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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1938
Page
1
The county reports 1937 38 elementary white schools enroll 11 425 with average daily attendance 9442 74 and 307 teachers. junior high 176 teachers. colored elementary 2045 94 attendance, 1189 enrollment with 36 teachers. colored junior senior high 738 enrollment, 644 09 attendance with 28 teachers. Few new teachers likely for next term. board meets June 16 for final checks.
Mercer Post 2703 and its auxiliary schedule a Memorial Building meeting for Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Members are urged to attend for important matters and new member obligations. Harry Kleiman of Southern Pioneer post assists. Mrs. Callie Lovett leads the auxiliary and will obligate new members.
The Junior Music Appreciation Club met Friday at Miss Mary Katherine Gott and Glenna Gott’s Wallace Street home. Sponsor Mrs. Billy Bashler led the program on How Music Grew Up with pieces by Selvey Reed, Tomkin, and others. Guests and members enjoyed refreshments and planned a hike and theatre outing.
Kee Street church Circle One meets at Mrs Cleghorn’s home with 14 members and four guests. Devotional on The Gospel. Rev Yost on Aldersgate. social hour hosted by Mrs Coburn and Mrs Heninstall. Circle Two met at Mrs Sayers with Bible lesson by Mrs Jonson. D A R events include Matthew French chapter meeting June 10 and Princeton chapter 63 O E S gathering. junior group hosted by Miss Madie McGlothlin with prizes won for state junior groups. An estimate notes 13 000 elephants in Kenya col East Africa.
Local plant shop advertises sweet potatoes and tomatoes, sweet peppers and cabbage, flowering plants, nitrate of soda slug shot for beetles, tobacco plants, and assorted garden items. Located just below Memorial Hospital.
Woodrow Simms topped the Municipal police civil service exam with Eugene Haley and P A Chewning also high. Eleven men sat the test. the first three will be certified to the city council, which may delay filling the Merlin Miller vacancy until July 1 fiscal year. Three others passed earlier tests. In a separate note, the Brush Creek Farm Woman's club met with Mrs Harman and Mrs Miller hosting, 22 members and three visitors attended. A lesson titled Know West Virginia was given, followed by a surprise shower for Mrs Herbert Miller. The group planned to meet July 6 with Mrs Zeb Winfrey.
Mercer Fred Allen the Town Hall Tonight star appears with Alice Faye and Yaney Martin in Sally Irene and Mary at the Mercer theatre today and Monday. Joan Davis Marjorie Weaver and Alice Faye lead the title roles in a lively musical comedy about three sirens of swing seeking social security.
Thelma Collins and family thank the community for assistance and sympathy during the illness and death of husband J C Collins. They appreciate flowers and cars given to them. May God bless each of you.
Mercer county school superintendent C H Archer, 43, and other educators will confer with Marshall Teachers' College faculty in Huntington on June 23-24 to discuss teacher education. Archer will address two student groups at 10 and 11 a m on June 23, framed as hiring talks. A faculty picnic at Camden Park is planned for June 23 afternoon. Friday morning features addresses by Dr S B Weber Pittsburgh Dr Otis G Jamison Indiana State Teachers College and Dr W W Trent state school superintendent. Eggs will keep better if stored with the small ends down.
200 acres of ideal cattle and grain land including 100 acres level or gently rolling. An 8 room house, a well, two granaries, a dairy, and Rarege. Located about miles from Princeton. Price 4500 dollars with 1800 dollars cash and terms.
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