YWCA Camp opens in Cove Creek for 1948 season
The YWCA Bluefield camp at Cove Creek Virginia opens its 1948 season on Wednesday June 15 and closes July 14. About 89 girls weekly will take part in four week sessions with campers from Bluefield and nearby towns and a long list of attendees is named. Camp directors are Miss Desir Gilmore and Miss Minnie Weaver with Mrs. Dick Powell as nurse and multiple counselors coordinating crafts music worship and recreation. Mail to campers goes via Bluefield address and food is not requested.
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Iva
Bluefield Young Women's Christian Association
Cove Creek
Tazewell County
Virginia
Bluefield College
Sanfers Farm
Twin Gates
East River Mountain
YWCA
Othrs
Connie Seresford
Betty Freeman
Suz‘nnne Buchanan
Bonnie Jean
Rozalia
Shar‘ Godsey
Judith Hall
Billie Tendricks
Barbara Jones
Naomi
Joanna Holm
Louise Keesee
Gayle King
Donna Morgan
Patty Potter
Barbara Rosenfelt
Kay Templeton
Pat Thornbure
Barbara West
Peggy Borich
Betty Cassell
Polly Pepter Haynes
Eva Juba
Sarah Ketron
Sue Ellen Nichols
Bluefield
Sally Beall
Sue Clark Brown
Carole Buskell
Anna Bandy
Richlands
Nancy Lee Daniels
Sheila Peraldo
Grundy
Elizabeth DeJarnette
Pearisburg
Sarah Gillespie
Pounding Mills
Margaret Ann James
Ronceverte
Patty Johnston
Glenwood Park
Mary Maynor
Carol Jean Page
Mt Hope
Jean Vawter
Montcalm
Marion Barnett
Radford
Frances Looney
Susan Stephens
Delores Bowyer
Princeton
Nancy Barnett
Ellen Calloway
Nancy Shufflebarger
Dotti Lou Bryant
Dollie Ann Bryant
Carlene Creasy
West Graham
Susan Burnett
Nancy Burnett
Eleanor Ringler
Sylvia Caffee
Lois Faulkner
Mattie Carrol
Frances Chandler
Frank C. Elletts
Pocahontas
Mary Louise
Dotty
Oneonta
N. Y
Ellett
J. W. Ellett
Nurse Counselor To Visit Bluefield This Week
Mrs. Marie Showalter of the West Virginia State Nurses association will be in Bluefield at the West Virginia hotel for three days from Wednesday to Friday. Registered nurses may arrange interviews by calling the hotel.
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Marie Showalter
West Virginia State Nurses Association
Bluefield
West Virginia
Showalter
Marriage of Edith Wiley Bailey in Princeton
Mrs. W. H. Wiley announces the marriage of her daughter Edith to Edgar J. Bailey of Bluefield. Rev. Z F Mayberry officiated the single ring ceremony. Afterward the couple traveled to Richmond and Virginia Beach then attended a wedding supper in Roanoke. Edith is a Princeton graduate employed by Optical Company. Edgar served in the U S Army and works for American Railway Express in Bluefield. They will live with Edith's mother for now.
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W. H. Wiley, Sr
Reynold Avenue
Princeton
Edith
Edgar J. Bailey
R. C. Bailey
Route 1
Bluefield
Z. F. Mayberry
Mrs
Bailey
Princeton High School
Optical Company
Beaver High School
U.S. Army
ETO
American Railway Express Agency
Mrs Parsons and Mrs Phillips Host Circle Meeting
Mrs Parsons and Mrs Phillips entertained their circle at Parsons home on Thursday evening. Mrs Tester man, president of the Women’s Society, spoke on Talents from Luke 19. Mrs Grogan led prayer, Mrs Belcher distributed booklets How Wide is Our Heart, and Mrs Grogan closed with a poem while Mrs Roy Brown led the business.
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State Garden Club
T. Allen Kirk
Roanoke
American Rose Society
France
Clifford Brown
Norman Cole
Cliff
Mr. Cole
Nina Herndon
Bluefield Garden Council
Elizabeth Mitchell
Bluefield Garden Club
Miriam Dickinson
Little Gardens Club
Appalachia Club
East River Mountain Clubs
Laurel Club
Crane Creek WSCS Meets Monday at Church
Crane Creek WSCS of Crane Creek church will meet at the church at 7 o'clock Monday. Eddie and Nancy Purdy celebrated their birthday Saturday with a party. Games were played and refreshments served to twenty three attendees.
Guild Circle Hold Meetings In Northfork
Mrs. Ernest Dean hosted the Wesleyan Guild at her Northfork home with president Mrs. Walden Wright presiding. Miss Frances Washington presented a program titled I Am My Brother's Keeper assisted by Mrs. Mary During. Plans were made for a Pinnacle Rock picnic to replace the July meeting.
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Northfork
Ernest Dean
Wesleyan Guild
Walden Wright
Frances Wash- Harveyington
Mary
Pinnacle Rock
Circle 2 Methodist Church meets at Mrs. Cook home
Circle 2 of the Methodist church met Thursday night at the home of Mrs. F. C. Cook with Mrs. D. B. Hambrick presiding. The program included a meditation by Mrs. S. C. Green a piano piece by Mrs. Opie C. Clark and a Bible lesson from Great Prayers of the Bible presented by Mrs. Cook.
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Circle 2
The
Methodist Church
F. C. Cook
D. B. Hambrick
S. C. Green
Opie C. Clark
Sparks Stafford Wedding Announcement in Freeman Family
Mr and Mrs J A Sparks of Freeman announce the marriage of their daughter Laura Elmeda Sparks to Mr Sam Stafford of Swedesboro New Jersey. The wedding occurred June 8 in the Tazewell church with Rev E Mustard officiating. The couple will reside in Swedesboro.
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J. A. Sparks
Freeman
Laura Elmeda
Sam Stafford
Swedesboro
N. J
Tazewellee Church
E. Mustard
Local Weekend Weddings Brighten Bluefield Area
The Bluefield region hosts multiple weddings this weekend with Elizabeth Ann Bledsoe wedning Karl Nygaard and Mildred Peters to Cliff Brown in Bluefield towns. Other ceremonies include Alyce May Gay in Welch and Norma Hadden in Princeton as community celebrations continue amid summer activities. Bettye Jean Johnson’s Bermuda honeymoon follows her Friday wedding to Dr. Foster Bennett in Tazewell.
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Elizabeth Ann Bledsoe
Karl Nygaard
Henry Mahood
Preston Hamilton
Mildred Peters
Cliff Brown
Christine Shumate
Roy Davis
Bluefield
Alyce May Gay
Welch
Norma Hadden
Princeton
Bettye Jean Johnson
Foster Bennett
Tazewell
Bermuda
West Coast
Billy Gordean
Bland Street Methodist Church
Samuel B. Jordan
Hialeah
Fila
Harry King
Mary Winfrey
Dr. van Fleet
Wetzel
Virginia Rose and Eugene Kahle Jr. Wed in Princeton
Miss Virginia Louise Rose and Eugene H. Kahle Jr. were married in a single ring ceremony on June 4 in Princeton. The bride, a Oakvale High School 1948 graduate, wore a grey suit with red rose corsage. the groom, a Princeton High School alumnus and WWII Navy veteran, will live on South Mercer Street where he works at Kahle Motor Company.
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J. C. Ingram
Oakvale
Virginia Louise Rose
Eugene H. Kahle
Route 1
Princeton
F. Mayberry
Kee Street Methodist Church
Princeton High School
United States Navy
Pacific
Mercer Street
Kahle
Kahle Motor Company
Gary Methodist WSCS June Meeting Set for Thursday Evening
The Gary Methodist WSCS plans its June gathering on Thursday at 7:30 PM at the church. Members are invited to attend and participate in the session.
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Gary Methodist Wscs
Circle Has Meeting in Maybeury and Switchback
Mrs. W H Perdue chaired a meeting in Maybeury with nine members present while Mrs J L Hopkins presided in the chair absence. The Wesleyan Service guild surprised Mrs Louise Thacker at her Bramwell home with a gift and social hour. Mrs Luther Caudill hosted a Switchback birthday party for her daughter Nancy on her fourth birthday with refreshments served.
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W. H. Perdue
Barnes Gillespie
Maybeury
J. L. Hopkins
Garbish
Wesleyan Service Guild
Louise Thacker
Bramwell
Luther Caudill
Switchback
Nancy
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