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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1968
Page
5
Calendar items list weekly meetings and events for Bluefield area groups. Rummage sales at Sandlick HDC run daily, plus coffees, charity programs, garden club programs, bridge and canasta nights, art club gatherings, and church and Masonic activities across various locations and times Monday through Thursday.
An advertisement invites readers to order bluebell and daisy themed patterns for dresses and accessories. It lists pattern sizes 2 through 10, prices fifty cents per pattern plus 15 cents for first class mailing, and provides Laura Wheeler’s address in New York for sending orders. Includes reference to the 1968 Needlecraft Catalog and several pattern books and rug guides.
Mrs J J Mahood led the Rhododendron Garden Club June session at Mrs C H Allea home naming committees for books camera conservation gifts publicity hospital ity and more The club will supply flowers for the Y Center in June A luncheon for 14 followed the meeting and notes include resignations and a new Garden Center director appointment in Athens.
Rudy Hearn spoke at Pine Grove Church of Christ youth meeting and showed Christian Service Camps slides. Dolly Hurst and William visit Burlington NC to see her children. Mr and Mrs W M Gentle Jr of Pensacola Fla visit his parents. Woody Whittaker of Charleston visits Edith Mitchell. Gary Burgess of Washington DC visits Pat Picketts. Glen Murphy of Mount Erie NC visits the Taylors. Colen Johnsons of Lorton Lick also guests.
The Ceres Baptist Church honored graduating seniors from Princeton High School and Beaver area with a banquet in the church fellowship hall. Rev. James Agner of the Wycliffe Bible Translators spoke on leave from Brazil, showing a film about translating the Bible for tribes. The Young People's Group provided music and led singing, with decor in pink and green.
Miss Lynda Kay Patrick wed Rev. James Finley at the Church of God Pineville in a June ceremony performed by Rev. Virgil Noe. The bride wore a Chantilly lace gown with a seed pearl crown veil and carried a Bible with yellow roses.
Mr and Mrs Laurence Edward Goodman of Bluefield announce the birth of twin daughters in Bluefield Sanatorium. Patricia Kay arrived at 5 38 p m weighing 5 pounds 5 ounces and Melissa Gay followed at 5 43 p m weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces.
The Bluewell Pentecost al Holiness Church held a banquet for area high school graduates with about 30 attendees including parents and Youth Sunday School members. Calvin Shoemaker led the invoc ation and awarded Bibles, while Vicki Thompson and Pamela Grose performed.
Miss Martha Ann George of Tazewell Virginia Tech rising senior in management housing and family development elected chairman of the college chapter section of the American Home Economics Association She will preside at meetings in Minneapolis and Boston during 1968 69 and spoke on panels at AHEA in Minneapolis and at the national Future Homemakers of America in Miami Florida She has been active in Head Start Upward Bound tutoring Little Sister program and dormitory council activities
Pocahontas residents report numerous relatives visiting from Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Visitors include Yates Thompson and Charles Mays from Kingsport and Pittsburgh respectively, plus the Dunns family and Tommy Butt group from Wytheville. Bible School at Pocahontas Baptist Church starts June 10 and runs to June 21.
Ebenezer Methodist Woman's Society hosted its June gathering in St. Clair Hall with Mrs. Raleigh Neel guiding the program. Officers reported a Model Society certificate from Holston Conference, Wanda Ruble named a delegate for the June 15 WSCS Conference in Johnson City Tennessee, and plans were made for the annual ice cream supper. A going away gift was given to Mrs. Charles Burnette and a baby shower honored Mrs. Bob Murdock. the July meeting is set for the first Tuesday with Miss Helen Ruble.
Mr and Mrs Andre Robert Gorgemans of Narrows Virginia announce the birth of their daughter Nathalie Virginie Anne Charlotte born Sunday June 2 at Bluefield Sanitarium weighing 9 pounds 13 ounces.
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