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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1930
Page
11
A group of about thirty girls from Sun day School classes of Mrs. W. W. McNeal Miss Blanche McNeal and Miss Aileen Thornton enjoyed a Thursday evening hike and picnic on Tank Hill. The outing featured a typical picnic feast and cheerful company.
Hasan Truth Seekers met Thursday evening in Trinity Methodist church with 32 members and visitors present. Mrs. H. G. Steele presided over the business session followed by a program including a piano solo by Betsy Stump, a Virginia Powell and Christine Steele duet, and a reading by Virginia Powell. Tempting refreshments were served during the social hour.
The Bland street church group met at Miss Betty Dilcher's home on Mountain View avenue for an evening program. Mary Glenn Hicks read scripture, Shelby Douthat led the orphanage report, Mary Virginia Brown spoke on stewardship, and Mary Francis covered the treasurer's report.
Advertises Kellogg's All-Bran as a safe complete solution to constipation. Claims it removes poisonous wastes, improves blood iron, and avoids habit forming drugs. Suggests two tablespoons daily with meals, ready-to-eat with milk, and includes recipes on the package. Kellogg's Battle Creek product sold by grocers, hotels, and dining cars.
The Sunbeams of College Avenue Baptist church will gather Sunday morning at 11 o clock at the church for a group meeting and activities.
The Y membership meeting is set for 8 Tuesday evening at the Y quarters on Federal street. The event, titled club night, features programs by various Y clubs. A board of directors meeting precedes at 7 to note the hour change.
Mr and Mrs A J Cundiff announce the engagement of their daughter Edythe Virginia Cundiff of Bluefield Avenue to Whitfield D Quiett of Gallatin Tennessee. The marriage is planned for the latter part of June. Miss Cundiff is well known.
Mrs J G Stone and Miss Mary Austin entertained the nurses of the 1930 graduating class from the Bluefield sanitarium school of nursing with a dinner Thursday evening at their Albemarle Street home. The event honored their sister Miss Ena Austin. Pastel decorations graced the affair and sixteen covers were set.
In this city a young woman plans to wed and has many friends awaiting details. She has lived in Welch for a year and worked for J C Penney. The fiancé, Mr. Quiett, is a manager at the J C Penney in Gallatin.
Mr and Mrs John M Hawkins welcome a daughter in South Richlands Virginia weighing seven and a half pounds named Maggie Elizabeth at their home.
Mrs Herbert Markle and daughter Miss Betty Markle hosted eight-table bridge at their Oakhurst avenue home Friday afternoon. Honor guest Miss Mary Turk of Staunton Va. received a gift. Top scores went to Mrs Robert Lowry and Mrs Mike Flynn with Mrs Mosby Wade taking the consolation. Gardens provided decorations and a dainty fire course was served. Assistants included Mrs J D McCue and Mrs Hugh I Shott Jr.
A pleasant family reunion is held this week at the Rogers Street home of Mr and Mrs H W Speiden. Clement C Speiden and two children Bobby and Patricia come from Charleston S C while Henry and Edgar Speiden arrive from Morgantown. Mrs C E Brunson Jr and her son C E Brunson III of Tifton Ga have been visiting. Mr Brunson travels by motor today with his mother and sister from Perry Ga. A W Utterback of Marshall Va, a Speiden brother, will arrive Sunday.
The Loyal Daughters class of Trinity Methodist church held a social evening at the YWCA with hostesses Mrs. B D Turner Mrs. Lee Wright Mrs. W A Counts Mrs. Oscar Mitchell Mrs. Lola Lambert and Mrs. J H Powell. Miss Sally Jane Bratton presided as president owing to illness of teacher Mrs L B Lemons. Numerous games and refreshments followed, marking one of the year's pleasant church events.
The first week of Vacation Bible School at Bland Street Methodist Church ends today with about 80 children enrolled. Miss Minnie Lee Eidson leads the program with teachers and assistants including Mrs. Thomas Lipford, superintendent for the junior department, among others.
First photographs show Amy Johnson 19, the British aviatrix, beside her single motor bi plane at Dumdum airport, India after arrival from Croydon on the way to Australia. She reached safety unaccompanied as Army creates a Croydon Calcutta record but misses the mark for Croydon to Australia. Native mechanics work on her engine as she readies for another long leg.
Betty Dilcher and Mary Glenn Hicks named school staff with Ora Clarkson guiding the primary department assisted by Sara Thompson and Rachel Francis. Beginners’ department overseen by Mrs Thomas Rice with Alice Porterfield. Local outings announced and several residents travel for graduations, conventions, and visits.
A Soviet felt trust asserts cat-tails can substitute for wool in felt making. Immature cat-tail material reportedly serves as an excellent substitute. Wool for a pair of overshoes costs 85 cents, while cat-tail material for the same work costs half a cent. Soviet technicians say felt with 60 percent cat-tail is softer, lighter, and of better quality than wool-only felt.
Leading American scientists will attend the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific division at the University of Oregon from June 16 to 21. A symposium on trees features Dr Andrew Ellicott Douglas, director of Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, explaining tree-ring research and its impact on American history.
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