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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1948
Page
10
A delegation from the Bluefield Lions club travels to Huntington for the Lions International 26th annual state convention. Delegation chairman Sam Rush leads the group as the convention begins today. Included in the delegation are members to attend sessions and represent Bluefield Lions.
Beta Eta and Delta Kappa chapters of the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority will hold their first annual Founders Day on June 13 at 11:00 at Edwards Memorial Presbyterian Church. Rev A L Polk will deliver the address on Ideals of Human Fellowship. Polk is a Lincoln University graduate and pastor of the Edwards church. Delta Kappa Trio will provide music. Public invited.
The funeral for Wilie W. Paige of Princeton, who died at his home, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Mount Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. C S Webster and Rev. S W Dobbs will officiate. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Thresa Page and siblings John Mary Virginia Margaret Geneva, all of Princeton. Interment in Lincoln Park Cemetery. Bluefield Funeral Home arrangements.
Four of five inmates who escaped from Kanawha county jail using a fork fashioned key remain at large. All were serving misdemeanor sentences and worked in the kitchen. one prisoner, Roy Small, turned himself in earlier this week. Jailer Estil Melton notes a similar escape last year using a spoon key.
Elkins West Virginia June 10 President E W Channell of the Mountain State Forest Festival association announced the autumn celebration would be revived next year The dates are the first Thursday Friday and Saturday of October 1949 Channell announced C Wood Crawford Elkins insurance executive was named festival director The forest festival once featured a queen coronation parades and ceremonial highlights It was a traditional West Virginia celebration before World War II Sponsors said plans would not allow a fall revival this year The 1949 festival will be sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce
Gas service returned to about 5,000 homes in Fol lawsbee and Wellsboro after a strip mine shovel ripped a 10 inch transmission line in Broke county, causing an eight hour outage.
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