on a large scale in spring and summer 1949.
A luncheon will be hosted Saturday at the Town Club by Xi Zeta chapter to honor Miss Henretta Mahood, who will wed Mr. Preston Hamilton, and Mrs. Mary Spencer Hunt, former bride, now Mrs. Thomas Hunt, with Beta Sigma President Mrs. J. C. Walters Jr. presiding.
Instructions from manufacturers on laundering blankets to prevent shrinkage. Ideal loads are one large blanket or two small ones. Shake to loosen dirt, brush soiled bindings with soap solution, use lukewarm water, brief gentle wash, two rinses, mild soap or synthetic detergent. Extract water gently, hang on two taut lines in shade. High suds desired but avoid oversoaping. Washing period no longer than three to four minutes. Striped blankets hung to confine dye if it runs. Mr and Mrs Ray Edgar Green of Pocahontas Virginia welcomed a son born at Bluefield Sanitarium Saturday. Green works for Pocahontas Fuel Company.
Mrs A J Thompson of Pocahontas Mrs Knight Thigpen of Glen Lyn and Miss Florence Cooper of McComas attended the Virginia Interment association annual meeting in Bristol. About 400 guests joined a luncheon in the Virginia Intermont College blue room honoring Mr and Mrs Samuel T Schrollter who retire from VI. Schrollter led the music department since 1906 and his wife directed the voice department since 1914. Dr K L Brantley presented seventy six silver dollars to the couple for their combined service.
A teenager complains about a smut fad in his school gang and discusses how girls’ reactions influence boys’ storytelling. The piece mocks sophomoric humor, urges restraint, and argues a grownup joke should be witty, not crude. It ends with family notices about local graduations and visits.
Ocean Terrace Cottage offers American or European plan one half block from the amusement park on Chesapeak Bay. Welcomes guests with reasonable rates and reservations urged. Owners Mr and Mrs W K Weedhouse Jr list address and phone in Norfolk Virginia.
The WMU of the New Lebanon Baptist association meets in annual session at the Lebanon Baptist church Lebanon Virginia starting at 10 30 with the theme Greater Works Than These Mrs Lester L Knight of Portsmouth president of the WMU of Virginia Miss Nadine Paxton of Louisville WMU Training School Miss Olive Riddell associational missionary and Mrs B E LeNoir and Mrs Asa Taylor of Bluefield speak The Rev Wendell G Davis pastor of College Avenue Baptist Church will give the devotional Luncheon is served at noon by Bethel Cleveland and Spring City church women Miss Florence Moore leads special music
Birth announcements list a daughter born to Mr and Mrs George D Lawson of Anawalt at Bluefield sanitarium Friday. Also a son born to Mr and Mrs J T McClung of Pikeville Kentucky at Bluefield sanitarium Friday. Mr and Mrs Harold R Bales of 210512 Washington Street welcome a daughter born at Bluefield sanitarium Friday. Mr Bales works for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company.
Mrs Henry Rodgin and Mrs Rose Katz attended the twenty third ordination exercises at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Jerome Grollman of Baltimore, a Rodgin and Katz relative, was among twelve graduates ordained as rabbis and earned a master of Hebrew letters. Honorary doctorates were awarded to Charles P Taft, William Foxwell Albright, and Joshua Loth Liebman. Dr Nelson Glueck conferred Mrs H E Stewart in Silver Spring Maryland will visit her sister Annie Quekemeyer. Dr A J Martin heads to Shrine convention in Atlantic City.
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