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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
15
Blue Grass Garden Club met Tuesday at Mrs J W Gilbert home with Mrs W A Bostian presiding. T he program featured Mr s Bobbitt on Around the Garden and care of cut flowers. Members awarded eleven ribbons for show entries and plan future programs at July meeting. Visitors included Mrs L E B McWorkle and Mrs P W Crouch.
A vintage ad proclaims Te-Ol as a killer of athlete’s foot with 90 percent alcohol. It claims deep germ penetration and fast action within one hour, offering a 35 cent refund from any druggist.
Fashion fair notes a shift toward slim silhouettes and shorter, straight skirts. Padded hips and voluminous street wear fade, while the French silhouette blends with American taste. Afternoon dresses emphasize back fullness, front slim, with teens adopting ballerina skirts. Victorian elements reappear in back-to-school styles.
Members of the Bluefield Tri Sigma Sigma Sigma Alumnae are reminded of a luncheon to be held Saturday at the Town Club. The event is set for 1 o clock.
Entertainers from Station WHIS presented a varied program at the Bluefield Quota club weekly luncheon conference at the West Virginian hotel. The event featured a hillbilly stunt by O. C. Young and the Cline boys, solo and duet songs by Jane Meadows and Frank Stowers, with Roy Parks as accompanist.
Thursday evening schedule includes Wesleyan Bible class at Grace Methodist with Mrs. Dilon, Ella Sue circle at Bramwell ME with Mrs. Kahle, St Luke's Alumnae at the YWCA, Brushfork Farm Women's Club at Mrs. Davis, and GIA meeting at the Eagles' hall. Friday and Saturday entries note Bluefield lodge, Loyalty Rebekah, Macedonia Shrine gatherings at the IOOF hall and Masonic Temple with social refreshment planned.
Ralph Burnette of Johnson Bible College Tennessee has returned to Cumberland Kentucky to pastor the Church of Christ and will conduct revival services in Morgantown Kentucky. D R Sayers and son Robert depart for Nashville Tennessee for Castle Heights enrollment. Mrs T Courtney Tanner remains a patient at St Luke's Hospital with visitors welcome. Wade Weaver leaves for Old Point Comfort Virginia for state conference. E L Montgomery and wife return from Durham North Carolina after their son Victor earns a Duke University BA and Sigma Nu affiliation.
Teenagers will welcome the summer season at a juke box dance in the Bluefield Country Club clubhouse on Saturday evening. Older members have also been invited to attend.
Pre nuptial events honor Miss Alva Godschalk who will wed Joseph Cassidy at Sacred Heart church. Dessert-bridge at Town club featured three bridge tables and two rummy tables with pink and green decor. High prizes awarded to Mrs Pat Murphey and Mrs Paul Parks. rummy prize to Evangeline Donohue.
The Al kimos chapter held a Sunday meeting at Jimmy's Restaurant with President Mary Dellis presiding. Delegates and alternates to the district convention in Wilmington were elected from Bluefield Welch Beckley Beckley and Welch with Catherine Catsonis wedding shower held afterward.
The Lois Russell guild of the First Christian church held a dinner meeting at the YWCA on Federal street with about forty attending. Officers were installed in candle-lighting ceremonies led by Mrs. C. S. Cheyney, and retiring officers received gifts. New members were welcomed with corsages, a $60 donation toward Pearlsburg Virginia church funds was approved, and entertainment included readings and songs by local quartets.
Trinity WSCS met in the church and heard a speaker describe Alcoholics Anonymous as a universal fellowship founded by two men with 80 000 members. The talk portrayed AA as a form of religion guiding surrender to God and aiding others.
The first flight matches at Bluefield Country Club include Mrs. W E McQualil versus Mrs. Lee Wright with the winner facing Mrs. T E Vass. Second flight pits Miss Marjorie Pritchard against Mrs. M A Porter and Mrs. Jack Whitenack against Mrs. A B Mahood. E J McQualil Jr. won the third flight 2 up with one to go as play begins at 9:30 AM with five minute intervals.
Advice column excerpts discuss engagement etiquette and family invitations. A reader questions visiting a South‑side fiancé’s family without prior invitation. guidance urges awaiting a formal invitation from the fiancé's mother before traveling. Other Qs cover godparent proxies, cocktail duties, and choosing between divorcing parents at a wedding.
Nell Bailey of Tazewell Virginia has taken a position with the Virginia conference board of education of the Methodist church in Richmond after completing studies at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Seca Tennessee. She earned an associate in arts degree May 31 and was recognized in the college's eighty second commencement exercises. She led campus religious groups, earned a school letter for fellowship team service, ranked in the top ten percent of her class, and was named on the dean's honor roll for five quarters. She was a member and officer of Eta Upsilon Gamma sorority.
Dorothy Dix argues middle age for women without children at home is a risk of loneliness and wasted years. She urges preparation for an active, useful life with plans, friendships, and personal pursuits to fill forty years after the last child leaves.
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