Mrs Owen to Honor Miss Ramage at Luncheon
Mrs. W S Owen will compliment Miss Jean Tyler Ramage at a luncheon Monday afternoon at her Mountain View avenue home. Ramage will wed Mr F Turley Walls of Huntington on the 15. Mrs Guy H Lawhead and Mrs O G Crow entertain Tuesday afternoon at Mrs Lawhead home on Edgewood road in courtesy to Miss Ramage. Miss Margaret Buchanan hosts a luncheon Monday at Albemarle street at 1 30 in courtesy to Miss Barbara Reynolds and Miss Mary Ellen Hoge. Miss Reynolds will wed Mr William T Ward of Cumberland Md on June 22 and Miss Hoge will marry Mr William Granville Sale Jr on June 20 at Westminster Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Owen
Jean Tyler Ramage
Mountain View Avenue
Ramage
F. Turley Walls
Huntington
Guy H. Lawhead
O. G. Crow
Lawhead
Edgewood Road
Margaret Buchanan
Albemarle Street
Barbara Reynolds
Mary Ellen Hoge
Fourteen Ladies Qualify In Rocky's Golf Tournament
In the 18 hole qualifying round of Rocky's Golf tournament fourteen ladies posted scores with Mrs J M Herndon and Mrs H L Whit enack tying for medalist honors at 83. Other qualifiers include Miss Reba Meem 84 Mrs W T Williams 84 Mrs J B Heilman 84 Mrs C T St Clair Jr 84 Mrs W C Slusher 85 Mrs C F Brooks 85 Mrs L Jack Burks 85 Mrs W A McCue 91 Mrs Lee Wright 94 Miss Mary Gordon Perkins 104 and Mrs Gene Stowers 123. The handicap event starts Tuesday at 9 30 am with matches listed and byes noted. The day’s main event is the fewest putts with prizes from Rocky's Golf Shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Herndon
H. L. Whitenack
Reba Meem
W. T. Williams
J. B. Heilman
C. T. St. Clair, Jr
W. C. Slusher
C. F. Brooks
L. J. Burks
Mary Gordon Perkins
Lee Wright
H. L. Whitnack
W. A. McCue
Gene Stowers
T. C. Doyle
Rocky’s
Golf Shop
Gary Country Club Hosts Ladies Night Dinner Event
A large turnout of Gary area ladies enjoyed a dinner and social evening at the Gary Country Club on Thursday. After dinner at 7 p.m., guests played bridge and Chinese checkers with hostesses listed, including Mrs. William Daugherty and Mesdames. The report also notes a new birth at Grace Hospital in Welch and other military and community service connections involving Gary families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Country Club
Gary
Country Club
William Daugherty
Mesdames
Robert Aine
Kenneth Riley
Ed Kantorek
Lester Dunman
Pete Blasher
O. N. Duffey
Mrs Gaston Brown Hosts Bridge Club At Highland Home
Mrs Gaston Brown entertained members of her bridge club at her Highland avenue home on Wednesday afternoon at 1 30 with luncheon. Bridge followed the luncheon with three tables in play throughout the afternoon.
Mrs. Brewster Hosts VFW Cottage Club Meeting
Mrs. C. E. Brewster of Elbert I entertained members of the VFW Cottage club at her home Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Brewster
Elbert I
VFW Cottage Club
National Officers To Speak At Woodmen Meeting
William Collins Braden national secretary of the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society will be guest speaker at the local Woodmen of the World meeting for clerks on Thursday June 13 at 7 pm at the West Virginian hotel Braden studied at Lake Charles public schools and Louisiana State University Baton Rouge earning high honors in 1908 He earned an L L B from L L A in 1910 and began practicing law He served as city judge of Lake Charles Louisiana for four terms and held leading roles in Woodmen including camp commander head consul and Sovereign camp s entry at Seattle in 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Collins Braden
Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society
Woodmen of the World
West Virginian
Braden
Lake Charles
Louisiana State University
Baton Rovuge
Louisiana
Seattle
Social Evening Follows Business Session
An 8 o'clock social hour followed the business session with refreshments served by the hostess.
Wilcoe School PTA Luncheon Honors Teachers
Home room mothers of Wilcoe school PTA hosted a luncheon on May 29 at the school to honor teachers. Tables on stage were decorated with roses, covers set for twenty five, and Principal Mrs. Nunnally delivered brief remarks thanking patrons for their cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilcoe School
PTA
PTA Elects Officers for Wilcoe Year in Review
Wilcoe Parent-Teachers Association elected and installed officers for the new year. President is Mrs. Carl Kelly, vice president Mrs. George Cheeks, secretary Mrs. Farr Whitely, and historian Mrs. Harvey Harris. Mrs. Fayette Martin spoke on the year’s work and Mrs. George Cheeks received the past president’s pin for two years as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilcoe Parent- Teachers Association
Carl Kelly
George Cheeks
Farr Whitely
Harvey Harris
Fayette Martin
PTA
Veterans Letter Details Departure And Homecoming Plans
Jack Gillespie of the air corps writes his Gary parents that he will leave Havre France soon and reach New York or an eastern seaport within two weeks. Pfc Joe Jarrett of Thorpe in California on a fifteen day furlough will visit Thorne parents after serving since 1943 with training in Texas and twenty one months in the south Pacific. Charles Coppolini of Gary No 6 is named a navy veteran of the Pacific theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Gillespie
Air Corps
Eto
Mack Dennison
Gary
Havre
France
New York
United States
Joe Jarrett
Thorpe
Army Signal Corps
California
Zeff Jarrett
Thorne
Texas
South Pacific
Charles Coppolini
Gary No. 6
The
Pacific
Area veteran returns home after World War II service
Area man comes home with discharge from Bainbridge Seapration Center Maryland where he held ships cook 3-c. He entered service in 1944 at Great Lakes Illinois and trained in Florida then Camp Radford Virginia Jefferson Indiana New Orleans Panama Canal and Pacific with invasions at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bainbridge Separation Center
Great Laos
Ill
Florida
Camp Radford
Jefferson
Ind
New Orleans
Panama Canal
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Kenton C. Murphy
W. R. Murphy
Anawalt
Napier Field
Alabama
Seymour Johnson Field
N. C
Murphy
Goldsboro
Kimball Bridge Party Honors Recent Bride
Mrs James Stear was feted by the Td and By Bridge club in Kimball on Tuesday evening. Doris Mattox hosted with pink and white decor, prizes went to Mrs Munsey Stanley and Miss Rubena Holbert. A lace table with gifts for the honoree preceded refreshments. The Houston church board of stewards voted $40 for war relief and planned parsonage exterior repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board OF Stewards
Houston Methodist Church
L. V. Belcher
Snow White Mule Colt Captures Arkansas Farm Attention
A snow white mule colt born May 3 at Gordon C. Moseley’s Warren Arkansas farm draws notice for its unusual color. Sire is black and white spotted. dam is jet black with a white forehead mark. Mrs Helen Stratigos of Cleveland recalls mules at Bluefield mines and asks the Horse and Mule Association of America for any record of another white mule. none are on file. Robert Ripley sought a photo, noting the novelty and linking mules to mining history and Spanish introduction to the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Helen 8S. Stratigos
Cleveland
Ohio
Bluefield
Stratigos
Gordon C. Moseley
Warren
Ark
Robert L. Ripley
Moseley
Colt
Southwest
Cuba
Mexico
New
Florida
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Committee named to manage parsonage lot use
A committee including Kermit Gorgan L C Lucas M T Jones and C D Eddins was named to determine how best to use the parsonage lot after securing the amount due from the church extension board for parsonage indebtedness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Extension Board
Kermit Grogan
L. C. Lucas
M. T. Jones
C. D. Eddins
Circle Hosts Prayerful Evening at Maddox Home
Mrs. S. G. Maddox and Mrs. Walters entertained their circle Thursday evening at Mrs. Maddoxs home. Mrs. J. J. Griffith led a devotional aided by Mrs. Sarah J. Gregory president. Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Griffith gave a chapter of the mission study book as refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Maddox
Walters
Elva Meadows Named Kimball Post Office Clerk
Mrs Elva Meadows has left her cashier job at Krogers to become a clerk at Kimball post office, replacing Mrs Charles Donchez who resigned. Birth announced for Janice Elaine Price born May 21 at Stevens Clinic to Mr and Mrs W C Price of Carswell. revival set by Rev F I Peters at Carswell Methodist church begins Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elva Meadows
Krogers
Kimball Post Office
Charles Donchez
W. C. Price
Carswell
Janice Elaine
Stevens Clinic
F. I. Peters
Carswell Methodist Church
Fire damages local plant in West Virginia Armature shop
Bluefield firefighters responded to a blaze at the West Virginia Armature plant yesterday morning around 10. A torch backfired into an acetylene cylinder, igniting it and damaging two cylinders armatures and tools. Most losses were from water as the sprinkler system operated, with the total damage about 2000 dollars. An oxygen cylinder was also heavily damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
West Virginia
Summer Visitors And Moves Of Local Residents
Miss Jean Vaughan of Buckhannon is visiting in the Belcher home this week. Mrs. Frank Hudgins Jr. of Beckley spent last week with the Dennises. Miss Susan Early, after eight months at Kimball Hotel, visits Bluefield before returning to Bedford. Dean Dupler and his mother go to Concord College in Athens. Metro Corte and family from Columbus visited Joe Corte. Pat Crowson returns home after appendectomy at Stevens Clinic. Joe Brazetti, navy veteran, was visiting. Mrs. Glen Ritchey and Lazelle Surratt travel to California to visit relatives. Lt. Cmdr Ritchey will join them in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Hayduk
Peterstown
Hayduk
Jervis
Jane Starsky
L. Starsky
Gargett
Wheeling
General Hospital
J. Newton Fof Wilcoe
Beanie
Squireville
Tenn
Frank Parks
Gladys Coleman
Josephine Peek
Beckley
Don Waidlich
Gary
Morgantown
Laura McParland
Pittsburgh
A. Ryan
Brownsville
Navy
Elbert
Harold Willey
Marshall College
Huntington
New York
Columbia University
Willey
Miss Reynolds
Maitland
DeKay
Kimball Hotel
V. E. Kestner
Bobby Becheler
J. M. Shaffer
Fort McClellan
Ala
Margaret Williams
Charles Williams
Bowling Green
Everett Williams
Vivian
Mario Grana
Hanvana
Cuba
Rubyey
Northfork
Doris Belcher
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
L. V. Belcher
Jean Vaughan
Frank E. Hudgins, Jr
N. B. Dennis
Susan A. Early
Guy Lawhead
Bluefield
Bedford
Marvel Dupler
Dean
Hawaii
Athens
Concord College
Metro Corte
Columbus
Ohio
Joe Corte
Pat Crowson
L. E. Crowson
Stevens Clinic
Joe Brazetti
Foreign Service
Glen Ritchey
Lazelle Surratt
California
Cmdr. Ritchey
Pacific
Lt Krupey to Resume Optometry Practice in Princeton Area
Lt M A Krupey U S Navy optometrist on terminal leave will reopen his practice at 3262 Princeton Avenue on June 15 with Dr N A Krupey. He holds doctor of optometry from Northern Illinois College of Optometry 1940 and has served in eye clinics in Chicago Bainbridge Algeria Casablanca Naples Rome Paris New York Boston. He holds African European American Defense Pre Pearl Harbor and Victory ribbons and a bureau commendation. He will partner with his brother Dr N A Krupey in Pearlsburg Va and Princeton W Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Krupey
United States Medical Department
Princeton Avenue
N. A. Krupey
Krupey
Concord College
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
Tri Delta Tau
Omega Epsilon Phi
West Virginia
Optometry Association
American Optometry Association
Chicago
Ill
8. C. Cozad
Navy
Naval Medical Department
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bainbridge
Oran Algeria
Casablanca
French Morocco
Naples
Rome
Paris
New York City
Boston
Mass
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Lt. Krupey
Pearlsburg
Princeton, W. Va
Model Planes To Fly At Old Airport Today
Model planes will fly this afternoon at 2 30 at the old airport with numerous owners entering contest. The Model Club sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars has eight contestants ready to compete along with other flyers. Participants include Ronald Short Billy ey H F Day Jr Princeton Bob Douthat Bluefield Dale Holesopple Dick Thomas Frank Harper and Robert Lee Butt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Con the
Ronald Short
Billy Ey
H. F. Day Jr
Princeton
Bob Douthat
Bluefield
Dale Holesopple
Dick Thomas
Frank Harper
Robert Lee Butt
Jewel Box partners described as modern merchants in Bluefield
The Jewel Box is led by Julius Land's sister Ann Land Susman and brother Alfred Land, both praised as enlightened merchants from Durham and North Carolina State graduate Alfred with a strong jewelry background. Ann Susman, a Duke alumna with high grades, taught in Greensboro and led jewelry sales, while Alfred, an NC State and Duke-trained marketer, earned best business man honors and now supports community projects in Bluefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Land
Ann Land Susman
Alfred Land
Duke
Alfred
North Carolina State
University Richmond
Bluefield
Greensboro
N. C
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Hoge
Gary, W. Wa
Francis Dickens
Grace Hospital
Welch
Dickens
Marie L. Ketter
E. E. Ketter
Air Forces
Riverside
Calif
Kenneth Charles
Vaughan-Moore American Legion
Raton
N. M
Department
Mr. Kearn
William Kearns, Jr
William P. Kearns, Jr
Entertains Club
Musgrove
DIAL
Helene Curtis
Elastrol
Little French Beauty Academy
H & M Shoe Store
Poll Parrott Shoes
Princeton Ave
Bluefield, W. VA
William C. Braden
Whizooka
W. Va
M. A
Bilglarmee
Jewel Box
Durham, N. C
Duke University
Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity
Phi Beta
Susman
Colege
Wholeesale Supply Company
Eve
N. C. State
Sun Merou
Rascal
Wrisley
Saddle Club
Stratford Pens
Life Magazine
Men's Sox
Eversharp
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