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Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1938

Page

3

Kew-Bee Touring Inquirer Promotes Towns Princeton Athens

A Saturday radio feature by Kee-Bee Touring Inquirer promotes Princeton and Athens with a noon interview and souvenir gifts for participants. Also listed are Sun Bottling Company selections and a schedule of morning programs including Nash Rhythms with Vincent York, Dan Stafford Lilly Mountaineers, and local daily segments.

Ward Kitts Your Inquirer Princeton Athens Inquirer Beere

Saturday Radio Schedule Listing with Local Programs

A detailed on air timetable lists programs from 10:30 to 9:00 PM including Cowboys, London Rhythms, Leonard Presents, Warlick Furniture, NORGE Lowman Music, works Progress Administration, Radio Rogues, Ozark Mountaineers, and various bands. Local businesses like Warlick Furniture and Claytor Motor Sales are featured as sponsors and presenters throughout the day.

Bill Saunders Ted W. Waater Service Company Cowboy Jack London Rhythms Leonard Warlick Furniture Company JFG Coffee Boys KEW Ber Touring Inquirer Norge Lowman Music Rock Mineralogs Company Bluefield Supply CO Jack Anderson Works Progress Administration Ozark Mountaineers Harlan Way Elder J. C. Street THE Moonlight Ramblers

Radio Network Music and Program Lineup Post

The listing shows NEC WEAF CBS WABC NBC WJZ blue networks with a day’s schedule of musical programs including orchestras, quartets, dance bands, and variety segments from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm plus news and sports updates and To Be Announced blocks.

Nec-Weaf Golden Melodies Schatology Men of the West Top Hatters Paul Douglas Kaltenmeyer Kinderg the Angler Hunter Barry McKinley Dick Himber Dale Carnegie Larry Clinton NBC Symphony Lou Breese Dancing Music Orchestra Blue Barron NBC WJZ Jean Ellington Kidoodlers Bill Krenz Ricardo & His Paul Sabin Rakov Israle

Card of Thanks and Area Church Notices

Card of Thanks from the Edwards family expresses gratitude for help during illness and death. Church announcements list Jones Street Christian and Church of the Living God services, Sunday schedules, and activities. Scout training camp notes, and multiple area churches including New Century Princeton and Mt Zion AME provide service times and event details.

Henry Edwards

City Church Services Schedule Highlights

Local religious listings show worship and Sunday school times for multiple churches. Stations include Colored Churches United Holy Church, Chapel on Scott Street, Mount Zion Baptist, North Side United Holy, Church of God Apostolic, and Edwards Memorial with pastors, Sundays school, and weekly prayer meetings. Visitors welcome at all listed congregations.

Radio Schedule Presents Evening Musical Forces

The list shows a 6:30 start with Uncle Jim's Questionseast and Joe Ludy's Orchestra west at 7:00 Clem McCarthy on Sports wiz and Musical Serenade. From 7:30 Original Microphone to 8:00 Barn Dance on the Radio. At 9:00 Thirty Minutes of Music, 9:30 Nano Rodrigo Orchestra, 10:00 News and Dance Orchestra, 10:30 Horace Heidt's Brigadiers, 11:30 Preddie Martin Orchestra.

Uncle Jim Joe Ludy Orchestra West Clem McCarthy Sportswiz Musical Serenade Network Nano Rodrigo Horace Heidt Brigadiers Preddie Martin

Father’s Day Services Highlight Congregation Events

The congregation continues Father’s Day services with a special Men’s choir providing music. A reception for local fathers is planned Monday night. A prayer meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 8 p m.

Services at Bluefield church set Sunday schedule

Bluefield Virginia Elder G W Roland leads Sunday school at 9 45 morning worship at 11 and afternoon services at 2 30 The senior choir will present a Scriptural program at 7 30 Visitors are welcome.

United Holy Church Aaron Sunda School W. Littlejohn Bluefield G. W. Roland Luther Iley

Revival Notes At Bluefield Church Prompt Schedule

Bluefield Virginia pastor Rev J A Palmer leads Sunday school at 9 30 with J W as superintendent Services begin at 8 o clock Prayer meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 8 pm.

Bluefield J. A. Palmer J. W

Saint Mark Baptist and Morning Star Mission Schedule

Saint Mark Baptist holds Sunday school at 9 45 with Marion Conrad and evening worship at 7 30 led by Rev. C H Raw. Morning Star Mission meets Monday at 5 p m at Mrs Gennie Bibbs home.

Saint Mark Baptist Marion Conrad C. H. Raw Morning Star Mission Gennie Bibbs

Bishop Norton Leads Sunday Services at Wise Street Church

H P G OF T Bishop W H Norton pastors at 1516 Wise Street with Sunday school at 9 30 and worship at 7 30. preaching Tuesday neon nights extends to the public.

T. Bishop W. H. Norton Wise Street

Bethel A. M. E. announces Sunday services

Rev John F Little is pastor and Sunday school begins at 9 45 with Dr C A Rogers as superintendent. Morning worship at 11 includes junior choir led by Hallie Whitehead. Evening service at 8 features the senior choir directed by Mamma Lyles. Daily Vacation Bible School opens Monday at 2 P M for all youths.

Jones Street Christian P. E. Carter Charles Thompson Christian Endeavor F. T. Club Bethel M. E. Bluefield J. Wesley Manning J. S. Painter North Side United Holy Mary L. Glenn O. M. McGue Church OF God (Apostolic T. J. Cox M. Young Bethel A. M. E John F. Little C. A. Rogers Hallie Whitehead Mammie Lyles

Douglas

By George T. Eager Appliance selling ideas discuss splitting sales staff into canvassers and closers. Six canvassers uncover prospects to keep three closers busy as closing talent resists footwork. A western store mailed 500 books of postal cards. 3,000 names were gathered and one in five prospects led to a sale with a bonus offered.

George T Uum

Five Miners Awarded Medals for Life-Saving Act

Five Summerlee mine workers at Summerlee West Virginia will receive silver medals from the Joseph A Holmes Safety Association for saving a fellow worker’s life. Dewey Blount Bernard Bloxton James Duda George Miller and Ray Workman assisted by artificial respiration after Willis Poole was electrocuted August 31 1937. The ceremony at Mount Hope today will be led by George W chief engineer of the federal bureau.

Summerlee Mine New River Company Summerlee West Virginia Dewey Blount Bernard Bloxton James Duda George Miller Ray Workman Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association Washington United States Bureau of Mines George W. 1 Federal Bureau Pittsburgh Mount Hope Willis Poole First Aid W. W. Pharr First Presbyterian Church

Grafton Beautician Killed In Car Wreck

In Grafton West Virginia on June 17 a morning crash on U S Route 50 killed 22 year old Robert Ruth Shaw a local beautician and seriously injured 25 year old Robert M Hooton of Baltimore Maryland. The couple were alone in the car when it left the highway at the foot of Cheat Mountain and hit rocks. Hooton a former Clarksburg hotel clerk and Rowlesburg native suffered a possible skull fracture and multiple injuries while Shaw had a broken neck.

Grafton W. Va Robert Ruth Shaw Grafton Beautician Robert M. Hooton Baltimore Cheat Mountain Preston Commis F. F. Lanham Hooton Clarksburg Rowlesburg Miss Shaw Robert E. Shaw Fairmont

Lee Gonano 15 Winner in Proto Competition

Lee Gonano of Bluefield Mason Foreman Pocahontas division won second place in Class A hobby sports and recreation in the Norfolk and Western magazine snapshot contest for railroad employees. His entry shows an airplane in flight against a clouded sky. First place winners include Frank Noftsinger Roanoke Class A and H F Looney Williamson Class B with children and babies.

Lee Gonano Bluefield Mason Pocahontas Norfolk and Western Magazine Gonano H. Childress Richlands Childress Frank Noftsinger Roanoke H. F. Looney Williamson Robert V. Halsey

Westminster Young Folk Report on Conference

Westmin ster Presbyterian church Senior Young People who attended the Synodical conference in Lewisburg will present a report at 7 46 p m Sunday. Intermediate campers attend Caldwell West Virginia with named youths and two representatives to report at the morning service on June 26.

Westminster Presbyterian Church Synodical Young Peoples’ Conference Lewisburg Wim ‘i Ednah Williams Amanda Shirley Ann Waters Lacie ‘Oath Caldwell W. Va Virginia Jackson Elizabeth Ann Lowman Jane Pritchard Jean Ramage Marion Waters Doris Lee Watkins Marion Schrinner John Rodman Albert Graham, Jr Dickey Gills Billy Smith

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Sun Bottling Eray Claytor Motor Sales Vincent York Vincent Dan Stafford Lilly Mountaineers Lilly Land Company Clark Hardware and Furniture SUN Dial WHITE Stafford Brothers L. D. Feuchtenberger Bakeries John R. Bene Union Mission Johnnie Rock Mineral Springs Company Cbs-Wabc Madison Ave Motor City Melodies Merry-Makers Orches Lutzi J. Sturgess Dancefoots Orchestra Columbia Concert Orches Will McCune Supreme Court Hugo Black Capitol Hill William Bankhead House of Representatives Bankhead John Congress News of the Colored People Willie Bennett Charley Edwards Church OF the Living God Ida G. W. Colic Virginia Nance Lepolean Eee Gospel Prayer Band A Freeman Kentucky James Smith D. W. Hunter R. C. Hairston D. W. Free NEW Century Chase * Webster W. Hibbs True Alliance Saint Christopher's Children Jenkin Jones M. E. Freeman Huston Tiffany Ce Wheeler Mount Zion A. M. E. Eckman C. V. Truett George Giles John Stewart Hubert C. Jones G. H. Sinkford H. J. Capehart R. C. H. Crawford Edward Dickerson W. H. Blake Tor George Intendent Scott Street Baptist Andrew Walker the Elks Mount Zion Baptist Alexander Gregory J. C. Hicks MR. BO Ston Bill Rembrandt Tom Collins Old Mr. Boston Ing. Boston Masa East Graham Christian Tabernacle Baptist Arista News Douglas Mrbos Westminster Young Folk Report ON Ina Eo Halliday Indies Notary Corporation Telegraph Commercial Printing Company Federal Street Bluefield, W. Va
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