Spring Y W C A Members Meet At Lake Place
The Spring membership meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association was held at Lake Place the home of Mrs H L Bland. It became a Mother and Daughter event with a picnic supper. Mrs Edward Frazes led devotional and Mrs C It organized a round table on Y W C A aims.
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Lake Place
Aless Place
H. L . Bland
Young Women’s Christian Association
Edward Frazes
Edward J. McQuail, Jr
Rocky's Golf Club Tournament at Bluefield Country Club
Nine women qualified in Rocky's handicap golf event at Bluefield Country Club. Qualifying continues through June 12 with more flights and prizes for winners and runners-up. Entrants should sign in at the golf shop.
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Rocky
Bluefield Country Club
G A Meeting With Mrs Weeks At Baptist Church
The Intermediate G A s of College Avenue Baptist church met at Mrs H L Weeks home Tuesday afternoon. A program with song Let Him In scripture lesson by Miss Kathleen Evans and prayer by Mrs Weeks followed.
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College Avenue Baptist Church
H. L. Weeks
Kathleen Evans
Elizabeth DeVault
Dorthea Lindsey
Mildred Copenhaver
India
Meeting At Home Of Mrs Leist Circle 4
Loyal Daughters class of Trinity church held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Harry Leist on Jefferson Street Monday evening. Mrs. F W provided the scripture, prayer was by Mrs. Haynes, a brief session led by Mrs. W P Carter, and the hostess served refreshments to nine members.
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Loyal Daughters
Trinity Church
Harry Leist
Jefferson Street
F. W
Haynes
W. P. Carter
Dainto
Mrs Kahle Pupils to Give Recital at Mullens
Mrs Louise Kahle announces a pupil recital at Mullens High School on June 11 at 8 p m. Guest artist Gibson Morrissey recently returned from Juilliard School of Music in New York. He will be guest artist and plans to join Bluefield College as music professor next semester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Neation Kahle
Mullens High School
Gibson Morrissey
Julliard Schol of Music
New York
Morrisey
Bluefield College
Garden Club Plans Trip to Hungry Mother Park
Bluefield Garden club members and others plan a trip to Hungry Mother Park on Friday. A luncheon on the clubhouse porch overlooks the lake requires reservations, 75 cent chicken, via Mrs. P. Dick Woods. Cars leave at 8 AM to tour Poe before luncheon with Mr. R. E. Burson guiding the park visit and an afternoon lecture.
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Bluefield Garden Club
Hungry Mother Park
P. Dick Woods
R. E. Burson
Parks of
Virginia
Uttire
Ston
Ladies Day Winners Celebrate Golf at Bluefield Country Club
Mrs. C. H. Tabor won the fewest putts with 28 for 18 holes and Mrs. Archer Ryland claimed the lowest gross score at 73. Mrs. J. B. Hollman placed second in both events with 75 net and 29 putts. Hostesses Mrs. W. C. Slusher and Mrs. R. T. McLaughlin presented golf balls to the winners as about 26 ladies enjoyed luncheon at the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Tabor
Archer Ryland
Bluefield Country Club
Tabor
Ryland
J. B. Hollman
Will Sail Thursday For Trip Abroad
Mrs. E. Bullio and daughter Melba sail Thursday on the Bremen for Cherbourg France and Paris. They will visit Switzerland and Italy including Turin to meet relatives. the trip will last about three months. Strawberries must be planted on fertile soil to produce sufficient runner plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Bullio
Melba
Cherbourg
France
Paris
Vasious
Switzerland
Italy
Southwest Virginia Golf Team Match Friday at Bluefield Club
A Southwest Virginia ladies golf match is set for Friday at the Bluefield Country Club with A and B teams from Galax Roanoke Pulaski Bristol and Bluefield. The A team includes Mrs J B Heilman Mrs J Herndon Mrs C F Brooks and Mrs H Morton. the B team includes Mrs Archer Ryland Mrs R O Rogers Mrs L E Tierney Jr and Mrs A B Mahood. Bluefield ladies not on the teams are invited to the luncheon and to assist entertaining. Reservations should be made with Mrs I C Schorr at the club by Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Virginia
Bluefield Country Club
Galax
Roanoke
Pulaski
Bristol
Bluefield
J. B. Heilman
J. Herndon
C. F. Brooks
H. Morton
Archer Ryland
R. O. Rogers
L. E. Tierney, Jr
A. B. Mahood
I. C. Schorr
Hampton Family Attends Roanoke Wedding Event
Mr and Mrs N S Hampton and Miss Louise Frances along with N S Hampton Jr travel to Roanoke for the evening wedding of Miss Ruth Layman to Mr Roland Horace Wampler. The 8 pm ceremony at the Church of the Brethren includes Louise Frances as one of six bridesmaids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. S. Hampton
Louise Frances
N. S. Hampton, Jr
Roanoke
Ruth Layman
Roland Horace Wampler
Church of the Brethren
Engagement for Vera Lee Thompson and Robert Andrews announced
Announcements include Vera Lee Thompson and Robert Curtiss Andrews engagement with a June 12, 1937, date. Also notes a church meeting, a Methodist class program, and a Bluefield Quota club picnic at Mrs Fretwell’s home. Various club meetings and a Bluefield Thirteen club homecoming dance are listed with times and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. N. Thompson
Vera Lee
Robert Curtiss Andrews
Blacksburg, Va
Births to Sexton and Coffman Glass families
Mr and Mrs C Sexton announce the birth of a son Orlando Karson with Elizabeth C as mother at Bluefield college. Mr and Mrs Coffman Glass of Lexington Ky welcome a baby girl Patsy Anne born May 29 weighing 8 1 4 pounds. mother formerly Miss Jah Compton a nurse at Bluefield sanitarium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Sexton
Orlando Karson
Elizabeth C
Coffman Glass
Lexington
Atsy Anne
Pue
Jah Compton
Bluefield Sanitarium
Rotary Banquet Guests Include Touring Party Visitors
West Virginia hotel hosted a Ladies Night Rotary banquet with about twenty five tourists from Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Rhode Island Virginia Connecticut Ohio Kentucky and North Carolina. Guests enjoyed entertainment including Sue Ann Mason Lynn Davis and Dorothy Lankford with a surprise strip act by John Cary Shott and a rodeo style exhibition by Shorty Gloom Chasers band. The touring party arrived by chartered bus after a stop in Wheeling and will continue to Elkins and White Sulphur Springs.
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West
Ber of Commerce
West Inia Automobile Club
W. Virginia Hotel Association
West Virginia
Bluefield
Frank S. Easley
Rotary Club
Blair Stone
Sam Stanford
Sue
Ann Mason
Lynn Davis
Ray Evans
Fats Smith
Dorothy Lankford
Shirley Tilied
Shirley Temple
Barnes Nash
Les Keith
Shorty
John Cary Shott
Miss Lee
White Sulphur Springs
Rotary
Rotary Banquets Highlight Welch and Pittsburgh Guests
Mr and Mrs W A Buchanan of Welch attended the Rotary banquet at the West Virginia hotel with Mr and Mrs C E Lilley. Mrs Mack Harworth of Pittsburgh visited Clyde Elliott as part of the Rotary events. Mr and Mrs Joe Meyer of St Louis visited C W Edward. Margaret Sanders and Mary Catherine Porterfield returned from finals at W P S Blacksburg with W F Sanders. Harry W Garber traveled to Waynesboro for his father C D Garber’s funeral from pneumonia. Hugh S Rayborn and his daughter Dolly left for Kansas City to bring Marion home from school.
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W. A. Buchanan
Welch
C. E. Lilley
West Virginian Hotel
Mack Harworth
Pittsburgh
Clyde Elliott
Rotary
Joe Meyer
St. Louis
C. W. Edward
Monroe Street
Margaret Sanders
Mary Catherine Porterfield
W. P. S. Blacksburg
Sanders
W. F. Sanders
Vu Ayee
Harry W. Garber
Waynesboro
C. D. Garber
Hugh
Rayborn
Dolly
Craig Street
Kansas City
Marion
Local Social News Highlights From Bluefield and Surrounding Towns
A tidied list of Sunday visits and family motions includes Mrs Dunnson and Kenna Bane returning from Lexington with Mr and Mrs Glass. Mrs Barron of Big Stone Gap and daughters Mary Lou and Joan ton Gap plus Curtis Robbins and daughters Jane and Peggy visited East River avenue. Attendees at Craig Healing springs include Mr and Mrs Elias and Mr and Mrs H Gill of Bluefield. Thurman and enele Reynolds underwent tonsil surgery at Bluefield sanitarium. Nancy Campbell plans to attend finals at V M A Lexington this weekend. Dr and Mrs Dean Hosmer attend AMA convention in Atlantic City. I N Puqua and Park Way family visited Blacksburg for a class reunion. Hugo Holliday and family, Betty Bailey, and W P Gotlieb enjoyed a Mountain Lake outing. H W Jackson and J G Litton families also attended Jackson's Ferry gathering, with Litton visiting grandparents for a week. Thomas, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Thomas, remains critically ill at St Luke's after a fall. Mrs Claude Chambers entered St Luke's for treatment. Mrs M J Underwood, longtime Bluefield sanitarium patient, is noted.
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Bluefield
Dunn
Kenna Bane, Saeger
Coffman
Glass
Lexington
Robert P. Barron Sr
Big Stone
Bily Fs
Mary Lo Lou
PS Fee Joanton Gap
Anne Barron
Curtis Robbins
Jane
Peggy
Peesery
Dean Hosmer
Atlantic City
Hemer
American Medical Association
I. N. Puqua
Parkway
Blacksburg
P. I
Hugo Holliday
Huge
Fannie Kate Bailey
Betty
W. P. Gotlieb
Mountain Lake
H. W. Jackson
J. G. Litton
Jackson's Ferry
Lly Litton
Thomas
Frank Thomas
Carter Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Claude Chambers
St. Luke's Hospital
M. J. Underwood
Bluefieil Sani
Patient discharged and moved from Bluefield sanitarium
The patient Hodges from Highland Avenue no longer remains at Bluefield Sanitarium and has been moved to her home after treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mon“oh I. N. Hodges
Highland Avenue
Bluefield Sanitarium
Expectant Mother and Mate Sentenced in Lindbergh Kidnap Case
Boston June 8 An expectant mother and her husband both of Detroit faced federal prisons tonight for violating the Lindbergh kidnapping law. Jack Benson 23 received a ten year sentence after pleading guilty to kidnapping Roland Robi
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Detroit
Jack Benson
Roland Robi
Lawrence man sentenced in case involving transportation to the west
Chand of Lawrence and another man forced him to drive to St. Louis. Benson's wife Rhea Prema, 21, got a year and a day. Federal judges say it was not kidnapping for ransom but transportation for the principal suspects. The piece notes currency paper costs 37 cents a pound and 1,743,236 pounds will be used in 1937. Agriculture equipment sales are forecast near 571 million dollars in 1929 terms.
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United States
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H. S. Shott
Minnie Weaver
Desir Gilmore
Rocky’s Golf Club
G. A
Weeks
Sareyside
Seagram
AmMider
Seagram's
Ny Seagraw
Seagram Distillers Corp
Jers
Lemons
B. D. Turner
Trinity Auxiliary
Fretwell
College Avenue
Willie White
Beulah Price
J. E. McMullin
Trinity Methodist Church
Mary Frances Green
Globe Trotters
Picknickers
First Baptist Church
Bluefield Thirteen Club
West Virginian
Rei
USC
Greyhound Bus
Federal and
Scott Sts
W. Va
Greyhound
Ya Ett
Goodyear
Goodyear Dealers
Sim At
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