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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1961
Page
5
Outdoor entertaining rises with June. Use sturdy table coverings for grass or table setups. Heavy towels, felt mats, and lacquered wooden trays serve as place mats or trays. Decor can come from baskets, old tole boxes, etched wood boxes, and melamine to link serving pieces to decorations.
Abbs Valley notes mark Mrs Margaret Joyce in Tennessee this summer and Mrs Dessie Franklin at Radford College. Christine Sanifer visits Roanoke grandmother for two weeks while Mrs Joe Goss visits Richmond. Mrs Harding Creasy and children vacation in Baltimore and Mrs Kenneth Booth of Indiana visits her parents.
Katharine Walker of Beckley daughter of Mrs A J Walker 317 N Kanawha St Beckley has been initiated into Randolph Macon Woman's College Blazer Club an honorary athletic society The junior majoring in religion will chair the Judiciary Committee next year She has led YWCA Social Services Co mittee coordinated the National Student Association served as Sophomore Ask Me and belonged to the Glee Club
Harman Virginia Harman Home Demonstration Club meets with Mrs Beager Riggsby as hostess. Vice president Mrs Zack Farmer presides. Reports on Buchanan Dickenson Recreation Day and Health program. Miss Brenda Gayle Lester receives Crisco Award for Home Economics work. The June meeting discusses shrubbery planting for club choice month July.
Miss Carol Grosse of Kopperston was installed Worthy Advisor by her mother Mrs Faye Grosse during a public Rainbow for Girls service at Pineville Masonic Lodge. Officers and advisory board include Opal Goode Virginia Price Oscar Goode Wanda Gray Fay Grosse Judy Ross and others.
Bluefield Chapter No. 66 OES held a Monday meeting at the Masonic Temple presiding by Worthy Matron Hazel Aker and Worthy Patron William Mustard. Officers were elected for the ensuing year and a memorial service honored Mrs Bethel Bowles.
Cumberland Garden Club met at Mrs. C. G. Crow's home 804 College Avenue to tour her pattern garden with a white rose arbor bird bath and iron features. The group discussed upcoming rummage sale June 15 17 at 105 Bluefield Avenue and summer garden visits.
Navy Mothers plan a Wednesday tag day at the W Va Hotel lobby to aid Beckley Veterans Hospital and Pinecrest Sanitorium. Macedonia Shrine 8 holds a Thursday practice at Masonic Temple and potluck at 6 p.m. A Blue Ridge Garden Club meeting with Mrs. Carl Buttrey is set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at 2708 Grandview Avenue, with arrangements judged. Later Thursday Jaycee Ball runs 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bluefield Country Club. Friday features a CMF dinner at First Christian Church. Saturday hosts a Pi Beta Phi luncheon at Flat Top Lake with contacts in Bluefield and Princeton, followed by a Bluefield Country Club dinner-dance with music by the Townsmen.
Three winners in the Odd and Even 18-hole Handicap Golf Tournament on Ladies Day at Bluefield Country were Andy Clark Mrs J G re and Mrs Bill Ford. They will receive golf balls from Rocky's Golf Shop. Mrs Dan Goodykoontz announced a team match next Tuesday with Black Knight Beckley and White Oak Oak Hill.
A daughter Rhonda June Wingfield born June 2 at Bluefield Sanitarium to Mr and Mrs Stuart Gordon Wingfield 5262 Princeton Ave Bluefield W Va weight 5 pounds 12% ounces. A daughter Deanna Yvonne Crofts born June 3 at Bluefield Sanitarium to Mr and Mrs John Raymond Crofts Princeton W Va weight 6 pounds 12 ounces. The mother was the former Miss Laura Loretta Tilley.
An article encourages seasonal menu changes and chilled soups for warm evenings. It highlights six popular canned soups like cream of shrimp and cream of potato and offers a recipe for POTATO FROST using frozen condensed soup, milk, water, lemon juice, and dill for chilling and serving.
Mullens resident Ray Bowling of 605 Moran Avenue is a patient in an unspecified hospital in Portland Oregon. He plans to visit relatives in Spokane Washington. The West Virginia Baptist Convention children’s committee met at Highlawn Baptist Church Huntington to finalize plans for the WV Baptist Lab School to be held there in August. Attendees included Mrs. W. R. Mays and Mrs. Evelyn Welty of Huntington, Rev Donald Taylor of Charleston, Miss Marcia Creger of Parkersburg, and Miss Margaret Lawin of Alderson Broaddus College Philippi. Creger and Mrs. Mays will depart from Charleston airport Sunday morning for Green Lake Wisconsin to represent WV Baptists at the National Children’s Conference for one week.
A son named Christopher Eugene was born May 22 at the Bluefield Sanitarium to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Lee Leftwich of 2347 Jefferson Street City. The baby weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces. A son named James Franklin was born May 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robert Rossier in Matoaka, Virginia. The baby weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces.
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