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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1940
Page
17
Esther Irene Graham School of Dance presented a recital at the Granada theater last evening. Miss Graham led the pupils with tap toe acrobatic and ballroom numbers as spectators applauded. Frank Small accompanied.
Bluefield lodge 453 L A to B of R T meets at Red Men hall this afternoon at two with plans for the June 20 twenty fifth anniversary. G I A convenes at Moose hall at 2:30 with a large crowd expected for important business. Caf fee’s chapel Missionary society meets at Mrs C E Godsey’s home at 2:30 with election of new officers. Business and Professional Girls club gathers at 7:30 at YWCA with Miss Eulalia Francisco presiding. Keny Garden club meets Friday at 2 at Mrs James C Acuff’s home 901 Albemarle. Men of the Arch club program led by Sam Lusk Westminster church 6:30 Friday. White Shrine of Jerusalem Macedonia No 8 meets 8 Friday at Masonic temple. Mae G Reid reports on Supreme shrine session in Grand Rapids. Grace Young People council to hold its regular meeting.
The council will meet Thursday with committee sessions at the church at 4 30 pm and the full council at the Pinnacle restaurant at 6 30 pm. Various groups including Nation's Auxiliary Prayer band at 9 30 am with Mrs George Evans and Mountain City lodge 85 Degree of Honor P A at 8 pm at Red Men's hall are listed along with drill team and Bonnie Rae circle meetings at First Baptist Church with leaders noted.
Mr. and Mrs. King Snead and daughter Nora attend Arthur B Snead’s graduation at V P I Blacksburg Va. Rev Reuben M Ratzlaff visits Maywood Ill before returning to Bluefield. Mrs S N West and Mrs W M Linkenhaker are patients at St Luke’s hospital. Mrs Dick Powell and child Patsy visit her parents in Russell Terrace. Anthony Kell home for summer, attends Emily Bell and Frederick Meyer wedding at Christ Episcopal. Miss Maxine Wilson visits Phyllis Hale in Blacksburg and attended V P I exercises. Mr and Mrs Buford Bailey Mattie Sarver and Squire H B Kitts dine with Fred Bailey in Johnson City. Jakie Bailey to visit relatives. Nellie Kell back from West Virginia University for summer and Emily Kell Meyer wedding. Nellie joined Beta Phi at university.
The Blue Field Country Club hosts its first square dance Saturday at 9 o clock. Dr and Mrs Alonzo McCue will be hosts for the occasion. Members are invited and urged to arrive early. Entertainment committee includes Mr and Mrs J C Smith Jr Mr and Mrs Lon Rish Mr and Mrs Mason Claytor and Dr and Mrs Charles T St Clair Jr.
The Westminster Presbyterian youth group plans an outdoor vesper Sunday at 6pm on the grounds of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Scott on Groveland avenue. The program includes music, poems, scriptures, and a talk by W. K. Wilbur on God's Out-of-Doors. A social hour follows and transportation is available by call to the church office. Rain venue is the church.
Infant Dennis Randolph Jr, weighing 9 pounds 9 ounces, was born June 8 at Bluefield sanitarium to Mr and Mrs Rand Wagner of Pocahontas. Mrs Wagner, formerly Miss Geraldine Lusk of Bluefield, is the mother.
Nursing and medical staff from Bluefield sanitarium and nearby clinics are hosting a dance this evening from 10 to 2 at the West Virginian hotel. Leo Steiner and his orchestra will provide music. invitations were sent to Stevens clinic in Welch and Clinch Valley clinic in Richlands, Virginia.
Dr. William Minor Deyerle returns from the University of Virginia Charlottesville with an M D. He will leave July 1 for Roper Hospital Charleston S C to serve his internship. He is the son of Mr and Mrs O M Deyerle of Oakhurst avenue.
Mr and Mrs Clayton Bowling welcomed a six pound daughter named Linda Sue born June 6. Mrs Bowling formerly Dorothy Goodwin of Bluefield.
Red Cross relief fund workers in Bluefield surpass their initial $3,000 goal and pursue a $6,000 second target. Current total reaches $3,050 with contributions from Bramwell, Matoaka, and McComas. Local women knit sweaters and socks for war-torn Europe at room 410 in the Coal and Coke building under Mrs. A S Booker.
A grand jury indicted John P. Hall, 49, for first degree murder in the May 23 shotgun killing of Norman M. Moore, 53, following a quarrel over farm property division. The incident occurred in Marietta, Ohio.
Retail clerks in McDowell county met Tuesday night at Welch and re elected Hobart Calloway to head the organization for the fourth successive year. The union also pledged support to the American Legion program to stamp out fifth column activities. Other officers include Luther Collins J W Beck John Furlane Nell Fizer Elbert Shumate J C Stamper Ray Skanes Harold Holloway Edward Adamski. The body adopted a resolution pledging moral physical and financial support with other groups to stamp out fifth column activity.
A meeting Friday at 7 30 p m in the Memorial building Kimball will discuss a summer mining course for Negroes. Classes start June 15 as part of three courses by the mine extension department with sessions in Welch Kimball Marion and Logan counties. Decisions on location enrollment schedule and course specifics will follow.
Retail merchants of Welch are scheduled to meet Friday night at 8 30 in the Appalachian Community room for a discussion session to plan local business improvements and share market insights.
A special session is announced by the chamber of commerce to discuss several important matters with full attendance anticipated.
Beno F. Howard, mayor elect of Welch, will be the principal speaker at a Welch retail grocers association gathering this evening at 8 in the county court house. The program includes films on the canning industry and delegates and alternates will be elected for the national convention in New York next week.
Memorial day services and initiatory degree work to be held at the regular meeting of Martha Washington lodge No 46 of the Rebekahs tonight at 8 in the Welch lodge hall. Hostesses for the social hour are Mrs. Mollie Durham Mrs. Cleo Overbay Mrs. Merle Robinson and Mrs. Eula Robinson.
Plans are nearly complete for Eugene O Neill Ah Wilderness a comedy drama to be presented at Welch by the First Methodist church next Monday evening featuring the Barter Players of Abingdon Virginia Proceeds go to church activities A crowd from the coalfields is expected The Barter Theatre is directed by Robert Porterfield with stage manager Richard Wordworth Cast includes Paul Huber Peggy Lambert Glenn Wilson Roy Mansell Norman Porter Sara Peyton Virginia Lomas Helen Gunderson Kyra Carroll and John Parker Tickets are available from the church Ladies Missionary Society
A 35 foot X ray clinic on wheels introduced by the state health department aims to find tuberculosis cases early. Dr. W. E. McIlvain of Moundsville leads the effort with a fluoroscope capable three minute X rays. The mobile unit will visit communities statewide, with pictures sent to Sa for analysis and kept affordable for residents.
Logan West Virginia June 12 Attor ney J E Peck a Democratic ballot commissioner announced a grand jury inquiry into voting in the May 14 primary after the county court refused to tally 26 ballots. Each ballot bore marks for three women Democratic state committee members but only two were elected. The court is recounting votes for the Democratic state senate long term nomination contested by Oliver Singleton and State Senator John J Pelter and for county commissioner.
The contract for an addition to the National Electric Coil Company in Bluefield was awarded to Clarence Heldreth, Inc., of Tazewell, Virginia. The project will be the second new wing at the Bluefield avenue plant this year, with J. W. Overstreet serving as company president.
Instructions describe oven timing 16 minutes per pound 19 minutes for half ham. After cooking remove rind score fat brown sugar or sugar crumb mixture. Stud with cloves if desired return to hot oven to brown and baste with water fruit juice or ginger ale.
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